Kanye West Jokes About ‘Cutting Ties’ With Himself After Being Dropped From Adidas & More

“Had to chopped ties, bro,” Kanye “Ye” West posted to Instagram connected Oct. 27 portion sharing a screenshot from a parody quality account. “Ye Has Reportedly Cut Ties With Kanye West,” work the headline, on with “Yeezy claims they person besides ended concern relations with Kanye.” West, 45, seemingly wasn’t upset that his concern empire was crumbling pursuing his repeated antisemitic comments. Days earlier Ye “cut ties” with himself, Forbes reported that Ye mislaid his billionaire status aft Adidas announced that it would nary longer enactment with Ye and his Yeezy sneakers and that they were pulling his products from the shelves.

Kanye West joking astir ‘cutting ties’ with himself. (Instagram)

Ye seemed unbothered by this determination and each the others refusing to enactment with him. “Ari Emmanuel,” wrote Ye successful a 2nd Instagram post, addressing the apical amusement manufacture endowment cause who called connected businesses to halt moving with Ye, per CBS News. “I mislaid [two] cardinal dollars successful 1 time / and I’m inactive live / This is emotion code / I inactive emotion you / God inactive loves you / The wealth is not who I americium / The radical is who I am.”

Foot Locker announced connected Oct. 25 that it would “not beryllium supporting immoderate aboriginal Yeezy merchandise drops, and we person instructed our retail operators to propulsion immoderate existing merchandise from our shelves and integer sites,” according to Forbes. Though Gap announced successful September that they were parting with Ye aft helium accused them of breaking their contract, the store announced it was “taking contiguous steps to region Yeezy Gap products from our stores, and we person unopen down yeezygap.com” pursuing his antisemitic rants. JP Morgan reportedly decided to nary longer slope with Ye. MRC announced it shelved a completed documentary astir Ye, and endowment bureau CAA dropped Ye.

Not pictured: a billionaire (Shutterstock)

Balenciaga besides announced it “has nary longer immoderate narration nor immoderate plans for aboriginal projects related to this artist.” Record statement Def Jam, a portion of Universal Music Group, besides confirmed that it was nary longer moving with West. “Def Jam’s narration with Ye arsenic a signaling artist, Def Jam’s concern with the GOOD Music statement venture, and Ye’s merchandise statement with Bravado each ended successful 2021,” UMG said successful a connection to The Hollywood Reporter. “There is nary spot for antisemitism successful our society. We are profoundly committed to combating antisemitism and each different signifier of prejudice.”

Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek told Reuters that Ye’s euphony did not interruption immoderate anti-hate policies, which is wherefore it remains connected the streaming platform. “It’s truly conscionable his music, and his euphony doesn’t interruption our policy,” said Ek, adding, “It’s up to his label, if they privation to instrumentality enactment oregon not.” Ek condemned Ye’s “just atrocious comments” but said that the euphony volition stay until his statement does something. However, Peloton “indefinitely paused” playing Kanye West’s euphony during its streaming workout classes, per CNN.

On Wednesday (Oct. 26), Ye was reportedly escorted retired of Skechers office successful Los Angeles. Ye “arrived unannounced and without invitation,” the institution said, per CNN. He reportedly engaged successful “unauthorized filming” and was escorted retired “after a little conversation.”

“Skechers is not considering and has nary volition of moving with West,” the institution said successful its statement. “We condemn his caller divisive remarks and bash not tolerate antisemitism oregon immoderate different signifier of hatred speech.”