Kanye West breaks his silence on the consequences of his anti-Semitic comments

() — After a week of financial fallout after making anti-Semitic comments on social media and in interviews, Kanye West has broken his silence on his words, as well as what he said about George Floyd and Black Lives Matter.

In a messy 16-minute video shared by WmgLab Records on YouTube on Saturday and apparently recorded sometime after Adidas ended its business relationship with West last Tuesday, the artist appears to be addressing a crowd of paparazzi and bystanders gathered outside a building as he leaves.

“I think Adidas felt that because everyone was ganging up on me, they had a right to take my designs,” West told the small crowd.

“I feel like God is humbling me right now,” he continued. “Because there are two things that are happening. A lot of times when he said ‘I’m the richest black man,’ it was a defense that he used for the mental health conversation. … What is happening right now is that they are humbling me.”

West went on to address harsh criticism for his suggestion in a recent podcast interview that George Floyd’s death was caused by the use of fentanyl.

“When the idea of ​​Black Lives Matter came up, it brought us together as a people,” he said. “So, I said that and I questioned the death of George Floyd, he hurt my people. He hurt blacks. So I want to apologize for hurting them because right now God has shown me by what he is doing Adidas and what the media is doing I know what it feels like to have a knee on my neck right now. So I thank you, God, for humbling me and letting me know how it really feels. Because how could you humiliate the richest black man other than making him not be a billionaire in front of everyone from one comment?”

West also discussed his “exhaustion” caused by the reaction to wearing a MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat that was “misdiagnosed” as a mental health disorder and his refusal to take a medication that he said, I’d put him “one pill away” from Michael Jackson or Prince.

“At a time like this, if he was on medication right now, then they could have switched a pill, and he would have been Michael Jackson or Prince all over again,” West said.

He also compared himself to Emmett Till, who was brutally lynched in 1955 at age 14, saying he has sometimes felt like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.

“I’m just not worried. Period,” West said in response to someone in the crowd who asked if he was worried about ruining his legacy. “God is alive.”

West was referenced by anti-Semitic protesters on posters in Los Angeles last weekend and in Jacksonville, Florida this weekend. In the video, West made no apologies for his anti-Semitic comments, but appeared to be trying to distance himself from any “hate groups.”

“I have no association with any hate group,” West said as he closed his comments in prayer. “If any Jewish person receives any hate, he is not associated (gestures to himself) because I ask that everyone go in love.”