"No 14-year-old boy should have a $95 shirt unless he's on stage with his 4 brothers" - Bill CosbyYou can go ahead and apply the same logic to Kanye's highly anticipated Nike Air Yeezy's and Louis Voutton sneakers. The Air Yeezys drop tomorrow and will retail for $215 and I'm sure by now you've heard about the pricing for the LV sneakers which drop sometime in June, and cost between $840 to $1,140. Now as far as his LV sneakers, I wouldn't expect them to cost $100...they're Louis Voutton. Now the Air Yeezy's are a totally different story, these are Nikes...$215?? Seriously?
At those prices, these shoes are gonna be some of the most bootlegged shoes in Louis Voutton and Nike's history.
But back to the Air Yeezy's, I know a lot of you are like "that's not that expensive...Kanye designed them...he be at fashion shows...I like his music...." Yeah, yeah, whatever, here's how I look at it...
Michael Jordan...you might've heard of him. He played basketball. Here are some of his stats:
- 2 Olympic Gold Medals
- 6 NBA Championships
- NCAA National Championship: 1982
- 5 NBA MVP Awards
- 6 NBA Finals MVP Awards
- 10x NBA Leading Scorer
- 10x All-NBA First Team
- All-NBA Second Team: 1984/85
- 14x NBA All-Star Game
- 3x NBA All-Star Game MVP
- 9x NBA All-Defensive Team
- NBA Defensive Player of the Year: 1987/88
- NBA Rookie of the Year: 1984/85
- 2x NBA Slam Dunk Contest winner
- ACC Freshman of the Year: 1982
- ACC Men's Basketball Player of the Year: 1984
- USBWA College Player of the Year: 1984
- Naismith College Player of the Year: 1984
- John R. Wooden Award: 1984
- Adolph Rupp Trophy: 1984
- Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year: 1991
- Ranked #1 by SLAM Magazine's Top 75 Players of All-Time
- Ranked #1 by ESPN Sportscentury's Top 100 Athletes of the 20th century
"The Air Jordan 17 came with a Jumpman embossed metal carrying case...in the lid of the carrying case a CD-rom could be found."
"When you decide to add a metal case and a CD something tells you the production cost must rise quite a bit. This also seemed to be the case as the Air Jordan 17 had a retail price at $200. Retailers everywhere had problems convincing people that $200 for a pair of shoes was worth it and many retailers cut prices down to $160 which was the retail price of the Air Jordan 16."
via NiceKicks.com
So I guess my question is, has Ye' done for music what Jordan did for basketball?...
Btw, I know Theo got to keep the shirt...but, he was a 14yr old with no fiscal responsibilty whose father was a doctor and his mother was a lawyer. If that's your current situation, I only have one question...when you go to purchase your LV shoes could you pick me up a size 13 or 14 (not sure how LV shoes run)?
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