Kanye West’s checking account has actually seen higher days, and a few followers are apparently making an attempt to assist him out, beginning a GoFundMe marketing campaign to make the disgraced rapper a billionaire once more.
AllHipHop studies that supporters have launched a number of pages aimed toward replenishing West’s funds after his web value took an enormous hit final week when Adidas, together with a number of different manufacturers, lower ties with him. One particularly said its intention bluntly with the title “Make Kanye West a Billionaire Once more.” That one was yanked by GoFundMe after elevating simply 5 {dollars}, however a number of different pages nonetheless stay.
Forbes reported final week that Kanye was “now not a billionaire” after his web value sank to about $500 million in mild of Adidas dropping him for making antisemitic remarks on social media.
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“Adidas doesn’t tolerate antisemitism and every other kind of hate speech,” the corporate mentioned in a press release. “Ye’s latest feedback and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and harmful, and so they violate the corporate’s values of variety and inclusion, mutual respect and equity.”
Shortly after being dropped, West took to Instagram to assert he’s misplaced a big amount of cash over the controversy.
In a single submit, addressed to expertise agent Ari Emmanuel, West mentioned, “I LOST 2 BILLION DOLLARS IN ONE DAY.”
“THE MONEY IS NOT WHO I AM,” he claimed additional down within the submit.
Ye has been embroiled in controversy the previous few weeks after making antisemitic remarks and claiming fentanyl performed an element within the loss of life of George Floyd, regardless of his loss of life already being dominated a murder. CNN reported final week that West has typically shared his “admiration” for Adolf Hitler, in keeping with a number of sources who had been as soon as near the rapper.
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Together with Adidas, a number of different corporations have since distanced themselves from Ye, together with Balenciaga, The Hole, Foot Locker, and CAA.
This isn’t the primary time followers have tried to bail out West. A fan beforehand began a GoFundMe web page to lift $53 million for the rapper in 2016 after he claimed he was in debt for that quantity, in keeping with Newsweek.