Kanye West Is A Billionaire and Kanye West Wants You to Know It

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Kanye West at the Jim Moore Book Event At Ralph Lauren Chicago

Kanye West is officially a billionaire according to a newly published Forbes report.

On Friday afternoon (April 24, 2020) Forbes revealed that they were allowed to look at what they believed to be an โ€œauthentic numeric look into Kanye, Inc.โ€ After analyzing all of his assets, Forbes was comfortable in officially giving Ye billionaire status.

From Forbes: When our annual billionaires list appeared earlier this month, again with West absentโ€”still no documentation, and now a pandemic to bootโ€”West again reacted with hurt and venom. โ€œYou know what youโ€™re doing,โ€ he texted. โ€œYouโ€™re toying with me and Iโ€™m not finna lye [sic] down and take it anymore in Jesus name.โ€ At one point, he texted that Forbes was โ€œpurposely a part of a group of mediaโ€ that was trying to suppress his self-made narrative because of his race. That sister-in-law Kylie Jenner did make the list also clearly stuck in his craw.

Then yesterday, a breakthrough: West directed his team to provide what we feel is an authentic numeric look into Kanye, Inc.

Hereโ€™s a break down of Westโ€™s financials which includes $17 million in cash, $90 million music catalog, $35 million in stocks, $140 million in annual revenue from his Adidas deal, $125 million in assets and $100 million in debt.

Despite now being officially classed as a billionaire, West was unhappy with Forbes and claimed they had undervalued him.

โ€œItโ€™s not a billion,โ€ West reportedly said in a text to the magazine. โ€œItโ€™s 3.3 billion since no one at Forbes knows how to count.โ€

He had been left displeased with an article from last year in which Forbes refused to class him as a billionaire. West is said to have texted a reporter it was a โ€œdisrespectful articleโ€ that was โ€œpurposely snubbing meโ€.

His ire was further provoked earlier this month when Forbes released its annual billionairesโ€™ list, with Westโ€™s name absent.