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Sole Sanity Sneaker Podcast EP 60| Greensboro Culture, 2026 Fashion Trends & Sneaker Origins
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The Sole Sanity Sneaker Podcast is back with Episode 7 featuring a special conversation with the Greensboro Social Status team — Ki, Lani, and Mark — alongside Jeremiah, Eli, and Spencer. This episode dives deep into Greensboro downtown culture, real experiences inside sneaker retail, and the personalities that shape the community every day. We discuss: • Life and stories inside Social Status Greensboro • Downtown culture & unforgettable encounters • 2026 fashion trends — oversized fits, floor-dragging denim & bedazzled clothing • Why everyone’s starting to dress the same • Sneakers that made us fall in love with the culture • Early sneaker memories & origin stories • Favorite sneakers from the panel (Aqua 8 love 👀) • Current sneaker trends & in-store sleepers • Wrestling debates between Eli & Mark 🤼 This episode blends culture, fashion, sneakers, and real community conversation — exactly what Sole Sanity is about. 👇 Drop a comment: What sneaker made YOU fall in love with sneakers? 👍 Like | 💬 Comment | 🔔 Subscribe for weekly episodes #SoleSanityPodcast #SneakerPodcast #SneakerCulture #SocialStatus #Greensboro #Jordan8 #SneakerTalk #Streetwear #FashionTrends #SneakerCommunity #PodcastClips #Sneakerheads #YouTubePodcast #StreetCulture #2026Fashion
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Transcript
Introduction and Guest Introductions
00:00:21
Speaker
Well, welcome back to another Soul Sandy Stinger podcast. Today, we have the social crew from Greensboro. I'll let everybody introduce themselves in a minute. This is season six, episode seven.
00:00:33
Speaker
Okay, we'll start here. Key's already been here, but he can introduce himself again. What's going on, y'all? My name is Key. I'm the manager of social status.
00:00:45
Speaker
that was i say why you know so sir roof tired in my thick up alleys you supposed to be the night out I'm
00:00:56
Speaker
lonie i'm lonnie oh i am the assistant manager in training at selfless i' mark am the assistant manager at social greensborough
00:01:11
Speaker
um We'll do a fit check this way, same same
Fashion and Local Pride Discussion
00:01:16
Speaker
way. But obviously, Jeremiah, and gerlenna will I, myself, being involved as well. So. Start me. Talk to me.
00:01:22
Speaker
How are we starting? Top down? Top, bottom, whatever you want to, you know. um So I have on Supreme and Spike Lee jersey, regular gray tee, Carhartt and Motown collab pants. And then I have on off-white fives. the must be Yeah, yeah. Talk to me?
00:01:47
Speaker
uh plain black zip up uh bread the hitman heart vintage see big pants and then uh pink phones today man okay that so pink is hard bring
00:02:13
Speaker
go be far you my on I got a Noah hoodie on Some Wrangler jeans And Fragment Union Casual Plexus I got a private life hat This Do ah i got on private life hit ah this is a brand from back home called hina complexity that my homie runs do interviews and things like that Some vintage Levi's and I got on, for Jellyfish.
00:02:51
Speaker
casual Virginia crazy yeah Jellyfish. Shout out home, that Virginia shit. I got on the North Face Baklava. I turn it into a head rap for whatever reason. I got on, this is Mike Vick right here. This is the Mike Vick shirt. My Humble Hustle. Yes, sir. Out there in Norfolk. My peoples.
00:03:20
Speaker
Where the Nike fans come from? And then I got on the Vic Threes, man. Okay. You really flexing on niggas.
00:03:34
Speaker
This is yeah that's is a Virginia day, man. I had yeah i had to pull up VA to pick up my jellyfish. he was here I didn't see Vic on your shirt now. I did not. So I saw that shirt earlier, but didn't know it was That's hard. That's hard as fuck.
00:03:49
Speaker
It's been a Virginia day, man. What's that mean? I got the jellyfish. You got them? You got them? What'd I just say? Where'd you Don't make me repeat myself. Don't ever make me repeat myself. We've been in here for an hour, and he said shit about them. That's crazy. talk like said I said, imagine how they look at my size.
00:04:07
Speaker
That doesn't mean you got them. What does that mean? That's a crazy reach. I thought you said you got an L earlier. No, I didn't. I don't know. I said that. That's a crazy reach. How am I supposed to...
00:04:19
Speaker
That's wild. Hey, man, you got to connect me. I'm VA'ed out. Everything is VA on me. and A VA nigga complimenting the VA shoes. It ain't shit to do but cook.
00:04:31
Speaker
Ain't shit to do but cook, man. You got the blue ones and the black ones. Those. I'm asking questions. I mean, you didn't say nothing. I'm just confused. I told you, B. What you got on, man? I'm being a dream. I'm being a dream. Dreamville? Yeah, dreamville stuff. Okay. and Imagine that. A little Travis, little spirit. Okay.
00:04:49
Speaker
You gotta get them Indy 5000's man Yeah As soon as they drop I don't know Indy's Yo It's February It's still like two six months So you can't hate on It's also Black History Month Two six I can hate on any nigga want I feel you Damn But that's the opposite of you're supposed to be And then how you saying you, uh, how you saying you the, uh, what do you say The mulatto prince or something weird shit on Black History
Debate on Logic's Identity and Music
00:05:14
Speaker
Month. Fuck out of here. Relax, man. That's a good album, bro. He can't relax help his fucking out ethnicity. What the fuck? Like, yeah like what do you mean? like
00:05:22
Speaker
The hardest nigga got a white mama. They don't say that on Black History Month. Goddamn. Shout out to moms. It says she white. What's the f forstive problem? I don't want to hear that shit on Black History Month. She raised a black king. She did, though.
00:05:34
Speaker
Old time, we didn't even really know unless you listen hard. Nah, you knew. The signs were there. Nah. Logic, we knew. Logic said, though. They the same nigga. Logic ain't gonna let you go without no weed. And he'll remind you, like, I shouldn't say nigga. I'm black, I'm white, I'm black. Can I say nigga? I look like I shouldn't be able to.
00:06:02
Speaker
Yeah, he definitely only Yeah, he got identity crisis right. I ain't lie. If I got a question, if you could say it but not And then he said it on that one joint. I don't know. I ain't gonna lie. I don't know about that. But it was just like it got weirder progressively. like oh But he stopped for a little bit. He stopped for a little minute. We get it, man. Married that woman.
00:06:21
Speaker
Then she broke his heart. oh Damn. Last time I saw video, that nigga was shaking his ass on stage. Hey, yo. Logic? Yes. Damn. Like twerking, shaking ass or like dancing? Don't put that on record. You gotta fact check that shit. You just like, nigga, come on who's shaking his ass on stage. Like, that's where he at now. Like, God, it's out there. You wanna go type that in and do your thing? Nah. You just gonna have to take my word for That's not gonna be my search. I'm sorry. Damn. I believe you. Damn. It's like the Isaiah video.
00:06:51
Speaker
I'm taking everybody's word. yeah Yeah, I've never seen that. I'm Me either. No thanks. So, now that you got your, uh, These jellyfishes are still for real?
00:07:01
Speaker
Nah, nah, nah. Well, yeah, it's still fuck for real. I ain't gonna lie, it's more of that now. Double. Because when you said it before, He was just mad. Now, bro, we got facts, too. Yeah, it's facts to back it up. Yeah.
00:07:14
Speaker
Nah, he's a real he a piece of shit. That's a good shoe. That's a great shoe. He was just mad because he couldn't get the shoe. That was really fucked up. No, but that was justified. I mean... We didn't we build a case against this nigga. Yeah, I mean, on him I knew a lot of those facts, but i mean we just pushed it to the side. but Yeah, it's just gotten worse. Him refunding, canceling my shoes,
Frustrations with Retail and Sneaker Culture
00:07:35
Speaker
it just, yeah. That wasn't it. Yeah. That was the catalyst. Yeah, fuck it.
00:07:39
Speaker
Yeah, the green ones. Damn. Yeah. I hit on the damn website, then he canceled it. Next day. Crazy. Yeah, refund. I mean, at least he gave me the money back. At least he gave me the money back. At least he gave me the money back. In a timely manner. Yeah, because Adina still got my money from this morning. Yeah, I'm saying that you said that earlier. They still got my shit, too. like, all right, now. That's so nasty. But look, as soon as you fill it out, 300 out. Where shit at? I don't know. I gave him my L. That's What's your name? It's them in, what, AOD, I think. Yeah, AOD. Bro, I entered for, um, the 650s. Uh-huh. And they came out of four-pack.
00:08:14
Speaker
Yeah. They trying to. Pre-authorized for all of them. Like, come on. They may be doing them wacky-ass pre-orders for like months. They trying to set niggas back. That's what I'm saying, bro. Like, who can think I am? I get what they be doing with the bread. Like, so. Why you holding it so long? So you're telling me. My shit just in the cloud? Yeah. Like, You're telling me that a week before the release, I put in for it.
00:08:37
Speaker
and then i didn't get any of them and so the day of now you're gonna refund me but it takes however many business days and i'm i my i have my money in two weeks and i got no shoes to show for it yeah that's like waiting on the check yeah literally literally like a bank they use your shit he gets to
00:09:01
Speaker
I wasn't even gonna put you through that. I said, you know what? That's why you my man. That's real. That's so real. I had one of my homeboys. He's like, you want me to go for your side? was yeah, yeah, do that for me, bro. Then I called, hey, don't you do that right now. You get paid on Friday? You better hop on Black Yacht Rock. Yeah.
00:09:20
Speaker
That's your bad, your bad. I think it's another one on tomorrow. It's...
00:09:27
Speaker
What the fuck is that? Black Yacht Rock? That's the website. That's like Pharrell's website. That's why I hit it on that website. That was like some Israel shit. It's another one. I want to say DDC. You know what I'm saying? Ice cream. British Broadcasting. Oh. Billionaire Boyz. I thought they dropped Tanana. I saw them post something about it. How could be wrong? Sneaker Politics served me an L. I'm on my year, served me two or three L's. They suck. I was getting emails like four times. I was like...
00:09:57
Speaker
they straight This nigga was hating us for a little minute, bro. Oh, du employee raffles was bad. And we was hitting on shit. That nigga was so mad, bro. Them employee raffles still suck. They charge us for shipping, bro. They are bad. Didn't they charge you for shipping and they shipped it to the store?
00:10:13
Speaker
it's Like, what are we doing, bro? Like, I got the... It is ice cream. That was trash. That was actually super trash. and that's Yeah. The 85s and them bricks. Yeah. Trash. Uh-uh.
00:10:26
Speaker
Shout out, shout out, uh, Jellyfish though, but for real? Yeah. Nah, that's a, that's a, that's a shit. I mean, this is, this seems like a dumb question, but everybody can't even theirs up, right? Like, oh yeah, that's over with, my boy. Well, I mean, I know they left at this point, you like, I just wonder like, cause no matter what the shoe is, even it could be,
00:10:47
Speaker
I don't know. What biggest shoe, GR shoe for us last year? Like the Black Metallic Pops. Stump niggas still not going to pick them up. Oh, yeah. No, for sure. I honestly thought the price point when they was coming up there would shock people, but nobody was really shocked. Everybody paid it. That's because it should have flipped. Yeah. I mean, you got to think anybody... $330. $330. Anybody who's entering at this point, ain't the same as when we first started. Because don't know if he already told you, but we've had people in the past... Oh, yeah. I had somebody come in... with the was it the lightning force and i went through the whole process at the register uh name phone number i bro it's gonna be 220 whatever how much it is for four uh you paying cash or card and i'm like uh he like car on my eye let me see id he gave me the car all right bro i'm finna it's 220 all right back cool i put the card in beep boom all right here you go i had to pay for that
00:11:47
Speaker
the raffle won the raffle yeah i thought i won a raffle for it that wasn't free so you went through everything and i told you the amount oh dang sir you handed me your debit card yeah you gave me your card i didn't yeah i didn't want you didn't put it in i took it from you and told you i asked you which payment you wanted you know i just wanted to look at your card like come on bro yeah so we didn't have people done that before but now Yeah, that's what I thought was going to happen today. Like people's going to come in and see it was like 322 after tax. And I thought he was going like, damn. But everybody was like cash. car It was good. That's a different climate. Now we're going to get paper.
00:12:25
Speaker
did Did it look like somebody that was going wear em any of them? No. Two people. two Jeremiah. put him on the day. Oh, him, and Danny. That's pretty good. Don't count.
00:12:38
Speaker
Is anybody else? Damn. It was this dude named Michael, the dude that said he didn't want... talk about
00:13:18
Speaker
Yeah, I mean he could be bottom. I don't know
00:13:30
Speaker
oh so um um he seems yeah we get out that we the can we hear But, can we count that? But, nah. That is buddy from you. I've forgotten. I ain't got names. Nah, that's what they Nah, like, people, ah like, he don't count. Like you said, Danny don't count. Those are, like, people that are, like, endlessly. Y'all niggas stay in the store talk for 10 minutes after you got the shoe. Yeah. You don't even count. Yeah, y'all stay in the store and all that stuff. Them motherfuckers get the shoe and do the dumb shit. Like, ain't never want anything ever life in life. He's like, okay, bro. And then they leave out and then they never come back. And his a kills me. um Your boy, his
00:14:16
Speaker
four Came in, and claimed he never won anything. Yeah, Lonnie had me weak. He said, you just lied. You just told him, Lonnie. And thing is, with sellers working in social...
00:14:28
Speaker
they, they people know we do raffles, so they'll fill out the line with they people, and it's like, can't see. You we don't see this? Yeah, and sometimes it's like, they'll end up winning, and like, we know you didn't win directly, but somebody you done sent up here won, and he got to the register and was like, damn, never won one these before. And you told him, you just told a lot, didn't you? Like, bro, we know you won. Like, why are we doing this? We don't have to do this game. We ain't got to play, bro. I promise you, we know what y'all do. We know what's bro. Where we Like, come on now, bro.
00:14:59
Speaker
Y'all got to play dumb. Right. No.
00:15:04
Speaker
They'll pass a card in front of you. Or it's somebody cousin or auntie that don't speak real good English or something, but they know the exact amount of the shoe.
00:15:14
Speaker
and neil why You done came in with a change in your hand. like yeah It's 2.30, 25, and they be like, here. I'll never forget when Buddy sent his grandma up there. It was like We saw your grandma was up here. She got the shoe for you. He was like, for real? My grandma was here? I just missed her. Let me call her. Then he proceeds to call her in front of us. Grandma, why you ain't telling me you was just here? Like, please be real. What the? What are we doing, bro? Your grandma just pulling up on the humbug. Yeah, she wants some Travis's, bro. Your grandma wants some Travis's. Oh, okay. got them for you, baby. Yeah.
