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Episode 18 - How did Yeezy Busta Get Started?

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 On this episode of Legit Check, Yeezy Busta, took to the time to connect with fans and answers questions from Instagram. 

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Speaker 1

What's going on? Guys, Welcome to another episode of Legit Chic. It's your boy easyBus To. And you know, today we don't have a guest because nobody likes me and I have no friends, so we're gonna be doing a solo episode. And uh, you know, today I did something a little bit different. Today. We don't really have a specific topic to talk about, but what we are going to talk about it is kind of a little bit more about myself. I know, I'm very secretive and most of my life

is not public. It's mostly private, and I kind of like to keep it that way. Obviously, you know, I do wear a mask and uh, you know, and still at the same time, I really want to be able to kind of tell you guys a little bit more about my life because you know, I know you guys are curious. So what I did was I posted on

my Instagram. Um, if you guys don't follow it yet, which I'm pretty sure you guys probably already do, but go follow me on Instagram at easyBus To, I post stories every now and then for people to send me some questions. And today I posted and I said, Uh, ask me a question. I'll feature you on the podcast. So here we are. Let's uh, let's get started. Oh um, the first question on here is actually kind of funny. UM, shout out to you, n m R one THEO. He said,

are you cringe? Well, I would say, um, I guess that's up to you to decide. Um. So the next question is from I'm Noah one on one He said, where you get all those shoes? Well, I've been collecting sneakers now for like five plus years. And I know I'm not super o g I haven't been collecting sneakers since the womb, but um, I've been collecting for like five years. I worked really hard for my shoes, you know. Started a lot, started mainly with just like Adidas and

Easies and only a couple of pairs of Jordan's. And now it's kind of like pretty well balanced. I would say I might even have more Nikes now than Adidas, which is kind of wild if you think about it, because I'm easy best to okay. Um, Gronklin asked me, Oh, that's a pretty clever name. Asked me, what made you interested in shoes? So I feel like my whole life I've been a sneaker head. But I didn't know. And the reason why I think that is because I played

sports growing up. I played I played soccer, I played basketball, I played tennis and in any sport or I mean, I also like ran and I was very active. I was always like, um, I was an athlete growing up and now I'm fat, But um, I always had the coolest sneakers on no matter what. People always were like looking at me like, oh dude, where'd you get those?

And um, I always had to have the freshest new mercurials or hyper venoms for soccer, and then for tennis it was like court ballistics or the vapor like Roger Feeder shoes. And then for basketball, I always wore Kobe's rest in piece. By the way, we haven't even talked about the whole topic. By the way, recipes to a legend, like seriously, like I only wore Kobes when I played basketball growing up, and like really a huge inspiration to me.

So yeah, but anyway, Yeah, Like I feel like I've always been interested in shoes, Like I've always been in fashion, like not necessarily like street where like kind of like where I grew up wasn't the like the most fashion forward place. Um, you just kind of grew up wearing bands and converse. But I was always interested in shoes

and I never really knew it. Kanye. It was kind of like the reason why I got into shoes at all, because um, I was a die hard fans still am, and basically like whenever I saw him wearing some like crazy like Jordan's, like back back in the day when he was wearing Nikes and Louie Bvutan shoes and stuff like that, I'd always like try to get something looked similar because I couldn't I couldn't afford the real deal

back then. And um, like it was funny. One year, Um there was like this cord ballistic which was like a tennis shoe like Raphael and the Dollar signature shoe, and it was black and pink, so I had, like I think it had like a pink swoosh. I can't remember, but I just remember like wearing them to school because

