After his controversial comment over George Floyd’s death and calling it death by drug overdose, Kanye West finally came out in the light to apologize for his remarks. In the past few weeks, things are not going well for him.
After this comment on social media, it cost him deals with brands like Balenciaga, Vogue, Adidas, and Gap. He claimed that he lost around 2 billion dollars in one day. George Floyd’s daughter sued Kanye for $250 million for his defamatory remarks against her father.
According to Female First UK, Kanye went on to Instagram to mourn his loss and to blame the companies for being unreasonable to cancel the contracts.
He said, “While I’m still allowed on Mark Zuckerberg platform. I’m going to say this again. Let’s see the contracts. The film contracts, the sports contracts, the music contracts. The mortgages.”
He ‘apologized’ over his anti-Semitic remark by saying that he now knew what “a knee on my neck” feels like. He compared his current situation to the death of George Floyd whose death turned the whole world into chaos.
Kanye said, “I want to apologize for hurting them, now God has shown me by what Adidas is doing, and by what the media is doing. I know how it feels to have a knee on my neck now.”
Calling out to the companies, Kanye said, “Let’s see the contracts. So we can or better yet will do better business. I’ve been beaten to a pulp and there’s still no accountability (sic) ”
He also captioned his post, ” The ‘unknown powers’ are trying to destroy my life off of a tweet. So does this prove that my so-called suspicion was true? Leading with love. This is #lovespeech.”