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After getting dropped by his talent agency CAA, the fashion house Balenciaga and the sneaker giant adidas due to his recent anti-Semitic comments, fashion designer, Instagram influencer, and former rapper Kanye West has finally spoken out about the events of the last few weeks.
Kanye West takes to Instagram to address getting dropped by adidas, claims that he lost $2 billion in one day
In traditionally nonsensical Kanye fashion, West posted on Instagram that he’s been sharing “love speech” (and not anti-Semitic hate speech) and that he apparently lost $2 billion in one day.
“Ari Emanuel. I lost 2 billion dollars in one day. And I’m still alive. 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,” West wrote on Instagram.
Ari Emanuel is the CEO of Endeavor, the company that owns the UFC, and was a founding partner of the Endeavor Talent Agency, which merged with the William Morris Agency back in 2009.
Earlier this week, we brought you the story of Forbes estimating that Kanye losing his Yeezy deal with adidas dropped his net worth from over $1 billion to about $400 million.
West, the 45-year-old father-of-four, has been dropped by the likes of Balenciaga and adidas as a result of various anti-Semitic comments he made in recent weeks, including on Instagram and Twitter.
“I’m a bit sleepy tonight but when I wake up I’m going death con 3 On JEWISH PEOPLE. The funny thing is I actually can’t be Anti Semitic because black people are actually Jew also You guys have toyed with me and tried to black ball anyone whoever opposes your agenda,” West tweeted back in early October.
Then, in the following days and weeks, further reports of West’s anti-Semitic views came out. HBO reportedly had to shelve an episode of The Shop because West used his appearance to spew similar anti-Semitic rhetoric, and former TMZ staffer Van Lathan also accused Kanye of saying he “loves Hitler and Nazis” during his infamous 2018 visit to the TMZ offices (the one that saw him wildly rant that “slavery was a choice”).