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The Sneaker Beast From The East: The Locust Takes DeFY. New York Through k-Skit
For those of you that don’t know k-Skit let me introduce you. Founded in 2001 (several years before our beloved Flight Club) k-Skit is the mecca for sneakers in Japan (and quite possibly the world)...
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Asics Gel Saga Running Shoe 1991
The Asics Gel Saga was a summertime favorite and for 1991 had some pretty tough competition. The one advantage this shoe had over the competition was price point.At $55.00 there weren’t many shoes...
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Joey Bada$$ Feat. Big K.R.I.T. & Smoke DZA (Underground Airplay) 2013
Those that thought New York Hip Hop was dead are going to eat those words. With artists like Joey Bada$$ leading the way a new crop of New York artists are emerging and their going back to their...
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Adidas Argonaut XS Running Shoe 1998
A solid offering from a company that knows how to do things right. The Argonaut was designed as a light weight running shoe for overpronation control. Features include: Carbon rubber in the rearfoot...
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Adidas Tahiti Leisure Sneaker 1978
The Adidas Tahiti was damn near the same sneaker as the Tobacco shoe but with a slight design change on upper heel and with dark blue uppers and stripes. Velour leather coupled with heel padding and...
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A$AP Rocky Wears Hood By Air Morph Backpack Shirt At Hot 97 Summer Jam 2013
Hot 97′s Summer Jam is THEE summer concert event of the year so you know everyone has to come with their fashion A game. For 2013 A$AP Rocky showed up in Hood By Air’s extremely limited run Air Morph...
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Etonic V02 Running Shoe 1994
When Fall of 1994 rolled around the last thing on my mind was spending $95.00 (5 dollars less than the previous years model) for an Etonic running shoe. Nope, it was all about Chucks, Van’s Lampin’s...
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Kangol Koolers Bermuda Casual, Bermuda Cap, Vent Air Snipe 1989
Kangol and Clarks aren’t fads their staples. Sure, theres times where you’ll probably retire either or but some how some way they always find their way back into the rotation. With the heat here and...
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Three Colorway’s Of The Nike Air Trainer SC II That Need To Be Retro’d NOW.
Let it be known, DeFY. New York LOVES the Trainer SC II. Hell, we advocated for a retro of this shoe for about 8 years so when the OG colorway’s returned and mostly everything looked good tears were...
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Airwalk Race BMX Sneaker 1998
The late 90′s was a tough period for a lot of skate shoe companies. Now I’m not saying they weren’t turning a profit, but it was NOTHING like it is today. With Timberland boots and Nike’s dominating...
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Airwalk Sprocket & Sprocket Plus Mountain Bike Sneaker 1998
Dieter would be proud of this shoe. If you lived an active lifestyle in the late 90′s and wanted some dope footwear that didn’t carry a Swoosh or three stripes then chances are Airwalk was on your...
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Airwalk Crank Mountain Bike Sneaker 1998
Released in 1998 this was a very interesting shoe from Airwalk. Aside from the fact that the shoe looked dope it also could have passed for well….an Adidas shoe. Features included: a Nylon midsole...
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Reebok Wink DMX Steve Francis Basketball Sneaker 2000
These were nothing to write home about but did feature some nice leather uppers. The design always reminded me of the plastic banana hair clips from the 80′s that all the girls wore. Go bananarama...
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Karhu Avalon Running Shoe 1993
Say what you want Nike Fan boys, Karhu was touting air cushioned shoes before your beloved Swoosh (yea we know, Nike took it waaaaaaaaaay further). While nothing super flashy the Avalon was a clean...
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Lunge Cyrus Running Shoe 1993
Not bad not great but certainly not cheap. This German company continues to pump out high quality running shoes today and for about 200 Euro’s (or 267.00 USD) you can own a pair of Lunge running...
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Reebok Aztrek Running Shoe 1993
Reebok has a lot of underrated running shoes in their vault and this is one of them. While nothing to flashy, the right colors and materials could really bring this early 90′s running shoe to life....
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Madonna (This Used To Be My Playground) 1992
Madonna. What really is there to say, the woman is a megastar. Ok here’s something, it seems as the years pass she receives less and less notoriety for pumping out a ton of CLASSIC, TIMELESS, ORIGINAL...
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Brooks Villanova Running Shoe (Release Year Unknown)
There comes a point in every real shoe heads life where you need to get away from the hype. You see, sometimes having a limited run shoe with a bunch of dudes hounding you to find out exactly where...
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Jay-Z Feat. Rick Ross (#$%^ With Me You Know I Got It) 2013
This track is beastly. Lets repeat that, BEASTLY. Jay and Ross crushed this sinister instrumental destined to show up in some movie. That aside did anyone catch the Reebok plug? For those not familiar...
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Xanthus Sneakers 1989
When you think of Xanthus you usually think of the X-Pro but Xanthus actually had several other models over the years. While this particular model is unknown there’s nothing particularly blow away...
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