Speaker 1: What's going on? Guys. I'm Easy Busta and this is
Speaker 1: Legit Check, the best number one sneaker in streitwear podcast
Speaker 1: in the world, self proclaimed by the way, Chais and
Speaker 1: blazoneder are are gonna be my co hosts. They were,
Speaker 1: I guess they were both kind of guests, so you know,
Speaker 1: now they're gonna be the co host and we have
Speaker 1: a very special guest. Andre, do you want to introduce
Speaker 1: yourself or Dre as you like to call yourself? What's
Speaker 1: up every Oh my god, what's up? Everybody? So embarrassing? Bro?
Speaker 1: I know, wasn't it like backflips right now? I'm Andre
Speaker 1: uh Croatian style, owner of Project Blitz. If you've ever
Speaker 1: entertained the idea of checking not, if you haven't checked
Speaker 1: out Project blitz dot com, you should definitely check it out.
Speaker 1: Shameless plug Dre. Dre is a really good friend of mine. Uh,
Speaker 1: I'd say his family and one of the o G
Speaker 1: s in the sneaker game, like if not the o
Speaker 1: G like the he's your plugs plug. You know, he's
Speaker 1: like that guy. So he's the man, the myth legend himself.
Speaker 1: He's here in the flesh. If you guys, haven't heard
Speaker 1: of him. He's at Croatian Style on Instagram. He is
Speaker 1: the founder and owner of Project Blitz, and it's pretty
Speaker 1: freaking awesome. Dude, Free, I can't believe you just said that.
Speaker 1: I might as well have said I might. I haven't
Speaker 1: said I might as well have said flipping dude. So, um,
Speaker 1: we have some questions for you, Dre. I definitely have
Speaker 1: a few. I'm sure that they probably have some questions
Speaker 1: for you as well. But um, you guys are definitely
Speaker 1: gonna check them out, first of all on Instagram and
Speaker 1: all that. They have a YouTube channel now right, Project Blitz. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we started it up. Um, obviously it's just a little beginning,
Speaker 1: like a little intro, and then we're gonna turn it
Speaker 1: up and you know, modify it and everything is a
Speaker 1: little bit of a test phase, but you know it
Speaker 1: looks a little nice. It's playing with it, trying to
Speaker 1: like open up into that space. And here we are
Speaker 1: with you guys, the leaders the you know, the leaders
Speaker 1: of the new school right here. I mean a rap
Speaker 1: reference to for those who don't know who that who
Speaker 1: that is. But you know, damn your old Dre is
Speaker 1: a really good friend. I'm definitely gonna take a few
Speaker 1: jabs at him throughout the show. I don't actually hate him,
Speaker 1: and I'm not a dick, I swear, But so let's
Speaker 1: let's just start from the beginning. Like, I know your story.
Speaker 1: You have one of the most crazy stories I've ever
Speaker 1: heard out of any sneaker head. And it's very admirable
Speaker 1: how you've gotten to this point. And your warehouse is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I know Chais and Blazon Area both have been there.
Speaker 1: It's absolutely incredible. So kind of tell us how how
Speaker 1: it all started, like what, like, you know, from your
Speaker 1: parents house and all that, Like, how how did it
Speaker 1: all start? Okay? So, um, yeah, I just woke up
Speaker 1: one day and my dad gave me like two million
Speaker 1: dollars and I went around and just bought all those
Speaker 1: shoes and I was an instant collector and reseller and
Speaker 1: one All right, we're done here, kidding. No, I mean
Speaker 1: I wish that was the case. I mean, Daddy's well,
Speaker 1: that's more of the case these days. There it's like
Speaker 1: a lot of ability for that to take place. But
Speaker 1: it's actually a long story, and we're gonna try to
Speaker 1: summarize it and make it, um, you know, interesting and
Speaker 1: well said in in a few minutes that we have
Speaker 1: to say it. But basically, I was kind of stumbled
Speaker 1: upon everything selling sneakers in Japan back in the infancy
Speaker 1: of the whole game about like I don't know, eighteen
Speaker 1: years ago, roughly, um and uh John Carlo was born. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, crazy right. I'll just keep this like really
Speaker 1: clean this card. Let's say a funny, funny joke, but
Speaker 1: we'll leave it at that. Um. Yeah, So I just
Speaker 1: say it and then cut it just in case we'll
Speaker 1: take shots next time. I'll just do it like a
Speaker 1: no holds barred session or something. So no, I mean
Speaker 1: it just kind of like stumbled upon me. Just probably
Speaker 1: more so like everyone here, a lot of people in
Speaker 1: the space that get everything kind of like stumbled upon.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you know, if they're enjoying something, being part
Speaker 1: of something, like I was always wearing sneakers growing up
Speaker 1: in uh in l A, like one of the the
Speaker 1: urban suburbs of of l A. I mean it was
Speaker 1: in the Hawthorne, California, and um and you still live there, yeah,
Speaker 1: still down to sub Bay. So like everybody, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I was wearing sneakers and all that wasn't. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like this whole streetwear game like it was now. Like
Speaker 1: back then it was kind of like you know whatever
Speaker 1: the jumpsuits and and like T shirts and stuff that,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever was out there in the nineties, right,
Speaker 1: and so um, but we always it was about the sneakers.
Speaker 1: That was like the biggest deal, right. So it would
Speaker 1: be like Dion's Jordan's you know, watching Jordan play, watching
Speaker 1: Dion play, watching bo Jackson like that. Andre Agassi was
Speaker 1: my favorite, like tennis player to same name whatever, and
Speaker 1: then you know all these people have loo Conic. Yeah
Speaker 1: it's funny, right, So iconic sneakers that that, um, you
Speaker 1: know still transcend after retroing like a few times already
Speaker 1: each model and there's still relevant to this day. I mean,
Speaker 1: those are the stories that you know, we need a
Speaker 1: kind of carry over because it's not about what the
Speaker 1: shoes going for, it's like what it represented absolutely you
Speaker 1: know you So anyways, going off on a tangent a
Speaker 1: little bit, but um, you know, I started uh selling
Speaker 1: sneakers of Japan, had stuff on eBay in the beginning,
Speaker 1: and got contacted all these people in Japan, started going
Speaker 1: out there, Um, started getting contacted by stylists and whatnot
Speaker 1: and delivering sneakers and Supreme and stuff like that to
Speaker 1: um like artists, hotels and whatnot. So um, I kind
Speaker 1: of kept everything very underground, like social media didn't exist.
Speaker 1: Everything was word of mouth, just phone numbers and contacts
Speaker 1: and nobody really knew your face and was social media
Speaker 1: came out, I was like, Okay, everything I to do
Speaker 1: is very political and you couldn't really put your face
Speaker 1: out there just kind of like you. But I couldn't
Speaker 1: walk around with a mask. I'd never take it off, right, No, No,
Speaker 1: I've been wearing this for three years exactly right. But
Speaker 1: if I you know, if I if I rolled it up,
Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, Like, there just wasn't
Speaker 1: anything that you could You couldn't put your face to it.
Speaker 1: But at the time I didn't even want to. And
Speaker 1: it was only until recently people were like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: you should put yourself out there because of your brand
Speaker 1: and people kind of need to see what you do
Speaker 1: because kind of amazing the situations and whatnot. I said, okay,
Speaker 1: we'll figure that out when it comes but um yeah,
Speaker 1: and then I started blitz, uh say it's in uh
Speaker 1: six six years ago, and um, you know, this is
Speaker 1: like the next stage. And this was actually like putting
Speaker 1: everything out there, my whole collection. It was like four
Speaker 1: thousand pairs, plus I stockpiled like ten thousand pairs at
Speaker 1: the time, just waiting for the day, Like am I
Speaker 1: going to open up a store? Am I just gonna
Speaker 1: dump it all at like Flight, who I knew like
Speaker 1: the owner a long time ago. I was gonna just
Speaker 1: you know, maybe have an exit strategy, just dump it
Speaker 1: all and go into like the nightclub entertainment industry or
Speaker 1: something like that. But then I said, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay with it because I always love sneakers
Speaker 1: since I was a kid, like wearing van checkered vans.
Speaker 1: The Jordan's whatever was coming out, and I said, okay,
Speaker 1: let me just let me just hit it. And that's
Speaker 1: what blitz meant. It was like you know, unknown attack,
Speaker 1: like in uh playing football, like you have a blitz
Speaker 1: right on the quarterback. No one knows who's blitzing, but
Speaker 1: you know, this is what we're gonna do. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna hit it. And everything was just gonna come out
Speaker 1: like harder and harder and harder. So um, that's who
Speaker 1: we are and that's where we are today. And I've
Speaker 1: just kind of been evolving it um on the like
Speaker 1: micro level, but now I'm just gonna really change the
Speaker 1: whole scope of the way it's running, the way we
Speaker 1: we get product, and the way we work on everything.
Speaker 1: But it's never been a consignment store. I've owned the
Speaker 1: entire product or the company his own entire product, and
Speaker 1: we've always sourced it direct as direct as possible as
Speaker 1: you can. But I think we'll be opening that up soon.
Speaker 1: So and to be that that kind of wishes to
Speaker 1: kind of be a part of the Blitz thing and
Speaker 1: you kind of want to work with us and sell
Speaker 1: with us and whatnot. We're going to figure out like
Speaker 1: some new strategies so to include more people to be
Speaker 1: more interactive with with Blitz of course, and Dre is
Speaker 1: very humble by the way, Like um, the people who
Speaker 1: stopped by the warehouse are just incredible. You know, You've
Speaker 1: had like Drake, Travis Scott and I've I've been in
Speaker 1: the warehouse and Travis pulled up what it was at
Speaker 1: three times in one week and I was there all
Speaker 1: three times. Yeah, Yeah, that was that was that was crazy.
Speaker 1: It's like what you know, and like, yeah, yesterday we met,
Speaker 1: we hung out with check West. Really cool. Yeah, Shack
Speaker 1: Jesus came through and like all these basketball players and
Speaker 1: super high profile celebrities. And you might think, like why Blitz,
Speaker 1: Why did they come to Blitz? You know, is it
Speaker 1: because of the inventory? Is it because of you? As
Speaker 1: it because of the connections, because your inventory is absolutely incredible.
Speaker 1: There's stuff there that I've never seen ever in my life.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that Kaiser, you know, John Carlo can
Speaker 1: vouch for me when I say that. And I bought
Speaker 1: my my grails from Blitz. I bought the Red Octobers.
Speaker 1: It's like my favorite tree of all time. That was
Speaker 1: like a big thing to me. And I bought like
Speaker 1: a few other pairs of trees that meant a lot
Speaker 1: to me as well. So like, why do you think that,
Speaker 1: uh so many people are drawn towards Blitz. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean one thing, like, uh, look, you can put all
Speaker 1: the money in the world in a website. You can
Speaker 1: put all the money in the world in in an app,
Speaker 1: you can put all the money in the world in
Speaker 1: a brand. There's two things that you need, right, So
Speaker 1: a store you need product. If you have the most
Speaker 1: amazing amount of the most amazing product, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: people coming to It's like, if you build it, they
Speaker 1: will come, but you have to have the things inside
Speaker 1: of it to attract them as well, right, And I
Speaker 1: think it's kind of that's somewhat like the original reason.
