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Supreme Email Hoax with Zane
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This week I am joined by Zane, we talk about his adventures in graffiti. How he got into reselling and sneaker cleaning. How he went viral for making a fake post for a Supreme drop. Being outside for drops and how he was able to secure pairs. Pursuing art full-time and what he has been able to accomplish and so much more!
Where to find Zane:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/@zanestyles
Website: https://www.zanestyles.com/
Podcast Linktree: https://linktr.ee/myfirstkicks
Music by The DoppleGangaz: https://thedoppelgangaz.bandcamp.com/
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Transcript
Zayn Styles' Viral Supreme Email Hoax
00:00:00
Speaker
I don't know if he was on it with the emails, right? I gave up. I used to. I was going to, but then I stopped. um I can say it now because like I'm kind of fake retired. So you know how like they put the emails of the location? Yeah. Like at 7 in the morning, whatever. right I did a little Photoshop.
00:00:21
Speaker
And I seen the pattern when if if if it rained... that they're not gonna, they're gonna postpone it, right? I did the exact same thing the same day with the date.
00:00:34
Speaker
And I just like posted it or like put it in the chat or something like that. I forgot how I sent it yeah all the Supreme pages started posting it. Like, like Supreme Hustle. Yeah. All of them, right? Yeah.
00:00:48
Speaker
And I'm like, oh, shit. And then Twitter started posting it. And I'm like, oh. So it started going viral. Yeah.
Introduction to Zayn Styles and His Artistic Journey
00:00:58
Speaker
What's good everyone, welcome back to My First Kicks. This is episode 220, and this week I bring to you none other than Zayn himself. What is it, Zayn Styles? Would you go rather be Zayn Styles? I don't know, like the handle is just Zayn Styles, but people just call me Zayn. Yeah, but i always I've been saying this, like, i don't know which one to call you your rap name. I always gonna be like, your rap name? Because like a lot of people just be like, ah we had this conversation. Also, Dave's in the building, what up, D? yo,
00:01:25
Speaker
you what what i was We had this conversation where it was just like, I know people, but i know i don't know their real name. I just know them by the Instagram handle. yeah So then I'll just be like, you want me to like this? year I just retreated like it's your rap name. Honestly, like a lot of people now, like if I'm working with like companies, they'd be like, do you want Zane Styles or Zane?
00:01:43
Speaker
I'd be like, just Zane, just the artist name, the handle. You just put it out there. like Yeah. yeah thanks Thanks for pulling up. Let everybody know where to find you too real quick. Let's get it out in the beginning. um All social platforms at Zane Styles. Just simple like that.
00:01:56
Speaker
Fire, man. Yeah. Your work is amazing. i appreciate it. You know, like we we had a conversation at AM PM a while
Zayn's Community Connections and Early Influences
00:02:03
Speaker
back. it was like the woman women's panel I think. Women's Air Max panel.
00:02:07
Speaker
So shout out to Gabby, yo. Gabby. Yeah. That's a fact. Yeah. ah But there, you know, it was that. And then there was something else before that we met. That was the first time met. was in Extra Butter yeah for ah Story Ave.
00:02:22
Speaker
Oh, yes. That's right. And we were talking Graff. Graff because they filmed on Story Avenue where I grew up from. So it's just like i got ah I got to see. And then certain artwork in the video in the movie was featured on there where my friends were featured. So just like I had to show up. Now you just brought back that conversation we had about the whole the whole like, oh, this is the demons or whatever.
Graffiti Culture and Story Ave Movie Involvement
00:02:46
Speaker
yo you First of all, shout out to, I forgot the name of the the director, but Story Ave, if you haven't seen that movie yet, absolutely fire takes place in Story Ave in the Bronx.
00:02:57
Speaker
um But it's all it's like, I would say it's definitely like the new age graffiti movie. I don't know if you've ever seen like Bomb the System. yeah yeah yo that ah The movie was fire in my opinion. I thought the movie was fire. The graph in it was crazy. The the the room that they they like sort well filled up with all like 2Ease's graph. Exactly. Shout out to 2Ease.
00:03:18
Speaker
I heard that's not how he's supposed to say his name. I heard 2SA? 2SA is what I heard. two essays when i heard no Two e two Eze. You know what I'm saying? Out of respect. I want to be sure. but yeah, he's cool peoples though. He's cool peoples. that But yeah, we had that conversation. What was it that they they were using in terms? It was just like, if you were a demon, you go over everybody. If you were like... Oh, if you're like, you know, we call it toys. So toy behavior yeah going over everybody. But it's just like...
00:03:51
Speaker
If you like don't care about the rules, you're just going over everybody, then that's like in lingo, not like that, as we call it a demon. But it's just like, and it's just tway behavior. know what saying? Or they don't care. So.
00:04:04
Speaker
Nah, yeah. Yeah. The look, I love graph, like graph culture. I love graph. Yeah. I
Sneaker Journey: From Payless to Dunks
00:04:10
Speaker
mean, I would hope so. Imagine you're just like, nah, I hate this shit. But is definitely part of my life. You know, I used to do it back in the day.
00:04:19
Speaker
you're right. I'm not saying that on here. yeah Because there was one time I almost got arrested and How long ago was that? That was high school. Oh my god.
00:04:32
Speaker
think you're safe now. All right. I write idiom because id I'm trying to be smart. I was trying to be smart. How you spell it? I-D-I-O-M. That's a long name. Yeah. And so I was trying to be like, yeah, because idiom means just like language or like, yeah. And I was like, yeah, grasp my language.
00:04:51
Speaker
This is like when you first start rapping and you're like, yeah, my name's going to be like Technical Assassin because like- a while How'd you come up with
Finding an Artistic Identity: The Name 'Zayn'
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Speaker
yours?
00:05:02
Speaker
I used to write sketch before and it was just too long of a name. And then i i don't know why, but the Z just drew me in. And I was trying to find something that started with a Z. I went with like zero, but then I found out like someone else wrote that. But now we're good friends. know what I'm saying? And later on, I just started playing with words and then no one had Zayn.
00:05:26
Speaker
And I just went along with it for years and no one... claim like oh like this is my name such and such so and also I chill with like a lot of OGs now yeah full circle moments now so no one's saying that I'm saying so I'm pretty much good at solidified the community yeah that's the that's the hardest part I think when it especially like when you come up with a name and then you find out later that somebody else I have other people writing my name too like in Brooklyn and Soho I ragged everything but yeah that's crazy I'd be sick bro Like how does that even come across? like
00:06:02
Speaker
Because so one of my favorite Graf movies is like State Your Name. Oh yeah. Yeah.
Understanding Graffiti Culture Hierarchy
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Speaker
Which I can't find anywhere now. State Your Name. Can you curse on him? Yeah, of course. Graf. Fuck Graf. know what I'm saying? All the volumes of Fuck Graf. All the volumes. know what I'm saying? I fuck with certain people. yeah You know what I'm trying to say? That's in that video now. Like Kolo. Shout out Kolo. Like that's cool people right there too.
00:06:26
Speaker
that ah But like, yeah, Graf is a part of my life. So it's really hard when you like trying to make a name and then you start going over and then you just see like people just like, like in my modern area now, there's definitely a couple toys, but like I'm not.
