Tag: Yeezy

Adidas just announced exactly when it’ll start selling Yeezy sneakers again

The Yeezys are back. For now.

Well, folks. Not only is Adidas back in the business of selling Yeezy, but we also now know exactly when the time is coming.

Since October when the brand first cut Kanye West and halted the sale of his Yeezy products, people have been debating about what the brand should do with the leftover inventory that it has on tap.

After making the decision to separate from West, Adidas went on ahead with the production orders made on Yeezy products in a move that the brand says was made to keep folks in the supply chain working. That created billions of dollars in inventory that the brand needed to do, well, something with.

That “something” ended up turning into selling it. Last week, reports surfaced from The Washington Post about the brand deciding to sell West’s wares again to make up for losses. But it’d also pledged to donate a “portion” of the proceeds to charities in relation to the people that he hurt with his hateful language.

On Friday, we got more details on exactly when Yeezy would be back on the shelf and exactly where some of the proceeds from sales were going.

Adidas is selling Yeezy again starting on May 1 and a “significant amount” of the proceeds from the sales will be donated to charities such as the Anti-Defamation League, the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change and more.

If Adidas is going to sell Yeezy, then I guess this is how the company should do it.

It still feels like there’s some key information missing here, though. There should be a more complete list of charities that the brand is donating to made available to the public. And, most importantly, it’d also be amazing to know exactly how much these charities are getting while West still racks up that 15 percent royalty.

But those are details that will probably be sorted out down the line. In the meantime, Yeezy is officially back at Adidas — albeit, for a limited time.

No, Kanye West isn’t coming back to Adidas, so please stop paying attention to baseless rumors on the internet

Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Wow, I sound like a boomer.

Over the last few weeks or so, you’ve probably seen a ton of rumors about Kanye West potentially returning to Adidas.

It all stems from Adidas facing major losses with leftover Yeezy products after the brand cut West at the tail end of 2022 for being antisemitic and anti-Black. Yeezy products became an essential piece to Adidas and now they’re unable to sell any of it.

So, the thinking goes, if Adidas brings Kanye back, gives him a raise and sells their remaining Yeezy products, they’ll still be able to make a profit off of what the brand currently has sitting in storage somewhere.

And, well, I hate to bearer of bad news — or, uh, maybe not so bad news? — but this isn’t a thing. It’s just the internet internetting.

Let’s dive into where this is all coming from and why.

SPECIAL DELIVERY: These Yeezy Alternatives might make Kanye West mad, but they’ll save you some money

Kanye West won’t approve of these, but Special Delivery absolutely does

Kanye West and Yeezy have been in the news a lot over the last few weeks. The billionaire business mogul is trying to part ways with Adidas before his 10-year contract ends in 2026.

At the root of his displeasure with the brand he’s been rocking for a decade now are some take-down designs of Adidas footwear that look awfully similar to some of his Yeezy designs.

The 2022 Adilette slide, the AdiFOMQ and so many more of Adidas’ sneakers are very clear riffs off of work West has done. He’s bothered by that.

But, honestly, they’re pretty good sneakers. And we brought some on this week’s episode of Special Delivery to show just how quality they are.

Tap in.

Kanye West savagely roasted GAP after terminating Yeezy deal: ‘I’m not going to argue with people who are broker than me about money’

Kanye West shows no mercy to The GAP

Kanye West, man. What can we say about him that hasn’t already been said? The dude has been wylin on the internet lately.

In most recent news, West told the Wall Street Journal  that he officially terminated Yeezy’s partnership with The GAP clothing brand after just two years of working together on what originated as a 10-year deal.

Yeezy and GAP had the idea of creating a utilitarian Yeezy brand that could be inexpensive and available for everyone, no matter what their financial background looked like. This didn’t happen, obviously, because the deal is over.

It’s a whole bunch of mess. But that’s not really what we’re here to talk about. The funny part in all this comes with Ye absolutely going in on GAP on CNBC’s Closing Bell with hostess Sara Eisen show late Thursday evening.

Eisen suggests that the deal had plenty of potential but West is still terminating it. She’s attempting to ask him why while he’s attempting to get her to tell him that he’s the greatest. That exchange alone is awkward and hilarious.

But what comes after it is even better. Take a look.

“Don’t bring a leader in and have him not lead. Why would I argue with people who are getting paid by The GAP? I’m sorry. I’m not going to argue with people who are broker than me about money.” 

WOW. That is…that is a quote, y’all. The “understood” response is also great here. Because what else do you say after that? My goodness.

Look, sorry to The GAP. But this is tremendous content. The internet absolutely needed this. The people are cracking up.

Watch our sneaker unboxing series, Special Delivery

SPECIAL DELIVERY: Kanye West is losing the plot with Yeezy and the Turtle Dove 350 retro proves it

Kanye needs to chill. ASAP.

The Turtle Dove Yeezy 350 started everything between Adidas and Kanye West. This sneaker generated so much hype back in 2015 when it first released.

It might also be the beginning of the end of the partnership between West and Adidas. The two sides have been on shaky ice for a while but after West’s rant following the retro of the 350 things reached a new tipping point.

West complained they launched the entire thing without his approval — including the retro of his most hyped Adidas Yeezy sneaker.

