Kanye West Skechers Blunder: What Happens Next After Controversial Adidas Pullout?

Not more than a few days since his now-infamous Adidas threat has gone viral; the fashion giant has already terminated its lucrative contract with Kanye West, one of the biggest collaborators of the brand.

The huge decision of the company came on the heels of West's antisemitic comments on social media and his justification of such comments in a flurry of media appearances.

In the now-trending video, Kanye issued an ominous threat to all his distractors, putting his Adidas deal in danger.

"I can literally say antisemitic shit, and they can't drop me. I can say antisemitic things, and Adidas can't drop me. Now what" he boastfully said in an episode of Drink Champs.

Kanye has been on a press tour of his consecutive tirades against Jewish industry leaders whom he alleged to have been wronging him and other Black entertainers.

He also appeared once with Piers Morgan, where he not only called President Joe Biden a "r*tard," but sarcastically defended and apologized for his antisemitic remarks.

Because of the sacked Adidas deal, Kanye lost his billionaire status. Forbes crunched the number and reported that his actual net worth is only $2 billion, contrary to his own computation of around $6 billion.

CNN Business now reported that Kanye West's updated net worth is only $400 million.

But despite this, Kanye seemed to be unfazed by the massive loss and decided to joke about it in a comeback Instagram post.

"Ari Emmanuel, I lost 2 billion dollars in one day and I'm still alive. This is love speech. I still love you. God still loves you. The money is not who I am. The people is who I am," he wrote.

From here, Kanye's future plans are still in the open.

Exactly a day after Adidas cut their ties, TMZ reported that Kanye West was escorted out of the Skechers headquarters by two company execs after arriving uninvited at the Manhattan corporate office.

Ironically, Skechers is owned by a Jewish family, the same race of people that Kanye wanted to go "deathcon3" with.

"Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West. We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech. Again, West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices," the company announced.

Meanwhile, Donda Academy, West's newly-founded and unaccredited school, has shut down its doors for the remainder of the 2022-2023 school year at the founder's discretion.

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