When our annual billionaires list appeared earlier this month, again with West absent—still no documentation, and now a pandemic to boot—West again reacted with hurt and venom. “You know what you’re doing,” he texted. “You’re toying with me and I’m not finna lye [sic] down and take it anymore in Jesus name.” At one point, he texted that Forbes was “part of a group of media” 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.

当我们的年度亿万富翁名单本月初出现时，韦斯特又缺席了——仍然没有文件记录，现在又要启动一场大流行——韦斯特再一次受到伤害和恶意攻击。“你知道你在做什么，”他发短信说。“你在戏弄我，我不会再以耶稣的名义接受你了。”有一次，他发短信说，《福布斯》是“一群媒体的一部分”，因为他的种族问题，这些媒体试图压制他自己白手起家的故事。她的嫂子凯莉·詹纳(Kylie Jenner)也榜上有名，这显然也让他难以接受。