Kanye West has come a long way from the $53 million debt he found himself in back in 2016.
In a tweet on Thursday (October 8), the presidential hopeful revealed that just over four years later, he’s now got a net worth of $5 billion and credited God and Jesus for the change.
“From $53 million in debt to a net worth of $5 billion in 4 years,” Ye wrote. “Thank you, Jesus. I know I fall short, but I repent. I am fully in service to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We are building schools of the future. Thank God for providing the increase.”
During a Twitter rant just ahead of the release of his The Life of Pablo album in February 2016, Kanye revealed the financial hole he was in and solicited help from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to bail him out.
“I write this to you my brothers while still 53 million dollars in personal debt…” he wrote in since-deleted tweets. “Please pray we overcome… This is my true heart… Mark Zuckerberg invest 1 billion dollars into Kanye West ideas.”
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A hardcore fan from Minneapolis started a GoFundMe for the polarizing rapper at the time and raised just over $57,000 of its $53 million goal, but it’s unclear if the money ever actually went to Kanye.
Since 2016, Kanye has been busy with his Yeezy fashion line, his Sunday Service events and multiple albums including 2018’s Ye and Kids See Ghosts with Kid Cudi and 2019’s gospel-fueled Jesus Is King. He’s currently on a mission to add even more to his bank account, attempting to secure all of his masters back from his label home at Universal Music Group/Def Jam.
So without any major acquisition or sell he went from in debt to being worth 5 billion?….and no one seems to have a reason for it?!…ok. My man black Trump just don’t stop. Go from being over 50 mil in debt to a billionaire with no receipts other than saying “thank the lord”.
It’s wired that no one questions it.
He is so boring as of late… money this, money that… jesus here jesus there… it’s all he talks about and I thought it’s not christlike to put money and jesus in one sentence like that… worth 5B but still asking for donations on the metch site? Funny.
Jesus love you … but he don’t like you. Rich man through the eye of the needle? He a ugly human inside and Jesus knows this
everyone will be your friend now kanye.
How he go from 3 billion to 5 billion in 2 months?
He was saying it was 2 billion a couple months ago haha guess it’ll be 10 billion by christmas, delusional clown fooling no one, you every hear Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates or any other billionaire randomly telling people how much they’re worth? Billionaire’s don’t do that
You sound depressed and broke. You commenting on a wealthy persons fortune, you probably not even working on a Dream or Purpose. SMH!
Lol. You felt the need to.defend this clown, who’s probably going to.kill himself. If thats your hero how depressed are you? Fyi he’s not even close to a billion.