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        <title><![CDATA[Kanye West’s Twitter attack on Forbes editor might come down to money]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone trying to reach Randall Lane, the editor of Forbes Magazine, might wanna try email.</p><p>Lane&#8217;s cell phone appeared to be shut off on Thursday, one day after rapper and US presidential candidate Kanye West shared his &#8220;mobile&#8221; number with 30 million Twitter followers whilst dubbing Lane a &#8220;white supremacist.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;If any of my fans want to call a white supremacist &#8230; this is the editor of Forbes,&#8221; West wrote along with a screenshot of his contact information for &#8220;Randall Forbes.&#8221;</p><p>The post was ultimately removed by Twitter, but not before generating close to 40,000 &#8220;likes.&#8221; West on Wednesday evening was also <strong>barred from Twitter</strong> for 12 hours, according to a tweet from his pal and ex-NBA player Rick Fox.</p><p>It&#8217;s unclear what started the feud and Lane <strong>has pooh-poohed</strong> West&#8217;s presidential ambitions. But when the singer/songwriter has gone head-to-head with Forbes before, it was largely over his net worth.</p><p>After he appeared <strong>on the cover</strong> the highly regarded money magazine in 2019, West griped that he hadn&#8217;t been declared a billionaire in the story written by Zack O&#8217;Malley Greenburg, a former child actor who played Lorenzo in the tear-jerker &#8220;Lorenzo&#8217;s Oil&#8221; starring Nick Nolte and Susan Sarandon.</p><p>“I showed them a $890 million receipt, and they still didn’t say ‘billionaire,’” <strong>West reportedly said</strong> after the piece ran. &#8220;They don’t want us to know that we can buy land.&#8221;</p><p>When Forbes released its annual billionaires list in April 2020 without West, he blasted them again. &#8220;You know what you&#8217;re doing. You&#8217;re toying with me and I&#8217;m not finna lye [sic] down and take it anymore in Jesus name,&#8221; West texted at the time, <a href="https://twitter.com/forbes/status/1253822590403129344?lang=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according to Forbes.</a> The fact that Kylie Jenner, West&#8217;s sister-in-law and founder of Kylie Cosmetics, made the closely watched list &#8220;clearly stuck in his craw,&#8221; Forbes claimed.</p><p>Not long after that scuffle, West agreed to share his financial records with the magazine founded in 1917 by B.C. Forbes, a financial columnist for Hearst papers. And Forbes quickly declared the artists behind &#8220;Love Lockdown&#8221; and &#8220;Heartless&#8221; a billionaire based in good part on his popular Yeezy sneakers, which are marketed by Addidas.</p><p>&#8220;Kayne West Is Now Officially a Billionaire (And He Really Wants the World to Know),&#8221; <strong>read the April headline.</strong></p><p>But the dispute doesn&#8217;t appear to have stopped there. One reason may be that Forbes attached a $1.3-billion value to West&#8217;s budding empire, which is less than his claimed net worth of $3 billion. As a result, West was left out of the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, which requires a net worth of at least $2.1 billion.</p><p>The closely watched Forbes 400 list list landed just after Labor Day with the $3 billion slots going to Barry Diller, IAC/Interactive Corp. chairman, Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn, real estate mogul Diane Kemper, and In-n-Out Burger heiress Lynsi Snyder.</p><p>Efforts to reach West were unsuccessful. Calls to Lane&#8217;s widely published mobile number led only to a busy signal. Forbes, meanwhile, is chalking the incident up to West&#8217;s mental illness. His famous wife, Kim Kardashian West, has said he suffers from bipolar disorder.</p><p>&#8220;We just wish him the best and have a lot of empathy for Kanye and everything he is going through,&#8221; said a Forbes spokesman. &#8220;We just hope he gets all the help he needs.&#8221;</p><p>West has also taken to jousting with Adidas and Gap to complain about his lack of a board seat with those companies, which do business with him.</p><p>“I DONT HAVE A BOARD SEAT AT GAP I DONT HAVE A BOARD SEAT AT ADIDAS … BLACK BOARD SEATS MATTER,”&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1304117674402775049" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">West tweeted</a> earlier this month.</p><p>At a presidential campaign rally in July, he <strong>threatened to “walk away”</strong>&nbsp;from both companies unless he was given a board seat.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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