00:15:53
Speaker
I wish my grandma would do this shit. You gotta pull up, bro. You don't ever be a part of the... You gotta pull up, man. You just need to drive, bro. tell you, just need to drive, bro. That should be funny out there. Be like 45 minutes from the crib, bro. They be inside an AC, like, on the coolant, you know? Yeah. but Hey, that motherfucker right there on release day on Saturdays, boy.
00:16:16
Speaker
Chillin', bro. Yeah. That might be evil. I be chilling, bro. Bro, what size you need, man? Nah, that's how it be. like damn It's a routine. You get out there. I go outside. I sit on the tree.
00:16:33
Speaker
Boom. i Same speech. yeah who are it It gets to a point where it's like, bro, don't come in here acting stupid. because yeah But they it's always like that. They come in for a release. We didn't have people do each other grimy for shoot.
00:16:47
Speaker
Like, nasty. Like, I seen a girl come up there and have all her friends come up for shoot and try to win it for her boyfriend. And then somebody in line was like... They offered her some bread They offered her some... Her friend that won some bread. And she was like, you supposed be getting it for my boyfriend? And she was like, girl, he finna give me $500. And Yeah. Yeah. The lows. That was a 40 minute process. Yeah, and they was sitting there arguing. And then she's like, you supposed to get him the shoe? And he on the phone like, what is going on? And it's a bunch of like 20, 21 year olds. like oh yeah They in there just gabbering. And he's like, what are we doing, bro? Are y'all getting me the shoe or what? And the girl ended up taking the bread for it. forward
00:17:37
Speaker
And not getting the shoe for The one shoe I was going come to social for, I hit on sneakers, so went back to bed. What shoe was it? The Yachty Forces. Okay. respect that. Because there'll be some people who do that, and they still be out there like, bro.
00:17:49
Speaker
I was literally, he had texted me, and like, yeah, I'm getting up right now. I was literally, I was in on sneakers. I went to the bathroom. I was getting ready. I come back with my phone said I hit I text him I said going back to bed dog. I'm going back to bed dog. He said order to confirm I said alright I'll see you later. Yeah nah. The Audi Force was a good hit and then that became a shoe that kept seeing too goddamn much and I don't really care about that but shit was everywhere. It was everywhere was also like seen like the same way every time. Every single time. Camo.
00:18:22
Speaker
and red because they couldn't do nothing and everybody's trying to dress like a concrete boy they know how to style it so yeah it's just gonna be crazy in like 10 years what yeah that's it two years like the day one to now is already like insane uh my homie sent me the request instagram post early two days ago i think they damn it said like size four through like 14 said start now to 800 do you remember they hit that just sold his he said he got them off for 300.
00:18:52
Speaker
He done banged his shit. fact I'm like, maybe you know, what a bitch is like 10 times and still getting three hundred off of. All right. All right. In my head, I was like, I could put these and still make somebody hit for one thirty. I was like, yeah, I'm up.
00:19:07
Speaker
I was sick about that shit, bro. Remember it was like it's two 40 and then I sold my shit at like 300. The day of release, they weren't doing shit. They weren't. Bro, I held for two weeks, sold them at like 300 because we was going out of town.
00:19:22
Speaker
Literally the next week, bro. Them shits was like $6.50 in my size. I was like, bro, what the fuck? I want to say I sold mine for like $3.60 and I had worn mine like three, four times. Yeah.
00:19:34
Speaker
I only sold them just because he just got weird a person. um I couldn't even sell mine like at first. I remember that. Like it was a problem. You're trying to get them shits away. Yeah. Like I'm like, yo, like do you want these? Dude was bullshitting for like two weeks.
00:19:52
Speaker
Finally, two weeks come by, a start creeping up to like two something. I'm like, all right, bro, they're going up, so don't sell them. and He ain't got those shits no more. already know he ain't got those shits no more. I think I had like, and obviously i gave one to Rich, but I think in total, plus the kids ones. You had like four a pair, right? At least five.
00:20:11
Speaker
Damn. And like, like I said. Damn. And you don't even do the research. I don't even do it. That's what I'm saying. It was just so weird. What? They were talking the same size, wasn't they? hit two nines, a nine a half, and then two kids. Oh, yeah, that's right. That's right. So she kept one, I kept one, Rich got one. That's like good Yeah.
00:20:32
Speaker
That's crazy. But Spence is real noble. He don't do so. Yeah, anti-resale. Don't tell me too much about it. I'm like, yeah, man. Better than me. respect that. Listen, listen. I'm going to talk. So this is the way I...
00:20:46
Speaker
I would've told him I said, hey, give me- word? Like, reconcile it. Like, I'm not a reseller. an opportunist. You know what I'm saying? Opportunity game. You forgot he a salesman, man. He got to make it sound good. So if it happened, it happened. You feel me? Yeah. I would've told him to give him a rap. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. Nah, that... Hey, bro, here's the envelope. It's a bad time to be a reseller, though. Terrible. Not gonna lie. You gotta get a job. If you don't have a crazy clientele or, like, super established, God bless you. Yeah, you kind of fucked. Yeah, go get a real job. You see Quincy out there working for the city. Yeah.
00:21:28
Speaker
Pokemon cards it's for you belong bo youmon is who's like not really a part of something...
Hat Market and Fashion Trends
00:21:35
Speaker
pokemon cars is the they shippping it out you gotta draw the line airuning like i mean that's that's how i go over bro anybody who's who's like not really a part of song they just jump from to whatever is, is like, they milk it, and they dry and then boom, pause, boom. Yeah. Yeah. And then they go to the next thing. They did that with shoes, and it was a thing for a long time, and was a bunch of people that, like, will open up stores with their people's money. They don't know shit about the shoe that's in there. They don't know nothing. They just know they're getting money from it, and then now, Business died now. What they do next? They using Pokemon. Remember when Fitted Hats was going crazy? field sal for like Oh my God. oh no that didn't make that club Hat Club. was it? Every Thursday on Hat Club? And they would be sold every Thursday. They was flipping hats for $120 plus.
00:22:29
Speaker
$60 hat is getting flipped for $120, $150 on eBay. Filthy. And it hurt. worth yeah It hurt me. I had a Liz account since 06. My mama signed me up for one. And I'm watching people just flip hats. I'm like, damn. The thing about it, like, hats is already high, bro. $40 is already a for hat, bro.
00:22:48
Speaker
a lot for on hat bro Then them joints was retailing for $50. Yeah, it was $55. Then it was $60. I see the different collabs. They're $70, $75. They did the cow print stuff. and Collabs on hats.
00:23:02
Speaker
Them Chase B joints? yeah Oh my God. Yes. Them joints are hard too. They did, but they... I'm cool. don't need no hats. but i had I was working at Hibbit in Thomasville. There was a dude that was coming to Hibbit. He was the assistant manager at Lids.
00:23:21
Speaker
that whole craze and everything. Bro, I had it in my phone. It's Lids plug. Bro, I was just telling him everything 7-1-4 that was Atlanta Braves just sent to me. And he just comes to the store and just, I need it. Crazy. Damn.
00:23:34
Speaker
I need it. That's crazy. I'm dropping. um He would let me get for retail because he's just getting them on discount and I'm just getting them for retail. He making bread of it. Yeah, that's $30. Yeah. Yeah. He's like, bro, whatever the price is on the bottom, you just pay. I'm like, fuck it. And in my head, I'm like, this motherfucker. Getting them on discount. He flipping them bitches. Hell yeah. I would.
00:23:52
Speaker
Yeah. At that time? Yeah. COVID? Oh my God. that covid But I felt like but. It was like a mutual much money. It was too much, bro. That's why we in the situation we're in now. Yeah. Every hat, every picture you've seen, shit every picture you've seen from 2019 to 2021, motherfuckers got the fitted cap that matched with the dunks and they wearing some damn Erica Manuel shorts or NASCAR. Nasty NASCAR shirt. they wearing that. And they got the tote bag next to them. Niggas had the Dickies too. Yeah. Niggas was on Dickies bad. Real bad, yeah. shit was nasty.
00:24:27
Speaker
It was a bad time, bro. Why you got the whole suit on, gang? That shit, I had it in the dickie suit. That's the worst shit all time, bro. Yo.
00:24:37
Speaker
It was a smooth transition, though. like the um It was like the Carhartt, Jordan 1. sort of like I could see it. It all made sense, but it's still... Progressively just got worse and worse and worse. Now we in the rhinestone hell. Everything bedazzled. You walk outside and get blinded, bro. Summer gonna be bad.
00:24:58
Speaker
Everybody likes a fucking disco ball. It's bad. is bad Yo, niggas gonna have missing rhinestones? Bro, I had... Wait, wait, wait. I was just... You know what I'm gonna say? It's a dude that come in there that keeps irritating us. And he had a rhinestone outfit and his damn rhinestones was falling all over the counter. And he was the Floss nigga in Greensboro. And he told us, he said... He said...
00:25:24
Speaker
he said i had this outfit made it's a band they made this outfit for me and then he walked out his rhinestones like all across the counter and the crazy part about the rhinestones is nobody's safe you can buy the most expensive ass rhinestone outfit it don't matter them coming off regardless oh it's bad it's only one way to apply them yeah yeah exactly yeah exactly so so I had to buy some Levi's yesterday. I bought Levi's, 501s. I went to the mall. yeah What's the store at the bottom?
00:25:56
Speaker
What was it? I think I've heard people talk about it. Arsenal? Arsenal, yeah. Arsenal had nothing but fucking rhinestone pants. Yeah, it's disgusting. I said, I'm going to get some Levi's. Yeah, it's bad. You can't get nothing else. 501. It's just bad because, like, bro, it started off with shoes.
00:26:13
Speaker
Now it's shoes, pants, hoodies, shirt. Jackets, had, socks. like Somebody came in with a rhinestone,
00:26:24
Speaker
ah Dickies type jacket and it had Chucky on there. No, it had the dude from Mad TV, the little character from Mad TV. And it said some stupid shit, like smoking across the chest.
00:26:38
Speaker
i don't remember what it said. was saying, why so mad or something. Yeah, why so mad with the dude from Mad TV on there. And everything was like, one was it going? Hold on, let them cook. oh No, no, it was mad. Because it was screaming underneath the bronze throne. That shit sounds terrible. And then he had on ah some bad all over print.
00:26:56
Speaker
Palm Angels pants and some bullshit ass shoes, bro. It was terrible. And he had a kid with him. felt bad for the Damn. Damn. Like, that's your daddy. He out here got y'all looking crazy. It's a pandemic right now. It's like the rhinestones and then the really really, really, really, really cropped outfits at the same time. It's like super cropped. Big ass sweats. Big ass sweats. I hate big ass sweats. outfit.
00:27:22
Speaker
Rhymestone. I hate a big pant where you can't even see the shoe, bro. And that's how all of them come. like It's bad. I'm tired of... Like touching the ground. Yeah, yeah. Like that's nasty to walk through your crib. It's like a train, like on on some dress shit. Yeah. bad Shit bad. niggas be coming... Look at the back of that nigga pants, man. That's how niggas sweats be looking. Yeah. Yeah. They do.
00:27:42
Speaker
It's bad. They It's bad. I ain't allowed somebody finesse me the other day on a Facebook group. He's like, yeah, they the... The open hem Nike tech pants. oh I was like, all right.
00:27:53
Speaker
Size small. was like, yeah, cool. Whatever. I'll get them. These motherfuckers. Boom. I had to roll them up three times just to get right here. I said, oh, no. That's the ones we we had him in the store. We had them in the store. It's his biggest hand. No, it's bad. They did some JNCOs. Yeah, I said, no. It's bad. And it's everybody... It's just the pocketing is big. Everybody doing the same thing. All these brands that are on Instagram are selling people the same outfits. Bro, it's all a Hellstar knockoff. It's so bad. It's bad. It's really... It's just not no more individualism, man. Yeah. It's sad. It should fry. It's really fry.
00:28:30
Speaker
You'll go somewhere and you'll see the same... three outfits in the place and you like bro ain't no way y'all these are all from different brands and everybody got the same goddamn rhinestones on and if the light hit right somebody getting blinded in here somebody can reflect off of this hey i ain't gonna lie let me look at the camera for this one whole y'all niggas stop naming y'all brands saint whatever bro y'all are demons stop lying oh my gosh this ain't saint vanity saint whatever saint michael like brother please
00:29:03
Speaker
Yeah. exist It's the same with with me because I'm a doghard wrestling fan and PacSun, Abercrombie, everybody got vintage wrestling teams and it's all Stone Cold Rock, Shawn Michaels, the same shit and I'm like, bro,
00:29:16
Speaker
they brief And people send it to me on Instagram I'm like bro I don't want to see this I got that Hulk Hogan for you though You want it If need it Hulk Hogan Hulk Hogan is Hulk Hogan is looking up at us like damn That's fucked up He's looking up at us Like damn that fucked up It's hot down here He was yeah was scared that his people Was going to get reincarnated as black people You know how racist you got to be Extra racist He said, yeah, I'm worried about my people coming back as black people in another life. um That's so racist. So I got a homie at work.
00:29:57
Speaker
He's a black dude. And so he's like, we saw my wrestling teacher. He's like, man, I'm going get I got this crazy, I'm going to get a whole cookie. i me say who I said, let me stop you right there. oh bro I said, you know, ah he a terrible human being, right? He like, what I try. I'm giving him the backstory. I'm like, listen, I mean, you do whatever you want to. Do what you will with this information. But I'm telling you, he a bad person. Yeah. He like, nah, I'm like, no.
00:30:26
Speaker
he So I'm like, you know what? Let me just get your phone number. So I get his phone number. start sending him shit. Because don't even want to tell him to his face. I'm just sending him shit. I'm going to get in trouble for telling you what he said. He was so racist. Bro, it's terrible. It's a video of him cutting a promo.
00:30:47
Speaker
And I know they wrote the script where it was like, I'm to meet you next Friday and whoop your ass. He added so much extra stuff to it. He caught he said, you you watermelon-eating chicken-thumping black. You can't do nothing. And I was like, this is crazy. And everybody was, the dude holding the mic was like, oh, shit. And this was like mid-80s. So it was like, it was territorial wrestling still. And so, like, you wouldn't see the promo everywhere. But it's like, man, don't think you should be saying this. Wherever we at, you shouldn't be saying this right now. No, Hulk Hogan is horrible. He's horrible, bro. Yeah, terrible. Yeah. Mm-mm.
00:31:29
Speaker
I think with we sent in... No, it was the ah when we was doing the Bozeman's episode. Yeah, you killed all of Hogan. When we was at Bozeman's. No, Rich killed Hogan. Yeah, Rich said something. was like, nah, that ain't my man's.
00:31:42
Speaker
And then, except we saw my Vincent man. And was like, man. He's like, Hogan ain't dead. nah, ain't dead. One week later, after we filmed the pod, motherfucker died. Damn, you killed someone's crazy. You really?
