Jim Jones is confident that sneaker culture began with drug dealers back in the day, and he feels it’s since morphed into something totally different.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday (January 2), the Dipset rapper shared a note that read: “Sneaker culture started wit drug dealers argue wit ur mama.”
He elaborated in the caption, adding: “Who made Nike n Reebok’s fly and before that pumas n Adidas. Michael Jordan made em but the drug dealers made me want to buy them. Now a days most basketball sneakers are not fashionable any more why a lot of sneaker companies losing right now.
“I b watchin all these weird dudes doing sneakers shows n sneakers reviews never had to hustle to get pair they don’t know the risk to thrill factor. Most of them never had a pair of Jordan’s when they came out they only brought retros.
Always one to share his thoughts, Jim Jones also recently reflected on Nas‘ role in the greater Hip Hop landscape, noting that the rapper “changed everything.”
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The rapper stopped by The GAUDS Show with Ray Daniels in late October, and talked about Nasty Nas’ influence on modern rap music.
He began: “In the ’90s, the arrows was starting to switch. And the person that made the switch for the arrows was Nas. Nobody ever understands how this shit works. Nas came in with a different aesthetic, a different rhyme pattern, a different cadence that could not be touched. The topics that he was talking about were topics that were very dear to the younger generation that was actually living and coming in at the time.
“This was my high school years, and he was talking about shit that we was just loving to do. But the way that he was rhyming put a whole different speed on it. He was futuristic with that shit. When he did that, a lot of the older rappers couldn’t switch they flows and that axed ’em out, and then became a whole new generation of rap music that we hear today.”
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He added that Nas changed rap thanks to his verse on Main Source‘s “Live at the Barbeque.”
