Standing with Skechers! After Kanye West lost several million-dollar brand deals over his controversial actions, Saturday Night Live reacted to the business changes.
10.10.2022 - 19:57 / etcanada.com
Kanye West has an unusual approach to business meetings.
After being taken off Twitter and Instagram due to anti-semitic posts, on Monday the rapper debuted a new 30-minute documentary called “Last Week” on YouTube.
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Along with showing video game footage, the film follows West as he rides around in his car, listening to music, and taking meetings.
One notable scene has the rapper meeting with Adidas employees and showing them a porn video on his phone.
Called out by one of the men in the video who is clearly uncomfortable, West responds, “You guys have done wrong by the company, by the business and by the partnership. The whole concept of this video is that the guy had cheated. So then the girl was like, ‘Well, I’m gonna do the thing that is your worst nightmare.’ This is your worst nightmare.”
He adds, “Your worst nightmare is not me hitting you. Your worst nightmare is not me playing the porn. Your worst nightmare is not me screaming. We’ve done all this. That’s your west nightmare and then worst nightmare No. 2. Is it your dream or is it a nightmare? What are we doing?”
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“We can certainly do a lot better in the way that we work with you,” one of the men replies.
“This is a different level of nuclear activity that no one will recover from,” West adds. “The guy from [redacted] couldn’t sell enough companies to cure this level of global warming that you’re going to experience.”
In recent months, West has been very public on social media in calling out Adidas, with whom he has partnered on his Yeezy
Standing with Skechers! After Kanye West lost several million-dollar brand deals over his controversial actions, Saturday Night Live reacted to the business changes.
A day after Adidas ended its business relationship with Kanye West following his repeated antisemitic comments, the rapper made an “unannounced” visit to a Skechers corporate office in LA on Wednesday and was escorted from the building.
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As expected, Adidas yesterday formally cut its ties with Kanye West, announcing it was ending production of all the Yeezy branded products it has made via its partnership with the rapper.West’s relationships with some of his business partners in the fashion domain were already deteriorating before his recent spate of controversial and anti-semitic statements.Adidas, which has been working with West since 2013 – with the first trainers under the Adidas Yeezy brand being launched in 2015 – announced it was reviewing its long-standing partnership with the rapper earlier this month.The sportswear firm’s current deal with West was reportedly due to run through to 2026, but yesterday it confirmed it was terminating the partnership with immediate effect. This follows West’s recent claim in a controversial Drink Champs interview that “I can say antisemitic things and Adidas can’t drop me”.“Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech”, the company said in a statement.
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