What it sounds like is he didn’t want “cheap Yeezys the kids could afford”, he wanted “cheap nike Yeezys kids could afford”.

yeah, I do believe this is what he was talking about

I don’t believe he’s had a consistent message since his first meltdown. Originally he was all about getting married, focusing more on family than money, and telling people to go to church. Then he got obsessed with sex, had a period of self hate and then decided he was going to be president. Then he was the second coming of Jesus and traveled around preaching the word of god with mobile church choirs that he later just abandoned and didn’t pay before becoming straight up antiemetic, selling merch with swastikas’ and then changing his mind and apologizing for all the harm he caused. Then he went back to being a hardcore Christian and got on TV and said he loved Hitler because Jesus tells you to love everyone. He was going to record an album in Uganda until he wasn’t and then didn’t. And through it all he was known for just straight up strange behavior. Claiming he was a genius, being mad about not getting credit for leather jogging pants, frequently stopping concerts to go on nonsensical rants about whatever was on his mind at the time, he walked around in a full face mask covered in diamonds, etc…

Most people track it back to about the time his mom died. I think his long-term girlfriend left him around then too. I don’t know if that’s accurate but it seems we went from Graduation to 808s and Heartbreak and then after that it was all, “I’m a piece of shit who’s addicted to sex” and he never recovered

I might need it

I don’t remember where I put it if I do need it

But I can’t get rid of it because I might need it

I’m not Kanye or an executive so I don’t have all the details but…

At the time Kanye was doing this entire publicity tour about how he wanted to launch a low-cost fashion line. $30 T-Shirts, $60 shoes. Things kids could actually afford

But then it turned into him going around to TV shows and Radio programs talking about how nobody wants to let him do this. I believe this is when he got in a big fight on air with the DJs of some big show.

So it’s not like this was a one time remark he said, he tried this for a long time; constantly comparing his struggles to him becoming a rapper. How everyone wanted to buy his beats but nobody would let him record an album. “You just make beats” they said. Then he finally got to make an album and it’s an overnight classic. And then he did it again, and again, and again

Now he wants to do fashion and they say, “You just rap, you don’t do fashion”. But just how he became a great rapper he was positive he could make a great fashion line if someone, anyone, would give him the chance

Eventually he had to make the limited-time, high quality shit he made… with the goal of earning enough, making a name for himself, to launch the lower-cost line he always dreamed of

But somewhere between then and now he had a massive manic episode and apparently never took his medicine. So now he’s just out there, manic as shit, doing and saying whatever crazy shit pops into his head

I don’t know all of the details but I do remember him pushing this hard… going on talk shows, going on the radio, etc… and nobody would bite

He kept telling the story about how he use to just make beats and nobody would believe he could rap. Now he’s a big rapper trying to make fashion and nobody believes he can do it. In fact I believe this is when he got in that big fight on the radio with the DJs

So the story was always that he wanted to make a Yeezy brand of clothes and shoes but keep the price low so that kids could afford it, but nobody wanted to work with him. Sounds like they were happy to slap his name on expensive clothes but not cheap stuff; and nothing long-term, short-term limited run type of thing

I’m not Kanye or an executive at Nike so I don’t have all the details, but that is what he was preaching at the time

Kanye was a good dude. But he’s Bipolar and he doesn’t take his medicine so he’s crazy as shit now

I told you what you needed to know, it’s not my fault if you thought you knew more about my life than me

I’m not miserable at all. I don’t despise life in America, I’m just not proud to be an American anymore

Shaq was an athlete so companies approached him

Kanye was a rapper who was reaching out to shoe companies with an idea

yeah, it was a pretty big deal at the time

He wasn’t an athlete so no clothing or shoe company came to him, he just wanted to do it and was approaching them. To which they basically said, “you’re a rapper not a fashion designer”. While they were OK putting his name on shoes, they weren’t OK with letting him take control and set the price points and stuff

I’m waiting for you to figure out that maybe I’m not a 20 year old teacher…

The uphill battle that I personally face is that I’m up there in age. I’m not old, but I’m not a young man who’s going to put more money into the retirement and health care system then I’ll potentially use

So countries are less likely to accept older people unless they have their own money or a valued skill

I do OK, by most Americans standards I’m well off, but I’m not rich. Not rich enough for a country to just be like, “yeah, whatever”. And my skills are common. I’m in software and so maybe in the 90s they would have jumped to have more developers, but these days they teach programming to kids and with AI being as trending as it is, I doubt they’re hunting for more developers

And it’s not just me, it’s my family.

