WEBVTT - Episode 9 - Last Drop of The Year 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:02.960 What's going on? Guys. Welcome to Legit Check. I'm your host, 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.440 Easy busta or back with another episode. And today's episode 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:08.600 is gonna be a little bit different than what we 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.760 normally do because today it is going to be a 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:16.120 solo episode. Today, we're gonna sit down, We're gonna talk 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:19.680 by the fire. Just imagine, Um, you're by our fireplace 0:00:19.760 --> 0:00:21.599 right now with some hot coco and we're just gonna 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.119 talk about some sneakers. And I figured that, you know, 0:00:25.160 --> 0:00:27.360 we kind of wrap up two thousand nineteen and kind 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:30.760 of talk about the different things that have happened this 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:34.199 year in the fashion world and like different trends and 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:36.640 kind of like where they're going for two twenty. The 0:00:36.680 --> 0:00:40.360 last five years have been really interesting because you know, 0:00:40.600 --> 0:00:42.760 me getting into the game a little bit late. I know, 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:45.479 I'm probably gonna get crucified by a lot of like 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.199 old heads in the game. Um, but me kind of 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.559 getting into sneakers around like two thousand four, two thousand fifteen, 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:58.080 there was a big paradigm shift between going from Nike 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.840 to Adidas and because of the Easy brand, because of Kanye, 0:01:02.880 --> 0:01:05.360 you know, just coming from myself when I was in 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.319 middle school and in high school, I exclusively war Nike. 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.039 I only like Nike shoes. I don't think I ever 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.759 had a pair of Adidas up until that point. Um, 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.720 So whenever I was playing soccer or basketball or whatever 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.400 last sport I was playing, I was always wearing Nike. 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.360 And you know, I never really had an interest for Adidas. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.440 I just never really liked the brand that all that much. 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:28.000 And you know, me being like such a die hard 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.440 Kanye fan, when I saw him wearing the Ultra Boost 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:32.360 and like, genuinely I thought it was like a really 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.679 cool silhouette, and you know, me being you know, partially 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.840 a hype piece, I was like, you know, when I 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:39.880 got to check this out and I heard that they 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:42.760 were like the most comfortable shoes like ever at the time. 0:01:42.800 --> 0:01:46.479 So right when I went went to college, I ended 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:48.680 up buying myself a pair of Cosmic Boosts and that 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.320 was like the first pair of Adidas I ever wore, 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.560 ever bought and war and it was so comfortable, and like, 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:56.320 I couldn't afford the Ultra Boost at the time, and 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.520 I couldn't even find them, so at that time, the 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.400 Ultra was like the hype shoe. And if you walk 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:04.960 into a foot locker or a chance or whatever. You 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.600 would never be able to find them just sitting on 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:08.040 the shelf, and if you were, it would be like 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:12.239 a size like sixteen or something ridiculous. So at the time, 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:15.360 I think the shift went from Nike to Adidas, and 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:17.120 I have a feeling that in the last couple of 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:21.480 years has definitely started to shift back. So in two 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.959 thousand fifteen, Easies were like the biggest thing. I'd say 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:27.200 two thousand fifteen to seventeen, it was like easy, easy, 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:29.679 Easy jumped over jump Man, and I feel like jump 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:34.520 Man kind of started jumping back. So it was interesting 0:02:34.560 --> 0:02:39.560 because I always like, really like specific shoes growing up. 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.799 I like Blazers, I liked Jordan's ones. There was even 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:44.880 a few pair of SBEs that I was into it also, 0:02:45.520 --> 0:02:47.280 But I never really was a big sneaker head. I 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.440 was mostly into shoes because I was I was mostly 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:53.440 in the sneakers because of the sports I was playing. