I’m not Kanye or an executive so I don’t have all the details but…
At the time Kanye was doing this entire publicity tour about how he wanted to launch a low-cost fashion line. $30 T-Shirts, $60 shoes. Things kids could actually afford
But then it turned into him going around to TV shows and Radio programs talking about how nobody wants to let him do this. I believe this is when he got in a big fight on air with the DJs of some big show.
So it’s not like this was a one time remark he said, he tried this for a long time; constantly comparing his struggles to him becoming a rapper. How everyone wanted to buy his beats but nobody would let him record an album. “You just make beats” they said. Then he finally got to make an album and it’s an overnight classic. And then he did it again, and again, and again
Now he wants to do fashion and they say, “You just rap, you don’t do fashion”. But just how he became a great rapper he was positive he could make a great fashion line if someone, anyone, would give him the chance
Eventually he had to make the limited-time, high quality shit he made… with the goal of earning enough, making a name for himself, to launch the lower-cost line he always dreamed of
But somewhere between then and now he had a massive manic episode and apparently never took his medicine. So now he’s just out there, manic as shit, doing and saying whatever crazy shit pops into his head
I can’t buy that he was that helpless. Jay Z or Damian Dash might not have wanted him to undercut their business but it shouldn’t have stopped him. As I said, Shaq already showed the way.
Shaq already paved the way to do that. Kanye could have easily followed a similar path.
Shaq was an athlete so companies approached him
Kanye was a rapper who was reaching out to shoe companies with an idea
Shaq approached Payless Shoes to launch his own brand instead of extending his contract with Reebok. That’s why Shaq shoes were only $40.
I’m not Kanye or an executive so I don’t have all the details but…
At the time Kanye was doing this entire publicity tour about how he wanted to launch a low-cost fashion line. $30 T-Shirts, $60 shoes. Things kids could actually afford
But then it turned into him going around to TV shows and Radio programs talking about how nobody wants to let him do this. I believe this is when he got in a big fight on air with the DJs of some big show.
So it’s not like this was a one time remark he said, he tried this for a long time; constantly comparing his struggles to him becoming a rapper. How everyone wanted to buy his beats but nobody would let him record an album. “You just make beats” they said. Then he finally got to make an album and it’s an overnight classic. And then he did it again, and again, and again
Now he wants to do fashion and they say, “You just rap, you don’t do fashion”. But just how he became a great rapper he was positive he could make a great fashion line if someone, anyone, would give him the chance
Eventually he had to make the limited-time, high quality shit he made… with the goal of earning enough, making a name for himself, to launch the lower-cost line he always dreamed of
But somewhere between then and now he had a massive manic episode and apparently never took his medicine. So now he’s just out there, manic as shit, doing and saying whatever crazy shit pops into his head
I can’t buy that he was that helpless. Jay Z or Damian Dash might not have wanted him to undercut their business but it shouldn’t have stopped him. As I said, Shaq already showed the way.