I was born in chi but let's just say I live in a different part of the country
The absolute worst part of the line. I did have the 16 (still like), 17 Low, 18 (which I love) and 19 (most comfy j ever) though
. the 20s are still hideous even if the patent on the stealths is nice and the 21s were wack.
At least here there was no flying off the shelves back then . The sneaker game didn't have crazy hype it did these days, you could just wake up and go to the store and be the only one when it opened. I remember going to the store the day the 17s came out and moms offered to cop em for me and I said nah cuz they were wack.
Where you from nikka,...out south or out west?
The sixteen did not sit period cause that was the evolution of the xi with a batman cowl.
The original briefcase seventeen did not sit and that was a huge news story becauee of the up in price point and the extras.
Not to mention his comeback shoe.
You self equated your dislike of the shoe, but that shoe was a frenzy before the plus dropped.
The seventeen plus did not sit on the shelf, that was the first PE offered ever.
for standard consumer consumption and used to be off the charts resale wise.
You could not find that shoe.
It had crocodile breh,....you can not be serious and cosmetically it is one of the coldest silhouettes in jordan history too.
The eighteen with the shoe guard in leather or suede did not sit.
The nineteen in white/grey, and bred did not sit.
the twenty did not sit even in that wild cheetos color.
The original xx id's which were not called the stealth then did not sit.
The twenty one and twenty two PE you could find in just one store in chicago.
from cityscape to basketball leather twenty two.
which was a great shoe did not sit.
Those original red Toro xxi's did not sit and they were kinda ugly too.
I remember kickin myself like man I should cop those black xxii and that xxi PE in bulk from citysports but this was before hype beasting.
Yet i was on my bron shyt then and copped a bron iii.
that was ds instead then from Champs.
which was at city sports on 71st and chappel.
Which had shoes because that shyt is wild for an outsider to visit.
Alternatively the footlocker back on the one then.
did not still have any of those shoes, sitting.
Only shelf that had any of those jordan's was select city sports on 71st and 91st on the south side.
Sometimes Tony sports but tony fell off in their expansion to Hyde park.
out west I never saw a live pair at anywhere that was a hidden gem spot.
Up north white cats ate those and they did not sit.
Bron's sat, other guys shoes sat in the chi.
jordan did not sit like that at all.
Even those glossy xxii's moved originally when they dropped.
The other colorways did not pop but the original moved too.
To the point I remember every time they dropped and being with someone who lost cause they did not wanna grind and put in work to cop.
Only jordan I went with someone late after the sweetspot to get the shoes on release day was the maroon fifteen low. Which we had to go all the way out to lincoln mall and this was when it was just becoming a dead mall.
Even the first stock of retros flew.
the restock of retros sat back then.
All cause of the change of the quality from the og's cosmetically from jordan brand from nike.
Plus nike did not have their supply number set up right to drum up interest how they do now.
In that era it became a bit easy to get retros but that was because of quality.
eventually nike followed suit and up'd game a decade ago on retros.
In chicago nikkaz used to give no love for other shoes if you was not a big time jordan guy, first.
which was mostly people from good homes.
Older gen jordan fans with a good job.
or so hood they had it on lock and could and afford those style releases like the beginning of the crack era in 86-88.
In hiphop, you had to be a real dem dare associated lo head.
to be looked at and associated as cold for jordans.
to the point guys like John John monopoly.
In the culture is where fringe shoes got love.
In the hood, nikkaz was not feeling anything outside of jordan's first and then everything else comes completely after.
Sometimes out west and out south vanity stores that had jordan's did not carry other endorsed shoes cause they would sit. You would have to go up north to a vanity store to get an Agassi or a new nike endorsee.
Anybody not jordan or Bo at the least in chicago.
originally, in Chicago certain guys were viewed as fringe guys.
till tone gave John John light with otis's.
John John was john john monopoly but,...don c, happy and ye all come from that fringe of euphonics fringe wannabe jiggy shyt back then. That was damn near taboo, but tone connection to John John gave don c happy and ye a pass.
Which is why back then ye looks out of place in hood gear.
Simply cause he had to work his way back to cultural acceptance after going jiggy and getting dissed by common.
Art Barr
