Kanye West apologizes for hurtful comments about George Floyd's death
Kanye says that losing his endorsements with Adidas and other business partners has allowed him to know how it feels to have a knee on his neck.
Kanye West has apologised to the family of the late George Floyd.
Floyd's family said it is suing the rapper for approximately R4-billion after he claimed that Floyd died from a fentanyl overdose not police brutality.
Kanye has now issued an apology to the family, saying that the viral video which showed police officer Derek Chauvin kneeling on George Floyd's neck, and pinning him down, hurt his feelings.
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"When I see that video as a black person, it hurts my feelings. And I know that police do attack and America is generally racist. And I understand that when we got to say Black Lives Matter, that the idea of it made us feel good together as a people, right?," he said in an interview.
He also acknowledged that his words brought pain to Floyd's family.
“So when I questioned the death of George Floyd, it hurt my people. I want to apologise."
The rapper also explained that losing his business partners recently made him feel like a knee was on his neck.
"Because God has showed me by what adidas is doing, 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 men ever be humbled other than to be made to not be a billionaire in front of everyone off of one comment,” he said.
Last week, Kanye lost business deals and endorsements following his series of anti-Semitic outbursts, making him lose $2-billion in a single day.
"I lost 2 billion dollars in one day. And I’m still alive. This is love speech," Kanye wrote on Instagram.
"I still love you. God still loves you. The money is not who I am. The people is who I am," he wrote.
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