Kanye West urges fans to cool their attacks on Adidas CCO Alasdhair Willis

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Kanye West has urged his fans to cease their online attacks against Adidas CCO Alasdhair Willis amid his feud with the sportswear brand's executives.'TO ALL THE YE FANS PLEASE TAKE DOWN ANY MEME OR ALASDHAIR,' penned the rapper, 45, in a text post shared to Instagram on Tuesday.He continued: 'I BELIEVE THIS IS A GOOD GUY AND HE WILL ACTUALLY CALL ME AND ACTUALLY HELP ME.'In the post's caption, Kanye brought up his close relationship with Beatles legend Paul McCartney, who is the father of Alasdhair's designer wife Stella McCartney.

Change of tone: Kanye West has urged his fans to cease their online attacks against Adidas creative director Alasdhair Willis (pictured right)  amid his feud with the sportswear brand's executives'Let's see if we can speak to [Alasdhair] first Me and Paul McCartney have made a lot of great music I'm cool with the family,' wrote the Flashing Lights hitmaker, followed by a smiley face.He and Paul have collaborated four times since 2015, most famously on the folk-pop song FourFiveSeconds which featured Rihanna.Alasdhair was appointed as Adidas' new chief creative officer back in March.

He is in charge of leading Adidas' design team and overall creative direction for the brands Performance, Originals and Sportswear labels.

He previously orchestrated the Adidas collaboration with his wife Stella back in 2005, which cemented his relationship with the brand.Kanye's Alasdhair post is a stark contrast to his incessant attacks on Adidas CEO Kasper Rørsted and the brand's SVP/General Manager, Daniel Cherry.The rage spawns from Adidas' recent unveiling of their Adilette slides - retailing for $55 - which Kanye believes is a 'blatant' copy of his famous Yeezy slides.