Archive for January, 2011

For Bally There Is No Competition…

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

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When I was a teenager there was nothing that symbolized dopeboy swag more than a pair of Bally shoes. This is why I felt so official when I copped my first and only pair of Bally sneakers from the Fulton Street mall. Before Nike was charging fools a yard for the Air Jordan I was paying a buck for Bally tennis shoes.

The Competition is still the GOAT tennis shoe in my mind. I can’t even find a pair of them on the web to show y’all how dope they were. I did come up on this image of the classic Bally slip-on walker. These is the joints that if you stepped on his foot at the Rooftop roller rink MC Ricky D would shoot you about.

For those of you keeping score at home…

Bally >>> British Walkers >>> Clark Wallabees

That is some super OG real talk. Ask Mandela.

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HYPEBEASTS UNITE!

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

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The zenith of aspirations inside of the sneaker culture is the Air Jordan brand. Artists and designers are still inspired to create new designs for the brand despite the fact that the player who made these shoes famous has long since retired from p[laying basketball in the shoes.

In the early days of Air Jordan hype it was reported that people would be willing to kill someone to acquire a pair. There should be a salute to the marketers of these shoes that even after a quarter of a century people are still believing the hype.

Shout out to the editor of that nightly news clip. Too bad NYC doesn’t get as buckwild as Humble, Texas. I guess that’s cause most people in NYC stopped believing the hype.

The Air Jordan XIII ‘Playoffs’ will be dropping in a few weeks. I’ll beast for these joints with a Sneaker Fiends Unite video documentary.

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The White World of Sports Journalism…

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

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Chocolate Snowflake bought me this book and I will give it to anyone who wants to read it. I called bullshit on this book early. It smacks of the privilege that white folks in America enjoy on the daily even when they don’t acknowledge how the game is tilted in their favor.

It’s within those parameters of unacknowledged privilege that mainstream sports reporting tells the story of athletes in America. Why Brett Favre is heroic even tho’ he paralyzed and later crippled a NFL team and while his disclosures of infidelity and general churlishness don’t mete the call of being out of bounds. Let’s not even speak on Michael Vick, or Michael Irvin, or Mike Tyson.

Peep this article to see how deep it gets…

The White World of Sports Journalism

KanYe’s A Monster (Video Review)…

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

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“Twenty dead white bitches?!? Shit is ridiculous”

Over at TheBVX.com I posted some words on KanYe West’s not so beautiful, dark, twisted fantasy otherwise known as the music video for ‘Monster’.

What’s Going On In Kanye’s ‘Monster’ Video?

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Monday, January 3rd, 2011

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Hi ho, hi ho, it’s back to work we go…