"R.I.P. SneakerHeadz" by @Myke_Kewl

Before we get into the kewler piece…

Growing up, me owning the latest pair of Jordan's/Penny's/Nikes was a rarity...for two very specific reasons: partially because my parents thought they were too expensive a purchase...especially for an adolescent who would eventually (physically and possibly mentally) grow out of them. And the second half to that deprivation equation, is originality. They could care less Jordan had his own commercials, or that he was arguably "the greatest player" to ever touch a basketball. My parents wanted to instill original behavior at a very early age, an age where having that sense of originality could be dangerous for your social career. Needless to say, I wanted the kicks bad, but that didn't matter. They didn't care. They didn't care the whole school may have had them. They didn't care that coming to school without them, sometimes meant, you were NOT "cool" that day. They damn sure didn't care that the girlies would have loved me more if had these on!

Granted, there were some gems they purchased for me, because I either begged for them enough and they wanted to shut me up OR they thought the design may have been nice themselves...and possibly worthy of the $100 bill.

All that being said, in honor of @Myke_Kewl's piece below, I'd like to take this space to thank my parents for that. Your actions and hard nose morals, have produced a stone cold WINNER...a winner with a major sneaker addiction.


R.I.P to Sneaker Heads…

Is it just me or is everyone a sneakerhead now?

With retailers back in full stock of classics it is becoming easy to portray a “sneakerhead." The craziest part about this sneaker epidemic, this wave, around is these people call themselves sneakerheadz?

At one point the term “sneakerhead” was given, not taken. A sneakerhead was described by funds or a specific shoe; it was described by the most ridiculous & absurd measure taken to obtain a shoe. I believe the real “sneakerheadz” are gone. Now we have the nemesis of those sneaker days coming back for revenge with deadstock bs. For example, reject foams with super soles that don’t turn yellow, or AJ3 with a tainted gloss & a lite-weight frame. Something isn’t quite the same about the experience. Now sneakerheads have become just that, giving sneakers-head. Everybody has a collection or has a new found passion for shoes, some of us always had the passion but couldn’t afford it, due to funds or whatever the case may be, I feel for you. Because the experience of not having the money maybe cleaning a sidewalk or two was the experience of the beloved sneakerhead, the feeling of doing whatever to obtain the shoes was legendary over the shoes.

Fuck what shoe it was; it was the shoe you worked hard for...to obtain. Now I see a lot of copycats looking to obtain because of what others tell them the shoe is, no personal taste, story or depiction just a robot spat out version of their love for that shoe almost a Manchurian candidate for sneakers. Then at the end, they'll tell you that they are “sneakerheadz." It's funny because now we live in a time where everything has become generic & the time of originality is dying.

Anything you want to be or learn is on the web, if you wanted a guideline to being this “sneakerhead” I’m pretty sure nicekicks has one. Being a shoe-collector has become mainstream and has lost value to the ones who have really done it & or do it. The sneakerheadz are now going back to that good old saying: "Quality over Quantity." Everything can’t be quality; it just doesn’t work like that. So now very few are back to quality. Let’s thank those who gave the sneakers-head & continue to walk around with a sneaker facial to feel cool. Remember “Quality over Quantity” the quality of the shoe depends on you not them.



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