What Are Adidas Yeezy Shoes? What Does It Mean?

Discover the best Adidas Yeezy shoes and see celebrities wearing sandals, sneakers, and boots from the fashion collaboration between the German sportswear brand Adidas and American designer Kanye West.

Best known for its Boost sneaker line, which GQ named the most influential sneakers of 2016, Adidas Yeezy shoes are some of the most counterfeited models in the world.

Questions Regarding Adidas Yeezy

What is the cheapest Yeezy?

The all-black low-top Powerphase sneaker, which was released in March 2017, retails for just $100 at StockX, an online marketplace for sneaker resellers.

Some sizes sell for just $90 at Farfetch.

The Adidas x Yeezy Powerphase sneakers are the cheapest Yeezys

What Does Yeezy Mean?

Inspired by his mentor Jay-Z, who gave himself the name J-Hov (or Hov), derived from Jehovah, the Hebrew name for God, Kanye West chose the name of “Yeezus” to instate himself as a high level “God” of rap.

Derived from the name of Jesus, who most Christians believe he is the incarnation of God the Son and the awaited Messiah, Yeezus is also the title of Kanye West’s groundbreaking sixth studio album that was released in 2013.

For his fashion collaboration, he followed a hip-hop nickname trend of adding “eezy” to letters in his last name. Other artists who have done the same include Weezy (Lil Wayne), Drizzy (Aubrey Drake Graham), Jeezy (Jay Wayne Jenkins), Eazy-E  (Eric Lynn Wright), and Breezy (Christopher Maurice Brown).

One of Kanye West’s short names is Ye, which is also the title of his eighth studio album that was released in 2018.

According to Forbes, Yeezy is a shortening of the “Kanyeezy” nickname that Jay-Z gave him in the intro to the song “Lucifer” on The Black Album (2003).

Celebrities Wearing Adidas Yeezy Shoes