00:31:54
Speaker
master Fuck man. Fuck Hogan. Yeah, he's... Nah, man. I ain't never seen a universal celebration of somebody dying until, like, that. If your kids don't fuck with you, like, what's... That is very true. Yeah. come on It was, like, people arguing, like, man, he dead, bro. Like, we got Alicia's. Like, no, you can't be bad your whole life. And then, all right, he died, so everything, it cleared out. You was bad until you died. You know what was crazy to me? It's like,
00:32:24
Speaker
I follow other wrestling fans and they post like when he died like wrestling feeds blah blah. Like ain't posting that shit. Fuck him. Like bro. It don't make sense. It's just... They're like nah but he he he... What he did for the wrestling... He didn't do shit for wrestling. And that's the problem. don't want to go on a wrestling tangent but it's just like he...
00:32:41
Speaker
racist but on top of that he was horrible got five five moves well he got five moves but on top of that wrestlers tried to start a union to get benefits and he stopped the union like he made them he told on them it was like these motherfuckers finna try to get benefits don't get benefits and then like ran with the belt the entire 80s and couldn't do shit he was a horrible person for like even All the wrestlers back in the day, like, nah, fuck Hogan.
00:33:09
Speaker
Like, he's a piece of shit. Like, when you start, when people start trying to unionize to get rights and benefits and shit to help themselves and you turn around and go tell on the boss, like, hey, man, they trying to organize and would be better.
00:33:21
Speaker
Yeah, like, damn, motherfucker, you really a piece of shit. What the fuck? So innate when they got the Netflix deal, WWE, he come out on the pay-per-view and he got, what's the dude's name?
00:33:35
Speaker
oh Damn, I'm blanking on his name. He's a heart too. Oh, the one that's married into the family. The short motherfucker. The old motherfucker. He come out waving the American flag behind Hogan like this. Ain't that Canadian? They booing the shit out of him. Oh, yeah. I'm talking about he cutting the promo because he got the... They talking about the heart's heart Canadian. He cutting the promo on Netflix. Because he got the beer company, the great American beer. So, heart in the background, waving the flag and everything. He on the mic, everybody stadium.
00:34:07
Speaker
Boo! They was in SoFi. that's where it was. They was in SoFi. Yeah. Where the what a Chargers played. They was in SoFi. And he was, they were booing. It was the premiere. They was booing him so loud. yeah I was like, I ain't never been more proud to be a wrestling fan until now. Bro, I was watching that shit, crying, laughing. Yeah. My lady's like, why are you laughing? I'm like, they booing the fuck out of him.
00:34:28
Speaker
She's like, I don't get lost now. I ain't lot of wrestling fans are a group of fans that are like, they'll let a bunch of stuff
00:34:40
Speaker
go, but, like, he's universally hated on both sides, like, people hate him because he racist, but it's like, also, like, wrestling fans be racist, they're like, man, fuck him being racist, I'm racist too, he's just a piece of shit that other wrestlers, and it's like, both sides hate him, like, he gets no love from anybody, like, nigga, you suck, like, so when he died, I was like, damn, man, I literally went on the grill, I went on a, I went to this lady's house in Charlotte to buy, like, And it's a lot of vintage wrestling tees from my own, off of Facebook Marketplace.
00:35:13
Speaker
And she was like, she had a Hogan tee. And I was like, I don't want that. she was But like, literally, I buying like eight tees. And it that would have been the only one left.
00:35:24
Speaker
She was like, no, like, I'm not leaving like one tee left. Like, you have to take it. So I was like, all right. I get in the car. I put the Hogan tee on top of all my tees. I go to a venture shop, sell that bitch immediately. i said, going back to the crib. Yeah, nah.
00:35:39
Speaker
Can't have the Hogan. That's bad luck. I felt the juju in my car. I was like, I got to get this shit out of here. Why my wheels? Why am I going to Denton? I said, bro, I got to get this shit out of here, bro. That's crazy.
00:35:57
Speaker
Y'all should do what y'all wrestling and wrestling together. You just have them zoom in. Every five? I do like, well, ain't done that in a long time because I ain't going to get into it.
00:36:08
Speaker
They've been pissing me off though. Oh, I haven't been watching wrestling. Yeah. yo but You ain't missing nothing. I know. I know. It's been, it's been bad. The quality been bad. Yeah, it's really bad. So, no. weird We can talk. i I tried to keep up. Once they did the John Cena shit and they ruined that, I was just like completely. Come Come on. I was brother. Yeah. That's what saying, man. Collab. Yeah. But I was doing, I was doing little episodes on YouTube where I was,
00:36:30
Speaker
the the wrestlers that be wearing shoes in the ring and shit every week. So that's why I was doing
Wrestling's Decline and Nostalgia
00:36:35
Speaker
it. don't pay for reasons. But then it got bad and awesome. Yeah, nah. I ain't giving y'all any more viewership. What y'all getting now? Yeah, nah, wrestling been bad. And I feel, being a fan right now, night i like I can't even say I'm a fan because I don't watch it full time no more. The Netflix deal ass. All of that stuff is ass. You can't watch it. It's like a blackout in certain areas. They just did that today. they Yeah, with the Chicago shit? Yeah. They blacked out. So what they did was Elimination Chamber is in Chicago right now. it's Chicago.
00:37:07
Speaker
They blacked it out in Chicago, so you can't watch it on ESPN there. So they trying to boost tickets. You have to buy tickets. So they blacked. You can't watch it in Chicago. That's so nasty. I was telling my lady that. Pull nigga. You can't force me to buy tickets. Oh, you want to see it? Come see it then. Pull up. That's nasty, bro. Yeah, it hurt. It hurt. I'm like, damn. And I went to go see CM Punk come back in Chicago live. Oh, you was there? I was there. Oh, that's fire right there. Yeah, I was there. I feel like breaking up. Nah, you're good. I was there. was there. So, nah, it hurts watching this product go back probably, this probably some of the worst I've done seen it in a long time.
00:37:50
Speaker
So. That's a fact. Yeah. i agree.
00:37:55
Speaker
Hey, don't, we'll get the rest of the night. Everybody just look at me like. Nah, you transition man, what we got? Transition man. Yeah. You're supposed to help me. Cause Oh, we can ask the these two Well, we already asked Keith What's the shoes for y'all that that made y'all fall in love with sneakers?
00:38:17
Speaker
You first Aqua X You know loved you, man knew it was something about you, man I knew it was something about you, man That's so crazy Aqua X My sister I got a big sister Shout her out My sister, Rere. Shout out, Rere. Love you.
00:38:35
Speaker
ah she She cool. Ace wear her shoes when I was like able to wear her shit. and She had Aqua Ace. She had them like in the garage. I was like, I need these.
00:38:51
Speaker
and She let me wear them. That was that. and Then it's also the... Them eights. It's always eights. Blaze was the blazing. You know what I'm talking about. The blazing. The ones that came out 06. Oh, yeah. You talking about the white bass? it's the other one. It's the white bass with the orange and the gray hits. Yeah. Oh, the anthracite? Which one you talk about? I like the ice blue one. That's right. I don't remember the exact name of it, but was like a Phoenix Sun type joint. It came out 06, and I'll never forget when it came out because a family friend was having a party, and you had to get the shoe to get into the party. And so I begged my mama for the shoe. Swear to God. Wait, wait, wait. Back up. You had to have the shoes to go to the party. The party. In 06? Yeah.
00:39:37
Speaker
You were eight? I, no, so anybody else had to get it. I wanted to go to the party, but I also wanted the shoe. And so my sister got the shoe, and then my mama was, like, in the mall, and I kept saying I wanted the shoe to go to the party. Yeah, Orange Blaze. What kind of limited party was it? It was at the Chicago shit. So it's a place called the Harold Washington Cultural Center.
00:40:06
Speaker
It's on the south side. And that's where threw the party at. And so we went. and So we went and we was at the mall and my, my pops, my mama called my pops like, he want this shoe. i don't know if I want him go to the party. He said, man, get the boy to shoot. And he got me the shoe and I went to the party and then that party almost got shut up. But I had the shoe. So that was my two. Chicago shit. Chicago shit.
00:40:32
Speaker
I ain't never heard of no gatekeeping shit like that. was crazy. It was crazy, yeah. That's Mike Central. That's crazy. Yeah. Like, I can see, like, a shoe with some orange in it. Nah, nigga, you gotta have these eights, nigga. No, they had these specifically. I will never forget that. Everybody in here got the same shit on. Yeah. Crazy. Everybody had on them crazy. Crazy.
00:40:52
Speaker
Um, mine Big Bang Nons. Uh, I remember being, well, I liked shoes before that. i don't know when I, like, really started liking shoes. Um, I had these Transformer Dunks back in the day in elementary school. I was one of those. I used to bang them shits daily. I had some Fire Converses.
00:41:11
Speaker
I was in love with those shits. Cardinal Pac-7s. I was fucking with them. They had the Twin Tower box. That shit was crazy to me as a kid. Like, I'd just sit there and open that shit. um But Big Bang Nons, I was in New York, All-Star Weekend.
00:41:27
Speaker
I remember, like, me I'm a little kid, so the walls feel, like, super tall, or like, I got them shits. was with my godmom. She got bred, like bankroll, but she crazy as fuck. So like, you gotta deal with some shit. No, I ain't shouting, no. Fuck no. I hope we see this. Damn.
00:41:49
Speaker
Damn. Yeah, you get like that, man. But um bro, what? Got them shits. I remember just walking. This old nigga's like, yo, little man, let me see those shits. niggas putting they face to the shit like oh my god like lynn's sanity is literally happening right now there's so much going on like new york was a great place to be i was like yeah bro this the feeling right here like another orange shoe another orange orange shoe yeah what's y'all favorite uh jordan all time if y'all could pick one like number or colorway too
00:42:27
Speaker
Yeah, colorway. I just wanted to make sure they know. Like like ah like you said, aqua egg. It's the aqua egg. That's why like you. that special best That's That's a jellyfish on, too.
00:42:42
Speaker
I mean, nothing's wrong with it. That is the greatest doing. That's one of the greatest doing of the whole time. Aqua 8 is just... That's one of them ones, bro. It's the one. It's just like when you look at it, there's a lot of those ones. But continue. No, Aqua 8. Listen, bro. Tell them why it's the one. Hold on. Let me break it down to you, bro. Let me say something real quick. Go ahead.
00:43:00
Speaker
So, about the 8s. So, a my homeboy was in high school and air everybody was wearing 8s. He said, bro, I cannot fuck with these 8s. I don't know what it is. I just can't fuck. And hes he's like breaking it down to me. He's like, i don't know what it is.
00:43:15
Speaker
These motherfuckers love the straps so much, bro. He's like, love the straps so much. So I'm like, all right, whatever. So I'm like, man, don't what to tell you, but like motherfuckers like Apes. If you don't like them, don't wear them. Like, let let the people who like them, right?
00:43:30
Speaker
So he made the the video of Aqua Apes on the YouTube. It's the most viewed video that's crazy on the channel at like 10K views. That's crazy. This motherfucker, that was like 10 years ago. The same motherfucker, still my homie to this day, texted me the link to the video with the 10K views. Said, motherfuckers love these straps, still don't know. I'm weak. I'm not going to lie. Aquae is just a special shoe. I'm not an A-hater. I like A-tes.
00:44:00
Speaker
Nah, A-tes. A-tes I slept on, I believe, as a model. a Outside of the Aquae, I feel like, yeah. Because, like... Playoff ace are good. I like playoffs better than that. But like but anytime somebody talk about ace though, like that's like, all right, look, look, bro. I mean, it's the definitive eight. That's what you got to understand, bro. Do you see this? No, I remember. understand. But it's more like it ain't just, that's the main fit. Glazing. Come on, bro.
00:44:27
Speaker
Yeah. no ah understand um i understand Come on. on. What are we saying? you could yeah i mean I told you they was going to have a story for it. i already knew. right yeah I get it. I do. i understand. so yeah man It's Aqua. Aqua 8 is my favorite one. It just looks good. It's a great shoe. i was I have plans to wear it in the next month for the first time. so i mean a It's a great shoe. in I would say...
00:44:59
Speaker
Infrareds, Infrared Stasis. And yeah, Infrared Stasis. Those are the two best to me. The salesman, right? I like the salesman. I have the salesman. I i don't want to talk about it, but I have the salesman. I ain't proud of it. No, I love it. It was a Valentine's Day gift from my girlfriend and me. Shout out to girlfriend. um Yeah, you did.
00:45:20
Speaker
She said, which girlfriend? That was the shoe you got me. oh oh She has a thing where she doesn't want to buy. she She's superstitious. As Southern women, don't buy men's shoes. Because they're going to out of your life.
00:45:33
Speaker
I just send them money and I'd be like, okay. I thought men is going to walk all over you. I always heard the walk out of your life. But we ah for the virginia but I understand the sentiment of it. Everybody's like that extra red, that extra red patch on there is like a thing with people. And I like it. I look down and it's still like infrared to me. So.
00:45:59
Speaker
I get it though. But it to each his own. I also agree that Infrared is one of the ones. And I like The Salesman as well. Yeah. You know where my heart lies with that shoe. Now, I also think that the Varsity Red is the one. It is. Yeah, Varsity Red is... Like, you know, let's let's be for real here. That's it.
00:46:16
Speaker
Go ahead, Len. Oh, Shadows. I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. i love shoes Anytime I come across a pair, like any size, I be thinking about that. That's my favorite shoe. That's the shoe that if I had sell my whole collection, I'd keep. yeah like if If I had to keep five shoes, Shadow Wands are definitely the same. You need a pair?
00:46:35
Speaker
I do. I got a pair. You want a pair of No, hell no. I can find Shadow of Wands. I ain't gonna go off. Damn. I got it. No, I'm not gonna change it. I got an half. What you 11 and a half or you got the 11?
00:46:50
Speaker
on Damn. These in 11. They perfect. Snug. like Yeah. Damn. What's your other shoe? Storm Blues. Oh, fact. that is give a joint Storm Blues ones? Yes. I ain't gonna lie. Somebody should do like your favorite one through 23.
00:47:09
Speaker
like twenty three Yeah, Storm is red 4.
00:47:14
Speaker
up there storm blues is crazy i love it it would be hard for some people because some people don't like anything past 14 yeah but i remember in high school i didn't know they dropped and then like three of my friends got pairs and i tried to buy them off of them for years like years and to this day until i got my pair nobody would sell me their pairs I see them post them. Or I won't hear from somebody for months or years. And was like, hey, you still got Storm Blues? ain't selling them. All right, bro. Never mind. And one day, it's a store.
00:47:49
Speaker
What's the dude name? What's the store? Uptown Kicks. Shout out Uptown Kicks. Uptown Kicks. Oh, Nick. Uh-huh. It's the home of the town. I think you sent it to me because he always send us shit. And we were out one day.