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.359 So whatever sneakers, I felt like, we're like the best 0:02:56.400 --> 0:02:58.880 ones on the court or on the field, We're the 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:01.120 ones I always got. I never really thought about it 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:05.120 from like a streetwear um point of view, because growing 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:06.919 up in California, you know all I all I wore 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:08.959 was banned and converse growing up, so it was kind 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:12.079 of like, you know, a little different. But I mean 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.000 I I did have a few pairs of Nikes, like 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:17.360 I had cortes Is. I had uh one pair of 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:19.680 blazers in middle school that my my mom bought me 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:21.520 that I was obsessed with. That's all I wore in 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.480 middle school, just those blazers. So the blazers have like 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:27.160 a you know, dear place in my heart. I actually 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:28.840 got them, I think, like a size too big so 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.960 I could wear them longer. And you know, I at 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:33.240 the time, I had I think in one or two 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.760 pairs of sneakers like I most. Um now, you know, 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.440 times of changes, it's a little different. Um. Fortunately, I 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.800 have like, you know, over two hundred pairs of shoes 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.080 now and I only were like five of them on rotation. 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.640 But you know, it is what it is. And I 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:49.000 would say in the last two years, there's been kind 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.720 of like a shift when it comes to sneakers, like 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:55.600 I exclusively, I have been seeing people only wear Nike. 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:57.960 And you know, obviously Kanye has been releasing new stuff. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.440 But you know, I have a feeling that the Adida's 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:04.120 hype kind of died down when they really just flooded 0:04:04.160 --> 0:04:06.720 the market with like the cream whites. That was kind 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.480 of like the first hit, and then after that when 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:14.360 they were only releasing V twos in like basically the 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.680 same color ways over and over again, like the sesame, 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.080 like the like the like the light brown versus like 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.440 you know, kinda like the citron or whatever, or the 0:04:24.480 --> 0:04:27.680 new color ways of the V twos, it was all 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.000 earth tones, and I kind of like what they did 0:04:30.080 --> 0:04:32.840 with UM with with coannated with the new five hundreds, 0:04:32.880 --> 0:04:34.960 like the purple color way. I thought it was cool, 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:36.960 you know, at least kind of like take away from 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.880 the whole earth tones thing. That's why I was like 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:41.560 a big fan of the frozen yellows and the blue 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:44.400 tints because they were kind of like in their own lane, 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:46.719 you know what I mean. And I felt like for 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:49.560 a year straight, like the only easiest that we're coming 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:52.839 out were V twos and you know, some seven hundreds, 0:04:52.960 --> 0:04:56.080 but you know, it was just pretty much the same 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.880 color way over and over again, and people were getting 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:01.920 tired of that, I guess. And then Jordan's once kind 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:05.440 of came back around with um you know, Travis Scott 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.000 and um a bunch of big artists getting back into 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.160 Jordan's ones. So I would say in the last couple 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.800 of years, people definitely started migraining over the Nike. I 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.880 mean it's not just it's not just Travis too, It's like, 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.599 you know, off Whites, uh, nikesb s had like a 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:22.720 big revival. I'm just trying to think, like even even 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.720 like a lot of like Supreme sneakers too, were kind 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:30.320 of coming back. And now like the whole game is Nike. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:32.600 You know, everybody's wearing Nike. Know not not a lot 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.000 of people are wearing Easies anymore. I remember, like back 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:39.080 in two fifteen, like every celebrity and their mother was 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:42.960 wearing Easies. It was like justin Bieber and the the 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:47.039 Kardashians and the Jenners and you know, all like the 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:49.839 big artists and actors. Everybody was wearing easy He's like 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:51.440 that was the thing. And like I love that time 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.760 because the Easies are super comfortable, and Jordan Ones definitely 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.719 are not in the most comfortable shoe in the world. 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.000 But Kanye had like the whole comfort kind of like 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.520 comfy look, you know, with the really comfortable sneakers with 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.000 like sweatpants and like a baggy hoodie or something like that. 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:06.960 That was like the thing, and now I feel like 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:09.280 things are kind of shifting, you know. Uh, A lot 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:13.080 of the culture is kind of stepping into kind of 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:17.680 like lower key for lack of a better word, brands 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:19.279 like um, well, I know a lot of artists are 0:06:19.279 --> 0:06:24.600 getting into Japanese brands like a Capital or Saka like Adidas, 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.719 like comfortable, like baggy, geasy season esque clothing to now 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:33.000 kind of like you know, patchwork and you know, ugly sweaters. