Kanye West says he might legally change his name to “Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West” for a year.
He made this known at the fifth annual Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York on 7 November, where he spoke with Yeezy footwear designer Steven Smith. He says this is in a bid to just to let people know it is not crass to call yourself a billionaire.
“When people say it’s crass to call yourself a billionaire, I say I might legally change my name to Christian Genius Billionaire Kanye West for a year until y’all understand exactly what it is,” the 21-time Grammy winner, 42, said during a surprise appearance at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in New York City on Thursday, November 7. “It will be on the license plate.”
West, who begged Facebook cofounder Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion in a 2016 Twitter rant, has repeatedly referred to himself as a billionaire in recent weeks. However, Forbes estimated his net worth at $240 million in June, with the majority of his fortune coming from his Yeezy brand and not his music.
The “Gold Digger” rapper admitted on Apple Music’s Beats 1 in October that he was not happy about Forbes dubbing his sister-in-law Kylie Jenner a billionaireand not him. He called the news a “stab.”
“When I did Forbes, I showed them a $890 million receipt and they still didn’t say ‘billionaire,’” he elaborated while speaking on stage at Thursday’s festival. “They don’t want us to know that we can buy land; they don’t want us to have the 100 percent ownership [that] I have at Yeezy.”
Kanye recently disclosed that the IRS cut him a refund check for $68 million. The hefty check brings him that much closer to his dreams of billionaire status.
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