Kanye West Apologizes For George Floyd Comments, Compares What He’s Going Through To ‘Knee On My Neck’

Kanye West was spotted out in Los Angeles, where he addressed the controversial comments he made recently to a group of people. The interaction was caught on video and has been circulating on social media. 

When asked if the companies that have cut ties with him have banded together in light of his antisemitic comments, he denies knowing it was antisemitic. 

“And I didn’t realize that term would be antisemitic,” he explained. “So I had a mediation with Adidas today, and I think Adidas felt like cause everyone else was ganging up on me that they had the right to take my designs.”

He explained that in Christianity, instead of karma, they call it “reap what you sow,” and he feels like he is being humbled. 

“I feel like this is God humbling me right now,” Kanye tells the crowd. “Cause there’s two things that are happening. A lot of times when I would say ‘I am the richest Black man,’ it would be a defense that I would use for the mental health conversation.”

He also took time to address his comments about George Floyd, acknowledging that the statements hurt the Black community.

“When the idea of Black Lives Matter came out, it made us come together as a people,” Ye says. “So I when said that and I questioned the death of George Floyd, it hurt my people. It hurt the Black people.”

But his apology falls flat once he compares what he is going through to having a knee on his neck, which is how Floyd was killed.

He continued, “So, I want to apologize to hurtin’ them because 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.” 

“So thank you, God, for humbling me and letting me know how it really felt. Because how could the richest Black man ever be humbled other than to be made to not be a billionaire in front of everyone off one comment.”

George Floyd’s family has filed a $250 million lawsuit against the former billionaire for claiming that Floyd died of a fentanyl overdose instead of asphyxiation from having former officer Derek Chauvin’s knee on his neck. 

After his comments against Floyd and the antisemitic remarks made, several companies have cut ties with or vowed not to work with the rapper. 

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