American rapper Kanye West has apologised to the Black community for falsely claiming George Floyd died from the narcotic drug fentanyl rather than at the hands of a police officer in May 2020.
The controversial lyricist who made the plea in a bizarre rant on Friday night in front of gathered paparazzi claiming that he too knows ‘what it feels to have a knee on my neck right now’.
While West didn’t apologize while making his remarks, he did say that he had been ‘humbled’ with the furor costing him an estimated $1 billion in business deals, including his highly-successful Yeezy line of clothing sold by Adidas.
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‘’When I see that video as a black person, it hurts my feelings. And I know that police do attack and America is generally racist,’ he said to waiting photographers. ‘And I understand that when we got to say Black Lives Matter, that the idea of it made us feel good together as a people, right?
‘’So when I questioned the death of George Floyd, it hurt my people. I want to apologize. Because God has shown me by what Adidas is doing, by what the media is doing, I know how it feels to have a knee on my neck now,” he ‘continued.
‘So thank you God for humbling me and letting me know how it really felt. Because how could the richest black men ever be humbled other than to be made to not be a billionaire in front of everyone off of one comment.”
