- What's up GQ, its ya man Mike Epps,
and this is my life in Sneakers.
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- I couldn't afford a lot of the shoes
that I wanted when I was really, really young
my mother used to buy us Buddies, [singing]
♪ They cost a $1.99. ♪
♪ Buddies they make ya feet feel fine. ♪
I started collecting shoes when I was about
15 - 16 years old I had a summer job,
and my first pair of shoes was the first Nike's
Waffles Shoes.
I remember I bought the first pair of
Waffle Nike Shoes, and I put some different color
shoestrings in them and that was first experience
with loving shoes man.
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- I wanna start with the Flashiest,
now this is not sneaker but sometimes
I wear it as a sneaker.
- This is a Paul Smith,
I would say its the Flashiest shoe
because I can wear his with anything,
I can wear this with a three piece,
I can wear it with a Tux,
I can also wear it with some Jeans and a Blazer.
- I don't really do all the sparkles
and stuff like that but shout out to Paul Smith
for making a great shoe, I love this shoe,
like I said you could wear this shoe with
just about anything,
including a jogging pants [laughs]
I mean I know you never seen dress shoes
with a jogging pants but I've worn this shoe
with a jogging pants before.
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- This is the most expensive shoe
that I have right here, this is a wooden bottom.
- This is the Jordan four,
It has leather laces,
the stitching on is incredible,
this shoe cost about
$3,500. Right here,
got this shoe originally from Barneys
in Beverly Hills and they closed,
and I had to reorder it because
I lost one of the shoes but this
is the HENDER SCHEME, this is one of my most
expensive shoes that I really love.
- And the story behind me losing
one of these sneakers is that I was giving away
a bunch of sneakers,
and I accidentally threw one of my shoe
inside of the bag of the shoes I was giving away
so somebody's walking around right now
with a clean peach HENDER SCHEME on [laughs]
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- This is the oldest shoe that I have,
I've had this shoe right here for at least
Twenty something years, this is a Nike Waffle,
its not my original waffle Nike that I bought
when I was a teenager but I've had this shoe
for about twenty years,
I bought this in New York City,
I've done everything in this shoe right here,
from standup comedy, to being on Movie Sets,
I've actually taken my kids to school
in these shoes at least 1,000 times,
this is one of my shoes right here
you know so comfortable,
again could wear this shoe right here
with anything I've wore this shoe with Suits,
Jogger Suits, Jeans as well.
- It's so important to wear a comfortable shoe
when you're doing standup because you're standing
for forty five minutes to a hour,
and I mean you know I'm a physical comic
so I like to move around, I like to jump around,
I like to rally move on the stage really well so
it's so important that you got
your Footwork together.
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- Okay this is the rarest shoe that I have,
people wouldn't think that I had this shoe
right here, this is a Patrick Ewing,
this is a 1986, Adidas Patrick Ewing,
I'm not from New York City
but I definitely love having represent
a Patrick Ewing, I love these shoes
they're so comfortable,
the leather on them is really, really soft
and I got the different color shoestrings
to go with them,
but if I wanna flip it on y'all.
- I'm definitely a Pacers fan,
I love the Pacers,
and we definitely Knicks killers [laughs]
you now Reggie Miller, he killed the Knicks
they call him a Knicks killer
so that's why people wouldn't expect to see me
with a New York Knicks Shoe,
cause I'm a big Pacer fan but I love them.
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This is my favorite, the Jordan One's
this shoe right here is, man what can I say?
- This is one of my dream shoes,
this is the shoe that I dreamed to always have,
another shoe again in fashion where you can
find yourself wearing it with anything,
you could wear this with a Suit as well,
you could wear this a Jogging Suit, Jeans,
Shorts.
- This Jordan will compliment whatever you wear,
and its complimented to through the years,
Shout Out to Michael Jordan,
Shout Out to Nike for putting this shoe out.
- I've had this shoe right here since 1994,
one of my favorites right here,
as you can see I still got the box,
it still got a little tape on it you know?
- It still got old paper, 1994 y'all.
- When that Jordan One came out
it was like a new Ferrari hitting the block
you know?
- It was lie a new car, you in the streets
and in the urban world this shoe right here
is considered like having a new car,
so when this car cam out-I mean when this
shoe came out it was like if you seen somebody
with these shoes on you got the reaction
of a person riding in a Benz man,
every kid in the world
wanted these shoes right here,
they had Michael Jordan, Spike Lee commercials
on TV every five minutes,
and man we was working hard
to get these shoes you know?
- Sometimes summer jobs, two jobs,
but I can remember the impact of this shoe
coming out back in the 80's man it was incredible.
- Everybody wanted a a pair of these.
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- Yo that's it, I wanna thank you GQ,
you know, this is my sneakers,
this is my life of sneakers,
and I'll check y'all out next time.
- Thank you, and make sure you walking
real smooth and clean!