00:06:41
Speaker
i'm not I'm not active. you But, yo, that should be getting me tight when I see you. I'll be like, man, this shit is whack. I'm a little active. I can't really say much, but, yeah. But but let's let's jump into the question that I ask everybody each week. And that question is, what's your first kicks? What's that first pair sneakers you absolutely needed to have?
00:07:02
Speaker
Like my first ever shoe ever that I got in. I always tell people what it like. It's the bit your sneaker story, your best sneaker story that best describes you. Oh, damn.
00:07:14
Speaker
Um, this there's different ways. I mean, when I was younger, I was in i was on that Payless wave of saying and I used to see my other cousin Joe getting them, you know, the Air Forces, the thunks. And I'm like, why not me?
00:07:31
Speaker
And I'm here like pay less shoes and shit. So sketches or whatever. So I'm like, whatever. And I think my first shoe was, ah it was a sneaker store. I forgot what it was called.
00:07:45
Speaker
But I had, I purchased these dunks. I was like a size six and a half back then. hey And it was like navy with like that light gray. can't remember the name, but it was like that Yankee themed colorway. Yeah.
00:07:59
Speaker
That was like the actual first dunk I had But first Jordan Where I was beasting for Was Jimmy Jax Like 3 in the afternoon was begging my dad Because I seen it at the window Citrus 7's Hey That's crazy And they just recently came back out Yeah they retro'd it But my first ones was that Like my first real Jordan And then my first real camp out Was Space Jams Like as in high school But we could get into that later. um But that like technically, my first shoe was a must-have was Citrus 7. What was that? like where Where are you from originally?
00:08:40
Speaker
I'm from the Bronx. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Born and raised from Soundview. Grew up in Host Point. There you go. You know what I'm saying? You're like the second person from Soundview? Yeah, because I think J-Tips is from Soundview or near Soundview.
00:08:53
Speaker
I think he's near Soundview. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, T-Mark. T-Mark. Okay, okay. Copy. Shout out to T-Mark. Shout out to T-Mark. um But, like, what was that like going to school with those? it just...
00:09:05
Speaker
um No one really paid attention. I just felt like, you know, I was fitting in where like, okay, I'm catching up, but ah so it's expensive. I don't have a job or that. So um I was up keeping up with the culture and stuff like that. And I think around that time I was doing Kid Robot.
00:09:22
Speaker
Oh, okay. When they were in Soho. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I used go with my grandmother every other weekend. And you just you just pull up? I would just pull up, cop some Kid Robot gear, and then this is when I was in my, I think, my skater boy phase. Everybody had one, especially like 20, you say like 2010-ish? Way before that. wait Like 2006, 2007?
00:09:48
Speaker
yeah Like middle school. I rocking Kid Robot. Okay. yeah I mean, that's that's a while ago. I've only had one Robot shirt. like I still have pieces. You do? It's just a size medium where I can't fit. I'm an XL, by the way. In case Kid Robot, you find some Kid Robot in the in the basement, you know what I'm saying? To Zane's way. Hell yeah, hell yeah, hell yeah. Kid Robot was a movement, though. It was just, everybody was, it was crazy. Movie. Yeah. If you know, you know.
00:10:19
Speaker
R.I.P. to Kid Robot. Yo, that whole little small area too was always lit because it was like you had the Bape store, you had Kirol. Exactly. This is when Bape was, Bape Teas were, no, not Bape Teas, BBC. BBC, yeah. With the penguin on the skis for like $80. That's crazy. I still have that. It's fucking yellow now.
00:10:45
Speaker
It's a white tee with the thing, but it' still there. Was this when ice cream was going crazy too? Yeah, right there on West Broadway. u hu Get the beepers.
00:10:57
Speaker
This is crazy, man. This is like nostalgia here. It's like a dopamine just hitting right now. It's crazy. That's wild. So so like I definitely want to know how'd you first get into Graf?
Introduction to Graffiti through Family
00:11:08
Speaker
How I got into Graf? Yeah, I want to know that story.
00:11:11
Speaker
Okay, so this is where i already figured out my name. I'm here, but I'm still young. I can't sneak out. you know And i used to chill around my dad's neighborhood.
00:11:22
Speaker
And, you know, I will go explore. You know saying? Because right there, there's like, ah like the not the not the track, but it was like a roadway where you're going into Soundview Park and people take bikes and stuff like that.
00:11:36
Speaker
Around the block, you know, how do you have like those either mailboxes or like the firefighter things, those red things? yeah Yeah. So I think to me, that's where everything started because I pop tags, like, you know, market tags. Yeah.
00:11:52
Speaker
Then when I came back around the block to see what I was just chilling, it was all ragged. And I'm like, what the hell? So then I ragged it again. yeah And then i came back again the other day.
00:12:03
Speaker
And then i just see like two people around there. so i didn't pay no mind. And I just started ragging whoever ragged who rag me. And they were like, hey, what you doing? That's me. And like, you ragged me. And then we're here arguing about a fight yeah over rag mark attacks. And I'm like, yo, bro, but my thing was there already. I ragged you because you ragged me. And then we just started whatever. And then we just all became friends. That was the funny thing.
00:12:28
Speaker
And then that's when everything like opened up. And then I started seeing other people and stuff like that. But I really got into the graft world because my cousin. Mm-hmm.
Balancing Graffiti with Academics
00:12:38
Speaker
um you know he was into it first and then i was into like fine art sketching whatever i was into graffiti yeah and it transpired into me exploring this whole new medium and world it was just like addictive bro did you did you like you know like this was ah sounds like around high school time or like middle school time right so like did you start pursuing art that way or did you treat it like it was like a separate thing
00:13:05
Speaker
I kind of treat it with like a separate thing, but it was just like all of my notes were graphed. Oh, yeah, for sure. If I have like a notebook and you know how like when you have the lines, you have the little thing on the side. I used to just write zing, zing, zing, zing. margins, baby. The margins. I used to write zing, zing, zing for no reason.
00:13:20
Speaker
Just that. And then I started meeting other people and then I'm here feeding to paint and I'm here doing... A lot of dumb shit. Just painting. know what I'm saying? But I'm just here like trying to make a name for myself in the community.
00:13:34
Speaker
Do you have like a crazy story from um that? as From when younger? Yeah. oh Let me think. ah Like how crazy we're talking. How crazy you want to get? Like, I mean, were you running through the streets?
00:13:51
Speaker
You know, you had to di you had to dip they a couple cops, you know, like. so Honestly, I haven't dipped from any cops because I know how to move. Yeah. And also, i if I was to paint outside with people, I need good lookouts. Yeah.
00:14:07
Speaker
And, you know, if if you're going to. you know Trust me with your life that I expect the same. Because and you have both something to lose, right right? So at that time, they weren't doing DATs. You know what I'm saying? They were just locking you up. What's DATs?
00:14:24
Speaker
It's like a fine. Oh, I never heard of that. ah Yeah, so instead of being there for like days yeah and then see a judge, you just get it. You'd be there for like two hours, pay a fine, and then you just go home. ah That's what's happening now yeah that hasn't happened to me Crazy story Hmm um crazy story I got a story that got me mad. What? i so So we was, you know, in Lehman High School. Shout out to my boys, Zen.
00:14:54
Speaker
And we wanted to hit some spot and there was a school dance. Yeah. You know, we just walked out doing our thing and then we're right there under the sixth line and then we see some spot that we wanted to hit.
