According to a good friend of Kanye West, the Air Yeezys weren’t his first sneaker. Longtime barber Ibn Jasper shared in photo via Instragram that the rapper producer had a shoe in the works with Adidas before partnering with Nike.

Jasper shared that Yeezus initially designed a sneaker for Reebok eight years ago before the company was bought out by Adidas and re-appropriated into one of its shoes. It is not clear why the sneaker was never released, but it was later be reworked for soccer star David Beckham.

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[via Complex]

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