And then there’s a quality of life thing. At my age with a family I can’t exactly start over at the bottom of a corporate ladder and try to climb my way back up. Even if I could get a job doing something like, “teaching English”, I’m sure it would be a massive pay cut. I make well over six figures, work from home, and set my own hours

My job is fantastic. My country is kinda shit. Not as bad as some other places in the world, life isn’t awful here, but the days of being proud to be an American are long over and if I could keep my job and just move to the other side of the ocean like I can move between states, I’d do it in a second

It’s not that easy

Why would it be a buzzword, that’s literally what it’s called

You can have different pipelines that do different things, but that is the proper term for it

He wanted his shoes to be affordable but nobody would let him do it

He was trying to make an entire Yeezy fashion brand that unlike other celebrity sponsored clothes was going to be affordable so that kids could actually afford it

But the companies that did work with him wouldn’t let him have full control like he wanted so the shoes were limited run, pricy, etc… and eventually he kind of had to do it himself which means it had to be expensive. It was his dream to build it up so that he could make $30 T-Shirts and $60 shoes

But Bipolar is a real bitch and well, without his medicine, he pretty much just lost his mind

Before he completely lost it he was a super good dude that use to preach a lot of really good messages

You are talking to me, that’s how replying to somebody works

“People in America really will spend $5,000 on a sweater. No piece of clothing should cost $5,000. You know what should cost $5,000? A car. And you know who should build that car? The same people that currently build $500,000 cars. The best and most talented among us should do the work that benefits the most amount of people for what good is everything to everyone who can’t afford it”

Kanye West

Great, make a comic about the costs then

So after the Civil War people put up statues and started groups like this to honor the dead. The cause of the war aside, if you were alive back then you would have known the people that died. They were your friends, you family, your children, you parents, etc… so groups and statues were started to honor them

You can try to say this is fucked up but we have a well respected Vietnam Memorial in Washington D.C.

Was the US right in what we did in Vietnam? No. Do you think the people that died in Vietnam were shitty and shouldn’t be remembered? Also no.

Back then people weren’t putting up statues of Stonewall Jackson because they thought “The South will rise again”, they were just honoring the memory of their dead friends. None of us think Vietnam 2.0 is on the way and this time we’ll succeed in killing them all, but we still have Vietnam memorials and ceremonies and stuff

But, time went on… and somewhere around the early 1900’s racism was still a pretty big thing and as segregation was being taken apart some people got upset and started re-igniting the love of these groups. They put up more statues of confederate soldiers, they put confederate symbols in their state flags, they started to re-join and re-support confederate groups. Not because they personally missed the people that died, but because they hated black people

Now it’s an issue of, there’s this historical thing that started with good intentions that has been muddied over the years by literal racists, what do we do? Leaving it up gives the racists something to rally around, tearing it down is “removing history”. But also, a lot of this was done out of hate way past the end of the Civil War…so we’re starting to take it all down. The statues from the 1900’s got to go, the statues from the 1800s got to go. The groups need to lose their tax-exempt status, etc…

I guess it would be like if modern day people did start to think we should go back to Vietnam and kill all the Vietnamese and then started to put up Vietnam memorials not out of memory of the young men that died but out of hate for the Vietnamese people… that memorial in DC might take on a new meaning and it might have to be removed

You said I could go teach English. To who? The English in England? Scotland? Ireland? Canada? Australia?

I’m trying to move to a place where they already speak English, dipshit

hahaha, omg so funny. So clever

Good I fucking hate this comic

Just the worst low-tier unfunny shit and mouth breathing morons eat it up

“durr, I also think Nazis are bad”

I’m trying to go to England, not Singapore. Pretty sure they don’t need Americans to teach the English how to speak English

My age is a bit of a factor

I also have a family so it’s not just me

I’ve looked. Nothing too crazy but I’ve explored the idea of getting my child out of a part of the world where people think teachers should have guns