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SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Saturday, September 12th, 2009
You are not ready…
NIKE has begun to unveil the latest design for the LeBRON JAMES signature basketball shoes. These joints are FIYAHVERKS. I haven’t liked a LeBreezy shoe up to this point because they all seemed too chunky and bootlike. I just didn’t care for their profile. Don’t act like you were fuxing with them either despite the fact that LeBRON has the best NIKE commercials evar. Better than the JORDAN Mars spots even.
The LeBRON VII(7) has evolved into a very nice shoe. I’m excited that NIKE chose to retain some of the features that were part of the scrapped design of the VI(6). The patined leather is one of LeBRON’s favorite treatments from back in his Air Jordan collecting days. I’m a big fan of the total Air Max platform. NIKE has figured a way to create an Air max footbed strong enough to support the rigors of a professional athlete while exposing the entire length of the foot. This is the future.
As if the Air Max platform for these shoes wasn’t enough of an evolutionary leap we see that the upper is constructed with the new Flywire carbon fiber technology. It was already impossible to keep LeBRON on the ground. With these new Flywire Air Max shoes on it looks like LeBRON JAMES will pwn the upper atmosphere. Up, up and away.
WU YORK CITY…
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2 continues the real Hip-Hop takeover takeback of NYC.
Last nite the Wu show came to the legendary Sounds of Brazil in SoHo.
Just wait until Raekwon goes the Roots Jam Session @ the Highline Ballroom.
My stannery will finds it zenith.
Believe it. I seen it.
To Kill A Mouse…
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
I can’t front when I tell you how sad I was that Marvel Entertainment was being acquired by the Disney Corporation. I felt like Marvel had just turned a corner with their motion pictures production company and I was very hopeful that I would see more media that lent itself to the renegade storytelling capacity which their comicbooks had possessed for decades.
The Iron Man movie and the latest Hulk feature film were the proof positive as well as Marvel’s animation department which turned out some great features earlier this year. That Hugh Jagoff Wolverine P.O.S. (piece-o-shit) wasn’t totally Marvel’s fault because their studio didn’t have final say. Actually, Wolverine was the kind of film I could imagine coming from the Disney camp.
The final details for the acquisition stil haven’t been made public but the language that has been bandied about so far is foreboding of what you can think a multinational corporation does when they takeover a property. The deals that Marvel has made with other movie studios can’t be altered. Yet. But don’t think that Disney’s lawyers won’t be hands-on for everything.
You can rest assured that Balactus will never see the light of day again. Disney lawyers are infamously venomous in protecting the iconography they own. They have no reservations about taking candy from babies or slapping women on a Sunday. With almost 4 billion dollars on the line they are going to be extra aggressive in making sure they get their money’s worth.
Maybe I’m just a horrible cynic though? Maybe this was the deal that STAN LEE always wanted in the first place? To have his body cryogenically frozen in the same icebox as racist ass WALT DISNEY. Too bad that JACK KIRBY went to the blue side of the moon several years ago. This pic of STAN LEE makes me think of HUGH HEFNER [ll]. Now I wonder when Disney will purchase Playboy?
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Rap music fans have been treated to some rare air over the last few weeks. I’ve listened to the latest Raekwon the Chef and Jay-Z albums. I also sat in a session for the debut Kid Cudi CD. All of this music will provide something unique for their fans and people that enjoy good music. What came to my mind was that I could relate these albums to something else I am extremely fond of – Sneakers. Each of these albums reminds me a respective pair of footwear.
The Air Jordan XI pictured above is considered to be one of the GOAT’s GOAT sneakers. The details and the materials used were revolutionary and trendsetting. The Air Jordan XI’s were released in October 1995, a few months after the release of the seminal rap album Only Built For Cuban Linx. Both the Air Jordan XI’s and the album OB4Cl have stood the test of time to become regarded as classics in the own right. So what footwear would I use to describe these new albums being released?
Spiz’Zike boot – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
The OB4CL2 sequel makes me think of the new Spiz’Zike boots. These shoes are going to knock the Timberlands and even the ACG boots off the block. The Spiz’Zike contains all of the dopest elements of previous Air Jordans but it is revisioned and updated for 2009 and beyond. OB4CL2 is classic Wu-Tang material that describes the highs and lows of street life. The wins and the losses. The joy and the pain. Kiss the ring, or the 6 rings.
Air Yeezy (tan colorway) – Man On The Moon: The End Of Day
If I could have copped one colorway of the Air Yeezy shoes it would have been the tan version. This pair had the best leather of them all and really showed off the details of this unique shoe. Kid Cudi helped KanYe West craft a classic album with 808’s & Heartbreak, but it isn’t an album that many boom bap rap fans can reach in their mental wheelhouse. It is a futuristic album that Cudi has shaped with his project. Many of the ideas he brought to the 808’s project have been placed on his debut. The compositions are orchestral and the strings are highlighted nicely. The shoestrings on the Yeezy’s have a sick lacelock as well.
Roc-A-Wear boot? – Blueprint 3
The Roc-A-Wear boots look like a wild mashup of Timberlands and Creative Recreations with a faux fur lining to add that extra level of implied luxury. Maybe using the Timbaland influence wasn’t the best idea for these shoes. Did I just say Timbaland? Oops. Freudian slip. I’m not sure if these are sneakers, boots, sandals or slippers. I don’t even think renowned internets celebrity and blogging tastemaker Combat Jack would still wear these. I’m sure these Roc-A-Wear joints will be popular though. How can they not be? It’s the Roc bitch!
*BONUS BEATS*BONUS BEATS*BONUS BEATS*
Shallah Raekwon – ‘Sneakers’