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(1/3) "Yo, what's good y'all? It's Joey Cook Crack aka Don Cartagena aka Uptown BX Platano, and I'm here to tell y'all about how I got my own Terror Squad Air Force 1's. So, I'm a sneakerhead, you fe

• Air Force 1
• Nike
• PE
• Sample

Legit check chronicles: Is it even profitable for rep manufacturers to continue making Yeezys? (side note, any time I see 'Sample' on a Yeezy size tag I remember hearing about dudes dropping $10k

• Sample
• Yeezy

I'd say no less than 11 people sent me these ads...every time I chuckle I'm not sure if the intention was to show you that @@ebaysneakers *will protect you* from shoes like this, or if they're actual

• PE
• Sample

Saw this infographic in my kids library book the other day. Scale is obviously WAY off. A size 14 plus lined up in front of size 9 does not actually equate to a size 23 lol For years we heard 'the mo

• PE
• Sample

Came across these Jordan 'Accolades' the other day while authenticating. Dunno why they caught my eye because almost every single one of these Jordan hybrid monstrosities takes parts from one shoe and

• Hybrid
• Sample

Saw these during my 'grinch' question research the other day and was kinda floored...price looked good until I looked kinda closely at the pics. EVEN though these are a rare shoe...I couldn't picture

• PE
• Sample

@sneakerphetish is probably the best account on Twitter (that I've found) that is constantly discussing sneaker topics. Several times a day, too. He posted this poll a few weeks ago and...although I

• PE
• Sample

Caught this image on @verseone story a few weeks ago and those waffle racers caught my eye. Nothing all that amazing about them, but seeing another massive charcuterie board full of @virgilabloh @off_

• Nike
• Sample

With a DS size 10 on StockX for $1.6k and a DS size 10.5 on StockX for $1.7k, I find it hard to believe ANYONE would pay $1.5k for a mismatched pair of TS1's...am I wrong? I know a *collector* would

• PE
• Sample

Don’t get caught up with these sweet talkers…only ‘early pairs’ that are legit gotta have the sample tags..

• Sample

Speaking of 36's as great PE's and Samples... @mypekicks coming with the Bakin's made for @carmeloanthony ...FIRE

• PE
• Sample

Well...we all know that Nike is a marketing company that happens to create shoes and clothing...there really is no other explanation for a shoe like this to exist. Reportedly 36 pairs, given to the

• Nike
• PE
• Sample
• Skate

It feels like I'm just in a toxic relationship with eBay... I don't think I'm special or anything. I think A LOT of us old heads have a toxic relationship with eBay. eBay was once the ONLY place we

• PE
• Sample

Saw this one on a FB group and did a double and triple take...was kind of amazed at the amount of effort that went into (what I believe to be) a scam. To me, it looks like someone took a pair of CDP

• Sample

One of my homies told me (like 18 months ago) that the Paprika's were going to release and I actually had to google it. Looks like they stayed pretty true to the OG sample. What do you think about

• OG
• Sample

Saw the new '2022 Air Max TW' post from @bubblekoppe and thought it looked familiar... Top is the one that's releasing...bottom is a pic posted by @digglahhh a long time ago of a pair of samples he g

• OG
• PE
• Sample

There’s this shop in Sacramento called ‘The Cave’ and it’s almost like a trip back into the 90’s. It’s this massive supermarket-sized place…and it’s full of nothing but middle-aged (teen) angst. It’s

• Air Force 1
• PE
• Puma
• Sample

Picked up these Air Max samples the other day off of @poshmark as soon as I saw them...not really smart of me, but every once in a while I see a detail that has me thinking quite stupidly. In this p

• Air Max 1
• Nike
• Sample

Are shox back? I know shox haven't been all that popular for the past 10 (15? 20?) years, but I, for one, am happy to see them getting some attention from the collaborators... When I first moved to

• 2002R
• Sample

The other day this dude hit me in the comments and said ‘if someone hand makes customs of real released Jordan color ways, do you consider them fake or…?' I said ‘I refer to them as customs. Not sur

• PE
• Sample

You wanna hear something crazy? As long as I’ve been on the internet (since like 1998 or so), I’ve been a sneakerhead…and in that time…SO much sneaker stuff has come out and SO much of it has left a

• Nike
• OG
• Sample

Newsletter 3/28-4/3/22

• 2002R
• Adidas
• Air Force 1
• Air Max 95
• +7 more

So yesterday I posted a video about one of the differences between trading cards and sneakers…and I don’t think I really explained it well enough for anyone to really make sense of what I was trying t

• Nike
• PE
• Sample

I wrote about this a while ago on the blog - I think the title of the entry was ‘sacrilegious samples’ This is where things get REALLY muddy for me, and I’d think it’d be REALLY scary for the sample

• PE
• Sample