Jason Lee: Adidas Told Me They Made $3B from Yeezy, Put Nothing Back into Black Community (Part 3)
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Vlad discussed a provocative theory with Jason Lee regarding Kanye West's controversial behavior and its impact on his business affiliations. Vlad shared that Gilbert Arenas believed Kanye's anti-Semitic remarks were a calculated move to exit his Adidas contract and take full ownership of Yeezy. Jason Lee questioned this theory, recalling an incident where Kanye disrupted a major collab with Balenciaga, leading to millions in losses for Gap due to unsold inventory.
Jason detailed how Adidas benefited tremendously from Kanye, earning $3 billion, but failed to reinvest in Black communities. He recounted efforts to push Adidas to allocate funds for community initiatives, which were met with resistance and superficial gestures like free sneakers. Their discussion highlighted corporate exploitation of Kanye's creativity and the complex dynamics between artistic vision and corporate control. Jason critiqued Adidas for their exploitation and failure to support the very communities that fuel their success, likening their actions to "shady" corporate behavior.
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I don’t understand why yall think these companies owe the black community anything. They don’t.
If they take ideas from black community, they do
They make their money off of us and from us
They don’t but you can criticize them for not doing anything that’s what freedom of speech is.
You don’t have to understand 😂 if they using us to make money they need to pay period
typical victim mentally
I'm a black man and that's not Adidas job to put money into the black community. It's our job as black to put our money into the black community and buy from black designers.
We are but more needs to be done as far as investing in our community
@@mcdiesel7505 we need start the work ourselves and the other races will invest in our community. But we should own where we live that is the capitalist way.
Are you slow?
@@RosiePosie007 yes I am
What is Adidas suppose to do. Black people send money out of the so called community as soon as they get it. Clothes, cars, makeup and hair are not helping the community.
😂 wrong situation for this comment. Ye is a black man that we support. So Jason is asking can you pour some of that money back into the community that this black men y'all using to make so much money comes from .. get it now ?
I don't get the entitlement. Adidas sells a sneaker, people want the sneaker and buy it. Fair exchange, no robbery. What's next supermarkets need to stock people's homes with food because they spend money and buy groceries from that particular supermarket?
Just blks is my guess@@kylesmall6064
You shoul take your celebrities and ''leaders'' to task and stop whining!!
"using to make money" with your logic every employee in the world is being used right? You know that kayne was making 200 million a year from adidas @@Sweetjones713
What company has ever done anything for any community? Businesses are supposed to make money for their shareholders, they are not charity organizations.
What if you have leverage?
How do all these people seem to know & understand the system we live under, but somehow forget that businesses don’t have empathy?
@@joojoobaw Ye had no leverage?
You’d be surprised
Exactly!
These people really embarrass us blacks with this mentality
The gays ?
@@SkywalkerPaul this race hustlers
💯💯💯💯
The shit you guys subscribe to is what really embarrasses us…
@@MalachiTrudeau What you said makes absolutely no sense and you know it. How the hell do you even know what people subscribe to?
Are black people the only ones who bought Yeezys. This is me speaking as a black man. Adidas is a business it doesn’t owe the black community anything. For purchase there shoes. Now ask Kanye how much money has he as a black man. Put back into the community.
Most of the Yeezy purchases come from suburban whites people are ignorant in here.
Well I’ll be honest , I’m 46. We have between 350-500 clients. I know many ppl. Many wealthy ones, I live in a huge city , millions of ppl, I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING YE . Except my 12 year old sons Kanye I love ghost sweaters.
Celebs need to realize, normal folk are successful too. We came from nothing. Literally. Being able to promote successfully , is a natural progression and talent. I can go into a phone repair shop. . Within a week, they can’t keep up because I promote them to every single person I see with a crack on their screen. Gas station to bakery, idgaf, if you do me right, I’ll do you 1000x better. Trust is huge. I’m a white Woman and have a hard time with the steroid type of white ppl, it’s not true, I have 3 of my kids friends here and they’re not white. Disappointing to see female creators, esp covering diddy, slam white ppl on several lives, videos , shorts , every day . I promoted sometime with a lawn mower who needed help. He now makes almost half a mill a year! I can prove it all, we Areht all the same,
@@KweenOfhere I think it's more a young person thing. I know middle-aged people who have yzy stuff, but they've been fans for decades. Yeezys were almost bigger than Jordans when I was in middle school. In high school, many people had fake Yeezy slides or foam runners.
