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The Kanye West Megathread

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Adidas AG plans to end its partnership with Kanye West 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 may announce the move as early as Tuesday, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified because discussions are private. A representative for Adidas didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

Adidas would join Gap Inc. and Kering SA’s Balenciaga fashion label in cutting ties with West, who now goes by Ye. The rapper has made controversial statements, including antisemitic social media posts in recent weeks, and has moved to cut ties with his corporate partners. Ye couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
 

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    When White Supremacy is done with its tools, it breaks them.
     

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    Somebody please put Kanye West on suicide watch. It's only a matter of time until he wakes up with $2003 dollar in his bank account and loses it.

    He went from College Dropout to Late Registration to Graduation to Heartbreak to a Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy to the Throne to becoming Kimye to becoming Yeezus to living the Life of Pablo to Corporate Sponsorship to Fashion Week to Broke to by the end of this week.

    Tiny hats in a mob
    What's a mob to a king?
    What's a king to a God?
    What's a God to a non-believer
    Who don't believe in anything?
    Will Kanye make it out alive?
    Alright, alright
    No church in the wild
     

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    If I was Kim I would be thankful that I got that divorce right on time. Imagine still being married in the midst of all of this going on. Always this is why you don't mess or do business with white females (which is the root of this issue along with unresolved self-hate issues and unresolved grief from the loss of a loved one).
     

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    If I was Kim I would be thankful that I got that divorce right on time. Imagine still being married in the midst of all of this going on. Always this is why you don't mess or do business with white females (which is the root of this issue along with unresolved self-hate issues and unresolved grief from the loss of a loved one).
    The stories she has are probably out of this world. Kanye is self hating lunatic.
     

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    How do we know he was a real billionaire in the first place? Same as Oprah.
    They’re not. The USA is in love with the term “valuation” because it allows them to be trifling under the guise of “doing business”.

    The average person usually sees this in the residential real estate market. You buy a house for $300k and for some reason unbeknowst to you the value continues to grow. You owe the bank $300k + interest but your house is worth $400k so you feel comfortable that you can sell it at anytime.

    We’ll assume you own nothing else so your net worth we’ll say is $100k. You don’t have $100k in the bank but if we had to liquidate everything you’d probably have that in your hand.

    Now for some reason the market tanks and your house’s value goes from $400k to $200k…now your net worth went from $100k to negative $100k overnight. Because if we sold your house you’d still $100k to the bank.

    That’s why valuations are trash and why the whole “so and so is a billionaire” is hot garbage most of the time. They most like own some percentage of a company that is assumed to be worth some amount if it sold.

    If Kanye owns 50% of the shares of a company “worth” $2B he is now a “billionaire” yaaaay. What happens if that company has a bad season and the value plummets 50%? Guess who is no longer a billionaire? Nothing changed, the money in the bank is the same it’s all speculative.
     

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    Good idea to make a megathread on the Ye drama happening as of late. It's one thing after the other with him as of late, and I have a feeling that he's going to do and say more dumb shit going forward.

    The sad truth, is that he really thought he could say anything he wanted and nothing would happen. Dude is literally canceling himself at this point. From Adidas and other companies dropping him, to celebs, friends, and collaborators peacing out.
     

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    The sad truth, is that he really thought he could say anything he wanted and nothing would happen.
    What makes you think he thought nothing would happen? It's right in front of our faces who we are allowed to talk about and who is off limits. Some of y'all let folks play in your faces daily and a lot of people are absolutely tired of the hypocrisy. Everything occurring is exposing a lot of things and a lot of people.
     

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    What makes you think he thought nothing would happen? It's right in front of our faces who we are allowed to talk about and who is off limits. Some of y'all let folks play in your faces daily and a lot of people are absolutely tired of the hypocrisy. Everything occurring is exposing a lot of things and a lot of people.
    The fact he said that Adidas wouldn't cut ties from him for saying anti-Semitic things. He was on a live stream saying this, and then Adidas and many other companies cut ties with him. Sounds like someone who thinks they're untouchable and thought nothing would happen. That, coupled with the anti-Semitism, and of course the hate he's been spewing towards us, I think that pushed Adidas and other companies to drop him.
     

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    The fact he said that Adidas wouldn't cut ties from him for saying anti-Semitic things. He was on a live stream saying this
    Okay, thanks. That explains the Adidas part. What about the other companies? I don't keep up with celebrities, so these are genuine questions.
     

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    T.J. Maxx is the latest company to pull the plug on Kanye West's Yeezy brand ... following others' decisions to cut ties due to the rapper's anti-Semitic and bigoted comments.

