Kanye

A friend of a friend worked on developing the STEM player and they are now backing out of the deal with Kanye, including removing his music from the device and turning down $10million.

Never seen someone so intent on tanking their career.
 
Lee Newman said:
How exactly does one intimidate someone with porn? In the video I saw, he just kept shoving the phone in the guy's face and the dude was like stop. Was Kanye like "if you don't let me out of my contract, here's porn... what you gonna do now? Huh? Huh? What?"
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I don't think Ye was trying to intimidate him in that clip, it sounded more like he thought the guy looked and sounded like the porn actor and was way too intent on showing them when no one else cared. There wasn't even any sex in the clip, it was intro dialogue.
 
BoilerRhapsody said:
I don't think Ye was trying to intimidate him in that clip, it sounded more like he thought the guy looked and sounded like the porn actor and was way too intent on showing them when no one else cared. There wasn't even any sex in the clip, it was intro dialogue.
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I’ve seen multiple articles that say he was trying to intimidate their executives in an attempt to get out of his contract.🤷‍♀️
 
Interested to see what Spotify does given how they treated Joe Rogan.....


Side note: Is Manson's music still on Apple Music? How about R. Kelly?
 
Jonathan Y said:
Side note: Is Manson's music still on Apple Music? How about R. Kelly?
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Has Kanye's music been removed from Apple completely, or have they just stopped featuring a Kanye Essentials playlist curated by Apple itself?

Edit: I think I saw a statement from Spotify yesterday saying that the music itself does not violate any of Spotify's content policies, so it will be up to the label to make the decision about whether to withdraw the catalog from their service.
 
Melt Face Molly Drop said:
I believe they call that clickbait
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I'm not sure. The word "intimidation" connotes that the action also carries a threat of consequences for non-compliance, and if this incident did carry that sort of menace, it's not apparent in the video itself or in the writeups about it. But it was certainly an act of attempting to assert some kind of dominance, which can be construed as intimidation.

The moment where Kanye tries to describe the plot of the video he's showing is....well, it's funny. But I think maybe he's also implying that the Adidas exec is either a cheater, or he's the cuck in the video, or something? I'm not really sure what's going on there, but it feels like there's something that goes unsaid that explains why he's trying to show them that specific video, and I don't think it's purely because he thinks there's a physical/auditory resemblance.
 
Indymisanthrope said:
I'm not sure. The word "intimidation" connotes that the action also carries a threat of consequences for non-compliance, and if this incident did carry that sort of menace, it's not apparent in the video itself or in the writeups about it. But it was certainly an act of attempting to assert some kind of dominance, which can be construed as intimidation.

The moment where Kanye tries to describe the plot of the video he's showing is....well, it's funny. But I think maybe he's also implying that the Adidas exec is either a cheater, or he's the cuck in the video, or something? I'm not really sure what's going on there, but it feels like there's something that goes unsaid that explains why he's trying to show them that specific video, and I don't think it's purely because he thinks there's a physical/auditory resemblance.
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I mean it couldn’t be as simple as he’s not well?
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean it couldn’t be as simple as he’s not well?
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Yes for sure -- but *he* is making some sort of logical association, even if that association isn't evident externally. I just get the sense that he thinks he's making a point, and the lack of context and/or Kanye's inability to articulate his thoughts clearly makes that point too oblique for us to easily understand.
 
Lee Newman said:
I mean it couldn’t be as simple as he’s not well?
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He tried to get out of the Adidas contract months ago by saying outlandish things and tagging all the execs on his instagram saying they were raping his designs and stealing from him, he showed them porn to try and get out of the contract, he said George Floyd died from Fetanyl, BLM was a scam, White lives matter shirt, etc. They finally terminated him after his anti semitic remarks. If corporations are going to control the social landscape (as well as the political one) they should do so accordingly, in my opinion, but better late than never.
 
@Jonathan Y as the resident scholar on all things Kanye, what ARE your thoughts about the events of recent months? Is this a calculated plan to do...something? Is it a manic episode? Combo of both?

Not baiting -- I just know you have always felt like he's somewhat misunderstood by the media and that what look like random acts of erratic behavior are sometimes part of a larger narrative that is difficult to see. Just wondering what you think of his trajectory in the last year.

(i.e. not asking you to act as his defense attorney -- I don't think you excuse a lot of what he's said, but I think you might have an explanation for why you think he's saying it)
 
Jonathan Y said:
He tried to get out of the Adidas contract months ago by saying outlandish things and tagging all the execs on his instagram saying they were raping his designs and stealing from him, he showed them porn to try and get out of the contract, he said George Floyd died from Fetanyl, BLM was a scam, White lives matter shirt, etc. They finally terminated him after his anti semitic remarks. If corporations are going to control the social landscape (as well as the political one) they should do so accordingly, in my opinion, but better late than never.
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I just hope it's not like a Kobe Bryant situation, where he was dropped by his shoe company, then a year later landed an even bigger one with Nike once Nike decided enough time had elapsed.
 
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