today we're gonna be talking about my first pair of shoes what got me started
with even collecting sneakers and why I was so addicted to this world and
becoming a sneaker head so with that being said run this intro let's get into
it
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into the story because I am ready to tell you guys about this guy be popcorn
get relaxed go ahead and kick your feet up kick your shoes off and let's let's
get to going so I was born in 1991 and you know that back in those days you
know Jordan was doing this thing let's just be honest I mean he won his first
championship that year and that was just a great year to be born you know saying
so initially my actual first pair of shoes ever when I came into this world I
got him right here still soft bottom og metallic fives but these well as fresh
still back in the day like you were in the business though her eyes like and
you just like a kid like I don't even know what's going on so this is the very
first pair of shoes that got me started into this world of sneaker head Kingdom
or whatever you like to call it because I'm not gonna lie to you living in
Portland and having Beaverton and Nike oh so close it was hard for me not to
grow up my whole life wearing Jordans in Nikes and being fresh and having all the
dope new hot releases we would go to Nike and make sure the nieces and
nephews and my son everybody had on the fresh J's who not gonna be like nobody
slipping like that I'm not gonna lie I was fortunate my parents made sure that
I had the freshest J's whenever something new dropped so I don't know if
he ever tell you in the same video cuz I wasn't here earlier when he wanted a
pair of shark shoes did you tell about that and he got all these James oh he
was little like three or four or something like that going three or four
nothing you might even fire I got it nice J's these days whatever in
he had all the colorways you name it as a kid well my friend worked at the store
at volume two sources like pay less and he's like almost these shark shoes they
got lights on them and he took a fit I don't want these doors I don't want
these doors I want these shark shoes man I had to get even these shark shoes it
cost like $8 and they had lights on them and he loved those shoes but today he
don't have them he got all the J's like we was all lace blue is all flying I was
in one of them type of families growing up all I knew was ROC J's stay fresh on
my Nikes when I was coming up we didn't have no Nikes no J's no nothing we had
volumes shoes so I was not gonna let my son wear the matter that stuff he's
gonna be fresh to death every day I'll basically feel like I was sponsored by
Jordan you know I'm saying my parents had me lacing some of the best literally
all the oh jeez all the stuff like I've had everything so my son has so many
nice shoes at one point somebody's friends was being talked about shoes and
he went gave him a pair of his shoes so they think it talked about I really like
that about him and I am so fortunate and so thankful
for that and I hate he that deed is like right I didn't even like to do this dope
cuz I blew out a pair when I was dunking my whole foot came off in front of the
adidas and I was like I came wearing adidas but then I got some samples for
my son I gave him him he didn't want to miss it
came to a screeching and what I say screeching I mean like screeching halt
yeah I ain't gonna say I'm pissed about it I'm gonna just say I'm thankful for
learning and understanding that you have to get it on your own because as soon as
I got to high school Oh bruh I went from having all the kicks
I went from having everything I needed so my dad said oh no when I was 16 17 I
got my own place and I was on my own I was paying for all my school stuff
everything so I told my son you're doing the same thing I'll buy you a one pair
of shoes now and after that you're done you paying for all your stuff I'm not
doing it no more you don't get it for Christmas you don't get it clean and
simple and I said well damn what am I supposed to do you said you wanted a
pair of Jays do you remember this and I said I'll buy more you give
the money I gave you money you bought some cheaper shoes and pocket the rest
of the money yeah smart move because you like I'm not gonna spend all that money
of them soon you like oh she's gone sir so at the time I was wearing a size 10
and a half coming into high school as a freshman but my foot was growing oh so
fast I think it was champs she actually had that deal where you can get like two
shoes from like 85 bucks or something to shoes for 90 bucks I don't know what's
something like that but basically I was rockin shell toes Air Force Ones and I
even got roasted for buying a pair of feelers at the time my foot was gone I
literally went from a ten and a half to a thirteen from freshman year to
sophomore year of high school I couldn't afford to buy all the new J's my
freshman year because I didn't have a job I couldn't work and all I had was my
little side hustles and the things that I was doing the summer time to make
money so I was like trying to figure out like okay
how I'm gonna support this lifestyle if I don't got no kicks and I don't got no
money and I can't flip nothing like that but I gotta keep hustling and every time
