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SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

lucha libre

What’s more like wrestling than rap music? The heroes and the bad guys all work out of the same headquarters. Universal Music Group holds all the cards on the drama fest. The rest of us just watch from outside of the ring screaming and shouting, hoping for a little bit of fake blood to be spilled.

ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?!?

Very much so. Even more so after I received these designs representing the best album of 2007 and my favorite rap album of all time. As we wrap up the DP Dot Com x NIKE iD Design cage match the thing that I have loved the most has been the enthusiastic responses from readers that I didn’t even know were in the building. Glad to know that you folks are out there.

Sneaker Fiends Unite!

The Graduate Air Max 1

graduation

KanYe West might be the be the only rapper who could find some gear to match this swagger.

graduations

The Purple Tape Air Max 1

the purple tape

Enjoy these joints because there won’t be an OB4CL2.

purple tapes

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

divas

Awwwwww ish! Where the ladies at?!? I see some of the females that can handle the truth are throwing their hats in the ring for the Sneaker Fiends United NIKE iD cage match. There ain’t nothing sexier than a shorty with a crispy pair of kicks on and a lollipop in her mouth.

The around the way shorty that has climbed in the ring is my homey TY TY (no Jigga) from Strong Island. Let’s see how hard she comes in…

Divas Air Max ’90

divas

The Divas.

All I know is that homegirl in the red is definitely fucking.

divas am90

Citrus Fire Air Max 1

pink grapefruit
Get your daily recommended dosage of Vitamin C along with some icy white snakeskin.

citrus fire am1

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Saturday, October 20th, 2007

cage match

The Sneaker Fiends United NIKE iD cage match is going down so icy!

Shouts to everybody that sent me their designs. I won’t be able to post all of them because some of you didn’t send me a .jpg file. What’s up with that?! I’m here in a public library with a gotdamn flash drive. Y’all niggas should see how bootlegg my operation is. I need for y’all to give me LESS work to do, not more. Shouts to everyone that follows directions.

If you ain’t got shit to do today and you are in the NYC then come through NIKETOWN for the grand opening of the new iD Design Studio. CLARK KENT will be on the set as well as some other celeb status peoples and even a few internets celebrities. I see you over there PardonMeDuke. Holla at your boy.

NIKETOWN
6 East 57th Street, NYC

Saturday 10-20-2007
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Doors crack @ 10:00am

Enough with the promo already. You already know what it is. If you don’t just sodomize yourself with a salad spoon and a two-liter soda bottle.

Let’s get ready to RRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMBLE!

I chose these five designs to set shit off because all of these cats went in hard[ll] with their creativity and inspiration. At the end of the day if you take anything of value from this site let it be known that you are part of a creative community.

*sings NaS ‘I Can’ as he brings out challengers*

Crystal Blue Gator Air Max 1

blue gator

The Blues Brothers never had this much swagger.

Chuuuch!

blue gator

Mickey D Air Max ’90

mickey d

How the hell does Ronald McDonald stay so slim after eating all of those effin’ Ghetto Big Macs?!?

mcd am90

The Chronic Air Max 360

chronic
“The Chronic. Pure Greens. Nuff said. Too bad they didn’t have browns available, cause we all know you need a little of the brown to add some spice.” –LionXL

chronic 360

Punch Out Air Max 1

iron mike

Straight laced in all black croc skin (because they’re more aggressive than ‘gators) with a hint of red to symbolize the canvas he would fight on, the gloves that he wore and the blood that he would come to extract in various ways.

In 1987 Iron Mike added the WBA belt to his collection, he was already the youngest and most vicious champ in history and it was also the year that “Tyson Mania” became rampant ie. Nintendo’s release of Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The man never faked the funk, and for that reason he became a boxing god.

“My power is discombobulatingly devastating I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It’s ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.” – Iron Mike

iron mike am1

Brown Hornet Air Max 1

brown hornet

I am copping these.

brown hornet am1

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

88 car

At one of these afterwork mixers(read: some random open bar shit) I met this cute lil’ miss fat booty who works for some ad agency that promotes NASCAR. She was telling me about the push that NASCAR was going to make to become sexy to the urban racing fans(read: jigs).

It’s about fucking time NASCAR decided to get some of this good green negro money. We can’t be giving all our cake to only TYLER PERRY. I just hope I don’t have to suffer through Funkmaster Flex’s monkey ass as the connection to Black America. The little homey T.I. would have been good money until he caught the virus called a Federal indictment. That cough right there is worse than the AIDS. Too bad NaSir Jones doesn’t have a valid driver’s license. Any whip he owns would be automatically NaS’ car.

So who is going to be the Black Moses Earnhardt that leads the people to the chosen land of 200mph car crashes and more brand advertising than a KanYe West album? I guess I will go in with it. Hopefully I can get a free pair of kicks out of the deal.

SNICKERS Air Max 1

snickerz am1

I’ve decided to make the #88 car driven by Ricky Rudd the official DP Dot Com NASCAR vehicle. I am staying away from the Nextel Cup’s points leader Jeff Gordon’s #24 car, mainly because that nigga’s nickname is the ‘Rainbow Warrior’. Extra [ll] to that moniker. Anybody can ride with the front runner. I’m going with the nigga that has no chance of winning shit. Ricky Rudd represents the Black man’s plight in America.

Secondly, how hardbody is the name Ricky Rudd? He just sounds like someone who grew up without any indoor plumbing.

Lastly, I like Snickers. And I like sneakers.

rudd

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

artic camo

I am about to lose my rabbit eating mind up in this piece. 40 D’s kicks were crazy bananas. I almost don’t know how to come behind that drop[ll]. I was working on some shit with the Air Max 360 so I thought I’d throw these up on the wall. It’s fun to iD a pair of retro kicks like the Air max 97’s or the Air Max 90’s because of the optional colorways that each shoe can adopt.

NIKE also makes some of their current models available for customization too. When you get freaky with a pair of new shoes you really get the prolonged stares and the occasional question, “Where’d you copp those?!?” As a sneaker fiend those are the moments that you live for.

I decided to go away from using a pair of the retro Air max styles and instead I create a pair in the new 360 platform. NIKE often uses the year of issuance as part of the description for their Air max offerings. They went away from that pattern once before with the creation of the Air max 180 back in 1991. Fifteen years later they developed an air sole unit so totally evolutionary they called it the Air Max 360.

It is the ultimate shoe in comfort and functionality. The air sole now encompasses the entire footbed. The shoes upper is made with breatable mesh and contains several areas and stripes of 3M material. 3M material reflects light at night and is a safety measure perfect for running around the park or recklessly styling on motherfuckers. Guess which one I’ll be doing?

They shootin’! Made you look.

DP Dot Com Shoeterz Air Max 360

shoeterz 360

shoeterz 360

shoeterz 360