Kanye: Racist Forbes Won’t Put Me On Billionaires List

Forbes reports:

When we featured Kanye West on the cover of Forbes last summer, delving into his incredible success with Yeezy, he seemed pleased at first. As the year wore on, he protested publicly. (“I showed them a $890 million receipt, and they still didn’t say ‘billionaire,’” he told an industry panel, about something that no one at Forbes remembers.) In private, he was more biting. (A “disrespectful article,” he texted this week, that was “purposely snubbing me.”)

When our annual billionaires list appeared earlier this month, again with West absent—still no documentation, and now a pandemic to boot—West again reacted with hurt and venom. “You know what you’re doing,” he texted. “You’re toying with me and I’m not finna lye [sic] down and take it anymore in Jesus name.” At one point, he texted that Forbes was “part of a group of media” that was trying to suppress his self-made narrative because of his race.

Read the full article. Forbes says they’ve now been provided with sufficient documentation showing West is indeed a billionaire, but “only barely.”