I thought they were so sick. I'm like, yeah, these kind of look the easy blinks and but yeah, it's it's funny because I never never really clicked in my head that I was like really a sneaker head and into sneakers until in two thousand fifteen, which actually kind of segues since then this next question by a Joshi. He said, what was the first hyped shoe you brought? I think I think it was supposed to say bought, But the first hype shoe I bought was a easy

three fifty pate Black. That was the first authentic sneaker, the hype sneaker that I bought. And actually before that I had they weren't really that hype, so I won't even mention that. But so yeah, I had the Ether Pirate Blacks, and ever since then I was like, yo, like this is actually crazy. It's a whole culture in itself. But before before I bought the Pirate Blacks, like I was starting to get into the culture and like seeing like why everything was so expensive, and obviously I was

like following and trying to get all the easies. I struck out on the Turtle Doves in the seven fifties. Um, so yeah, that that's that's on how it all started. It's interesting. Um, this is an interesting question. Connor seven Jag asked, what are the most expensive shoes in the world? Now? If we're talking shoes shoes, I'm pretty sure it's like a pair of I think it's a I think Nick Cannon bought them. I think it's like tom Ford loafers with like diamonds all over them. But I don't know.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure they're like two million dollars something crazy like that. But if we're going to talk about sneakers, I would say the most expensive sneaker on the market right now. That that's a really tough question because it just depends on how much someone wants to spend on certain shoes. I would say that the market really dictates like what shoes are hot.

Like obviously, like Easys were like the the biggest thing um for the longest time, and then three fifty prices kind of dropped a little bit, and like Travis came around, and then Virgil with the off white collection and stuff like that. But I would say that trends are really important to like as bees right now are probably the hottest, you know, like when Travis, Travis just dropped his SBS

a couple of days ago and literally went crazy. I thought that the prices were going to kind dropped like post release, but they're they've been pretty strong, like chilling at A thousand and eleven because they were really hard to get. They only came out in some like skate shops. They didn't come out on sneakers, so it was like

really not easy to get. But it was kind of like an O G release, which was cool, which a lot of people I think liked a lot um when you know, sneakers only came out in stores and like very limited online or whatever. But I would say that a s B s are kind of like they're like the wave right now, everyone's everyone's rocking. SB is like

trying to be a skateboarder. You know, I'm a total poser because I wear sps too, But um uh, I would say that it's really hard to put a put a like like put one shoe as the most expensive sneaker in the world. But I would say, up there, it's probably like a flom uh flom NIKSB friends and family, um tura. I think there's only like twenty four pairs of those in existence. I just heard recently of a pair of selling for like mid five figures, which is crazy.

Um paris as bees, they're going for like fifty dollars right now? What else I mean, like there's there's all kinds of crazy stuff like Freddy Krueger's are going for like thirty grand um yellow Lobsters. I think there's only

like twenty pairs of those two. I don't know the exact numbers, but yeah, I mean there's some shoes that are like crazy, crazy expensive just on their own, and then there's certain shoes that, um that are really expensive because of the cultural of significance, like, for example, um, a Project Blitz, Like we have a pair of Space Jam elevens that Michael Jordan actually wore in the movie, and there's only two worn pairs, and I don't know where the other one is, but we have one of them,

and that one we've gotten offers for like three thousand plus. So but at the same time, like if that wasn't worn by Michael, obviously wouldn't be worth as much. So it just depends on what you mean, Like what's the most expensive sneaker, Like, yeah, obviously that's a sneaker, but it's also a movie prop. It's also worn by one of the most famous athletes of all times. So that's a really hard question to answer. But um, how do you feel about the Supreme Air Force one, so that

actually comes out on Thursday. And I actually it's funny because I wanted to get an all white pair of UM air Forces. I didn't want to get like the plane ones, so I kind of like I wanted to get something a little bit different. Like I have a pair of Rockefella UM air Force ones, the white ones. UM. I wear those a lot, and I like those because they're like white air Force ones, but at the same time, they're like they have a little bit of like flavor

sprinkled on there, you know. So you know, I think that the design was super lazy. I think they could have done a lot better. Like one of my favorite UM air Forces that Supreme did was the one with CDG with like the eyes all over it, like so fire. That's like that is probably like one of my favorite air Force ones in existence. But I don't know. It was a lazy design for sure. But at the end of the day, you know, it's still Supreme. It's still going to sell out. It's a cool shoe. I mean,

I'm going to buy a pair. I'm not gonna lie. So let's move on my all time favorite shoe. I always get this question, and it's the Red Octobers. I love the Red Octobers. What's your top three favorite Kanye songs that while we're gonna be here for a minute, Well, I would say just because of I don't know, I've never really been asked about the songs more so the albums, because I feel like that's a little bit easier. But I would say good Life is for sure up there.

