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The Problem With Kanye West | Corporate Casket

iilluminaughtii

Blair Zoń

Documentary, Education, Business, Society & Culture

4.4961 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Get a 60-day free trial at https://www.shipstation.com/casket. Thanks to ShipStation for sponsoring the show! Go to http://dipseastories.com/casket to get a 30-day free trial. Welcome to the Corporate Casket, a semiweekly series where bad businesses go to die. We will discuss any and everything from bad charities, terrible CEOs, and businesses that have a lot to hide. Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, has been controversial for a while now. His hateful comments have garnered justified outrage, and yet companies working with him drag their feet and some still praise him as a genius we just don’t understand. So, is Ye actually a genius, or nothing more than a bitter, pathetic, angry, washed-up man? Connect with me: https://linktr.ee/iilluminaughtii Sources: https://justpaste.it/36bta Writers/Researchers/Helpers: Ali Z-B This episode was edited and mixed by: @GThomasCraig Album cover art created by: Betsy Primes Intro Song Credits: Last to Fall- Will Van De Crommert Outro Song Credits: Sacred and Profane- Nicholas Rowe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

The thing about it, me and Adidas is like, I could literally say anti-Semitic

0:11.3

shit and they can't drop me. I can say anti-Semitic things and

0:16.6

Adidas can't drop me. Now what? Shortly after these comments it was announced that Adidas decided to finally end its partnership

0:26.2

with Yea, formerly known as Kagnay West.

0:29.2

Their relationship was under review for weeks at this point, as Adidas wanted to look like they were taking action

0:34.5

against his recent anti-Semitic comments without, you know, taking any real action.

0:39.8

The fact of a matter is that Yea really did have a tight grip on the company, seeing as he owns the trademark for his sneaker brand, Yeezy, which was worth as much as $3 billion.

0:49.0

Kagni wasn't entirely speaking out of arrogance when he said that Adidas wouldn't drop him.

0:53.6

He knew it would be a big loss for the company.

0:56.4

But despite the loyal fans, massive profits, and sellout shoes that Easy brought to the

1:00.9

table, Adidas did walk away. A large business with, you know, past accusations of forced and child labor walked away from $250 million in profit.

1:11.0

That's practically unheard of, and it's how you know that Conyay did something

1:14.7

irredeemable. According to Forbes, this absolutely obliterated Conyay's

1:19.0

worth making him no longer a billionaire. They officially removed him from the billionaire's list on October 25,

1:25.0

2022. In fact, Kanyay's most recent comments have been the final straw for corporate America as a whole.

1:31.7

Adidas The Gap, Instagram, Twitter,

1:34.2

Balenciaga, and the Creative Artist Agency

1:36.9

have all distanced themselves from Kagni in recent weeks.

1:40.5

So what did he do this time? Well, it's a sort of combination of a few different things, but let's focus on the month of October.

1:47.0

Early in the month, news circulated that one of Yay's Catwalk events at Paris Fashion Week included a White Lives Matter t-shirt.

1:54.6

Now the phrase White Lives Matter as I'm sure many of you already know is a direct racist

1:59.7

response against the Black Lives Matter movement. It's a hate slogan, and even if you want to claim that

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