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Sotheby’s Selling Kanye West’s $1M+ “Grammy-Worn” Nike Air Yeezy Sample From 2008
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of Sotheby’s / Sotheby’s Kanye West is still team adidas, but his first signature sneaker was a Nike sneaker. Auction house Sotheby’s is putting up for a sale a Nike Air Yeezy sample that the multi-hyphenate star wore to the 2008 Grammy Awards. Source: Lester Cohen / Getty Not just anyone with the coin will be able to bid on these kicks, though. Sotheby’s is offering the shoe up via a private sale. The Kanye West ‘Grammy Worn’ Nike Air Yeezy Prototypes will be only available for direct purchase, so if you’re interested, you’re going to have to contact Sotheby’s directly to even be considered. Keep in mind, that these joints are reportedly valued at over $1 million, making them the most expensive kicks ever to land at Sotheby’s. Recently, the fame...
HHW Gaming: Feast Your Eyes On Paul George’s Nike PG5 PlayStation 5 Sneakers
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike / LaceupHk A collaboration Nike won’t be suing anyone about. Nike is continuing its partnership with PlayStation with Paul George’s latest signature sneaker, the PG5. Like previous iterations of the collab between the companies, each shoe signified something that George, a well-known avid fan of the PlayStation, loved about the console. 2018’s version of the shoe drew inspiration from Sony’s iconic DualShock controller. For the PG5, it makes perfect sense that it would take its cues from the still hard to obtain PlayStation 5 console, and it’s a very good-looking sneaker. Instagram sneaker news and media website LaceupHK shared photos of the upcoming shoe slated for a May release that comes in two distinct colorways. Source: Nike / LaceupHk Like the ...
PUMA & J. Cole To Unveil RS-DREAMER PROTO In April
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: PUMA / PUMA J. Cole and PUMA already have established prominence in the sneaker space by way of the North Carolina rapper’s RS-DREAMER line. Now, the inspiration for the Dreamville honcho’s footwear, the RS-DREAMER, will soon be available to the masses early next month. The RS-DREAMER is currently available in a variety of colorways and the OG version of the basketball sneakers come in big to small sizes. The RS-DREAMER also comes in a red and white Blood, Sweat, and Tears line as well. For the new drop, the RS-DREAMER PROTO was the genesis for the shoe ahead of the preceding colorways and will get a limited run after some consideration to release the prototype. The shoe employs the same collaborative spirit of Cole’s ideas for the DREAMER along with PUMA...
GOAT Is Restocking 10 Rare Air Max Sneakers For Nike Air Max Day
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: GOAT / GOAT Air Max Day GOAT already kicked off Air Max Day early on its app by blessing users with SKUs (Stock Keeping Unit) for rare Air Max sneakers simply by trying on sneakers using the AR Try-On feature. Now, the online marketplace has announced more plans to celebrate the release of the iconic Nike silhouette. On Air Max Day, Friday (Mar.26), GOAT revealed that users could score a pair of highly-coveted Air Max sneakers for FREE or at/under retail price. Sneaker aficionados will have to keep their eyes peeled on GOAT’s Instagram page to learn the drop schedule for the 10 Air Max styles GOAT will be restocking, so turn on those notifications. GOAT will also be dropping a pair of DQM x AM 90’ Bacon’s or Undefeated x AM 97 OG’s from 10:00 AM ET/7:00 A...
REAL Sneakerheads Share Their Thoughts On The Rigged SNKRS Game & Bot Use, Offers Some Solutions
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 We all know the sneaker game is absolutely rigged, but a new story from the Los Angeles Times put a big spotlight on just how much of a jig it is. Every weekend on Twitter, you can expect to see people complaining about a sneaker drop, whether it be a pair of Jordans or Dunks on the SNKRS app or YEEZY’s via YEEZY Supply or adidas CONFIRMED app. Many sneaker aficionados have been screaming for years that there is something fishy is going on when purchasing a pair of sneakers on these apps. Recent fallout following a former Nike executive and her reseller son, Joe Herbert, has seemingly confirmed what sneakerheads have been saying all along after being exposed following a Bloomberg piece that spoke about the booming sneaker...
HHW Gaming: Overwatch League Presents SF Shock With AF1s Designed By Alexander-John As “Trophies”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alexander-John / SF Shock Overwatch League Shiny bling is usually the reward you can always expect when you win the chip. For the SF Shock, the Overwatch League is rewarding the grand final winner with championship hardware for their feet. The Overwatch League revealed on Friday (Mar.12) that the SF Shock was blessed with $1.4 million in prize money and a pair of Air Force 1’s designed by custom designer and artist Alexander-John as well. Custom kicks are not new to the eSports world. The Call of Duty League blessed its athletes with Air Force 1s designed by Kickstradomis and rewarded the winners with a special pair of custom DMP (Defining Moments Package) Jordan 6s. What makes the Overwatch League Air Force 1s so special is that it’s the first shoe to be...
