Episode 21 - BAPE or Supreme?

give you an example. So Babe versus Supreme, like two competing brands in like the hype Beast world, and we are going to discuss what is better. So let's just start off with the Babe and Supreme. Just for simplicity sake. I'm just gonna go right off the rip and say that I like Supreme a lot more than Babe, and I don't know, I think just I think Babe just got played out a little bit. I used to like it a little bit more, but I like Supreme because

of like the skate culture aspect behind it. It's cool, like they don't care what anybody thinks. I mean, they have like crazy accessories that clearly proved that they don't care about what anybody thinks. I mean, dude, they literally made a brick, so just think about that. Actually, before we keep going, let me say that today we do not have a guest. Unfortunately, everybody is quarantining still. They

don't want to get anybody sick. And I mean I'm not sick myself, but I don't want anybody to get me sick. I don't want to be around anyone. I mean, nobody really wants to be around anyone right now. Um, but yeah, just stay at home. Make sure you guys are safe. Um, please hug your family members, and yeah, just to stay at home. Just quarantine like it's cool. It's cool. You can get a lot of work done. Anyway. To continue, I love Japanese brands, and Babe did come

from Japan. Shout out Nigo for starting Bape, But Nico is no longer with Bape, doing his own thing. He has his own brand called Human Maid, which I actually really like. I like it more than Babe. But I don't know, like as a hype based I don't know. I would choose Supreme over Baby pretty much any day, honestly, Like, what what do you think? Like, well, what would you choose. I've had a lot of people try to make the argument for Babe because they say it's like more of

a designer brand, but I don't. I don't know, it's a little bit more expensive than Supreme. There's some things that Supreme puts out that's very expensive, Like they have some jackets that retail are like over a thousand dollars, which is crazy. Obviously, some of their accessories some of them are over a thousand dollars as well. The toolbox that's coming out this season, I think retail is gonna be something crazy like that. But you know, for me,

it's like Supreme any day. It's funny because I never, like, if you watch like some of my older videos, I never owned any Supreme and now I mean, I like the new stuff, but for the most part, like the pieces that I like are not very hype beastie. For the most part, they don't go for more than retail obviously, like I have to get some of the box logos, you know what I mean, just to flex on them haters.

But for the most part, so far this season, my favorite piece has actually been UM this card again, that's super cool. Like, I don't know, I'm a big fan. I had a lot of people who were deeming me about asking me what kind of card again it was, and it was Supreme. But in terms of like box logos and more hypie stuff, I would say that I like more of like the older, older vintage box logo is. Like one of my favorites is the Witch box logo. It's like a green box. Green is my favorite color.

So it's green and white and there's like this like Witch above it, and it's the undercover Supreme colab, which I think is so dope. That's one of my favorites. Another one of my favorites is the Shibuilla box logo opening t so Fire with like the bullet holes all over it. If you guys looking up on Google, I'm sure you guys can find a picture of it. It's super super rare. I actually have one of them. I

wore it when I was in Japan. It was a great trip over there, and it was so cool, like seeing the Supreme star seeing that in Japan, like it's so like huge out there. It's crazy, like there was a babe there too. But like I mean, I felt like I saw more people wearing Supreme. I don't know, I don't know anything these days, but yeah, what do you guys think? Do you guys think Supreme or do you guys think or I mean, I guess like, what's

another hypebrand like Palace? But I feel like Palace isn't like on the same level, Like the people aren't rock and Palace like Supreme or Babe. And also, I mean maybe some people make the argument like off White, but I feel like off White isn't really hype brand anymore. It kind of used to be. Now it's more so like a designer brand, not as many people are wearing it.

It's really expensive, like if you think about it, like there's this really cool pair of sweatpants that I liked a lot, and they were like over a thousand dollars and I was like, no, negative, I am not spending a thousand dollars on sweatpants, even though I have before, and it made me very upset with myself. So anyway, moving on, let's go to this one is going to be interesting because, as you guys know, I am easy busta.

