HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cooper Neill / Getty While brands like Addidas, GAP and G.O.O.D. Music are severing ties with the artist formerly known as Kanye West, NFL receiver and Donda staffer Antonio Brown is defending Ye and championing him as a free thinker being held down by—uh—”the world” I guess. From TMZ: The NFL receiver — who joined the Donda staff earlier this year — addressed the massive controversy surrounding Kanye following several anti-Semitic statements … saying, “the world’s reactionary and selective outrage at comments in the media made by my brother, Ye, have inflamed and sparked rampant conversation and reflection.” As companies like Adidas and Balenciaga cut ties with West, AB says the timing is not a coincidence. “The people and brands that have...