LunaticVillage415
All Star
Yes, cacs did wear J’s and other Nike’s in the 80’s and 90’s. Go look up Megadeth and Anthrax and all of those other cac metal bands and they all wearing nothing but classic J’s when they first came out too. Dougie Howser, Seinfeld, lil boy from Rossane always stayed wearing heat. I think sometime between the time Vanilla Ice was exposed and Kurt Cobain offed himself, cacs learned to stay in their lane and not go full culture vulture. 
The difference between now and the 80’s/90’s is cacs weren’t buying up all the J’s and Nike’s and reselling them. Back in the 80’s/90’s, J’s actually sat on the shelf and you could go to a shoe store and buy them any time. You could go to a damn sporting goods store to cop heat. J’s were like Lebrons back then. The newest J’s were usually first battle tested on the basketball court... then nikkas started to wear them casually.
And yes, it’s cacs that ruined it. Mainstream American cacs. The same cacs that were wearing cowboy boots and dressing like Larry the Cable Guy when Trump was in office. Because in certain urban areas cacs always been up on sneaker game because of their close proximity to gamed up nikkas (i.e. NYC, the Bay). Now, even the lamest most suburbanized cacs wearing 1’s and 4’s.
It used to be that only FlightClub had the unreasonable high resale prices. But now StockX has set the standard for all exorbitant resale prices. They want $800+ for regular ass orange and white dunk lows for god’s sake.
It seems like J’s that black folks actually like (i.e. 11’s, 12’s, 13’s, 6’s, 3’s) don’t have the crazy high resales like the models cacs like (i.e. Jordan 1, dunk lows, sb Dunks, off white Nike’s). You can still get 5’s and 6’s for a lil over retail. Before white folks started wearing Jordan 1’s, they used to hit the clearance rack... just a few years ago. Now they want $2000 for a pair of Chicago’s. 
The difference between now and the 80’s/90’s is cacs weren’t buying up all the J’s and Nike’s and reselling them. Back in the 80’s/90’s, J’s actually sat on the shelf and you could go to a shoe store and buy them any time. You could go to a damn sporting goods store to cop heat. J’s were like Lebrons back then. The newest J’s were usually first battle tested on the basketball court... then nikkas started to wear them casually.
And yes, it’s cacs that ruined it. Mainstream American cacs. The same cacs that were wearing cowboy boots and dressing like Larry the Cable Guy when Trump was in office. Because in certain urban areas cacs always been up on sneaker game because of their close proximity to gamed up nikkas (i.e. NYC, the Bay). Now, even the lamest most suburbanized cacs wearing 1’s and 4’s.
It used to be that only FlightClub had the unreasonable high resale prices. But now StockX has set the standard for all exorbitant resale prices. They want $800+ for regular ass orange and white dunk lows for god’s sake. It seems like J’s that black folks actually like (i.e. 11’s, 12’s, 13’s, 6’s, 3’s) don’t have the crazy high resales like the models cacs like (i.e. Jordan 1, dunk lows, sb Dunks, off white Nike’s). You can still get 5’s and 6’s for a lil over retail. Before white folks started wearing Jordan 1’s, they used to hit the clearance rack... just a few years ago. Now they want $2000 for a pair of Chicago’s. 
poster I’m amused by all of this.
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And the thousand dollar kicks nikkas rock are a thousand dollars retail (i.e. Balenciaga, Dior, LV). And those thousand dollar kicks have a bad habit of going out of style the minute you manage to actually scrape together an extra $1300 to cop them.
For instance, all the rappers stopped wearing them Versace Chain Reactions this year even though Versace still sell them. And when the rappers stop wearing something, regular folks stop wearing that shyt too. One of the reason certain Nike’s resell for a band is because reseller see that nikkas pay over a stack for “designer” kicks. 
I miss when retros used to sit on the shelf in the mid 2000’s and you could be considered fresh wearing LRG fits from the mall. Now, you ain’t fresh unless you wearing head to toe Dior or Louie everyday. 
That’s why it’s so easy for cacs and others to gentrify the hood, gentrify the rap game, gentrify the sneaker game, gentrify the dating game. And the successful clothing brands that black folks did own (i.e. Phat Farm, Fubu, Rocawear) were treated as fly by night trends and sold off for cheap and led to slaughter on the clearance rack at Macy’s, TJ Maxx and Burlington Coat Factory. Imagine Ralph Lauren going out of business and selling all his brand(s) to Ross when it temporarily wasn’t popping in the streets anymore. 
nikkas don’t own Nike, the company. It’s kind of ironic that the most quintessential American sneaker brand only catered to mostly black folks for decades. Up until a couple years ago, cacs were wearing sandals all year round, dirty Chucks, Toms and other swagless random shyt. Jordan wouldn’t be shyt without Nike. To this day, Jordan brand is still owned by Nike. Even Ye knew he had to partner with Adidas and Gap to be taken seriously. What else are nikkas going to take ownership of? Kung Pao chicken in the hood? Cacs feel so comfortable taking over the sneaker game because they know Nike is not a black brand. Just like they know that white folks used to live in the hood back before it was the hood in the 50’s and shyt. 