00:48:01
Speaker
And like, going to make my way over there to get them bitches. And I drove over there. i drove over there. And they had no box form or nothing, but they was pristine. you went to Reesville? I think that's where I said it. Or Eden?
00:48:12
Speaker
Eden. I went to Eden. And it's in this small fucking town. It's like dairy. Yeah, it don't look like nobody should be there.
Surprise Sneaker Store Discovery
00:48:21
Speaker
It's literally like a story, what they call like a storybook town. It's like a few mom and pop shops and then it's this damn sneaker resale store. You're like, what the fuck? So I go in there. i don't know how they're still there. yeah That's why they ain't still there because there ain't nothing else out there. Bro, we chop it up We chop it up. I look around. to you I went there for them and those only. When I got that when i got there, I told them I knew Kia whatever, and they gave me like a deal. took like $10 or $15 off, and I bought the shoe. We got in the whip.
00:48:50
Speaker
We was... Me and my girl was out running errands that day. We got in the whip. I took whatever shoes I had on off and put them storm boots on. I've been one of them since I met him. Yeah. I made sure I had something wrong to match that day because I knew I was going to get him. Nick good people though. Shout out to them. they was cool Nick cool. All of them. Yeah, all them cool people. So all good people. Yeah. Storm Blues and the other two. I actually think Nick watched the pod.
00:49:15
Speaker
So I believe out sha you know, I didn't know you Nick, but shout out the nick I think i post i post I posted on Facebook. I think I posted something on Facebook whenever we did the Bozeman and he was like inspiring, bro. Keep going. Rich Joe passed Bozeman's today. That joint is definitely not there.
00:49:32
Speaker
After hearing y'all talk about it, i kind of wanted to go out there just to see it. Yeah. as Like literally the week race after we reported in there, that joint got like, he was talking about getting different shoes and stuff to us that day. And then we just got, he's talking about how he had the collab mocked up and everything, bro. I don't know what happened, but yeah, I mean, we in a recession.
00:49:54
Speaker
It's bad, bro. Every week we find, we see something else that's been closed down in Greensboro. was talking about that. Red cinemas, man. Red cinemas, bro. Yeah, that was crazy. That's nasty. That's crazy. The chicken waffle place? Uh-uh. Nah, that's... What's the chicken and waffle place? Dang. Dang. Yeah. Nah, Red Senna. They just moved to Durham. Y'all can't keep running with that, though. That's Marty Kodis. Fuck Marty Kodis.
00:50:17
Speaker
Oh, I mean, I feel you. But at the same time, bro, like... We can have red watch movies. Also, too, mar so you talking about that, you saying that, bro, but you was just at Burger Boat.
00:50:28
Speaker
I mean, nigga, I'm a downtown patron at the same time. I gotta eat. he own everything, shit. It's like, what, I'm gonna do starve? Yeah, nigga, you said went to watch the movie. like Yeah. But ain't know at the time. You know that. you I'm just saying. Yeah, a lot of shit in Greensboro is shutting down. It's a recession. Yeah, but he's like a weirdo, like, Trumpy type.
00:50:50
Speaker
Fuck Marty. Property noble. Weird, like, he's pulling strings. He on Lawndale, Friendly, Battleground, Downtown, fucking everything. Yeah. Fuck Marty.
00:51:02
Speaker
I don't even be in Greensboro. Fuck you. marty bu mar mar say Fuck Marty. Marty. that's why i wanted to get the background yeah yeah na for sure
00:51:20
Speaker
What's ah ah a shoe that's at social right now that is sitting that you would have thought would have sold out or had a better sales rate? It was them salesmen, but... We actually did way better with those than I thought.
00:51:34
Speaker
So I was surprised to see like that y'all didn't. I had somebody call about them yesterday. Yesterday. One of the old heads in the function had them on tonight. Yeah, somebody called and was like,
00:51:45
Speaker
Y'all got them Jordans that just came out, them black and red ones? I said, I just sent them. And it's like, damn. Y'all sent them back to, like, RTV? Yeah. But I don't i don't know if if they did well because they think they're infrareds or if people just are, like you say, it's a black Jordan. It's a black Jordan. we We talked about it, so every Monday we have a call, like, managers for for the company, and i was they asked, and I was like, bro, you gotta think, like,
00:52:14
Speaker
It was too much that came out for All-Star Weekend. So any anything that people wanted, they was probably getting it online. People was getting flooded All-Star Weekend. I don't think there's any shoe currently sitting there that ah That you thought would move? Not anymore. Like you said, the Infrareds is the one. that was um The Valentine's Day Fours I thought would have sold out.
00:52:36
Speaker
But those gone now with the infrareds. I ain't gonna lie, those would have so many sizes. Yeah, they would have. But it was all grade school? it was It wasn't extended sizes. But that was a good quality for it, too. had really good material. Do you have something in there that you are surprised... What's a sleeper?
00:52:55
Speaker
A sleeper? I just could have moved too. With some air forces. yeah Yeah, one left though, right? Yeah, they moved, right? They moved, yeah. That's because our shipment came late. came late, so nobody knew. The Swarovski horses? Mm-hmm.
00:53:14
Speaker
The poor man's Tiffany. I'm trying to think. What came out day of, them shits probably would have sold out. I'm not going to lie. Them gold domes is not even really a sleeper. ain't going to lie. Them black joints is a sleeper. Yeah. The black joints is wish they would have. The old niggas like the black ones. I wish they would have. Ain't nobody buying them, though. I wish they would have. And they already got probably three pages. There's regular black one. I don't need no low-top. Honestly, I think if they would have threw in another pair laces and the black ones, that red lace...
Sneaker Customization Trends
00:53:41
Speaker
Yeah, oh, green one, like the Stussy Boops. Yeah, that's a boop. That's a boop. That was crazy. So the red laces do come with the tan Yeah, but that was the selling point. I didn't know if somebody on IG put a yellow hiking boot in their joint. Their joint was pretty smooth. That's cool, but I think that's what helps. Yeah, for sure. Because the tan ones were good when I seen them initially. liked them. and then I seen somebody switch them red laces in, I said, I got to get these. I ain't gonna lie. I seen Braun with them on with the red laces. He, yeah, he, that was in his head. Was his pants touching the top of his shoe? It was, no, you saw the sock. You saw the sock. He got a taper. He love a taper. I'll leave, bro. Bro, that nigga's 6'8", bro. I don't care, bro. He's a billionaire. Why are you not paying for the full pant?
00:54:35
Speaker
a love but tap yeah He taper. mad at him. He's like, it's taper. It's all good. well i think I think somebody pointed out it was like... Brown Air Max 95. The Brown 95 is cool. I like those. now air my ninety five the brown ninety five is cool i like the Yeah, I'm mad I didn't get a chance to get them but them boots I think the selling point was the SB's the brown ones? Yeah, the Cacao ones. The Cacao Wow. When did they come out? Like three weeks ago? It's been like two months ago at this point. It's been some months. It has? Yeah. My timeline is so off. No, it was January. I just want to try them on. Because he bought them. I mean, I'm not mad at that. They still in Stolen when you walk in there, but they don't have a size. They came out in regular, you know, 95 last year. Talking about SB crossover, I want to try on them forces. I went and got the costumes from Stolen, too. Blue and yellow ones. I ain't know I had them bitches on all day today before put these on. I was excited about that to the back story of how Nike SB did Stevie Williams. Damn. They kind of...
00:55:36
Speaker
oh I get it. The story a little iffy though, like. I mean, but the thing is. Because allegedly they reached out to him. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. he was like, yeah, don't give a fuck.
00:55:48
Speaker
I don't believe don't think that happened. I don't believe that, bro. but Especially considering Kosta. Kosta. Kosta, like you said. But Kosta ass anyway. Yeah, Kosta no weirdo. kind of like. He's a weirdo. Fuck you, Eric Kosta. He just weird. He's strange, man. He be trying to act like a kid. Yeah. I hate a 50-year-old that act, like, playful and over, like, just exuberant. like ni I mean, because... mean, you too about life. Yeah, like, why are you rolling around, nigga? You're a kid my age. Like, calm down. but I don't ever know a time where, like, Eric Costin was, like, the best skater. No, he's never been. like his Eric Costin is nice. He a real, like, sex skater. yeah He, ah again, he... But, like, in the range of, like,
00:56:34
Speaker
In all the areas, if you went to ask somebody to be like, who's your favorite skater? Who you think the best skater? many of them is going to say Eric Constance? The only Eric Constance got pulled with stuff like this with SB right now is because he's always been like a real sneaker collector. Right. Right. Got some SoCal shit too, though. Yeah. He was popping out there on some shit. But as far as like East Coast skateboarding, nobody's thinking about And my thing is too with the 95 crossover, the only person that's like...
00:57:01
Speaker
consistently like old pictures back in the day seen skating in 95s is Stevie Williams. So to not have him involved, I'm kind of just like, yeah all like being a, coming up skateboarding, I'm just like, i'm I'm cool. I don't even want to get involved. But I do want to try him on just to see what the difference is. Like i was just saying, i I'm excited to see what the moon force is for like.
00:57:23
Speaker
ain't gonna lie to Carson's B. Him bitch is so comfortable. I believe it. I just saying, anytime you hear like SB, Yeah, them fours. That's the most comfortable Jordan ever. Comfortable shit I've ever put my foot in. Yeah.
00:57:38
Speaker
Them and the reimagined... ah Leather braids, because it's the same. That was comfortable. It's the same thing. Oh, y'all love them leather braids. ain't gonna lie, when made that shit, I ain't gonna lie, when we went to A&T to fucking run around to see Cole, I had the braids reimagined fours on. Boy, I was ready to take them fucking shits off so fucking fast. It was cold.
00:57:59
Speaker
Booth leather. Leather. I need a new book, bro. Ain't they coming back this year? That's my favorite shoes all the time. They have great fucking shoes. That's my favorite shoe all the time. I got to set y'all with a soul fell off a lot. I got to reimagine ones just to give my 2019 ones a break. It ain't even feel the same.
00:58:21
Speaker
had a no one for 2013. But the reimagines are way more comfortable, would have said. You was hating on them shoes so bad when they came out um i remember And then there was like, yeah he asked me, he said, you know, the third one coming out that shit. was like, yeah, I think he said, motherfucker, don't lie to them shit. I'm here regardless. I got you. I want them to make them sway, though. I hate New Buck.
00:58:43
Speaker
I hate New Buck so bad. it So you want her to be different again? Another re-imagine? What do we keep on doing the same thing for, bro? Like, unless going to give me some good quality new box like you were talking about. mean, yeah, yeah. I feel you. I feel you. I want them again, you know. i have a problem, though.
00:59:00
Speaker
I get it. I understand.
Nostalgia for Iconic Sneakers
00:59:02
Speaker
I'm not mad. Y'all have y'all fun. I probably won't get involved if it don't feel good to me. Yeah. I get to get Tori Yellows. I get to get Tori Rivals. excited about those. I get to get... Nah.
00:59:12
Speaker
Hey, let me speak to the camera again. Jesus. Don't do it. 304s suck. They've always sucked, and y'all all have bad stations. I'm going to go on record and say Toro Brabos don't suck. Thank you. Thank you. I'm sorry. I love Toro Brabos as well. Trash. i don't Do you care to give your opinion? I ain't like the old Toro Bravos, but the pictures they coming out with now, they look a whole lot better. Yeah. I ain't gonna lie. I was in middle school. That was one of them once. That material was ass though. I don't really like red either though. Okay. That's fair. I think that that little weird span of
00:59:46
Speaker
okay okay that's fair i think that that little weird span of Georgians that was coming out from 2012 to 2015. When I was in high school, it was those, the powder blue threes, the green glows. All of that shit was... Them UNC threes is crazy.
01:00:06
Speaker
That's a crazy shoe. That's one of the best like i still later retros. that came out in 2020? Yes. was at Foot Locker when them shits came out. I was at the hip-hop. i was that full like grown shits cave out don't think i upstairs well Powder blue, you talking about the one with the suede? Yeah, all blue ones. All blue ones. But I'm saying that little run. Good quality material, but... I think that's like nostalgic because that's like high school for me. That was my freshman, sophomore year high school. so understand. I vaguely remember the dudes that had, like you said, Toros. Yeah.
01:00:35
Speaker
Green Glows. I had all of them. Green Glows is bad, too. I got a big brother, so them. mean, yes and no. like I feel you. like yeah Yes, Danny Phantom is fucked, but like I love that. I feel feel the same way about that as I feel about the gamers.
01:00:50
Speaker
I hate both. hate both. Like, That's so nostalgic. Yeah, like like i' like... I'm old, bro. Yeah, Greenville's nostalgic. It's crazy. i like if you hate but much i think What you also think of what we talking about versus what Key talking about? It in college. Yeah, and so, like, he came up around, like, the 05, 06, like,
01:01:12
Speaker
Georgian releases and I'm in high school space jams and that's like nostalgia for me because like man I remember you going and seeing motherfuckers come back after Christmas with Gamma's on and you like damn you had a good ass Christmas you was him yeah so swear nostalgia aside fuck the nostalgia you're telling me that you for the first time ever in life are looking at an all black 11. It's got a black fucking midsole. And you were like, i don't like this. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. hat did Any figure with an 11 in middle school? never saw crazy. Oh my God. The fact that he got eleven on insane. I'm not going to hold you the one like
01:01:53
Speaker
I prefer the prom nights because it's actually all black. The prom nights are good. I like having that. I like My things with 11 is it brings like the caveman right out of me. Like it's some old sneaker shit. Like I'm saying like it's like some old sneaker shit. Like I can't like no matter how much money I'm a gig or like how like different I would dress.
01:02:13
Speaker
I still want Concord and Space Jam. My style could change forever. I've never had a Concord, and that's the one shoe on my list that I would steal. I can get a billion dollars and be dressed like fucking ah whoever, Mr. Rogers. I'm going to still try to get a Concord. I've never had one.
01:02:34
Speaker
I want one. that's But that's like eleven s I think it's the mystique behind the eleventh That's how used to feel about Cool Graves. It's like, you only get one one a year. way They killed the 11s, bro. But they killed it, but like early on... had 811s last year, bro. That's an a nostalgia thing. That's what I'm saying. It's a nostalgia thing. You gotta think, like, Mike's some type of figure, and so the 11s always was considered like his one for real. That's like...