00:15:06
Speaker
So... I was looking out for him first and then I went to came in and I, for some dumb reason, threw like my hoodie or my jacket over. Uh-huh.
00:15:18
Speaker
And by the time I came back and did my thing whatever, my, this is when I had a psychic LX. ah i've I found out that I lost my psychic and I was so pissed. Oh my God. And I went back to the spot, nothing there.
00:15:32
Speaker
And I'm like, Yo, my mom's going to kill me. Yo. So, but there's other stories I'm trying to remember, but um that's like one I could think of top of my mind right now as not as crazy. but You really think that you can keep watching this episode without like subscribing or leaving a comment?
00:15:54
Speaker
Come on, man. And also, if you've been listening to this episode, leave a review. But back to the episode. Let me see. One more story. Try to think of recent.
00:16:04
Speaker
yeah Oh, you want to go recent? No, no, no, no. But if it fucks up your timeline, nah. No, no, no. We go. We go. I was just like, I was wondering, it was less' like, you know, well, the hardest thing now is obviously, you know, riding on trains.
00:16:18
Speaker
Yeah. um that's ah actually thats That would definitely give you red stars, GTA. yeah and You what I mean? Five stars. Five stars. Instantly. but Instantly, yeah. So it's either you ride on trains, government buildings, five stars automatically.
00:16:34
Speaker
They'll try to find you. Vandals go out. We're trying to find you. So you just, you know, stay low. Just keep paying. The one story I've always loved hearing is about like Revs and rev how Revs wrote through his diary in the in the train station. Wow. yeah Did you ever go through the train station and see that?
00:16:52
Speaker
but I've been through tunnels. Yeah, I mean the tunnels. Yeah. Yeah, I've been through tunnels, but I haven't seen that. But, um you know, Freedom Tunnels is is a fire ah vibe too. Oh, yeah? Yeah.
00:17:03
Speaker
I'm just scared. That's like on the west side. Yeah. Yeah. So the Freedom Tunnel is like very, you get lost. Yeah. Mentally. Not like lost, like you can't find your way. Yeah. But, um you you know, you get lost in the art because it's like years and years of Because remember back in the day in Freedom Tunnels people used to live there.
00:17:23
Speaker
It was a whole government thing and then they took people out. So Freedom Tunnels is named after someone that named the Freedom Tunnels. I forgot his name. Sorry. But um that's the history of it. And then it's just old art graffiti from back in the day till now.
00:17:40
Speaker
I definitely got to check that. Yeah. um There's definitely in videos on YouTube where like people just exploring. yeah Not just graphing. They just explore and they just go into different tunnels. And the Freedom Tunnel was like one of the most known ones for sure. That's crazy. So then, all right. So shift back to sneakers. Were you able to continuously, you know, you said you didn't have money, but like at what point did you Get into
From Sneaker Restoration to Reselling
00:18:02
Speaker
sneakers? Yeah. In that vibe? Yeah. When the culture hit you. All right. So culture hit me, right?
00:18:08
Speaker
When i was restoring sneakers. So I was... no No one at the time, this was like maybe like 20...
00:18:20
Speaker
I could say I was fixing sneakers at a fast pace and people didn't know what to do. They were like this phenomenon, this new thing, like what the hell? yeah And people were just trusting me to give it to me, you know? And then I'll have it done like in a week. That's crazy. And then the most common were like threes.
00:18:38
Speaker
um You know, I'll just do a deep clean, you know, shit shit like that. And i made a lot of money out of it. And then one day... I went to like GameStop because I wanted to buy a Pokemon game. Yeah. I was just bored. I was like, all right. when was going to GameStop, right there's a Models. And I see like two people like just sitting on a camping chair. I'm like, what y'all camping for?
00:18:59
Speaker
And they were like, oh, we're here for tickets for FireRed 3s. Whoa. Okay. Yeah. That was way back. So FireRed3s. And I'm like, oh, word? i' like, right, I'm going to go inside.
00:19:11
Speaker
And then they said that they give tickets on a... So today that day was a Wednesday. yeah So I was... I brought the game. I came out. And I was like maybe third or fourth online. And they gave a guaranteed ticket so you could go purchase on Saturday.
00:19:24
Speaker
So I'm like, cool. So i buy my own shoe. You know what I'm saying? So this is like when I'm trying to catch with my cousin mentally. So I'm like, I'm here getting sneakers, but not as on my own, like buying my own sneakers.
00:19:34
Speaker
So I don't have a job yet or anything. so I'm just here like, okay, cool. And once I got it and I put it on, it didn't fit me. It didn't look right on my foot. So I sold it.
00:19:45
Speaker
Then I went back again Wednesday Started getting my own personal peers, finding out. And I was on 23's back. know what I'm saying? I just kept focusing on that. Kept going back and back and back.
00:19:56
Speaker
And then from one shoot, then I had friends was like, yo, what's up? Can I go with you? I want my shoe. I'm like, yeah, come through. And then whatever, whatever. And then from one shoe became a pre-order. Pre-orders, the high was $250 back then. Jeez.
00:20:13
Speaker
A high back then. $250. I remember. the The jewelry store used to do that shit too. know what trying to say? was just like, and then from two to three, then four to five, and then 10 to 20, then that's when managers got involved and wanted to get a piece of it. And then...
00:20:32
Speaker
I'm here backdooring and I'm here like, oh, it's active right now. And then I'm here camping outside for the tickets while I'm getting shit from the managers. That's crazy. How the hell did that happen? At the same time, everyone eats. You know what I'm saying? So that's how I got into the sneaker resale culture. And it just picked up like that.
00:20:55
Speaker
and You know, a lot of people don't believe that's actually real thing. And I and know like resale culture is a real thing. it Bro, we made history. yeah If people know we made history, bro, if you wasn't top 15, you're not getting nothing.
00:21:10
Speaker
And that's related to Supreme. We're not going to yet. This is what we... I've been waiting for this shit because this is why. Because there were several times I've been skipped. I was like... I'm sorry. And I was like... There was, yo, I was on pre, yo, this yo, I was on, I've told this story before. I was on a pre line and, you know, I was fourth in line.
00:21:35
Speaker
And this is for the the SB, the first SB Jordan one. Okay. The Craig Steck ones. Okay. Right. The black and green ones. Okay. okay So those drop, right. Fourth in line.
00:21:47
Speaker
Bro, standing in there, dude pulls up out of his car and I'm like, and he's like, my chairs is right there. But I'm fourth in line. So I'm not the first person to be like, nah, get the fuck out of here. Okay. Right? So, because if I was up there, I would have said yeah probably would have been a problem. yeah But so he comes up, he does that. And then it's, it went from me being fourth to me being 15th because he just brought like eight of his people with him.
00:22:13
Speaker
And I was like, yo, this is crazy. We fight him. yeah I'm making a scene. so these is your mans. this is Maybe. I don't know who. ah But yeah, I definitely want to know how, because that, like, how did how did that start for you? Because I know you said everybody eats, but like, where like it's got to be. How did I end up with who I ended up with? Yeah, yeah. um Fast forward Models. I had a friend named Froggy. um Then I was in college at the time now, right?
