If firing shots in a song wasn't enough, Kanye West still wants to show everyone how much he hates Nike.
The star rapper, now under Adidas of course, reportedly gave a lecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where he discussed his sneaker collaborations.
There, Mr. West had some not-so-nice things to say about Nike. Yeezy claims that the brand "hasn't done anything cool this year."
"And I still left them, because they weren’t giving me the opportunity to grow. They were working off an old business model, and Phil Knight was somewhere on an island," he said. "And then, Mark Parker would go and find people who I collaborated with years before, and try to do collaborations with them to seem cool, and as you see, Nike hasn’t done like, one cool thing this year."
West, of course, had two signature shoes with Nike: the Air Yeezy 1 and the Air Yeezy 2. He left for greener pastures with Adidas, where also he could fully design his own sneaker.
He also discusses that.
"So when it was time to do the adidas collection, and I left Nike because they refused to give me a percentage because I was not an athlete—I don’t have a NDA that says I can’t say this even though it seems wrong to say out loud—I left Nike because they refused to give me a percentage, they also offered me $4 million a year to stay, which is an unknown thing but I’m sure it’ll show up on Hypebeast tomorrow."
What do you think of Kanye's comments? I personally just think he's salty.
