Kanye West
guest·18 claims·1 episode·updated Jul 18, 2026
18 fact-checked claims across 1 episode on the Joe Rogan Experience. Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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Joe Rogan Experience #1554: Kanye West, fact-checked
18 claims by Kanye West·aired Oct 1, 2020
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- JRE #1554▶ 2:21:28
“This is the reason why I donated one hundred million dollars to James Turrell's Roden crater project when I went to this is like the eighth wonder of the world.”
Kanye West claims he personally donated one hundred million dollars to James Turrell's Roden Crater art project.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:06:18
“So a lot of mavericks will, you know, spend their money on their ideas and they'll invest in what they see the future is. And I ended up netting ten million.”
Kanye West says that after spending on his own ideas, he ended up netting ten million dollars in a year, a figure he immediately contrasts elsewhere in the same interview with a five-billion-dollar net worth.
- JRE #1554▶ 1:12:49
“There's the last figure I saw was there were 210000 deaths due to covid in America and everywhere you go, you see someone with a mask on. One thousand black ch…”
Kanye West claims about 210,000 Americans had died of COVID-19 by that point while roughly 1,000 Black children are aborted daily, implying more Black children have died from abortion than Americans from COVID since February.
- JRE #1554▶ 20:21
“It is my five billion dollar net worth and 300 million dollars of cash that I see a year.”
Kanye West claims his net worth was five billion dollars and he sees 300 million dollars of cash per year.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:06:03
“And it's just when you ask me, how do I delegate my time, it's important for me to delegate my time. If I made 210 million dollars last year.”
Kanye West claims he personally made $210 million in the prior year.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:29:21
“The powers of our political system are still anchoring on Electoral College, which was based around slavery, about the idea of slaves being three fifths of man.”
Kanye West claims the Electoral College itself was based on the three-fifths compromise regarding enslaved people.
- JRE #1554▶ 1:12:15
“Plan B and Planned Parenthood were planned by a eugenics that set out and said out loud, I'm doing this to kill the black race and to create population control.”
Kanye West claims Planned Parenthood was founded by a eugenicist who explicitly said the goal was to kill the Black race and enact population control.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:02:34
“When Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre sold Beats by Dre Universal had a chance to buy in to do different things. They sold it for three billion dollars.”
Kanye West claims Universal had a chance to buy into Beats by Dre when Iovine and Dre sold it for three billion dollars.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:24:24
“Bernie yeah, Bernie would have won, he would have won.”
Kanye West claims Bernie Sanders would have won the 2020 Democratic nomination or general election had he been allowed to run unimpeded.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:29:36
“It wasn't even created by pro slaves, three fifths of man was created by the anti slaves in the north as a compromise”
Kanye West claims the three-fifths compromise was created by anti-slavery northerners, not pro-slavery southerners.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:26:19
“so if people got up people that never voted uh got up registered voted for me they'd have to take it take it to the house because i would you know i could poss…”
Kanye West claims he is "definitely 100 percent winning" the 2024 presidential election.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:03:15
“Now, I think is worth thirty three, thirty five billion dollars, and now they have another Steve Jobs, you know, Howard Hughes, Henry Ford, Disney, Elon kind o…”
Kanye West claims Universal Music Group is currently worth thirty-three to thirty-five billion dollars.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:34:13
“I would I'm on 12 ballots and in 17 states that you could write me in on.”
Kanye West claims he was officially on the ballot in 12 states and eligible as a write-in candidate in 17 additional states.
- JRE #1554▶ 2:02:53
“That was half of the value of Universal at the time of six billion due to the Internet, which the music industry was afraid of in 2000. Universal.”
Kanye West claims Universal Music Group was worth about six billion dollars around the time of the Beats sale.
- JRE #1554▶ 1:50:12
“Only 30 percent of our communication is is verbal.”
Kanye West claims only 30 percent of human communication is verbal.
- JRE #1554▶ 1:14:04
“The hurricanes still have hit, the earthquake still hit, and people are still suffering from that. And no one has really gone to fix it. And when that 11 billi…”
Kanye West claims $11 billion in aid intended for Haiti does not reach the people.
- JRE #1554▶ 1:37:08
“So, like only there's only a billion people on the Internet. You never think about that, the seven or eight billion people on on Earth, but then there's only a…”
Kanye West claims only about one billion of the world's seven-to-eight billion people are on the internet.
- JRE #1554▶ 1:59:40
“I was 53 million dollars in debt, you know, four years ago. And now it's proven that I'm the new Michael Jordan of products. I went to Adidas and we were 15 bi…”
Kanye West claims he was $53 million in debt four years earlier, and describes turning around Adidas's finances and stock/market cap performance since his partnership.