    TJX Companies -- operators of T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, and Home Goods -- announced its decision Wednesday ... telling CNNBusiness, "At TJX we do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or hate of any kind. We have instructed our buying teams not to purchase this merchandise for sale in any of our stores globally".
     

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    As I said in the other threads. White supremacy is punishing Kanye way more than it does for its own for similar things. Mel Gibson made a series of blatantly anti-Jewish remarks

    But he continued to get funded for movies and has been getting paid big during it. Comparatively Kanye is getting way, way more and I don't hear anyone in the media making the comparisons and the disparity in punishment. As well as others. If they are black and they are labeled anti Jewish, complete cancelation (Farrakhan is pretty much banned from social media and anyone who has been linked to him as to disavow him to get put on).

    All that being said, black folks support Farrakhan still. Breakfast club got him on there. He's treated with reverence b Blacks. Godfrey and Lord Jamal quit Vlad TV over Farrakhan. Black folks will ride for you if you ride for us.

    Kanye tore his drawers with anti black comments. He condoned the murder of a fellow black person to whites. Can't come back for that. I disagree with Tariq (some folks on here are saying 'what?!'----haha) on Kanye. It's a given Blacks are going to disproportionally punished by white society for the same thing. We see that in the court system.

    But I refuse to feel sympathy, fight for, or say 'dang, that's f*cked up' when a coon gets broken by white people. Nah. I'm good. F*ck him. He could have had black support but he threw that away.

    Forbes has now said his net worth has fell from 1.3 billion to 400 million. They don't say that about others. They didn't say that about Harvey Weinstein. They didn't check his pockets even though he lost his bag. They didn't say that about Kevin Spacey when he was found to be 'metoo'ing younger men.

    So, its a given. In fact, I think we should let Kanye lose the bag and in my case wish it. Why? As a lesson to any black celeb that if you sh*t on us, we will let you fall and not take you back (Omarosa, Stacy Dash). I hope he loses his bag. He won't be completely broke. He's always gonna be worth tens of millions. He got a music catalog, other ish. His kids will be alright. Kim got a grip. They are set, so its not like I want his kids on the street. They are good, way better than everyone on here combined by multiples.

    I want all Black folks to see how white supremacy tools gets broken and how they talked sh*t about us and didn't get support. He's a living, walking black TED Talks.

    PS: If I were to give 'Klanye' some advice on his paper and this will sound crazy but....whatever cash you have left, go 80/20 on bitcoin and ethereum. Both will go up at least 4x if not more in a months if not a year or so. And with a lot of the rest, find safe country out there and do some bitcoin mining. White supremacy can't f*ck with his cryptos.
     

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    Sketchers up and got security on his ass to walk him out. Dude went from being a billionaire to a millionaire over night.

    I don't think there is any coming back for him. I think he is an amazing artists still but dude lost his damn mind. I can't support someone who thinks and acts the way he does.
     
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    They’re not. The USA is in love with the term “valuation” because it allows them to be trifling under the guise of “doing business”.

    The average person usually sees this in the residential real estate market. You buy a house for $300k and for some reason unbeknowst to you the value continues to grow. You owe the bank $300k + interest but your house is worth $400k so you feel comfortable that you can sell it at anytime.

    We’ll assume you own nothing else so your net worth we’ll say is $100k. You don’t have $100k in the bank but if we had to liquidate everything you’d probably have that in your hand.

    Now for some reason the market tanks and your house’s value goes from $400k to $200k…now your net worth went from $100k to negative $100k overnight. Because if we sold your house you’d still $100k to the bank.

    That’s why valuations are trash and why the whole “so and so is a billionaire” is hot garbage most of the time. They most like own some percentage of a company that is assumed to be worth some amount if it sold.

    If Kanye owns 50% of the shares of a company “worth” $2B he is now a “billionaire” yaaaay. What happens if that company has a bad season and the value plummets 50%? Guess who is no longer a billionaire? Nothing changed, the money in the bank is the same it’s all speculative.
    Very detailed answer. When we get big money, we need to level up on our protection so we can safeguard what is ours. I love speculative valuations. They make for good convo. But I do understand they can be misleading.
     
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    Good idea to make a megathread on the Ye drama happening as of late. It's one thing after the other with him as of late, and I have a feeling that he's going to do and say more dumb shit going forward.

