HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Complex / Complex News Shaquille O’Neal is one of the NBA’s biggest icons and while he’s enjoyed a career filled with success, championships, and various other accolades, Shaq Diesel has never been known to have the most impressive shoe game in the business. Looking to show he does have some good taste in sneakers, the NBA legend linked up with Joe La Puma at A Ma Manier in Atlanta to pick up a few pairs of kicks while talking his personal experiences in the sneaker game and revealed why he chose Reebok over Nike when he was presented the opportunity. “Nike was interested but didn’t want me to have my own shoe,” Shaq remembers. “I wanted my own line, my own shoe, I wanted to come out with a bang. You know, my motto was making people remember my name.” Ree...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Reebok / Reebok For a while there was talk that adidas was looking to unload their Reebok brand to the highest bidder with rumors that Master P and Baron Davis were interested in purchasing the OG sneaker brand. Well, it’s a done deal and Reebok will officially have new owners (not Master P or Baron Davis, though) as Reuters is reporting that adidas offloaded Reebok for a cool $2.5 billion to Authentic Brands Group. Not quite the profit they might’ve been hoping to get. Heck, they didn’t even break even as adidas purchased Reebok in 2006 for $3.8 billion only to struggle with sales and profits over the years which pushed them to just give up on the brand. They’ve tried everything from retro’ing classic silhouettes from OG’s NBA players like Shaquille O’Ne...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Reebok / Reebok Kerby Jean-Raymond is paying it forward. The renowned designer and Pyer Moss founder maintains a gig as the Vice President of Creative Direction for Reebok and along with the brand premiered a short film called CrateMaster that portrays the creativity and hustle of basketball-playing youth in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Source: Reebok / Reebok Directed by Jean-Raymond, the film cast locals to tell the story of an inner-basketball tournament and the excitement and drama as it’s all set to go down in one day. Of course, the prize being a pair of Allen Iverson signature kicks for winning said tournament exponentially ups the ante. “For inner city areas like Brooklyn, where this particular story is told, access to play is a big issue – you have so ...
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Reebok / Reebok While we still await to see if Master P and Baron Davis end up purchasing the Reebok brand from adidas, the OG sneaker brand is still pumping out new and OG silhouette’s for the heads. This time around Reebok will be issuing a 2019 retro of their Reebok Instapump Fury in it’s original “Citron” colorway, but the only catch, it’s going to be a Japan exclusive release. Sorry, non-Japan residents. Originally released in 1994, the Reebok Instapump became a hit amongst sneaker aficionados especially in the Asian market where some of the sneakers that we dismiss get major love. The kicks even found their way into the Design Museum of London and were eventually remixed by powerhouse brands like Chanel and Maison Margiela. “Fans will be happy to he...