We brought that sneaker on this week’s episode of SD. With it, we dive into why Kanye got so upset about it and, honestly, why his issue doesn’t fit in with the ultimate vision of Yeezy.

Tap in, fam.

SPECIAL DELIVERY: The Yeezy 450 is so ugly, it’s become the perfect shoe

How do y’all like this shoe so much????

The Yeezy 450 might be the ugliest silhouette Kanye West and his brand have ever given us.

When these shoes dropped we roasted them into oblivion. They look like dumplings and old Pokémon fossils. Typically not what you see the most hyped shoes out there looking like.

Does it matter, though? Absolutely not. Because, for whatever reason, people still love these things. They cannot get enough of them. They’re one of the most popular Yeezy models out there.

And that’s exactly why I feel like this shoe will be something special for the Yeezy Brand. Well, I should say, it could be.

Because they still need to fix one big problem with it. Find out what that is on this episode of Special Delivery.

SPECIAL DELIVERY: The Yeezy 700 MNVN isn’t the best from the line, but it might be the most necessary

Kanye is keeping his promise to the people.

Alright, look. Y’all know me. Y’all know Yeezy isn’t my favorite. And neither is Kanye West. You’ve seen my Yeezus review my now, certainly.

Let’s just say Ye isn’t…my vibe.

And neither is the 700 MNVN. Don’t get me wrong. I do like the 700 as a sneaker. It’s a really good shoe and checks every box you could possibly want it to. But the MNVN is so totally different than any 700 we’re used to.

It takes the original 700 silhouette and scales it back a bit with a different material on the upper as opposed to the high quality materials we’re used to.

Is it as good? No. But it is far more necessary. And that’s why, even if this isn’t my favorite shoe, I have to respect it.

Find out more on this week’s episode of Special Delivery.

Adidas CONFIRMED’s Yeezy Foam Runner launch was a disaster and people are upset

Wow this was bad.

Normally, it’s Nike’s SNKRS app that gets the full wrath of sneaker Twitter on release day. But on Thursday? The blame shifted squarely on to Adidas’ new CONFIRMED app.

Think of CONFIRMED as their response to the SNKRS app, but with a bit more weekly content to go along with their sneaker releases. Sounds pretty nice, right?

On Friday, it was not. Sneakerheads everywhere were preparing to go on the app for the new Yeezy Foam Runners — slide-on clog shoes from Kanye West.

What they ran into were all sorts of troubles with the app and absolutely not a single sneaker to show for it.

Sneaker Twitter was highly upset.

Kanye West’s latest Yeezy 451 sample leaked and it’s terrible

Man, these are bad.

There’s absolutely no denying that Kanye West’s Yeezy brand is a sneaker empire right now. Outside of Michael Jordan himself, there’s no singular figure more closely associated to sneakers than West.

But, my goodness, does Kanye West make some absolutely awful sneakers at times. The latest case: A sample of the Yeezy 451 leaked on Wednesday and these things look terrible.

Honestly, these sneakers look like wet potato sacks. I’m unsure how you’re even supposed to slide them on your feet. It was like they were going for the whole “sock with a sole” look but ended up creating a… is that a dumpling?

Yup, that’s a dumpling. Tell me they don’t look like they’d go great with some soy sauce right now. You can’t. Because that’s exactly what it is. We have proof.

The only person that thinks this sample is a good idea is Kanye West. That has to be it. Everyone else is clowning them.

I wanted to give this shoe more of a chance. It is a sample, after all, so this probably won’t be the final version. And they’re not even on foot! All shoes look better on foot.

Except these. After doing two seconds of research, we have determined that these do not look any better on foot.

At this point, you can’t tell me Ye isn’t just throwing things at the wall and seeing what sticks. This looks like something a 12 year old would create on NBA 2k or something.

But, you know what? I can’t even really blame Kanye for this. Every other Yeezy ever has sold out in seconds. This one probably won’t be any different — even if it does look like a shoe cover instead of an actual shoe.

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People gave up the shoes on their feet for Kanye West’s new basketball shoe

This is insane.

Listen, there’s not much in this world that is going to get me to take off my shoes and stand on freezing cold pavement in freezing cold temperatures in just socks.

But, apparently, these folks are not me. Kanye West’s Yeezy line is dropping a new basketball shoe during All-Star weekend in Chicago and, not going to lie to y’all, it looks pretty good.

Good enough, apparently, that when they were offering the shoe on Friday in the streets of Chicago, these dudes thought it’d be a great idea to trade the shoes on their own feet that they were CURRENTLY wearing for them.

First of all, they had people chasing after these trucks.

Second, they were literally standing on cold pavement for them. Keep in mind, fam, that it is literally 17 degrees in downtown Chicago right now as I type this.

Twitter was just as confused as the rest of us were.

Shoes are great, man. But ain’t a single shoe on Earth THIS great. And it’s not like they’re trading any old shoe — they’re giving up the Nike Fear of God 1’s! Just know, that’s a rare and pretty expensive shoe. It retailed at $395(!).

Yeah, fam, they’re bugging. Really, really hope that shoe fits. Because if not? Yeah, frostbitten feet all around. Sheesh.

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