Purple Sector…

NikeiD Bespoke is a new and innovative by appointment design experience offering consumers the opportunity to work one-on-one with Nike design consultants to customize select Nike footwear styles. Globally exclusive to 21 Mercer, Nike Sportswear’s first stand-alone retail space located in SoHo, New York, it is the natural evolution of Nike’s personalization and customization offering, first brought to consumers with NikeiD.com in 1999.

This looks like a dope place.

My fave design:

more stuff Right Hurrr

The Adidas joints look kind of bobo, but the Dunk lookin’ boys and the others are Marty McFly.

They’re availible at FLAGUE, so head on over and cop em!

iDiom has made a packable down jacket, and the white one is fresh fresh fresh. Also, I seem to be loving vests more and more as the days go by, and that green jam, ooooooooooooooooooh lawd. Peep em.

I’m at work, not at all working, and decided to check a blog I love. In keeping with my radition of post followership, here are my fave five summer Jams.

Summertime By the Fresh Prince Y Jazzy Jeff

Not My Job by Mac Dre

To Live and Die in LA by Tupac

Why Don’t We Fall in Love by Amerie (don’t front!)

Buddy By De la Soul feat. A Tribe Called Quest and the Jungle Brovas.

Here it is kiddos. I have been in a yearlong competition with a close friend of mine over the hottest pickups on a month-to-month basis, and here we are now, on the eve of the clencher: Summertime. I have compiled my list of pickups I need to win out this important stretch. It’s a long list, But If I can get 8-12 of the items, I’m in a good spot.

The Hypebeast Summer list:

A MacBook

An Iphone

Lightning IVs

Mars Blackmon IVs

NBHD Vans Chukkas

Simpson’s Vans sk-8 his

Green Hiroshis

Tour IVs

A Pair of Bapes, any pair, so long as they’re fresh

A Supreme Fitted

A Supreme Backpack

A G-Shock

The Travel Pack. (hitting the blogos soon!)

If you’ve got any ideas, hit me up, and I’ll be sure to add them if they are fresh enough.

*The Anthem*

I find myself feeling older and older every time I listen to the radio.  In the midst of songs that melt together as 35 minute bursts of mild retardation, and R&B artists who look, sound, act, and sing alike, I find myself feeling bad for kids who grow up in this era. I grew up to Brand Nubian, Tribe, Biggie, Pac, Jay, Wu, Nas, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots and the like. Now, kids are blessed with the lyrical stylings of one Hurricane Chris, and, though I love him, Soulja Boy. Not hating, but these guys should not be the voices of a new generation. I mean, my generation and the one before it are just beginning to come into power, and we are all collectively a suit short of a full deck. Lil Wayne is the best mainstream rapper of this generation in the youth’s eyes. I will repeat that, Dwayne “Wobble Dee Wobble Dee” Carter is the nicest mainstream rapper in the eyes of the youth. Weezie Red Fraggle isn’t even top 30 (come test me, I can name 40 emcees nicer) all time, yet this guy is holding the torch. Lupe is nicer, but he’ll never have the mainstream appeal of one Daddykisser. The man he’s being compared to is in a stratosphere all his own, but the thing is, he’s the only one excluding one Wassalu Jaco who can be compared to anyone. Just thought I’d vent about this. I work with children as my dayjob, ages 5-14, and the things that come out of their mouths concerning hip hop make me wish I could legally slap the fire out of those little scallywags. Jay-Z can’t be the best because he’s too old, old school guys just rhyme about school and books, old school rap had terrible beats,  blahzay blahzay blah. I had a kid argue that Ay Bay Bay was a better song than Criminology. I didn’t make that last sentence up, that ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Wanna know why kids are so friggin stupid nowadays? Here’s the short answer:

Hi. Since nearly every other e-mail i receive asks me how i feel about the new Jays, I will tell you.

They’re pretty cool.

Would I rock them anywhere but the ball court? No. I think people are so mad about Jays “falling off”, when they really haven’t. They are basketball shoes first and foremost, and always have been. It just so happens that Jordan Brand remembered that, and began to put more emphasis on their function rather than their freshness. That being said, I enjoy the fact that JB decided to go “considered” with some of the ways the shoe was made. The lack of much adhesive was a really great thing to do.If you’re like me, and the way the kick is made factors into your choices at all, then you should cop these. If you’re just a Jay head who grew up on the best models like I did and want them to come out with something that recaptures the def years of old, don’t hold your breath, it won’t happen.