Kanye West‘s antisemitic comments have gotten him in serious trouble, but no punishments have had quite the impact as the dissolution of the partnership with Adidas.
The company first split with the controversial rapper back in October 2022, shortly after his infamous “Death Con” comments.
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As Ye revealed to TMZ on Monday (February 12), things got really dire around that time.
“I’m gonna be honest with y’all: I was two months from going bankrupt, really… And we survived. We survived through the cancellation.”
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The rapper also made comments about his issues with “different companies” he had worked with in the past on footwear, specifically over pricing — though he didn’t mention Adidas specifically.
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Adidas announced at the time that it expected to lose approximately $246 million in net income in 2022 after parting ways with West.
Elsewhere in his new interview, Ye discussed his controversial comments about Jewish people, which he had previously apologized for.
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Addressing the backlash to his past remarks, which included praising Hitler and spreading conspiracy theories about Jewish people, he said: “They got the right to their opinion. I got the right to my opinion. You understand what I’m saying?
“We all have the right to our opinions but so many people will lose their jobs, lose their careers for taking the steps that we took. We went down for like a year and a half.”
Kanye also directly addressed the fallout from his 2022 tweet saying he was going to go “death con 3” on Jewish people: “I even sent the apology and [adidas] still fuck with me. Some of the stuff I was saying was true.
“So until y’all come up and say, ‘Yo, what he was saying, some of that was true,’ go ahead with all that … Black people can’t be antisemitic. We are Jews, you understand what I’m saying? We are Jew.”
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He added: “For all the Jewish kids that love me, I’m sorry if y’all had to hear a grown up conversation with us screaming at each other, but we got to a point where something needed to happen, something needed to be said.”