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:35.799 Like the sweater I'm wearing is um from a Japanese 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.720 brand called Capital, and it's just like you know, it's 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.320 just very itchy, but it looks awesome and I love it. 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.480 And I don't know why, but I just think that 0:06:45.240 --> 0:06:48.279 fashion has changed. Obviously, it always changes, and there's always 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:51.160 like a circulation um. You know, old old things keep 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:53.440 reviving and becoming new, you know, kind of like with 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.640 Virgil dig with a millionaire sunglasses with Louis Utan, like 0:06:56.680 --> 0:06:58.440 there was a millionaire one point oh and those the 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:00.760 Millionaire one point one and I think killed it, and 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:02.960 you know, there's always that revival. So I feel like 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:06.680 in two nineteen and kind of going into two thousand twenty, 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:11.320 it definitely has become exclusively Nike. It's just you know 0:07:11.360 --> 0:07:14.600 that that that's what people want to wear, Like people 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:18.200 are only wearing off whites, people are only wearing Jordan's, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:21.800 and you know, it's a bummer. And honestly, I thought 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.560 that the Easy was going to kind of come back 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.920 a little bit with the Aliens, because I love those, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.840 Like I was so happy that Kanye finally released a 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:32.120 new silhouette like the three eight. I personally love them. 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.320 I think they're I think they're super super dope and 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.640 um that was actually like the first Easy in a 0:07:38.720 --> 0:07:40.600 long time where I was like, I need to get 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:42.440 my hands on these and I will wear them and 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.640 they're super comfortable. I think the design was unique. I 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.440 really like the change. I remember like last year when 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:52.800 they kind of leaked some images of the outsold and 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:55.760 people were getting excited, and now I really felt like 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.320 that was going to be kind of the revival. But 0:07:57.360 --> 0:07:59.560 even that true, they dropped it I think three times. 0:08:00.840 --> 0:08:03.800 So I was really hoping that that the the Alien 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.400 Um or the Easy three eight was going to be 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.560 kind of like the revival of Easy. And like Adidas, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:10.880 I'm kind of hoping that the Easy brand as a 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:14.040 whole in twenty will kind of follow in the footsteps 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.840 of like the Alien and release new silhouettes and more 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:21.240 unique color ways, like more wearable color ways that you know, 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.320 I think the biggest problem with like so many of 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:28.720 these Easies were there was such insignificant differences between two 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.840 color ways that people wouldn't want to buy both because 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.160 they'd be like, oh, this looks just like the five 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:36.360 for example, like the bone white versus the salt like 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:38.760 it looked almost exactly the same, or like the blush 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.160 even like the Superman yellow didn't even look that yellow 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.920 looks very similar to like a blush. So I really 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.200 hope that if they had released new color ways that 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.240 they're different enough where people would want to buy all 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.920 of them, you know. Like I know, I'm Easy busted, 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.320 but I did actually skip out on a couple of yearsies. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.800 This year. It was it was really bummed out, And 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:57.720 I really hope the next year kind of like they'll 0:08:57.720 --> 0:09:00.920 follow like the trend of the you know, the Alien 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.000 three eight to kind of make it more unique and 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:08.240 to have a different color way and silhouette, so I'd 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:11.480 be really excited to see how that plays out in 0:09:12.080 --> 0:09:14.480 and I'm excited to see the new Nike sneakers too, 0:09:14.520 --> 0:09:16.439 But you know, me, being easy busted and a die 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.240 hard Kanye fan, obviously, I really hope that Easy is 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:23.760 kind of like make a revival next year because so far, 0:09:23.840 --> 0:09:25.960 you know, the Zebras are dropping again in a week 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.080 a week from the time of this recording, um and 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.360 I think December twenty one or something like that, like 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.560 they're coming out again. I think this is the fourth 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.720 time or the third time. I actually saw this really 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.760 