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EX-YEEZY Designer Steven Smith Claims Kayne West “Has Lost His Mind” & Is Surrounded By “C-Grade Toxic Losers”
If Kanye West hopes to continue dropping hot footwear, he will be doing so without his longtime collaborator and YZY designer Steven Smith. The post EX-YEEZY Designer Steven Smith Claims Kayne West “Has Lost His Mind” & Is Surrounded By “C-Grade Toxic Losers” appeared first on Hip-Hop Wired.
Adidas Plans On Selling Remaining Yeezy Sneakers
Still no word on when the sneakers will be releasing, but if history is any indication, the Yeezy silhouettes will sell out like hotcakes just as they did last summer regardless of how people feel about Kanye West.
adidas Debt Rating Slashed By S&P After Earnings Spiral, Blame Yeezy?
S&P Global Ratings announced on Tuesday that they were slashing the long-term and short-term credit rating of Adidas. The firm detailed the reasoning in its statement, saying it was based on the company's projected outlook and warnings of losses after its termination of the partnership with Ye aka Kanye West last October. The post adidas Debt Rating Slashed By S&P After Earnings Spiral, Blame Yeezy? appeared first on The Latest Hip-Hop News, Music and Media | Hip-Hop Wired.
adidas Has More Than A Half A Billion Dollars Worth Of Yeezy Sneakers Stocked Up
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jeremy Moeller / Getty A few months ago adidas decided to cancel their partnership with Kanye “Alt-Right” West due to his antisemitic tweets and statements and in the process recalled all their Yeezy related products from Foot Lockers and other participating stores across the board. Now TMZ is reporting that adidas has hoarded a half a billion dollars worth of Yeezys in their warehouses and no clear idea on what to do with them going forward. Though adidas has made it known that they’ll continue to release all OG Yeezy sneakers and silhouettes without the Yeezy brand on them, it looks like they’ll be sitting on a ton of Yeezy products for the time being. Related Stories Per the report, the inventory the company has amounts to about $530 million … and Adid...
Aftermarket Ye: Resale Websites Not Dropping Yeezy Sneakers
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: EBAY / eBay If you thought aftermarket sneaker resale sites would pass on selling adidas Yeezys despite Kanye West going full antisemite, you thought wrong. Clearly, there is just too much money to be made. With adidas saying it has cut ties and Foot Locker even going as far as removing Yeezy kicks from sales floors, it’s a matter of supply and demand. So the price of even those Yeezy bricks is going up—and you’ll surely find them on spots like StockX or eBay at premium prices—if you have no shame in rocking that guy’s footwear. Reports TMZ: We’ve spoken with several people at some of the resale industry’s biggest sites who all tell us the same thing — Yeezys are about to go way up in value. We’re told this will happen as supply for the shoes continue to ...
Kanye West Declares He’s “Releasing All Grudges” Following Queen Elizabeth II’s Death
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Leon Bennett / Getty Billionaire rapper/producer Kanye West, 45, has declared that he is turning his life around after news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II broke. “Life is precious. Releasing all grudges today. Leaning into the light,” West wrote in an Instagram post where he also shared two photos of the deceased monarch. [Note: He has since deleted the IG post, but this is the Internet.] Related Stories The rapper has also deleted many posts that he had been criticized for in recent days including criticism of his ex-wife Kim Kardashian and her family. Kanye shares North, nine, Chicago, four, Saint, six, and Psalm, three, with the Kardashians star. He was in conflict with his wife and her family related to where the children would attend ...
Adidas Dropping New “Hi-Res Red” Colorway For The Yeezy Boost 700
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @ryivibes / Instagram Even though Kanye’s popularity continues to struggle due to his out of pocket ways and actions, his sneakers still remain a hot commodity and adidas continue to drop new colorways for their various Yeezy models and the Yeezy Boost 700 is next in line to get a vibrant new colorway. According to Nice Kicks the Yeezy Boost 700 will be getting a crazy bright red colorway later on this year dubbed the “Hi-Res Red” that is sure to be a hit amongst bloods from West to East if nothing else. The sneaker features a bright Hi-Res Red mesh upper and tongue with suede overlays seen in black and grey. The full-length BOOST encapsulated midsole is seen in maroon with orange and dark teal hits and maroon is seen again on the laces and forefoot. Last...
