Kanye West’s again account went south rapidly.
The rapper “lost 2 billion dollars in one day,” he claimed in an Instagram put up Thursday, after Adidas and others lower ties over his repeated anti-Semitic feedback.
“I’m still alive,” West wrote within the put up. “This is love speech. I still love you. God still loves you. The money is not who I am. The people is who I am.”
Adidas introduced Tuesday that it’s ending its partnership with West, whose “Yeezy” collaboration of sneakers and clothes was a preferred product for the German attire firm.
Adidas stated it’s going to lose about $246 million in internet earnings this yr with the transfer. Forbes estimates the collaboration was valued at $1.5 billion, and says West’s internet value dropped from billionaire standing to $400 million with out it.
Gap took down its collaboration web site with West on Tuesday and introduced it was “taking immediate steps” to take away West’s merchandise from its shops. West and Gap’s two-year partnership got here to an finish final month.
Last week, the luxurious model Balenciaga dropped West as a collaborator.
The developments come after Instagram restricted West’s account and Twitter locked his web page over posts deemed anti-Semitic, together with a tweet by which the rapper threatened to go “death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE.”
He sparked extra controversy with a current interview on “Drink Champs” by which he claimed George Floyd died from the drug fentanyl.
West additionally stated on that Revolt TV present, “On TMZ, I just saw yesterday, they said, ‘Pete Davidson and Kim [Kardashian] have sex by the fireplace to honor their grandmother.’ It’s Jewish Zionists that’s about that life, that’s telling this Christian woman that has four Black children to put that out as a message in the media.”
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