Ye comments on fallout over controversial remarks

After a week of financial fallout following antisemitic remarks on social media and in interviews, Ye is commenting on those thoughts, as well as what he’s said about George Floyd and Black Lives Matter.

In a rambling 16-minute video shared by WmgLab Records on YouTube on Saturday and seemingly recorded at some point after Adidas ended its business relationship with West last week, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West appears to address a crowd of paparazzi and bystanders gathered outside a building as he exits.

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

“I feel like this is God humbling me right now,” he continued. “Because there’s two things that are happening. A lot of times when I would say, ‘I am the richest Black man,’ it would be a defense that I would use for the mental health conversation. ... What’s happening right now is I’m being humbled.”

West went on to address backlash over his suggestion in a recent podcast interview that George Floyd’s death was caused by fentanyl use.

“When the idea of Black Lives Matter came out, it made us come together as a people,” he said. “So, I said that, and I questioned the death of George Floyd; it hurt my people. It hurt the Black people. So, I want to apologize to hurting them because right now God has shown me by what Adidas is doing, and by what the media is doing, I know how it feels to have a knee on my neck now. So I thank you, God for humbling me and letting me know how it really felt. Because how could the richest Black man ever be humbled other than to be made to not be a billionaire in front of everyone off of a comment.

“I have no association to any hate group,” West said as he closed his remarks in prayer.

Born to strum: Springsteen sticks up for guitar skills

Bruce Springsteen sat around talking about glory days with Howard Stern on Monday in his first-ever appearance on the shock jock’s radio show.

“You know what? I’m star-struck,” Stern confessed at the start of the interview.

The chat ran the gamut from the “Glory Days” singer’s humble start on the Jersey Shore to a White House performance that led to a Broadway show he would perform more than 260 times. Springsteen — encouraged by Stern — also paid tribute to himself as a guitarist.

“I’m a good guitar player,” he said. “My guitar playing is underrated, as a matter of fact.”

The Boss played bits from songs including “Born to Run” and “Rosalita” and talked about hits like “Blinded by the Light.”

— From wire service reports