The image of “genius” that Kanye West seemed to have for every artistic discipline, from music to fashion, actually seems to have been built on increasingly weak foundations, forged on authoritarianism, xenophobia, and any lack of personal and professional morality. At least that’s how they report it several former Yeezy and Adidas employees in an open letter sports firm executives to investigate and punish what went on behind the doors of their offices during nearly 10 years of collaboration between them.

In this letter, the workers talk about numerous moments when the designer behaved completely inappropriately with different workers, which should not have happened not only in the workplace, but in life in general. The work environment, which they described as “toxic and chaotic,” is also the result of Kanye West’s “predator-to-women” behavior.. Worst of all, they also point out that many of them took place in the presence of great Adidas executives who preferred to “turn off the moral compass”.can be read in writing.

Kanye West with his collection after the show

These workers embraced the figure of Kanye West as a man used intimidation of workers and that in many cases they were channeled through sexist comments or very explicit and nasty sexual references. In August 2017, for example, he complained to an employee that Yeezy’s design and quality were still not up to the level he expected, and made the following request:I want you to make me shoes that I can fuck“.

Behavior typical of a “predator towards women”.

But it was far from the most unpleasant and terrible thing that these workers had to endure. Many of them also condemn the fact that several times Kanye West came to watch porn during work meetings also making other classmates see it. “You were in a meeting with Kanye, he pulled out his laptop, started watching porn and said:“ I know it’s embarrassing, but I need it in the background to stay focused, ”the former employee said. Rolling Stone magazine. This is for the managers – according to the workers – I’m stuck under the “Kanye is Kanye” umbrella.the one that Ye himself has used up until now to justify all his eccentricities.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West at the Met Gala 2015

And this complicated story also involves Kanye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, a public victim of his completely misguided behavior as he wanted to divorce him in February 2021. Unfortunately for her, the harassment from her husband came from behind. According to another testimony from Rolling Stone magazine, during an interview with Ye, he looked at his cell phone for a long time, not paying much attention, and suddenly interrupted the conversation to say: “My wife just sent me this” showing an intimate photo of Kim. As if that weren’t enough, another magazine source says that shortly after the moment that happened in 2018, West showed the other members of the Yeezy creative team an explicit video of Kim K Kardashian.

Faced with this situation, which has already reached the press, the firm Adidas has also publicly confirmed that an external investigation has been launched to look into these complaints. against the rapper and designer, as well as the management of both brands. This only worsens – for the moment – the public image of Kanye West, who, according to the most hardened, began to pursue his ex-wife shortly after he demanded a divorce; and to the rest of society when his anti-Semitic comments led to him walking the runway at Paris Fashion Week in the famous and controversial “White Lives Matter” T-shirt.