A UFC commentator for 23 years, the “Newsradio” actor and “Fear Factor” host has settled into a decade-plus of unstoppable podcast “The Joe Rogan Experience,” covering politics, sports, conspiracy theories, drugs and celebs, including sit-downs with Tesla chief Elon Musk, who smoked pot on air, and the ever brash Kanye West. The podcast’s power was clear in May when Spotify announced a multi-year licensing deal with the show worth a reported $100 million, its stock immediately shooting up 5%. Under...
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West has spent the last decade diversifying across fashion (high-end apparel and footwear brand Yeezy), worship (star-studded Sunday Service gatherings), education (Yeezy Christian Academy) and even politics, in the vein of a failed 2020 third-party presidential bid. While still involved in music — producing albums for Pusha T and Teyana Taylor — he has moved from rap to gospel and away from the commercial mainstream, partly because he’s embroiled in a PR battle with his record company over what he claims are unfair complex business practices that strip artists of revenue. He recently boasted of his resolved debt and accumulation of an alleged $5 billion fortune, using those resources to resurrect the patriarch of his famous family-in-law via hologram for wife Kim Kardashian West’s birthday.