How crazy were Jordan shoes in the 80s?

[ExodusNirvana]

I know your life.
I stole secret wars spiderman.
I paid the homies like twenty bucks for the whole chuck norris set.
including the car.
which he stole from zayre.

I paid the same homie for those great bootleg ninja toys from back in the day. Where they had a whole line in the bootleg store. This was before Sunman was at the bootleg store. This series Of ninjas i had were like the villain to chuck norris but better.
I am sure he stole those. Yet i would have never had them because by the time i found out where this store was myself. They sold out of the ninjas, and had bootlegs like Sunman and wonder bread he man.
my moms never paid attention like that and let her friends pick up all the pieces of every damn thing. So she never noticed a damn thing. Pops, too.
my bff's mom and his aunt and g-moms bought my toys for Xmas and bday out the sears
catalog.
so my parents just never paid attention to a dAmn thing.
so when it came time for them to do sumfin. Other parents made my parents look like bs. Especially since this was before crack and before the divorce gen.
so, this was when black America was secure.
so it made no sense.
for any parent to lean on others but my parents were corporate So they did on everything.
except this one time.
they needed to be on point.
this is voltron.

voltron,... Drew the line in the sand.
my pops botched voltron so bad.

I don't think i ever forgave him.
as i could have bought it myself.
yet he said he would get it for me and he never delivered like black return of jedi luke Skywalker. That to this day i still remember him returning.
from an out of town trip with the sold out jedi black suit luke.
from like Pennsylvania.
or wherever he went on business that time as a six year old.
remember it like yesterday. I don't even remember getting bespin luke vivid like that. When i loved bespin luke way more than jedi luke.
pops used to come through. Not this time and he botched and bungled voltron like no other. Plus he hated stores that were not big box. So, I believe he was like sheit..i ain't paying no hundred dollars to this nonreputable store. As Chicago was different then and it had mom and pop send off electronic stores. the real go lion was in the Japanese store.
on seventy first across the street from Walgreens. As kids my pops educated us on not to frequent.
so given that dynamic, I believe he botched voltron.
being apprehensive to paying that much money to the neighborhood mom and pops Chinese bootleg store.
like literally this was the real voltron.
the real metal die cast voltron from Japan.
the real go lion.
that shot missles from the Chinese bootleg store. Which originally was the only one with voltron. There was no matchbox voltron yet. All there was, was the real Japanese toy from the Japanese import store. Which was viewed as bootleg.
yet, it was a high end store. Along with the other real high end doll store on seventy first back then.
this was the real go lion.
with the shooting rockets weapons and accessories. I mean every weapon on every episode of voltron and all the firing missiles worked and snapped on. Plus the lion weapons, blazing sword, blazing star, the blazing mini swords etc.
it is the holy grail toy.
other than the original expensive Scott Bernard robotech transforming cycle.
or the uss flag.

pops botched so bad.

first he ain't even get me the go lion.
as parent or Ybe just my parents.
just did not really pay attention like they needed to.
when i tell you.
he gave me the worst xmas's from not beinG focused ever

pops got me the worst toy ever.



the three robot voltron.


I wanted to kill his ass.

then to top it off.
it was like you did not listen.
you bullshytted for six months since the summer.
when i could have got this shyt myself.
plus you played in your ass for six months.
when i could have bought the shyt myself.
so I got my money and went to go get the voltron myself.
no beuno,....
of course.......
so I had to wait till the matchbox split set dropped.
then had to call around everywhere to find the three box set to form voltron.
I bought the yellow and green lion set myself.
which if i remember right was like twenty five for the yellow and green safety hazard matchbox split up revenue grab box set.
Plus found the blazing sword and ninja star pack separately for like twenty bucks back then.
it took me a whole year of calling around to find the red and blue lion.
it was not till like my bday two years later.
did my pops find a black lion and I could form voltron.

then to top if off.
he fukked up the nes too.
nikka bought me a sega master system.

I remembered then to never if i had kids to not pay full attention to everything.
no mistakes, no flodge'n.


thanks, pop.
I learned not to botch shyt as a parent.
all because you fukked up buying voltron and the nes.


worst xmas's ever.....

be better than poppa bar, people.
pay attention to your kids.
paying amenities is not child care.
you supposed to be doing that.
caring for your child in every way is childcare.


art barr

I've come to peace with Christmas 1989

I wanted an NES and my Pops got me a Sega Genesis with madd games

He ain't know...he ain't know

 

[Art Barr]

I've come to peace with Christmas 1989

I wanted an NES and my Pops got me a Sega Genesis with madd games

He ain't know...he ain't know

man,....
we share that pain, breh.

imagine this.

you have been adamant about the video game system, to get.
your father is a system programmer and database analyst.
it should be easy to get over what system to buy right,...right.
fukk nah,....not with my pops.
somebody tells him to get the atari 2600.
oh he COME dead through with,........