00:22:43
Speaker
So I'm in college, you know, I'm here getting money, doing the the the restoration stuff, still active. um Then I'm here doing pre-orders and stuff like that. So I'm here making money on my own, entrepreneurship, hustling.
00:22:57
Speaker
and one day he was like, yo, we out to DQM. We're going to camp out. And this is when I was first camping out in Manhattan. yeah Now I'm out the Bronx. yeah Like i already had the Bronx on on lock with like different foot lockers already. and And Jimmy Jazz's Hyperactive and stuff like that. So I'm already like, yeah I'm good. Let's go get some more exclusive stuff now. yeah So he takes me to Manhattan, DQM.
00:23:22
Speaker
And this is where later on I meet Lou. Lou the Don. You know what I'm saying? That's my brother. So I meet Lou the Don. is when he was trapping and that shit like that in the Loa's. It's like...
00:23:33
Speaker
Yo, I seen a lot of shit, bro. And I'm the youngest one out of everybody. So I'm just chilling. And we just been camping out for five days. Yeah. And we was camping out for the Tiffany Dunks.
00:23:44
Speaker
Oh, that's crazy. The high tops. The high tops. The high tops. To me, that was like the coldest camp out of my life. Yeah. Because we was in, know, I had like three layers of North Face and I had like, you know, those tiger or like those graphics of the blanket, those Mexican blankets. Yeah. Yeah. That still wasn't warming me up.
00:24:06
Speaker
The Sherpa joints, like they're like lined. Yeah. Yeah. They're like soft with the fleece type of thing. Yeah. Yeah. I was like, nah, bro. So, but that but that release, this is when I met everybody in that circle. Dre, Soul Street, I met everybody from there.
00:24:21
Speaker
And then we just started doing it more and more. And then we just became that one click where it was just where were just top 10 most of the time. I'm saying? And then I be with Lou and Booz. camping out in the white van white van bandits just chill smoking all that then it went into all um uh msg to um what's that thing called uh all-star weekend uh-huh yeah everything just changed after that bro oh that was the one and brooklyn that one
00:24:53
Speaker
No, we went to MSG, the pop-up right there. Oh, okay. They did mirror phones and all that stuff like that. I remember what you're talking about. saying that was All-Star in Brooklyn. Was that year?
00:25:06
Speaker
Oh, yes, because they were doing different um different releases, different stores and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to remember what shoe was that. But the main one was MSG. Yeah, yeah. And then everything else was, don't know if you remember.
00:25:20
Speaker
We were collecting pins from per store. per story That's crazy. Yeah. Yo. That's crazy. So, like, we so you were reselling this entire time?
Shifting Focus: Reselling vs. Cleaning
00:25:33
Speaker
oh Well, like, you converted into reselling and also doing the ah sneaker cleaning? So, ah got up to a point where,
00:25:40
Speaker
like Say that you ask me, can you do this, right? Yeah. I'll say yes, and I'll give you the amount of days and this much. And I'll give you a deal if it's more than three sneakers. Cool, right?
00:25:52
Speaker
Then they get, and then they hit me with the, how do I know if you're not going to take them? Right, of course. But you hitting me up. Yeah. And I'll be like, and I just, it's not reverse psychology. It's just like, well, you're coming up to me if you feel comfortable with someone else.
00:26:07
Speaker
That's fine. I don't need it. Uh-huh. Now I'm saying you need it. Yeah. So if you want to do business, whatever. And then they were like, okay, okay, okay, fine, five fine, fine. And that's how they fold. Yeah. But I used to do everything. And it was up to a point where that was getting annoying at that point. and But I get it.
00:26:23
Speaker
But it was just annoying. And i couldn't focus on being outside and being inside. Right. Yeah. Because now I have like 50 pairs of shoes I got to finish. But then I can make...
00:26:36
Speaker
about three grand this weekend. Right, yeah. So it's either fuck these shoes or go outside. Right. So I'm going outside. Right, exactly. So once I finished everything, i just gave everything back and I just stopped doing it.
00:26:48
Speaker
And I just started camping out with Dre and everybody else. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Do you have like a ah crazy camp out story? You've got to have one. You gotta have one. Because you was outside. Because like, yeah.
00:27:02
Speaker
um um have you remember Sixes. had like... it was ah carment carmine six s carmine six s i had like five to six stores unlocked and I was camping out for everything at the same time with the tickets behind register and all that and one day Modell's like I had all my young boys know saying but they were there it's not like I left the chair there yeah they were all camping out but they were just in the car ahhhu but the parking lot is like not that far right like the stores right here were in the parking lot were park yeah camping in the parking lot so morning hits
00:27:41
Speaker
I don't make it You know what I'm saying? I don't make it hot. But two resellers know that I'm getting it, right? So it's like I had all these people get in line in the morning. They got up, got in the line.
00:27:56
Speaker
And at that time, it was men's and kid's sizes. yeah So per person. I'm like, take both men and kid. I need all that. Right? I need all that. yeah Give me that.
00:28:07
Speaker
And then i already had my shit to the side with other shit. So I was just like, okay. And once like they gave me like, like all my young bulls was giving me like the tickets on the side or whatever, they kind of peeped it.
00:28:20
Speaker
And then they just wanted to jump me right there. They were like, yo, it's not fair. Like how you let all these kids skip us? I'm like, They were camping right here. What are you talking about? yeah Like they were dead ass in the car.
00:28:34
Speaker
What else do you, and then they just, they were just so tight. And then they were like, okay, bet we're going to see you Saturday. ah And whatever. Right. So boom, I never seen them. ah Right.
00:28:45
Speaker
One day, We was camping out in House of Hoops hu in 34th Street for Ferrari 14s. Ooh, wow. Okay. So I was like top 10, right?
00:28:58
Speaker
And I'm here in my black book, drawing. I'm chilling, slippers like this. You know what mean? I'm chilling. I'm like, all right, I got my shorts. im I'm ready for tonight. know what I'm saying? So I got cozy. I'm like here like this. I'm chilling around my peoples. yeah All I hear was, you remember me?
00:29:17
Speaker
I look up. I'm like, oh. And then he goes, you ain't think I was going to see you again? It's a small world, homie.
00:29:27
Speaker
And I'm here like, yeah. Okay. And he said, all right, watch what happens tonight. So he came to talk to you and then just to give you a warning? Because supposedly he just came, I think, to get on the line. The line was already fucking carajoling. Yeah.
00:29:44
Speaker
what I mean? So was just like... You're in the back of the line talking shit. Yeah. And you stood there all night and I've been there all night. So he didn't do nothing.
00:29:55
Speaker
You could have did something. Yeah, for real. But all my people was there though too. So we would have hopped you. You know what I mean? And you're a grown, like he's older than me. Yeah.
00:30:07
Speaker
He's older than me. Like 40. I'm like, yo. Don't hate the player. Hate the game. Oh, man. And then also, I didn't and didn't cut nobody. Right, yeah. he was there first. can't.
00:30:19
Speaker
I make sure we call them bodies. Yeah. Yeah. I told them, everyone has to be here. If you're going to go eat, let me know. Right. Come back. Come back. Don't go home, sleep over there, and then come in the morning. You're gonna fuck up my whole situation because people watch. You know what I mean? So I just make sure that.
