A brand-new shoe store in the East Bay is joining the backlash against Ye, the rapper/businessman formerly known as Kanye West.
West, who officially changed his name to Ye, has been under fire for a lot of things. Recently, Adidas ended its massive deal with the rapper turned businessman after making antisemitic remarks.
“When he’s talking about Jews being in power and having an agenda to try to manipulate a system, the bigger part is the media gave him a voice to begin with,” Richman said. Richman told NBC Bay Area that pulling Yeezys from the shelves will hurt him financially but he said that he faced tough times before. He spent eight years in prison for robbery, he’s a recovering drug addict and started his sneaker business with the $200 he was given, when released from prison two years ago.
“If it’s going to hurt my pocketbook, it’s only going to be short term and the world has shown if I do right, right things will come,” he said.Earlier Wednesday,
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