01:02:59
Speaker
want a ring and then, know? like the grown man, Jordan, that you supposed wear with shoes. they got that fucking padded leather We growing up, motherfuckers getting kilt about concourse. You're like, what the fuck is so special about this damn shoe? And now it's like,
01:03:13
Speaker
they I think they peeped how big it was. mean, obviously, ain't the fucking brand, so they know how big it is. So they like every fucking Christmas. They don't hold them shits out. Isn't the Space Jam come back this year? Yes, sir. I might actually participate in that. Even though I had two pair of Cool Graves, and that's my favorite 11, and I never wore them. Space Jam. I might do Space Jam. Space Jam is my favorite. because no where it live but I can't wear them, bro. But Space Jam is definitely my favorite. Space is my favorite. It's just, I don't know what kind of like...
01:03:41
Speaker
Retro we're gonna get Because all the retros Have just been so different Yeah people don't like The high cut But I like the high Well fuck I mean High cut aside Whether they do a high cut Or low cut They change the Jumpman Color every time yeah And then they change The back every time Yeah So like 2000 is blue With 23 And then It's gonna be the 2001 That's what they said They did say that I see something the other day So it's blue Yeah With the 23 Yeah So are we never gonna get What was in the movie Probably not. Which is purple with 23?
01:04:11
Speaker
Probably not. okay Okay. I mean, if if everybody else is okay with that, I guess I have to be. but ah Space Jams is my favorite 11, but like I said, I've never had a pair of Concords. I held a pair of Space Jams in my hand and put them on. I've never put on a Concord. I've never had Concords and have DMPs, but like, you know. That was a good pack. But I would rather have the DMP than the Concords.
01:04:33
Speaker
That's a good pack. That's just a black and white. shoe and it looked so crazy. It looked crazy. Yeah, it's just like you'll see somebody, never forget, Chief Keef was the biggest shit ever. He bought every Concord. and he All he wore was Concords at one point. He had came out with Drake and Waka Flocka and he had a white True Religion pants with Concords on and that was the only thing he was wearing at one point. Yeah, it was like that was the shit. Wasn't he wearing a bunch of bolo at that time? Yeah, He had a polo. He came out on stage. And he was like, Sosa is with Drake right now. And he had on concourse. And I'm like, this shit is amazing, bro. And i so I've never had a pair.
01:05:20
Speaker
So, one day. Watch niggas hooping What? It was like, my shit really basketball, too. like Yeah. All of my shoe love comes from the game of basketball. So, like, true seeing any nigga play in 11s was like, nah, this nigga's guaranteed 30 ball. I swear. If he's that bold, like, he's a 30 ball. Like,
01:05:39
Speaker
Yeah. Nice kicks. Nigga Dudley game in, like, 09. Yeah. Like... Kicks on fire. I think it's kicks on fire. Nice kicks. But one of them had dude that used to do, to like, the kicks on court. Are you talking about George q George Kiel. You did Dudley?
01:05:54
Speaker
Nah. I went to Lincoln. Oh. But then I went to the early college. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Shout out George Kiel, though. I used to watch it. Every... He'll do... That's on nice kicks, aren't it? Yeah. The claws, this, and he did the...
01:06:07
Speaker
The equipment managers, like, at the locker room. Yeah, and he would do the kicks on court. And that's when I said I remember watching Rondo, and he would always hoop in phone posits. And made me want to play basketball in phone posits. I ain't to lie, because of George Kill and the nice kicks, like, I fucked with certain players because I knew they were actual sneakerheads. Yeah. So, like, that's where swaggy pee that's where I grew to, like, actually fuck with DeMar DeRozan in his game. Because when he was first in Toronto,
01:06:33
Speaker
Motherfucker's wearing phones and Kobe 8s and retros. Yeah, Kobe's out the Bro, crazy. And then he was actually a good player, too. was like, all right, I can fuck with him. I just don't understand how he just don't tie shoes, but... Yeah. yeah Yeah. But don't he do... Ain't he the one that... Ain't the one that get new shoes and just put on new shoes and hoop in them? Is that what he do? Yeah. Yeah, so he wear new shoes and hoop in them. But they be laced like this. Yeah, but it's like they new, so they still tight. So they not...
01:07:03
Speaker
I don't know. It's crazy because I actually re-watched park shit. I re-watched that episode a couple weeks ago. He literally ties in shoes. Like loop-de-loop. And he was getting like this loose carry on Kobe 1s when he was in Compton because he was pooping at UCLA with Kobe in the summertime. he's been getting Kobe since high school. Yeah, damn.
01:07:23
Speaker
I be mad as fuck. Somebody dropped 40 on me and his shoes ain't laced. And it's like, that's fucked up. You could have went for 60. Yeah, you laced your shot. You laced him up. What was you going to Nah, that's... But I get what you're saying. Basketball played a lot. it a play off I told y'all off camera it's a dude named Marcus LeVette from Chicago. Shout out Marcus LeVette. Shout out Marcus LeVette.
01:07:45
Speaker
Whatever you You had him on. Yes. told Brock. That's how we started the conversation. He left lefty real smooth. He played crazy as hell. And he used to, his entire mixtape was every different clip. Every clip was a different shoot.
01:08:02
Speaker
Every clip. All is life. yeah Theo Pinson. He played at Carolina. He played at Weston. That's his brain. Theo went to elementary school with me. So the so friia so so him and harry and all in with that way what and stand brand and children a man so man so they girl so then So then I'm in high school watching the games like there's no way this my focus same age as me bro, and he's doing this shit So then you go to Carolina and they Jordan brand team from the time he get to Carolina and go to the league all he hoop is 11th. Yeah, I
01:08:39
Speaker
yeah Crazy. Cool grades. Every time when he was in Brooklyn, everything. Cool grades, Jubilees, just straight elevens yeah i said god i mean it makes sense that's a nigga hooping concords not concords um legend blues oh my god when he was at when he at carolina and shit was so crazy that was another show in high school like the dudes that came back oh yeah with the legend blues ah man i was in eighth grade he was them i had bro i ain't him yeah i had a nasty christmas fit on with them I made my cousin come outside and take pictures of me. He was like... He said, my pops brought them shits home. I went outside. was my grandma's house. was hey, you gonna freak me up real quick? I went outside. I had like fucking khakis and like a denim shirt or some shit like that. With the legend boots. Oh, God. Flip me up. I say, damn, I'm finna fuck the game up. used to go to my grandma house and take pictures every Christmas. I think one Christmas I had them Gatorades. Oh fuck. The Gatorade Sixes. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
01:09:46
Speaker
Which one? No, had the Carmine block. Nah, I'm cool with both of them. Why are we here? No. The Carmine one was really bad. I'm alone. The green one was straight. The green one's good. The green one was straight. I don't like none of it. I can find the picture of me it on. I had the hoodie to match. No, the black hoodie with the Gatorade in the middle?
01:10:08
Speaker
no the blackhood you with the with the gar in in the middle No, I had a a gray one with the I had the black I had the gray one. oh there it was was there I had no Gatorade shoes though. I was drinking Gatorade. Long story. yeahtra i think i I think I couldn't do it no more when I seen Safari do that video.
01:10:29
Speaker
And he was drinking the Gatorade with the full Gatorade outfit on with the towel. He wiped the sweat. with the Gatorade town and he was on the corner Safari. Why did you watch the Safari video? No, it went viral. It was like a joke. He was like, yeah, man, I got the Gatorade zone. And he's like, did this. And I like, don't want to do that. That sound like a video that was featured on WorldStar Hip Hop. It was one of the, yeah. It was great. was great. But it makes sense for our people to o we oof a pack yeah but it makes sense for like art like people to
01:11:02
Speaker
Transition for a basketball to like love its needs. I'm like, that's what is the most easy transition especially so Our time period. Yes to y'all y'all y'all come here to be like at our time period like you talk about the big bang Kobe eights Nike basketball was Pete Katie for came out that shit changed a floor. Yeah, I seen a triple black pair at on Tanger Alice.
01:11:27
Speaker
I like mom yeah Something different about this shit right here. like The first shoe I made like the basketball team in in sixth grade, I had the KD threes. the Like the home joints. They was like white and fucking blue. That was, man.
01:11:43
Speaker
KD fours. That's the one. That's how holy KD didn't matter. What? The fours? KD fours. I mean, the six did a lot. Them fours and them sixes. Six did a lot. But the four is the best. The four is the best. The four age the best. I'm not going to lie. He never hit...
01:11:57
Speaker
a high like he hit on the on the fours that yeah that strap of the sevens nah that one right there that was that was platinum listen they were crazy and like
01:12:22
Speaker
Simeon, I think Whitney Young and Morgan Park played to get played against each other on national TV. paper And Whitney Young, entire team, have the Liger. The Liger Sixes. Bro, Shakir. Matter of fact, on fact so what's Kim Lua brother's name?
01:12:39
Speaker
I can't think of that nigga name. Oh, I know what you're talking about. it they was just The nigga they was in the store with the other day. Yeah, Shakir. Bro, this nigga... He was a basketball team manager, bro.
01:12:50
Speaker
His dad died. This nigga used to wear RIP dad shirt every day in a different color, and he had whatever shoes came out. He pulled up with them Precision, Tom, and KD6s with a great RIP dad shirt, bro. I'm like, bro, this nigga so cold. I was at practice, I called my dad like, bro, we got to go to a foot locker. We got to up the game. This nigga fucking me up. Yeah, he's on me on my own. Katie crazy for them fours. Like, he tried to mimic it with the sevens, that strap. He tried it with the five. Yeah, the five is bad.
01:13:22
Speaker
now The 5 Elite is cool. yeah The 5, the high top is like, damn. The high top was terrible. And the top was weird. It was like a weird cut it kept sliding to the side. I was banging them shits. But that 7, I think the 7 was like, you kind of found your groove a little bit Because that Umperell 7 with the angel wing for the strap, I was feeling i was fucked up. go I had a KD7 birthday party. You said what? had a KD7 birthday party.
01:13:51
Speaker
yeah I remember when they all dropped the picture. but what was it happening? The all red ones, the easy money, the easy money ones, the the triple red ones. All them. You still saw my 7th? Yeah.
01:14:04
Speaker
I'm trying to think of what. You already know the story about my 7th. I had i got the the USA ones, the Navy. yeah And I had, a I wore my own 4th of July with khaki shorts and the white polo team with the Navy. Yeah. i thought i'm fucking man i thought i can tell nobody not that i'm home of polo shorts from aber kaie or fucking baseball polo team make her break you have onena lisa i was thinking about that too did you have had think i i did i think i had the navy
01:14:36
Speaker
socks on with with the white back yeah to Either do that the polo socks. Polo socks. I remember seeing pictures on like Facebook and like early Instagram when people would have every color of Lee's socks. And it just made me so jealous. Because I remember the first time. Lee's socks got so freaky, bro. They was putting pictures on. Oh my God. The galaxy of Lee's socks. Me and my homeboy had fucking Expo markers. Bruh and drew the blocks on the back of some socks. I remember that shit so vividly like bro. um mom which This shit was $15 nigga. You can't tell your mama to go. Oh yeah, she was hot. Where's the fuck socks? $15 for one? We went to the store and she... My godmama was the first one that got me Ali socks because my godbrother was like playing AAU and he used to get everything. And so she would take me to the store him and she was like, you want these socks too? I said, hell yeah. I remember it got hot outside and we used to wear uniforms so we could wear shorts.
01:15:31
Speaker
Man, I threw them bitches on so fast. Uniform.
01:15:37
Speaker
uniform m The 10s, the 10s, the 10 elite, polo on, that's the mambo sauce joint. That's the mambo sauce, don't remember that. Lebron the corks, the corks, the jay joints. I think a lot of 10 was probably like his last life, really like. Nah, because that 11 went crazy. It went crazy. It was so different on some shit. It went crazy, but the 10 was the best looking.
01:16:08
Speaker
That 9, the best, the prettiest shit to me. 8 is my favorite. 8 is always the best. 8 is cold. The first I had is the 7s. 7s are tough. 7s are underrated. 8 is really good, but they have very different feels. 7s are cold now. 7s are cold now. 7 is super cold to me now. 7 is nasty too.
01:16:29
Speaker
And then they started doing the lows in the elite versions. The elite nines is crazy, too. That yellow non-elite? Stupid. It reminded me of Bumblebee from Transformers. They was over there going stupid at Nike basketball. It was like a six-year run. There was something in the water. Them niggas didn't miss. Yeah, they wouldn't miss it. Whether it be Kobe, KD, or LeBron, one of them was going to have a hitter.
01:16:53
Speaker
am there all and then like like Christmas time come? Yeah, crazy. but then it also i went home. My took a Polaroid pitch with a regular like a picture let them shits. This my birthday gift when I turned Also, the signature shoes was going crazy, but also like Hyper dumps were going crazy at the time. Hyper fuses. Hyper fuses. Hyper rises. Even, like, the fusion line, like, LeBron Soldiers was crazy. Yeah. had a few crazy soldiers. Yeah. I remember at one point, like, the LeBron Soldiers was the AAU. Oh, team shoot. Yeah, like, everybody used to wet him. Yeah, so...
01:17:29
Speaker
That Nike basketball... I had the mix match of Hyper Fuses. used to wear one on the left, the other on the right. Like, doing little dumb shit like that. Man. Hyper... I remember when the first Hyper Dunks came out. was that Marty McFly colorway?
01:17:42
Speaker
I made that shit on 2K. I swear, yeah. That's... Nike basketball from like... 09... I wish I had access. Probably like 2016. I wish I had access to my... I used to be just admired because wasn't hooping at that time. Yeah, they...
01:17:58
Speaker
That 2012 All-Star game lineup, I don't know. this shit used to be my screensaver. I had an iPad, and it was just like the All-Star. Oh, i used to save the pictures on my iPad? It was the three of them.
01:18:15
Speaker
It's just a different time. out' shit ain't they trying to i think trying to recapture it now. I ain't gonna lie, the All-Star pack was pretty crazy. Yeah, the Warner
Sneaker Wearability and Market Shifts
01:18:24
Speaker
Labels were in this year. The Warner Labels was good, them low-top Kobe 3s. Was it the Kobe 3s? Yeah, Kobe three The Pro-Tro. The problem is it ain't nothing new.
01:18:31
Speaker
That shit was new shit. It was different, and niggas was really wearing it on court. No, they did have new shit. What? all of The GTs? The The Touch, the Futures. Sabrina's? Sabrina's the best shit ever right now. They had D-Book's new joint. I think a lot of people too prideful to wear basketball shoes and look like a basketball shoe anywhere. So that's the problem. Back in the day, Styles was different. Like you said, he was wearing polo with khakis in them and that was cool.
01:19:02
Speaker
You go to the damn club wearing a GT cut, somebody might slap your ass. You're not getting in the club with that on. So it' it's a different time. People don't want to try to experiment and do stuff like that. And I think Nike started leaning more into the tech side.
01:19:16
Speaker
And it it kind of killed where it was going. but They trying to get back. Like, the jobs. what The futures. the future The GT futures is they real. I think they real big of sense. But that's a bad cut of a shootout. That's not basketball shootout. Yeah. It's just weird. It's like... I think they don't know the the fine line between, like, the basketball and...
