The husband of Alicia Keys calls out the footwear company for allegedly stealing the 'Gold Digger' rapper's design as he argues, 'YE is only asking for his work to be respected and not stolen that's not crazy to me !!'
- September 6, 2022
AceShowbiz -
Swizz Beatz has shown his support for Kanye West amid his war with Adidas. Making use of Instagram, the record producer shared a photo of the brand's kicks as he called out the company.
"I usually mind my business but this is DEAD WRONG!" the 43-year-old penned alongside the Monday, September 5 post. "If we let them do this to @kanyewest it will happen to us also! This man created this groundbreaking innovation and it should be respected as a creative !"
"YE is only asking for his work to be respected and not stolen that's not crazy to me !! "We not buying these !!!!!!!!!!!! @adidas you're supposed to be original do the correct thing please !!!" the husband of Alicia Keys further argued. Catching wind of the snap, Kanye said, "That's love."
Around an hour later, Kanye insinuated that he has settled his feud with the footwear brand. "I COULD HEAR THE JOY IN MY TEAMS VOICE TODAY," he wrote in a note. "ADIDAS DON'T WANT NO MORE SMOKE. THE MOVIE CREDIT'S ARE ROLLING. THIS WAR WASN'T ABOUT MONEY. IT WAS ABOUT CONTROL OF OUR FAMILIES, OF OUR BUSINESS, OF OUR STORY, OF OUR VOICE."
In the post, the "Donda" artist said that he gave Adidas "THE OPPORTUNITY TO SETTLE THIS QUIETLY." After he managed to squash their beef with Adidas, Ye announced, "NOW IT'S TIME FOR GAP.... : )"
Kanye previously slammed Adidas for allegedly holding Yeezy Day without his consent. In an Instagram message to Complex on August 2, the emcee voiced his frustration over the matter and other issues he has with the brand. "Adidas made up the Yeezy Day idea without my approval," he began his message. "Then went and brought back older styles without my approval picked colors and named them without my approval."
Ye also alleged that Adidas "hired people that worked for me without my approval stole my colorways without my approval stole my styles and material approaches without my approval went and hired a gm of Yeezy without my approval took talent on the production side and sprinkled them throughout Adidas Originals without my approval" among other things which upset him.
"Even though they did a Balenciaga collaboration they completely slowed down production on the shoes me and Demna developed for Gap by trying to bully Gap even though my contract states I can do casual shoes which I was doing when I did fashion shoes," the rapper continued.
