Who popularized the Air Force 1s in the culture?

[Breezy_Kilroy]

Ain't had a pair in a minute. Them bitches are super uncomfortable too

 

[Lion_Heart]

NYC more specifically Harlem hence the nickname "Uptowns"

 

[5 Grand]

They like 70 dollars fam

Yeah I paid $50 and thought I was getting a steal.

 

[AP2.5]

Some of y'all being obtuse

Y'all know what Nelly meant

 

[RozayTabernacle]

I bought some Air Force Ones a few years ago, or so I thought.

They turned out to be bootlegs and the sole wore out after wearing them about 5 times. The problem was I didn't wear them 5 times in a row, it probably took a month before I wore them 5 times. I didn't have the receipt so I couldn't return them.

I learned my lesson, never buy brand name shoes from an independent mom and pop store. Go to a well known chain like Foot Locker or Macys. Or Amazon.

lmao they probably wouldn't have let you return them

 

[KINGEC]

Wouldn’t catch me dead in some all white air forces now

lol. forreal.

Bruh I cain't be in the chonky ass ant bed stompers no mo.

 

[T. Sanford]

If I see any nigga wearing all black air force 1s in 2020 then he is in the underground market and hitting licks in them

 

[Rubato]

Some of y'all being obtuse

Y'all know what Nelly meant

And Nelly acting like he don’t understand what Rocky meant

Rocky never said he made them popular, just that he brought them back for this generation. That’s still probably bullshit, but it’s not a claim Nelly can make either.

 

[Mr.LV]

New York

Dunks >>>> Uptowns

 

[ImaInfluenza]

Niggas been rocking forces since the 90’s...

We called em Willie D's down here

 

[ImaInfluenza]

Wouldn’t catch me dead in some all white air forces now

 

[5 Grand]

Lastly Nike is laughing at all these idiots especially since they dont own shares and give them all the free publicity and marketing.

@ the bolded. At least Michael Jordan got paid from Nike for his brand

 

[TonyDubbz]

Fam, nobody was really fuckin with AF1's. In 91 I had copped a pair of Air Force V's, all white, in both high and low top. Each time a new AF shoe dropped, that's what cats fucked with. Nooooooooobody had AF1's back then unless they were hand-me-downs and leanin' to the side like three wheel motion. Through the 90's you ain't see 'em at all. When Nelly's joint dropped, that's when you started seein' people rockin' em heavy. He single-handedly made AF1's popular 'cause they never left the streets after that.

Niggas around here wont rocking shit but Jordans until that song dropped

Nelly popularized tf outta tht shit just like Dem Franchize Boyz had niggas buying out all the white tees in the Nike shops/clothing stores

 

[The Mad Titan]

I remember A1s being heavy in the streets around 93,94 (I think, coulda be 95). I copped the all black ones that had the gold swoosh on the front

Them 1s became standard hood issue

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

The only ones I would really be sweating to get today are those black and red ones Mekhi pfeifer sp had one in Clockers....theM shits were patent leather

 

[SeaSnake]

Stupid beef du jour

Nelly in his feels cuz ASAP Rocky stated he is the one who popularized the Air Force ones

honestly Air Force ones were popular before Nelly

 

[SeaSnake]

My sister called them DCs so I knew Air Forces had been around. But niggas was wearing white tees and forces at least 99.

 

[grYmes]

Nelly helped bring em to the forefront commercially... but the hood been rockin em. Asap need to sit his ass down somewhere.

 

[Race Jones]

not one rapper popularized the shoe

moving on

 

[Race Jones]

especially not asap rocky

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