    The sad truth, is that he really thought he could say anything he wanted and nothing would happen. Dude is literally canceling himself at this point. From Adidas and other companies dropping him, to celebs, friends, and collaborators peacing out.
    This should be motivation for our people to get our money up independently and get real power. I can't wait for the day where these Jews are dethroned.
     

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    "I know there's dudes ballin', and yeah, that's nice
    And they gonna keep callin' and tryin', but you stay right, girl
    And when he get on, he'll leave yo' ass for a white girl."

    Kanye been left us for them white girls...I have no sympathy for brother man. Call Christina Aguillera cuz I'm fresh out of fucks to give to brothers who hate their own people. Don't come find me when them folks get on yo ass.
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    "I know there's dudes ballin', and yeah, that's nice
    And they gonna keep callin' and tryin', but you stay right, girl
    And when he get on, he'll leave yo' ass for a white girl."

    Kanye been left us for them white girls...I have no sympathy for brother man. Call Christina Aguillera cuz I'm fresh out of fucks to give to brothers who hate their own people. Don't come find me when them folks get on yo ass.
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    The desire for some in the community to want to defend people who have show contempt for us is baffling. Kanye chose his side and we need to accept it. He did not identify as Black, he identified as a fashion designer from Europe with a #MAGA fetish and it backfired. Ohhhhhh well. This is not our cross to carry.
     

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    Seems this isn't new. Kanye wanted to name his album back in '18, 'Hitler'. According to this guy.

    I cosign a few sane voices on here, about not wanting to save someone who shit on us. I definitely can understand any sista more than over with him.

    As I've said before. My hard line, is condoning the murder of black people and that's what he did with the Floyd thing and the one group of people who should be sensitive to that the most are blaze` about it. "He's right about the Jews, so I can look past him condoning the murder of a black person" GTFOH with that f*cked up logic. I was disappointed in Tariq tryna give him advise and excusing it as 'I don't want to see a black person without the bag'.

    We demand respect and we are the only group that would put up with its own shitting on us and have a fair amount of people wishing him well. Every gay, latino, white, Republican, Dem, whomever who was a celeb who sh*t on his own people were ostracized. We are the only ones doing that 'forgive...forgive...forgive' Why? He is a musical genius. Kanye's music is black people's 'butter biscuits'. Straight up.

    Any black person is going to be disproportionally punished wrongly by whites. How is that new? There are literally 100s of 1000s of blacks in prison from being over prosecuted. How is Kanye special? Especially inviting the abuse? Miss me on all that. F*ck him. Lose the bag, I don't give a f*ck. His kids won't ever starve as I said. He has too much money to be penniless. He'll be worth 400 million instead of 1.3 billion. Give me a f*cking break. Kim got paper, his kids great grandkids are going to be millionaires if they don't inherit his bullshit.

     

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    Sketchers up and got security on his ass to walk him out. Dude went from being a billionaire to a millionaire over night.

    I don't think there is any coming back for him. I think he is an amazing artists still but dude lost his damn mind. I can't support someone who thinks and acts the way he does.
    I saw that too. This is getting scary. It almost feels like something out of Black Mirror.

    While Koonye West is still a double-minded, anti-Black racist raccoon, what they are doing is beyond disgusting and sick. I’ve never seen anything like this in my life. This is just insane levels of persecution to the point where I dare say that it's illegal and unconstitutional. If they are doing this to Kanye due to poorly exercising his freedom of speech, what's stopping them from going after and everybody else for saying something they don't like? Look how they are firing and making pariahs out of people who speak against the LGBTQ community as well even if they are speaking the truth. Yet, anti-Back racists are never treated the way they are treating Kanye West. They are treating Kanye West like the worst person who ever lived. It's boundlessly absurd. Meanwhile the white media tried to make us feel sorry for that rapist Harvey Weinstein when some people in public were rightfully hostile to him. The very same white dominant society that is persecuting Kanye West for his words is the same one that will be celebrating and dressing up as Jeffery Dahmer this Halloween coming.

     

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    The desire for some in the community to want to defend people who have show contempt for us is baffling. Kanye chose his side and we need to accept it. He did not identify as Black, he identified as a fashion designer from Europe with a #MAGA fetish and it backfired. Ohhhhhh well. This is not our cross to carry.
    😂😂😂 bless. Let the church say Amen. That's our problem now. No repercussions for coons and sellouts. Stop saving ninjas that never wanted to be saved by ninjas. Once you show yourself an enemy to us, especially as a Black man, I'm done. That's the ultimate betrayal for me. You are on yo own.

    Call a tow truck.
    Call yo mama.
    I can’t do it.
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