"Your Sneakers or Your Life" - Sports Illustrated Cover story in May 14th 1990

[Trollio]

i wear all texas hats..longhorns,stars,,mavs,,etc

fuck yall go do

 

[Bcotton5]

i was young in the nintys but most of my older fama dn they friends used to tell me vividly about kids getting yyanked for those pippens, penny's, and especially those retro j's

lol no nigga not the retros, the original releases

 

[rice n gravy]

damn i now know to leave my phillies hat at home if I ever go to cali

 

[Carlos Loozer]

GOAT thread. Lets pay attention to the real issue here for a minute.

Jordan shakes his head. "I thought I'd be helping out others and everything would be positive," he says. "I thought people would try to emulate the good things I do, they'd try to achieve, to be better. Nothing bad. I never thought because of my endorsement of a shoe, or any product, that people would harm each other. Everyone likes to be admired, but when it comes to kids actually killing each other" -- he pauses -- "then you have to re-evaluate things."

So what does this coon do? He makes it even harder for low income fans to purchase his shoes by raising the price by $100. Jordan is a coon that dont give a fuck about blacks

Yea spacejammers ignore this

 

[king hassan]

lmao whaaaaaaaat dman that marlins hat goes hard with the griffey's

I knew about the cowboys joint, and the seattle mariners shit, what else can't you wear out in cali

Sidenote: I feel like when TI came in the came hat tilting, he got a lot of kids killed all over again in Chicago

That's a negative, niggas don't bang hats like that anymore. That shit went out in the 90's.

 

[king hassan]

dunno if this is real or not..
but i know..or knew idiots that would do that shit if the opportunity presented itself. lol

Ayo, what be up with cats and those slippers? When I was in Cali I saw a lot of cats wearing those joints

 

[DillaDeaf]

This shyt was happening in DET long long before may '90...lol....I'm talking '83-'84 when Schoolcraft G's used to get niggz for their Max Julians & Top Tens

Never knew u was from the D, by the way remember when guys were getting got for any Red Wings jacket cause Pony Down wanted them...wasn't safe to wear any Pony shoes either lol

In the Sip, niggas were gettin bettin and got for 8ball jackets, Michigan Starters and Hoyas Starters.......the only reason I got a pass for my Michigan starter was cause even though I'm a outsider, everybody knew my fam moved from the D to Da Sip and I was actually reppin my home state, but shit, when I went to the school for the deaf in Jackson, MS ...I left my Michigan starter at home, niggaz were getting killed in Jaxtown...that why I never wore J's either......many Chi-town folks have fam in Da Sip, and unless you had crew or whatever, you stayed getting jump or shot at.

 

[caddo man]

Plenty of times I had to stay strapped just to wear my Grant Hill's and starter jackets! Shit was ridiculous! No way I want my son like me walking around with a rusty 22 just to look fresh on these streets.

After the second time getting chased, I never left home without it!

Until I got some sense and just stop wearing sneakers and starting wearing the boat shoes and polo boots!

 

[Knock_Twice]

I remember niggas started getting their names put on the bottom back and on the upper front part near the shoulder on starter jackets Lol...I had my shit airbrushed on the bottom back with about 30 or so stoppers that I had stole off another nigga jacket in class while he was sleep.

Mayne who remember those black and patton leather Jordan's that came out in 95 around Xmas...I remember I made my mama get off early to go get my shit LOL

 

[king hassan]

Never knew u was from the D, by the way remember when guys were getting got for any Red Wings jacket cause Pony Down wanted them...wasn't safe to wear any Pony shoes either lol

In the Sip, niggas were gettin bettin and got for 8ball jackets, Michigan Starters and Hoyas Starters.......the only reason I got a pass for my Michigan starter was cause even though I'm a outsider, everybody knew my fam moved from the D to Da Sip and I was actually reppin my home state, but shit, when I went to the school for the deaf in Jackson, MS ...I left my Michigan starter at home, niggaz were getting killed in Jaxtown...that why I never wore J's either......many Chi-town folks have fam in Da Sip, and unless you had crew or whatever, you stayed getting jump or shot at.

I went to Bailey for 2 years and Murrah one year down in Jackson. My parents still down there and I came back here. Man, my nigga if you know about Virden Addition, Brown Bottom,Shady Oaks, the Sub Divisions, W Jackson, niggas was getting robbed left and right back in the late 80's

 

[DillaDeaf]

I went to Bailey for 2 years and Murrah one year down in Jackson. My parents still down there and I came back here. Man, my nigga if you know about Virden Addition, Brown Bottom,Shady Oaks, the Sub Divisions, W Jackson, niggas was getting robbed left and right back in the late 80's

W Jackson is like deaf niggas (not black folks but niggas) central.............so I used to hang over there on Lynch and also Hwy 80 (Jim Hill HS and Jackson St. area for those that don't know) ........I went to Murrah for some classes my senior year...........West Jax was fucking nuts...not as bad as the D tho...once you been in the D, Jackson is pretty much nothing....now Memphis...........fuck that, that some whole other shit.......

 

[satyrone]

i remeber that shit tho. i didnt even wannna sport no starter jackets or j's back in those days. shit was scary back then.

 

[Michael_Malice]

Apex!

That was them fake starter joints. I been trying to remember the name of them. Don't lie, who had an Apex jacket?

 

[GettinLo]

Apex!

That was them fake starter joints. I been trying to remember the name of them. Don't lie, who had an Apex jacket?

Never had an Apex Jacket but for a minute Apex supplied the NFL, I remember the 75th Anniversary Dallas Double Star Jerseys were made by Apex.... I still have my Emmitt Smith joint

 

[I.B. Blackman]

Ayo, what be up with cats and those slippers? When I was in Cali I saw a lot of cats wearing those joints

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[DaFifthElement]

I would have killed a nigga over some 5s too.

 

[young chad]

Man I lived off Crenshaw at this time...I remember this crazy shit...what I never understood was nigga's like 7 deep robbing 1 nigga for a pair of J's....unless they robbed 7 nigga's together so everyone got a pair...

I remember hearing "if a nigga ever ask what size shoe you wear, RUN!"

 

[king hassan]

Man I lived off Crenshaw at this time...I remember this crazy shit...what I never understood was nigga's like 7 deep robbing 1 nigga for a pair of J's....unless they robbed 7 nigga's together so everyone got a pair...

I remember hearing "if a nigga ever ask what size shoe you wear, RUN!"

That's a code word for "you bout to get got" lol

 

[truth spitter]

But niggas talkin bout this generation of kids?

 

[truth spitter]

I was 14 days old when this story came out