Kanye West Calls Out Fan for Fake Sneakers?
Kanye West is calling out a fan's decision to ask him to autograph a fake pair of sneakers.
West, the 36-year-old rap mogul, is in France ahead of his wedding to "Keeping Up With The Kardashians" star Kim Kardashian, 33. Before marrying the mother of his child, West appears in an Instagram video where he is shown telling a Parisian fan about their fake sneakers.
The video posted on Instagram by @turnonatl, shows West questioning if the fan knew about the fake pair of shoes.
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"These are not real though. You know that right," West questioned the fan who eagerly held a pen for West to sign the sneakers. "These are not real. Its fine though."
West seems to know a great deal about sneakers after branding his own Yeezy collection and signing on with Adidas last year.
"We designed the entire women's collection," West said in a previous interview with Chicago, Ill. radio station 107.5. "We designed the entire men's collection. And we designed 20 shoes. We coming in September and it's about to be a paradigm shift."
West spoke about the new venture that he chose to sign with Adidas while speaking to New York City radio station Hot 97 previously.
"The old me without a daughter may have taken the Nike deal because I just love Nike so much and blah, blah, blah," West explained to Hot 97's Angie Martinez previously. "But the new me takes the Adidas deal because I have royalties and I have to provide for my family."
West's announcement of a deal with Adidas comes after he called out Nike CEO Mark Parker in the Madison Square Garden stop of his "Yeezus" tour.
"Mark Parker tried to son me. Yes. Son me because I am the sun and I will shine bright," West said during his tour rant. "And when I don't have as much money as a billionaire and when I don't have the factories that, that dude has over there, what I do have is my voice. Ain't no corporation that can take me away from my voice and I'm going to scream at the top of my (expletive) mountain as loud as I want."
West later apologized for the rant against Nike.
"I really appreciate everything they did for me. And I'm not knocking them on the way out or burning no bridges," West previously said in an interview with Tall Boy featured on YouTube. "I apologize for my frustration earlier and I just think it's time. It's go time. It's turn up time."
