Is Kanye West Leaving Nike?

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 Philadelphiaโ€™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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174 Comments

  1. Michael Carter says:

    who needs him

  2. Trevor Davenport says:

    who gives a fuck

  3. Michael Ojeda says:

    Who gives a fuck… I hope he dnt try and go to Jordan lol

  4. Erwin Miranda says:

    go on asshole!

  5. Michael Shannon says:

    first nike.. next the planet.. hopefully

  6. Lisa Scott says:

    Kanye is always bitchin’ about something. Its all that sweetness in him.

  7. Phill Meekins says:

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

  8. Benjamin Baranyai says:

    Don’t worry haters, Yeezus will teach you someday :)

  9. James Rice says:

    He signed to Adidas for 3 years i heard

  10. Rob Blakk says:

    Gettem a bottle#crybabyass

  11. Mac Bamba says:

    And all the little punks still buy his shit. What a damn prick.

  12. Justin Gamble says:

    His kicks are ugly as fuck anyways

  13. Jeremy Marceleno says:

    Who needs that guy on Nike anyway

  14. Dominic Grant says:

    HE’S A BIG ASS BABY HE CRYS TO DAM MUCH .FUCKIN FAKE ASS FOOL .

  15. Daniel Allen says:

    Who gives a shit

  16. Cody Shimek says:

    Nike need to drop him

  17. Cyrus Caine says:

    Best news all day

  18. Mary Mainord says:

    Please don’t go to adidas. I like adidas. But I don’t like kanye.

  19. Robby Kappler says:

    Yea..and his shoes still gunna blow!

  20. Rai Rivera says:

    who cares if kanye west leaves nike…

  21. Jc Michelle Rosario says:

    Yes please

  22. Jesus Cuevas says:

    He said he was mad that they were limiting the yeezys

  23. Carlos Gonzalez says:

    There are wack!!!!!!!!!!

  24. Tamara Belton Molotow says:

    Pleeeease!!!

  25. Ephraim Lowe says:

    Who cares never like the yeezy anyway thanks for doing the world a favor Kanye

  26. goblue30093 says:

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

  27. Vince Lopez says:

    Later kanye keep crying sucka…

  28. Jonathan Alvarado says:

    Adidas are wack

  29. Jonathan Alvarado says:

    Kanye you are wack

  30. Chancey Gannz says:

    Fuck THAT little Bitch

  31. MalikDavis1 says:

    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

  32. Marquel J. Granger says:

    Nobody cares the shoes are over hyped and ugly AF imo

  33. Who Cares about West

  34. Brian Tanig says:

    Go to adidas to get torn acl lol

  35. ฤฐsa Canberk BozdaฤŸ says:

    noooo

  36. Quinton R Perry says:

    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…

  37. Jonathan Noel says:

    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.”

  38. He needs to get into another car accident maybe itll turn.him back to normal

  39. Marquel J. Granger says:

    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

  40. Sean Delaney says:

    Who gives a shit

  41. James de Guzman says:

    Damn people are so jealous about kanye’s success.

  42. Jon Dough says:

    Good his shit traaaa

  43. Orlando Vidal says:

    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.

  44. Sean Delaney says:

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

  45. Jermaine Jones says:

    I hope so, and take all the hyper beast with you.

  46. JohnMark Santos Ticala says:

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

  47. George Holley says:

    dope i hope he comes out with something cool as fuck !!!

  48. Slaid Jameson Taylor says:

    Wow you guys are behind. He signed a deal with Adidas for the Yeezi y-3

  49. Frank Mozingo says:

    Fuck em who cares

  50. Cristobal J. Cardenas says:

    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..

  51. Samekeil Gramps Walthour says:

    I hope so. .adidas will pick him up

  52. Jhames Joe Albert Infante says:

    I think Nike would be better of without yeezy the Poser

  53. Jovi Villanueva says:

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

  54. Bong's Brizzy says:

    wow thats cool,, n when was that

  55. LR Jordan King Maybaby says:

    The hate is real…

  56. Mitchell Carrigan says:

    Collin Cimko Cordell Cimko

  57. Joe Harkins says:

    And no one cared…

  58. Asa Lucier says:

    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

  59. Slaid Jameson Taylor says:

    He signed the deal 2 weeks ago.

  60. Malik Stephens says:

    He all ready sign with someone else

  61. Slaid Jameson Taylor says:

    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.

  62. Slaid Jameson Taylor says:

    Fuck the Jeremy scott Adidas. Fuck Adidas in general. Nike is much better

  63. Emjay Laws says:

    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

  64. Mervin Lung says:

    It Maison martin margiela !