So what do you think I'm going to say to this Jordan's versus the Didas If you ask me this question two years ago, maybe even three years ago, three years ago, I would say Adidas all day. And it's crazy because growing up, I was always a huge Nike guy. I loved Nike. All I wore was Nike. And the only reason why I went over to Adida's was because, let's be honest here, like I'm gonna say it, and I know a lot of you guys are gonna maybe

think some things in your head. But the only reason I went to Adida's was because I saw Kanye rocking Adidas, and like, I'm a die hard Kanye fan before anything else, and I saw him rocking Ultra Boost and I thought they were so cool. And at the time, I couldn't afford Ultra Boost and I couldn't even find them in the store because they were sold out. Anyway, I bought myself a pair of I think they were called Cosmic Boosts. Yeah, yeah, I bought a pair of Cosmic Boosts. That's what it was.

So I bought a pair of Cosmic Boost and I thought they were so comfortable, they looked they didn't really look a whole lot like Ultra Boost. They were similar, but I mean, at the time, I couldn't really afford him, and I couldn't find him. But then for christ this actually got him as got a pair of Ultra Boos as a present. Thank you too who bought me those.

You know who you are if you're listening. And I wore them most comfortable shoes ever, literally warm every day to love them, beat him to death, still have them, by the way, and loved those shoes. Love those shoes. So like three years ago, four years ago, if you

asked me, I would say Adidas all day. But then when I started getting into Jordan's, I started getting into Nike again because I mean kind of like the whole like Adidas thing, um, the whole easy thing kind of started dying down, like like n m d s were killed, Like nobody cares about n m d s anymore. Nobody cares about Ultra Boos anymore, which is sad. I mean it's good because so many people are wearing them and

they're genuinely like great everyday shoes, which I love. I love that, and I always mentioned that I love that. But I mean the Das train just kind of went downhill a little bit, and Jordan's like made a huge comeback. I would say for sure that the easy jumped over the jump man, but like it for sure kind of switched back, which is, you know, interesting to say the least. But one thing that I really like about Jordan's and about like as Bees and some old nikes is because

of the history behind them. Like as Bees have such cool stories or such cool themes to them, and I love that. And Jordan's obviously have history behind certain color ways because of certain certain games that Michael Jordan's played, or like, for example, like the shattered backboard. It's like based on the jersey he was wearing an dunk contest I think, or an exhibition I think it was an exhibition game actually, and he shot out of the backboard,

so that that's why they're orange, white, and black. I'm pretty sure. In the exhibition game, I think, don't flame me, please, But I just love that. I love that it has a story behind it, and I thought it was so cool because before, I mean, let's be honest, like everyone was just buying easy sties, like oh, Connie's wearing them.

They're like the hype shoe, and and in ten fifteen years they're going to have history behind them too, you know, I would say even now, like turtle doves, and like the G seven fifties do have history behind them, just how the NIKEE Easies do. It's crazy, Like I have a pair of a dead stock turtle doves and I haven't worn them obviously because their dead stock, duh. And I know, like I probably will keep them dead stock.

I have another pair that I've worn, but the dead stock ones I'm gonna keep on ice um, not to resell or anything, but just to have like a piece of that history. Like it's crazy. I remember when the turtle doves were resigning for almost three thousand dollars at one point, and now they're going for one tho. I would say that most of the Jordan's that have come out have something to do with history, and like those

are the ones that I like. There's plenty of Jordan's that I don't really like that much just because there they don't have any history behind them. They're just kind of like a hybrid, like hybrid Jordan's I dislike entirely. And there's not that hasn't been like one hybrid Jordan that I've liked. So if you ask me three or four years ago, I would have said, adda's all day. But I used to say, at this point, I would

probably have to go with Jordan's and Nike. Kinda makes me sad to say, because I am Easybusta, but I've been trying to just get Busta for years. But I did get it and then it got taken away from me. But that's a story for a different time. But it's so funny because a lot of people, like you have the word easy in your name. Why why aren't you obsessed with Easy? Why weren't Easy the only thing you wear? And I'm just trying to tell him, like Easy has just become a part of my name. It doesn't mean

