The 45-year-old rapper gained notoriety recently for calling celebrities like Lizzo and Hailey Bieber “scams” and for donning a White Lives Matter shirt while criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement.
Kanye, a more powerful rapper who goes by Ye, made numerous offensive messages on Instagram and Twitter and was ultimately suspended after writing that he intended to “kill con 3 on JEWISH PEOPLE.”
Since writing the remark, the father of four, whose ex-wife Kim Kardashian filed for divorce last year, has come under fire for his anti-Semitism and ‘indefensible hate speech’ from everyone from Sarah Silverman to Piers Morgan.
Kanye’s association with Adidas, which sees the sports wear company host Yeezy under its umbrella, has been “under review” ever since the controversy over his White Lives Matter stunt at a Paris fashion show in early October.
Recently, Kanye seems to have posted a video from a meeting with Adidas in which he pretends to show the attendees a pornographic movie.
‘Last Week,’ a 30-minute YouTube video uploaded by the celebrity on Monday, appeared to show footage of a meeting with Adidas executives, though it’s not clear when exactly this meeting occurred.
Around the ten-minute mark, Kanye shows four men a video on his phone, but all of the men’s faces are obscured.
‘He’s got the same voice, doesn’t he?’ the rapper asks, appearing to say one of the men present sounded like an actor in the video.
‘Is this a porn movie?’ one man asks, to which Kanye responds: ‘Yeah.’
Kanye then lifts the video up close to one man and points towards him, before someone says: ‘Come on, man. Come on,’ and moves his arm away.
Kanye goes on to insist: ‘Doesn’t it sound exactly, doesn’t it sound similar?’
Kanye then declares that Adidas “has done wrong by the firm, by the business, and by the partnership” as the meeting officially begins.
The executives are then addressed by a different individual, who states: “What you are feeling right now is great discomfort, and that is exactly the point. Because taking this man’s concepts or works is equivalent to kidnapping a child.
In a statement last week, Adidas acknowledged that they and Kanye had been in talks about whether to keep up their cooperation, which they called “one of the most successful collaborations in our industry’s history.”
“We have decided to place the collaboration under review,” the statement said, “after numerous attempts to settle the issue.
‘We will continue to co-manage the current product during this period.’
In response to that statement, Kanye wrote on Instagram: ‘F*K ADIDAS I AM ADIDAS ADIDAS RAPED AND STOLE MY DESIGNS.’
In recent months, Kanye has been critical of Adidas, publicly saying that the company did not have his consent for this year’s Yeezy Day.
In an Instagram post, he said at the time: ‘Picked colors and named them without my approval and hired people that worked for me without my approval stole my colorways without my approval stole my styles and material approaches without my approval took talent on the production side and sprinkled them through Adidas Originals without my approval.’
It’s time for me to go it alone, he said when announcing last month that he would leave the company when their contract expired.
Due to an anti-Semitic tweet he made this weekend, Kanye had his Instagram account locked. He then moved on to Twitter, where he was promptly suspended.
He is alleged to have tweeted: ‘ ‘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.’
Twitter has since removed the post in question, with a message instead reading: ‘This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules.’
