{"id":1200196,"date":"2022-09-07T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/07\/p-diddy-and-swizz-beatz-defend-kanye-west-boycott-adidas\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:15:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T14:15:51","slug":"p-diddy-and-swizz-beatz-defend-kanye-west-boycott-adidas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/07\/p-diddy-and-swizz-beatz-defend-kanye-west-boycott-adidas\/","title":{"rendered":"P Diddy and Swizz Beatz defend Kanye West, boycott Adidas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div wp_automatic_readability=\"102\">\n<p><figure><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Swizz Beatz, Kanye West and Diddy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kanye West is generating support from his friends in the hip-hop industry as he wages war against Adidas, including big support from\u00a0Swizz Beatz\u00a0and\u00a0Diddy, who vows to stop wearing gears from the sportswear giant.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire rapper turn fashion icon has been posting about the company with whom he has a 1-billion-dollar deal, but according to\u00a0Kanye West,\u00a0Adidas\u00a0had left him out of the decision-making aspect of the business despite him bringing in a large amount of revenue for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Adidas has yet to respond to Kanye West, who has been attacking various members of upper management of the company. <\/p>\n<p>Some insiders say that Kanye is attempting to bully the board and shareholders into bringing him into upper management, despite his agreement only being one as a designer.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye West has also alleged that Adidas and Gap, with whom he has separate agreements, have stolen his designs and tried to make copies in China. He says he is taking the companies to court over the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, he continued his harassment of the company and shared that he is getting support from several other big-name celebrities who are ready to boycott the company.<\/p>\n<p>In the last two days, both Swizz Beatz and Diddy joined the war, with the latter threatening Adidas that if it doesn\u2019t do right by Kanye, he\u2019ll call for a boycott.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Diddy shared a screenshot of a conversation he had with Kanye where he offered to help the artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease can send me something I could post in support of you! I never wear Adidas again for the rest of my life if they don\u2019t make you right!!!!\u201d Diddy wrote to Kanye, who responded with two sentences, \u201cPraise God and Love you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Diddy also shared a caption where he called out Adidas for profiting from black culture and its treatment of Kanye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the era of Run-DMC, @Adidas has always used Hip Hop to build its brand and make billions off of our culture,\u201d he said. \u201cBUT WE ARE MORE THAN JUST CONSUMERS NOW, WE\u2019RE THE OWNERS. @KanyeWest and YEEZY are the reason Adidas is relevant to culture. WE KNOW OUR VALUE! I\u2019m done wearing Adidas products until they make this right!! We have to support each other!! Everybody repost this please!!,\u201d Diddy said.<\/p>\n<p>A day before, Swizz Beatz also said that Adidas was wrong in its treatment of Ye.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI usually mind mv business but this is DEAD WRONG! If we let them do this to @kanyewest it will happen to us also! This man created this groundbreaking innovation and it should be respected as a creative ! YE is only asking for his work to be respected and not stolen that\u2019s not crazy to me !!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe not buying these @adidas you\u2019re supposed to be original do the correct thing please,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_286872\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Diddy-Swizz-IG.webp.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-286872\"\/><figcaption>Instagram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Last month, Kanye called out Adidas for its Adilette 22 slide sandals which closely resembled his Yeezy slides.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/gp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-132.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2160232\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Since then, he has made several post-then-delete on Instagram where he accused both Adidas and Gap of not honoring their agreement with his Yeezy brand. Kanye West went on to say that he planned to open his first Yeezy brick-and-mortar store in Atlanta and plans to move nationwide as he insinuated that he planned to pull his Yeezy brand from Adidas and Gap.<\/p>\n<p>In September, he also began to post memes and mock various Adidas executives but specifically SVP Daniel Cherry III.<\/p>\n<p>Adidas has not responded to any of the claims by Kanye.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye first started working with Adidas in 2013 with his Yeezy footwear. The shoes became widely popular and brought in a large percent of the company\u2019s total revenue, with $1.7 billion earned in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Kanye\u2019s deal with Adidas sees him having 100% ownership of the copyrights of the shoes and 15% in royalties on sales. 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The billionaire rapper turn fashion icon has been posting about the company with whom he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1200197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}