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SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Friday, March 21st, 2008

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I am fucking with A.J. Wright something serious right now. The economy is still fucked the fuck up and I can’t afford to be buying shit at MSRP. Otherwise known as manufacturer’s suggested retail price. A.J. Wright is selling shit far below MSRP. These niggas damn near have thrift store prices. Take a look at the Air Tech Challenge Retro selling for a cool thirty cents.

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Their prices are so crazy I even considered copping these Dominican dancehall specials for when I wear my MC Hammer slacks and do the bachata. $11 yucks sonn! Yeah, I know, this would have been wild puerto rican Mexican of me to rock these, but c’mon… $11 NIGGA!

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Mi swagger es muy fantastico

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Monday, March 10th, 2008

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We on award tour…

This episode of S.F.U. details the hunt for one of the diamonds inside of the Holy Grail of sneaker collecting. My homey GrandMaster made a trip to NYC to copp himself a pair of the Air Tech Challenge retros (b/k/a the AGASSIs) in the GOAT O.G. colorway. After reading about 40 Diesel’s success in scoring a pair for twenty cent this was the motivation to take the Metro-North from New Haven and go on a mission with me through NYC.

Truth be told is that GrandMaster is on spring break from Yale University and on his way to Boston to wild out, but anyone who knows how to get around knows that you can save a grip on travel expenses by hopping on the Chinatown bus to anywhere. Sure you take your life in your hands, but for $15 to downtown Boston you can accept the odds. So before the jump to Beantown we linked to form a sneakers fiends Voltron.

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This was a classic NYC mission that took us through over a dozen sneaker stores in three different boros. We started off in BK at the mall on Fulton Street. BRUCE RATNER and Jay-Z haven’t totally gentrified downtown Brooklyn just yet and there are still some official sneaker spots to catch your general releases on discount as well as your hard to find quickstrikes and SB’s and what have you.

Brooklyn was hot to def, but we both set the parameters for today’s consumption on a particular meter. This way even if the hunt wasn’t totally a success we wouldn’t wind up spending too much of out trap on shit just because. This is a good model to use whenever you go on a sneaker mission.

  • a. Priority #1 – Locate Air Tech Challenge
  • b. Priority #2 – Spend < 40 cent ($)

  • The next stop from Brooklyn was the South Bronx. I know a gang of stores along Third Avenue that have sneakers at the right price. Even though there was a monsoon going on outside we trooped hardbody style on the NYC subway system. Peep the map.

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    The Dr.Jay’s at Third Avenue had crazy sales going on but no more Agassi’s left in the OG colorway. They had the black joints with the orange details for $40. Those joints are just aiight. This spot is 40 Deez sneaker headquarters since they specialize in sizes 14+. Further down the block we came up on a spot with the shoes we were hunting. Can you believe these fools were selling them for $100? Homeboy said he could make something happen with the price and I asked him if he could sell them for twenty. Since he couldn’t we kept it moving.

    Our next stop was Fordham Road which is a bit more upscale a shopping district than Third Avenue. Upscale in the sense that instead of $10 dress stores they have an A.J. Wright. Keep in mind this is still the Bronx. At Dr.Jay’s on Fordham Road we came across some tempting joints on super sale. The Highlighter Pack Air Max 95 360’s were marked down to fifty dollars (orig. MSRP = $200). They evenj had a Talaria boot for $60. Dr.Jay’s ‘urban’ account with NIKE allows them to retail some sick variations of shoes that won’t hit the normal general release markets.

    It was good for us that we remained focused through our mission because right across the street from Dr.Jay’s we hit the jackpot for discounted general release sneaker styles. Jimmy Jazz has an outlet center retail installation on Fordham Road and it was as ghetto as you might imagine. The front of the store sold slum gold and cellphones while the back of the store had all the sneakers. We found a grip of the O.G. colorway Air Tech Challenges in an array of sizes.

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    Let’s break it down like this…

    One day unlimited ride MetroCard = $7.50
    Nike Air Tech Challenge = $30.00
    Sneaker Fiends Unite! NYC tour = priceless

    Grandmaster and I wrapped up our day at one of my favorite burger joints in the city – Cozy Soup and Burger. That’s where the homey let me hear some of the music that he and his crew have been working on. I felt this track right here and who knows what could happen if this becomes a hit. Keep in mind, there are 1 Billion people in China. That’s a whole lot CD’s.