That's like one of the first songs I've ever heard by Kanye when I was a kid. Um Jesus Walks is one of my favorite songs. Hey Mama is one of my favorite songs. Family Business. I wouldn't be able to name top three favorite songs. I wouldn't be able to do it. It's just but there's just so man, wow, that is really hard. I won't be I can't do that, So we're gonna have to move on from that one.

But in terms of the top three favorite Connie albums, I would say, in no particular order, my favorite albums were My Beautiful, Dark, Twisted Fantasy, Um, College Dropout, and Late Registration. That that makes it a little bit easier, But yeah, songs, I can't do that. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, guys. Oh By the way. Um. That was from Chance D. Thank you for asking that question. Chance Um. Next question is from Aiden G k B. What is your reaction when you see fakes in public? By the way, A

huge fan Ali bro. First of all, I love you too, thank you for always supporting And um, when I my reaction when I see fakes in public is I'm gonna like make it really easy for you guys. It's this absolutely nothing like I don't say anything to anyone in public that's just rude, um and outright just wrong. Um. When I see something super fake, I just in my head,

I'm like, oh my God, like geez, like that's crazy. Um. It was me because yesterday I I flew back from New York to l A. And when I was on the plane, Um, I saw a dude with a fake fragment Louis Vuitton Duffel bag and it was so fake And in my head I was just thinking. I was like, I was like, okay, maybe get a fake Louis Baton Duffel bag. But to get a fake fragment Louis Baton Duffel bag for you guys that don't know fragment, it's like it's a Japanese design essentially, so they did a

clad with Loui Vatan. It's really cool, um bag. If you guys want to look it up, it's like their keep All Duffle. If you search luve Itton fragment keep all Um, it will show up. So he had a fake one of those. And the way that I knew, I mean I I could just tell right off the off the rip just because of the colors. But I mean like there's like threads hanging off of it, and it was bad. And then also, um, he actually ended

up sitting next to me on the flight. Really nice guy, super nice um, but he was wearing an extremely fake Rolex presidential and I was just like, I don't understand, like the fake Louis bag and the fake watch, Like I don't know, I don't know if he was. It just seemed like he was trying too hard. But obviously I didn't say anything. I didn't care, like at all, Like I don't care what other people were. Just funny when celebrities were fake stuff and they try to pretend

like it's real. Let's move on. It's moon. Broski asked me, what's your favorite YouTubers? That's a great question. I would say the ones that I really watched the most, um H three h three productions, Love Love Age three h three. I'm a gooster, I'm a gafster, I'm a memester and um i've been. I've been watching them since the though G days. It's it's cool. Um, It's funny because Ethan actually reached out to me a long time ago to

come on his podcast. It never happened, but I know he's super busy, so I never really I didn't get like offended or anything, but I would love to link up with him. Maybe we should invite him on this podcast. And I love to have a conversation with that guy. He's such a funny guy. Like I've been like an o G supporter. They're so awesome. Um, so I would say that's one of them, um, beauty Pie, come on, guys, we need pooty um. And I would say who else, Huh?

Those are for sure up there, And then I mean there's so many like I love. I love watching Mr beast content. I think he's great. I think what he's doing for um the platform is amazing. Obviously, growing up, I always watched a lot of Casey Nice that which was He's great, really cool guy. UM talked to him a few times. And who else? Who else is cool? I don't know. That's a tough question too, but I would say for sure, for sure. H three H three. I love Cody co Oh. That's another guy who I

really enjoyed watching Cody Kote. That guy's hilarious and I would love to have him on the podcast too. I actually haven't met him. I sat behind him on a plane once, but I didn't say anything. I should have probably said something, But I mean, I get I think he's getting into sneakers now, so maybe I could hit him up to come on the podcast and kind of talk about maybe what kind of sneakers he's into, because I've been seeing him wear like offline blazers and I

think he wore skis one time. But yeah, so uh, moving on, here's another question, oh again from our boy Chance. I guess he has like two in the row. Can you make the podcast longer, like consistently an hour or long? UM? I could? I could. I mean most of the most of my podcast with UM when I have guests on the show, are an hour to like an hour and a half typically, But when it's a solo episode. It's kind of hard to just talk to yourself for an hour.

