Ye is back on the frontlines fighting for his right and recognition. His return to Instagram is to call out adidas, his longtime YEEZY partner, over fake Yeezy slide sandals.
The $55 Adilette 22 slide sandals (which sold out instantly upon their release in May) are “a fake YEEZY made by adidas themselves,” according to the caption of Ye’s June 13 Instagram post.
“I’m not standing for this blatant copying no more,” Ye says. “This is for everyone who wants to express themselves but feel they can’t cause they’ll loose [sic] their contract or be called crazy… These shoes represent the disrespect that people in power have to the talent.”
Ye’s $60 YEEZY Slide has some resemblance to the new adidas Adilette shoes.
The funny thing, though, is that adidas oversaw the design and production of both shoes. And, not only that, but the YEEZY Slide is all slick chunk and treaded outsole, while the Adilette 22 sports layers of textural adifoam and a typically flat outsole.
“Kasper come talk to me,” ends Ye’s caption, insinuating that adidas CEO Kasper Rørsted ought to come have a chat with Ye about the similarities between some slide sandals.
Back in 2020 (around the time he was randomly giving Nike props), Ye tweeted out his entire contract with Universal and a video of himself urinating on his Grammy award, a prelude to the wanton bluntness of Ye’s 2022 Instagram feed.