00:30:39
Speaker
But i think that would be like kind of a crazy story, but just like, that's a dumb one. And then later on, like, I seen him again. And then, you know, it was just like, we make amends.
00:30:53
Speaker
But haven't seen him after that. yeah that But just at that time, I'm like, really, nigga? Really?
00:31:01
Speaker
The It's ridiculous, though. Yeah, so I'm just like, yo, bro. like New York Lions is always something. It's classic, though. yeah It's classic. Hmm. What else? oh I remember...
00:31:14
Speaker
So you said crazy stories as campouts? Yeah. yeah but we We love a campout story here. ah I could give you one more. don't want to take too long. We're here for you, man. You're here for me? All right. If you're giving me a shoe, I could try to tell you a story.
00:31:33
Speaker
mean, you've got Galaxy Foams on. You got anything with that or crazy? Because that turned to something crazy. I mean, that was like All Weekend, House of Hoops, 34th Street, 10th, so that. Not that crazy, but...
00:31:44
Speaker
Or like Supreme Dunks? Was that, I know that was a- Supreme. Oh my God.
00:31:52
Speaker
When we was chasing the parks, that was crazy. Oh yeah, man. So i remember, you know, like we was trying to get all these ah locations and, you know, we would get the location and i remember riding the bike.
00:32:07
Speaker
I think it was with me, that stock and someone else or whatever. And we was just from the city to the Bronx. Yeah. I never exercised that much in my life.
00:32:22
Speaker
Nah, that was insane. Oh, it was the craziest camp out was, you know, how before even that happened. Right. It was me, Lou, Bo, Bo's and a couple of people in the van. Right. We will camp out Sunday night so we could get on the list for ah Monday. Yeah.
00:32:42
Speaker
We was camping out in Carls Park hu in the lower. Right. Yeah. So we could get on the list for Thursday. Right. So security will walk up into the park and then take our names down, whatever, right?
00:32:54
Speaker
One day, this is when everything changed. yeah One day, everyone was chilling. Killing. Right? So we all lined up, right?
00:33:04
Speaker
So we got out the car and now we're lined up towards like the basketball court, but like maybe like towards where the bathrooms is going up more towards that way. So we all lined up. No one's doing nothing.
00:33:16
Speaker
I see people playing dice in the line, but no one's making a ruckus or anything. Right? We're waiting to get on this list and the guy named Arthur, right?
00:33:27
Speaker
He was head of security in London or something like that. Right. And he comes up it was like, well, um we're going to do a new location because no one, you know, everyone's smoking weed and playing dice. Like, this is not cool. Last minute like that.
00:33:43
Speaker
Yeah. But mind you, Cars Park has a lot of crackheads. Yeah. So what do you expect us to do? We're just chilling. Right. And then he like, well, the new location is in Thompson Park.
00:33:59
Speaker
Everyone's scattered like roaches. Yeah. Cars panicking. Me, Lou, and everyone, when we got there, we was about to fight everybody. Because now there's a whole new line. Right, yeah. There's a whole new line. went from first to middle or whatever. So whatever. We shut that down, bro.
00:34:17
Speaker
You bug him, bro. like you're So you're talking about a risk of safety, but you made a risk of safety when you have us transferred to a whole new park. Right. Right.
00:34:28
Speaker
And everyone's scattered, bro, trying to get there first. yeah And then everyone's like this on the gate. By the time they got to the park, they were like this, right? And then we're like, yo, we're not going to let anyone get on that list today. That's crazy. So we're like here like trying to take the list, like trying to take the paper like off the security. Really?
00:34:47
Speaker
Yeah. like Like we wasn't with it, bro. Like how you have us camp out Sunday and just for you to do that because you feel like It wasn't safe for people when we was all chilling. Yeah, exactly. it was We wasn't rowdy or anything. So it was just, bro, that was ridiculous, bro. And that's when the start of everything happened with the parks and all that.
00:35:09
Speaker
That was ridiculous. And then that's when they started moving the location. The emails and all that. Yep. And now it's a... I can tell you one more crazy story. Okay, okay. One more crazy story. I don't know if you was on it with the emails, right?
00:35:22
Speaker
I gave up. I used to. I was going to, but then I stopped. um I can say it now because I'm kind of fake retired. So you know how like they put the emails of the location? Yeah. Like at 7 in the morning, whatever.
00:35:37
Speaker
I did a little Photoshop. And I seen the pattern when if if if it rained, That they're not going to, they're going to postpone it. Right.
00:35:48
Speaker
I did the exact same thing the same day with the date. And I just like posted it or like put in the chat or something like that. I forgot how I sent it. Yeah.
00:35:59
Speaker
all the Supreme pages started posting it. Like, like ah Supreme Hustle. Yeah. All of them, right? Yeah. And I'm like, oh, shit. And then Twitter started posting it. And I'm like, oh. So it started going viral. Yeah.
00:36:15
Speaker
Mind you, it's not canceled. So we're outside. Getting to the location, i was like, top five. And then they were like, what the hell? Like, we followed this email. And then they were saying, yo, this email is fake, whatever, whatever. and I'm like,
00:36:30
Speaker
I think I remember that. Yeah, I think I remember that. That was me. That was crazy. So I was like, just fucking around. yeah And I didn't think it was going to go from this little thing to whole mile. And I'm like, well, yeah, my people benefit off of it. Like, out of fun and games. So, like, please don't ban me. But that's over now. But I'm saying. I'm pretty sure you're good. I'm pretty sure you can walk in now.
00:36:53
Speaker
Yeah, I'm good. I just haven't seen everyone in a while. Yeah, exactly. The... Alright, so i'm I'm curious how'd you end up shifting into, you know, doing your art
Impact of Nike's We Are Cultivator Project
00:37:04
Speaker
more. Because like, the now you went from sneaker cleaning to reselling how you sell a heavy. So I used to do art here and there in the resell thing, but it was like, i owe um I was always an artist and graphing, but it was like, I was just so focused on the money because at a young age, like, I was making more than a 9 to 5.
00:37:25
Speaker
My parents... You know, they supportive, but at that time it was like, yo, you need Social Security, you need Medicaid, you know, all the traditional stuff. Like, you need a job. Yeah, just to be secured. I get it. Yeah.
00:37:40
Speaker
But I'm here chasing this bag and I'm making more money than you, respectfully. Yeah, yeah. At a young age. Yeah. So, um I was doing all that and then fast forward, like,
00:37:56
Speaker
um it hit to I was talking to this girl at the time and she sends me an application yeah I'm like cool I sign up I didn't think nothing of it I'm like whatever One day at Supreme, i was chilling at Deathstalk's crib and we was in the backyard chilling, whatever, smoking and shit. And we ended up, I ended up reading a DM and it was like three days old. I'm like, what the hell?
00:38:27
Speaker
And I'm looking at It was like, oh, you've been chosen. Please answer your email. I'm like, what is this? yeah And I'm looking at it and it says we are cultivator. Uh-huh.
00:38:38
Speaker
So I'm like, okay. I know a couple of people that did the last one. Yeah. Which was with Ish and everyone else in that group. Yeah. I remember that drop.
00:38:50
Speaker
And I'm here like, oh, I'm doing a similar drop. That's crazy. Yeah. So I'm like, okay. So I'm looking at everything and this is like, oh, Nike and everything's hitting me later.