01:19:38
Speaker
like wearing it out so they tried to make it too wearable i think that's the difference yeah before they was just making a good shoe like a good basketball shoe and like it was so good niggas was wearing it off court versus now trying to like recreate do something in between like no that's why those deep books didn't perform like they should and they but the streets ain't get the good books oh yeah that's what they did he had he had all the good books where are the good books Oh, his feet. In his closet. In his closet. Samples. I ain't seen no good books.
01:20:08
Speaker
Samples. You crazy. That's because you are, like, anti. crazy. The very first one, that orange joint that Buddy was skating at at that virtual skate competition. Yeah. That padded purple. That padded purple one. The fragment joint with the snake skin and the blue check. Yeah. Any of the George Wollens ones. ones are yeah crazy yeah the shatter back everything he was doing with it was cool he just he would give us in the store but everything you would get in the store was so ass that it was like nobody wants that shit only hollywoodoween join yeah it's like this is a bad basketball the only ones i was debating that would come out to the store was the all purple ones with the
01:20:53
Speaker
Like the sunset, I guess, on the bottom? I know what you're talking about. That was the only one where I was like... Yeah, that was the only one where was like... Maybe. But they don't... They try to catch it.
01:21:06
Speaker
That too is super apt. But it was like, why y'all keep doing this Spiridon shit over? That was a Niger shoot. Niger had like two skate silhouettes that was the exact same shit. Stop doing this shit. But the thing with Nike, that's why they bringing back all the Nike basketball. They retroing it now. The KDs keep coming back because they can't recapture what that shit was. Even when they do that, bro, it don't move no more because they make too much of yeah Something else about the Spirit On, like, they retroed the Spirit On last year, and it didn't do well at all. Why do we keep making shoes that look like it? Like that's going revitalize. Like people actually care. Yeah, like nobody care. They put these to try to sell them.
01:21:46
Speaker
so nobody cared. nobody Question question for for everybody, though. How y'all feel about, like, the exclusivity factor in sneakers now? Like, do you feel like it it should be more exclusive?
01:21:58
Speaker
What shoe? Just in general. I feel like, me personally, I feel like they make too much of everything. drs I feel like they want to include people too much. Well, I think... This year, they kind of been scaling back a little bit, like as far as on the sneaker app. So you have to kind of do some footwork to get the shit you really want. I think that we should... Go ahead. I was about to say, oh that's like the damn, the 2K4s. The 2K4s, they put like, I had a stock numbers. It was like 500 of each size. just Damn, they sold out real quick. So you got you actually got to put feet to the pavement to actually go get them. I think that's important though. yeah Especially if you if you still want to have these brick and mortar stores that you're supposed to be supporting. That's tier zero accounts and XYZ.
01:22:43
Speaker
I feel like stuff should be limited. I think that's fake exclusivity, though. Yes. Yeah. like I agree. You know, it's like, hey, we're going to make it look like this shit sold out sneakers. So you do go out and buy it, you know, at X, Y, and Z. But personally, i don't give me everything. I don't like I don't care about it being exclusive at all. personally, because I would like to be able to buy everything.
01:23:09
Speaker
I hate going through hoops still lie to buy stuff. You know what I'm saying? I think it's e-commerce shit too. Like, e-commerce kind of fucked the game up a lot just because like, now it's like, okay, you got like brick and mortar data, and then you're also looking at what web sales looking like and what's coming directly to us. so I think a lot of the number shit too is like just algorithms and kind of like loopholes to convince you that something's limited, something's not limited. it Like,
01:23:34
Speaker
Who knows? They probably been making the same amount for the last fucking 20 years. And like, stores yeah, they just putting numbers out to see what it's placebo. Yeah, it don't cost it to make these. i don't believe no stock numbers. I see. I don't. And that's what be killing because now it's the what the Twitter pages that are post is 40,000 pairs is 30,000 pairs. and then you'll look, and it'll seem like it's more, and then they sell out. Or it's just it's too much going on with that. i don't really care about Who making these numbers? Yeah, who It's like Shams or some shit. Not Shams. Just say something very quick.
01:24:11
Speaker
I don't know. The more that is available, the more diversity we would we would see. i agree. You know, like, everybody's wearing the same thing. If we go out all right now, like, there's no guarantee that we're not just going to see, like, a Like you said earlier with the brands too. A prestige hoodie and the gammas. Or a veil hoodie and undefeated. Or like you know something like that. There's no diversity in the sticker game. what's see That's the thing though, bro. like The fact that everything is so widely available and it's still sitting.
01:24:42
Speaker
You know what I'm saying? I guess I'm thinking more from a business perspective. Because that I've been working it for so long. So it's like, I just feel like if you cut stuff back...
01:24:53
Speaker
it will force people to go have to find and do something to be different. Cause the fact that everything is sitting and people are still wearing the same exact stuff and forcing prices up on the same shoe that everybody wants is just crazy to me. But I don't think that's a numbers thing. i think that's more so like getting people like to buy back into the culture of it. Like, cause most of that shit is like the culture now is just what they see on Instagram or seeing somebody else wearing. That's why everything looks the same. But like,
01:25:20
Speaker
We don't got good Jordan brand ads no more commercials. We don't got good Nike commercials. We don't have like anything that makes you want to buy into like this shoe or like be like that person. Like yeah Anthony Edwards ain't niggas role model. Like I don't want to wear this shoe because of him. Like my mama just had to give me a basketball shirt. That's why I ended up with these. But like we used to idolize Kobe and LeBron and these people. Like they was in every commercial. They got cereal boxes. Like yeah it made you want to be like him versus now it's like, nigga, he ain't gave me no reason. They don't spend money on marketing and no more. You think it's because we old or go?
01:25:57
Speaker
I don't think so. Because LeBron's still playing. He is, but I also think like, look, he is. You look at them 23s? Nah, because that shit. like I think that's the most sort of the problem with Nike basketball. Like we said, they started leaning into the other side of things. And it's like, he also leaning into like the functionality of nigga old. He don't want something and all that stuff. and it's Yeah, so. Such an only part about, like, marketing and things of that nature. I feel like a lot of these brands don't know who they're marketing to anymore. Yeah. They still, they trying to fix... I think that we're in a point where they're trying to figure out, like, okay, who is it that's going lift us up and carry us on into the next decade? Yeah, instead of spending money on cereal boxes and advertisements, they're sending pairs to...
01:26:41
Speaker
so and so on instagram so so and so can do a review and come in yeah but it's not so many of them i mean they're paying fat joe ah ya and uh they're paying fat joe and biggie plug to wear the squids yeah to force to force people to buy the squids like i don't know what they i'm not looking at them for swag yeah yeah yeah and it's too much rapid fire and like a cd yeah and then you'll see like the videos of them like even getting the shoes Or you will see them getting their merch. And they be like, oh, shout out Nike. And then throw the shoe in the back. And he's like, damn, nigga. Like, don't even. Like, why did you why did he get a pair? Right. It's like he don't care about But like you said, back in the day, we used to look and see these ads. And I remember the Hyper Rise ad when they had like KD and Moe Williams and Rashard Lewis rapping. And like, um the band.
01:27:32
Speaker
Braun and Kobe Christmas commercial with Santa Claus and stuff like that. It's like those shits made shit cool. But it's like everything was centralized. So we had to see it. Now it's too much going on. And like, how do you catch the attention of somebody that's getting rapid fired information repeatedly? And it's like, yeah, these kids, you got to tell your parents. And they got to go to the store and it's like, they not trying to spend $275 on the shoe whatever it costs.
01:27:59
Speaker
I'd much rather get the ASIC for $120. And i don't really care about the Jordan or whatever. It don't matter. It's a whole bunch that go into that. It's a lot that go into it. It's a so much now. You brought up something else too that I really don't like seeing with brands is them dropping a a product that cuts the... the main product in half, like the squid versus the jellyfish. It's like, bro, why are you stepping on your own product? You see that in retail all the time. i know it's nasty. It's so nasty.
01:28:33
Speaker
But it's blatant now. It looks like they're stepping on their own toes, but they're like winning from both sides. they They force exclusivity on the jellyfish and a high retail. yeah So... Pharrell is standing behind this. we know We don't have to give you anything else. sure These are going to sell out in seconds. we don't have to do anything to get you to buy these. They're maximizing profit. But now we have given you this lookalike that we are going to force down on your throat and it's going to be widely accessible everywhere and it's fucking working. That's half the price. yeah okay walk Walk me through the takedown.
01:29:02
Speaker
I mean, I can't validate everything. I don't even have them in front of me to walk you through too much. It don't make sense. It's already $130 shoe. And now you just took $20 more dollars. Look, it's going to be on sale in $100. And then you bring out a $80 shoe? Yeah, it's the cheaper one. We were talking about that in the story. I was like, bro, look at this takedown. This shoe is already cheap. What are we doing this for?
01:29:31
Speaker
Cause the other one can't sell. Okay. I think it's like mid and it's off. Like, you gotta both, really. If you can't shop top shelf, like, I'm gonna get the next closest thing. Shout out your plug, man. Nah, that's, yeah, I don't, I don't get it. We had the, um, the squids in the fucking store and it,
01:29:58
Speaker
It's so, it's a jarring difference. And I think that's the main thing. Like nobody's paying that much attention. Like it almost look like something in this pool. Like, yeah, I'm about to say a lot of people like cool with wearing fake stuff too now. Yeah, reps is cool. Like we used to authenticate shit. And they're getting better and better and better. Oh yeah, you can't tell the difference. Yeah, bro.
01:30:26
Speaker
It was kind like the situation you... Yeah, I was desperate to make sure. But some people would have done a trade and been like... Yeah, not... Got him. Cool. Yeah. Keep it moving. Yeah. It's reps is... Yeah. It's been... Last four years. It's got... Because you could used to be able to walk in and be like, that's a shoe man shoe. Oh, tonight. Perfect perfect description. Buddy had on bread. Bread, trap, ones. Yeah.
01:30:53
Speaker
Bro, and I'm thinking, I asked this nigga, I'm like, bro, dude, ain't mad at that shit. Yeah, I'm like, I don't really be paying attention. That's the first thing I noticed when bro walked in, I said, nah. I kept looking at them shit. So like, bro, this swoosh is backwards. Like, that's a tremendous And then they weren't even leather. They was like a new book suede. That shit, oh, he's shit. That's a sample pair.
01:31:13
Speaker
Yeah, man. Right, right, right. I think that even, like, the designer sneaker wave, too. I think, like, niggas accepting reps on, like, the J-Sob and shit made the designer reps, okay? Because now everybody wears Ricks and shit, and it's like, nigga, I know all y'all can't afford Gats and shit. I was going to say, like, the access point to a lot of stuff has changed now. Like, you had to go through certain things to be able to get certain stuff. Like, you had to wear your Aeropostale and your Hollister, and then you graduate, you got older. but now you got fifth and sixth graders. Somebody come in and ask for a shoe. They're like, my daughter don't wear Jordans no more. She wants some Rick Owens. And you're like, when did we jump? When did we jump that far? There's a lot of steps being skipped. don't go hoop at the Y anymore. I go to HPU because I hate hooping with kids. But when I would go to the Y, I'm hooping with obviously like 16, well, between 14 to 18 year olds mostly. walk in with
01:32:05
Speaker
i walk in with I mean, I don't know, anything on my feet. um Galaxy phone posits or whatever what whatever you see in here. Yeah. No reaction. Like, I'm talking about, I'm, I'm, I'm lame. Yeah, they mean nothing. They don't even give a fuck no more. If I would have walked in, you know, yeah. They're like, yo, do you have any, do you have any ricks? Do you have any? I'm like, no, no, I don't. Like, I don't. Yeah. But 10 years ago, if I had walked in a gym, like, would have been the, like. They would rock you. But it's the, you can't put them in the bag. You can't put them in the bag. Yeah, go ahead. I'm picking him up. Yeah. Get his backpack immediately. Yeah, it's different now. It's really different. It changed. Cause you like, damn, like the kids is really going in and like,
01:32:49
Speaker
You go to a
Evolution of Youth Fashion
01:32:50
Speaker
high school down there, walk around Balenciaga full Rick Owens outfit, and it's like, God damn, I'm not hating, but shit, nigga, like...
01:33:00
Speaker
I remember when first got my first designer belt, I thought I was the coolest motherfucker ever. Now you got the full fit on. It's all about how you look in the part. It just don't matter if it's a rep or not. I got it. Ain't nobody checking if it's a rep or not. You might get more praise if it is a rep because you done went through. You got to go through the sites and start picking out shit. These are the best reps, actually. Damn.
01:33:26
Speaker
The best reps. good quality reps that's such a crazy conundrum has be better quality than the real shit oh yeah you cannot tell the difference i a hundred dollars cheaper i say it's a dude that like do sneaker reviews and he like hoops and everything and he'll get like the regular one from the store and that he'll get a rep and he'll do a one-to-one and it's nothing different it's crazy yeah one of the factories when they finish like when nike finishes producing the shoe like nike doesn't buy the mold yeah and they sell the mold immediately yeah it's like it's cooked after that like you know like you're paying us two dollars a shoe i can flip this mold and get paid seven eight dollars a shoe like right yeah now they just throwing the logo over there they just literally go online look at the shoe they're oh man it's the same here now i'm gonna sell it that's it it's crazy i need the blatant difference
01:34:21
Speaker
Like said, you used to go in the store and see the shoe man shoe and be like, that's the shoe man shoe. And now Nike releasing the shoe man shoe colors. Yeah. Like them Lakers force. force. There's so many people calling about them. And I bet they the probably good, but that is an ugly ass colorway. I'm so sorry. I saw. I saw. How you feeling? Did like it? But, bro. That's a. You're a Laker fan, man. Stalling him out. I ain't no Lakers I had an old It's an old nigga that Exactly but instead of the red it's yellow Purple and yellow you have never looked good to me Yeah What you like those which you're gonna do E? It's an old I feel you but you like them It's an old nigga that called the story for
01:35:13
Speaker
he called once for every week for like four or five weeks straight. Oh, That was you calling about the Laker Force? No. as I like, why you getting... You want to know what's crazy, though? Every time he called, you answered.
01:35:31
Speaker
So they've been having an ongoing conversation. Yeah, he will call, call them and I'll be the only one to answer, and he'll be like, hey, yeah, man, you know what? When y'all acquiring the Lakers 4s, and I'm like, I don't know if we're getting them. How do you not know if you're getting them? The ones that Kobe Bryant did with the Lakers. I said, Kobe has been dead. That's the problem. What are we talking about? They look like the new Lakers jerseys. Yeah. And as a Lakers fan, because, like, you're not? Okay, cool.