I spend money I'm just trying to eat and you know don't get me wrong like my
parents took care of me and I have a lot of great things to be blessed for but
there is that certain factor when it's like when you want those material things
in life and you need to go work for it they really work for it and I appreciate
them for that because if they wouldn't made me work for it and I would have
thought oh I deserve this and all these different things throughout my life then
I probably wouldn't be where I am today so I'm thankful and I appreciate them
pushing me to work for my stuff and earn what I have I remember in third grade I
broke a window because we were playing with the baseball and my dad said don't
play with the boss his stop and Sue's that turn around
he brought the window anyway and yes I made him pay for it I was not going out
like that if you do it you never be responsible young man I want you to be
responsible and that's how it was and they made me work all summer and taw was
able to pay for it oh you worked hard she would screw up and pay off your debt
you did that and for that I thank them because if they wouldn't have made me do
that and I wouldn't learn those fundamentals of like hey if you mess up
you got to pay for it or if you break this you got you know that stuff
instilled a lot into me so that was all happening through grade school or middle
school so by the time my sophomore year came around fire red threes Black Cats
flip Three's BMP pegged EMP Peck there's a lot of dope stuff coming out what am I
gonna do like everybody's getting this stuff and I really want it by like
firing Five's military school grades thunders lightnings like and I was
missing out on everything and when I say everything I mean everything so I said
all right once my foot stopped growing i'ma start collecting shoes and I was at
a size 13 for a few months now and my foot wasn't growing no more so I was
thinking like okay either I'm gonna be a 13 or a 14 minds you I'm five feet six
inches at the time some of the girls was taller than me and I was wearing a size
13 just like capital L just body and feet like I don't know what was going on
but my body was just all disproportionate and I'm just growing up
trying to figure out what is my life going where am I it was bad I got to
that point and I said look this winter break I know I'm gonna get some money
I'm gonna use that money for a Christmas gift and I'm gonna buy myself my first
pair of shoes I'm gonna get started with that drop I gotta get these playoff
eight I'm getting those I'm starting with those so I'll call up the homies
I'm like what's up bro you trying to slide to the ES we were out to sit out
there we got the camp in line because I heard that's when people doing I never
done it before but I know my friends had done it before you trying to do it it
was like yeah yeah let's do it we all decided to go it was like me tall
low this isn't a beginning he says Oh dad you know can you guys come out here
we gonna camp out we're gonna get some shoes and what was like first in line
you know I said we in the front we just like ready to go
and we get out there it's freezing cold so at that time we was out there and I'm
literally like yo what are we gonna do is freezing cold
I can't dance that hail no I am NOT waiting down there too cold for those
shoes we're all out here like bundled up middle and at night we slid through at
like 2:00 in the morning we countdown all night this is back in the day when
camping out was like thing to do I said I'll go get you guys
some neat so I'll give him something to eat I stay in a car that's not in the
other and we're like thank you thank you thank
you like they let us sit in the car like thaw out for a minute it's morning and
lunch they stayed the whole night out there
Nicole I was like I can't do it my Paris is like you really doing this like you
actually seriously out here kid before these shoes and I was like yeah I want
to get these shoes and I want to get started like I'm serious this is about
to happen today so I found out that the laser 15's was coming out too when I was
sitting in line so I was like hey I want the 15s because for some reason I love
the 15 if you like the 15 drop a comment down below if you hate the 15s don't say
nothing I only want to hear because I already know what you got to say so we
see the two lines and we're like yo what's up what's up with the other line
and he's like that's the employee line so this line over here everybody in his
line they get to buy one pair per person every single person and we just sitting
there watching it's a lot of people in this line like I don't think we will get
to shoes red and now I'm at the point where I'm like bro I didn't camped out
for hours raising code and I'm like I got my money saved up ready to go I
don't even know if I'm we get these shoes cuz it's like you know and half of
everybody want to get the shoes for half off right so our time comes and we look
and they're like oh we're out of this size we're out of that size and I'm like
oh damn bro they don't make that many pairs when it comes to my size normally
they do like heavily from 12 under and then sometimes like a 13 and then it's