Like I'm literally just sitting in front of a microphone right now talking to myself as UM, my friend Juan is looking in the other direction, but I'm still I'm still talking to myself. So it's very odd, but I'll try to make it as long as I can. I think that this um, I think that this one it's gonna be a little bit longer because there's a lot of questions. I'm not gonna be able to get to all of them, guys, So if you did send a question, I still love you, but I apologize. I'm not going

to be able to get through all of them. There's literally thousands, so um, but I appreciate you guys either way. So let's see X one. Um Official adult asked me, are you going to upload more this year? Yes, yes I am. I have a comeback video that's gonna be dropping this weekend. I just wanted to make it perfect for you guys, So that's gonna be dropping, um most

likely this weekend. I can't promise anything because you guys know me, but as soon as that comes out, I'm going to be like balls to the wall posting twice three times a week. That was a really weird saying. I don't think I've ever said that. I don't know why I just said that, but anyway, I think it's gonna be like two to three times a week. UM. Well, I'm gonna start once, but I really want to get

to two to three times a week. Um, because you know I've been I've been really I've really been slacking. I really need to start posting more on YouTube. I miss it. I really do. Like I had to take a break and now I feel so much better. But definitely, UM, it's coming in your future, so look out for that. Okay. So next question UM I I have is from It's Becky Marian. What's up, Becky? How is life going? You know? Life is good? Uh? Got Rod bottoms on if you

understood that reference, I love you. Um. Next one is from Battrack. How tall are you? I'm six ft one? I know. It's It's funny because a lot of people when they meet me at like Sneaker Connor, like in public or whatever, they're like, dude, you're so tall, and I'm like, I mean, I didn't know that six ft one? Is it that tall, but I guess people and have never seen my legs and um, so they just assumed that I was four ft tall, but I am four

feet all. Actually I'm lying, but yeah, and I'm just kidding. I'm six ft one. How many people have blocked you? That's funny. Um, that's from Emilio. Um. I don't know too many to count, bro. I wanted to be able to even fathom how many people there um have blocked me. How many easies do you have and what is your favorite one? I don't know how many easies I have. I have no idea. I have too like, way too many, but I live the adidea diseasies. I'd say my favorite

is the part of black Out. Of the Nike easies, I'd say it's the Red October. Next question is from that Asian boy. If you didn't become Easy Bust or where Slash, what do you think he would be right now? That's a great question. I was in med school, so I would actually be almost done and I would probably be starting residency soon. So another five years of crazy hours and studying and yeah, so yeah, I probably would have ended up finishing med school and going through with that.

But yeah, that's probably where I would be, honestly. Next question is from Ali Pitt Tokyo. I'm sorry if I said that wrong. Said what is your favorite Travis Scott sneaker? Huh, that's tough. I would say my favorite is is bit between the Jordan one low and the s BS. I really liked that species. I think that the Paisley on him and like the I just really liked that species. I would say those are probably it's between those or the um the Jordan one loves now. Next question is

from Jim. He asked me, ever felt the need to change your name? Low key? I'm going to tell you guys a story, and I hope I don't get in trouble for this. But basically, I had the user name at Busta. I got it from someone who previously had owned it, and that was gonna be the big reveal. I was gonna change my user name to bust up.

