{"id":1234043,"date":"2022-10-25T14:15:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/adidas-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T14:15:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T14:15:53","slug":"adidas-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/adidas-cuts-ties-with-kanye-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Adidas cuts ties with Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adidas officially has ended its partnership with Kanye West after he made numerous anti-Semitic comments.<\/p>\n

\u201cAdidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech,\u201d the athletic company said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cYe\u2019s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company\u2019s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Adidas has cut ties with Kanye West after he made a series of anti-Semitic remarks.
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Adidas announced its partnership with the Yeezy fashion designer was\u00a0\u201cunder review\u201d\u00a0in early October after West, 45, wore a \u201cWhite Lives Matter\u201d T-shirt to a fashion show \u2014 and then continued to wear it.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter repeated efforts to privately resolve the situation, we have taken the decision to place the partnership under review,\u201d Adidas shared in a statement at the time. \u201cWe will continue to co-manage the current product during this period.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company\u2019s decision comes\u00a0after celebrities, including West\u2019s ex-wife Kim Kardashian,\u00a0condemned West\u00a0for his remarks.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAdidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech,\u201d the company announced Tuesday. GC Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

West didn\u2019t take to the company\u2019s decision kindly, responding on Instagram, \u201cF\u2014K ADIDAS I AM ADIDAS ADIDAS RAPED AND STOLE MY DESIGNS.\u201d<\/p>\n

The rapper\u2019s relationship with both Adidas and the\u00a0rest of the fashion world\u00a0worsened after he\u00a0vowed to go \u201cdeath con 3\u201d\u00a0on Jewish people. He was immediately banned from both Twitter and Instagram.<\/p>\n

He later\u00a0bashed \u201cJewish media\u201d\u00a0for silencing him online after he posted a screenshot of his text messages with Diddy in which the rapper wrote, \u201cThis ain\u2019t a game. Ima use you as an example to show the Jewish people that told you to call me that no one can threaten or influence me.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Despite Adidas, Balenciaga and\u00a0Vogue severing their relationships with West, the \u201cFlashing Lights\u201d rapper maintains\u00a0he\u2019ll never be cancelled.<\/p>\n

\u201cI ain\u2019t losing no money,\u201d he\u00a0told TMZ, shrugging. \u201cThe day I was taken off the Balenciaga site, that was one of the most freeing days.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cWe here, baby, we ain\u2019t going nowhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Adidas officially has ended its partnership with Kanye West after he made numerous anti-Semitic comments. \u201cAdidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech,\u201d the athletic company said in a statement Tuesday. \u201cYe\u2019s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company\u2019s values of diversity and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6897,6022,1645,2894,916],"class_list":["post-1234043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-adidas","tag-cuts","tag-kanye","tag-ties","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1234043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}