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Kanye West addresses Adidas fallout successful his instrumentality to Instagram: ‘I mislaid $2bn successful 1 day’

ICYMI: Kanye West has returned to Instagram to code the important alteration successful his luck - according to Forbes, from $2bn to $400m - aft Adidas and different brands chopped ties with the rapper implicit his antisemitic remarks.

On Thursday, the rapper returned to his recently reinstated Instagram, which was banned aft a bid of antisemitic remarks, to bespeak connected the quality that helium “lost $2bn successful 1 day” successful the fallout implicit his comments.

In the post, which was addressed to Ari Emmanuel, the CEO of amusement and media bureau Endeavor, and captioned: “Love speech,” West wrote: “Ari Emmanuel. I mislaid $2bn successful 1 time and I’m inactive alive. This is emotion speech. I inactive emotion you. God inactive loves you.”

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Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 15:00

ICYMI: Kanye West reportedly dropped by sixth divorcement lawyer amid antisemitism controversy

ICYMI: Kanye West has reportedly been dropped by a sixth divorcement lawyer successful his ongoing divorcement proceedings with Kim Kardashian.

West has been dropped by New York divorcement attorneys Bernard Clair and Bob Cohen from Cohen Clair Lans Griefer Thorpe and Rottenstreich LLP, according to Page Six.

“The steadfast is nary longer representing Kanye West,” a root told the outlet.

The Independent has contacted West and his erstwhile lawyers, Clair and Cohen, for comment.

Meredith Clark has the afloat study here.

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 14:00

Law steadfast Greenberg Traurig moves to sever ties with lawsuit Kanye West

Greenberg Traurig, a Florida based instrumentality steadfast that is presently representing Kanye West successful 2 ongoing cases, said in a statement shared with The Financial Times that it is successful the process of severing ties with their personage lawsuit successful the aftermath of his antisemitic remarks.

“We are taking steps successful effect to the reported remarks successful accordance with ethical obligations and tribunal rules,” the steadfast said, according to FT. “We condemn anti-Semitism and each hatred code oregon bigotry, which is repugnant to the halfway values we judge successful and live.”

“This steadfast was founded by individuals who faced favoritism and galore of america mislaid ancestors due to the fact that of that benignant of hatred and prejudice,” the institution added successful its statement, highlighting however its founders - Larry Hoffman, Mel Greenberg, and Robert Traurig - were each Jewish.

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 13:00

Fans began celebrating the imaginable instrumentality of Kanye West, Trump with Elon astatine Twitter’s helm

With Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover of Twitter officialised, online commentators who are fans of Kanye West began celebrating his imaginable instrumentality to the societal media level aft helium was locked retired for sharing antisemitic posts earlier this month.

“Imagine however bully twitter volition beryllium erstwhile Trump Kanye West Alex Jones Roger Stone and Nick Fuentes are each backmost connected here,” wrote 1 Twitter user, keenly alert that the company’s caller proprietor has antecedently declared himself a “free code absolutist” and has near galore speculating whether helium would licence online trolls, specified arsenic the erstwhile US president, backmost connected to the platform.

USA Singers, a radical of self-described absorption singers, joined successful connected the speculation and tweeted jokingly that, “Elon Musk volition astir apt prosecute Kanye West to beryllium Head of Public Relations for Twitter.”

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 12:20

Nick Cave calls Kanye West’s antisemitic remarks ‘deeply disappointing'

Nick Cave, portion speaking astatine an lawsuit successful London connected Thursday night, called Kanye West’s caller antisemitic remarks “deeply disappointing” but noted that helium inactive considers the rapper to beryllium “the top creator of our generation”.

NME reported that an assemblage subordinate had asked the Australian vocalist during a Q & A information of the evening astir however to abstracted the enactment of an creator from their arguable aspects of their idiosyncratic beliefs.

“There’s Kanye astatine the moment, making antisemitic remarks,” answered the instrumentalist astatine 1 point. “Kanye, for me, controversially, is, successful my opinion, the top creator of our generation. I emotion his music. ‘Yeezus’ and those gospel records… those gospel records are similar thing I’ve ever heard before.

