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Kanye West Puts Adidas on Blast for Releasing ‘Fake Yeezys,’ Claims Company Is ‘Suing’ Him for $250M

Kanye West is slamming Adidas for selling what he calls "fake Yeezys," and alleged the brand is "suing" him for $250 million.

West — who now goes by Ye — got wind of Adidas’ plans to greenlight the “Steel Grey” 350 V2s featuring his designs and put his former business partner on blast on Instagram Monday (Feb. 26) while essentially calling for a boycott. “Anybody who loves Ye would not buy these fake Yeezys I never made these color ways I’m not getting paid off of them and adidas is suing me,” he wrote in part in a lengthy caption alongside a screenshot of a photo of the footwear. There had appeared to be a possible path toward reconciliation between Ye and Adidas after the rapper was photographed meeting with the company CEO Bjorn Gulden last week, but that doesn’t look to be the case any longer.

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