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Brut spoke to two New York sneakerheads about the origin of sneaker culture, and why for some, sneakers are more than just shoes.
Brut spoke to two New York sneakerheads about the origin of sneaker culture, and why for some, sneakers are more than just shoes.
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00:00What are y'all favorite brands stores like spots to come I wish I had
00:18Sneakers is top five. No, no top three level of difficulty
00:30I
00:41Remember waiting in line for the Space Jam Space Jam 11th
00:45I think those are the ones
00:47Those are definitely the ones that everyone has to kind of like wait in line for or even the last ones
00:52They let you wait in line for
00:55Around like 2 o'clock a.m. And then people start lining up and then the height just builds
01:01I
01:03Was buying yeah, I gotta go cop some kicks means I gotta go buy some kicks love coppin kicks
01:08I wish I could cop more kicks
01:11Sneakerhead is someone who has a passion for sneakers. There's someone who tries to collect
01:18Different pairs different styles different brands most importantly is about knowledge people who are not sneaker heads
01:25You know, they they have a lot of sneakers, but they don't know a lot about
01:30Skipping to get it
01:47So in school, you know
01:50It was kind of like a competition like when you from New York
01:52You have to have like you have to have the best stuff at all times or else
01:57You're gonna become the butt of jokes
02:01But you don't like my royal sandals try them
02:09Interesting a status that you need in certain neighborhoods and certain places
02:14You need that when we went to school. That's what everybody was wearing and you know, all the cool kids had the cool kicks
02:27On
02:32September 15th Nike created a revolutionary new basketball shoe
02:37On October 18th the NBA threw them out of the game
02:44Fortunately the NBA can't stop you from wearing them
02:57Is this the shoe that the NBA wouldn't let you wear what's wrong with the coloring this what rule do we violate here?
03:02Well, it doesn't have any white in it. Well, neither does the NBA
03:08It's a shortening black and red and the sneakers that you see that have the dominant black and red color
03:15One of Michael Jordan's most famous shots in basketball. He had these on his feet
03:27Like going to school and a fresh pair of sneakers listen sneakers dropped on a Saturday if you didn't have them on Monday
03:33It didn't matter
03:37Those sneakers that you like
03:40Those are the ones those are the ones that you that you gotta have in your collection
03:45My grill would be the royal blue ones the red floors the white cement floors
03:51The og nines that I have on my feet right now
03:54I think one of many are
03:58my off-white dunks like the royal blue satins like those are so rare and
04:06Unattainable almost that you know
04:09You shouldn't wear them, but I do having a pair of white UPS in New York is just a staple for spring and summer
04:14It goes with every outfit. It's clean. It represents the white that you can't wear after Labor Day
04:25The
04:27Only pair that definitely should be kept clean our pair of white ups
04:31But honestly we all know the rule there like you scuff them you got to get a new pair
04:42After the set up for us to actually get it on retail often fail us so we have to lean on the resale
04:49Of sneakers so sometimes stock X sometimes go
04:54If you're lucky you might hit on the sneakers app
05:03The plug is somebody who is tapped in who has
05:08The connects the connections to get the sneakers that everybody wants
05:19Not gonna happen, it's a wrap. I wouldn't say my sources are sacred at all
05:23I would never like keep that information to myself
05:25It's just sneakers at the end of the day sometimes the connects only work for you though
05:30You know and sometimes isn't just a you thing and like as much as you want to share the wealth of people sometimes you can
05:38It's
05:45What's authentic about sneaker culture is that it's still a hand-to-hand kind of
05:49Exchange like some people are still selling like to a friend or to people in their network
05:56So I think that's what's super cool about sneaker culture is that it really does bring people together
06:01Yeah, I think the tastemakers are usually black women young black women
06:06From New York, I'm just keeping it on it. I'll give Tiana Taylor her props for sure
06:11She's definitely a tastemaker definitely a pioneer and like fashion and sneakers and bringing those two worlds together
06:21Clean laces gotta make sure your laces are clean. No creases
06:28What else what else oh just the new sneaker smell
06:32Am I right you took all of them
06:36Nike shoes Nike socks gotta do it if you're wearing Jordans it works because you know
06:41You can look at a Jordan and see the Nike the Nike check on there
06:44But if you're wearing Adidas like if you got some Yeezys
06:47Never worry. I Nike sock with that. That's a no-go
06:54Fake Yeezy
06:56I
07:04Don't know by everybody else I don't and I don't enjoy that dirty sneaker culture
07:08I don't I just I can't I hate it
07:10I hate it so much or sometimes I just let them build character for a little while like my shadow ones like you know
07:15Air Jordan ones they kind of look cool when they are
07:19worn
07:20You know, you see that you get the vintage look on them going to school
07:24You know, there were many opportunities for you to contact danger where someone could potentially step on your sneaker
07:35Yo, excuse me, I'm sorry, it's about my brand-new white
07:41And it was definitely a whole tactic on how you would avoid that from happening
07:46So I think I'm pretty strong on the Heisman
07:49I
07:54Mean
07:57Okay, what white it's just pure clean
08:03sparkling untouched angelic
08:07Those are the sneakers that when someone steps on them it hurts your feelings I don't
08:13Associate sneaker boxes with clear white boxes. I like to keep them in their sneaker boxes just for that classic feel
08:23Dirty white ups. I hate them. So that's a no-go any scuffs on my sneakers hate those
08:29Anybody sucks on your sneakers like that's a sure. That's a that's a good one
08:34I'm always gonna have a love of sneakers because I'm from Brooklyn and that's just what we do out here
08:43You