When you put it like that! This makes perfect sense! Ppl are weird man but I truly understand your statement
First of all, don’t expect Adidas, or any other sneaker company to give back. Second of all, since this is a known fact, that they don’t give back, perhaps, not buying their product is a small but meaningful act the community can begin, Search for businesses, and I do in fact, try to invest in communities.
Every time I see a new video, it's a treat!
If Jay possessed Ye’s designing talent, he would’ve made adidas his hoes and been worth more than $10-$15B. Easily.
😄how much do you think “Hov” is worth?
What design talent? Kanye leveraged his fame and got other people like Virgil to design for him
@@jesussinaloa9300 *with him.
Get off that man meat please I’m begging
Facts
The entitlement is crazy, kanye could have paired with any shoe manufacturer he wanted to. Im sure there is a black shoe maker out there somewhere. Kanye chose to make Adidas the money. Blame him.
I always wondered what disastrous thing Kanye would do to himself with his childish mouth and screwing off a billion dollar deal and losing his wife as a result was it.
Drop the names of the black owned shoe factories…
@chemerejohnson668 I'm not saying there are a lot but I'm sure Kanye has the resources to find the ones that are out there, yet he chose to go with the big brand.
1000% Kanye could have started his own fashion brand and sold t-shirts, jeans, belts, and sneakers, etc. Instead of competing with the Europeans, he joined them. Kanye makes business decisions, he is not an activist. But I don't blame him. It's the wiser business choice.
@acpjr it's crazy when people on the outside looking in blame the white man or the system. Accountability is lost on the ignorant. I don't blame Kanye for making a smart business move. I'm talking to the general population that acts like Kanye and the culture was taken advantage of. Bunch of checker masters 🤣
And Kanye took that money from them in court when he sued adidas and won ‼️
Yea but that was money he was going to get anyway it was just in frozen accounts and was only 75 million a lot less than the billion dollar deal he had but you probably can't tell the difference between 75 million and a billion.
@@kenkenichi7461clearly it wasn’t about money Kanye made A statement because he shown his shit will sell wherever he takes it . Billion dollar deal or not them losing out on Kanye hurt the company you can literally get Adidas hoodies now for 20 bucks . The power of the consumer says it all lol
Facts yeezy on adidas right now for 63 dollars @@tucansam3147
@@kenkenichi7461 Ye did this to prove a point to us that no matter how super you are as a negro to corporate America, you still a negro and should stay in line. Your little mind think its about the money.
Are they supposed to?
Nope
Comments show a lack of business acumen. It was about them reallocating funds that should be spent on marketing for a product line of that magnitude, profits 3 Billion dollars.
He just chose to say he wanted those dollars back into the community. Every product line has a marketing budget, their biggest one they didn’t spend a dollar, cuz it’s YE. Adidas was getting over.
Exactly. Thank you for breaking that down for the special ones.
yhy R
Adidas gave the money back to the 🌈🌈🌈🌈 opps 😂😂😂
They give funds to a foreign country like Israel so why not to the black community who inspired and supported the actual product from day one?
This 🤡 don’t know how business works . Those executives looked at him like a fool 😂😂😂😂
Yes he does. Microsoft made headlines in January 2019 for investing $500 million into affordable housing in the Seattle area, which is home to both Microsoft and Amazon to address the inequality that has spread in communities where the industry is concentrated. Google pledged $1 billion in land and money to build homes in the San Francisco area. Salesforce gave out $18.2 million in grants to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts and education nonprofits to expand educational opportunities for students and leaders in the Bay Area.
I love Jason Lee. I hate Vlad so much, he's so disrespectful. I'm only here because I want to hear Jason!