    Made In China – ‘Life & Memories’

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    STUFF BLACK PEOPLE LIKE…

    Friday, February 29th, 2008

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    What is so important about the website StuffWhitePeopleLike is the priceless information that it provides bringing you into the wheelhouse of white’s affections. It helps you understand why white moves the way they do and I think it removes some of the confusion to their motives. White really is good people after it’s all said and done, albeit they are quirky mofos.

    The same can be said bout Black folks too. The problems that arise among races is only because of the lack of understanding about what turns people on. What if white knew what Black people liked? Don’t you think that they would make it more accessible? Hellz yeah!?! If for no other reason than to get paid. Sheeeeeeeit.

    So as a method for facilitating better racial harmony and as a wrap up to my celebration of Jig History Month 2008 I decided to compile a list of the stuff that Black people like. I ask that all my white readers use this guide in order to better express your friendship for your Black friends and in case you don’t know any Black people let this guide be your entree into establishing a friendship with one of the darker skinned denizens of the planet Earth.

    You know you want to white people.

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    Blonde Black Girls
    It’s not just gentlemen that prefer blondes, but Black people as well, especially Black women. From BeYONCE to KEISHA COLE to MARY J. BLIGE, blonde is the new black. Any Black man with the means will always get himself the real authentic version, but for the rest of us we choose something like the woman in the above picture.

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    Car Washing
    Giving a Black man his propers after he has washed his car is like telling a woman that you like the shoes she is wearing. It makes the pain of the carnote worth every penny. For extra credit you can tell him that his wheels look especially shiny.

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    Fancy Wine
    Black people don’t like fancy wine for the same reasons that white enjoy it. White drinks wine. Black people use it to name their children. Rose, Chardonnay, Alize, just you wait until Black people find out that Cabernet ends with the same sounding pronunciation.

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    Kool-Aid
    This is the only grape shit that Black folks like to drink.

    cheddar biscuits

    Red Lobster Cheddar Biscuits
    It has been already been established that Black people love these things. I watch Black folks leave the Red Lobster in Westbury with plastic bags as if they had just gone food shopping. Why can’t Black folks just finish their dinner at the restaurant? Too many cheddar biscuits I suppose.

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    White Friends
    I have to thank GOD everyday for my white friends. Without them I would be firmly planted in the working class. With them on my team I am at least allowed to think that I can be middle class. Drinking wine > naming your children after wine.

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    Prisons
    Wealthy Black folks love prisons because that keeps the unsavory negroes in check.

    AND NOW… A WORD FROM OUR SPONSOR

    Friday, February 29th, 2008

    champeezy bitches!

    It’s Friday, and my ass is broker than a joke. I’m actually not broken in as much as I am dealing with a “temporary fiscal deficit”.

    Looks like it’s gonna be one of those weekends where my ass does mad free shit.

    * ‘Krush Groove’ screens tonite at the Grand Army Plaza central library.

    ** ‘Favela Rising’ screens tomorrow at the Brooklyn Museum of Art First Saturday. BMA’s First Saturday theme is Brazilian Night. So get out your samba shoes and come dance with a gaggle of Black Bebel Gilbertos.

    CAPTAIN BILLY SUNDAY’s PIRATE RADIO PODCAST

    Friday, February 29th, 2008

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    Thank you sweet Black History Month Jesus for giving us this extra day of February to freeze our nuttsachs off celebrating Africa.

    If there is one thing I would like to accomplish in my life it would be to move Black History Month to the same time of the year as “Harlem Week”. This way we can get all this Black Bullshit over with at the same time.

    Plus, you can’t celebrate Blackness properly when shit is bricker than a muv up in this muv.

    As usual, DP Dot Com likes to celebrate shit by giving away crap to his faithful readers. So along with this website’s FaceBook contest we will have a ‘Name That Negro’ music quiz. Whomever gets the most correct answers will win a FREE copy of the ‘Deep Cover’ DVD. This movie stars LAURENCE ‘Don’t Call Me Larry’ FISHBURNE as well as 40 DAWG’s role model, CLARENCE WILLIAMS III. “Deep Cover’ is widely considered to be required viewing as part of the Hip-Hop genre’s cinematic canon.

    I also have another copy left of ‘Escape From New York’ which stars ISAAC HAYES as the underworld godfather in a post-apocalyptic New York City. And as an added treat I will also give away my personal copy of the ‘Red Sonja’ movie starring a pre-crackhead, pre-Flavor Flav BRIGETTE NIELSEN.

    Like all the great slap-box champions would say, “Go for what you know…”

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    ** Post Script: [ll] and nullus to all this slow shit. This was supposed to be a Valentine’s Day podcast. Shit dropped late. So sue me.