- Don't don't play with me.
Do not play with me.
Do not talk crazy, do not do none of that.
So amma pull up with these on.
GQ, what up?
This why YG and this is My Life In Sneakers.
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I started collecting sneakers at a young age,
I grew up wearing a lot of Jordan,
I had Jordan everything.
We used to get Jordan's like every month
and the thing was don't [beep] up your Jordan's
and once they got messed up,
don't throw away your Jordan's, you know what I'm saying?
So, I feel like I was collecting shoes as a kid
back in the day, but it got serious,
It got real serious when I got a little older,
prolly like 16, 17, you know that's when it got heavy.
My luckiest shoe out of this little collection,
I'd say would be these right here.
These are some converse and they special,
I feel lucky cause it's ASAP Nast collab with converse
and I ain't seen nobody with them at all.
And you know, they read with the flame
with the red glittery flame.
So he sent me these and I popped the box over
and I was like, I feel lucky today.
You dig?
Shout out to ASAP Nast, real fashion icon.
I've been big on converse my whole life
where I'm from you that's a part of our culture.
I'm still big on converse to this day,
It's part of my everyday swag,
Oh, matter of fact, check, check him out,
converse on, the classics,
you don't see nobody wearing these though.
These red ones I ain't wore yet
because I've been waiting on that perfect moment
but he sent me another pair just like this
they just all black with the black shiny flame,
I wore those like twice,
shout out ASAP Nast and converse collab.
Yeah, they did their thing.
Most underrated,
I say, it's these Hard bottoms,
these are Saint Laurent Red Patent leather
and I got em probably like, I don't know,
like a year ago or something.
I said they underrated just the hard bottoms
in generals is because,
people you know, they talk about high fashion
and they talk about this and that and expensive it is
and expensive for that.
And it's like, you know, they get dressed
and everybody wear the same thing and they look the same.
And then they shoes be like $200 shoes or $150, $300,
when I come out, when I step out
and I'm wearing some hard bottoms with my regular outfits,
because that's what I do a lot.
My shoes is at least $1,500, you know what I'm saying?
So I felt like you got to put some respect
on a hard bottom game.
You know what I'm talking about when you're speaking,
on fashion and you speaking, on drip or swag all that,
put some respect on the hard bottom, you dig?
And then you would see dis and be like,
what the [beep] is YG wearing?
Some Stacy Adams or [indistinct]
No [beep] this are a Saint Laurent, [indistinct]
get your [beep] together.
Get your [beep] together,
yeah I'll say these is my most underrated type of shoe.
So my flashiest shoe out of this collection
would be these.
These is another pair of Saint Lauren's,
I call these my Michael Jackson's,
you know what I'm saying?
The Moon walkers, I ain't wore this yet,
I was waiting until fashion week 2020, but you know,
everything's [beep] COVID-19 so I'm waiting,
but, don't play with me.
Do not play with me.
Do not talk crazy, do not do none of that
because amma pull up with these on,
you know what I'm saying?
It's gonna to kill the whole game, most flashiest.
What's the most unexpected?
I'd say these right here,
Louboutin red on the bottom,
they ain't been worn yet due to COVID-19 mess my plans up,
but it's all good.
I picked my outfits off of what event I'm going to,
so if I'm about to go do likes and fashion event,
you gotta to come in their spicy.
You gotta come in there unexpected, you know?
I'll probably wear this with black leather pants,
bell bottoms, custom and then probably like a,
I do a white top, you know what I'm saying?
Like a muscle shirt, like a muscle shirt top unexpected.
Yeah let the tattoos show little bit, you feel me?
The arms out I've been doing pushups and all that
so, I'm like cut up right here.
And then with the chain on top and call it a day.
My most sentimental shoe, I would, I would say
would be these right here.
For all the sneaker heads and the fashion people
and all that.
If you ain't got a pair of these, I don't know if I respect
you feel me?
Your whole situation, which you talk about,
these are the Ice Creams, you know what I'm saying?
If you are a fashion guy or whoever you think you is,
you would know about the Ice Creams.
Pharell is a fashion guy,
Pharell influenced a lot of the fashion culture
from back then and to now.
And he's always been that dude to look at as far as
when it comes to fashion and dressing and swag
and music and videos and flavor
and just being different,
Pharell always been, been him.
Y'all see everybody wearing Bapes and all that, that's cool
but if you don't got no Ice Creams,
I do not respect your fashion game player, yeah.
Most sentimental this right here.
this shoe reminds me of what was that,
I was like 17, like 16, 17, 18 years old,
you know what I'm saying?
When this was out and it was like,
you feel me, if you had a pair of these, you was like,
you was special 'cause just not anybody
was wearing ice creams, you know what I'm saying?
You had to be a part of that little world,
that little community.
So this take me back to that time
when I was a young adult, a teenager basically,
and I was playing with the fashion, you feel me?
That's when I first started playing with it.
And yeah, this whole movement
that they had going on was
like it was impactful to the culture.
I forever had some ice creams
sitting in the close somewhere.
These are sentimental 'cause it takes me back to that time.
When I seen a young black male [beep] up the fashion world,
the fashion industry and moving the culture
and that [beep] is special, you dig?
So yeah.
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GQ, thank you all for checking out my Life in Sneakers.
I'mma see y'all next time.
Yeah.