The YEEZY Boost 350 “Turtle Dove” To Re-Release In April 2022
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Melodie Jeng / Getty Kanye West might not be the most beloved musician in the culture at the current moment due to his Sleeping With The Enemy-ish ways, but best believe that backlash he’s getting from people across the board isn’t hurting his sneaker sales. That being said, adidas is ready to release the highly-anticipated Yeezy Boost 350 “Turtle Dove”‘s seven years after originally hitting the street scene and getting the whole YEEZY brand off the ground and taking adidas into another stratosphere at a time when Nike and Jordan had the game on Hulk smash. According to Sneakernews the OG Yeezy Boost 350 is set to be re-issued sometime in April and best believe hypebeasts will be patiently waiting to pounce come release day. Related Stories “Originally re...
YEEZY Brand Hires Former Nike ACG Design Director Nur Abbas
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: press handout / Yeezy Brand Kanye West’s YEEZY attire has gotten all kinds of criticism over the years as they overall designs look, well, struggle, but it seems like he’ll be getting some help updating that part of his fashion game as he’s gotten a seasoned designer to get down with his team. Highsnobiety is reporting that former Nike ACG design director, Nur Abbas has been appointed to be the new head of design for Kanye’s YEEZY brand. Maybe Abbas will convince Kanye to put zippers on his next struggle bubble jacket or something. But now that he’s taken on the responsibility of helping YEEZY become a bigger brand than just sneakers, Abbas will be reporting directly to Ye (of course) while trying further expand YEEZY’s brand. He’s even be overlookin...
Kanye West Airs Out Kardashian Cousin Over Tone Deaf Yeezys Ask
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Dani Abramowicz / Getty If you’re looking for the hottest of messes, Kanye West’s social media accounts will give you your fill. Ye took to Instagram to air out Kim Kardashian’s cousin and allegedly expose their insensitive rhetoric that includes incredulously asking about adidas Yeezy sneakers despite the situation at hand. Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’re probably aware that Ye and Kim Kardashian are feuding publicly about the co-parenting of their children. Overall, it seems that Kanye feels he’s being boxed out of raising his kids, while Kardashian claims she has been beyond reasonable when it comes to Ye spending time with his children, despite their divorce. But on Sunday (Feb. 6), West shared texts that painted Kardashian’s cousins in ...
Kanye West Made Collaborators Wear ‘Donda’ Merch & Yeezys In The Studio
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MEGA / Getty We all know that Kanye West likes to be extra in different ways and forms when it comes to him creating his art, but apparently he also reels his peers into whatever he feels is aesthetically appropriate when in the studio with him. According to HypeBeast, Fivio Foreign revealed that Yeezy actually enforced a fashion rule on his fellow Donda collaborators that they’d have to be rocking Donda merchandise along with Yeezy sneakers whenever they were in the studio with him. In a recent interview on Power 106 FM Los Angeles’ The Liftoff/L.A. Leakers show, Fivio broke down how things went down in the studio saying, “When we went to ’He made us all wear DONDA merch,” said Fivio. “I thought we were on DONDA timing, I guess to get us in… he gave ever...
Got ‘Em?!: Tips & Techniques To Actually Cop Hyped Sneakers Online
Source: STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN / Getty Let us guess, you’ve taken yet another “L” on that highly anticipated sneaker drop that you’ve been waiting on for the past few weeks and feel the universe has it in for you and just you. What it’s like to try and cop Kobes on SNKRS pic.twitter.com/xYnYxVKd8m — B/R Kicks (@brkicks) November 24, 2020 While we’re sure you’re more than likely punching the air like Tre in Boyz N The Hood and cursing the sneaker Gods to oblivion, it’s okay, we’ve all been there and will continue to visit. Especially in this day and age when waiting on line and camping out overnight has been replaced by online raffles and sneakerbots that eat up merchandise at the speed of light. Still, there are a few things you can do to up your chances of taking home that seemingly elusive ...