that I can only wear Easy. Is it? Kind of like Gucci Maine? Right, Gucci Maine wears Leuvatan and now he has a collab with Gucci, so that's great for him. Hopefully one day your boy easy Buster can get a collap with the Easy brand that would be really cool, which is never gonna happen. But Gucci man can still wear lou Vutan or any other brand, you know, And people just don't really associate the word. They don't really

associate the word the brand Gucci to Gucci Maine. I mean they kind of, but at the same time, it's like if you saw him wearing loud, Vutani would be like, oh, you're Gucci mane, you go only can wear a Gucci in what I mean, That's kind of how I feel. But right now I would say that Jordan's and Nike are really killing it for me. I really started to learn history behind the sneakers and it really kind of like opened my mind about things I wasn't really as

a as much of a hype piece anymore. Don't get me wrong. There's sill a bunch of Adidas shoes that I still love, like the Quantums and the basketball the basketball Um. Easy loved it. I actually was so hyped for that shoe to come out from like day one, from like the day that I saw Conne like teasing it, Like when was that like a year ago? Two years ago. I'm actually still looking for a pair of my size. If you have a pair of please hit me up. Damn me, thank you. And yeah, that's one of the

few yearsies that Easy buss that does not own. I also really liked the seven hundred V threes. I really like the three eight silhouette. I think it's dope. It's it's definitely like a switch up from from before. I think before it was a little bit it was it was just getting too much. Like even now they're still releasing V twos like three two, but I really like the three eighties, like the Aliens especially are fire. I like twos as well. I think those are really cool.

I mean, just like pretty much all the newer, newer silhouettes, I like V two has kind of got a little bit played out for me, at least. I guess that was Jordan's versus Adidas, right, but I kind of made it Jordan's versus Easy. But let's let's break it down and just say Easy Easies versus Travis Scott Shoes. Now the real Kanye nerd in me will come out and I'm just kidding, but I don't know, man, Like I really don't know if i'd be able to answer this question.

Like I'm a die hard Kanye fan, always have, always will always will be, and like without without Easy is obviously like I wouldn't be where I am today. So I'm beyond grateful for that. And to be honest, like like I was equally as hyped for the quantums as I was for the Travis SPS, like I I really was, genuinely, So I'm not going to be able to really make a clear decision on that, but just based off the fact that I'm more Jordan's than Adeda is kind of like it kind of makes me want to lean more

towards Travis, But I don't know I would still. I don't know if if I if you had a gun point in my head and I had to pick one, I'd probably pick easy. Honestly, I really would Big Surprise, easybusta. But I don't know what Travis has been doing recently. He's been killing it, Let's be honest, he's been killing it. There's only like a couple of shoes that he's dropped it, Like, I didn't like which are the those Jordan's thirty threees. I think they were thirty two and thirty three. I

don't even know those. Those were like super whatevs. And then the new air MAXI is that he's dropping what are they? I think the seven twenties or two seventies something like that. I have no idea. I think those are garbage, like big trash dude, those are I don't like them at all. I really don't. You will never catch me wearing those shoes, just like you won't catch me wearing those Jordans. I really really, really really do not like those. And a lot of people were saying that,

kind of like the same thing about the Spies. Actually a lot of people weren't saying that about this Spies, but some people were saying that about the six is. Some people were saying that about the Air Force ones, the ones like the patchwork on them with that like weird thing on the on the laces. But yeah, you will not catch me wearing those two seventies. I do

not like those at all. I think that the Friends and Family color way or the Friends and Family version is a little bit cooler because it has like that reverse big swosh, Like I said, if you had to have a gun point in my head, I'd rather wear those. But I don't know, I don't like those at all. But Travis has been killing it. The SBS probably one of my favorite shoes this year. Like I would say it's top three for sure. I love the elephant print. I don't know, I don't really know if it is

elephant print. It doesn't really look like the cement on like a like the cement color on on like a Cement three or something like. It doesn't really look like that. It's Travis's own take on it, but I think people have kind of adopted like the cement title for it. I think it is really cool that it has like that tear aweight kind of like skate feature, because so many skate shoes are like that. They change color, which I love. Like one of my favorite shoes to drop

