“Kanye West” goes on whirlwind NYC trip promoting Yeezy, presidential run

Kanye carried his wild West show to town, showing up at decent occasions by WSJ. Magazine and Fast Company, setting up an unconstrained gathering, saying he’ll pursue position in 2024 and launching a shoe made of green growth — inside hours.

On Wednesday, West and spouse Kim Kardashian respected designer Riccardo Tisci at the WSJ. Innovator Awards. West at that point facilitated his very own starry slam at a Burberry store after he’d unexpectedly incubated the thought at 4 p.m., we hear, to disclose a video for his tune “Follow God.”

Thursday, at about 10:30 a.m., coordinators of the Fast Company Innovation Festival got word that West was affirmed to show up at a 12:45 p.m. chat with writer Mark Wilson and Yeezy shoe planner Steven Smith. During the everywhere, close to 40-minute session, Trump supporter West exhorted dark Americans: “Own your power. Your power is not to just vote Democrat for the rest of our lives. That’s not the power.”

He included, “The power is when I talk to my lawyer … I put on my trench coat and said, ‘We’re moving these factories to America, and that’s how it’s going to be’ — and it’s lovely.” He appeared a green growth shoe, and announced, “We moved the headquarters to Cody, Wyo … Our goal is to bring the manufacturing back to America — South America, North America — bring it back Stateside and to present jobs for people back here.” He additionally said he sees Yeezy as the “Apple of apparel.”

At the point when he moved the discussion to losing an deal with Louis Vuitton, he stated, “No one knew that was the beginning of me going to the hospital,” alluding to his 2016 emergency.

West likewise addressed Rodney Reed, the prisoner Kardashian is campaigning to free. “All the evidence says this guy didn’t do it, and he’s supposed to be executed in 30 days, and all the celebrity blacks will tweet about it. But the question is, will they stop playing basketball for a week to make sure this innocent man gets out?”

At the point when Wilson attempted to center the discussion at one point by saying, “Bring this back to Yeezy,” West shot back: “This is what Yeezy is!”