What did Kanye say

2022 - 10 - 25

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People are urging Adidas to cut ties with Kanye West after his ... (NBC News)

Adidas is facing increased pressure from people online to cut ties with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, after he made a string of antisemitic comments.

[on Twitter in a response to the clip](https://twitter.com/joshgad/status/1583556045808365570). It said it will also continue to sell forthcoming collections from Yeezy Gap in the fall and into the first half of 2023. Gap "Not sure why you are continuing to promote this collaboration. I donโ€™t plan on shopping at your stores ever again." [severed ties](https://www.thecut.com/2022/10/balenciaga-has-cut-ties-with-ye.html) with him Friday. โ€œThousands of signatures, and still no word, @adidas?โ€ he wrote. Asking for a friend." Their silence says it all." A recent completed documentary about Ye, made by the Hollywood financier and producer MRC, was also shelved. Representatives for both the company and Ye did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Local politicians, social media users and other celebrities denounced the incident.

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Adidas cuts ties with rapper Kanye West over antisemitism (BBC News)

Clothing giant Adidas has cut ties with rapper Ye, known as Kanye West, saying it does "not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech".

The rapper has also lost his position in Forbes magazine's list of billionaires. A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: "Adidas has finally joined other brands and agencies and cut ties with Ye (Kanye West). The brand is also looking for a new chief executive, after announcing in August that current boss Kasper Rorsted would be leaving in 2023. As leaders of this company (a Jew, a Muslim, and a Christian), we feel duty bound to say to all of you this is a pernicious, terrible use of false logic," MRC Ye's recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company's values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness." "Kanye is a producer and sampler of music.

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