Speaker 1: Like people always say, like, oh man, you gotta go
Speaker 1: check it out. But one of the things that I
Speaker 1: will like definitely pat myself on the back FO is
Speaker 1: like everyone says, yo, but that dude's a great guy.
Speaker 1: That's like you know, it's like, you know, that's a
Speaker 1: good dude. That's something you're you're a part of when
Speaker 1: you go in and it's like you're going with me
Speaker 1: to a party or something and you know, buying drinks
Speaker 1: and whatnot. Like you know, it's just it's something about
Speaker 1: like always just being authentic and always being like open
Speaker 1: and good with everybody. And you know, unfortunately you become
Speaker 1: a target by other people, um, always trying to like
Speaker 1: bash you or sabotage you or whatever at one point. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, the I don't know it, dude. It's
Speaker 1: probably like a culmination of things. It's like having the
Speaker 1: product there, having that energy and and um, you know,
Speaker 1: and people knowing that, look, they're not they're not getting
Speaker 1: somebody that's just trying to befriend them because of who
Speaker 1: they are. Like I've been around this stuff for a
Speaker 1: long time. And you know, obviously you guys know in
Speaker 1: the whole social media world, Um, you know, you get
Speaker 1: a lot of people that are just out there like,
Speaker 1: oh man, this guy's coming in, like yo, that you
Speaker 1: gotta shower him with a ton of free stuff. And
Speaker 1: it's like do they know likes Yeah, it's like, yo,
Speaker 1: you're you're just someone that's just trying to like be
Speaker 1: from me and get something on me. Like how do
Speaker 1: you even ask? Dad? I wasn't asking people for picks
Speaker 1: or nothing. It's like when they when they're like when
Speaker 1: it came up and then you know, it was mentioned
Speaker 1: and we did it and it was made it organic
Speaker 1: and like authentic and real and it wasn't like forced,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like all you guys have
Speaker 1: all come in and been so authentic and real and
Speaker 1: I'm like so down with you guys, and you know,
Speaker 1: whatever you ever want to do, I'm so down with it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, absolutely, you know what I
Speaker 1: mean so it's uh, I mean in that sense, like
Speaker 1: you always someone does something for you, you reciprocate, So
Speaker 1: I think, you know, that's just it. It's just about
Speaker 1: good energy. You know, good people can see through bullshit
Speaker 1: like you can see through a smiling face is like one, two, three, four,
Speaker 1: five times. And then you know the promises and things
Speaker 1: like I've I've dealt with that. So I just told
Speaker 1: myself never to be that guy like these other other
Speaker 1: situations and other stories or whatever whoever they do. But
Speaker 1: I'm always trying to do something ahead but keep it real.
Speaker 1: Yeah that man, I agree with you. I think I
Speaker 1: think your energy is very positive. I think pretty much
Speaker 1: everyone who I've introduced to you, or like every time
Speaker 1: I've introduced you to someone else, they've always be like, Wow,
Speaker 1: what a great dude, Like regardless of all the stuff
Speaker 1: that you have, they're like, what a great guy, great energy, positive,
Speaker 1: And like that's why I always want to bring those
Speaker 1: types of people around you, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: So we're all and like that's why, you know, like
Speaker 1: I brought John Carlo and Kaist has been there and
Speaker 1: like you want to come back, and we did those
Speaker 1: videos and all that stuff. Just because like it's just
Speaker 1: good energy and I think it's really important. So shout
Speaker 1: out to you. That's like awesome, but cool, thanks. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: I'm not naive either, right, Like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: ship heads out there, of course you guys experienced, like
Speaker 1: tons of them too, and and whatever, right, opportunists and
Speaker 1: this and that. Sometimes some people conform. They're like, you
Speaker 1: know what, I used to be that way, but let me.
Speaker 1: I want to change. I want to be good. I'm
Speaker 1: always some people like, look, dude, it's gonna come to
Speaker 1: you're gonna get it. Go out and be a go
Speaker 1: get like, go and get it, but don't lose yourself
Speaker 1: in the same time, like and don't be a piece
Speaker 1: of shit about it. And there's tons of them out there,
Speaker 1: so don't take my kindness for weakness. Like if you
Speaker 1: if I see you act like a like a fool
Speaker 1: and fuck it. You know, I'm not even gonna like
Speaker 1: deal with them in in the end, but cut it out,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Well, yeah, but you know obviously,
Speaker 1: like look, you guys are FAMI, have a good time
Speaker 1: party whatever, do the do the whole thing, do biz
Speaker 1: check out amazing stuff, win together, right, So Um, well
Speaker 1: that's amazing, bro, that's amazing, Like like it's it's like
Speaker 1: a mutual respect and love in the air, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, like like in positive it's all positive.
Speaker 1: I remember, um, when you guys first launched the website, right,
Speaker 1: it was like come me soon, right, it was coming soon,
Speaker 1: and I forgot what me and my boys like me
Speaker 1: and my boys back home in the Bay. It was
Speaker 1: like Project Blitz is finally launching a website. Like all
Speaker 1: the blogs posted about it, and we're like because this
Speaker 1: was like there wasn't really anywhere to buy shoes online
Speaker 1: except like flight club and a few other places, so
Speaker 1: we were like looking forward to it. Yeah, sneak News. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was actually a shout out to sneak News so
Speaker 1: for being the first to uh to actually put out
Speaker 1: there and no one really wanted to touch it was
Speaker 1: very like political, yeah, because it's nobody was like, oh
Speaker 1: man is it's like you're going to be upset with
Speaker 1: us because we're doing content with them, But they actually
Speaker 1: went out and posted that. So yeah, so that's that's
Speaker 1: how I heard about it. And then and then when
Speaker 1: I moved to l A, like, um, I had a
Speaker 1: few friends that had went into the warehouse, like I
Speaker 1: think Mike the Compass and then like Jacob Starr and
Speaker 1: they're like, yo, you gotta check it out. Like I
Speaker 1: don't know him. I always felt like it was like
Speaker 1: an elite club of people that could go in there.
Speaker 1: And then randomly on we're walking in Coachella and then
Speaker 1: me and you just bumped into each other it and
Speaker 1: I just look at you, and you look at me
Speaker 1: and you're like take my number. They're like all right.
Speaker 1: And then the next later that next day, um, after
Speaker 1: like the calmness of Coach Ell, he's like, Yo, come
Speaker 1: to the warehouse, let's let's work, let's do some stuff.
Speaker 1: And it was just like right up there, like it
Speaker 1: was felt like we knew each other for years. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that was sick. That's just the organic exactly. The thing
Speaker 1: was just right there, like right there. There was an
Speaker 1: artist section too. Yeah, what a flex, big flex. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm out here. I'm not I was in like the
Speaker 1: porta potty while these guys were in the artist section.
Speaker 1: You definitely were there, just I would. I didn't even
Speaker 1: go to Coach l so I can't even say anything,
Speaker 1: but yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, don't worry. We'll take you
Speaker 1: around there. We'll give a little tour. Okay, let's next year.
Speaker 1: This year, let's do let's go see Tam and Paula.
Speaker 1: How many of you guys actually know who Tam and
Speaker 1: paul is? Raise of hands? Yeah, come on? Is that
Speaker 1: like the Spanish band? There was like a Spanish band
Speaker 1: play their fire Australia. We got a little boy over here,
Speaker 1: hey man? And what can I say? No, I'm just kidding. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was funny. Maybe that was supposed to be Kanye
Speaker 1: West and then they had to change it. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: been funny. But I just want to say something real quick, dude,
Speaker 1: go ahead about laz hand you have to hand. I
Speaker 1: call him drunk Carla, Thank you very much. Now, Like
Speaker 1: the first time that I met Dre, it was like
Speaker 1: very quick. You know, I was going to the airport
Speaker 1: and easy Bus was like, oh, you know, we're we're
Speaker 1: going here, YadA, YadA, it's right next to the airport.
Speaker 1: Just come stop by. So I did for a second.
Speaker 1: It was really cool. And then just coming now, we
Speaker 1: didn't even go inside. I just stopped by and said
Speaker 1: what's up and met Dre and then um, Yester was
Speaker 1: my first time going in the warehouse and the first
Speaker 1: time I'm in the warehouse, check West is there, and
Speaker 1: it was really cool to see that. And then afterwards,
Speaker 1: you know, we were talking all that and you helped
Speaker 1: me get like my favorite box logo in existence. And
Speaker 1: it's pretty insane because I never thought I would have
Speaker 1: the chance to own something like this, and you meet
Speaker 1: the guy that's got it all and you know, being
Speaker 1: a positive and great person to really helps because I
Speaker 1: don't want to buy something from a schmuck. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: like an actually really cool dude, and I can't wait
Speaker 1: to build, you know, more of a business relationship with you,
Speaker 1: and I aspect. Thank you for everyone that melted heart
Speaker 1: right now for everyone that's listening right now. Um, he's
Speaker 1: wearing the white on purple box logo or the purple
Speaker 1: on white, sorry, purple and white. And this is Mafia
Speaker 1: Friends and Families, very very very controversial box logo because
Speaker 1: of all the fake reprints, because of fakeness of them.
Speaker 1: We'll get into that later. We'll get into that later,
Speaker 1: but um, yeah, man, that was a very cool experience
Speaker 1: for you. Huh, Well, like do you think that, well,
Speaker 1: what do you think about just like the warehouse itself,
Speaker 1: like all the inventory and like, well, when I first
Speaker 1: went in, you said that it was only half, which
Speaker 1: still kind of knocked my socks off. And then just
Speaker 1: seeing the amount of like unreleased stuff and seeing me
Speaker 1: of samples and just like I went into the vault room,
Speaker 1: right and I'm looking at these pairs of sneakers and
Speaker 1: I'm sitting here like I know these sneakers and I
Speaker 1: know the names, like oh, these are the ray Alans,
Speaker 1: these are the Whatevers and whatever is because I've seen
Speaker 1: them on blogs. I've seen them like posted on pictures
Speaker 1: and everything. And it's finally going to the place that
Speaker 1: actually had it all in person, seeing that like one
Speaker 1: of one rare stuff. It was really cool because I
Speaker 1: would just grow up on the images. I never actually
Speaker 1: got the physically holding or see it in person, like
Speaker 1: the Encore Force, like the Blue Ones. I got to
Speaker 1: see that as a person the first time ever. It
Speaker 1: is awesome. So yeah, and then Dre has like a
Speaker 1: size sixteen or something. It's huge, right, uhah, It's that's crazy.
