Kanye West drew a swastika at a Yeezy meeting with Adidas and told a Jewish manager to kiss a photo of Hitler, report says

Business Insider ^ | Oct 29, 2023 | Polly Thompson

[nickcarraway]

At one of Kanye West's first meetings with Adidas he drew a swastika on a design sketch and told a Jewish member of staff to kiss a photo of Hitler, according to an investigation by The New York Times.

For more than a decade, the rapper now known as Ye had one of the most lucrative celebrity-fashion partnerships ever with Adidas, generating sales of more than $1 billion a year.

But the German sportswear brand eventually cut ties with Ye in October 2022 after a series of public antisemitic tirades and offensive posts that caused him to be blocked from his social media accounts.

The New York Times looked more closely into Ye's behavior that Adidas tolerated during the partnership by speaking to current and former employees of Adidas and Ye, and examining hundreds of previously undisclosed documents. The report concluded that the Yeezy partnership had been "fraught from the start."

At their first meeting, the report said that Ye was unhappy with the shoe designs and fabric samples presented. He drew a swastika on one of them to express his displeasure, according to two unnamed participants who spoke to the Times.

Adidas is based in Germany, where most depictions of Nazi symbols are illegal and considered highly offensive.

In another detail of his troubling antisemitic behaviour, Ye told one Jewish manager at the company to kiss a picture of Hitler every day.

The investigation concluded that the profits generated from sales of Yeezy merchandise let Adidas executives to tolerate Ye's erratic and offensive behavior.

Although Ye has been less outspoken this year, he faced fresh allegations of antisemitism from former colleagues over the summer. Most recently, Ye's lawyers filed to secure the trademark rights for the use of the term "YEWS" across a range of sectors.

[nickcarraway]

Bipolar Disorder is a helluva drug.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"He drew a swastika on one of them to express his displeasure, according to two unnamed participants who spoke to the Times."

Which means this could all be B.S.

[algore]

I totally believe this, just like
I believes everything I read on the internet tubes.

Did you know that Trump had a strip tease and golden shower from Hillary in the oval office?

[Fester Chugabrew]

Bad Boy

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Which means this could all be B.S.

It could - but given Kanye's recent behavior (which apparently includes a public sex act with his new wife in a gondola in Venice), who knows?

Kanye West is immensely talented, both as an artist and as a producer, but the guy is mentally troubled and his family and friends say he refuses to stay on his prescribed meds.

[algore]

or maybe this is a symptom of the prescribed meds.

but probably they are all safe and effective

[struggle]

The funny thing is marginal news (the national enquirer) used to pull this “2 anonymous sources” shite but now it’s establishment media

[MTBobcat]

If the New York Times is the publisher and the sources are unnamed, I assume it’s a lie until seeing proof. Zero % trust I have in any Leftist propaganda organ.

[af_vet_1981]

Which means this could all be B.S.

As in Bipolar Symptoms; he is very ill.

[algore]

I heard rumors that the Biden is ill, and that Putin is dead and they are using a body double.

you never know.

[nickcarraway]

Thanks for forcing us to picture something unthinkable.

[nickcarraway]

Well, he said crazy stuff about Hitler on a podcast with Alex Jones, and you could see him saying it.

[ridesthemiles]

Getting people to stay on their meds in a regular fashion is almost impossible.

[Delta 21]

Some say he is too smart for his own good.

I say he’s just rich and stupid.