  65. Ronnie Camargo says:

    Adidas is gonna trash the shoes

  66. Tony Stark says:

    What with all the hate of adidas? I love shoes! Kanye, well not so much but whatev.

  67. Donte Ellis says:

    Who cares shoes r terrible any way.

  68. Cnote Graham says:

    I hope so his shoes are trash, just like his ho, oh yeah and his music sucks, fuck kayne

  69. Mike Larry says:

    damn look at all the Kanye haters talking shit like they know the man

  70. Kenneth Boyd says:

    Who gives a FUCK….

  71. Christian Hoffmann says:

    Fucking hates……

  72. Anthony Rodriguez says:

    yeezy’s are ugly ass shoes anyway. and Adidas won’t do any better for him.

  73. Chuong Thai says:

    Who cares. They are overrated and so limited none of us can get it anyways.

  74. Rei Solivan says:

    Thank God. Nike don’t need that arrogant fack

  75. Jamar Da Outkass Owens says:

    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

  76. Lamek Hinambedi says:

    kanye west, u re the best

  77. Bryan Walker says:

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

  78. Kenny Williams says:

    Who cares anyway?!

  79. Elijah Lowrie says:

    Nobody really knows What Kanyes doing anymore

  80. Khris Thomas says:

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

  81. Justin Michael Guerin says:

    Trash bag

  82. Preston Thompkins says:

    If hes smart he wont.

  83. Sergio Slaughter Salazar says:

    I fukkin can’t stand kanye but that’s one koo pic

  84. Bryan Getonmylevel Campbell says:

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

  85. Mark David says:

    Other way around, nike should be leaving Kanye.

  86. Chinx Price says:

    Just like JOrdan

  87. Nias Santos says:

    e essa calรงa mt doida

  88. Murilo Vieira says:

    e esse tenis ae

  89. J.v. Melendez-Lazaro says:

    He is weird!!!

  90. Jannek Sรถnnichsen says:

    hopefully

  91. Michael Kristensen says:

    Fuck kanye that fucking weirdo

  92. J Smsw Roland says:

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

  93. Leon Rodriquez says:

    Who cares? He’s got enough money to start his own company

  94. Sebastian Babo says:

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

  95. 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

  96. Dan Mears says:

    Only one who wear em is rich people

  97. Noel Staysgettin Bucks says:

    I HOPE. YEEZYs ARE LAME N KANYE DONT NEED A NIKE BASKET BALL SHOE

  98. Vince Vance says:

    I wish he would leave earth.

  99. Sparkey Bennie says:

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

  100. Charles Hill says:

    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!

  101. Burly Schmidt says:

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

  102. Charles Hill says:

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

  103. Burly Schmidt says:

    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.

  104. Burly Schmidt says:

    look at the pic up side

  105. Royal Pharaoh says:

    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

  106. Michael Ojeda says:

    Aint nobody hatin on kanye or his whack ass shoes jordans all day son

  107. BJ Bernales says:

    welcome to adidas Phidz Reyes

  108. Justin Vasquez says:

    Whoooooooooooo CARES!!!

  109. Lisa Scott says:

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

  110. Desiree Lopez says:

    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!

  111. Chris Loogi Montanez says:

    I hope so

  112. Fuk Nike, Kanye needs to leave earth

  113. to be honest yeezy 1s is ugly af imo. but the yeezy 2s are hot.

  114. If you’re not at Kanye level then don’t talk shit :)

  115. Kent Wong says:

    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.

  116. Matthew Flumenbaum says:

    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!

  117. Eddie Redice says:

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

  118. Zachary Dean Culbertson says:

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

  119. Eddie Redice says:

    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

  120. J Smsw Roland says:

    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

  121. Wes Evans says:

    Hes a damn wierdo anymore just like GaGa freaks!!!!

  122. Shane Layne says:

    White Kids be like “WTF”

  123. 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

  124. 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

  125. Martell V Galloway says:

    He needs to just leave altogether

  126. Juan Avalos says:

    fuck himm n his gay ass sneaker

  127. Brice Fekete says:

    Maybe Adidas will put out enough kicks so people can actually get them!

  128. Adam Jurgens says:

    He left already for Adidas!

  129. Bosshogg Outlaw says:

    I got 3 pair

  130. Arslan Saeed says:

    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

  131. Mayco Mesa says:

    Who cares what Kanye’s arrogant ignorant ass does…

  132. Trillyen Scott SeV'ion says:

    How do u post a pic n a comment section please Arslan Saeed

  133. Walter L. Judilla says:

    ugly face, same his shoes..

  134. Stan DaMan says:

    Who Cares ??? LOL!!! Clown!!!