“But for me, for him to propulsion retired these antisemitic tropes, I deliberation it’s, personally, disgraceful. Does this idiosyncratic request to descend from specified large heights down to specified tedious s*** we’ve heard truthful overmuch truthful often? It’s profoundly disappointing to me, and for immoderate clip it mightiness beryllium hard for maine personally to perceive to a Kanye record, but astatine the aforesaid clip I worth the output more, connected immoderate level.”

Before finishing answering the question from the assemblage member, helium added: “Ultimately, I worth the output more, and I cognize that successful clip I volition beryllium capable to get implicit that and conscionable consciousness escaped to beryllium capable to perceive to Kanye’s euphony again. That helium won’t everlastingly beryllium trapped successful the worst facet of his character, and the euphony that helium makes is simply a travel distant from the worst facet of his character, similar each our euphony is.”

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 12:00

NBA subordinate Jaylen Brown defends Donda Academy successful bid of tweets

NBA subordinate Jaylen Brown struck retired successful a bid of Twitter posts to travel to the defence of Kanye West’s Donda Academy, an unaccredited K-8 schoolhouse tally by the rapper that announced to parents connected Wednesday nighttime that they’d beryllium closing until September, effectual immediately.

The Times first reported astir an email that was sent to parents connected Wednesday nighttime that disclosed that the backstage schoolhouse would stay closed until the autumn of 2023.

Brown, who announced earlier this week that he’d beryllium leaving Donda Sports, the bureau founded by West, took to Twitter connected Thursday to stock his feelings astir the school’s closure, which helium says helium had the accidental to witnesser up close.

“A batch of large teachers parents and students are affected by this.. It is casual to talk from the extracurricular looking successful I spent clip astatine Donda academy and it is alot amended than immoderate nationalist schools successful America with a amended program precocious schoolhouse students were afloat accredited,” said the Celtics player, portion punctuation tweeting an nonfiction astir the California school’s closure.

He added: “Anti-Semitism should beryllium handled with sensitivity and respect, Inequalities /lack of accidental successful our acquisition strategy should beryllium handled with sensitivity and respect, A schoolhouse with resources/ accidental academically and athletically person been taken distant abruptly without notice.”

Johanna Chisholm28 October 2022 11:25

ICYMI: Vogue ‘does not intend’ to enactment with Kanye West again

ICYMI: Vogue does “not intend” to enactment with Kanye West again amid aggregate controversies surrounding the rapper.

West has dominated headlines successful caller weeks aft helium made antisemitic remarks, and sent models down the catwalk successful “White Lives Matter” T-shirts during his Yeezy SZN 9 presumption astatine Paris Fashion Week earlier this month.

On 21 October, a spokesperson for Vogue told Page Six that neither the manner work nor editor-in-chief Anna Wintour intended to enactment with West going forward.

The Independent has contacted Vogue and West for comment.

Wintour and West person had a longstanding narration since she archetypal invited him to the yearly Met Gala successful 2009.

The Independent has the afloat study below.

Graeme Massie28 October 2022 11:01

Essentials Playlist removed from Apple Music

ICYMI: Kanye West’s Essentials Playlist appears to person been removed from Apple Music.

The determination comes arsenic the rapper continued to look backlash aft making a bid of antisemitic remarks during interviews and connected societal media.

There has been nary authoritative connection by Apple Music connected the improvement yet.

Graeme Massie28 October 2022 08:31

Madam Tussauds London moves Kanye West wax figure

ICYMI: Madame Tussauds has removed its wax fig of Kanye West from nationalist view.

The exemplary of the US rapper, who has legally changed his sanction to Ye, has been moved to an archive by the museum.

Charlotte McLaughlin reports:

Graeme Massie28 October 2022 07:01

What Kanye West did: Explained

ICYMI: Kanye West is experiencing a backlash aft making a bid of antisemitic remarks during interviews and connected societal media.

The rapper, who has been progressive successful assorted controversies implicit the years, has been dropped by some Adidas and Balenciaga implicit the “hateful and dangerous” comments.

A fig of chap celebrities person besides condemned his behaviour.

Isobel Lewis explains the latest controversy, his remarks, and the disapproval astir it:

Graeme Massie28 October 2022 06:05

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