Tag Archives: Kanye West

Kanye No Longer A Billionaire After Adidas Ends Deal

Forbes reports: Adidas gets an estimated 4% to 8% of its sales from Yeezy products, according to investment bank Cowen. For Ye, it was an even bigger deal, accounting for $1.5 billion of his net worth. The $1.5 billion value of the Adidas deal was calculated off of a multiple of annual earnings. Based on interviews with industry experts, Forbes …

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Adidas Finally Ends Partnership With Kanye West

Bloomberg News reports: Adidas AG is ending its partnership with Ye following a rash of offensive behavior from the rapper and designer that turned a once-thriving shoe brand into a lightning rod for criticism. The German sports company said it is cutting ties with Ye, formerly Kanye West, with immediate effect and will take a €250 million ($246.5 million) hit …

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Kanye Ditched By Agency, Documentary Gets Scrapped

Variety reports: Kanye West is no longer a client at CAA, Variety has confirmed. In addition, a completed documentary about West will be shelved in light of his recent antisemitic comments, MRC studio executives Modi Wiczyk, Asif Satchu and Scott Tenley announced in a memo on Monday. They wrote, “Kanye is a producer and sampler of music. Last week he …

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Neo-Nazis Praise Kanye West With Los Angeles Banner

The Jerusalem Post reports: A banner declaring that “Kanye [West] is right about the Jews” was hung over a Los Angeles highway on Saturday, according to white supremacist channels and an antisemitism watchdog NGO. Another banner told drivers to “honk if you know,” and a third advertised Goyim TV, a YouTube clone dedicated to antisemitic, white supremacist and neo-Nazi video …

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Fashion House Balenciaga Cuts Ties With Kanye West

Women’s Wear Daily reports: Balenciaga has severed its ties with Ye. Parent company Kering said the French fashion house would no longer be working on projects with the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, who has made increasingly controversial public comments in recent weeks, including anti-Semitic threats. “Balenciaga has no longer any relationship nor any plans for future projects related …

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Parler Exposes Emails Of “VIP” Cultists In Kanye Boast

Politico reports: On the afternoon that Parler, a social media platform popular with conservatives, announced its acquisition by Ye, better known as Kanye West, the site emailed hundreds of VIP members to excitedly share the news. There were just two problems. Parler neglected to blind-CC email addresses and inadvertently revealed the contact information of at least 10 lawmakers and many …

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Kanye West “Absolutely Not” Sorry For Antisemitism

Billboard Magazine reports: Kanye West sat down for an interview with Piers Morgan on Wednesday (Oct. 19), where the rapper didn’t show any remorse for his string of anti-Semitic comments throughout the past few weeks. When asked if he was “sorry” that he said he was going to go “death con 3” on Jewish people, Ye simply replied, “Absolutely not.” …

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George Floyd Family To Sue Kanye West For $250M

NPR reports: The family of George Floyd announced Tuesday that they will file a $250 million lawsuit against Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, following comments he made about Floyd’s death on the podcast Drink Champs. Ye — who was a guest on last weekend’s episode of the podcast hosted by rapper N.O.R.E and DJ EFN — put …

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Trump Defends Kanye: “He Was Really Nice To Me”

“Well, I haven’t really seen the statements he’s made. I did watch the Tucker Carlson interview and he was really nice to me. Beyond anybody, he was. He was great to me. “And he was great, really, to MAGA, to the MAGA movement, which was very impressive. I was, you know, not surprised. I always got along with him. I …

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Fox Executives Hunt Leaker Of Carlson/West Outtakes

The Daily Beast reports: Fox News executives are “full-on freaked out” about the leak of never-aired clips of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Kayne West, Confider has learned, and the network is closing in on the “mole” who was the source of the embarrassing breach. Despite the Fox News celebration of West’s supposed intellectual heft, unaired snippets leaked to Vice’s Motherboard …

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West: The “Jewish Media Mafia” Is Out To Get Me

“What I’m doing, I’m calling out the Jewish community as a whole to say, people say to me, ‘Aww… why is Ye upset at everybody?’ “The Jewish people that I’m talking about don’t have to understand, and that is that privilege that I’m not going to allow. “When I wore the White Lives Matter t-shirt, the Jewish underground media mafia …

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West: I Bought Parler Because The Others Bullied Me

Bloomberg News reports: “When I got kicked off of Instagram and Twitter at the time, I knew it was time to acquire my own platform,” Ye said in an interview with Bloomberg News on Monday. “People had talked about it and mentioned this idea for years, but enough was enough.” “We’re using this as a net for the people who …

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Parler CEO: Kanye West Is A Victim Of Cancel Culture

“The tweet that he put out last week, as far as I could understand it, was an incorrect reference to defcon, obviously worded very badly and I think that was, as he said yesterday, a mistake. “He’s obviously willing to have conversations that plenty of people want to have and I think that he’s trying to engage in the free …

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George Floyd’s Family Considers Suing Kayne West

The New York Daily News reports: Kanye West continues to create outrage. The outspoken rapper contended in a new interview that George Floyd died of the drug fentanyl, and not from the actions of the Minnesota police officer who was convicted of his murder. “They hit him with the fentanyl. If you look, the guy’s knee wasn’t even on his …

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Kanye West Announces Deal To Acquire Parler

Axios reports: Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, plans to acquire Parler, a Twitter-like social media app that has become a haven for conservatives. In a statement, Ye said he’s buying the platform to ensure people with conservative opinions “have the right to freely express ourselves” online. Earlier this month, Ye’s Instagram and Twitter accounts were restricted in response to …

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Shapiro: Kanye’s Comments Are “Clearly Antisemitic”

Mediaite reports: Ben Shapiro has called out conservative supporters of Kanye West, who have defended the rapper even after he declared war on Jewish people on social media over the weekend. Shapiro, who took the last few days away from social media to observe the Jewish holidays, weighed in on all the mayhem Wednesday — calling West’s behavior “disturbing.” Shapiro’s …

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Fox Edited Out Multiple Antisemitic Claims By Kanye West In Carlson Interview, Axed His “I’m Vaxxed” Claim

Vice News reports: Fox News recently aired a two-part interview between Tucker Carlson and Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West. Motherboard has obtained portions of the interview that were edited out of the final broadcast. These include numerous antisemitic sentiments from Ye, a strange and lengthy digression about “fake children” he claimed were planted in his house to …

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Musk: I Counseled Kanye West On His Antisemitism

Bloomberg News reports: Elon Musk, who is poised to buy Twitter Inc, says he has spoken to Kanye West to express his concerns about the musician’s recent tweet. Twitter removed a tweet from West last week about Jewish people, and had restricted the handle for violation of its policies. The account was locked just a day after he returned to …

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Candace Owens Predictably Defends Kanye West’s Antisemitism: You Can’t Even Say ‘Jewish’ Anymore

“If you are an honest person, you did not think this tweet was antisemitic. You did not think that he wrote this tweet because he hates or wants to genocide Jewish people. “This does not represent the beginning of a Holocaust. That’s if you’re an honest person, you’ll admit that, right? If you’re an honest person, when you read this …

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Extremists Celebrate Kanye West’s Antisemitic Posts

Media Matters has a roundup of reactions: Infowars celebrated West multiple times on October 9. Host Owen Shroyer said, “I did not hear one thing Kanye West said that was bigoted.” He later added that the backlash to his antisemitic remarks “only proves what he’s talking about is real.” White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes posted on Telegram, “​​Kanye …

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