I had it ready to go. One of my homies from Facebook was gonna fix it for me and make the change, because I guess like if I tried to make the change on my on my own, I would lose both user names. So literally the day before the change was about to happen. Instagram like deleted thousands and thousands of accounts. I guess the person who I got busted from got it in a way in which wasn't according to the terms and conditions or whatever. So I got that user name taken away and it's gone forever

and I'll never be able to get it back. So now I don't really know what to change it to. So I just kind of stuck with easy busted, but bust that would have been cool, like you know, that's that was kind of like the next move. But next question and from junior tourists, he asked me, what is the best to Jordan one in your opinion? I would say the best Jordan One in my opinion would be my favorite is the band once you know those are

my favorites. I've my Pairent from two sixteen. I kind of want to get a little bit more of an O G pair, but two thousand and sixteen leather is phenomenal one of my favorite shoes. Beat them to death. Um shout out my boy Tony for hooking me up back in the day. Next question, what is a good number of shoes to own at one time? So Jonah

Williams asked me, that is such an odd question. I mean, I think that one athletic shoe that you can wear every day, and then one kind of like more fancy shoe that you can wear if you have like a meeting or something. Next question, did your parents try to always keep you laced up with fresh sneakers growing up? Hi? Mom, I know you're listening to this, and Hi Dad, I

know you're listening to this too. In a way, yes, definitely not the fresh freshest like Jordan's and stuff, but um, they always tried their best to get me something that looks nice. I don't know, Like I said, growing up, I was always into fashion. We didn't we didn't have like crazy amounts of money to be spending on like shoes every week, obviously, But um, it was funny. I'll

tell you guys a story. In middle school, I wanted to wear vans so bad, so bad, like all the other kids roaring vans, and I wanted to wear Um, I wanted to wear vans, and my mom refused. She would not let me wear vans for any reason ever. And it was actually funny because one of my friends actually gave me a pair of his vans that he

never wore. I wore him once to school and then when I came home, my mom saw them and she threw them away, and uh so, yeah, uh definitely it was never in like the freshest pair of vans growing up. Once I actually started making money, I started buying my own vents, and I was like, Hi, see, Mom, I don't need you to buy me shoes anymore. But yeah, it was funny. Next question is from Raheim. He said,

how do you wear masks all day? I don't. A lot of people think I wear massn they think I sleep in mass they think I take showers and mass I don't. I only wear those when I'm at events or when I'm recording. Ben Estrata asked me, what was your earliest sneaker memory. Besides the Pirate Blacks, I would say my earliest sneaker memory is the Red October's. So a lot of people we're trying to clown me on the internet saying that, oh, you kempt outside for Red

October's any come out in stores? I'm like, dude, I know. At my local foot locker they had a piece of paper taped to the window that said, Red October is dropping on this date or whatever. Um, don't start lining up until this date. And then the whole thing with Kanye and Nike went down, and then um they didn't

end up coming out, So I totally missed out. At the time, I didn't really know about like Nike Talk or any forums or anything on how to like you know, people talking about how to get them more aware to get them. But I guess, I mean the Red October was like a shock drop anyway, So um, but that was, like, I guess, my earliest hype sneaker memory. This is a funny question from Luke kitch um, who's most Who's the

most famous man slash woman in your contact list? Oh, things are about to get spicy, and now I'm just kidding. I would I can't answer that. Being in being in the industry and around like stinkers, We've got a chance to meet a lot of cool people. But I don't want to game drop like that. The next question, UM add hiverer, I don't. I don't know how to pronounce your user name, bro, And he said, is it true that you can identify a sneaker with the smell? Yes,

you totally can. And I don't know if you're referring to fake versus real, but yes, absolutely you can identify them by the smell or if you're just saying, like oh Jordan versus uh easy or whatever. And in those cases you pretty much can because of the materials. But but yeah, you can absolutely distinguish them. This is an interesting question from m d J. D J. Why do you feel that clothes such as Champion that were once sold at Walmart or high fashion? It's interesting because, um,

I never really was into Champion. I still I still I'm not. Um. I really like their basic stuff, like just like their Plaine sut pants, They're really nice, But I don't really wear things that have like Champion logos on them or anything. But it's interesting how you know, fashion works, Like one day it's a three dollar T shirt Aalmartin. The next day so and so is wearing it, and all of a sudden it's hot again. I mean that's just kind of how it works, you know. Next

question is from why Stein Wallacker. He said, what is happiness for you? Now? This is a very deep question. I think happiness is just finding what you love and being around the people you love and doing what you love. No, obviously you can't be happy, but you can always have a positive attitude to try and be happy as much as you can. Obviously, life comes and smacks you in the face sometimes. But I think happiness is just doing what you love and being around the people you love.

