Kanye West has lost a pair of superstar clients signed to his Donda Sports agency over his controversial anti-Semitic commentary.
On Tuesday (October 25), Los Angeles Rams All-Pro Aaron Donald and Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown both revealed they would be leaving the Kanye-headed agency.
“Our family has made the decision to part ways with Donda Sports. The recent comments and displays of hate and antisemitism are the exact opposite of how we choose to live our lives and raise our children,” Aaron and his wife Erica Donald relayed in a statement.
They added: “We find them to be irresponsible and go against everything we believe in as a family,”
Erica Donald also served in an executive role at Donda Sports in addition to handling her All-Pro husband’s marketing responsibilities.
Jaylen Brown signed with Donda Sports in May. After condemning Kanye’s comments earlier this week and saying he would stay with the producer and rapper’s agency, he has now backtracked and decided to leave.
“In the past 24 hours, I’ve been able to reflect and better understand how my previous statements lacked clarity in expressing my stance against recent insensitive public remarks and actions. For that, I apologize,” Brown said in a statement.
“In light of that, after sharing in conversations, I now recognize that there are times when my voice and my position can’t coexist in spaces that don’t correspond with my stance or my values. And for that reason, I am terminating my association with Donda Sports.”
Brown and Donald aren’t the only ones to jump ship from the Yeezy empire. Earlier on Tuesday, adidas announced it had parted ways with Kanye as well as Balenciaga, Vogue, CAA, Gap, Def Jam and more companies severing ties with the 45-year-old creative.
“adidas does not tolerate anti-Semitism and any other sort of hate speech,” a statement from the company read. “Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.
“After a thorough review, the company has taken the decision to terminate the partnership with Ye immediately, end production of Yeezy branded products and stop all payments to Ye and his companies. adidas will stop the adidas Yeezy business with immediate effect.”
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Film studio MRC has also put a finished documentary about Kanye West on the back burner in the wake of his recent controversial remarks. MRC studio executives Modi Wiczyk, Asif Satchu, and Scott Tenley revealed they scrapped plans for the doc on Monday (October 24).
“This morning, after discussion with our filmmakers and distribution partners, we made the decision not to proceed with any distribution for our recently completed documentary about Kanye West. We cannot support any content that amplifies his platform,” they wrote.
“Kanye is a producer and sampler of music. Last week he sampled and remixed a classic tune that has charted for over 3000 years — the lie that Jews are evil and conspire to control the world for their own gain.”
can’t have this guy representing you in a meeting for a shoe deal or similar endorsement lol pretty soon marilyn manson will be releasing a statement
That’s hilarious. Haha. You know you messed up when MM weird ass puts out a statement. I hope it happens!
Candace taught him how to lose an empire. Candace taught him well!
Ye better get his lipstick out and get on his knees for Diddy cuz it’s the only way he’ll get to keep some of his money after all this. Never piss off the fruit pop with access to all the key figures in the industry.
For every deal or sponsor he loses, there’s others in line to work with him. Screw cancel culture.
Cancel culture isn’t real; what we’re seeing now is a fool receiving appropriate treatment for his actions. And after everything that’s happened if you still think that’s the case you’re more delusional than he is. People definitely aren’t lining up.
What a bunch of sheep these guys are. Follow the narrative.
Aww you gonna cry now pussy? *hands you a Kleenex*
Kanye can do no wrong. I mindlessly support anything he does because daddy told me slavery was a choice and I refuse to be part of the flock
Excellent news, keep em commin
Comparing Ye’s comments to those of both Phoenix Sun and Commanders owners makes me really see the bigger picture here.
This is way bigger than just CC.
Ye look at your skin before you open your mouth again..
I’ll always stand by you!!!
I have no clue what you are saying. Your statement makes no sense. Are you saying that you are stupid (can’t look at the continuous stream of new information and update your opinion) and are going to continue to stand behind Kanye, or are you urging Kanye to think before he speaks and change his ways? Which is it?
This Kanye mess has made me realize the world is in trouble I see people defending his statements with no idea what he’s been talking about and calling others sheep. Scary levels of stupid out here.
Agreed. It is mind blowing the amount of people that continue to stand with him despite the huge hole that he is digging in life. They will often say that they believe in giving people 2nd chances. Would you give Dylann Roof go into anther black church??? Kayne has been given sooooo many 2nd, 3rd, and 18th chances, and each time he proves that he doesn’t deserve it. He is choosing to spew messages that only erode any sense of good in this world
shut up clown. you have a lot of nerve bringing in these mass killers to a ye convo. this is why he’ll never really be “cancelled” no matter how much you wish and hope on it. these companies are just parasites anyway trying to profit off the streets they were never down with ye no matter if he was mr peace and love or whatever they want. people like you love getting it twisted that’s why Ye is a “free thinker” – it won’t end
What a moronic take. He’s not a free thinker. None of his ideas are new or his own. He’s spouting the same hateful shit the GOP is saying. He drank the koolaid like your dumbass did. You’re a fucking moron. Go read a book.
go fuck your self
dont know about the other guy reading a book……but kanye definitely is not a free thinker.
So true!!!!
to me this unfortunate turn in Ye’s fortunes has to do with him doubling down on “god” after his mom passed. The god ye believes in is a fraud and a scam and has never existed for anyone. the god ye believes in is a metaphor for humanity in select cultures based in europe. has no basis for black folks except as a rule book for slavery. Ye is lost in this worthless belief and now he has become a zealot who hates certain people because they killed his savior – he’s not even talking about his businesses. There’s no hope for Ye at this point until he faces facts and accepts there is no god period.
100% agree, he is a member of the herd,ie…..a sheep
What happened to the first amendment ? What they doing to Kanye is un-American. Look how they did Alex Jones. OJ owes a 10 million in a civil suit for ACTUALLY killing 2 people. Alex Jones owes a billion from a civil suit for merely suggesting some killings were staged. There is no freedom of speech in this country unless you are a puppet of the left. Most of the comments here reflect that.
DON’T EVER FORGET THE 14TH AMENDMENT AND A BE GOOD NGA
You don’t know what freedom of speech entails. God our populations is dumb as fuck. The government didn’t retaliate you idiot. A private business can do what it pleases.
Alex Jones led people to harass the victims of a massacre at Sandy Hook. That is why he isn’t protected under “Free Speech”.
He was free to say what he wanted and they were free to react goofy! S T F up with that nonsense. The internet has ya thinking there’s no consequences to what you say because you know you can’t get touched behind your computer. But in the real world yo words can get you punched right in your mouth! When Kanye turned on his own, he was called a “genius” so company’s didn’t do anything. Smfh… He played with them other people and they formed like Vultron real quick on him. Nah ya mad? Lmao
As long as he was talking about blacks and stay crazy stuff about blacks people it was ok, all good, no one was dropping him or pulling his goods and music out store but say something about another races and all hell break loose, black people need to wake up
Wake up to what? Wake up to the fact that we tolerate sellouts and don’t police our own communities? Wake up to the fact that we worship celebrity and fame over character?
You tolerate it, by supporting rappers who rap about selling/using drugs, killing people and calling you and themselves n!99€r in ever other line of a song. So, you need to wake up. Your life expectancy is longer in the military than it is in the “hood.”
Taking orders from their white zaddy