Speaker 1: He just made a face. He can't tell us more
Speaker 1: about it, but that's okay. But yeah, like you know
Speaker 1: something that you gotta keep a little course, of course,
Speaker 1: can't carry everything out of course, of course if it's
Speaker 1: you know, I don't even show my face, so I
Speaker 1: shouldn't even be talking like for real. But do you
Speaker 1: guys have any questions for Dre in particular that you
Speaker 1: guys like, because I know you know Dre for a
Speaker 1: while now and you just met him. Is there anything
Speaker 1: that's like just burning that you just need to Yeah,
Speaker 1: I kind of gotta bring questions since we were on
Speaker 1: the topic just a second ago. For I bought this box,
Speaker 1: I'll go from you. But if you were to pick
Speaker 1: any box, I'll go in your personal collection. What would
Speaker 1: be your favorite? I love that one too, really, I
Speaker 1: love that one too, honestly, Like I didn't. I didn't
Speaker 1: know if I was going to have the opportunity to
Speaker 1: even get that. Like when I saw the first picks
Speaker 1: of it, I hit every fucking contact I knew, like
Speaker 1: there and outside and whatnot. I was like, it was
Speaker 1: just impossible. Uh, And then I got the call and
Speaker 1: I said absolutely, And then uh, I was like, go,
Speaker 1: let's get it. And that's it. I can't really say
Speaker 1: much more about it. And I got got it, like
Speaker 1: a small box and kept it, kept it under wraps
Speaker 1: for like several years, just kind of sitting. I was,
Speaker 1: I was in your guest room. I spent the night
Speaker 1: one time in your guest room, and like I literally
Speaker 1: turned to the right and then like that, there's this
Speaker 1: shelf right next to the bed in the guest room
Speaker 1: and there was just like a pile of white shirts.
Speaker 1: And I was like okay. And then I saw like
Speaker 1: a little corner of like the print. It was like
Speaker 1: a little purple thing, and I was like, no way,
Speaker 1: and I turned it over like what like why is this?
Speaker 1: Why is this like like you know, ball, like next
Speaker 1: to your bed. And then the craziest thing was I
Speaker 1: said too easy best. I was like, yo, do you
Speaker 1: think Dre this is after I met him? Do you
Speaker 1: think he has a purple on white? What do you know?
Speaker 1: He shows me the picture of what you took. Literally,
Speaker 1: like I took a picture of it and I sent
Speaker 1: it to Jacob because I was like if anybody knows
Speaker 1: what this is, it's going to be Jacob, you know,
Speaker 1: because like Drey was sleeping, I was gonna ask him,
Speaker 1: but like Drey was seeping, I was like, okay, let
Speaker 1: me take a Jacob and Jacobs like, dude, that's crazy,
Speaker 1: Like there's so many fakes of that. It's like a
Speaker 1: super controversial, controversial box logo. But if Drey has it
Speaker 1: is legit. Like Jacob said that, so the craziest thing.
Speaker 1: And then you and I know you wanted to Purple's
Speaker 1: your favorite color. So I'm really happy were able to
Speaker 1: get it completed. The purple collection. I'm just missing I'm
Speaker 1: missing one the lakers you had to do with to him,
Speaker 1: had to do with him, But I know, I wish
Speaker 1: I actually had more of those, but um, the last
Speaker 1: one the only one I had of the like the
Speaker 1: purple with the yellow box um sold to fed As Italian.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, go into it, like even though
Speaker 1: I really love that one, I can't. You can't just
Speaker 1: pick one, you know what I mean. You know the
Speaker 1: white gold Japan or Japan. Yeah, man, I love that thing.
Speaker 1: The first time I saw it, it it was insane, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like metallic gold. I always love
Speaker 1: the gold foil prints, Like you know, it kind of
Speaker 1: comes back all the time in street where like people
Speaker 1: stre doing the foil and then it gets played out.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the Holo all those different
Speaker 1: other Holo colors, like the Holograms. I like them. The
Speaker 1: problem is that you couldn't really like wash them. Remember
Speaker 1: when those things came out, Like I busted out of
Speaker 1: a class, like to go get that ship. But my
Speaker 1: purple one, I can literally peel the box. I go off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't really meant to be like washed.
Speaker 1: It was like a cool thing they did. They kind
Speaker 1: of did for the time. But I'd say, like the
Speaker 1: one that really looked like the close to me was
Speaker 1: the Pollock one. Okay, there you go, just because he's
Speaker 1: a he's an artist, his work and just look, I
Speaker 1: love this. I love Speckle Man. I'm not gonna sit
Speaker 1: here like like some jackass and pretend to know absolutely everything.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fucking Encyclopedia almanac for for like Supreme,
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been doing it a long time, like
Speaker 1: probably one of the first I was selling it online.
Speaker 1: I'm collecting it just as long. But um, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know the exact date, but it was definitely
Speaker 1: like pre my era, so it's definitely nineties, late nineties
Speaker 1: something or whatever. But that's one that I definitely like
Speaker 1: the most. If I had to like really just say one,
Speaker 1: probably that one, but there's you know, we could talk
Speaker 1: about a you know, the top five or something, but whatever,
Speaker 1: whatever it is. Wow. Well, Kis, do you have any
Speaker 1: any burning question that you want to Yeah? I got
Speaker 1: two questions. Um. The first one is pretty simple. It's
Speaker 1: it's like, what's one item that came in there that
Speaker 1: was like I can't believe we have this or I
Speaker 1: can't believe I owned this. Oh man, that's a that's
Speaker 1: a great, great question. I'm glad you asked that too. Um.
Speaker 1: So obviously they came out with the Santa Cruz bike.
Speaker 1: Supreme came out with the Santa Cruz bike this uh
Speaker 1: this season. But yeah, so I have one of the
Speaker 1: original I've seen it, yeah commercial you know Bmwoklyn Machine
Speaker 1: Works and you haven't showed that yeah on post or
Speaker 1: anything have not. It's incredible. I love it. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: were definitely gonna do a little bit of unveiling because
Speaker 1: we're opening up the store on Librea in Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: UM one for two North Librea. Shame wasn't plagged once again,
Speaker 1: We're all we're all gonna pull up no shame. Is
Speaker 1: it open now, right or it's still no, no, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna open soon. Um. Hopefully it opens uh
Speaker 1: in January UM, and you will be able to see
Speaker 1: that piece of history, that piece of art in there
Speaker 1: that's sick. Yeah. So that is probably the one thing
Speaker 1: that that I was able to obtain that was incredible. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: there's there's a couple of things you can't really mention
Speaker 1: showed you before, but we can't even like talk about
Speaker 1: that beep. Yeah, alright. My next question is a kind
Speaker 1: of like a spicy one. Who's like one person that
Speaker 1: came in there that you're like, why the hell did
Speaker 1: we let this guy in? You could? You could hang,
Speaker 1: you could pass if you want. You trying to ask
Speaker 1: some controversy something podcast. Some things that will pass, but
Speaker 1: some things I won't. Man, Rich the kid, you know,
Speaker 1: damn the kid. You'll hold on hold on the kid.
Speaker 1: The first that ugly guy told me the same thing.
Speaker 1: He's like, no, no, Rich the kid. You remember that
Speaker 1: beef I had with him like a year ago, two
Speaker 1: years ago or no year and a half ago. Remember
Speaker 1: when you were saying like fuck easy bust that he
Speaker 1: was saying like I stuck stuff did But yeah I
Speaker 1: did he was wearing fake Yeah, he was like, dude,
Speaker 1: that fool that fool um scam one of my friends.
Speaker 1: He'd like scanned him out of two racks. Basically, Um,
Speaker 1: my friend had the kind of like a little private
Speaker 1: store kind of like similar to what Dre had, but
Speaker 1: it was in his apartment and enriched. The kid pulled
Speaker 1: up and he took like a Betty Boom jacket and
Speaker 1: like the yellow Human Races and other and like a
Speaker 1: few other things. And my friends like, okay, like you know,
Speaker 1: I'll hook you up like whatever whatever, but it's gonna
Speaker 1: cost X amount of money. I think it was like
Speaker 1: eight d bucks or something like that. So then they're like, okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to the bank. So rich the kid goes
Speaker 1: to the bank. Maybe he's rich now, but like back then,
Speaker 1: he definitely wasn't. He could only withdraw three dollars from
Speaker 1: his bank account. And he's like, oh, yeah, I got you.
Speaker 1: Don't worry in a few days, like I got you, right,
Speaker 1: So my friend texted him next day in no response,
Speaker 1: texted him a week later, no response, two weeks later,
Speaker 1: no response. Rich the kid blocked him on Instagram, and
Speaker 1: then the completely just stopped responding right. He owed him
Speaker 1: like fifteen hundred bucks, which, like, you know, it's a
Speaker 1: rapper who has the name rich in his name, has
Speaker 1: a word rich in his name, you know you think
Speaker 1: he can afford bucks, right, So I got pissed about that,
Speaker 1: so I started creeping his Instagram and I saw I
Speaker 1: was wearing some fake turtle doves. So I called him
Speaker 1: out for scamming my friend and then the fake turtle doves,
Speaker 1: and he blocked me. He turned his account on private
Speaker 1: for like a whole week, he turned off all his comments, um,
Speaker 1: and then he started commenting this ridiculous stuff on my post,
Speaker 1: like oh, you've never even met Kanye. Uh, you gotta
Speaker 1: get off Kanye's dick, like all this stuff like, and
Speaker 1: I was like, bro, this has nothing to do with
Speaker 1: the fact that you're wearing fake easies and you scam
Speaker 1: my friend. And I told him. I was like, all
Speaker 1: this can stop. All you have to do is just
Speaker 1: pay my friend back and I'll delete the post. And
Speaker 1: he never did. But um, one time he posted like
Speaker 1: he was in New York and I was in New
Speaker 1: York and like I d M him, like as a joke.
Speaker 1: I was like, well, good, like you know, and then
Speaker 1: he responded, and he goes where you're at straight, Like
Speaker 1: I could show you that right now. I mean, I'll
Speaker 1: show you later, but like, dude, Like I was like,
Speaker 1: is this dude really gonna kick my ass? And then
Speaker 1: I did I tell you the story about the seven
Speaker 1: fourth seven event when I was with him in the
Speaker 1: same elevator. Dude, I was at the seven four seven event,
Speaker 1: the Adida's Warehouse event, and like there was a v
Speaker 1: I P area because Adida's invited us to come out,
Speaker 1: and I got in the elevator with like my friend
Speaker 1: Patrick and oh no, I don't remember. No, I don't
Speaker 1: think he was in the elevator. I think he got
Speaker 1: in the elevator before me, because like everyone was trying,
Speaker 1: did you did you go to the seven course? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I remember, I saw that the elevator that takes you
Speaker 1: two takes you to the Yeah. So like this, I
Speaker 1: don't think it was the second day or the first day,
Speaker 1: or I don't remember whatever it might have been. Like
Speaker 1: it was so busy and the people were literally swarming
Speaker 1: in the elevators, and like I got in first, and
Speaker 1: then I see riched the kid and he walked in
Speaker 1: with two of his bodyguards. He's like two huge, six
Speaker 1: ft five ripped, crazy looking like mo fos, And I
Speaker 1: was like, honestly, I'm scared shitless. I wasn't scared uh
Speaker 1: of Rich the Kid because he's like, he's like way
Speaker 1: shorter than me and really scrawning. I probably could have
Speaker 1: kicked his ass, but like the fact that he was
Speaker 1: with his bodyguards, he probably just sent them at me,
Speaker 1: like he didn't recognize me. Thank god I wear the
Speaker 1: mask right, But I don't know. I just thought it
Speaker 1: was super funny, like if he wanted to scrap, Like
Speaker 1: you know, I don't throw hands with you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but you would never probably Yeah, but a
Speaker 1: huge bit and um like from what you told me
Speaker 1: that happened at the warehouse, of which you know, I
Speaker 1: want you to share that. But I had this. I
Speaker 1: had to say my two cents about Rich the Kid.