I hope the kids are safe! We easily forgot about the ad with Balenciaga
Stop looking for something to complain about you don’t care about that shit anymore nor does anybody else
Sorry Jason, Kanye's point was proven! They never say he lying, they just say he's crazy. Not lying.
He intelligent to know what's Real. Opposing to stay and live off Kanye Hype!! Real Facts 💯
Do you think Adidas is some kind of Hood rapper? 😂😂 They are not obligated to give back to no one. Get over yourself or better yet, watch who you give your hard earned dollar To.
Microsoft made headlines in January 2019 for investing $500 million into affordable housing in the Seattle area, which is home to both Microsoft and Amazon to address the inequality that has spread in communities where the industry is concentrated. Google (parent company, Alphabet) has pledged to invest $1 billion in land and money to build homes in the San Francisco area. Salesforce gave out $18.2 million in grants to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts and education nonprofits to expand educational opportunities for students and leaders in the Bay Area.
I wonder if Mr Lee knows where the diamonds in that AP came from 😂
What the hell does that even mean
😂😂😂😂
Doing things like Microsoft did in 2019, investing $500 million into affordable housing in the Seattle area, which is home to both Microsoft and Amazon to address the inequality that has spread in communities where the industry is concentrated. or Google who pledged to invest $1 billion in land and money to build homes in the San Francisco area and Salesforce who gave out $18.2 million in grants to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts and education nonprofits to expand educational opportunities for students and leaders in the Bay Area.
If they told him that he can donate his salary to the black community if he wanted to he wouldve quit .
Why should he work only for their benefit?
The community that be stealing the most shoes😭😭😭
He never went on an antisemitic rant. Exposing people for their wrongdoings is not antisemitic.
They’re both industry bitchess they’re no point giving them any thought
He went on for weeks about how they were stealing from him and they all called him crazy smh
Kanye is not antisemitic. He said things against a group of Jews in power... does talking bad about the US President make you antidemocratic?
Just admit you are envious of the Jewish hard earned success
Entitlement and negotiating is two different things. There’s no feelings in business. Either we agree to terms or walk away.
kanye wasnt worried about no black money coming back into the communities, kanye dont fuck with us
@@ChanceJolivette it’s too bad that you have such a low level of respect and value for your own people. SMH 🤦🏾♂️
That’s CRAZY! That is the POWER of “1” black man. Just imagine if we as a people stopped hating on each other and poured into our own. Jesus Christ 🤦🏾♂️
Exactly
BOOOMM you hit the nail on its head. DUDE was building dome like modern communities for almost no cost in Uganda, Haiti and Cali and had plans to doing it in all African nations. But NEGROS ONCE AGAIN ALLOWED WHITE MEDIA TO TURN ON them on THEY OWN
@@2cleeng “Preeeaach! Keep it real wit yo dog, no matter what!”
Black Lives Matter movement did what for the black community? Nothing. We don’t do anything for ourselves so why expect anything from anyone else? We are the only ones who can help us and we don’t.
that move was a scam. never has any protest ever worked.
it was just a cool fad at the time
BLM is about police brutality what did you want??
Are you slow?
@@RosiePosie007 A lot of these people are trolls.
Reinvesting in the black comminuty is meaningless because the community itself doesn't take itself seriously enough to keep said money in the community. So as soon as the community gets the money they give it right back to other communities.
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Microsoft made headlines in January 2019 for investing $500 million into affordable housing in the Seattle area, which is home to both Microsoft and Amazon to address the inequality that has spread in communities where the industry is concentrated. Google (parent company, Alphabet) pledged to invest $1 billion in land and money to build homes in the San Francisco area. Salesforce gave out $18.2 million in grants to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts and education nonprofits to expand educational opportunities for students and leaders in the Bay Area. How does one give that back to another community?
@OfficialTapeMag nowhere in that comment did you say any of that money went to individuals in the black community.
@OfficialTapeMag Give that money to pookie and Ray Ray or kesha and they'll go spend it all with jews Arabs and the Chinese before they invest in a local black business.
Just $3 billion?? Huh?
Nobody owes you nothing. Go and get it yourself.
If you are exploiting the popularity of an individual in a certain demographic you most certainly do.
