Kanye West drew a swastika at a Yeezy meeting with Adidas and told a Jewish manager to kiss a photo of Hitler, report says

• More details of Kanye West’s conduct during his partnership with Adidas were revealed by The New York Times.
• The rapper drew a swastika on a shoe design and told a Jewish employee to kiss a photo of Hitler, per the Times.
• Adidas eventually cut ties with Ye in October 2022 after he made offensive and antisemitic comments.

At one of Kanye West’s first meetings with Adidas he drew a swastika on a design sketch and told a Jewish member of staff to kiss a photo of Hitler, according to an investigation by The New York Times.

For more than a decade, the rapper now known as Ye had one of the most lucrative celebrity-fashion partnerships ever with Adidas, generating sales of more than $1 billion a year.