Speaker 1: Funk that guy. That's all I'm gonna say. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: makes you, dude, trust me, it makes you event when
Speaker 1: somebody looked the same ship. I've heard this guy he
Speaker 1: steals from his fans, like all kinds of stuff like
Speaker 1: that's corny man plus nothing. He's like a joke of
Speaker 1: the industry anyway, you know what I means, Like, you know,
Speaker 1: he finessed his way in, like you know, you can
Speaker 1: talk about that forever, but like what whatever, you know
Speaker 1: what you do to me? You're coming to my house
Speaker 1: and start talking to this big game about like how
Speaker 1: much you're gonna give me for free to post because
Speaker 1: this store over there on this street. Like I don't
Speaker 1: even I'm not gonna sit here and try to like
Speaker 1: say other people's names out there, but you know people
Speaker 1: are paying this dude, like you know what four thousand
Speaker 1: worth dollars worth of stuff for for a hundred dollar
Speaker 1: bill just to post and shoot like that is the
Speaker 1: first thing you come at me with. Come on, get
Speaker 1: out of here with that, go back to kindergarten, Like
Speaker 1: this is the big leagues, bro, you know what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 1: and so that's the kind of ship. And then he
Speaker 1: had another dude like rolling around like trying to like
Speaker 1: stick sticks it in a bag and in the end, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a dude like putting extra ship in the bag.
Speaker 1: I found that because I was like, yo, something's up
Speaker 1: with that. And then um, you know he started asking
Speaker 1: for this for this beanie for free and I was like, bro,
Speaker 1: I'm not giving you ship for free. Like kill that noise, bro,
Speaker 1: like for real, like he would go go get that
Speaker 1: from somewhere else. And in the end, this guy drives
Speaker 1: off and he just happened to be out the back
Speaker 1: and closing up this this sliding door, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden I see him putting putting that beanie on
Speaker 1: his car and he's driving off. He locks eyes with me,
Speaker 1: and I was like, motherfucker, really, I called him up
Speaker 1: and I just let him have it big time, like
Speaker 1: probably no one's ever talked to him like that before,
Speaker 1: like a fucking daddy being down on a red headed
Speaker 1: step child, you know what I mean. Like, And then uh,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh yeah, you know, I'm gonna take it.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take care of you. I'm gonna pay you
Speaker 1: all this stuff obviously crickets. I don't even care. Man,
Speaker 1: it's not about the money, dude. That what do we
Speaker 1: sell that being for like eight bucks or something like that.
Speaker 1: It's like, bro, that's like some dude that's like coming
Speaker 1: in your house and like stealing ship from you while
Speaker 1: you're like making him a making something to eat for
Speaker 1: him or something, you know, what I mean like coming
Speaker 1: in like talking to all this crazy stuff, like with
Speaker 1: crumbs in your pocket, like bro, come on and get
Speaker 1: out of here. But yeah, I mean it's crazy. So
Speaker 1: situations like that man Dexter or was it just was
Speaker 1: it just Rich the kid? Yeah? Yeah, yeah that I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a you know, a long story that came through.
Speaker 1: But it's like ridges the came in with that, with
Speaker 1: that nonsense and like you know, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 1: show like yo, you have bad energy, bad karma is
Speaker 1: gonna come back to you. Bro. That's it. That's it.
Speaker 1: And it's like I don't I don't need that kind
Speaker 1: of shift around like at all. Yeah, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean funny story. I mean, like you know, and then
Speaker 1: I see that du it again at like Nightingale. It
Speaker 1: was just like a big club out here and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden we had like a couple of months.
Speaker 1: My boy had a table like right under the dad.
Speaker 1: It was like the main table in the center, and
Speaker 1: then they announced So yeah, it was just because come
Speaker 1: pulling up and I was like, oh, all right, let's
Speaker 1: see what's up. So um, it was crazy because it's
Speaker 1: like bodyguards that you were mentioning was just holding off
Speaker 1: like uh, you know, making space on the crowd up there,
Speaker 1: and as it comes through, it comes to the table
Speaker 1: and I just stepped around from it was like it
Speaker 1: was good, bro, remember me, and he's like oh yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah, and then it's as you can see, it
Speaker 1: just got a little tight and I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you stole me for that, beanie. Bro. Oh no, it
Speaker 1: starts patting his pockets like man, I'm gonna take care
Speaker 1: of you. I'm gonna take I'm gonna pay you, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'll pull up. I just laughed it off because like,
Speaker 1: to me, it was worth just seeing that. And then
Speaker 1: like I guess he was supposed to do a song,
Speaker 1: but instead he just said on the I went on
Speaker 1: my Instagram too, and I did like a zoom in
Speaker 1: you know, on the face, busting everyone's ask like that,
Speaker 1: Oh I did, Yeah, yeah. I was hilarious because like
Speaker 1: only people that knew what happened, you could like hitting
Speaker 1: your table. Sorry, it's like only people that knew what happened.
Speaker 1: Like You're sitting there and then like I'm zooming on
Speaker 1: him and it's like his whole night was just dusted
Speaker 1: from that. You know what I mean for me, that
Speaker 1: was worth that worth that beanie. But it's like, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. I just don't don't go like that, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like I don't need that ship.
Speaker 1: You don't work around no man funck thieves, bro' like rapists.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Like it's the it's the worst.
Speaker 1: It's the worst, the worst. So yeah, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: asked that. It's a pretty good question. Like even with us,
Speaker 1: it's like we we do get a lot of free stuff.
Speaker 1: But like with with when when we go to Project Blitz,
Speaker 1: it's like I'll ask you, like, yo, how much for this?
Speaker 1: Like you'll hook me up? But I never asked for
Speaker 1: ship for free. No, you know, I mean that's your
Speaker 1: hard work. That's like your business, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like we're talking about it yesterday too, about how like
Speaker 1: you're you're a store, Like you're you go to the
Speaker 1: store and you buy stuff from that store, because that's
Speaker 1: the stores hustle. The store can't give you like free
Speaker 1: stuff because how are they going to make money? Well,
Speaker 1: I think that I look, I think some kids have
Speaker 1: kind of realized like yo, when when you see like
Speaker 1: some dude constantly posting on It's like okay, like they're
Speaker 1: they're like probably like paying them off or some ship
Speaker 1: like that. As a store. It's like, yo, I don't
Speaker 1: make Supreme, right, so that busy helps their company like
Speaker 1: Nike and all this other stuff too, But we are
Speaker 1: coming with our own line. It is Blitz, and because
Speaker 1: that is my own line, I'm very happy to to
Speaker 1: get you that have like supported like gift packages and
Speaker 1: whatever you like. You know what I mean, Absolutely, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna charge each other for our own ship, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Like come on, like yeah, you know
Speaker 1: if you if you have a brand like that's you
Speaker 1: know that that's mine, that's helping. That's throwing out there,
Speaker 1: But like it doesn't help me if you're wearing Supreme
Speaker 1: really like I have a limited amount of them that
Speaker 1: I could buy, and you know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: that just that benefits that company more so than than myself. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, I mean at the same time, like
Speaker 1: you know, selling it to like celebs, are people that
Speaker 1: are collectors, are they're hearing their stories of how they started?
Speaker 1: Which of you guys don't mind? I'd like to ask
Speaker 1: you ask you guys, a little bit a couple of
Speaker 1: questions here and there too. But oh wow, he's going
Speaker 1: to be the host, not me that overtaken. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: mine has to be like on the Rated R channel,
Speaker 1: Rated R Easy Bust of podcast coming soon. But before
Speaker 1: we keep going, let's say, let's take a call. Let's see,
Speaker 1: let's see what one of the callers has to say.
Speaker 1: Maybe he has a question for Dre, or maybe he's
Speaker 1: directed for all of us. So, um, let's let's see
Speaker 1: who we have on the phone. Hello, Hello, Yeah, what's up, dude?
Speaker 1: What's your name? My name is Luca. I'm from uh Croatia.
Speaker 1: Oh wow, what's up, Luca? I'm big fan of Dre
Speaker 1: and his Croatian style Instagram. I just want to ask
Speaker 1: him what does Croatian style mean to you? Um? What
Speaker 1: is it like the style of Croatia? Is it similar
Speaker 1: or different than Los Angeles? Give me some some insight here.
Speaker 1: Well that's funny, Well, good evening, but but well that's cool.
Speaker 1: Like you must have you must have like grown up
Speaker 1: in Germany, a little bit a bit of a German accent,
Speaker 1: but uh, none of there is. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: tons of Croatians in in in Germany and stuff too,
Speaker 1: But in fact there's more Croatians outside of Croatia than
Speaker 1: than in the country, So there's a whole lot of
Speaker 1: Eastern European countries that are like that, yeah crazy right,
Speaker 1: So um, yeah, it's funny because everyone I get that
Speaker 1: all the time. I get like these things, and I
Speaker 1: got like, you know, like get some have tons of
Speaker 1: Serbian friends too. But then I guess there's somethings that
Speaker 1: try to like touch shot or something. It's like fun
Speaker 1: Croatian style. It's all about Serbian style or or like
Speaker 1: some Greek guys random emails like from from like eBay
Speaker 1: eBay was like I was getting tons of these wild
Speaker 1: messages out of nowhere, but it really was has nothing
Speaker 1: to do with like style per se. It was more
Speaker 1: so um like watching this old uh And it wasn't
Speaker 1: like a crazy dopass like good Fellas type, um Martin
Speaker 1: Scorsese like Mafia movie, but it was his old some
Speaker 1: kind of like b grade um Mafia movie and its
Speaker 1: Italian dudes, and it was like yeah, and he's like
Speaker 1: like busted some dude or whatever, and they're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's how ship gets done. Italian style. And so I
Speaker 1: just came up with that and it became the Nike
Speaker 1: Talk name and my eBay name, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 1: the Croatian style. That's how ship gets done, right, So
Speaker 1: that's where it's like, the way it gets done is
Speaker 1: Croatian style. Yeah, so that's kind of what it is. Yo,
Speaker 1: chais Can you give us some insight on your user name? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: So when I was born my parents the name me kais.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, I'll tell you something funny. Though
Speaker 1: my name is actually spelled wrong. The original way to
Speaker 1: spell it is q A I S. My grandma when
Speaker 1: she was filling out the paperwork, you put q I
Speaker 1: A S. So people are like people who are actually
Speaker 1: at me and are like, yo, why do you spell
Speaker 1: your name wrong? I'm like, that's how you spell it.