like more rare would of 14 15 type stuff so I was like kind of scared for a
second then once we get into the store they say do you want to get the Jordan
15 or do you want to get the Jordan eight so I'm like okay um
I'll get both cuz I got enough money so I'm like ooh I'm gonna get both shoes
I'm about to start with two pair of shoes for my first collector shoes that
I might have for my collection out of my cherish and keep clean and all the
different things so when I get ready to get to 15 they're like hey I know you're
with a guardian did you want to get a pair for them as well because when you
have them then you can get two pairs they got the shoes there I got the shoes
too I need out the way around the car cuz that was tight right there
so we both ended up getting a pair of the Jordan 15 so now we're like ooh we
got these laser fifteens right here we've got to be flying by the East End
I'm about to go to school for the oh so fly and I'm just like a happy happy
camper next up becomes the Jordan eight so I'm
like okay now this one they was talking about with selling now nobody really
wanted to fifteen like that something like okay I don't know if I'm gonna have
a chance to get knees but hopefully I do so then I asked him like do you have a
thirteen and do you have a fourteen so that's one for myself and one for my dad
so I'm like if we can finesse this situation and this would be amazing
right so they're like actually we do we only have one left and I'm like we was
first in line and you're telling me I only have one left and I got that pair
so I was already just happy like bro I literally camped out I got my first pair
of shoes we have grabbing a pair for my pops he got both pair of shoes as well I
still got those shoes too but anyway we'll talk about that later I'll be
wearing these though so I still got these though so I'm just telling you
don't wear my shoes everybody else be they don't be wearing hers I'm waiting
little beat up after all those years with this going down and that's what
started the mayhem again because mind you like like I said when I was growing
up had a bunch of shoes my dad always had fly stuff my mom was even rocket oh
geez you know I'm saying like I've always had that in my blood in my system
but there was like a rough patch between like a year and a half where I was just
like I don't know if I'm gonna be having shoes for the rest of my life type thing
cuz I don't know how i'ma get him so does that go home I'm unboxing the shoes
I got them in my hand and I'm just like cherishing them
I'm looking at them you know when you buy your first pair of shoes and you get
them and you're just like you don't even know what to do like you leave them
outside the box you try them on you lace them up a different way you got to lick
the sole you take the insoles out you you take the paper out and you you know
just I don't know like there's just all these different things like okay how am
I gonna display these in my room what outfit am I gonna wear these with all
these different questions that you're asking yourself I can't even go to
school on Monday with these on because I'm on Christmas break right now so now
I got away for two weeks just before I can start and get in fly my Jordan
eights because I'm also fly and I got my first
pair of shoes again and I'm just for some reason I don't
know what it was but mind you I've had shoes like all my life but when I had
got these it was like a whole new feeling and it made no sense these was
just so satisfying and I feel like that's what it is when it comes to
collecting shoes you end up working hard for those things and people say why is
actually worth so much to you and all my stuff sometimes it's not about the
dollar value it's simply the sentimental value of the shoe what does it mean to
me and that is literally with anything in life a kid's blanket my favorite
shirt my favorite jacket oh I had this when I was little like there's so many
little material things that becomes sentimental and means so much to us
later in life or even still in life that creates that spark and that excitement
and all those different things so when I had ended up getting both of these I was
happy I felt like I had worked hard to get him and I was ready to go you know
I'm sad I saved up my door I had my little bit of Christmas money too and I
was like this is a perfect combination like I got my stuff ready I got my chips
online and now the next question is how I gonna get my next pair of shoes right
so that comes to a whole nother story so I got to tell you this too we went to a
launch with the launch was in me you and booper we went to that was crazy so I
gotta tell you this rocker will lead into another video at another time but
this video right here I'm gonna tell you the whole thing later but we end up with
a hotel full of these shoes and I'm telling you who a hotel there's stacks
that's what I do that's what I got this that deeper we're gonna set up
get back to the stacks of these shoes and I go what the hell are you gonna do
a lot of shoes and you can't are you I'm gonna tell you that story in another
video so I hope you guys was enjoying this one I'm excited to tell you guys
more stories I gotta go I'll see y'all later
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