I'm not Kanye or an executive so I don't have all the details but...

At the time Kanye was doing this entire publicity tour about how he wanted to launch a low-cost fashion line. $30 T-Shirts, $60 shoes. Things kids could actually afford

But then it turned into him going around to TV shows and Radio programs talking about how nobody wants to let him do this. I believe this is when he got in a big fight on air with the DJs of some big show.

So it's not like this was a one time remark he said, he tried this for a long time; constantly comparing his struggles to him becoming a rapper. How everyone wanted to buy his beats but nobody would let him record an album. "You just make beats" they said. Then he finally got to make an album and it's an overnight classic. And then he did it again, and again, and again

Now he wants to do fashion and they say, "You just rap, you don't do fashion". But just how he became a great rapper he was positive he could make a great fashion line if someone, anyone, would give him the chance

Eventually he had to make the limited-time, high quality shit he made... with the goal of earning enough, making a name for himself, to launch the lower-cost line he always dreamed of

But somewhere between then and now he had a massive manic episode and apparently never took his medicine. So now he's just out there, manic as shit, doing and saying whatever crazy shit pops into his head

I don't know all of the details but I do remember him pushing this hard... going on talk shows, going on the radio, etc... and nobody would bite

He kept telling the story about how he use to just make beats and nobody would believe he could rap. Now he's a big rapper trying to make fashion and nobody believes he can do it. In fact I believe this is when he got in that big fight on the radio with the DJs

So the story was always that he wanted to make a Yeezy brand of clothes and shoes but keep the price low so that kids could afford it, but nobody wanted to work with him. Sounds like they were happy to slap his name on expensive clothes but not cheap stuff; and nothing long-term, short-term limited run type of thing

I'm not Kanye or an executive at Nike so I don't have all the details, but that is what he was preaching at the time

Kanye was a good dude. But he's Bipolar and he doesn't take his medicine so he's crazy as shit now