For Kanye West, the overall theme of his newly coined Black Future Month is Black ownership.
On Friday (February 11), Kanye West, alongside DaBaby and directors Clarence ‘Coodie’ Simmons and Chike Ozah, took the stage at the screening of the Netflix documentary jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy and spoke about his ambitions for the legacy of the film and Black Future Month and the importance of the Black community to remain connected.
“When you have people next to you that believe in you, and a community, and that the community sticks together, that’s the way that we can protect each other,” he said in an Instagram video posted by designer Tracey Mills. “Out here in Hollywood a lot of times, I got my man DaBaby right here, people try to cancel us and we all run away from each other… we not talking to each other, not communicating, and that’s why on Black Future Month we stood up and said, ‘We got to stand next to each other and we ain’t gonna let each other go when someone brings up one mistake that someone did.’”
In trademark fashion, Ye also casually dropped a bombshell during his speech revealing he declined a $100 million bag for exclusive streaming rights for his Billboard Chart-topping DONDA album and further driving home his intention to inspire and promote Black ownership.
“When y’all see me doing certain things that y’all wouldn’t expect us to do, and y’all want me to step back and be a house n-gga, that’s not my position,” Kanye West said. “My position is to make what y’all might think are mistakes in public, so I can show you that that ain’t no red line, that ain’t no real wall. That’s just a smokescreen, and it’s for us to take this. We on labels we don’t own, play for basketball teams we don’t own. The time is now. I got offered $100 million by Larry Jackson to put DONDA on Apple, but I ain’t never got a meeting with Tim Cook. So it ain’t about the money, it’s about our power and out respect collectively. So I be saying stuff that people try to remind me in Black History Month that people got killed for. But this is Black Future Month.”
The Yeezy fashion designer and music mogul has already been on a mission to regain control over all aspects of the production of the documentary about his life. Last month he even demanded Netflix open up the edit bay and allow him to be at the helm of the sequencing of the film. Ye also seemingly suggested the narration of the documentary should be handled by Drake, whom he recently reconciled with through the direction of Rap-A-Lot Records founder J. Prince.
Former NFL Super Bowl champion wide receiver and Kanye West associate Antonio Brown also suggested in a tweet on February 10 that DONDA Sports was interested in acquiring the Denver Broncos football team.
Regardless of the outcome of AB’s acquisition inquiry on behalf of Ye, fans can count on the release of act one of jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy in theaters and on Netflix later this month on February 16. The highly anticipated flick features never-before-seen footage captured over the last 20-plus years of Kanye West’s historic, multi-faceted career in music and fashion.
Check out the trailer below.
I want an apple deal for my own music
fuckin rinky dink records wouldn’t take you, ya fuckin bum
clown ish aint nobody payin 100M for streaming rights for ONE album, mj could reincarnate and wouldnt get that much, if true he could just take that 100M and then launch his own streaming site which literally costs like 10 bucks a month + bandwidth of less than a penny per stream dude yapping about bein worth 10B then still complainin about being signed to a label he dont own cant make this clown ish up start ur own label sign yourself distribute urself its not that tough, why u beggin for a meeting with massa still?
It’s not about meeting with Tim Cook , The point was to show they will you offer the money but it’s with a catch. Ye is past the point of a album sale he trying to make a point
whatever dude cappin n yappin why you care at all about a meeting with the devil if you actually have 10B what you need to share your ideas with him for. hes a clown no point made only an idiot out of touch with reality turning down 10M per song
thats what transactional business IS a catch. i pay you this and you provide me with or do this. What planet you live on where theres never a catch with money involved lol i give you 100M (lie) you give me streaming rights for this album ye said no i want to meet with a devil and share my ideas which i should have enough money to deploy on my own since im hollarin ownership all day everyday but some reason i still need you to co sign because?????
If Kanye was silent in the media for 9-12 months then dropped a garbage album, it would do better than all of this attention seeking x100 then dropping an album. Same dudes that support Kanye, the same dudes that argue with they girl for 3 hours straight….
Ye Speaking True Facts
That boy talking about YE 100 million and what he can do sound like sway do you understand resources that corporations have ..you do know these companies that’s worth billions are from collaborating and mergers and acquisitions right? Leveraging other peoples money is how he made 10 billion who is this goofy???
All this fish do is tell lies.