us here where the La to Chicagos and Loki. I kind of wanted to put acid tone on mine and just turn them red and turn him into the Chicago color way. But but now you know, I really want to rock the purple and yellow. And I am a Lakers fan. I do have a friend who plays for the Clippers. What's up, Zoo? If you're listening to this, I love you, man, I hope you come on the show. But I am still a Lakers fan, but I'm I'm

your fan. I will still where we're number four d jersey, but you will never catch me wearing a Kawaid jersey. But yeah, so that's I guess that's kind of like my I take on it. But in terms of like hype and the sneaker game. Right now, I think most people probably answer Travis Scott. So let's move on to another topic. This is when it's interesting old versus new,

so new versus vintage. Honestly, I would say vintage, and I don't want to sound like one of those dudes who like only listens to old music and thinks that new music is trash. Like no, I do like all the new stuff. But I would really just from like my taste and me wanting to be different and wearing kind of like some more like retro things. I like vintage. I love vintage teas, like I'm wearing a vintage T

shirt right now. Wait wait, I'm actually not. I lied, But for the most part I am wearing vintage teas. I think they're so dope. I love the wash on them. I think it's so cool the way they look, and they look even better with time the more you wash them. But when your clothes you wear it once and then you wash it, it it doesn't look very good anymore, which is weird right to think about. But I don't know, I just I would. Maybe it's just like me always wanted to be different, Like I I like that the

older stuff. Like recently, I got into Nike s BS and everybody was flaming me and they're like, oh, now, all of a sudden, you're like s BES because Travis is wearing him and stuff like that. Honestly, I didn't get into as BS because of Travis. I got into his bees because of um my friend Dre. And I'll be completely transparent, he's the one who put me on. He's actually the one who put Travis on too, so

I mean, there you go. But but yeah, it's crazy because I've bought so many sps, like old sps, like I'm talking like uncles, I'm talking Bucks, I'm talking Stucie's, I'm talking red lobsters like I have like uh, Tiffany's. I have so many older sps, and everyone was kind of making fun of me there. Oh no, all of a sudden blah blah bla all of a sudden this all of a sudden that. But Yo, it's crazy how much these shoes have like skyrocketed in price. I'll give

you an example with the Stuicy's. I bought those for five hundred bucks, which is still really high. I was getting it kind of like right when they started taking off, but they didn't really take off until recently. They're going for two two thousand two. I think there was one pair that told for like ten k, which was crazy. It was a small size, like super rare. But I have my size eleven. I'm still sitting on ice. It's

still sitting on ice. I haven't worn them yet. I just wore him for a picture, so I guess tried on. But I do have those. I really do want to wear them. I might just find like a beater pair and just just wear like an old, older pair that has already beat so I won't feel that bad. But at one point I had two pairs of uncles. I had a size twelve that I got for a really good price. But I heard that they fit a little bit tighter, but I don't know, man, they just didn't

fit right. They were just too big, and I felt like I was gonna start creasing him. So I wore them once and then um, I sold them, And now I have a dead stock size eleven, which also like went up like crazy. I can't remember how much I paid for them, but they're going for like three four thou dollars right now. Bucks, Bucks, Let's see how much of those are going for I haven't actually checked. Oh wow, that's crazy. I bought mine for four hundred bucks. Jesus

by it. Now, that's crazy. Wow, I didn't even know. That's another one that I have, The cement, the red Cement Nike Supreme Lows. Wow, I think I paid? How much did I pay? I think I paid a thousand for these now buy it now price two grand? Crazy, dude, crazy like sp hype is going through the roof and now I don't know if, like if it's going to drop it all because of the whole virus thing, obviously,

but I don't know. Man, It's it's pretty insane, like the o G two thousand two Cement Supremes last sale three thousand, three hundred what dude, that is nuts. Man, Let's see that's so much money, dude, Beside eleven and a half one shoe that I will never find in my size for reasonable prices, the Nike as a b Hi Supreme Orange blue and red. And this hurts so bad to see that the last sale was four thousand eighty nine dollars. Bro. Oh god, there's no way I

would never pay that much for those. That's I can't pay four thousand dollars for a shoe like that. The most I've ever spent on a shoe is five thousand dollars, which really hurt. Actually, no, it's not I paid. I don't even want to say the number how much I paid for my friends and family Travis Scott Four's but it was sickening. But the one I will tell you because I already revealed it was my red Octobers. I paid five thous and dollars for those. Let's actually see