00:39:02
Speaker
I'm like, oh shit. Okay. Um, it's happening. So I'm looking at the guideline. We have a month, like the whole, like when to do this, when to do that, like a whole. Itinerary of like the drop Yeah When to tease When not to tease Yeah When you do this So So we are Cultivator It was a Nike program Uh huh Where they were getting creatives To Which is like basically a Nike ID And you build your own silhouette with the colors that they provide you, yeah and you market yourself. Yeah.
00:39:35
Speaker
Right? But the only thing is that they're making the shoe, you market yourself. So I'm like, all right. So I felt like I was on a high pedestal due to the fact that I was in the sneaker community heavy.
00:39:48
Speaker
And I'm here like, okay... um probably everyone expecting something good for me something crazy and so i felt even more stress yeah and i was like okay how am i gonna do this right they offered um uh i think it was a nike react a nike 270 and a nike yeah was a fresh silhouette at the time they only had three silhouettes yeah but i felt like my marketing brain was like i think nike wants us to find a way to market the 200 right yeah because we already because they already released the react in the 270 already it's already been a couple colorways now it's the 200 i was going to switch it and i went and i just stood there
00:40:32
Speaker
And i did all that. And this release was specifically 28 creatives of New York only. yeah Prior was different states.
00:40:43
Speaker
Now this was just a straight New York release. yeah um Fast forward, you know, ah we had a deadline to submit everything and we submitted that. um I kind of like the colors. I was trying to build the the color blocking as how I do a fill-in. You know mean? So I use graffiti in a way to build that in a sense.
00:41:06
Speaker
And then that's how you got the red and towards the blue fading with the like the Tiffany color. Is this the shoe you got right here? i think so. it here? Is it here? I don't know. Because you're describing it. It sounds like what you showed me earlier. i think so. he wrote Yeah, you go ahead. Take it. Take it out. Yeah, hell yeah.
00:41:27
Speaker
Oh, shit. How you got those? Nice. Wow. I haven't seen a fresh pair in a minute.
00:41:38
Speaker
These are Uh-huh. But, yeah. Yeah, so Nike Air Max 200, a.k.a. Brushwork. And a lot of people thought that I did the swoosh because it kind of represents me. Yeah. But ah Nike artist from in there just gave it to us as a throwaway. that That's crazy. I found that out at the end. Yeah. And I'm like...
00:42:03
Speaker
Okay, let me have Let me try to do something with it. You know what I'm saying? So, um yeah. So, I capped out at 400 pairs. uhu I sold out in five days. That's crazy.
00:42:17
Speaker
Liz sold out in two days due to, you know, like, She's doing, um donating it to, you know, mental health and stuff like that. yeah I know everyone's going to gravitate towards that. yeah And then with me, it was like a simple five posts. I didn't like leak.
00:42:31
Speaker
I'd tease here and there, but, you know, I felt like my my thing was very organic. And the sneaker community really supported as in like, they were seeing me as...
00:42:46
Speaker
um Sean Wenderspoon. Yeah. You know how he has issues, but he's a reseller. Right. What Nike person will work with a reseller? Right. Exactly. You know what to say So it was kind of that market point like that. so it was just like, oh, OK. No. yeah you Yeah. You separated yourself by being an outside. Yeah. You know, and so everybody connected with you because they knew you.
00:43:07
Speaker
i just I just felt like it was more organic because it's like not a, nowadays as an influencer, companies want to go for influencers because they're popular at the time. But it doesn't mean that they've been outside knowing the culture. So I just felt like I put in a enough pain for where people believe in me to be like, no, he's authentic. yeah yeah He's not doing it for a cloud or whatever. So that's how I felt.
00:43:33
Speaker
Know what saying? And that's how I feel too, with anything. I mean, these are nice, man. like Hell yeah. Shoot. Now you make me go out. I'm going to have to find my own pair. The only. Hell yeah. And then the back. And then in the back. Yeah. The back says stay woke.
00:43:48
Speaker
It says stay woke. I got inspired by, you know, because at the time I was doing political stuff with my tags. Yeah. And also stay woke was an influence as well as on a song.
00:44:02
Speaker
Uh huh. Redbone. Redbone, yes. So I used to listen to Redbone a lot. and Me too. now That's one of my go-to karaoke songs. You know what I mean? So a lot of people don't know that that's kind of influence from that too as well. I mean, yeah. Because now I'm seeing it like when you look at the back because you use the same colors as the cover of the album cover. Exactly. And so, yeah, that's fire. Yeah.
00:44:28
Speaker
Hell yeah. It's fire. The, so did this propel you to pursue art more? So when my bio, so, so Nike wanted us to tell a story.
Pandemic's Influence on Artistic Development
00:44:41
Speaker
Yeah.
00:44:42
Speaker
The story was, you know, like, what's my story? not a reseller, right? More like me being like, I think the statement, the bold statement was and my bio was, you know, up and coming artists, you know, that wants to see see his town as a coloring book.
00:45:03
Speaker
But also wants to let people know that to stay woke from your surroundings of everything. yeah And one day I'll be the next cause. That's how that was the statement I put out there.
00:45:15
Speaker
And that was the story I went with. And everyone else had a story. And I'm saying they have a ah agenda of why and this. Right. So this was my why. And fast forward, this is when everything was coming with Air Max had my whole year planned out until COVID hit.
00:45:34
Speaker
Yeah. Crazy. So since Nike looked into me as an artist, this is where like, okay, I'm to take art more seriously. Yeah. That was my turning point. Yeah. Where like, okay, COVID is happening.
00:45:49
Speaker
Foot Locker apps is happening. They're trying to eliminate camping out. I don't want to do online. Yeah. I don't want to get a bot. I know how to get it, but I don't want to. I'd rather physically go get it myself. Right, yeah. And have 10 other bodies with me and just go get it. You know what saying? I'd rather do the old-fashioned way, but it was like maybe it's my time to turn point, maybe take COVID, like that whole, like, um how do you say that? That sit down, like. um The quarantine?
00:46:19
Speaker
The quarantine to, like, just focus on my craft, bro. Yeah. And i was just trying to focus on getting better. um That was my main goal after that, during that whole downtime.
00:46:32
Speaker
Like I wasn't going out to network parties and stuff like that. I was trying to support everybody. know what saying? At that moment. And I felt like I would have been on a higher peak if I didn't have COVID. yeah I mean, not me, but if i did if COVID didn't hit, right yeah my whole calendar would have been lit right now. But...
00:46:50
Speaker
Shit happens, bro. Oh, yeah. You... Mm-hmm. You know, I definitely wanted to touch on, like, you know, because when I feel like it's a... I don't know if it's a soft area for you, but, like, when crack when crack passed... Yeah, man. That hit hard, bro. Yeah.
00:47:05
Speaker
Yeah,
Honoring Crack with a Mural
00:47:06
Speaker
man. You know, you did a you did a beautiful murrial mural for him. Yeah. You did shirts. I'm still trying to find a mural. It's not easy to find. Yeah, yeah. Where, like, I could ask an establishment, like, you know, like...
00:47:20
Speaker
Obviously, my goal is to, I wanted to do Orchard Street. yeah yeah There's a wall, but it's like, it's kind of difficult to do, to ask, because you have to ask his landlord. It's not even the store owner that's in the store. They're just renting it. You what I'm saying? They have nothing to do with that. It's just like, I'm trying to find either there or Jersey, where he's from.
