The “Winter is Coming” Chuck Taylors Are All I Want to Talk About Right Now

“I’ve struggled and I’ve hustled quite enough I got a lot of kicks, but I don’t give a fuck, I’m in my dirty chucks”- Futuristic Know this ’bout me from jump, I’m a Chuck Taylor guy. There is no in between for me when it comes to sneakers. I never got into Jordan’s. Didn’t get the appeal of them and all the trouble to keep’em clean. I was never a sneaker guy… but that all changed when the Will Smith box office “I, Robot” attacked. Will Smith’s character, Del Spooner, gets a delivery, sits down opens the box and get excited over this pair of Black Chuck Taylor high-tops and how they were such a retro throwback (he’s living in the future). I was eating Raisin Bran cereal and that close up got me. I know that they snatched me up with the product placement. I know it’s marketing but Bast damn. That was the coldest shit I ever saw.

From that point on it was only Chucks. Lemme tell you why I love them tho: Chuck Taylors are like a beat’em up video game. You know how in some beat’em up video games when your character is beaten up and their health bar drops to a certain level, they can do a desperation move? That’s the beauty of pair of Chucks. The more scuffed and beat up they become, the more personality the shoes have. Over time, the wear and tear on some Chucks is a visual representation of all the experience points you’ve gained. I don’t even like seeing a fresh pair out the box, I don’t even look at’em. I go out and about my day, come back home then look at all the scuffs, m…