funny meme on Twitter. It was it was a guy 0:09:38.840 --> 0:09:44.199 putting clown makeup on, and the first stage was resellers 0:09:44.240 --> 0:09:48.120 buying Zebras for a thousand plus, right, which is funny 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.319 because I was actually one of those guys and I 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.920 ended up selling one of my pairs and I feel 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:54.800 really bad for the person who bought them. But then 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.440 they restocked, and then the second stage was the guy 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:01.079 putting more clown makeup on, because when they dropped for 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:02.719 the second time, they were only going for I think 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:05.960 three four hundred bucks or maybe four I don't remember, 0:10:06.720 --> 0:10:09.240 And then they dropped again, and then and then the 0:10:09.240 --> 0:10:11.040 third stage was the guy like putting his wig on, 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:14.080 and then the fourth stage was he was like in 0:10:14.120 --> 0:10:18.560 full clown makeup with like the red nose and so basically, 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:22.079 you know, clowning people who purchased the Zebra at a 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.800 thousand dollars like the first when it came out, And honestly, 0:10:24.800 --> 0:10:27.840 I'm bummed out too, because the Frozen Yellow was the 0:10:27.880 --> 0:10:30.640 same way. You know, I ended up getting my pair early, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:33.880 and you know, I didn't pay for him, but they 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.520 were going for about two thousand dollars early, and I 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:38.760 should have sold them because now I still have him 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:42.400 and they're worth it like two fifty bucks. But honestly, 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.160 at that time, I really liked that shoe and I 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.160 kept it. I wore it, and you know, I missed 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:48.560 out on some money, but at the time, you know, 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:50.040 I really like that you and I still do. I 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.200 still like. That's one of my favorite VI twos, even 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:53.480 though like a lot of people don't like it. They 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.679 called them make chicken. But I really hope that they 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.800 don't focus on just pushing out the same thing over 0:10:57.840 --> 0:11:00.520 and over again, and I hope they really come up 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.439 with some new color ways and new silhouettes. And as 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:05.880 for Jordans. I think that they're they're on the same path. 0:11:05.920 --> 0:11:07.880 I really like, you know, because a lot of people 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.600 are like, oh, you know, um, what are you talking about? 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.600 Jordan Ones have so many different color ways and they 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.240 look so similar, like a black toe looks so similar 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.560 to Chicago or whatever. And I mean, at the end 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:20.560 of the day, the Jordan one is such an iconic 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:26.280 shoe and it came out in so Easis, came out 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.440 when like two thousand fourteen or two thou fifteen, I 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.760 can't remember. Um, I think it was two thift There's 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:37.400 only been four years, whereas like a Jordan's it's literally 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:41.240 been like thirty years, like over thirty years. Think about 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.600 that for a second. And then also I feel like 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.319 with a lot of the Jordans Ones, they had different 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.920 like stories behind them. It wasn't just a color way, 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.160 like with like the Fearless Pack of like of like 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:54.320 highs and mids that just dropped and you know, different 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:56.960 collaborations with different artists. I think the problem with the 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.680 Easy brand is like it's so attached to Kanye that 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:01.360 it's kind of hard for them to like do a 0:12:01.360 --> 0:12:06.079 collab with someone else, Like even if us a color 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.480 way that was similar to one dropped that had a 0:12:09.480 --> 0:12:12.840 collaborative partner with like another logo or something. I guarantee 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.280 they'll sell out because you know that that's kind of 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.640 how it is with Jordan's. I don't know. I think Jordan's. 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.000 Jordan is on the right path. Um, Jordan Brand is 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:22.360 on the right path. I think is gonna be even 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:25.320 bigger year for them. Um. I'm just excited to see 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:27.640 kind of like the new color ways and different models 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:31.080 that they drop through off White and you know, maybe 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:33.839 Travis and I don't know, like if there's the rumors 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.720 that Off White's gonna stop after after I don't know 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.240 about that. So I'm really excited to see the direction 0:12:40.280 --> 0:12:43.040 it's gonna head in terms of fashion, in terms of 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:45.520 like the design. But at the same time, I'm also 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.040 really interested to see kind of