00:47:39
Speaker
You know, I knew crack for a long time, bro. Even the beginning, like, you know, he started coming around with RV and everybody else and stuff. And, like, we went to Arbazil, you know what I'm saying? We was doing Arbazil Ones. remember he came out. I remember seeing him, know what I'm saying? Like, we wasn't cool at that time. Yeah, yeah,
00:47:59
Speaker
But, like, we started to, like, you know, once the community gets together and then, you know, like, New York versus everybody. Exactly, know what saying? So it was more like that. So, you know, At that time, I was working on art and all that. wasn't in the sneaker culture, but I'm always in contact. Like, if I'm in the city, I'll stop by Volt.
00:48:19
Speaker
I'll chill with crack and everyone else for like an hour yeah until they close. yeah And then I just bounce. But even prior to that, even before they even opened the store, I did the whole gate. Mm-hmm. RV hit me up and then we just chilled. I remember that day like yesterday. We ordered food and smoked and we was just talking like the future. You know what I'm saying?
00:48:37
Speaker
it was all that. So, you know, crack was, Javi was, you know, He was killing it, bro. Yeah, he was. You know, he was the only one that was elevating out of this whole thing.
00:48:50
Speaker
know saying? I feel like, you know, his connections, you know, a lot of people have backdoor connections and stuff like that. But him, he was building something. Oh, yeah, for sure. For everybody. And especially that community. And it was all wholesome and stuff like that. so I mean, yeah, he would he would help out cool Kai while but doing his drops out there. Exactly. Yeah, like.
00:49:09
Speaker
And shout out to Kai for, you know, because I knew Kai. yeah It's a lot of people I knew That's up now yeah I knew Kai when he was doing Club Foreign You what saying This is like way before And you know we grew this relationship And where honestly when I did that piece for Crack It was just for me yeah I wasn't planning to do t-shirts I wasn't doing that was My whole agenda was just to release some stress Because The last thing that I got for Crack Was the planes hat yeah
00:49:41
Speaker
Because he gave me his car information just to go buy know what saying? So um that was the last thing I had of him. and And I gave it to Cooley. um The hat that he purchased. And they were like the same size. So I just felt like, instead of me hoarding it, know saying? I'd rather give it to someone that was even closer to crack, which was Cooley in love.
00:50:02
Speaker
So I gave it to Cooley. And... You know, and shout out to Kai for doing the shirts for us. Yeah. Because it was just a very last minute thing. And I was like, I'm on board for it bro. As long as me and the crew get it first, I don't care how everything goes.
00:50:19
Speaker
I'm fine with that, bro. Yeah. And just to show some type of preach appreciation of like him and and everyone else, bro, like, because we was hurting, bro. Yeah. I mean. We was hurting, bro. I've seen lot of, you know, long-lived cracks on my on my timeline. I didn't know how many people actually like,
00:50:36
Speaker
knew him i've only met him i like i ran into him one time at complex con okay but i really had didn't have like a full interaction with him i know robbie robbie digital yeah like kind of introduced me into him because we were having a conversation yeah i didn't really have like a i did that i did have like an idea of like oh i should probably have him on an episode one time oh yeah you know his his passing was like just shocked the shock the sneaker community it shocked us yeah it shocked me shocked everybody I had people hitting me up with like, is this true? And I woke up to that.
00:51:07
Speaker
And I'm here like, what are you talking about? Right, yeah. Know what I'm saying? um Yeah, we was hurt, bro. Although we was a dysfunctional family. just Amongst us, like everyone knows who I'm talking about. what I'm saying? Whoever was in this group chat, and we're still in this group chat, you know, um you know dysfunctional family, but we still, you know, hold each other down and and shit like that. So it's been like 10 plus years, bro.
00:51:33
Speaker
Outside. Yeah. Outside. You know what I'm saying? and And that's why I was trying to say in my, I don't know if you read the caption, but like, we made history, bro. Yeah. You what I'm saying? And a lot shit a lot a lot of shit changed, bro. Yeah, for sure. I know you mentioned the Planes hat and now you got a Planes collab. is that like ah that well Did you think about that moment? Like, you know, it started with Crack asking you to cop up Planes hat and now you have your own? Yeah.
00:51:57
Speaker
um That was like during the thing, honestly Like he asked me because he seen the hat And he was like, yo, I need that, bro I need that I'm like, I got you, I got you Oh, this is the first the first release? were you The first release Yeah, yeah This was last year, June 6th Yeah, yeah um The way I got that was Shout out to my homie Jay from Plains He was a podcaster as well Yannick?
00:52:21
Speaker
Yannick. That's the homie, man. That's the homie. Shout out to Jay, bro. Shout out to Jay, man. And he started a podcast called I So Boom. So you know that one, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was on his episode one day, but I was collabing with my boy that made Save Mankind.
00:52:40
Speaker
and And that's how I got in contact with Jay. And he put me as a guest to go talk about sneakers and stories and stuff like that. But he introduced me as an artist. So it was like, cool.
00:52:52
Speaker
And that's when he was working like corporate for Locker at the time. And then later on, I think that's when COVID hit or pre-COVID. This was during COVID, I think. and we just, he was just fast forward to different career paths.
00:53:03
Speaker
I believe it was Phila's. Don't quote me. Okay. But it was like. he created the Phila disruptor. No. I know he was with a company, a shoe company that, um whatever, right? yeah And then transferred to planes. yeah And maybe like a few months later or a year, maybe, I'm not too sure, he hit me with the...
00:53:26
Speaker
Yo, you're next. Yeah. That's fire. Yeah. Yo, bro, you're next. I'm like, all right, bet. And that's when we started working, bro. Ever since now. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:37
Speaker
But definitely talk about it because you got the Subway series. I want to hear i want to hear about this as a Mets fan. I want to hear about this Subway series. Okay.
Collaboration with Paper Planes
00:53:45
Speaker
but so So, like, do you want to hear about how the first planes came about and then go into that? Yeah, for sure. So, first planes last year, June 6th. Yeah.
00:53:55
Speaker
Almost a year. Uh-huh. um You know We had the meeting Everyone liked it I was doing a Puerto Rican launch Yeah um That was like the agenda And also I could get my thing as well Which is the plane Yeah You know Two birds with one stone Everyone loved it um Everything was selling out quick The hat Wasn't supposed to be in the picture Oh no So They hit me with the Like When I first had the meeting They were like Hey um You want
00:54:26
Speaker
you want some hats for your, for your team? Like it was just plain Yankee hats with the, with the plane right here. Yeah. so I'm like, yeah. And then I can do whatever I want with it. Right. Yeah. AM PM. Shout out to um Joe. Yeah. Shout out Joe.
00:54:40
Speaker
um He, he, um he had his gallery and shout out to Jeff. Mm hmm. Jeff was doing Jeff Rose. Sorry, Jeff Rose. Shout out Jeff Rose. Shout out Jeff Rose, bro. Recently just did a ah nice hat pop up as well.
00:54:56
Speaker
So it couldn't the same thing last year. Yeah. May 9th. He did the same thing last year. Right. So I did my hats. Right.
