We love seeing our hip-hop pioneers proceed to not solely flourish musically but in addition in different artistic avenues of commerce.
For Raekwon and Nas, music will at all times be of their respective luggage — hear: The Emperor’s New Garments and Gentle-Years in collaboration with DJ-Premier, respectively — and now each New York rap icons are displaying off their trendy facet as nicely by teaming as much as unveil the brand new HSDT x ASICS SportStyle GEL-NYC 2.0 SSHS sneaker collaboration.
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With The Massive Apple at front-and-center by way of inspiration, it’s fairly becoming that ASICS would recruit a Staten-Island-by-way-of-Brooklyn-born emcee with a local Queens-bred lyricist to make all of it really feel really genuine. On the Illmatic rapper we see a darker tone of mahogany brown highlighted by powder purple piping and black leather-based accents. His modern hailing from the Wu-Tang Clan might be seen rocking another sulphur yellow and black bumblebee-themed hue — we see what they did there! — that is perhaps the standout of the 2. Simply may.
Additionally seen modeling within the marketing campaign images are ASAP Twelvyy of the still-somewhat-functional rap collective, A$AP Mob, in addition to artist/designer Malcolm Ransome. If you happen to’re tapped into the Interwebs, you could bear in mind him from his viral aluminum-built NYChair.
Verify for the HSDT x ASICS GEL-NYC 2.0 SSHS “Shaolin ’93” (as seen on Raekwon) and HSDT x ASICS GEL-NYC 2.0 SSHS “Queens ’94” (as seen on Nas) to each retail for $170 USD and hit retailers starting this Friday (January 16). Completely happy looking!
