West, who changed his legal name to Ye, made the revelation during an interview with right-leaning podcaster Tim Pool on Monday.
The “Gold Digger” crooner, who appeared on the podcast to promote his 2024 presidential campaign, told Pool that his “finance people” told him he will “have to pay a lot of taxes.”“I’m talking about literally finding out that they were trying to put me in prison this morning,” Ye said. “But I found out — okay, so they froze, they put a $75 million hold on four of my accounts.”
“And then they said, ‘You owe a lot of taxes.’ Took me like six hours to find out how much ‘a lot’ was,” Ye said.During the interview, Ye acknowledged that he was “obviously not the most financially literate person on the planet.” He said he asked “different CFOs” who were tied to his businesses whether he is evading taxes.
“So now I’m having — I get to actually learn how to run a company. I get to learn how to, you know, to count, really,” Ye said.Kanye West claims the IRS froze his accounts because he owes the agency $50 million in taxes.Ye has lost corporate partnerships with Adidas and Gap in the wake of a series of anti-Semitic tirades.Ye has generated considerable amounts of negative publicity in the past two months that has cost him lucrative partnerships with top brands including Adidas and Gap.
Adidas, the Germany-based sports apparel maker, announced last week it was launching an internal investigation over claims that Ye, who partnered with the company in selling his Yeezy brand of clothing and shoes,
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