Kanye West 曾拒绝 Nike 每年四百万美元的合同出价

众所周知，Kanye West 离开 Nike 的原因是他没有被给予足够的「氧气」去完成创作设计，然而就在今日释出的 Dr.West 芝加哥艺术学院演讲内容中，我们得知 Yeezy 还首次揭密了导致双方分手的薪酬问题。Nike 曾因 Kanye 不是职业运动员而拒绝支付其所提出的总收益 1% 的薪酬报价，每年 4 百万美元的合同是 Nike 的最高出价。此外，心情大好的 Dr.West 还正确预知到 HYPEBEAST 会将这一「焦点内容」发布。感兴趣的朋友可以阅读以下原文。

I remember at that time, I was going through leaving Nike and going to adidas, and I was also dealing with trying to get a deal with a luxury house. Because I wanted to paint, but I wanted to paint with usable art. Sculptures equals clothing. Clothing is a form of usable art. And I would look at that lamp that was made of rocks and cement, but the shape was so beautiful, and it wasn’t even made of marble.

So when it was time to do the adidas collection, and I left Nike because they refused to give me a percentage because I was not an athlete—I don’t have a NDA that says I can’t say this even though it seems wrong to say out loud—I left Nike because they refused to give me a percentage, they also offered me $4 million a year to stay, which is an unknown thing but I’m sure it’ll show up on HYPEBEAST tomorrow.

[Laughter]

I wanted people to know that.

[More Laughter]

And I still left them, because they weren’t giving me the opportunity to grow. They were working off an old business model, and Phil Knight was somewhere on an island. And then, Mark Parker would go and find people who I collaborated with years before, and try to do collaborations with them to seem cool, and as you see, Nike hasn’t done like, one cool thing this year.