We created the light bulb
They created the light bill
Plain and simple
You created the light bulb with someone else's tools and then you sold it
Facts
Lol i expected Jason to be alot smarter than this
Obviously you need to work on your smarts because you didn't get it.
He never said "they owe" or "they have to". He proposed something.
Its the way they went about it by suddenly sending a black employee, that he's upset about.
That's it.
@@royalty843 why? He thinks men are sexually attractive
How are Adidas going to put money in the black "community" ?
That’s A Serious Question ?
@@campusbully23 I take it seriously. Do you have an answer?
🤣🤣🤣 engagement farming
Microsoft made headlines in January 2019 for investing $500 million into affordable housing in the Seattle area, which is home to both Microsoft and Amazon to address the inequality that has spread in communities where the industry is concentrated. Google (parent company, Alphabet) pledged to invest $1 billion in land and money to build homes in the San Francisco area. Salesforce gave out $18.2 million in grants to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts and education nonprofits to expand educational opportunities for students and leaders in the Bay Area.
If you watched the kanye drink champs , you will see he purposely said stuff about jews even when it had nothing to do with the conversation
Typical behaviour from someone who has Bipolar Mood Disorder.
This interviewer always talk about himself let the guest talk
As a black man I agree morally but can I hear a good reason business wise (not emotionally) on why they should invest into the “black community” to where it would make sense for them economically ?
Microsoft made headlines in January 2019 for investing $500 million into affordable housing in the Seattle area, which is home to both Microsoft and Amazon to address the inequality that has spread in communities where the industry is concentrated. Google (parent company, Alphabet) pledged to invest $1 billion in land and money to build homes in the San Francisco area. Salesforce gave out $18.2 million in grants to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts and education nonprofits to expand educational opportunities for students and leaders in the Bay Area.
Why would anyone think that Adidas or any major company would just take it upon themselves to give back to any community? They dont even take care of their manufactures lol.
Also it's a German company what do they know about the black community even if such a thing exist what black community? All I see is a bunch of people living in the same place who hate each other.
Microsoft made headlines in January 2019 for investing $500 million into affordable housing in the Seattle area, which is home to both Microsoft and Amazon to address the inequality that has spread in communities where the industry is concentrated. Google (parent company, Alphabet) has pledged to invest $1 billion in land and money to build homes in the San Francisco area. Salesforce gave out $18.2 million in grants to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts and education nonprofits to expand educational opportunities for students and leaders in the Bay Area.
I don’t ever want to hear 👂🏾 someone say invest in the Black Community again.
It’s crazy that there’s no marketing budget for Yeezys. Kanye is really him.
I mean it'd be admirable if big companies set aside revenues to help communities in positive and meaningful ways, but in any realistic context, there should be absolutely zero expectation from them to do that whether that's being pragmatic, cynical, or anything else. Corporations only exist as entities to generate the most profits possible, period, and that's quite literal. I feel like people latch onto brands like they mean anything other than marketable avenues to scrape those profits.
I respect Jason for that
I just got paid
And didnt put anything anywhere
Except my bank account
I'm really tired of people like Jason. They demand that everyone else care and invest in their community, more than what the community invests in itself. They demand you prioritize their children over your own and they treat their own children terribly. No, I'm not with that.
Y’all aren’t owed shit and all you can do is complain on the internet
Isn't that what you are doing?
@@OfficialTapeMag What complaints am I making? Stop fishing for a damn comeback and say something intelligent or hush.
Kim went to school with the daughter of the Jewish man that holds a lot of power in the entertainment industry. Her and Chris beg the father to send letters out to cancel Kanye.
Who is that jew
Probably more like "daughter's " lol it's def all connected on some weird stuff like that lol def some to do w power in Hollywood and Jewish lawyers lol I can def imagine Kim went to school w all these lawyers kids shiett she was one herself 😂😂😂😂hollyweird
This gentleman is quite bright! 💡 👍🏽
I like this guy man, cool interviews...
