Kanye West Leaving Nike

During his show last night at the Barclays Center, Kanye West brought even more clarity to the hot button topic of his current standing with Nike. No stranger to controversy, West accused Nike CEO Mark Parker of undermining the potential of the Yeezy line. As shocking as that might be, we can only imagine what that means moving forward.

With the rumor mill buzzing around the notion of Kanye leaving Nike to go sign with adidas, we can certainly assume that there won’t be a “Red October” release. If in the event that the motif does resurface, all of you sneakerheads may just see the concept grace a brand new adidas silhouette. During an interview with Philadelphia’s WIRED 96.5 radio station, West added even more fuel to the fire by saying that he had indeed signed a deal with a major company that would allow him to have even more creative freedom than he was afforded at Nike.

As more information begins to surface as we move forward, how do you sneakerheads feel about what Yeezy has been saying? Do you feel like his rants are justified? Could you see yourself copping a Kanye designed pair of adidas? Check out Ye’s interview and rant after the jump and be sure to sound off in the comments section below. Keep your browsers locked to SneakerFiles for more information.

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  1. I dont give a fuck he is a rapper y pay all that bread for his shoes. Im from the chi by the way

  2. maybe they don’t sell cause they are ugly as shit! Nobody really cares about you and your man skirts.

  3. If yall really did care why all yall comment. The yeezys are Holy Grail face it yall mad cuz their wasn’t enough for you to get. Or to high

  4. Another case of Kanye shooting himself in the foot…ain’t this dude blacklisted yet…nope because then Kanye Kardashian will drop an album called…wait for it…blacklisted…

  5. Some people think just because a shoe is hard to get, that means it’s hot. Whenever I say Yeezys are ugly, people hit me with the “You say that because you can’t afford it.”

  6. Jonathan Noel exactly something can be the ugliest shit ever but if its limited it will sell, but when u speak the truth ur a hater

  7. Let him leave. It was a bad decision to let him design a shoe let alone design 2 shoes. He’s not an athlete, he’s an egomaniac and it’s a disgrace to have him on the design roster with the likes of great designers such as Hatfield, Ava, Dolce, just to name a few.

  8. Maybe nike should sponcor some of the kids on there workshops instead of paying out scumbag celebs…

  9. Nike doesn’t need him, they have a lot of athletes that is more popular than him.

  10. I wouldn’t wear Adidas from kanye I mean maybe if he model of the shoe was super creative like the Jeremy Scott type Adidas . But Nike is still the shit..

  11. I mean this..fuck kanye..he will never get a dime from me..he just seems like an ass hole

  12. I wish he would get amnesia so he would start from the beginning and actually do something besides shit on tracks n put his hot naked wif in the video

  13. He said it at his show in Brooklyn. That a week and a half from that day he signed a deal with Adidas for Adidas y-3 yeezi IIIs. Yup changed it from yeezy to yeezi for copywrite reasons.

  14. People hate all they want but Ye has designed some dope shoes for LV and Nike. If Kanye made some kicks for adidas if they’re dope why not buy them. I used to think Kanye was crazy but now I realize anybody who’s real is crazy. I might not agree with everything he does but at least he’s comfortable in his own skin unlike the self righteous parasites who trash him all day

  15. Everybody that’s hating on Ye or his kicks are some f_ing clowns….the air yeezy 1 is the reason why all this sneaker madness is going on now

  16. If he sign with adidas nobody going to buy them shits bad move kanye adidas suck just ask derrick rose and rg3

  17. he already did.. & who gives a fuck… his shoes are way over priced & way over hyped…. too many dick riders associated with his shoes.

  18. Bye lmmfao!! Your shoes sucked anyway!!!!! Shits looked like Payless or Walmart j’s

  19. Jordan never left nike, jordan brand is made by nike….who cares what kanye does, he is unpredictable everyone should know this by now

  20. A dream come true! He finally gets his gay ass swag yolo hipster fingers off the Nike brand!!!

  21. Why does it make you a hater if you though his kicks are wack they were and financially speaking not worth the money so who cares his leaving is bareley relivant to anyone

  22. Hahaha damn all these haters, but u think he give a damn???? Heck na! Keep hating cause he just gonna keep gettin more money.

  23. Being successful doesn’t mean he has to be an ass! When he first came out he was humble n grounded. Now he’s egotistical arrogant prick. And what he did to that young lady at the mtv music award show proves it!

  24. them white girls fight also in the curch about burly them,on whose like queen.i put my finger on stand,dammmmmm just now

  25. Kanye thinks just because he buy expensive clothes, he can design them now.I never seen anybody with those ugly ass shoes on anyway!

  26. does this amuse you obamaaa on your big screem,just like one off them litle laddies sad,she wanna make her own choice what she wears on the pic,the litle lady told them today.she wanna be by god.just like your litle girl my new book.obamma what us to life under his law,obamaaaa law.i put my finger on stand for that.

  27. Stop hating on the designer & ull realize that the Nike yeezy design is one of their dopest hands dwn #realsneakerheads will tell you that broke ass haters going always shoot shots about something they can’t buy

  28. Screw Kanye. He’s a nut….always whining and complaining, and his kicks suck. Nike don’t need HIM. He needs Nike.

  29. Good! He don’t represent himself as a good person anyways! Never liked him and he only does things to make me not like him even more.. Asshole! Hope Adidas don’t take his sorry ass either!

  30. air yeezy 1 has obvious Air Jordan rip offs from the 5 and 3 with a lebron strap.
    AY2…was alright..neither of them are amazing or worth the retail msrp.

  31. More like Nike leaving his ass! He should go back to bobo’s they only coast a 1.99.. With his gold digging ass wife/ soon to b ex wife.. My hard on can last longer then they marriage true story!

  32. if those shoes didnt have his name associated with them they would be on sale at warehouses

  33. He should, they messed up having such a limited quantity, its unreal how many people want these, all demand and zero supply.

  34. jordan did leave nike thats why jordans stopped coming in nike boxes, with nike air on them and with air-bubbles: the only reason these retros are coming back out in nike boxes is because nike owns the rights to jordans 1-12

  35. they’re all still made by nike and have all nike’s tech, im lookin at a newer pair right now, jordan brand that has “dynamic fly wire”…. jordan brand is a subsidary of Nike..google it research it

  36. Yeezy 1s are a cross off jordan 1s n terminators like in back to the future. I got a pair if anyone interested. Think theres a pic in my photos

  37. J Smsw Roland nike don’t own they’re owned did you know for last 70 years all shoes were made hy onitsuka tiger. Campare a pare of 1969 tiger fabres (fast breaks) and u will see everything thd same in design down to the stitch

  38. Fuck u Kanye west u wack now and so are ur shoes I made like 10x the amount I copped for the ill comeup for a ugly shoe but fuck it I don’t support wack stuckup artists