01:36:02
Speaker
A moderate Lakers watcher, them New Jersey's just trashed. Like, the Lakers jersey's been bad for like the last. They're purple and gold. They're purple and, like, piss yellow. Like a nasty yellow. Like, the purple kind of matte, flat, like, Lamborghini purple. It just don't look right.
01:36:19
Speaker
It's bad. It's off. It's bad. It's off. My NBA team's the best team the league right now. Like the past is? As soon as we get LaMelo off the road. Who you like? The Hornets? Yeah. Oof. I'm not mad. They doing good right now. Yeah. Yeah, they doing good right now. Me that's in the boxing ring. Yeah. Hey. Hey. Hey. Damn near 500. Keep that young man off the road. I'm just saying, as long as Melo ain't driving, y'all good.
01:36:43
Speaker
I swear we're back on the road. Clear it. There's people. this It's been a rough patch. Ever since All-Star break, it ain't been. I ain't gonna lie. It did get a little After he got into that accident, it's people in the comments, like, giving their horror stories about seeing him in Charlotte. telling you. They like, yeah. It's like, yeah, he damn near me and my mama leaving the stadium. Yeah, video came out. Rookie, you're him swerving out. Yeah, he has sex. You like the only nigga with a purple...
01:37:12
Speaker
Lamborghini. He had an orange one. Motherfuckers like, get the fuck out the way. Yeah, he's like the only one rapping his whips like it's Grand Theft Auto. And he got one of one in rare on there. And he going 150 miles an hour. And you're like, that's LaMelo. Because how you hit somebody so hard, your wheel came off. And then they pulled up. He got out of the car. And went in the limbo. And evaded the scene.
01:37:39
Speaker
And it's like the video. You about to pay for my shit? That was my man's that picked him up. Now you about to pay triple. You just going to flee the scene? He got too much money. That's the team shit. was going to say, he's making 40 million. He's making 40 million. Can get two instruments? I'm a lick. Nah, I can't sit right here. He did the same thing for the interview. The reporter was like, what you going to do with the ring? He walked up and said, I'm out.
01:38:06
Speaker
Yeah. They got it. Talk to my lawyer. Yeah, my people give a joke. They told me not to say nothing. I was like, I promise you he's not going to have to. He's, he don't look at nothing. That lawyer probably done wrote that shit off. It's a check. He done wrote it and gave it to the lady. That lady happy as fuck. Hit me again. promise you, if I was
LaMelo Ball's Lifestyle and Influence
01:38:23
Speaker
the one that hit, Mello, I swear, I would have flew out the whip, been on the ground. She probably sitting on a honeycomb. Yeah, I would have fell out that joint like family got. I can't feel nothing. eyelids hurt. He's like, what the fuck wrong with this nigga? He ain't moving. I've been fucked up. Yeah, now give me all that.
01:38:41
Speaker
I need the contract. How much that nigga made this year? 35 or something? 35 or 36 this year. Let me get 250. Give me your time.
01:38:51
Speaker
As long as he stay off the road, y'all are fine. But he... He he's just got to say something that size. Yeah. But he don't. Next week is a Lambo. Week after that as a Rolls Royce.
01:39:03
Speaker
and my yes He might just need Brandon Miller to pick him up. at you don't need to drive. yeah he He needs somebody to drive. When you got people telling horror stories about you driving through the city, they like, I seen a gold Lamborghini drive past the... Did see what said?
01:39:23
Speaker
Oh, talk about we don't care about drop or something like that? He said, motherfucker, I crashed my Hellcat last week. Yeah. I said, damn, bro, this don't make it any better. Nobody care what that garbage pill kid got to say, man. Garbage pill kid. Oh, man. No, he's a dangerous... He's a danger to society. don't know. He plays basketball the same way he drives, bro. Oh, you do? He wrecked the same shit, bro. You don't know what you go get with the nigga. It might be flashy. It might crash and burn. I see him... It's a red light.
01:39:55
Speaker
leaving the stadium. Like, it's a right out. Straight off parking lot. It's straight out the lot. about that video you showed me where all of them exiting? Yes, he ran that light. It's a two-minute compilation. He runs the light every bro. He runs the light every day. He turns out the stadium, swerves through traffic. He done, at one point, he stopped...
01:40:14
Speaker
at the light, got in the intersection, let somebody that had the green light go and swerved around him and sped off. And I'm like, I understand you LaMelo. And maybe you think somebody gonna get you at the light. Ain't nobody gonna get LaMelo Ball. at like You know how many motherfuckers gonna hate you if you kill the nigga that's making $40 million? You taking no chances. that's the case, bro, draw something that's Inconspicuous. Yeah. does That tank Luca was driving. That big black shit. Bro, he don't drive nothing inconspicuous. I got the Honda. I'll just trade him that bitch. Give me some season tickets. You can have that bitch. Lovello drives the most. Or just a look like a regular nigga with money. Blacked out Escalade. yeah he don't care somebody but i don't know who lamello got all the vc that's what happened he got too much he got all all black down yours yeah that's cool he look like a regular thing in the city that get money if don't look hard like i ain't go your purple like one of one Purple matte. One of one. Rare rare on the side with tech camo seats on the interior and LED lights floating around. And you're like, damn, I think that's LaMelo.
01:41:22
Speaker
And then you see him go like this through traffic. You're like, that's LaMelo. Just as bad as them knockoff lamb pumas you make. Don't talk about it. Y'all got my hippie? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Those are terrible. Do people behind them? Yeah.
01:41:37
Speaker
God bless. I mean, we only got him in kids. The first model of his basketball shoe? I think it's Bang Mellows. Oh, yeah. His his basketball shoe cool.
01:41:48
Speaker
That's a good lifestyle one. I know what you're talking about. And the one we have, it's like Shrek slime green. It's like a pack of knowledge. It's crazy. His shoes is him.
01:42:03
Speaker
Yeah, everything about Lavello, like, they figured out his package, like, from the cars to the tech. He literally is like, yo, my player come to life. That's so sad. He's literally a 2K my player. My player's worst nightmare. Yeah. My point guard, though.
01:42:19
Speaker
What they, uh... That's right, yeah, yeah. That's my point guard, though. He G1. That's my man. That's my man. That's my quarterback. He ain't gonna evolve until he let go of that fucking mohawk. Yeah, he gotta cut the hair and go a little bit. That's how we gonna know he ready for change. It's not Chino Hills, bro. Yeah, he got the damn Gohawk crew. And I thought he changed when he got drafted because he had the cream shit. I said, okay, now we got... Right back to his self. His daddy made him do that. Yeah, his daddy made him because that's right after he smacked that nigga in the Lithuanian locker room. He did shit out that nigga out there, too. But that was also when LeVar was like...
01:42:57
Speaker
You already know who win one-on-one, me or MJ. I'm taking me every time. yeah And then MJ owned the Hornets and he got drafted to the Hornets. Yeah. He crazy. But Melo's a different breed of... He the youngest of the boys and he the one that was shooting half-court shots and they let him do whatever. love that nigga so much. Oh, everybody did. We the same age, bro. My ninth grade year, bro, that nigga dropped 92 points. Mm-hmm. I was like, yeah, this shit over with. Oh, I can't play basketball. That was the moment I was like, yeah, I can go into the league. Like, I gave up on a dream. 92 points. Yeah. 92 points in high school game.
01:43:34
Speaker
I don't watch you. Nigga, couldn't do that empty gym with 48 minutes on the court. He walked up the court. He pointed at the line and shot it and made it. And nigga was like, this is it. There's no other way.
01:43:46
Speaker
It's over with, bro. He's doing the same thing in NBA, though. That's oh yeah the problem. is crazy But he's 6'8 now. 6'8 now. So it's like... What do we do against that? Nothing has changed for him. He's still just out there having fun. having He's shooting one-legged threes for no reason. That nigga's so aggressive. hurt. He's a character.
01:44:11
Speaker
he's lily a character god bless i mean oh you knew he' was gonna be a character consider his pops yeah what you you want pegito way to a what's the brother name and what's the lead Lonzo. Lonzo. All over my knee. Lonzo got his wits about him. He just too injured. His knees. Like I told you. Bad.
01:44:33
Speaker
Like I got told you. Pistons got to come back to CLT in April. going to be in the building. Oh. Because you ain't going to hit my player like that. I'm on the court with it. Let's do it. That'll be fire. ain't gonna lie. Get your ass on that cute nephew. I lie. Isaiah Stewart a man. Hey, Miles thought it was ready. I ain't gonna lie, though. I think it would have been cool, like, until... Now, he wrapped him up and it got bad. was gonna have to be one them, like, Let's stop this right now.
01:45:03
Speaker
I don't... You don't need to go. Don't don't you go to that goddamn court. I don't know... How many... ah ah You know Malice at the Palace. You know... that you can get So, they was beating up fans in that. They like... i like Them Pistons gonna get their ass whooped in Charlotte, gang.
01:45:21
Speaker
oh that could go and they go what they add right ain't go lot they go gonna have ain' kill age just got forty eight wheel that's fine about that that's fine they go way If we somehow make it to and the the one and they come to CLT for two games Cage is up. They don't whip they ass. I like the confidence. Because they young niggas, they don't fuck. I love the confidence. I love the confidence. And I'm happy for y'all.
NBA Players' Sneaker Choices
01:45:49
Speaker
But Cage is winning that garden and dropping fucking 40 on they head. I love niggas throwing that garden. No, he's the first one since Braun to do that 40 and 12. And that's cool. Yeah. That's cool. I was at the Charlotte game.
01:46:00
Speaker
I watched him suck the life out of Charlotte fans. Yeah, Cade. That's a bad motherfucker. caie car but i sorry about that I also watched James give us 55, but we played Cleveland Friday night, and he ain't getting nowhere near 55. I the optimism. I'm just saying Charlotte ain't had a playoff game since like 2016. That's sick.
01:46:26
Speaker
I'm telling you, the energy will be next. No, it's going to be great. It's going to be great. It ain't going to be there. I salute y'all for what y'all doing this season. I done seen K do some shit ain't never seen niggas do. And I fought with K. And then you ain't speeding him up. Like, you not rushing him. He's strong.
01:46:45
Speaker
He played defense. He walked in the... They whole team is out. He went in a garden against a fully healthy Knicks team, who was like the second best team. The niggas not good for real, though, bro. Whatever. You talking about Gordon. My son is a magician, but outside that, the Knicks are not good. Yeah, they whatever. But still, you don't just walk in a nigga crib and be like, I told you last night, I think I'm the best American player in the world. And go get up that next morning and drop 40. And then niggas like, damn, he did mean that shit. And then the whole offseason, like, Jalen Brunson, the best point guard in the East. And this nigga Kade said, nah. What about Ant the next night? That's Ant. I love Ant. You can't guard Kade, so it's not.
01:47:30
Speaker
Yeah. Ant said, I seen Kade before. I got to go for 40. And that's how wanted to for 2028. Olympics 2028. Kade can guard Ant. Neither one of them guard each other. They can't guard each other. They can't guard each other.
01:47:43
Speaker
We ain't worried about none of that. Yeah, it's cool. It doesn't even matter. All I'm saying is, you matter shout out Charlotte. Pistons are still. 40 pounds lighter. That shit might be worse. What date you say that is?
01:47:58
Speaker
It's April. Yeah, that shit might be worse. Ramp up for the playoffs too? Yeah. And everybody back. Yeah. And he in MVP discussions right now. man. That shit might be worse. Yeah. First of all, Jalen Duren shouldn't have been participating in an all-star game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He shouldn't have been participating. He can't even play in a regular game. Yeah. Why are you out there? What are we doing? No. Hypothetically, if Miles was all-star and Jalen Duren was all-star, are they going to You can't let them play.
01:48:27
Speaker
and They're going to take that shit right back. Man. And then imagine if they on the same... Imagine... Because you know they draft teams now. Yeah. What they on the same team? They'd have to put that bullshit aside. I ain't gonna lie. You ain't gonna scrapping at the All-Star game. You ain't bigger than the program. We in front of the audience. We talk about this shit later. gonna say, what's the conversation like then?
01:48:49
Speaker
You ain't bigger than the program. I sure God. Y'all get that shit the together. Bald motherfuckers sit him down in the room. ain't gonna... Yeah, LeBron smacking niggas in the back of the head. Fuck that. You talking about... Adam Silver.
01:49:01
Speaker
Motherfucker, I will fine y'all entire contract. Do not fucking play with me. My bad, boss. You right. You right. Go out there, smile for them kids, sign them jerseys, go dunk a basketball, shut the fuck up. shut up drew said literally date nothing for the he y'all dumb as things out here swinging on each other in front of millions of people and that's why maybe that's what the alltar gonna need as it is she much level of competition yeah maybe that also the song star game was good it was good but she was fine I don't like the broken format. i need I don't but it was it wasn't bad. It bad,
01:49:34
Speaker
you know i think they Made them more competitive because of how short them games was. It's like motherfucking gotta... Wait, they just playing pick-up games now? Yes. It's the world. They they split the world up. It's USA. It's two USA teams. And then it's the world team.
01:49:50
Speaker
But that's why they lost. It wasn't bad in that last game. They played three back-to-back games. Oh, yeah. You can't have the fucking 35-year-olds. But they had more players, though. They had nine. They had nine on the world team. Yeah. And it was like, what's...
01:50:04
Speaker
Six on each USA team. Yeah, it's whatever though the all-star format should go back, but they always were damn dun contest Yeah that i go dole was somebody in that benchch that ain't gonna work they't want to pay everything been they to pay out of pay on they got pay but it't that But that's but the always been like that forever get five years straight then somebody bigger to join and Five years straight to BS. Somebody big joined. From Kobe dunk contest to the Vince dunk contest. They was like, they finna cancel this shit. Then Vince came, put his arm in the rim. It's like, I bet three years of good niggas. And then 05 to 2010. Randoms. Everybody else did this shit. The white hat. Yeah, and it is like, won't it. The last big one on it
01:50:52
Speaker
Huh? Nah, 2017. 2016. I think that's just hard to talk, too. I think people just ran out of ideas. you can't if you You can't figure out how to dunk a basketball player. Blake jumped over the floor. He jumped from the free throw line. He did bunch of shit. He booked free throw line. He caught them up. Everything was from the free throw line. I think his first dunk was between the legs and reverse East Bay. crazy too. He did the damn two feet Yeah. But nah. That's the greatest dunk I've ever seen done in a dunk contest. Yeah. But the he did that off the first that was the first try. I know. He was like he let him spin and a went it went and immediately cuffed it. Yeah. I'm like yeah. But the dunk The underrated dunk was the here to here to back here. I'm like, that was insane to do. That is. Now, you re-air that today, like, it's still, like. I watching every i watch it every year. Like, you would sit down and boy, you'll. All of that shit was first try, too. That's what made that shit crazier. Like, everybody watching this live, he's jumping from the free throw line every time. And this thing is doing freaky. It's got to be somebody that.