Speaker 1: But I like it because it's like unique. You know,
Speaker 1: I have so many other friends that name spell it
Speaker 1: with the before is that your real last names? My
Speaker 1: last name, and people always mix it up, Like every
Speaker 1: time I get into Uber, they're like omar. It's mainly
Speaker 1: because they don't know how to say my first name,
Speaker 1: but they really like people legit. Even since elementary middle school,
Speaker 1: everyone like just says your names in the wrong place.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, Omar's my last name. Do you think
Speaker 1: it might be easier to, like, for people to pronounce
Speaker 1: it the first time if it was cut a I
Speaker 1: s because it's I don't know. I think it's really
Speaker 1: easy to say. I don't know why people have trouble.
Speaker 1: It's like Q with ice. Sometimes people might say like
Speaker 1: key ice key ice case que dude. I've had some botchers,
Speaker 1: like some really queek week yo. I really don't mind.
Speaker 1: Like even when I go out to dinner, like when
Speaker 1: I ordered food and stuff like what name and like
Speaker 1: Star Wars, I'll be like Omar, it's just easier, I
Speaker 1: say Robert. It's funny because when I just when I
Speaker 1: got to restaurants, I say hi, my name is easy,
Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, what's up? Because I don't have
Speaker 1: real name, first name easy, last name Buster. You know.
Speaker 1: Actually it's funny because my my uber name is actually
Speaker 1: easy really. Yeah. So it's because it's like my business account,
Speaker 1: so it was hooked up to my business, you know.
Speaker 1: So it's just it's just easy Buster for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: And every time I get picked up in an uber
Speaker 1: that like, are you easy? I'm like, yeah, it's me.
Speaker 1: It's a nickname. And they're like, oh, I thought Kanye
Speaker 1: was about to pull up. Like come on, man, has
Speaker 1: anybody ever picked you up and knew who you were before? Yeah?
Speaker 1: One time, Yeah that's happened to me too. They like
Speaker 1: tweaked out. They're like, oh my god, like I've never
Speaker 1: seen you without the mask on. And I was like yeah, mine.
Speaker 1: Tried to play it cool and they're like, so, what
Speaker 1: do you do for a living? And explained there like
Speaker 1: and then like ten minutes they realized that they knew me.
Speaker 1: So I know, it's crazy. You guys have like really
Speaker 1: like a mega amount of like followers and stuff like
Speaker 1: advice versa whichever. When you have more of like on
Speaker 1: YouTube or or Instagram. But yeah, it's it's crazy. One
Speaker 1: time I was in a hotel and the guy claim
Speaker 1: the thing came up was like, oh man, you Croatian style.
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, that's funny to buy you a
Speaker 1: drink right now. I mean, it's so random, like at
Speaker 1: the was at the Mercer Hotel in New York too.
Speaker 1: Social media is I feel like you're just now putting
Speaker 1: your face out there, so you're gonna definitely see that
Speaker 1: a lot more. I mean, you know, dude, we were
Speaker 1: in a Drapaneese restaurant the other day and like he's like,
Speaker 1: he's like, oh, you're the guy who sells the sneakers
Speaker 1: or whatever, like oh yeah, And then all the people
Speaker 1: who think you're Nikki Diamond. Oh yeah that people ask
Speaker 1: me if you guys are brothers. Oh dude, so let
Speaker 1: me let me. I mean, we're definitely brothers in in
Speaker 1: a sense of brothers. Yo yo yo yo, But um
Speaker 1: let me give you guys some context. So if you
Speaker 1: guys got Dre Dre Nicky Diamonds, the guy who started
Speaker 1: Diamonds Applico are really really good friends. They've known each
Speaker 1: other for years how many years now, gosh, I mean
Speaker 1: too many account years at least. And they they they
Speaker 1: don't I don't think they look the same. I can
Speaker 1: definitely see that they have similar features, like maybe the
Speaker 1: facial hair. Uh maybe like like the hairstyle and uh
Speaker 1: kind of like the style. And they see you guys
Speaker 1: hanging out so much that sometimes they might mix you
Speaker 1: guys up. So it's actually it's pretty funny, like if
Speaker 1: you guys check them out, like I one time, I
Speaker 1: was with you on your birthday. Remember we were I
Speaker 1: think we're at Jeezy's house and we were running down
Speaker 1: the stairs and like you ran by one chick and
Speaker 1: she was like, slow down, Nicky Diamonds. Oh yeah, that's hilarious. Yeah, hilarious.
Speaker 1: So funny. Yeah, it's it's happened. Uh, it's happened all
Speaker 1: the time. But the funny thing is like he actually
Speaker 1: gets sometimes he gets like me too, Like time he
Speaker 1: hit me up. I think it was at a pool
Speaker 1: party and like some dude, I don't he doesn't know
Speaker 1: who it was, and Kidding pulled up on him as
Speaker 1: like yo, Dre, I need to bring Kidding to the warehouse.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be crazy, Like he wants to like pick
Speaker 1: up a ton of stuff and all this, and and
Speaker 1: he was He's like, oh yeah, dude, anytime, just like
Speaker 1: run with it. I mean I do the same thing,
Speaker 1: Like someone comes up to me they want to take
Speaker 1: a picture and they're like yeah, look, and they sure
Speaker 1: that they have a diamond shirt on, and I'm like, yo,
Speaker 1: let's good. Sometimes there's I remember there was one time
Speaker 1: I was just like, oh dude, you know it's it's
Speaker 1: not me. But he's my good friend. And this guy
Speaker 1: was angry. He thought it was like really like trying
Speaker 1: to like funk with him, and he's like, dude, you
Speaker 1: don't be such a dick man. Like I just want
Speaker 1: to take out a picture and said, dude, I'm showing you,
Speaker 1: like look this is me bro and this is Nick.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, And then they felt like a dude, but
Speaker 1: he yeah, I was angry, like, yo, what's open with kids?
Speaker 1: Do not be sensitive? Like you guys gotta not be sensitive.
Speaker 1: Stop being entitled. That that's completely something. Tell you guys like, yo,
Speaker 1: come on, we gotta we all got to be better
Speaker 1: than that. Let's go, So, can you give me a
Speaker 1: yellow sensitive? Yeah, let me pull one right outre bro.
Speaker 1: Nick follows me and like I didn't even know he
Speaker 1: followed me, So I followed him back and then and
Speaker 1: I was trying to hit him up for the bees
Speaker 1: and I'm like, yeah, well, what's good, Like what's good
Speaker 1: at those yellow ones? You got one? Right? I mean
Speaker 1: like later on we'll we'll sort that out. But but
Speaker 1: like it was, it was that was that was a
Speaker 1: crazy drop. That was a crazy drop. I just got
Speaker 1: my girl. Chris told me, yeahs seven and a half,
Speaker 1: but still if I'm not going to flex it, so
Speaker 1: I'll let her flex it. I mean, you just told
Speaker 1: us the price, so it was kind of a flex. Yeah.
Speaker 1: That's good. They go now in that size. I got
Speaker 1: a pretty good too. Yeah, Dre Dre war has the
Speaker 1: second you got him? Yeah, you know, you know it
Speaker 1: was really funny because I was at the booth two
Speaker 1: and I was standing there. Nick's right there too, and
Speaker 1: I had people coming to me like, man, dude, this
Speaker 1: is a great release for you that and I was
Speaker 1: like I look back, like, oh yeah, can never follow
Speaker 1: you around the whole time. I swear it's it's unbelievable.
Speaker 1: I swear we should have a show somewhere. You guys
Speaker 1: don't look that much alike. That's what I'm saying. It's
Speaker 1: like a thing. It's like a quick glance like its
Speaker 1: like but I mean like like Blake Winn and Blazonera
Speaker 1: kind of deal. Like you guys don't look anything like either. No,
Speaker 1: but it's like quick glance. You're like and like you
Speaker 1: picture sneaker YouTube and like whatever one's in your mind
Speaker 1: that's more fresh. You know, You're like, oh blaze, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get mistaken for Denzel Washington all the time, Like,
Speaker 1: so I am Seth Faller, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1: Come on, yeah, right, a million coming soon? That's good?
Speaker 1: Are you actually doing it now? We'll get to that later,
Speaker 1: but um, we'll get to that later. I'm gonna just
Speaker 1: brush that off. But anyway, So, Dre, I have a
Speaker 1: couple more questions for you, and then I opened it
Speaker 1: up again for kiss and Blasonery to asking any remaining
Speaker 1: questions that they do have. What do you think about
Speaker 1: the culture? Like, since you're since you're like the like
Speaker 1: the most o g out of all of us, because
Speaker 1: you've been doing this for like eighteen to like twenty years, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what do you think is wrong with the culture? Or
Speaker 1: do you think nothing's wrong with it? Do you think
Speaker 1: it's going in the right direction? Like what do you think?
Speaker 1: Like what do you think about the whole thing? Like,
Speaker 1: I mean, I already know what you're I'm what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say. You don't have to keep elaborating. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna tell you because it's actually something that it's good
Speaker 1: that you you mentioned that you know me, like so well,
Speaker 1: it's like, yo, dude is gone way off, like everything
Speaker 1: like what is this about? This everything just about how
Speaker 1: much something is worth now, Like that's not even why
Speaker 1: like I opened up, um I started even doing this
Speaker 1: in the first place, Like I built up a collection
Speaker 1: from Like how else would you amask like four thousand
Speaker 1: she was in a personal collection without being part of
Speaker 1: that industry unless you had you know, rich ass parents
Speaker 1: that grow up in blue collar family, like you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. So but now it's like, dude, all
Speaker 1: the kids talk about it is like how much how
Speaker 1: much is this worth? Now? How much can of flip
Speaker 1: it for? What's the quick flip this and that? Like
Speaker 1: no one. I mean It's one thing to be happy
Speaker 1: about getting something and saying like oh yeah, cool, it's
Speaker 1: now it's worth this. I got it for that and whatnot,
Speaker 1: But you gotta, you know, you have to have some
Speaker 1: intention of what it means to you and and whatnot,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Like, I'm sure if if
Speaker 1: the box will go here for him, like the like
Speaker 1: white and purple purpose his favorite color. So if that
Speaker 1: one was just like something that was a lot cheaper
Speaker 1: and they made tons of them and they were out
Speaker 1: there everywhere, he would love that one just the most
Speaker 1: more than you know what I mean? So right, so
Speaker 1: you know I did this, uh this event. If you
Speaker 1: google retrospective Known Gallery, you'll see pictures of it. Like
Speaker 1: Complex did a video on it. It was it was
Speaker 1: pretty amazing and like it was right next sort of
Speaker 1: supreme on Fairfax. It did it November two thousand fifteen.
