Adidas Takes Off The Ye!

Adidas will end the Yeezy line.

Vote.

Ignore the noise.

Vote to save democracy.

Vote to make Ye, Kim Kardashian, Coondace Owens and Sucker Carlson less relevant.

If conservative media and progressive media agitators can be hateful, they still have partnerships. But a media mogul and rapper makes a statement that goes against the norms and the noise is calling for a boycott.

It is a free country.

They are more upset over him making anti-semitic comments than his reaction to George Floyd. They did not get upset over his publicist trying to intimidate Georgia poll workers.

Ye made anti-semitic remarks and the noise has gotten so loud, the company that makes his products had severed ties.  It came to the company Adidas severing ties with Ye.

The Yeezy products are worth $1 billion. The shoes are still available until the final pair are sold. 

The Adidas Yeezy was a fashion collaboration between German sportswear company Adidas and American rapper, designer, entrepreneur and personality Kanye West. The collaboration has become notable for its high-end limited edition colorways and general releases offered by the Yeezy Boost sneakers lineup. The collaboration has also produced shirts, jackets, track pants, socks, slides, women's shoes, lingerie and slippers. The first shoe model ("Boost 750") was released in February 2015.

The company faced pressure to drop Ye after Media Matters released an unedited clip of Ye talking to Sucker Carlson.

Adidas on Tuesday said it has terminated its relationship with the media mogul immediately and will cease production of Yeezy branded products.

Now they are hoping Def Jam drops him.

"Adidas does not tolerate antisemitism and any other sort of hate speech," the company said in a press release. "Ye’s recent comments and actions have been unacceptable, hateful and dangerous, and they violate the company’s values of diversity and inclusion, mutual respect and fairness."

There has been growing pressure on big-name brands to cut ties with the rapper after he made antisemitic remarks on Twitter a few weeks ago.

The rapper later followed with more offensive comments against the Jewish community on Revolt TV's "Drink Champs" in a since-deleted interview.

Ye's comments against the Jewish community were also referenced over the weekend by a group of Los Angeles neo-Nazis who hung antisemitic flyers on a 405 freeway overpass.

In addition to Ye's remarks against the Jewish community, another recent controversy has seen the "Donda" rapper sporting a "White Lives Matter" T-shirt during his surprise Yeezy Season 9 show in Paris along with conservative political commentator Candace Owens.

The phrase has been described by the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center as a white supremacist hate slogan that originated in 2015 as a response to the civil rights movement Black Lives Matter. The groups note that the phrase has been commonly used by white supremacist groups such as the Aryan Renaissance Society and the Ku Klux Klan on everything from promotional materials to campaigns.

Hate speech is never OK or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.

— Kim Kardashian (@KimKardashian) October 24, 2022

Responding to the backlash over the T-shirts, Ye wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post, "Here's my latest response when people ask me why I made a tee that says white lives matter... THEY DO."

Hollywood talent agency Creative Artists Agency, also known as CAA, announced Monday that it would no longer represent the rapper. Film and television studio MRC also said it would be shelving a documentary on West, saying in a statement that it "cannot support any content that amplifies his platform."

Several reports have also stated that brands such as Balenciaga will no longer work with Ye.

Ye's ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, along with many other public figures have stood in solidarity with the Jewish community following his antisemitic remarks.

"Hate speech is never OK or excusable," Kardashian tweeted on Monday. "I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end."

Kendall Jenner, Reese Witherspoon, Amy Schumer, John Legend and others have also spoken out against Ye's comments aimed at the Jewish community.