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The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Is Nigel Sylvester's AJ4 One of This Year's Best Sneakers?

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

Complex

Society & Culture

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Nigel Sylvester is back with Jordan Brand, with what might be his most ambitious project ever. This time around, the BMX superstar is reworking a new take on the Air Jordan 4, the Jordan 4RM. It's a low-cut shoe with a frame that's inspired by bikes. The story behind his shoes takes root from his grandmother's driveway, where he first learned how to ride a bike. In this episode, Sylvester talks about making the shoes and shows off the green and grey colorways of the sneakers. He talks about Lil Yachty wearing the shoes, Ronnie Fieg giving his feedback on them, and comparing them to his Jordan 1s. The guys also talk about Michael Rubin's all-white Travis Scott Air Jordan 1 Lows, when it's time to retire shoes in your rotation, and the sneakers they've been wearing the most this year.

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0:00.0

What's up everybody? It's Joe from Complex. You were listening. You were watching the Complex

0:05.6

Sneaker show. As always, I'm joined by my two friends, my two co-host. To my right,

0:10.3

Mr. Matt Welty. It's early, but rise and shine, we're back, baby. Very early. Very early. Not too early. It's all good. To my left, Mr Brendan Dunn. My energy is through the roof after that little. Yeah, he grabbed the mic and everything.

0:24.4

I'm not well to you. Grab the mic and everything. How we feeling? I feel okay. What are we getting into today?

0:47.5

Jordan Leeks, Black's Medthrees, Horofsky Jordan's. Big Jordan episode. Sneakers we've worn the most this summer? Yeah, I'll try. Time to retire some of my beaters and time to start hunting down one of my favorite Air Force ones of the year. And of course, big guest. Our friend. Yes. What's going on? Another week. Yeah I feel like there's some stuff we forgot to talk about last week.

0:56.5

Travis Scott, Michael Rubin white party Jordan Wands.

0:59.2

That's a confusing shoe to me. But in specifically the custom pairs by George Condo.

1:05.6

Yeah, yeah, I mean I just want to know what's actually happening with that.

1:09.4

So this is a shoe that popped up over 4th of July weekend.

1:11.8

If anybody can tell me where the shoe really came from

1:13.7

because it didn't seem like an actual Mikey or Jordan sneaker.

1:16.2

For those who don't know, like we said,

1:20.8

triple white Travis Scott Jordan ones. was like some details on it that people said may have been made by the shoe surgeon not

1:28.8

Confirm totally confirmed. Yeah and the shoe has an extra character in the skew, which makes no sense to me.

1:34.0

And George Kondo was hand drawing his artwork on the shoes.

1:40.0

For those who don't know, George Kondo is the artist who did the cover art for my beautiful dark twisted fantasy

1:45.9

There's a pair that Quavo had showed online his custom pair and they totally looked like you know when a guy cheats on his girlfriend and she just writes all like nasty

1:56.7

I didn't see that pair on nasty things over the shoes that that was the vibe you got from that that was how it looked looked. Yeah. Or like your toddler gets a

2:03.6

hold of your sneakers in a pen and just goes. I mean yeah I don't think they

2:08.1

look up but more than that I want to know where they came from or who actually

2:10.8

made them. It seems like there's something fishy going on with them.

2:13.8

Again, if you can explain it to me, please.

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