- A Yeezy worker said Kanye West usually compared shoes to sex, in accordance to Rolling Stone.
- The employee claimed West manufactured opinions about a shoe that he could ejaculate into.
- On Tuesday, previous workers despatched a letter to Adidas to deal with “the poisonous and chaotic setting.”
A Yeezy employee mentioned Kanye West, now identified as Ye, regularly in comparison sneakers to sexual intercourse, according to a new report by Rolling Stone, detailing West’s alleged management fashion whilst working at the Adidas-run enterprise.
Rolling Stone spoke with a lot more than two dozen previous personnel members for Yeezy and Adidas. A superior-position staff instructed the information outlet that all through a task job interview in 2018, West interrupted a applicant to explain to her, “We generate goods of enthusiasm. I pretty much want to fuck my sneakers. That’s how great they are.”
The applicant did not verify or deny the story, but the staff reported West made at least 10 opinions to other colleagues about a shoe that West or a Yeezy consumer could ejaculate into. “Not a intercourse-toy sneaker but a little something that you were being so into that you would wanna have an personal marriage,” she reported.
“He’d be, like, ‘actually fuck.’ He would be quite clear on what that meant.”
The revelations follow a letter acquired by the news outlet and despatched by former Yeezy workers to the govt board members and CEO of Adidas on Tuesday, asking them to address “the poisonous and chaotic environment that Kanye West designed” and “a really ill pattern of predacious behavior toward ladies.”
In the letter, the staff members assert West confirmed team associates porn, and explicit photos of Kim Kardashian and managed staff members by way of anxiety and manipulation. The letter alleges that Adidas management was knowledgeable of the rapper’s “problematic actions” but “turned their ethical compass off.”
Adidas did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
A spokesperson for Adidas provided Rolling Stone with a assertion, saying the business “will not discuss non-public conversations, aspects, or occasions that direct [sic] to our decision to terminate the Adidas Yeezy partnership and decline to remark on any related speculation.”
West began his nine-calendar year connection with Adidas in 2013, assisting to produce a string of merchandise which includes the NMD, Extremely Increase, and West’s Yeezy. On October 25, Adidas minimize ties with West saying it “does not tolerate antisemitism and any other kind of despise speech,” subsequent his antisemitic rant on Twitter.
A representative for Kardashian and a attorney for West did not straight away react to Insider’s requests for comment.
- A Yeezy worker said Kanye West usually compared shoes to sex, in accordance to Rolling Stone.
- The employee claimed West manufactured opinions about a shoe that he could ejaculate into.
- On Tuesday, previous workers despatched a letter to Adidas to deal with “the poisonous and chaotic setting.”
A Yeezy employee mentioned Kanye West, now identified as Ye, regularly in comparison sneakers to sexual intercourse, according to a new report by Rolling Stone, detailing West’s alleged management fashion whilst working at the Adidas-run enterprise.
Rolling Stone spoke with a lot more than two dozen previous personnel members for Yeezy and Adidas. A superior-position staff instructed the information outlet that all through a task job interview in 2018, West interrupted a applicant to explain to her, “We generate goods of enthusiasm. I pretty much want to fuck my sneakers. That’s how great they are.”
The applicant did not verify or deny the story, but the staff reported West made at least 10 opinions to other colleagues about a shoe that West or a Yeezy consumer could ejaculate into. “Not a intercourse-toy sneaker but a little something that you were being so into that you would wanna have an personal marriage,” she reported.
“He’d be, like, ‘actually fuck.’ He would be quite clear on what that meant.”
The revelations follow a letter acquired by the news outlet and despatched by former Yeezy workers to the govt board members and CEO of Adidas on Tuesday, asking them to address “the poisonous and chaotic environment that Kanye West designed” and “a really ill pattern of predacious behavior toward ladies.”
In the letter, the staff members assert West confirmed team associates porn, and explicit photos of Kim Kardashian and managed staff members by way of anxiety and manipulation. The letter alleges that Adidas management was knowledgeable of the rapper’s “problematic actions” but “turned their ethical compass off.”
Adidas did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
A spokesperson for Adidas provided Rolling Stone with a assertion, saying the business “will not discuss non-public conversations, aspects, or occasions that direct [sic] to our decision to terminate the Adidas Yeezy partnership and decline to remark on any related speculation.”
West began his nine-calendar year connection with Adidas in 2013, assisting to produce a string of merchandise which includes the NMD, Extremely Increase, and West’s Yeezy. On October 25, Adidas minimize ties with West saying it “does not tolerate antisemitism and any other kind of despise speech,” subsequent his antisemitic rant on Twitter.
A representative for Kardashian and a attorney for West did not straight away react to Insider’s requests for comment.
