Kanye West reportedly set his sights on Sketchers being his next sneaker distributor but the shoe company turned him away when he showed up to its offices unannounced.
According to TMZ, Ye pulled up to Skechers headquarters in Manhattan Beach, California on Wednesday (October 26) and the Chicago native was allegedly escorted out of the building.
Kanye reportedly didn’t have a meeting on the schedule with executives and so he was forced to leave after a brief conversation about the unauthorized filming he and his team were undertaking on the premises.
“Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West,” a spokesperson for the company said. “We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech. Again, West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.”
It’s unclear what Kanye West’s intentions were but the Skechers sneaker empire is run by a Jewish family as it was founded by Robert Greenberg with his son Michael currently serving as the company’s president.
Kanye is in search of a new partner in footwear for YEEZY after adidas decided to terminate its contract with the “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” artist earlier this week due to his recent anti-Semitic remarks. The move decimated Kanye’s net worth from a reported $2 billion to about $400 million, per Forbes.
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“adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech,” the statement read. “Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness.
“After a thorough review, the company has taken the decision to terminate the partnership with Ye immediately, end production of Yeezy branded products and stop all payments to Ye and his companies. adidas will stop the adidas Yeezy business with immediate effect.”
A long line of entities have since severed ties with Kanye including Balenciaga, Vogue, CAA, Def Jam, Gap and more. A pair of superstar athletes in Boston Celtics star Jaylen Brown and NFL All-Pro Aaron Donald also left Kanye’s Donda Sports agency.
Kanye’s antics has caused him to experience one of the most rapid financial and publicity declines in modern history. This is a MASSIVE loss for him. Anyone considering business with or still partnering with him is essentially agreement with racist his views.
Everyone should agree with Ye. Only brainwashed people put their own lives over j3wish lives at this point. J3ws are behind all wars in the middle-east for example,, the refugee crisis, gay pride parades etc.
shut up, you sad little fvcktard
Exactly. All these brainwashed commentators are CNN SOYBOY DEMOCRATS.
In before the cult say this is part of some big plan.
Sketchers was like: “Get the fvck out!!!”
You’re not coming in when you feel like
Boy down bad. Mofo going to a girl shoe company to try to sell his shit designs.
death con 3 turned out to be pointed at ye after all
He is unwell. That Lex Friedman interview was rambling and bizarre, and indicative of someone who has an absolutely brutal narcissistic personality disorder. He should be under observation at this point or I think the worst might happen.
Lets hope he kills himself real soon. Crazy koon self hating arrogant piece of shiat. All that money and look at that how that clown behaves… He’s had his warnings. Hundreds of them. Now he can go eat a bullet. Do it already!!!!!!!
Koon, why u on a hip hop site talking like dat. So your fav Rapper a koon huh, really hope u white, bc karma gone get that ass, shiat? Yea u white
Well now you’re both wrong…both do better
This is who so many of you idiots on here defend. Using people like Kanye as a means to validate your hateful rhetoric, yet they continue to make themselves the biggest fools and obviously not right up in the noggin’.
This guys deserves all the back lash coming to him. Feel sorry for his kids. Moms in a porno and dads a racist, melting down in front of the whole world.
Obviously has mental problems. Everyone is kicking him and bullying him doesn’t make it better. Maybe this was a god sent wake up call when all else failed.
No one is publicly bashing him. Everyone is distancing themselves or not touching him. Which they have every right too, just like he had every right to speak his mind.
skechers ain’t going to just open their wallet man. i think this has to blow over well and truly first so go home stay in the house and relax.
So this company too just so happens to be run by j3ws… woah… what a coincidence.. how many percent of US population are j3ws, like 2%, yet they just magically happen to own every company and in every top positions of power. Nothing to see here folks, wypipo bad!!!
As far as Kanye goes all black people are J3wish. Aren’t there any black j3ws out that that would like to help him? Kanye bad!!! Racist bigot
No they don’t you absolute moron. You people are so stupid. Elon Musk, is he? No, Jeff Bezos, is he? No. Rupert Murdoch, is he no? Christ, there are people of all beliefs in positions of power all over the world drop this moronic narrative you absolute pleb.
Salute to Sketchers!
What did Kanye expect? Did he expect the red carpet to be rolled out for him? Did he expect a royal welcome? Sorry, dude. We don’t play that over here. Salute to Sketchers!
The antisemite in comments is the same guy who dickrides Trump all the time which makes him a massive hypocrite. Stupid conflicted little weirdo
Lol wtf was Ye thinking? Scrambling to try and desperately get Sketchers to get on board with a mentally unstable lunatic. It’s quite entertaining watching this shitheads downfall. He brought all of this on himself, no sympathy for a clown.