Speaker 1: Drake allowed to have as some of his like unreleased
Speaker 1: pairs in the middle. I had some of the special
Speaker 1: ones there, but we had like four thousand shoes hanging
Speaker 1: from the rafters in the art gallery. And it was
Speaker 1: really because the sneakers itself were art. Right, It's a design,
Speaker 1: so whatever it meant to you. It's like whether it's
Speaker 1: a design, the athlete that wore them, the colors about it,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, there's something the materials whatever,
Speaker 1: you like, pony hair, like petting, soft things whatever it is, right,
Speaker 1: there was something about the shoe that you liked. So
Speaker 1: now you just come in and it's like, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it's what same thing in the art world, right, Art
Speaker 1: is art, and there's like people that see it in
Speaker 1: different ways, but there's a lot of people that just
Speaker 1: jump in. It's like they're in it now, just buying, flipping,
Speaker 1: holding on it. It's just because of what, you know,
Speaker 1: the value of what it is. But going back to
Speaker 1: sneakers and all that, it's like, dude, everyone just kind
Speaker 1: of like looking at it like, yo, oh this I'm
Speaker 1: wearing the most. Um, I mean we did that that
Speaker 1: cool like skit was like a spoof spoof skit, right.
Speaker 1: I mean obviously wouldn't you wouldn't wear that altogether like that,
Speaker 1: but it was kind of funny to put that together. People. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but people, yeah, you're you're coined that that phrase that
Speaker 1: and it's like you you don't even um, you know,
Speaker 1: people are you gotta look at it like uh, okay,
Speaker 1: people are buying the shoes because of what it's worth
Speaker 1: and not because of like what it meant or the
Speaker 1: color like rarity is cool, Like okay, you're like rare stuff.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's there's got to be something that's
Speaker 1: like out there too that that kind of like touches
Speaker 1: you you know what I mean pause like winking him
Speaker 1: and I said, um, but you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: Like there has to be something and I'll just wrap
Speaker 1: it up so I don't want to like drag it
Speaker 1: out so that if you look up and look up
Speaker 1: the pictures was like rafter wall to wall. It was
Speaker 1: not touching the while I was hanging down and it
Speaker 1: was like a big party. It was like an incredible
Speaker 1: energy and we had to open the rest of the weekend.
Speaker 1: There was like some kids coming through and I had
Speaker 1: this one guy and he was coming through every day
Speaker 1: and he was looking through it and he's like, he's like, man,
Speaker 1: like I love this, Like I want to have a collection.
Speaker 1: I probably never have something like this one day, but
Speaker 1: just to have even something small part of it, like
Speaker 1: can you help me find something? I was never able
Speaker 1: to get him that. Uh it was an eminem Jordan's
Speaker 1: two and at eight and a half, like he wanted.
Speaker 1: I just couldn't. I couldn't find that that size for
Speaker 1: a while and I lost touch with him. But if
Speaker 1: you're out there and you're here this like hit me
Speaker 1: up on the on the d M again. But um yeah,
Speaker 1: like uh, and that's what it's all about. Like I've
Speaker 1: done all these events and all this stuff trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, get people to to see the different side
Speaker 1: of everything, like look at SBEs coming back me and
Speaker 1: I hit up Nick. I was in Japan. I came
Speaker 1: up with this concept. I called him up from Japan, like, yo, dude,
Speaker 1: I got this thing for the next complex con. We
Speaker 1: gotta do this. And he was like, dude, this is crazy.
Speaker 1: We got to do this. It's gonna be insane. I
Speaker 1: couldn't get the brand involved, but we said, okay, cool,
Speaker 1: let's that was the ramp. That was a ramp. I said, Yo,
Speaker 1: we'll just tell the story that's not going to be told.
Speaker 1: Let the other things go down, and we're gonna like
Speaker 1: tell that story fifteen years as b was like dead
Speaker 1: and I had a crazy ask like sp collection, I
Speaker 1: wanted to like put it out there, and we put it.
Speaker 1: We like put the diamond dunks all on top. We
Speaker 1: had the highs and the lows, and then we had
Speaker 1: everything in that in that thing, like basically every dunk
Speaker 1: that that was like made samples only missing like one
Speaker 1: that most people don't know about, but everything else was
Speaker 1: in there and including grs and one on. Everyone was
Speaker 1: like going around and taking pictures randomly, like girls that
Speaker 1: had no clue, and it became like this experience, right,
Speaker 1: So it told his story and was and it brought
Speaker 1: drew people from the outside asking what it was about,
Speaker 1: and um, you know what's cool? And then then I
Speaker 1: got like the interest of the guys that was shopping
Speaker 1: with us, we said, and I was like, yo, cool,
Speaker 1: like let me get started having you guys wear all
Speaker 1: this stuff and you know naturally like your travels is
Speaker 1: like yah, I want to get to S B S.
Speaker 1: And Chase was like, you know, those guys were like
Speaker 1: I used to love those shoes, didn't get didn't get
Speaker 1: them when they were like young, when they were coming out.
Speaker 1: So it was really dope to see, like now how
Speaker 1: everything's going down and coming just from you know, diamonds
Speaker 1: got I got another collab. They've got three color ways
Speaker 1: based on what we did. That complex fun and that's
Speaker 1: like real energy. That's not hype. It's not like um,
Speaker 1: it's not fake. It's you know, it's real. It's something
Speaker 1: that was actually established and created. Didn't sell anything, and
Speaker 1: it was like a charity thing we had Retina made
Speaker 1: tease and we were like selling them as a charity
Speaker 1: and then like raffling off like pairs. You weren't like
Speaker 1: profiteering off it, you know what I mean. And that
Speaker 1: would look what that turned into. It turned into three
Speaker 1: new color ways. It turned into like all this energy
Speaker 1: being back in the s B and you know it
Speaker 1: feels good to be I guess maybe in an architect
Speaker 1: to that, like I'm just gonna go out and say
Speaker 1: it like, hell yeah, I'm I'm happy that like to
Speaker 1: see that it's real. It's not like some fake Instagram ship.
Speaker 1: It was like really something that like has is now
Speaker 1: showing a year later like it's going down. So I
Speaker 1: think that that if you, if we can focus on
Speaker 1: doing things like that and having kids inspired to be
Speaker 1: like yo, I want to I love this style more
Speaker 1: than this one. I love thistle. I'm gonna collect this
Speaker 1: style or collect all styles of this brand and that brand.
Speaker 1: I think then you're gonna find a resurgence and like
Speaker 1: into like culture and not just about like you know
Speaker 1: what everything is. And I think we tell those stories
Speaker 1: like when we've you know, you've done videos and you
Speaker 1: came over and stuff, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: you it's starting it's starting to like it's getting there,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. If you start doing that,
Speaker 1: everyone will continue and then you've you're creating a whole
Speaker 1: new era, you know what I mean. So, so like
Speaker 1: just to kind of summarize everything, you think that kids
Speaker 1: these days are more about flexing than actually the history
Speaker 1: of the shoe. And what you want to do is,
Speaker 1: um show them, showcase things that these events that kind
Speaker 1: of inspire people to care more about the history and
Speaker 1: the design and the art issue more so than oh,
Speaker 1: how much are your shoes worth? Yeah, because I catch
Speaker 1: myself doing that all the time, just because I'm more
Speaker 1: so intrigued. I'll be like, yo, dre, like how much
Speaker 1: is this worth? Like this is really old, like this
Speaker 1: is blah blah bah. Yeah, but that's fine, that's cool, Like,
Speaker 1: but don't be consumed by it, like like if you're
Speaker 1: if you're, if your daddy is like has like millions
Speaker 1: and and okay, cool. It's easy to show like supreme
Speaker 1: Louis Vuitton all over the place. We know, we know,
Speaker 1: we know a couple of those guys. But well there's
Speaker 1: I mean, there's there's there's and like there's nothing wrong
Speaker 1: with having money, but it's just about how you portray
Speaker 1: yourself and and how you like to dream about it.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but look at it. If you if you
Speaker 1: go look at um, you know, for example, you know
Speaker 1: you go to foot Locker, right and they did that
Speaker 1: black and yellow pack all those shoes, like those things
Speaker 1: aren't really going on anything, right, those Airmax and and
Speaker 1: all that stuff that were black and yellow. But I
Speaker 1: thought they were great, that whole the whole pack. Not
Speaker 1: necessarily just because I'm a Steelers fan, but I love
Speaker 1: black and yellow, and it was a cool thing. And
Speaker 1: it just kind of went back to the days of
Speaker 1: when like Fuller had their own stuff, Finish Line had
Speaker 1: their own like Airmax color ways. You know, stories that
Speaker 1: have like there's a there's layers and different stuff going
Speaker 1: on so people actually can go. I mean, bro, we
Speaker 1: grew up going to like the mom and pop Korean
Speaker 1: store owned or whatever, whatever ethnicity ethnicity they owned in
Speaker 1: your area, and like you had that camaraderie and going
Speaker 1: to a full locker waiting in line trying to get
Speaker 1: the new Jordan to come out, right. I mean, dude,
Speaker 1: it doesn't exist anymore, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 1: people would just get in line. There's like a line
Speaker 1: of like a ton of people and raffles and all
Speaker 1: this crap and nonsense. It's not getting in in like
Speaker 1: proper hands. Now you got like apps just coming in
Speaker 1: like oh yo, selling me, selling me, selling me, and
Speaker 1: then what do you have left? You have? But just
Speaker 1: like people just selling and the people buying just I
Speaker 1: think are becoming few and few, you know, like it's
Speaker 1: going on, but like there's way more. I mean, it's changed,
Speaker 1: it's changed for something else. But I think that there
Speaker 1: is like people that wanted to want like real authenticity
Speaker 1: to come back. So I'm gonna be I'm definitely I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be here. I'm gonna be driving it to write.
Speaker 1: Let me make a comment on on what you just
Speaker 1: said basically, like and I have one more question after
Speaker 1: this too before we take another call. But um, because
Speaker 1: you said you have like a problem with all all
Speaker 1: the raffles and stuff, like, how do you feel about
Speaker 1: like these stores forcing people to wear the shoes out
Speaker 1: the door? There was literally one store that that forced you.
Speaker 1: I don't remember what it was, but like they made
Speaker 1: you wear one of the sneakers and then you had
Speaker 1: to wear them around and prove it that you wore
Speaker 1: them all day, and then you come back to the
Speaker 1: store and they give you the other shoe. And then
Speaker 1: there's another place that you have to give them your
Speaker 1: shoes and then they ship you at complex on this year,
Speaker 1: what what was that app zen? Zen? Was it zen?
