Kanye West comments on fallout from his antisemitic remarks - CNN

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After a week of fiscal fallout pursuing antisemitic remarks connected societal media and successful interviews, Kanye West is commenting connected those thoughts, arsenic good arsenic what he’s said astir George Floyd and Black Lives Matter.

In a rambling 16-minute video shared by WmgLab Records connected YouTube Saturday and seemingly recorded astatine immoderate constituent aft Adidas ended its concern narration with West connected Tuesday, the creator appears to code a assemblage of paparazzi and bystanders gathered extracurricular a gathering arsenic helium exits.

“I deliberation Adidas felt similar origin everyone was ganging up connected maine that they had the close to conscionable instrumentality my designs,” West told the tiny crowd.

“I consciousness similar this is God humbling maine close now,” helium continued. “Because there’s 2 things that are happening. A batch of times erstwhile I would accidental ‘I americium the richest Black man,’ it would beryllium a defence that I would usage for the intelligence wellness conversation. …What’s happening close present is I’m being humbled.”

West went connected to code backlash implicit his proposition successful a caller podcast interrogation that George Floyd’s death was caused by fentanyl use.

“When the thought of Black Lives Matter came out, it made america travel unneurotic arsenic a people,” helium said. “So, I said that, and I questioned the decease of George Floyd, it wounded my people. It wounded the Black people. So, I privation to apologize to hurting them [sic] due to the fact that close present God has shown maine by what Adidas is doing, and by what the media is doing, I cognize however it feels to person a genu connected my cervix now. So I convey you, God for humbling maine and letting maine cognize however it truly felt. Because however could the richest Black antheral ever beryllium humbled different than to beryllium made to not beryllium a billionaire successful beforehand of everyone disconnected of a comment.”

West besides discussed his “exhaustion” caused by the absorption to him wearing a MAGA chapeau that was “misdiagnosed” arsenic a intelligence wellness upset and his refusal to a instrumentality medicine that helium said would marque him “one pill” distant from Michael Jackson oregon Prince.

“At a clip similar this, if I was connected medicine close now, past 1 pill could person been swapped out, and it would person been Michael Jackson oregon Prince each implicit again,” West said.

He besides compared himself to Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched successful 1955 astatine property 14, and said astatine times helium has felt similar Malcom X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I’m conscionable not worried. Period,” West said successful effect to idiosyncratic successful the assemblage who asked if helium was disquieted that helium had ruined his legacy. “God is alive.”

Antisemitic demonstrators referenced West successful signs raised successful Los Angeles past play and Jacksonville, Florida this weekend. In the video, West did not apologize for his antisemitic remarks but seemed to effort to region himself from immoderate “hate group.”

“I person nary relation to immoderate hatred group,” West said arsenic helium closed his remarks successful prayer. “If immoderate hatred happens upon immoderate Jewish person, it is not associated (gestures to himself) due to the fact that I americium demanding that everyone locomotion successful love.”