I think those probably went up to which is pretty insane. Wow, Okay, we last sale was at the time of this recording eight thousand in a size eleven, which is my size, and the highest bid is sevent so it's like around an eight thousand dollar shoe, which is cool. It means I got like a really good price. But yeah, it's crazy to see like these shoes I go up. It's

like it's so interesting. It's literally like the stock market, you know, and you can invest your shoes in the stock market and do your research, or you can do your research and by sneakers and you can hold onto them instead of you know, actually, you know what now that I'm thinking about it, since the market really hasn't influenced shoes. Sneakers at this point are a little bit of a better investment in the sense that it's like

it's not really I mean it is. It is definitely regulated by the market, but in a terrible, terrible circumstance like the one we're in right now, it didn't really affect it that much because it is a physical asset and if you think about at it, you know, you don't have to sell it if you don't want to. But when it comes to I mean stocks, you don't really have to sell it if you don't want to either.

But the market is so huge and like flooded, like people panicked and started selling everything because they need they need money in It's like horrible time. But it's I don't know, dude, it's crazy. It's crazy. I can't believe those those went up that much. I'm really curious about, like how much soldiers are going forward to solder red easy thing. I just got another pair. Oh my god, last sail fifty one fifty five thousand, one fifty and

buy it now is fourteen grand. I don't think anybody's gonna pay fifteen grand for these shoes, Like you would have to be out of your mind to pay that much money for these shoes. But um, I love those shoes. I have warned them. I haven't worn my red Octobers yet. I'm still saving him for a very special day before

I wear them. So I mean, you guys tell me like you do you guys view sneakers is just like a hobby like collecting, or do you guys view it more so as a investment or as like a business opportunity, because if you asked me, I would say, it's all of the above. It's I love sneakers like I have. I'm not even gonna tell you guys how much money

I've spent on my shoes. It's like absurd. But I have no intention of selling anything like I Honestly, I've probably sold maybe like ten pairs of shoes, fifteen pairs of shoes. Maybe I have like way way over a hundred. And the only reason I sold them is because they didn't fit. It was like I would like get lucky and buy a size nine or something, and then I would and then I would either sell it or give

it away. Um, most of the shoes that I had that weren't in my size I gave away or I sold so but I mean a lot of times for giveaways to like like, I really like to buy the person's size that wins because I mean, like I'd rather them wear it than flip it, because you know, I mean they got it for free. I honestly don't really carefully flip it either. You know, some people need the money.

But so far, everybody who's won one of my giveaways always damns me and like, dude, I'm wearing the shoes, thank you so much, um, which makes me really happy. I just gave away two pairs of Travis Scott as bs with my boys Chris and Chandler from Mr Beast team What's Up Boys and with Harrison Neville. Shout out the bro Harrison for helping out with that giveaway, which was really cool. It was really great and I love

giving back to you guys. And a lot of people always think that, like my giveaways are fake, and I'm like, really, I'm easy buss that you think my giveaways are fake, Like, come on, bro. A lot of the times I don't post the winners because um, like for example, when I did my the Goat giveaway, where I gave away one pair,