Speaker 1: If they were given away like airmags and like turtle doves,
Speaker 1: and you know, some kid walked out with legend of
Speaker 1: Summer ones. He told me he was a fan of me,
Speaker 1: like blazonry, like you remember. I was like, yeah, actually
Speaker 1: did I met him in like a sneaker con. He
Speaker 1: literally opens a bro like came here, came here, shows
Speaker 1: me he's got like ten thousand pair of shoes and
Speaker 1: his like want to walk them out to Tokyo five
Speaker 1: Tokyo five, but they made them wear them out, Like
Speaker 1: how do you feel about that? Do you think? Do
Speaker 1: you think it's it's good to like force people to
Speaker 1: like uh to like wear them because like the touching
Speaker 1: back on the whole art did you see how they
Speaker 1: were walking like someone were walking like that a stick
Speaker 1: up the rest. But at the same time, like someone
Speaker 1: like me, like with certain shoes, I don't want to
Speaker 1: wear them because they're like an art piece to me,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? So like so so like
Speaker 1: there's that argument, you know, like my rud October is
Speaker 1: like I'm going to wear them one day, but for
Speaker 1: right now, like they're literally displayed in my room as
Speaker 1: like an art piece and as a symbol of my
Speaker 1: success last year because I worked my ass off and like,
Speaker 1: that's the shoe I've wanted since two thousand and thirteen
Speaker 1: and I finally got it five years later, and like
Speaker 1: from a really good friend and you know, basically family,
Speaker 1: So like that meant a lot to me. So like
Speaker 1: that's a shoe that, you know, even though my future
Speaker 1: wife will probably kill me, but if I wore that,
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's something I'd want to wear on my
Speaker 1: wedding day, even though even though I can't. What what
Speaker 1: would you do if he said you have to if
Speaker 1: you want it, you have to walk out wearing it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know Dre wouldn't force that on me,
Speaker 1: but in a way, I would be upset because I
Speaker 1: wanted to keep them like dead sock. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I'd be kind of happy because like someone
Speaker 1: would kind of take me out of my shell and
Speaker 1: make me wear them, because I know for a fact
Speaker 1: that that pair of October's I'm never going to sell,
Speaker 1: those are going to be I don't care what happens.
Speaker 1: I don't care if my I don't I don't care
Speaker 1: if my Instagram page gets deleted tomorrow, my YouTube channel
Speaker 1: goes to ship, if I have to sell everything else.
Speaker 1: Those are octobers are still going to be in my room,
Speaker 1: same way with my Nike mags as a symbol of
Speaker 1: my success. And I bought them with my own money,
Speaker 1: saved up reselling. It took me four years to buy that. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: it's it's just cool. That's that's the forty two dollars
Speaker 1: Paypalin Voice. I wish I was rich. No, So they're
Speaker 1: thousand eleven ones and they came out in two thousand
Speaker 1: and love it. But then I bought them and I
Speaker 1: got them and the right lights worked, not the left ones.
Speaker 1: That's and I had the box and everything in the
Speaker 1: metal card in the which pair number. That's dope. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a great story. That's like, that's real. It's authentic, man,
Speaker 1: Like I have the these things. When you see these dudes,
Speaker 1: the stories are all like bullshit on my paypalastory, the
Speaker 1: papals stories, the stories are are real, but like some
Speaker 1: of these kids are like, Okay, I hate sneakers. I
Speaker 1: don't give a shit about them. I'm just gonna go
Speaker 1: into concepts and get a pair of green lobsters just
Speaker 1: to sell them. Yeah, that like I gets out there yeah,
Speaker 1: all the hood come out, Like I know dudes that
Speaker 1: have been like just the hustle, like uh, you know drugs, Yeah,
Speaker 1: do that. I get the hustle. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: I feel like, I don't know, does it doesn't really
Speaker 1: take away from the culture? Like what do you think?
Speaker 1: Because this is my last question before we take a call,
Speaker 1: Like does it really take away from the culture? Because
Speaker 1: I feel like even people who don't care about sneakers
Speaker 1: are reselling sneakers, So does that make it better? Because
Speaker 1: like it's like, oh my god, like everyone cares because
Speaker 1: you know, it's not it's not necessarily that. Like no
Speaker 1: one even said the word like resell back in the day,
Speaker 1: Like no one did, Like you just didn't you just
Speaker 1: say oh yeah, like a sold them and flipped on whatever.
Speaker 1: We like you never had that terminology just started becoming
Speaker 1: this crazy thing. I mean, look, they say doing online
Speaker 1: release is going to solve a lot of problems, but
Speaker 1: that's not true. Now you got like money into it,
Speaker 1: You've got people with like you know, two thousand square
Speaker 1: foot um office space with like tons of computers in it,
Speaker 1: and it's like a um, you know, it's like a
Speaker 1: Chinese room full of Chinese students like killing it on
Speaker 1: like bots, just getting paid to like and they're they're
Speaker 1: raking in like so much I mean so much quantity.
Speaker 1: It's it cansane. It's like, oh wow, you have you
Speaker 1: are now just giving it instantly to like this to
Speaker 1: the groups that are able to do that. Like I
Speaker 1: could have built that that whole system you put in,
Speaker 1: like in a system like that, and bro, you're gonna
Speaker 1: bypass a lot. You get the right engineer involved if
Speaker 1: you're gonna bypass all this stuff. I never did it
Speaker 1: because but you know what it's like, Look, I always
Speaker 1: had a ton of principles, but I feel like I
Speaker 1: screwed up on that one. Like I should have said,
Speaker 1: you know what, if you can't like beat it, you
Speaker 1: might as well join it. And I should have just
Speaker 1: done that, and I would have saved saved a lot
Speaker 1: of heart because they're already cool. Let's just run it too,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Because it's they're taken away
Speaker 1: from like the kids experience that getting it in front
Speaker 1: of stores and whatnot and just becoming that and they say,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, safety and all that's like, dude, safety just
Speaker 1: because you're putting a little around in one place, like
Speaker 1: I think everyone's like hurting each other. Brother. You see
Speaker 1: what happened in Miami with the soul flies, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: like people were people got arrested. That was crazy. Like
Speaker 1: do you remember in two thousand eleven but the year
Speaker 1: before they did they did shootings? Oh yeah. And then
Speaker 1: there was a story like right after the Triple Black
Speaker 1: seven fifties that came out like one store and or
Speaker 1: got shot outside and he got killed over a pair
Speaker 1: of shoes. Wait really a storem wow, I didn't know about.
Speaker 1: I don't remember where it was, but like I remember
Speaker 1: reading that story and I was like, wow over a
Speaker 1: pair of three hundred fifty dollars worth of like fake
Speaker 1: leather and plastic. Now, but at that time, it's probably
Speaker 1: when I first came out. So those things are going
Speaker 1: through like three thousand, but yeah, they're going first. What
Speaker 1: I'm saying, the element is just out there, like everybody
Speaker 1: knows about no human life is worth a pair of shoes,
Speaker 1: you know? No, I like, no, no, absolutely, I totally
Speaker 1: agree with life is worth any But what is that
Speaker 1: My life is worth like two air mags. But but
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. But do you but do you
Speaker 1: like not want to have like do not want to
Speaker 1: have like releases to the public anymore? Like no, I do,
Speaker 1: and I do I do. Everyone knows how many there
Speaker 1: is of of stuff and you just gotta you don't
Speaker 1: need to have there's only a hundred hundred pairs of
Speaker 1: this anymore. Like a hundred pairs back in like two
Speaker 1: thousand three was was rare enough. Now there's millions and
Speaker 1: millions of millions more people involved, Like having a shoe
Speaker 1: out there, it's like twenty quantity is pretty limited, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. So when people talk, oh yeah,
Speaker 1: they's a lot, it's like it's not a lot, you know,
Speaker 1: there's you know what I mean. But uh yeah, yeah, obviously,
Speaker 1: like you know, but I just don't. I don't feel
Speaker 1: that like flooding the online space with a bunch of
Speaker 1: pairs out there, it's just funneling into bots and people
Speaker 1: that are just all throwing it up on on the
Speaker 1: various um selling apps and whatnot, all at the same time,
Speaker 1: So you just have this whole big devalue of product
Speaker 1: and all kinds of stuff. It's to me, it's just
Speaker 1: it's complete craze. I mean, there's not one person can
Speaker 1: change or fix that at all. Like it is what
Speaker 1: it is. You just have to kind of devise a
Speaker 1: new system to to get things in the proper hand.
Speaker 1: That's actually one thing I'm get involving Blitz into it.
Speaker 1: Should it should be pretty cool. So cool. We'll keep
Speaker 1: keep eyes on that for sure. Well, I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to I wanna I want to ask you a few
Speaker 1: more questions. But let's take a let's take a caller
Speaker 1: real quick. Hello, Hello, Hey, what's up man? What's your name? Yo? Yo?
Speaker 1: What's up? Guys? This is uh Slim from l a O.
Speaker 1: What's up? Slim? I just I just want to say, Yo, guys,
Speaker 1: I'm a really big fan. Been following all you guys
Speaker 1: for a pretty long time. I was I was actually
Speaker 1: wondering if there was no streetwear, no more sneakers, none
Speaker 1: of that, what you guys might be doing instead as
Speaker 1: far as like a career goes or what you would
Speaker 1: like to do if there was, if you guys didn't
Speaker 1: have YouTube, you know, sneakers, all that stuff. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a that's actually great. That's a great question. Um, do
Speaker 1: you guys want to start off? I mean, do you
Speaker 1: know who Rocco Saffretti is you know, yeah, he's like
Speaker 1: an Italian porn star, probably following his footstep. No, I
Speaker 1: mean truthfully, well, I'd probably just be in like nightlife,
Speaker 1: nightlife and entertainment architect. I was going to be an architect.
Speaker 1: Uh what a dea I was gonna. I was planning
Speaker 1: to be a doctor. And I have all these medical
Speaker 1: books from when I was a kid, and throughout middle
Speaker 1: school and high school, I was in premed club and
Speaker 1: then I joined like this special a heck, Charlotte Doctor's
Speaker 1: Club where like you, we wore scrubs every month and
Speaker 1: you learned about all those special things and heard from speakers.
Speaker 1: And once I wasn't going to college, I just dropped
Speaker 1: that whole dream. What about you guys, probably something with acting. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Moved to l A regardless and try to do that.
Speaker 1: And I tried to do it when I first moved
Speaker 1: to l A before the YouTube took off. But I
Speaker 1: just like focus more on YouTube and it worked. So yeah, No,
Speaker 1: I I was in med school. I dropped out. I
Speaker 1: was I was always my whole life. I want to
Speaker 1: be a doctor. My parents really hard on me, uh
Speaker 1: doctor lawyer, and that with me. It was just like
Speaker 1: my mom wanted me to be a doctor. My dad
Speaker 1: hated the because anyway, Yeah, like I I was in
Speaker 1: med school. I I dropped out, Uh for a couple
Speaker 1: of reasons. I actually got surgery, and you I killed
Speaker 1: two boards of one stone. I started my YouTube channel.