“What has Puma done for the Indian community??” That’s how ridiculous it sounds
Yeezy gap line...being under Balenciaga....would have had CRAZY hype...high resell
So we bout to start trashing these Adidas for real for real huh
As Sebastian Telfair said F__k Adidas!!!
Maaaaann we need more YEEZY from whatever company. Shit music too 🔥🔥🔥🔥
There is no way in hell Adidas told this ninja how much money they made on ANYTHING! And Gilbert Arenas is a nutcase.
Vlad's always capping oh i bought Balenciagaz slides 😂
vlad was low key hating on the kanye hoodie but yet he has one 🤨👎
Jason is onto something
Sebastian was right about Adidas
That’s on black people for not investing in their own and their own signing with companies that don’t put back into black communities
Bank won't even give black people loans, when black people try to sell property, the banks devalue the property, you know how this shit works, you just have it in your mind that all blacks do is complain, they make the goddamn shoes to pitch to black people
I mean it would be ideal for majority black artists to invest in their communities. I’m not surprised and feel no way about a company not investing in the black community. I think as bp we have to accept that no one will save us.
The pick yourself up by the boot straps mantra is disingenuous when one considers that other communities benefited from centuries of policy that put them in positions of power. Artists do not have that money in cash. It requires them to sell their assets which reverts power to other communities. That would mean that from the time of sale the cash flow starts to dwindle. That isn't sustainable.
Good interview
Adidas is owned by Adidas AG a multinational group of investors originally founded in Germany where its headquarters is. Do you really think they care about 13% of the population in one of the hundreds of countries they do business with they don't care they won't care and they should not care. When you buy a $800 pair of shoes it's kind of a signal to people you don't need financial help nor does your community.
You’re clueless. That 13% made up over 50% of their sales for decades. Adidas faced bankruptcies multiple times and each time a black person rescued them from insolvency. Jesse Owens. RunDMC. Kanye. Do your research before you denigrate a whole audience that you know nothing about. It’s all public record.
What pair of Yeezy's were $800.00? You used that figure to support a claim you could not prove absent gross exaggeration. They should care because they chose Ye for his influence in a particular community. This is not different that using Britney Spears. The only difference is that people who look like her are most likely already in position of wealth and influence. Microsoft made headlines in January 2019 for investing $500 million into affordable housing in the Seattle area, which is home to both Microsoft and Amazon to address the inequality that has spread in communities where the industry is concentrated. Seattle is smaller that 13% of the population. Google (parent company, Alphabet) pledged to invest $1 billion in land and money to build homes in the San Francisco area (also less than 13%). Salesforce gave out $18.2 million in grants to the San Francisco and Oakland school districts and education nonprofits to expand educational opportunities for students and leaders in the Bay Area (also less than 13%).
It wasnt just black people who bought yeezy tho😅
There is a reason why Eminem (who has a massive fanbase and sells more records than Ye) or Bad Bunny wasn't chosen. It was a marketing decision. They wanted to leverage Ye's influence over a culture that are active participants in a marketplace. It was exploitative, no matter how you cut it.
this topic can be said for 20plus companies we consume..this convo missin the business element
@vladtv notifications are on point ‼️
Proud of you Jason Lee for speaking about this!
LOL why should adidas invest in the black community???
why should they invest in any community 😭😂
for a product that not willingly chose to buy. man black ppl are something fr
YE CRAZY FR FR 😂🤣
I seriously don't understand this logic it's not adidas job to put money into black communities, adidas isn't even a American company so why would they put money back into black American communities?
Please tell me why a sneaker company needs to give back to a community? If it's reparations, fine, but gtfoh with that bs. I'm a black business. I gave back on the way.
If there was a community they wouldn’t bought the shoes in the first damn place everyone tryna flex on they brothers
This is an ignorant statement. If I opened a spanish restaurant and used Bad Bunny and his music to market it, hispanics are going to show up. That would be indicative of a community as opposed to the inverse.
Why is anyone still supporting Balenciaga.. sick
Hmmm I'm seeing a lot of black folks (allegedly, since we don't really know) say stuff "Adidas don't owe black people anything." But what do we hear every single day on PBS? "this program was funded from viewers like you. AND contributions from the CHUBB group." Who the hell is the chubb group? Well, it's just TINY representations of what companies do to get tax write-offs by making "charitable contributions." How do you think building after building after building are bought at colleges and universities? Or the holocaust museums? And political PACS are funding?
