We love seeing our hip-hop pioneers proceed to not solely flourish musically but additionally in different artistic avenues of commerce.
For Raekwon and Nas, music will all the time be of their respective baggage — hear: The Emperor’s New Garments and Mild-Years in collaboration with DJ-Premier, respectively — and now each New York rap icons are exhibiting off their trendy facet as properly 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 when it comes to 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 up to date hailing from the Wu-Tang Clan may be seen rocking an alternate 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 pictures are ASAP Twelvyy of the still-somewhat-functional rap collective, A$AP Mob, in addition to artist/designer Malcolm Ransome. For those who’re tapped into the Interwebs, it’s possible you’ll bear in mind him from his viral aluminum-built NYChair.
Test 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). Blissful searching!
