Kanye West

2022 - 10 - 26

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Kanye West Tests Adidas and His Other Corporate Partners (The New York Times)

The antisemitic outbursts and provocations by the artist now known as Ye have raised questions about how much offensive behavior companies are willing to ...

His remarks prompted outrage from the Floyd family and [an apology from the show’s host, N.O.R.E](https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/19/entertainment/nore-kanye-west-george-floyd/index.html). Owens accompanied him to an interview with [TMZ Live](https://www.tmz.com/2018/05/01/kanye-west-tmz-live-slavery-trump/) the following month in which he called American slavery a “choice,” spurring outrage. [“The Life of Pablo,”](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/arts/music/kanye-west-life-of-pablo-review.html) was his latest No. While his Season 4 show on Roosevelt Island in September 2016 [proved a debacle](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/07/fashion/kanye-west-fashion-week-season-4.html), his potent combination of reality-TV celebrity, music stardom, sneaker success and establishment disruption was impossible to resist for an industry that often felt stuck in the last century. [pictures](https://www.balenciaga.com/en-us/summer-23) and [videos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yh_1K9s6UV0) of the show. Trump](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/27/arts/music/kanye-west-trump-conservatives.html); launched a quixotic campaign [for president](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/kanye-west-president-2020.html) in 2020; and [split with Ms. Lawyers for Ye argued that Gap broke “contractual obligations.” Gap said it was “deciding to wind down the partnership.” Ye has suggested that he may open his own line of retail shops. [“Donda,”](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/31/arts/music/kanye-west-donda.html) he included industry pariahs like Marilyn Manson, who had been accused of sexual assault by multiple women, and DaBaby, who had made [homophobic remarks](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/01/arts/music/dababy-lollapalooza-canceled-homophobic-comments.html) and waffled about apologies. Abrams, the Anti-Defamation League’s regional director there, [released a statement](https://twitter.com/ADLSoCal/status/1584275380789051392?s=20&t=D9wkjsHUVjsVYBOzwojNIg) that concluded, “Decisive action against antisemitism by Adidas is long overdue.” Ye [ended his Yeezy Gap partnership](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/15/business/kanye-west-yeezy-gap.html) last month, before the latest controversies erupted, but in recent days Gap sent out promotional emails for the Yeezy Gap hoodie. In recent years he has been condemned for saying that Harriet Tubman “never actually freed the slaves” and that centuries of slavery had been “ [a choice](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/01/arts/music/kanye-west-charlamagne-interview-tmz.html)”; polarized fans with his [embrace of right-wing politics and former President Donald J. He [withdrew from headlining this year’s Coachella festival](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/06/arts/music/kanye-west-coachella-swedish-house-mafia-weeknd.html) just over a week before it began.

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Adidas cuts ties with rapper Kanye West over antisemitism (BBC News)

Clothing giant Adidas has cut ties with rapper Ye, known as Kanye West, saying it does "not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech".

The rapper has also lost his position in Forbes magazine's list of billionaires. A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: "Adidas has finally joined other brands and agencies and cut ties with Ye (Kanye West). The brand is also looking for a new chief executive, after announcing in August that current boss Kasper Rorsted would be leaving in 2023. As leaders of this company (a Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian), we feel duty bound to say to all of you this is a pernicious, terrible use of false logic," MRC Ye's recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company's values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness." "Kanye is a producer and sampler of music.

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Where Do Adidas And Kanye West Go From Here? (Forbes)

Adidas and other partners have ended relationships with Kanye West, now known as Ye, and his Yeezy brand. But by canceling him, his fans may cancel those ...

The only thing that I pray is that my feet don’t fail me now.” Until then, the demand and valuation of Yeezy sneakers and other products in the resale market will only go up. Ye leaves Adidas with huge shoes to fill and seriously weakened against $47 billion arch-rival Nike. “It comes down to being good stewards of the brand.” “Ye’s followers know he has struggles,” said Crumméy, adding it’s doubtful they would stick with Adidas without Ye. Characteristically, Ye punched back, “No one at Forbes knows how to count.” Someone, anyone, please help before he does irreparable harm to his legacy and billionaire empire.” But hanging over Ye’s crash-and-burn is a question of his mental health. Ye and Adidas will feel the financial pain. Brands should assume that talent “will go off script or say something less than perfect,” the influencer marketing specialist Katie Stoller of Fiat Growth said. Letting Ye’s remarks go unpunished would effectively endorse the statements or actions. Instagram and Twitter had earlier exiled the rapper and fashion designer from their platforms.

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Here's How to Block Kanye West on Spotify (Gizmodo)

The streaming platform might not pull his music, but you can definitely hide it from your feed.

So, for example, upon blocking Ye, you will not be able to listen to his 2008 song “Heartless” but you will be able to listen to “Hot Shit,” which is a Cardi B song that features West. [will not remove](https://www.avclub.com/kanye-west-why-spotify-wont-drop-music-1849704042) the artist’s catalog from the platform. While there’s no clear indication that his music is taking a hit on streaming platforms like Apple Music or Spotify, [Billboard](https://www.billboard.com/pro/kanye-west-controversies-hurt-radio-play-not-streaming-numbers/) reports that after

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