News broke on Wednesday that Kanye “Ye” West hit another roadblock when, after being dropped by Adidas earlier this week, he came unannounced at Skechers’ headquarters to court him for the new shoe deal. He was immediately shown outside.
They arrived at Skechers’ corporate headquarters in Manhattan Beach, California, “unannounced and uninvited,” the company said in a statement. Skechers said, “Consuming that they were engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party out of the building after a brief conversation,” adding that they “are not considering and We have no intention of working with him. We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate anti-Semitism or any other form of hate speech.”
Of course, Jimmy Fallon took the incident as “Tonight Show” fodder and expressed disappointment that he and the footwear company could not come to an agreement.
“It’s too bad, because if there’s one company that can help ‘shape’ it, it’s Skechers,” Fallon said, pointing to their famous shoes.
He also made fun of Skechers because he wasn’t ready to visit Ye.
“When Kanye showed up, the CEO said, ‘Call security,’ and his assistant was like, ‘This is Skechers, we don’t have security! Fallon said.
But the joke that caused the segment’s biggest laugh was which company he could approach for a footwear collaboration.
“I think Kanye’s going to be a hit pretty soon, making those free paper sandals after you get your pedicure,” he told the audience’s applause.
You are facing a professional decline due to anti-Semitic remarks from a week in which he threatened to leave”[def] Thieves 3 on the Jewish people.” Forbes says that the rapper-entrepreneur is down to $1.5 billion, making his net worth $400 million. (Ye claimed she “lost $2 billion in one day” in a Thursday Instagram post.)
Watch Fallon’s full Thursday night monologue — in which he also tackles Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover and Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine — in the video above.