Kanye needs to be committed to a psych ward immediately and forced to take his meds. The dude is a walking embarrassment. All the stupid controversies, picking fights with girls, making threats against men even tho he too pussy to ever fight any man, being cucked by his wife, embarrassing his kids, being owned by Pete fuckin Davidson smh and now destroying his business. What else have I left out? Feel free to chime in
Dude is mentally unstable, for real.
you left out the part where you still can’t find the key to get out of momma basement despite the great ye’s many flaws
I mean… Kanye can have all it’s success, live great and don’t really need to all the BS that he’s been doing lately. It probably even hurt his business, but anyways who cares, right about that. Don’t really give a damn Kanye or any grown men out there. Just gotta worry about my income and my family.
Projecting much?
You nailed it.
What company makes those wheelies shoe ?
I was thinking we could all pressure them to take one for the team, and partner with Kanye
Just so he has to wear them albeit with the caveat he has to always have the wheels out, that way when he starts spouting nonsense or rambling ,whoever is tired of losing brain cells could just push him down a hill and by the time he climbs back up you can get away safely.
It is actually Skechers. Not Sketchers. Jesus
If I was Kanye, I would link up with Mike Lindell and find out who makes the slippers that My Pillow sells. Im sure they would be happy to start making yeezys. Fuck cancel culture.
Adidas put out a statement proclaiming they own all the designs for the sneakers…. Kanye claims he is a genius,visionary, and innovator……we shall see…2 fashion designers have gone on record as stating he lifted their ideas after they met with him……..Kanye ain’t no designer people around him designed his clothing……..have you seen those boots he wears…………as for Mike lindell, come on the guys nuts…..as for cancel culture it has always been here ….you can go back 500 hundred years ago and if you didn’t get with popular opinion you cancelled at best ,murdered at worst…. Bone up on your history….. Respectively
for all we know he showed up at skechers to accuse someone there of stealing his designs. i think this site would like it if kanye showed up at skechers begging for a dime and that’s how the story is written. interesting times. going to be hard to cover rap in the next few years for a lot of people. game is breaking apart and the official rap that has 80 billion streams but no one ever heard a song or the artist propped up by these websites is the hard target
I’m not a fan of dude. Don’t like dude’s egotistical narcissistic behaviour. Can just imagine how many distanced themselves from him, including associates, fans and supporters. Hope to God he gets it together. He need to turn it down a lot of notches. Dude need to learn sincere humility.
agree,bro.
Thanks, bro.
It’s crazy that anybody would think any serious brand would want to have anything to do with you if you make those type of statements… They all care about PR…
Kanye went on Instagram late wed.or early thur.and posted ” it has been a month since he had some super model pussy”………..This is straight from the thoughts of a self proclaimed Christian and devout man of God and founder of the Donda School Academy,where children were to get an upstanding Christian education…………. What a joke.
Who’s he trying to impress with that model coochie?!
He wants to let everyone know “I’m still better than you riff raff”
Yes, that’s true!
Sketchers are officially idiots. Everyone looks at them as a trash brand for older people. Instead of going woke they could of made a billion. Morons
this muppet is devaluing rap culture exponentially by the second. he’s gotta go. sorry – if he wants to burn his own bridges let him. he’s not burning down hip hop and it seems like that’s what he wants at this point to ruin it for the next man coming up
This dummy said “rap culture” then mentioned “Hip-Hop” in the same paragraph. Learn the difference before opening your dumb ass mouth.
Hahaha!
An inflated ego is a biatch!
The saddest part of all is that dude brought all this backlash and consequences on himself. He got no one else to blame. He should thank his own inflated ego.
This is what happens when you don’t listen to your advisor’s, associates’ and friends’ sound advice. His ego’s anthem is “You can’t tell me nothing.”
Dude pitched up unannounced. He thought they would feel privileged to have him as a guest.
I dont get why he doesnt just set up his own manufacturing and distribution company. Cant imagine he doesnt have the capital, or can get it. Patrick Ewing has been doing his own sneakers for decades, and Ye likely has way more $ than Ewing does.
Adidas second biggest mistake. First one was not giving Jordan a shoe deal in the 80s
The truth is nobody personally gives 2 fucks what he actually said and no one takes it seriously. Everyone just trying to feed themselves and their families. He is beefing with the companies and I get that they would distance themselves because they don’t want to be seen as if they support what he said.
Dude will drop the biggest album in the streaming era next release even if it’s some mediocre “Christian” album.
The funny shit is… he didn’t say anything anti-Semitic. LOL.
Among other things, it’s anti-Semitic to deny the holocaust. It really happened. Dude should accept the invitation he got from that music and go learn about it.
* I meant museum, not music.
*posts my opinion but site doesn’t agree with it so it gets deleted*
In the midst of it all, I sure believe he’s still arrogant as hell.