COMPANIES make CONTRIBUTIONS to causes and SPECIFIC communities when they want to support. So, yes companies can and DO direct funds when they want to. I don't how many Afro-Sheen commercials I saw and then at the end a comment about the Urban League and "the mind being a terrible thing to waste." And they get the tax write-off. And companies LOVE tax write-offs.
And one thing I do know. You don't GET nothing if you don't ASK for nothing. So, I'm with Jason on this. If even HALF of that 3 billion came from black feet wearing those shoes, yeah, then you need to kick a few dollars in. Don't come around here with your empty cup talking about "let me get a sip."
😂😂😂😂 why in the hell would Adidas tell him that big 🧢🧢🧢🧢🧢. Ppl gotta stop acting like Kanye made Adidas or something 🤦🏾♂️
Yea because our people are ignorant. They think adidas needs us to survive 😅😅😅
😭😂
Adidas did need Kanye it was a dying brand he made it back popular
@@DagenLucasthey needed Kanye bro nobody was wearing that shit like that anymore til Yeezy went to adidas they needed Kanye the brand was dying
@@Devo377soccer players are more popular than kanye especially messi
New respect for Jason Lee on talking about this and how adidas is a predator to the black culture
No Kanye is a predator to the black community he came out with ugly overpriced shoes to rip off the black community ( after complaining in a song how white people profit off of Jordans)unlike Shaq who came out with his own shoe and lowered the price point so it could be sold in Walmart so more people could afford it. Kanye loves to talk about how racist white people are but you won't see him in a relationship with a black woman now will you.
I like Jason's thinking, but I would argue that Ye himself should use his earnings to support the black community. Adidas is a German company, theyd look out for Germans before blacks.
Then they need to only use German designers
@@davruck1 why would they do that? the designers get hired and paid
Ye was not being impulsive when he said what he said lol.. He knew what he was doing 😅
The fact he got people to pay 750 for them ugly ass shoes is crazy.😂
He is telling a lie😂you trying to tell me the company is disgusting there business with you and Blac people believe it 😂😂😂
Soccer players signed to Addidas including Messi are more popular than Kanye
But they don't generate billions for Adidas like Ye did. This isn't about popularity; it's about design and concept.
For all you slow people , when u Make a company 3B you obviously have enough leverage to negotiate things into your contracts , ITS UP TO YOU TO DO IT !!!!
Those Balenciagas been out for years Vlad. 😒
They were just pocketing all that money…. Wow
People are so gullible. Ye never owned those shoes. Adidas didn’t owe the hood anything. Ya’ll got lied to by ye and people try to make something it never was. Adidas have always owned the patent to those shoes. Ye never owned them….all he did was license his name to them. A name Beanie Sigel created. At no time was he ever an owner. He was nothing more than an over glorified brand ambassador. Adidas was adidas before him & stayed adidas after him. Learn how business actually vs. how you think it works. He was never an owner & adidas showed that by having the power to remove him. Wake up.
We know how it works genius. You are a person who would defend slavery
Ye is an Icon
Adidas don’t have to invest into shit but themselves . Kanye knew what he was signing at the end of the day .
Nobody really does these stars go big and don't look back
This sounds like I still want my free backpack and turkey giveaway. Keep believing that Kendrick Lamar they not like us bull shit.
I use to think Jason was vlad they literally got the same voice
Ye fumbled the bag by not meeting with Saudis.
How much money has Jay Z put back into the black community?
All I've got to say to Kanye is Sway HAD!!! THE ANSWERS!!!!
A grown man that made his own money ain't gotta do shit for nobody else 👍
And this is why the elites win. You're s fool
Jordan 28 did the sock shoes first
Cap , big dawgs dont put themselves in meetings where those questions might be asked. You really think they would tell a media personality they made 3 billion and doesn’t zero on the black community
And now they're milking Messi
Imagine if Kanye got what Virgil and Pharrell got?