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It seems any publicity isn’t always good publicity.
Kid Cudi’s bad behavior at Canal restaurant in Scottsdale on Saturday spoiled an otherwise great All-Star game event with NBA star Allen Iverson, says a spokeswoman for Reebok who didn’t want her name used.
“It’s unfortunate that the action of one person … has taken over ink space that should have been reserved for how wonderful the event was,” says the woman, who works for a New York City public relations firm. “It’s unfortunate that it’s gotten a ton of play on the blogosphere.”
Reebok and Allen Iverson (the Pistons player in red Reeboks pictured below) sponsored the event to play up Iverson’s 13-year partnership with the shoe company.
Kid Cudi and another rapper had been scheduled to perform at about midnight at the event, but a scuffle broke out at about 11 p.m. between Cudi and some security guards. One of the guards used a Taser on Cudi before the wanna-be rap star jumped in his ride and motored off.
Cudi, who appears in Kanye West’s latest video, “Welcome to Heartbreak,” was being paid by Reebok to perform and — go figure — wear Reeboks.
The young rapper showed up to Canal wearing the same kind of Reeboks (pictured) that Kanye West promoted — for free, says the spokeswoman — on West’s blog site.
In his own blog, Cudi called the shoes “the most fugliest Reeboks ever.”
So much for Cudi’s future with Reebok.