like what kids and 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:51.959 the youth are are going to be into next year, 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:55.319 like or what are artists gonna be wearing, Like what's 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.480 gonna drive the culture. So it's gonna be interesting to see. 0:12:58.520 --> 0:13:00.200 And you know, it's been a it's been a nice 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:04.319 few years, you know, seeing exactly what I see, seeing 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.520 the kind of like ups and downs between Adidas and 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.959 Nike and back in two thousand fifteen, two thousand and sixteen, 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.720 like Easy really did jump over the Gumpman, and I 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.600 really feel like Easy kind of has been a little 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.000 bit behind. And you know, in terms of sales, I'm 0:13:20.000 --> 0:13:22.760 sure Easy is doing incredible, like they're still selling out 0:13:23.160 --> 0:13:25.520 every time, but in high quantities. But in terms of 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:27.800 like the culture, it's just, you know, it's tough because 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:31.160 like even like v Ones, like Turtle Doves and Pirate 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:33.920 Blacks and moon Rocks and Oxtra toans, like they dropped 0:13:33.920 --> 0:13:36.360 a lot, Like Turtle Doves used to go for three grand, 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.679 like people used to want them like crazy, pay any 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.199 amount of money for them, and they really dropped to 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.080 like around a thousand, which is still a lot. And 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.240 I'm so happy that they're holding their value, and I'm 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:50.120 still happy that people aren't like overwearing that shoue. Like 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:53.440 I rarely see people wearing v ones, and I rarely 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.560 see people wearing seven fifties. So whenever I see that, 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.360 like it's always like really cool because it's like, oh damn, 0:13:58.480 --> 0:13:59.880 like you don't really see that a whole lot, but 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.679 out with like zebras and creams, like I almost see 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.600 those every single day, like at least five to ten 0:14:04.640 --> 0:14:07.959 people wearing them. So, you know, at the same time, 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:10.960 I'm really happy that Kanye fulfilled this promise and said 0:14:11.040 --> 0:14:13.240 that everyone's going to have a pair of eacis one day, 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:16.040 and it's it's good. But at the same time, I think, 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:18.920 I think that it was a little bit too early 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.560 and he and they jumped the gun a little bit 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.080 with the easies, um with the V twos. So I'm hoping, 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.920 you know, things will get better next year and then 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.080 you know, we can just hope for the best obviously, 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:34.680 So I'm really excited to see, um where sneakers head 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:37.400 next year, and you know, give me your your guys opinion, 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:39.080 Like if you guys listen to this, like shoot me, 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:41.880 d M, tell me what you guys think about the change. 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:46.200 So kind of stepping away from like the sneakers and 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.880 color ways, I want to really talk about the culture 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.840 because I feel like in two thousand and fifteen with 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.040 the Easiest, easies were such a driving force in the culture. 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.640 Easies were kind of like the first shoe that a 0:14:58.680 --> 0:15:01.000 lot of people fell in love with or got that 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.320 got them into sneakers, kind of like kind of like me, 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:06.840 I'm I'm not gonna lie. Growing up, Um, I never 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:11.200 really understood like the story behind sneakers. I definitely had 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.760 like a few friends and in my school who were 0:15:13.800 --> 0:15:16.840 in the sneakers a lot and I and they complimented 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:20.280 my shoes, and I kind of unknowingly was into certain 0:15:20.320 --> 0:15:22.440 shoes that I didn't know it would be worth a lot. 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:24.720 We're not not even worth a lot, but just like 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:27.040 good color ways that are kind of respected in like 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.760 the sneaker culture. I really feel like the first shoe 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.440 I really fell in love with it. I was like, damn, 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.000 like I really need that shoe was back when I 0:15:36.040 --> 0:15:39.160 saw Kanye where the Easy One Blink in a music video, 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.440 and I was like, well there was like the dopet 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:42.880 shoes I've ever seen. Obviously, the red Octobers still it 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:45.080 to this day my favorite shoe. And then when the 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:47.320 Easy Adida and when the Day Diseases came out, I 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:48.480 was like, you know what, I need to get a 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.640 pair of these. I don't care. You know, the retail 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.520 price was two hundred bucks and I just got into it. So, um, 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.200 long story short, you know, I'm sure you guys have 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:57.760 heard the story a hundred times. You know, I got 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.320 I got my job. I worked at Starbucks for two years, 0:16:00.360 --> 0:16:03.240 saved up a bunch of money, ended up paying resale 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:05.360 for one shoe that was real. So that was like 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:06.800 the first shoe that got me into it. And like 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:08.720 I immediately once I got h M, I put them 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:10.760 on foot. I didn't even care. I immediately put them 0:16:10.800 --> 0:16:13.400 on foot. I worm that day. I was so happy. 