In a highly hectic series of recent Instagram posts, this Chicago legend has given props to his peers and criticism to Adidas.
Kanye West‘s Instagram feed has been a mix of strange and fascinating for the past couple of weeks. The 45-year-old has been using the social media app to personally call out some of the people in his life, specifically the Adidas staff.
Kanye’s Calm Before the Storm
The more positive term began with an interview with Los Angeles Rams defensive tackler Aaron Donald. In the interview, West asks the athlete what exactly he’s looking for in a shoe. “Yeezy Cleats coming soon” he typed in the caption. This is yet another big fashion venture for the already accomplished mogul. While Yeezy’s have seen a massive amount of success, athletic wear would be a first for Kanye.
Kanye then proceeded to upload a clip of Celtics player Jaylen Brown and an unknown woman playing billiards with the post captioned: “pool sharks.”
Of course, this streak of peacefulness didn’t last for too long.
“Just in case Instagram never lets me post again I need everyone to know one last thing…. Black hats matter,” he typed in the following post. He continued this cryptic rant in the caption, “In case it’s not clear I’m not working with Daniel Son Everybody quit since he been here Putting weaklings in positions of artificial power demoralizes the whole team I guess everyone will just blame Kasper adidas when I leave I’m still going to take my 15% on the fake 350s you gonna run.”
The Kanye/ Adidas Conflict
The Yeezus” rapper swiftly continued to post about his fashion-related ideas including new slides and pants. He then put up a screenshot of a comment left on one of those posts from IG user Deliberatew. The comment shed some light on the need for homeless people to have a backpack with features that can help their dire situation. Apparently, he loved the idea as he co-signed the comment in his caption. “Love this thinking”
If you’re a fan of Kanye, you may have already been following his fiery feud with Adidas. The “Mixed Personalities” artist screenshot a fans story, calling for Ye to release a list of official shoe colorways so buyers can avoid fakes.
“Ye we need the list of unapproved YEEZY’s we the REAL YEEZY ARMY & we ain’t buying colorways designed by [clown emoji]” the post reads. Clearly, Kanye isn’t interested in patching things up with the global corporation just yet.
“The fact adi felt they could color my shoes and name them without my approval is really wild” he began in the caption. “But I promise everyone adidas is not as wild as me I really really care about building something that changes the world and something I can leave to my kids They tried to buy me out for 1 billion dollars My royalties next year are 500 million dollars alone Daniel Cherry Pop makes 2 million a year Yeezy’s are 68 percent of adidas on line sales You guys thought cause DCP Daniel Cherry Pop went to Warden that he could politely give me a billion dollars to hand everything I built over.”
What’s in Rotation
Amidst all the corporate drama, Ye touched on more lighthearted matters. He revealed his favorite comedians of all time in a long list. “Me Mitch Hedberg Anthony Jeselnik Louis CK Jerrod Carmichael Deray JP Smooth Mase Elon Musk 50 Justin LaBoy GLC Eddie Murphy Sakiya Sandifer Chris Rock Larry David Kevin Hart (In Jumanji) and of course King David Dave Chapelle.”
In addition to this, Kanye posted some of his favorite drops in the music world. Namely, “Church Girl” by Beyonce and “God Did” with DJ Khaled and Rick Ross got some props. In a stunning statement, Kanye deemed “Essence” by Wizkid and Tems the “best song in the history of music to date.”
Kanye is never one to dash grudges. After posting about his playlist, Ye subsequently began posting the names and faces of high-ranking Adidas employees. Jing Ulrich, Guenter Weigl, Thomas Rabe, Bodo Uebber, and Micheal Storl are only a few of the 16 staff posted by Kanye along with a mysterious caption. “Sending super positive love and good energy :)))” he typed under senior Vice President of global sports marketing Guenter Weigl. “Sooooo much positivity” he captioned with a photo of chief executive officer Sawiris. It’s unknown what exactly Ye’s motive is for posting the long string of employee photos.
Written By Dreema Carrington
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