Monday, August 18, 2008

Shoes To Lose

Is it me...or are all of the latest joint ventures Nike has been doing with rappers ugly as hell. I understand cats be wanting to be original, but damn. Different equals ugly more times than not.

Big Boi's Lucious Leftfeet



?uestlove's Air Questo...yeah, I have a ?uestion. WTF? What makes these worst is that the left shoe has a different pattern.



Kanye West's Air Yeezy's



I can't front on the Black ones though, they get a pass



Come to think of it...has their ever been a dope shoe endorsed by a rapper? Only shoe I can think of that was dope were the Wallabee's back in the day that Ghostface put on the map.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sure there has been a dope show endorsed by a rapper... Just ask Run DMC and Adidas...

Anonymous said...

absolutely correct sir. that ish is so ingrained in our conscious that i forget them.

Anonymous said...

But I understand the point you were trying to make. Rappers and shoes haven't mixed well. Although I didn't mind the S.Carters when they came out.

Jaycee said...

i ain't gonna front, i bought the first S. Carter sneaker because they were a direct knockoff of the Gucci sneakers that niggas (ahem, dopeboys) in Detroit used to rock back in like '86 and '87 and i always wanted a pair but could never afford em. i wouldnt pay for either but if i had to pick a pair to rock between Big Boi & ?uest's shoe, i'd probably choose the leftfoot. ?uest's shoe just has a lil' too much poppin off...

*Blog Ladi* said...

ummm I think the Kanyeezy are okay. and if the ?uestlove shoes weren't a different pattern they would be decent enough to rock..... i woulda never rocked them LUGZ though!

Monk said...

*Snoop with Stacy Adams - if you can count that.

*Nelly with Air Forces and Jordans - but I guess that's moreso a cultural phenomenon.

And...

*Of course as another commenter stated, Run, DMC, and JMJ with the shell toe adidas. (Including the tribute shoe with JMJ's face on it)