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:16.200 And that's kind of like the shoe that got me 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:19.360 into sneakers. So with a lot of people, you know, 0:16:19.520 --> 0:16:20.640 and I know I'm going to get a lot of 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.120 backlash for that, but hey, if you're gonna hate, just 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:26.280 think back to the first shoe that got you in 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.520 the shoes. And it's not about it's not about time. 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:32.280 I guarantee you that there was a shoe when you 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:35.120 were a kid or whenever. Now you were like, damn, 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:37.480 I need this shoe, like I love this shoe, and 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.480 then that's the shoe that got you in the shoes. Right, 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:42.480 it doesn't really matter when it's just a matter of 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.160 if you respect the culture and you're still collecting shoes 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:49.680 to this day. But anyway, I really feel like the 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:51.840 easy not only with me, but with a lot of 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.840 people too, Like I know so many people who like 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:55.960 the Easy was like their first shoe that they were like, 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.880 holy sh it, I need that shoe. So with all 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.920 of that said, kind of like the easy hype at 0:17:01.920 --> 0:17:05.959 the time was a driving factor for like sneaker culture, 0:17:06.040 --> 0:17:08.480 Like it became so mainstream and I feel like a 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.720 lot of old heads and quote unquote o g s 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.760 in the game who've been collecting shoes for like twenty years, 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.399 I would say that the culture is like absolutely different. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.199 It's like completely changed. My good friend Dre, you know, 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.280 he's been collecting for twenty years and he noticed like 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:25.720 a huge change. He said, like, um, you know, even 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.959 even as recent as like five years ago, reselling and 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.040 collecting was like such a niche kind of you know, 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:34.919 if you know, you know, crowd. It was like it 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:40.080 wasn't like everybody was just ready to go. And um, 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.480 it's like you know, with the marketplaces like stock x 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.560 is like so easy to buy and sell stuff, that 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:47.680 kind of everybody has become a reseller, which has hurt 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.600 the market in so many different ways, and it's also 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:52.560 benefited the market in a lot of other ways as well. 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:56.680 So I'm interested to see like what is gonna bring. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.879 Is it gonna only make sneaker culture stronger, is it 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:04.520 kind of kinda is it kind of gonna die out 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:07.080 a little bit or is it going to continue to grow, 0:18:07.160 --> 0:18:09.840 because I mean, it's it's been an insane growth the 0:18:09.920 --> 0:18:13.440 last few years. It used to be you know, very niche, 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.119 like small market. Now it's like billions and billions of 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.160 dollars are in retail now with sneakers. So it's it's 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.320 pretty incredible. But I'm really excited to see kind of 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:25.359 like the direction that it heads in because you know, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:28.600 me being kind of like from the outside looking in 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.800 and now being from the inside looking out, It's it's interesting. 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:35.239 It's super interesting. Like a lot of people are are 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:37.040 still like obsessed with the easies, like that's the only 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:38.600 thing they want to wear. Like every time I go 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:40.480 to a sneaker corner, I'd say, like at least a 0:18:40.560 --> 0:18:42.600 third of the people in the building, you're wearing easies. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:44.879 You know, it's normally like a little bit younger crowd, 0:18:44.960 --> 0:18:48.200 but it's they're all wearing easies and they weren't supreme 0:18:48.240 --> 0:18:50.280 and stuff. So you know, the way that the way 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.720 that trends work is I feel like it takes a 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:54.439 little bit of time for them to catch up and 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:56.439 kind of go to the next thing, like kind of 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:59.320 like with NIKESBS for example, Like they were a huge, 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:03.560