Speaker 1: I decide, you know what, I didn't drop out, actually
Speaker 1: took a year off and then, um, now I've taken
Speaker 1: two years off. Like school is always going to be
Speaker 1: there and um and this isn't always going to be there.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think that it's very important for
Speaker 1: people to understand that. You know, there's plenty of celebrities
Speaker 1: or actors or YouTubers even who we're popping at one
Speaker 1: point and then they spend all their money and now
Speaker 1: they're not doing anything. Now they're screwed. And but there's
Speaker 1: also plenty of the smart ones get get their money invested,
Speaker 1: reinvested in themselves and in their businesses, even if it's
Speaker 1: not popping or like like Ashton Kutcher that dude hasn't
Speaker 1: made a movie and like what like with ten years
Speaker 1: I'd like year, bro, that dude's worth like two fifty
Speaker 1: million dollars because of all the investments that he's made
Speaker 1: and it's just in like like that's real money. That's
Speaker 1: like you can't even make that much money acting. It's
Speaker 1: like p Diddy and that's really smartment with Surrock and
Speaker 1: you know, fifty cent with like vitamin water and like
Speaker 1: jay Z Carters of course, like it's it's really important.
Speaker 1: Like everyone who's listening, I want you guys to know,
Speaker 1: like even if you guys get a large sum of money,
Speaker 1: don't go and spend it all on a sneaker. Don't
Speaker 1: be soldier boy. Yeah, don't be soldier boy. Don't spend
Speaker 1: all your money. Boys with a lot of not anymore.
Speaker 1: I think I said that the other day and they
Speaker 1: shot me down. Now I know, like someone someone I
Speaker 1: asked him, he's broke all his always watches and his chains,
Speaker 1: they're all they're all fake. I don't know. Do you
Speaker 1: think why is he wearing fake jewelry for this dude's bawling.
Speaker 1: I don't know. But you know, Richard Kid definitely won't
Speaker 1: be rich for a long time. Yeah. I mean there's
Speaker 1: a lot of people who, like, you know, do well,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying, but like there's a lot who don't.
Speaker 1: So you know, if if all goes to ship, I'll
Speaker 1: go back to med school. Um, it's definitely gonna take
Speaker 1: a little bit of getting used to go back. And
Speaker 1: I'm sure that you know, John Carlos could have maybe
Speaker 1: like a similar path and Dre. You know, Drey is
Speaker 1: killing it. He's he's not going anywhere, and you're killing
Speaker 1: I'm never gonna go back to school. No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm always school. I like, I'm always finding a hustle.
Speaker 1: So if this doesn't work out, I'll find another to
Speaker 1: add to that too. I want to also make this
Speaker 1: important for a lot of other younger audiences out there.
Speaker 1: Don't drop out of school. Don't drop out of school
Speaker 1: number one, but number two, UM, make sure that if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be eighteen and you want to pursue a
Speaker 1: life like this and kind of that, don't throw your
Speaker 1: money away for rent by a place and then rent
Speaker 1: it out after two years and getting a property. I
Speaker 1: told him that. My dad told me that years ago.
Speaker 1: And that's why I'm buying my first place. And that's
Speaker 1: why I'm not out of North Carolina. It's because I've
Speaker 1: been saving my money. I want to buy that crib.
Speaker 1: I want to rent it out in two years, I
Speaker 1: want to own more property. Yeah, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: ways you can invest your money, Like you don't have
Speaker 1: to go straight for the property, but no, no, But
Speaker 1: it's it's important. Make sure you're reinvested in yourself. That's
Speaker 1: that's the thing that's like like Dre you know, does
Speaker 1: millions and millions of dollars every year in sales, but
Speaker 1: he reinvests everything back into the business, which is really important.
Speaker 1: So make sure you guys do that, reinvest in yourselves
Speaker 1: and if you have a passion, go for it because
Speaker 1: it's so important, like that you do something in your
Speaker 1: life that you love to do. I wake up every
Speaker 1: morning and I'm happy, Like I love what I do.
Speaker 1: I think it's amazing that I get to, you know,
Speaker 1: be a part of so many people's lives and bring
Speaker 1: them happiness and joy every time they see me post
Speaker 1: the photo or post the video or whatever it might
Speaker 1: be like, and that brings like happiness to my heart.
Speaker 1: And you know, making people laugh and make people entertained.
Speaker 1: It's like something that I love to do. The reason
Speaker 1: why I wanted to be a doctor is because I
Speaker 1: wanted to help people and like, you know, save lives.
Speaker 1: But in a way, you know, by entertaining and you know,
Speaker 1: but what's what you said about how like some kids
Speaker 1: walked up to you and said they wanted to commit
Speaker 1: suicide and then like one of your videos like brought
Speaker 1: them out of that dark hole and like that mindset
Speaker 1: like we're we're we're saving lives out here in a sense,
Speaker 1: you know, and obviously not like as direct as like
Speaker 1: a physician or whatever. Our impact on people can really
Speaker 1: you can say one thing to someone and it can
Speaker 1: change in the life, of course. And that's why it's
Speaker 1: so important that we go to these sneaker cons and
Speaker 1: everyone and like and it's like, I, you know, it's
Speaker 1: good to have these interactions with these kids to just
Speaker 1: say like, hey, like, I appreciate you, and you know,
Speaker 1: I appreciate every single one of you guys. And I
Speaker 1: don't know which camera to look at, but I appreciate
Speaker 1: every single one of you guys. And I'm sure that
Speaker 1: you know everyone here will say the same. So Um,
Speaker 1: with that said, like, do you guys have any other
Speaker 1: questions for Dre Are you ready to go get food? Yo?
Speaker 1: I'm fucking starving. Yeah, do you have any other questions guys? Um? No,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think I got the two
Speaker 1: of that I wanted to ask out the way, So yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to like say something to like
Speaker 1: this is like the whole YouTube space is something that
Speaker 1: I was neglected back back when it really started opening
Speaker 1: up into that to that level and and um man,
Speaker 1: you guys really just changed my whole like outlook on
Speaker 1: it all because you know, I'm very honest, Like, coming before,
Speaker 1: I was like, Yeah, who the funk are these guys?
Speaker 1: Who are these guys? Because I started getting hit up
Speaker 1: by people and it was kind of like the same thing.
Speaker 1: They were like, Yo, what are you gonna give me
Speaker 1: to to come in there? I'm like, oh, what are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Who? Who are you? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean? And like like I was really like just
Speaker 1: outside of that, I was like building, building, building, and
Speaker 1: um and then like you know, when you guys started
Speaker 1: coming in, I got to know you guys, Like, man,
Speaker 1: you guys are like good, You're doing different, completely different,
Speaker 1: Like you know, it's all it's sneaker related and streetwear
Speaker 1: and whatnot, but it's like you all have your own
Speaker 1: different touch and everything on it. I think that's like
Speaker 1: amazing and great and like from the outside, and of
Speaker 1: course it's gonna be of course you're gonna get haters,
Speaker 1: people talking ship and when not everyone everyone does, like myself,
Speaker 1: all you and even the people like sitting around here
Speaker 1: there aren't involved in the conversation. But um, I think
Speaker 1: it's great. It's just kind of like, you know, being
Speaker 1: you and giving your own own outlook on everything. And
Speaker 1: I think that's like dope. And I was like, you
Speaker 1: sat there and went back and started watching some of
Speaker 1: your you guys old stuff like when I especially when
Speaker 1: I met you guys, started looking at all this stuff.
Speaker 1: You know, it's cool. I mean I appreciate that. Like
Speaker 1: the passion you guys will have is like real. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm about that. It's like real, dude, real. If it's fake,
Speaker 1: I'll bust it. So did you go back and watch
Speaker 1: that vlog that I did from that pop up on
Speaker 1: Fairfax you had? Which one the with the galot like
Speaker 1: when you put all the shoes, the one you were
Speaker 1: talking about earlier? I didn't see that. Yeah, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: send you the link. I'm gonna go. I want to
Speaker 1: see that because I was a way before that's when
Speaker 1: you started. Yeah, that's when that's when I started doing
Speaker 1: more sneaker stuff. And uh, I was living in l
Speaker 1: A and all my boys were visiting and we're like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta go check this out. And we were like
Speaker 1: drooling over the freaking Ovio sneakers. Dude, I gotta see
Speaker 1: I'll send it to you. Yeah, so damn we gotta
Speaker 1: do something like that recap or some ship with that. Well, honestly,
Speaker 1: I wish that thing was like open, open longer because
Speaker 1: it felt such a good I know you were there,
Speaker 1: so I was there literally the last day, like I
Speaker 1: wanted to go the whole time. I was so busy
Speaker 1: and finally were able to go, we like walk there
Speaker 1: from the grove. I brought my camera but wait, wait,
Speaker 1: which was that you guys had a stick and was
Speaker 1: like filming everything from top to bottom. There was someone
Speaker 1: that was doing that. Maybe I don't think so, I
Speaker 1: think I just had my mittle g seven next at
Speaker 1: the time. But yeah, we had it. We just had it,
Speaker 1: made it open. We just like everyone to kind of
Speaker 1: like go from I was looking out like trying to
Speaker 1: find people that had like footage of it out there.
Speaker 1: It was that I wouldn't even think of going to
Speaker 1: like YouTube exactly. That was like, um, it was like
Speaker 1: motivation because that's before I had all my expensive sneakers,
Speaker 1: Like you walk in there and it was like, God,
Speaker 1: I want this, like I want this, Like it motivated
Speaker 1: me because I just moved to l A and I
Speaker 1: like didn't know anybody in the industry and it was
Speaker 1: like this freaking gallery. So it was meant to be
Speaker 1: like damn, like this is straight motivation, and like most
Speaker 1: of the shoes that were in there that I really
Speaker 1: wanted I was able to get over the past two years.
Speaker 1: So it's like like I would love to see more
Speaker 1: of that type of stuff. So hell yeah, dope that
Speaker 1: that kind of like that, man, we gotta watch that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll watch it. We'll watch together, watch it when we
Speaker 1: go eat. Yeah yeah right now, thank you. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: we we were all gonna come check out the pop up,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be really sick. I was kind of
Speaker 1: involved in like the behind the scenes, you know, we
Speaker 1: had a some long nights and I'm really excited to
Speaker 1: see it come into fruition. We're all definitely all gonna
Speaker 1: be there. Like, IM so proud of you for everything
Speaker 1: last year. This year is only gonna get better. Like,
Speaker 1: thank you for like being such a strong part of
Speaker 1: my life. I really appreciate it man, Like your friendship
Speaker 1: like means so much to me. And I gotta goes
Speaker 1: for all you guys. But um, great podcast, great show,
Speaker 1: Thanks for having me, Thanks thanks for coming man, like,
Speaker 1: I appreciate I know how busy you are and like
Speaker 1: just for you to sit here and you know, just
Speaker 1: give us, give us the time of day, like it
Speaker 1: means a lot. So cool. Thanks man, and that was
Speaker 1: legit check. Appreciate you guys, See you next time. M.