01:52:10
Speaker
has, like, the criteria that's dunking in the game. Yeah, because Like, Curry said that he's going to be in the three-point contest. Yeah. And he said, I'm inviting Klay. Dame's coming back. Yeah. Like, you got to get real shooters. So, you need you need one in dunkers to say, I think the dunk contest is always... I'm bringing the people with The dunk contest has always been on a little bit of life. Like, like like they holding on to something. Like, it's by thread. And then one year, somebody come do it. And then a few other people will come. But it's never been...
01:52:38
Speaker
the biggest niggas for real. Like, I don't... Yeah, I don't want... Like, say, for instance, Mack McClellan don't want three of them. Shout out him, but I don't want somebody that's fringe on the and NBA roster. Like, it was cool Nate Robinson did it because he ain't all that, but he was a small motherfucker who was... Me and him, same height. Yeah, like, fans love Nate Robinson. But if Ant lose to Mack McClellan... Yeah, yeah. I'm bad for press. I'm cool with Mack McClellan participating. I feel like they need to treat Mack with a little more... Respect. Yeah, yeah. If you're going to let this name participate and win three times...
01:53:11
Speaker
Keep him on a roster. Why is he still... Even if he ain't... We signed him for a 10-day gym. So he's becoming the all-star and dunk. always be like, fuck you. I'm not coming no more. I think that's what happened. This year, yeah. He said, I'm not doing that no But then the thing is, even with Zach Levine winning, Zach Levine was like, I'm not doing the dunk contest unless I'm an all-star. And he got two all-stars, but then it was the all-star game.
01:53:36
Speaker
He was hurt, wasn't he? Yeah, it was Chicago. And he was like, going to be an All-Star and nodd do the dunk contest again. End up getting the All-Star nod and did not do the dunk contest. And niggas were like, fuck you. what do you like The dunk contest is a weird That was when him and DeMar got All-Star in Chicago, right? Yeah. And it's a weird space with the dunk contest. I don't think it's ever going to what it used to be Because it was we got like the few years that we all care about. But then you look back, it was only two niggas...
01:54:05
Speaker
in them dunk contests like damn every year like oh it was these two every year it was these two niggas i'll never forget that 2010 dunk contest with gerald fucking uh not green dude that was on the hornet henderson nah not henderson uh fake kobe that fake kobe that's the fucking crazy ass nickname uh fuck he got the beard got fucking dreads You just made somebody You talking about a motherfucker from Utah.
01:54:34
Speaker
He wasn't on Utah, but he was weak as fuck, and it was that 2010 dunk contest, and that was the worst dunk contest niggas have ever seen in their life. 2010 had the white in it. The white was 07, 08. I know... When he did the Superman, that shit was 07, 08? Mm-hmm. Damn. God, Lee. That's crazy. How old am I?
01:54:55
Speaker
Yeah. That's old for the group. Gotta get LeBron to do women. They've been trying to get LeBron. bounce gone. His bounce gone. And his... And he never been a dug contest. If they... Somebody pointed out if they would do body to body... Like, meet me at the rim...
01:55:11
Speaker
type of contest, you gotta dunk on somebody, a lot of people would rather, like Ant said that. He said, nigga, I can't do a regular dunk contest dunk. Like, nigga, punch on people. I'm not doing between my legs and shit like that. He said, but if you put a person in front of me and we do, I dunk over them,
01:55:26
Speaker
That's something we could do. No, pay this nigga $50 million a year. crazy hell think I'm about to let a nigga line up 20 feet away from him and run full speed. Wimby, what are you doing this weekend? Punch on oil. Now the nigga knocked out the air. ACL gone. They done did an X in the air. Hell no, you crazy.
01:55:50
Speaker
I think it just got to be young kids, really. You just got to get the bouncy young kids and just pay them. You got to pay them. Because then the other dudes you want is like a job. Like, bro, he's making 30 a year. Like, I'm not about to go do that for 25 grand. I'm not going to hold you they don't make sense on top of that.
01:56:07
Speaker
People do. the The players don't care about the All-Star game or the All-Star weekend as much. You go from when the 90s was happening till probably 2020, 2019. The sideline All-Star Weekend Saturday used to be crazy. Kobe, Braun, any other players that's not participating on the sideline. Then you got all the celebrities that ever... Now, they done had in fucking Utah and Indiana and shit. And he's like, we don't care about All-Star Weekend. But they also said they be having to do so much press now for this shit. Like, it ain't like a pop-out. Like, it's like a hectic...
01:56:44
Speaker
working Yeah, motherfuckers be confused why certain ah like players be like, I'm going to fucking Cuba, wherever the fuck they go for the weekend. They be like, well, I'm going for two days. And they disappear. like they It's 100 plus cameras in my face all at once this whole weekend. I got five sponsors out here. I got a show for all of them. This, this, podcast, interview. Vacation. I'm vacationing for week. I'm not doing that
All-Star Weekend and Podcast Conclusion
01:57:09
Speaker
shit. And they done ruined it by doing that. It's fucking Drewski and Kassanat and 12 different streamers on the sideline live streaming the game and saying stupid shit to the niggas while they playing. It's like, I don't want to fucking be here. You done slutted this out.
01:57:23
Speaker
val them them Well, until recently, people didn't want to do the Olympics. yeah like That was dead for Yeah, maybe it was off the Olympics. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah, so.
01:57:34
Speaker
I feel. Mm-hmm. Bad times. Are we done? That's good. mean, I feel like we yeah we just hit the... That's cool. You good, me? Mm-hmm.
01:57:48
Speaker
I mean, he was like... Let's turn that camera off, man. a threat was coming after that. circle Alright y'all. This was Soul Sanding Sneaker Podcast. Season 6, episode 7. I appreciate all the boys for the pulling up today. je you know And we'll catch y'all out next time.
01:58:33
Speaker
We had this white dude at Thomasville. That motherfucker was named Crazy Red. Oh, Jesus. boy with Crazy Red. Boy was bald with the red beard. Hell, right. That motherfucker walking up the street talking to himself like this.
01:58:48
Speaker
I said, oh, no. That's L.A. Screamer. Are you from Thomasville? Yeah. That's where my mom is friends congratulation from. She graduated from Thomasville High. am i at pop on That definitely sound like Screamer. scream i'll walk up the street you don't want to be crazy my assistant manager at the time he i was sitting i was 18. he come walking he's like he's just gonna talk to himself he gonna walk right back out sure enough he did a left around around the store he walked right back that's what pinky do now said i don't know he'd be like full conversation with us he'd look at the shoes Then he'll invite you into the conversation and ask you about this shit. Mind you, this nigga got on seven different shades of pink and red. What'd you think about this one? Huh? What the fuck? Oh, so now you're talking to me. And then he leaves. And then he just mosey on down. Crazy Redby talking about like,
01:59:40
Speaker
it a devil in i okay what you think about this hu what the fuck idiot is also now you're talking to me and then he leaves wrote and he just what was the old day crazy every time im like the bus that was about to run him over in the street or something like that. I know we to start, the last time we seen like Pinky really go crazy.
02:00:10
Speaker
That nigga came in. He came
The Eccentric Man's Tale
02:00:13
Speaker
in. I'm in the back, stocking shoes up. It's me in the back and it's Kai and his girlfriend sitting out front. Was you there that day? Yes. was the only one who was there. So I'm in the back putting shoes up and I hear the door open. And I'm like, oh, it's just a cuss and whatever. He got it. Then I heard...
02:00:34
Speaker
some noise and I heard, oh o oh, what the fuck is that? made a tweet I said, what the fuck? And so I come out and Kai and his girlfriend look petrified. They like, what the fuck? Didn't y'all say that nigga said military? No. So he came in, he came in, he had on a pink mumu.
02:00:53
Speaker
And he said, he said, they took everything for me. I'm i'm a police officer. That's all had. That's all I got. You won't even out there. I know. You telling this shit. You ain't telling me. I forgot. I ain't going to lie. They said, going to get back. And they said, I'm military time. barked. And started barking. And he walked out the store.
02:01:17
Speaker
and she was And just left. And then I was like, what happened? And Kai was like, that nigga y'all be talking about. And so I go outside and lo and behold, I see him and he walking down the street with his arms raised in the air in a pink muumuu.
02:01:32
Speaker
He was still shit. He was turned that day. But come to find out, he went to every store on that strip and said the same thing. It's military time. He went to the cab cafe and something like that. He got locked up and he got out and he's like, yo, they took all my shit. They took everything from me. Yeah, like everybody got out. And then a few weeks later, you see this nigga and he just moping around. He outside smoking. He sweating. And he like, man, he done gave up on anything. Bro, we literally saw his decline, bro. This picture I just showed you. He got on them hard drugs. This picture I just showed you all. Me and this nigga Mark and then.
02:02:15
Speaker
And I'm crying laughing. and We was already laughing at some shit. i was like Mark, no. like Nothing I tell you is going to prepare you for what I'm about to show you, bro. So at the time, i think we were looking for we were hiring right?
02:02:30
Speaker
So i'm I'm looking through the emails. The email pops up and it's got... It's from... The email is spazcrip87 at suchandsuch.com, right?
02:02:45
Speaker
And it did it. It was Protron. It was some random shit. like that Yeah. so So usually when you see that, right, it'll have that and then it'll have the the link to the resume.
02:02:56
Speaker
And sometimes people will have like a screenshot of resume. So it said... JPEG, whatever. So I click on this shit and it said John Curran. So that's his name. I click on that bitch.
02:03:07
Speaker
That was his resume. I said no. I put that shit on. I said no. In the mirror with the Mark Jacobs bag. What's understood ain't gotta be explained. was know who it is. shit crazy. That shit fucks up, bro. Hey, dude. That's why he don't fuck for this Shit, me. I worked for Hair Ron and walked away. shit. We said, damn. Fuck food. I'm going to just leave this plate right here. That nigga was I guess she was home today. Then he came and gave us two joints the next day. Bro, he laid the joints out on the bench in the front of the store. hell no. give bird something and then they return like some yarn that's what cats that's what cats we do when you feed a cat and they come back with a dead bird in their mouth like this is for you and you like i don't want that that nigger had them two bluffs i put on a glove and carried them and i sent a picture and i said bro i'm not we're not smoking this because we're gonna be like him
02:04:18
Speaker
Yeah. God bless. its I think it had like 100 pre-rolls. I swear to God. Like, just a big-ass jar full of pre-rolls. He was out there smoking paper. You got a lot of time. You know what I'm saying? Bro, Greensboro downtown is so far. Jesus.
02:04:36
Speaker
Damn, that's funny. You could at least interview Fuck no. Interviewed That shit would have been worse. I saw all I Need to See. Before he said there like go i lot that. the fuck? Before he was pinky, was the twirler.
02:04:51
Speaker
so so that So this nigga met him initially. He was, but he was so many different niggas at one time. Because the first time i seen him, I was the first one to meet him. And he twirled into the store. And he was talking in a fairy voice. Like he twirled in. He twirled in and he came and he spent and he touched the clothes when he spent. And I'm like, what the fuck? And I was like, let me just sit up front. And he gets to the counter and this we have people working to be social. We had this girl, Ray, she was working there. and he said, I tried to get the Hell's Angel tattoo, but they said I wasn't a biker, so I couldn't get it. And she was like, oh,
02:05:30
Speaker
Okay. then he was like, yeah. And he twirled out. And I was like, hey, Ray, did you know him? She's like, I've never seen a nigga in my life. left. He came and I told them niggas that.
02:05:42
Speaker
And I was working with Charlie and I was like, Charlie, that's him. He did the same thing. He twirled around. I was like, you need help in anything? He's like, no. And he touched the clothes and twirled back out. And I told these niggas that. He pulled up ah the day, when i think it was a few days later.
02:05:58
Speaker
when you won't dare, it was me and Charlie. Charlie was over there doing a test D-Social. This motherfucker bent over in front of the bookshelf by there, and all you saw was ass. Yeah. This was prior to that, he had twirled his ass over there. I was like, Charlie, I said, he's like, nah, no fucking way. He was like, bro, leave the fuck alone try to this test. It's like time. Yeah, he'd be twirling. He used to twirl. And then out of nowhere, he just turned like real gangsta again and was telling niggas he was battle rapping niggas. Oh, my God. Yeah. Oh, facts, he did. malcolm He told y'all niggas that. He told us he battle rapped Malcolm Moore. He said, line them up.
02:06:41
Speaker
See, he battled right niggas. And then we was like, oh, I was like, okay. He told them that. And every other time I would see this nigga, he would just be like acting real thuggish. Or he'd have his shirt off with his ass out. And he'd just walk it down the street. Or he a baseball player. Or he a baseball player. He got the high socks with the gloves. And you're like, oh, this nigga play baseball. And he only wears exclusively in red. Yeah.
02:07:08
Speaker
Valentine's Day every day, my nigga. He got a kiss he got a like kiss mark tattooed on him. Yeah, for a time, he got a big ass. Bro, the first time I like seen him with his shirt off, he was walking.
02:07:21
Speaker
I'm like, nigga, is that pinky? He was on take screen. And he had the biggest back piece I've ever seen in my life. He got the Thrasher shit, like the ah like the Pentagon and shit. Yeah.
02:07:33
Speaker
Pentagon. Yeah, Pentagon. Yeah, and he just walk around, no shirt on, and his ass crack always out. I'm going to be coughing and all that. I'm just going to go ahead put that out there. Yeah, he is the, he's like the most frequent tweaker that always in. That nigga pulled up to a B-Social event one time. Yeah, he was normal. used to come to a lot of B-Social events. He was normal he would pull up. He'd be like, you know what, y'all have an event tonight? I bet. He'll come, he won't say nothing, he'll write down notes.
02:08:00
Speaker
That was cool. Leave, come to the next, we'll do the same thing, and of nowhere, his mind would just go, and snap again, and he not that nigga no more. You like, what the fuck? And then we just watched him. That's when you were Kern. would watch him just gradually, like, slowly get worse and worse, and he used to be, like, a heavyset nigga. That nigga got scared. He got skinny, so he would just hike right in front of Wrangler. He'll be in front of Wrangler all day smoking and just walking on the wood, like, I mean, on the ah stones like this, putting his feet like this, and he'll do that for, like, five hours. Not talking nothing and just be there.
02:08:35
Speaker
Like, one time last year, he bought some shoes, too. Yeah, he bought cream. He a fucking debit card. I'm like, bro, what? How? What? Nigga, disability. Man. God bless He's just crazy. He can't stay in his right mind.
02:08:50
Speaker
money about man i Are you recording this now? yes but yeah yeah everything's looking okay. i Oh shit. Yeah, I mean it ain't. Yeah, this is some shit you could just add.
02:09:02
Speaker
I'm fucking dropping. All right, y'all ready? Yeah. Okay, cool. I mean, out yeah. i mean