00:55:07
Speaker
And I did it in a way of like, you know i had stars in the front, then the address and then the Bronx kid who got lucky and then the Zanes in the back. Right. My vision was to have a fade effect. It wasn't working. I i didn't have someone that was trying to do it um that that couldn't do it at the time. But it was but I was still working on it Right.
00:55:29
Speaker
So I did the promo hat, you know, for the for the drop. but The whole thing was just the announcement. The announcement was on the hat. Yeah, yeah. It said June 6th, and then the store location, Paper Planes. Yeah.
00:55:43
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So no one was really grasping it yeah at that day until I was telling them. And then, oh, okay. And then when I actually posted it, everyone just went bonkers. yeah And then Jay hit me with like, yo, man, we got to do this hack some way, somehow. This feedback is insane. yeah And I'm like, what?
00:56:09
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Alright Let's do it And then we just did You know third party stuff Whatever And then When the day came The hat sold out In 12 minutes Yeah, I remember that.
00:56:20
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and people was waiting outside the store when it opened. And i wasn't selling it until I got there. That's crazy. So everything sold out. Community love gets behind you, man. Yeah, Community gets behind you, man. love that. now, fast forward, you know um you know, Jay hit me with the, yo, round two.
00:56:43
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Running it back. And it wasn't it wasn't even him that that that put me on to this one. It was the team yeah in planes. Because you know you know how you're doing your calendar and stuff. Who are we going to put this person? they They recommended me. And I'm like...
00:57:02
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I'm cool. Yeah. But we got to do everything early now. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And, you know, i was working with New Era since like maybe last year, November.
00:57:14
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Until now. Yeah. And now it's more official tissue because now it's New Era. They put it. They put together. They manufactured all my hats. That's crazy.
00:57:25
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And which is mind blowing because it's a lot of politics, bro. Yeah, yeah I bet. So I had to deal with planes, how to deal with, but I'm here, you know, you know, but getting it to getting it to there was yeah from New Era and Yankees.
00:57:41
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So if you're doing something on their hat, the Yankees had to get involved. Right, yeah, I've heard that. I've heard it's really hard to get them behind you. Yeah, so it just transpired like that. And the only thing i was... They were like they're probably like, you got to do five shots at Billy's. Yeah.
00:58:01
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the The promo shot, the the promo video that you did too that you dropped was dope. Like I love the just the subtle hints, you know, just you outside a Yankee Stadium. Oh, yeah. That shit was hard. So that's the way. and I don't even like Yankee Stadium. that's yeah this my friend Yeah.
00:58:18
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Like I felt like we was trying to figure out how can we make this very organic. Yeah. And I'm very simple, bro. And simple is the way to go. Yeah. And it's- D-O-T-S. Don't overthink shit.
00:58:30
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Don't overthink shit. know what mean? So it was perfect how the icy lady was there. We had pay her like at least $10 to move. Yeah. Just for the shot. And then she went back. Can scoot over? but i would know I'm paying you. i'm paying you. so So like she moved over and then we did that shot. And then um this is before I left to LA. Mm-hmm.
00:58:52
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Oh, yeah, for the Fortnite joint. Yo, that was fire too, bro. I just came back like two days ago. yeah I'm glad you came back to do this, man. Hell yeah, man. But you brought you brought a surprise.
00:59:05
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Yes. You want to show this off too? Yeah. Let me see that. me see that you go
00:59:12
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And so this is the official. Crazy official 5950 new era.
00:59:24
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and need that ah Yankee, not Yankee. Well, Yankee's right here. yankees's there I got it right here, what this is the official Subway series with New Era. um You know, we got the Zanes in the back fading. Crazy. No, mean, we got Paper Planes, obviously. Shout out to Paper Planes.
00:59:42
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And then, you know, we're going into the Q-Borough, which is for Queensborough. And then, you know, Sun Sipu. And then just a plain, you know, orange and and and on blue. You know what I'm saying? Pin not included, unfortunately, but we got this pin included.
00:59:57
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But, yeah, so this is the new That's sick, man. And then going to switch my hat, you know, so you won't see my hair. And then we got the whole Yankee drop, too, as well.
01:00:08
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Dropping Saturday. By the time this drops, it's already there. Yeah, they're gone. You have to get on eBay for them. Stock for those.
01:00:19
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I mean, you could get Stock X with those. I mean, somebody, you're going to see this. Just go cop. Go cop. So we're we're towards the end of the podcast, man. I want you to deal with. I got a last question that deals with yoga feels visualization.
01:00:33
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I want you to think back when you were a younger kid and you were about to get those Citrus 7s. Yeah. Right? Now you're you transported behind your younger self. What would you tell your younger self as they open that box? Take care of them.
01:00:45
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Take care of them. Because it was like I was wearing them down because those were like the only cool shoes I had. yeah I was trying to like You were everybody, you know i'm saying? And now it's like, i funny enough, like I was younger looking at my cousins, my older cousins like with the shoes and stuff. yeah Even my uncle, you know what I mean? like With the Air Forces, cleaning it, you know, don't be a poop putt.
01:01:08
Speaker
Don't be a poop putt. That's crazy. You know what I'm talking about, man. Yeah, I do what you're talking about, but that's crazy. You what mean? So I was in that era, bro. So it was like... What the hell? And now I surpassed them in a way of like, I got too much shoes, bro.
01:01:25
Speaker
Yeah. i don't even wear half of my stuff. It's just sitting. Comes with territory now, man. Comes with the territory. I mean, I ran out of room. don't have room anymore. know what I'm saying? I boxes that are being crushed right now. Because they're just, I never take, usually I'm like, oh, I got to get to the bottom.
01:01:41
Speaker
You know, get the one for bottom. And I'm like, oh, man. I hate that shit, bro. This sucks. This sucks. But um for me to tell my younger self, ah I was about to shoot?
01:01:53
Speaker
No. Just like, what would you tell your younger self as they open that box? Keep going. Keep going. Keep going with this. Mm-hmm. I wish I was... I think I would say that like don't because i remember the sneakers at the time.
01:02:08
Speaker
You know, I had a shorty at a time. She wasn't into me reselling. yeah I was paying all the bills. Yeah. And it was like, don't listen to her. Yeah.
01:02:19
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I think I would have had a storm. Oh, yeah, for sure. You what I'm saying? So it was just whatever. But don't let anyone. Dictate. Dictate or get you out your zone if you're passionate about something. You know what saying?
01:02:32
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So that's what I would tell my youngest self. Fire, Open up that box. Hell, yeah. Hell yeah. I like that. That was dope. Open up that box. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let everybody know where to find you one more time.
01:02:44
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All platforms. Zang Styles. Make sure you you tap into his art. if you chat If you see a mural that he's done, like you did the gate for. um I did it for crack. Yeah. You did it for
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01:02:55
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crack, but you also did. I'm talking about ah recently you did the one for the ah cuts and slices.
01:03:00
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Yes, I did Cuss and Slices. Shout out to Randy. That's my brother right there. Hell yeah. um And I think the most known one right now is the camera mural on the 125th.
01:03:11
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So if you see the 125th one, twenty fifth one you know I have my tag there. like My socials is on there. so Tag me when you find me. Tag me. Yeah, tag me.
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01:03:18
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01:03:27
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01:03:40
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and You know what we say each week. Wear your kicks. Peace.