Fats Joe confronted backlash after he obtained a pair of Donald Trump’s “By no means Give up” sneakers. The Terror Squad chief tried to justify buying the Trump-branded footwear on Instagram Dwell.
“Me as a sneaker collector, I needed to get my palms on the Trumps,” Fats Joe stated. “Doesn’t matter … Hear, I’ve 1000’s and 1000’s and 1000’s [of] pairs of sneakers. When all people flipped on Kanye, I went and purchased the 2 most unique Kanyes ever.”
Fats Joe insisted he was not a Trump supporter regardless of proudly owning the gold sneakers. The veteran rapper claimed he solely wished the footwear as a result of they had been a collector’s merchandise.
“As soon as once more, I’m not a Trumper,” he stated. “I dislike Trump. I’m not voting for him. Not now, not by no means. However I’m a sneaker collector to the artwork, so I needed to discover these [shoes]. Now the mayor’s gonna name me. Everyone’s gonna name me and say, ‘You wilding out Joe’ … I’m a sneaker collector. I don’t know what none of those guys did. I gather sneakers. The rarer, the higher.”
Fats Joe denied shopping for the sneakers. He hinted at receiving a free pair attributable to his well-known standing as a sneaker collector.
“No, I didn’t pay for the sneakers,” he stated. “Sorry, I didn’t pay for these sneakers. They knew I needed to have them ‘trigger I’m the largest within the sport.”
Trump launched his “By no means Give up” sneakers at Sneaker Con in Philadelphia on February 17. The footwear rapidly offered out on his new web site GetTrumpSneakers.com. The gold sneakers had been priced at $399.
Only one,000 pairs of Trump’s gold sneakers had been launched. The footwear had been restricted to a few pairs per buyer. Two different kinds of sneakers remained out there for buy on Trump’s shoe-centric web site. The previous president additionally offered Trump-branded cologne and fragrance on the web site.