I mean that that that's that's what it is for me at least. So yeah, I'm very happy. If you're asking James Tran asked me, somebody said that boost is dead. What do you think of that? I wouldn't disagree, um, in terms of resale pretty much. But in terms of the general market, I see so many people wearing gas and so many people wearing an m d s and so many people wearing Ultra Boosts like they're comfortable shoes. They're great, They're honestly great shoes. But in terms of resale, yeah,

it is dead. I mean yeah, I mean the hype train just kind of died, you know, like they just released way too many and it just wasn't uh, it wasn't the best move in my opinion from Adita's. But yeah, technically it is quote unquote dead. I'm gonna answer a couple more questions here, because there's just so many I didn't even like scroll to the bottom. Yet. This is a good question from Jack Bryant. How did you start making enough money to buy more expensive shoes? Now, this

is the thing. I had a job at Starbucks. I worked there for two years, saved up a bunch of money, ended up buying my first parre of Prier Blacks. Ended up obviously, um starting easy bust. Um. You know, I I made merch. I was grinding obviously, Like I was in school at the time too, so I had to quit my job. But I mean, dude, like I think that the better answer would be would be to tell

you that obviously there's no writer wrong. Like if you if you want to buy your dream shoes or like expensive sneakers, if you have a thousand dollars in your bank account, don't buy in a thousand dollar shoe. Work up to it, you know. Just if you really love sneakers, you have a thousand dollars in your bank account, if you want to buy a pair of two hundred dollar Jordan's, start with that and then maybe start if you want to do reselling, then start, you know, buying and flipping.

Because sometimes, like if you think about it, if you have a thousand dollars and you spend two hundred dollars on each shoe, and you can sell them for two fifty. You can buy five pairs of shoes at two dollars a pop for a thousand dollars correct, and then you sell five pairs for one thousand, two hundred and fifty, So then you're made a two and five dollars profits.

So basically your pair would end up being free if you wanted to keep one, and then you get fifty bucks on top of that, or you use that money and you buy something else. So um, there's so many different ways like reselling, obviously, staying in school, obviously, getting getting your degree, working a job, or grinding, and there's so many different ways. It's it's there's no right or wrong answer, and there's no set there's no one individual

path that like everyone can follow to make money. But I would say that the best advice I could give you guys is just just you know, stay in school and work, work hard, and if you end up starting your own business or doing something that doesn't require school, and I say, go for it. But I never want to discourage you guys from going to school because it's very important. It opens up a lot of doors for you. It open up a lot of doors for me too. I don't think I would be where I am today

if I didn't um go to school. Okay, So last question, where where have you been in the past month or so? I have been nowhere but everywhere. At the same time, I've been really busy. I've been doing a lot of things behind the scenes, working on a lot of really cool projects. I'm really excited to kind of bring them to light and make it more public. Obviously, the podcast has been a huge thing. Um, I really appreciate you guys. You guys are listening to this and you've gotten this far, Like,

I love you so much. You guys have no idea, And um, I've been setting myself up for success, and I'm so excited to introduce everything new and really get things going again. Like I'm so excited to get back on social media and like full force. Like I'm really really excited. And you know, back in the day, back in the day, I used to post every single day on Instagram. I used to post like at least once a week on YouTube. I want I want to get

back to that point. So I always appreciate you guys. Um, but by the way, thank you Hector for asking that question. But let's get back into it, boys, thank you so much for listening. Guys. I really appreciate you guys, like guys always. UM, really appreciate you guys for always supporting me. And UM yeah, like I said, if you guys got this far, I love you. I hope you guys have

a great day. I hope you guys have a great Wednesday, because it's going to come out on a Wednesday, and I'm gonna cut you guys next time on Legit check Piece.

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