Kanye West

Kanye West Says Adidas “Don’t Want No Smoke,” Swizz Beatz Calls For Boycott Of Sporting Outfitter

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;Kanye&plus;west&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Kanye West<&sol;strong><&sol;a> is once again going off on Adidas with posts so vitriolic that Instagram was forced to flag them&comma; saying the sporting outfitter &&num;8220&semi;doesn&&num;8217&semi;t want any smoke&&num;8221&semi; as he continues his social media campaign against them&comma; with Swizz Beatz calling for a boycott against the clothing company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The posts come as Ye continues his campaign against the brand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This week&comma; West posted a series of pictures of members of Adidas&&num;8217&semi;s supervisory board&comma; and singled out Adidas senior vice president and general manager Daniel Cherry in multiple posts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kanye On Adidas&colon; &&num;8220&semi;They Don&&num;8217&semi;t Want No More Smoke&period; &lpar;This&rpar; Wasn&&num;8217&semi;t About Money&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Ye also re-posted pictures of the board with captions like &&num;8220&semi;love and blessings should be noooo reason to take this off my page&comma;&&num;8221&semi; after saying the company offered him a &dollar;1 billion buyout from his Yeezy venture&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 45-year-old said &&num;8220&semi;Adidas don&&num;8217&semi;t want no more smoke&period; The movie credits are rolling&comma;&&num;8221&semi; before adding &&num;8220&semi;this war wasn&&num;8217&semi;t about money&comma; it was about control&&num;8230&semi;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I could hear the joy in my teams voices today&comma;&&num;8221&semi; West wrote&period; &&num;8220&semi;Adidas don&&num;8217&semi;t want no more smoke&period; The movie credits are rolling&period; This war wasn&&num;8217&semi;t about money&period; It was about control of our families&comma; of our business&comma; of our story&period; I gave them the opportunity to settle this quietly&period; Now it&&num;8217&semi;s time for Gap &colon; &rpar;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-instagram data-shortcode&equals;"CiJdJblPJHM" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" data-captioned><&sol;amp-instagram><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He ended the post with &&num;8220&semi;now it&&num;8217&semi;s time for Gap&&num;8221&semi; followed by a smiley face&comma; hinting at leaving Adidas for his ongoing efforts at continued collaboration with Gap&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kanye&&num;8217&semi;s Adidas Posts Reportedly Flagged By Instagram&comma; Rapper Says<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>He followed that post up with a screenshot that read &&num;8220&semi;dear Ye&comma; your legal team recommends that we refrain from posting anything on Gap for another 10 days&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>West also posted screenshots of what appeared to be messages from Instagram&comma; which notified him that his posts had been flagged&comma; however many of the posts were still on his profile as of Tuesday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>West and Adidas first began their business relationship with a shoe collaboration back in 2015&comma; and formalized more extensive dealings between the two a year later&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; drama between the two parties has erupted in recent years&comma; most of which has played out in the public eye on social media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Swizz Beatz Calls For Boycott Of Adidas In Solidarity With Frequent Collaborator Kanye West<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Swizz Beatz&comma; a frequent collaborator of West&comma; went so far as to call for a boycott against Adidas in solidarity with Ye&comma; saying &&num;8220&semi;this is DEAD WRONG&period; If we let them do this to &commat;kanyewest it will happen to us also&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>Swizz captioned the post of a pair of fugazi black and orange Yeezys&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I usually mind my business but this is DEAD WRONG&excl; If we let them do this to &commat;kanyewest it will happen to us also&excl; This man created this groundbreaking innovation and it should be respected as a creative&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;97869" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-97869" style&equals;"width&colon; 1024px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-97869" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;GettyImages-543531002&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1024" height&equals;"683" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-97869" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">HOLLYWOOD&comma; CA &&num;8211&semi; JUNE 28&colon; Kanye West at Milk Studios on June 28&comma; 2016 in Hollywood&comma; California&period; adidas and Kanye West announce the future of their partnership&colon; adidas &plus; KANYE WEST &lpar;Photo by Jonathan Leibson&sol;Getty Images for ADIDAS&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Swizz added that &&num;8220&semi;Ye is only asking for his work to be respected and not stolen&&num;8230&semi; that&&num;8217&semi;s not crazy to me&excl;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;YE is only asking for his work to be respected and not stolen that’s not crazy to me &excl;&excl; We not buying these &excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl; &commat;adidas you’re supposed to be original do the correct thing please &excl;&excl;&excl;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Kanye West And Adidas&colon; A History Of Friction Between The Two<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Last month&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;kanye-west-reportedly-slams-adidas-for-allegedly-creating-yeezy-day-without-his-approval&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>The Shade Room<&sol;strong><&sol;a> reported that Ye put Adidas on blast when he accused them of carrying out Yeezy Day without his approval&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For the last few years&comma; Adidas has designated a day to re-release a host of Yeezy sneakers&period; This year&comma; Yeezy Day took place on August 1st and 2nd&comma; and Ye is alleging that the brand created the day without his permission&comma; according to Complex&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Complex reports that Kanye sent the publication a direct message on Instagram expressing his grievances with the Adidas brand&period; In said message&comma; not only did Ye slam Yeezy Day&comma; he alleged that the company made hiring decisions without his knowledge and stole some of his designs for their own shoes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The lengthy message continued to accuse the athletic brand using Ye’s ideas–including allegations aboit Adidas slowed down the production of his collab with Balenciaga and Gap&period; The message ended with a plea saying&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;God step in&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As we previously reported&comma; Kanye put Adidas on blast back in June after the company released the images of its 2022 adilette slides&period; 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