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"The Adidas team was huddled with Kanye West, pitching ideas for the first shoe they would create together. It was 2013, and the rapper and the sportswear brand had just agreed to become partners. The Adidas employees, thrilled to get started, had arrayed sneakers and fabric swatches on a long table near a mood board pinned with images.

But nothing they showed that day at the company’s German headquarters captured the vision Mr. West had shared. To convey how offensive he considered the designs, he grabbed a sketch of a shoe and took a marker to the toe, according to two participants. Then he drew a swastika."

that means he probably loved the designs! congrats adidas team!

This the music sec

Only way people gonna see the exposé

The way the media attacks you when you're about to roll something out is so wild

First Justin now Ye

Not a defense of Ye but it's insane to me that so many people were privy to this nazi s*** up to 10 years ago and no one said a thing

Man had eyes on him at all times when he was married to Kim and NOTHING leaked?

just copped the 700 static v2

He was still useful to the white liberals back then

brother like 75% of this section is topics about drama lol

mandela effect

“Mr. West eventually conceded on Adidas’s terms for termination: felony conviction, bankruptcy, 30 consecutive days of mental health or substance abuse treatment, or anything that brings “disrepute, contempt, scandal” to him or tarnishes Adidas, according to a copy of the contract obtained by The Times.“

Damn they didn't allow him to get mental health treatment

i may be reaching but this doesn’t seem like he was a nazi back then

from my reading of the situation, it seems like he was so offended by the shoes that they designed and drew the swastika on the shoe to be like ‘ya’ll designs is as offensive as a swastika’

Because it's obviously sensationalized to fit a narrative. At the time i don't think anyone thought he was a nazi because he drew a swastika on shoes. Loosely connecting a few isolated incidents over a 10 year period to his breakdown/ last year doesn't mean he was always a nazi

Same entities canceling him now after profiting? Seems a little disingenuous

Kids being slaughtered in Palestine and this what ny times investigation priority.

A new exposé ?

It's really album season

"He later advised a Jewish Adidas manager to kiss a picture of Hitler every day, and he told a member of the company’s executive board that he had paid a seven-figure settlement to one of his own senior employees who accused him of repeatedly praising the architect of the Holocaust."

Ain't no way

To be dead honest, they're obviously biased about Tsahal propaganda but they did a pretty great job debunking their lies about the hospital attack in Gaza

The war is the first 4 articles on their website

A NYT Kanye piece was rumoured for probably months tbh, pretty disingenuous to act like this was conceived and written since Oct 7th

kttmz

But when it’s actually about the Ye music that s*** gets moved

Ye a menace but Ngl it’s hard to believe white ppl gonna let this s*** slide but hey money talks

Threads like this one make me think about how funny it would've been to have a Kanye version of thegreatdivine