They're reps. People just throwing story sauce on it to make themselves feel better.
Its like this guy on IG who makes and sells "custom" off white bred 4s.
You’re missing a couple key things they did to us: kill and enslave.
This wasn’t behind the scenes, it was “in-public, yelly stuff” and how the power structures are what they are now. In fact thats basically how every group ultimately gets power.
The behind the scenes stuff is just to maintain...
That goes more to my point though: price isn't the real issue if the audience who anticipated this collab and complained about the prices aren't even buying the offerings in their price point.
I don't think the price itself was that bad. It's retail prices are on par with the Wales Bonner collab prices and Y-3 sale prices. The sneakers are cheaper than comparable Nike FOG shoes.
I think they misstepped on who the market was going to be. It wasn't the mainline shoppers anticipating...
I'm more so talking stage performance. Like Problem is out here with no backup vocals and really talking with the crowd. The last 3 dudes I saw were trash lol,
Most of my pairs came in. I'm gonna try for the Wave Runners next week.
Not-related, but I saw the poor man's pirate blacks were 50% off so I copped as well.