By Michael Saponara, Bill Donahue: 02/26/2024
Kanye West has called out Adidas once again after the apparel giant has moved forward with releasing what he calls "fake" Yeezy 350s, which the rapper claimes are an unapproved design.
West - who now goes by Ye - got wind of Adidas' plans to greenlight the "Steel Grey" 350 V2s featuring his designs and put his former business partner on blast on Instagram while essentially calling for a boycott.
"Anybody who loves Ye would not buy these fake Yeezys I never made these color ways I'm not getting paid off f them and adidas is suing me," "All the new non -approved 350s are cooorny and everybody know the 350 been corny."
"Not only are they putting out fake colorways that are non-approved, they're suing me for $250 million and they're also not paying me for these shoes that they're putting out that have my name on it," he claimed, speaking through his titanium dentures.
Ye's statements came after Adidas announced that it would sell some of it remaining inventory - a tricky problem for the company after splitting with Ye in 2022 following his string of hate speech and antisemitic comments. Since discontinuing the partnership, Adidas says it has donated some proceeds from such sales to groups that "combat discrimination and hate, including racism and antisemitism."