GOAT Giving Users The Chance To Score Rare Nike Air Max Kicks By Using AR Try-On Feature
Source: GOAT / GOAT Air Max Day isn’t officially celebrated until March 26. Online sneaker marketplace GOAT has decided to celebrate the iconic silhouette with a cool promotion allowing customers to scoop some rare air grails. Starting today (Mar.5) until the end of the month, GOAT users will be blessed with the SKUs (Stock Keeping Unit) for rare Air Max sneakers simply by trying on sneakers using the AR Try-On feature. GOAT first introduced the virtual reality feature back in October 2019. It has become a popular tool for shoppers, allowing them to see how the rare kicks they about drop some serious bread on and look on their feet before deciding to hit the purchase button. GOAT shared what Air Max silhouette’s shoppers can look forward to scooping up and what days they will be avail...
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The Air Max 90 “Bacon” To Release on Air Max Day [Photod]
Source: Nike / NIke Is it us or is Nike really dropping a lot of food-themed sneaker collaborations as of late? From the Ben & Jerry’s “Chunky Dunkys” to their SB “TurDUNKen“‘s, the swoosh brand’s really been cooking up some interesting ideas in their kitchen and are once again serving up something for the foodies of the sneaker world. Source: Nike / NIke Their latest food-inspired creation comes by way of the Air Max 90 “Bacon” courtesy of the OG collab via Dave’s Quality Meats (of course). The meat-inspired colorway features a “Sail/Sheen/Straw/Medium Brown” color combination that resembles, well, bacon. Explaining that it took him three to four months to decide on what he wanted his collaboration to look like, Dave says he found himself starving and hit up a local bodega for a bacon...
Hypebeast Alert: The Supreme/Nike SB Dunks Drop This Week, Expect Many Ls
Source: Supreme / Supreme Nike SB Dunk Last year the Nike SB Dunk silhouette won Shoe of The Year honors thanks to some dope colorways, sick collaborations with Travis Scott, The Grateful Dead, and Ben & Jerry’s (no, seriously), and ultimately could do no wrong. As many painful Ls as those releases distributed along the way, hypebeasts are preparing for more now that Supreme is preparing to drop their own SB Dunk collaboration on March 4th. Looking to make up for the clunker of Supreme/Dunk Low’s of 2019 (those were hella struggle), the new-look Supreme Dunk’s look hella spiffy as they incorporate some faux crocodile skin on the silhouette’s overlays while some small gold stars lace the midfoot base around the swoosh. Source: Supreme / Supreme Nike SB Dunk With the “Sup” logo stamped o...
Offset Shows Off His 1-of-1 Mustard Yellow Travis Scott Air Jordan 6’s
Source: Complex / Complex Every real sneakerhead out there now how painful it is to take L’s on those Saturday mornings when hyped up sneakers drop in limited quantities, but what’s more painful at times are knowing there are exclusive kicks out there we’ll never get a chance to copp. That just so happens to be the case with Travis Scott who has a handful of exclusive “Friends and Family” Air Jordan 1‘s and IV’s that hypebeasts dream of owning one day. But it seems like Offset has an ultra rare pair of Travis Scott Air Jordan VI’s that even La Flame doesn’t own. Last year when the military green “Cactus Jack” Air Jordan VI’s released, Offset was seen sporting a mustard yellow colorway of the sneakers and immediately social media went crazy with speculation that those would be next to see a...
Foot Locker Celebrates Black Sneaker Influencers with ‘The Sole List’
Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker You can’t have sneaker culture without Black people, period. In the midst of Black History Month, Foot Locker is celebrating this triple truth with its inaugural Sole List which honors the next generation of Black influencers pushing the culture of kicks forward. The Sole List highlight individuals who are naturally putting others on, launching dope collaborations and bigging up their respective communities. The initial Sole List Class of ’21 is made up 10 Black creatives that include Greg Skye Evans, a child influencer, Ari Chambers, founder of Highlight Her, female sports recruitment network and Dex Robinson, a celebrity stylist and brand manager. Everyone in this clique is doing big things. So if you’re unfamiliar, it would be worth your while to ...
Sneaker Resellers Flaunt Dozens of Pairs of Trophy Room Air Jordan 1 “Freeze Out”
Source: @benjaminkickz / Instagram This past Wednesday (February 10) was a particularly painful day for sneakerheads as most of us took home some fat L’s when both the Neutral Air Jordan 1 85’s and Marcus Jordan‘s extra limited Trophy Room Air Jordan 1 a.k.a. The “Freeze Out” released on the same day. With word that the 85’s were limited to 30,000 pairs and the Trophy Rooms at a mere 12,000, we already knew those L’s were imminent. But heads got really hot when well-connected sneaker resellers began to flaunt their walls of unreleased Trophy Room 1’s after word spread that Marcus Jordan’s Trophy Room establishment backdoored more than a thousand pairs off the rip. Retailing for $190, the Trophy Room 1’s are already selling for $2,500+ and heads like Benjamin Kickz look like he’s already se...
