Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Survey Sayz

People are alawayz commenting on tha way I walk. I've been told I look lazy, my principal told me she liked tha way I carry myself and some sucka even told me I walk like I think I'm tha shxt. I wuz like yee thatz a common misconception doggy...I "know" I'm tha shxt. But on some real talk tha walk aint intentional, itz just me, but my homie say it came from me tryin not to damage my sneakers over time. I disagreed so we conducted a study. An observation to see how people with nice shoes walked vs.how tha people with tha less luxurious sneakz walked. With a consistancy, tha peepz with tha nice kickz were tha people walking with a slow limp and were trying to avoid contact with other people. Tha ones with tha run down shoes on tha other hand were tha people with tha questionable behavior. We witnessed them runnin in tha dirt, I spotted untied laces being walked on and we even saw. Peepz walkin on tha back of shoes. We came to tha conclusion that people with nice sneakerz tend to have more juice in their walk than tha people who don't care what they wear. Keep it simple except on ur feet.

Mi$terknowz

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Hypebeast!

When will these kids learn u can't sell a shoe for its retail price if tha shoe has been worn outta near deadstock condition!?!? If there are any damages to tha shoe its value decreases. And plz<--- I said plz stop tryna sell sneakers for more than wha they are worth, especially if u got them from someone else and they were worn before u got them.
Maybe someday ull understand this game.

Limited just wont cut it anymore. Sneskers gotta be ultra exclusive to get any attention. But what does that mean for ur pockets?

Now that everyone with a pair or Jordans or SB Dunks is calling themselves sneakerheads, many sneaker companies are having field day with pricing their exclusive merchandise. As a result, sneakerheads have to cough up as much as $1000 to cop tha rarest of kicks. A pair of authentic What The Dunks by Nike SB could net up to $1,400 and that's if they.aren't deadstock. While sky high prices are often caused by limited availability, other factors can be tha companies who are collaborating to make tha sneaker. For instance, tha dunk SB Tiffany, a collab between Nike and skateboarding co. 5iamond Supply, are priced high for all tha above.
However, now that "amatuer" buyers are copping at Clientele and Flight Club, off tha wall exclusives just aren't going to get tha same amount of attention. In Americas consumer driven society, there's always a higher level of luxury to attain. Which means high priced exclusives are replacing tha more generally released semi exclusives. "Its that drive to be socially mobile. Or atleast appear to be so by dressing accordingly" -Chris Gibbs.

Tha Roots

Before brands like Ice Cream and Bape came to tha light, dudes wuz wearin miami heat jerseys with fubu jean shorts and worn down reeboks wit tha straps. Not to mention tha way they wore 6x red t-shirts with a pair of long paco jeans tucked inside their socks, inside a pair of all white air forces with red laces to match tha shirt. With brands like 10 Deep, The Hundreds, Play Cloths and etc. rising in popularity we have artists like Kanye West, Pharrell and Curren$y to thank for our dress code evolution. Before I started skatin I wuz only rockin Scifen and LRG fit and strictly jordans; I looked in my closet earlier today and it wuz filled with Nike SB Dunks skinny jeans and Zoo York v-necks. But all of that didn't get me thinkin, it wuz my skateboard that made me start wonderin "how in tha hell did I get into this?" Then it came to me... Tha Cream team. I owe most of it to tha Ice Cream skate team. As a matter of a fact we all do. I remember when bape sneakers dropped back when I was in tha 8th grade everybody thought they wuz bootleg Nikes[myself not included] and used to clown anybody who wore em. But by tha time I made it to 9th grade, everybody and they mama had a pair of Bapes. Especially those Batman Bapes. And thatz when everybody changed how they dressed. If it wuznt for Bathen ape jackets and Ice Cream tennis shoes u would probably still be wearin those jerseys that died out with Master P and his P miller clothing effort. We all owe a token to Bape and Ice cream so don't forget ur rootz. Throw a Bape picture up on ur Facebook or a Ice Cream layout on ur myspace to show ur gratitude.