I give way three. The whole set of the Off White Dunks, I give away all three and they were like, yeah, we don't want you to post the winner because we don't want him to get harassed because the people who

won when my last giveaway, they were getting harassed. Like it was crazy, Like somebody actually made like a fake account of one of the guys, like they did his exact user name, except with like an underscore at the end, and he like deemed and I was like, yo, like here's my address, like thank you so much, and I'm like, dude, that's crazy, Like this person really thought that I was going to be out here messing up, like no, no way, dude, And um, it was funny because I was gonna troll

him and send him something else. But I feel like that was unnecessary. But yes, every single giveaway that I've ever done, we've given away whatever we said we were because I'm all about being true, being honest. I think it's very important. I do know some people who fake their giveaways and it's really really messed up, and maybe I will call them out, but I mean most of like all my friends, I don't really associate anybody who

would do something, who would do something like that. But all my friends, like all all those I'm friends with that have done giveaways are legits because I mean, dude, it's so messed up, man, Like, can you imagine like somebody winning and they never get anything, Like, dude, that's so messed up. All these um users, all of these

were submitted by you guys, so appreciate you guys. And the next one that we got here, we'll probably do this one and we'll close it up is Gucci versus Louis Vattan just kind of switch it up a little bit away from like high piece, but I mean, Louvatan obviously did have like a high past collap technically with Supreme, which was really really cool, really really dope collection, like very like groundbreaking collection for a sneaker for I'm sorry

for a streetwear brand to clad with the high fashion brand arguably the biggest streetwear brand in the world and arguably the biggest designer brand in the world collabbing, which was super cool. And I've always been a fan of Louis Vatan's leather goods. I own all my bags, wallet, everything Louis Vatan and I keep it all the same. Like I'm a big, big fan of the Domino grow feet, which is like it's like, um, the checkered pattern, but it's black and great. It's a little bit more low key.

And then I have a few pieces of like some other stuff, but for the most part, all my stuff is a dummy and grofite. Love love, love, love love lou Vatan. I was a fan of Gucci for a while. There's a few pieces that I like, absolutely love, And there is like a few pieces from Gucci that I like absolutely love, like for example, the Disney collection, that blue cardigan so sick, and there's a European exclusive green sweater that is so dope green. It's like my favorite color.

If you guys haven't noticed why that, I think I'd probably say it once every episode. I love that piece. But honestly, recently I even said this when I heard Virgil was designing for lou Batan. I'm like, okay, cool, Virgil, take all my money, Like I'm not shopping a Gucci anymore. And I mean, to be honest, I haven't really shopped that much in like designer stores. Like I I there's

a few pieces that I buy here and there. But I would say that my designer picks have been like changing a little bit because I don't really because because I just kind of realized that whenever I bought like a Gucci hoodie and then I'd go to like a club and there's six other dudes wearing the same hoodie, and I'm like, uh, like, this is whack. I paid so much money for a hoodie. I want to be

the only person wearing you know what I mean. So then I started realizing, I'm like, dude, I can buy a hoodie that's you know, still like not cheap, but I'm gonna be the only person wearing it and everybody's gonna be like, where did you get that? So that's why I kind of started getting into more like Japanese like lower key designers that now we're kind of becoming

more and more popping. I talked about it with Jordan a lot, So if you guys want to hear me talk about some Japanese designers, to make sure you guys go tune into that podcast that's going to be my podcast with Jordan Bentley. That was a great podcast, by the way, that's definitely gonna have to have Jordan back on the show. Maybe I'll have him call in next week and we can do like a little phone interview

with him. I've been talking with him a lot. Him and I have been getting a lot of fire food, so now we can't get any fire food, but we can have fire podcast. But anyway, guys, I mean, those are just the ones I have right now. I just want to keep it short and sweet since it is just me talking. If you guys got this for like love you guys, like you guys are awesome. Thank you for listening to me for thirty minutes because I don't even want to listen to myself for that long, So

like kudos do you guys. Appreciate you guys. Please stay safe out there, guys, Like I said, stay at home, be close with your loved ones, and you know, just stay at home, stay at home. Like let's beat this together. Let's let's because we got this. We got this, boys, we got this. So anyway, guys, with all that said, appreciate you guys. I'm gonnaee you guys next week. Make sure you guys are subscribed, to make sure you guys

downloade every episode. It does like mean a lot. It does help me a lot, so I would really really appreciate that, and I'm gonna kid you guys next time on legit check Peace