THE MAGNAVOX ODYSSEY

THE ODYSSEYS, MY nikka,....NO!!!
NO!!!
TRACY MORGAN : NO!!!!

now, I am on his head, son.
at like four.

so now i wanna say it is the coleco vision.
it got the atari snap on. so now i can play the holy grail games on coleco,...
fukk'N SMURFS nikka.




IMMA GET SMURFS nikka.
yeah nikka smurfs..
the first before crack was even known, crack video home game not on an atari.
home side scroller licensed game of hof lore. The first game to save videogames in the coming et death of video games.

fukk'n smurfs, 2d smurfs. Son look like a Smurf videogame for the time.
imma see and fight a real 2d sprite gargamel and azreal in a videogame.
imma save smurfette CUHZ.

nikkaz i can't wait to touch that console box and rip it open.
nikka,......
I can't wait till Xmas!!

SPONGE BOB : XMAS LIKE THIRTY EIGHT YEARS OR SO AGO.

it's Xmas,....joe.

nikka,..it's Xmas.

I don't even think i slept.
run down stairs,.....
my mind is dead set on,.....COLECO VISION.
COLECO VISION.
GET TO THW XMAS TREE
it's an,........INTELLIVISION.

ANAKIN SKYWALKER IS NOW DARTH VADER : No!!!!


WHAT THA fukk,...IS THIS.

AN INTELLIVISION.
NO JOYSTICK, WHAT IS THIS DISC.

man, when i tell you.
I hit the phone to call every kid i knew.
of course, they was saving smurfette.
while, here i am playing fukk'n snafu.
you know the music when they have a generic videogame sfx in a low budget movies.
those sfx in the background are snafu.
yeah those wack sfx are from snafu.

the level of juelz'n pops used to do.
man, nikka hush it.
you do not care like that.


I wanted to murder pops,...no bullshyt.
the level of disappointment.
he knew tho.
i know i told him.
pops knew, why ain't he come through.
do this nikka love me.
do my momma love me.

questions.

after that tho.

I just know never to rely on nobody to do a damn thing for you.
do it yourself, nobody gon pay you.
or reward you like yourself.

I learned this lesson really well as a kid.

it is like he never got the red rider bb gun right.
pops and moms looked like the black male and female version of the father in Xmas story.

I lol at it now, but back then.
oh.
pops moms, imma be tha fukk back....imma be the fukk back.

man, imagine every Xmas.
waking up and not ever getting. What you want and you gotta go to your friends gmom's house or your god mother's house to hustle. to get what you want. Not even that, rely on it.
had a shawty outside trying to get toys and games.

kids now, they have no idea how dope being a kid used to be.

that you could still get what you wanted.
plus the black family was mad secure.
other people fixed what your parents botched like clock work.

I miss that time and i do not relish the change.

from that time is why i really dedicated myself to being an excellent parent.
if i disappoint my daughter she knows i just could not make it. It is not like my dad and Moms. Who to this day. You do not know shyt about them past their kind fairy tale romance to be together. I tell my daughter the origin story.
so, if she misses out. She knows why i did not make it.
not some send off story or you ungrateful.
the parents in the gen.
when kids finally got rights.
could have been a mixed bag.
YET, the parents who cared in this arena.
were a godsend and to this day.
I still visit my friend's parents.
to and let them know how much they repaired.
or handled the issue with care.
my parents always sin Cara and ultimo.dragon ring entrance combined level botched.



art barr

 

[Art Barr]

I harassed my moms for a pair of these when I was a kid Every where I looked I saw someone with a pair. I didn’t even know these were Scottie Pippens. Wish they released that color way again.

they have gon crazy with the retro for these.
they kinda hype beastly now tbh.
back in the day.
I just did not know wtf to think about this shoe.
now i find it funny but back then.
it was one of the most expensive shoes of its gen.
Plus it was just plain different.
it is just a funky brash shoe.
you gotta have some balls to rock this shoe still.

art barr

didn't they have an og all red and white piping colorway
I remember a number of obnoxious og colorway of this shoe back in the day. That the retro hype east colorway never were oftputting. It is kinda one of those you gotta see iton feet articles of fresh.

 

[Art Barr]

Got my 1st Nike's in 8th grade.

and then my 2nd Nike's year after.

and then got barkley's. so 3 year in a row i got Nikes. I was a happy ass nikka

you had a pair of pippens.
I believe that is the pair.
before The version that Kith retro'd.
that predate the look of the kith retro.

does anyone know the original pip shoe.
It was a flight or a pair of forces..
I wanna say a pair of flights.
I have been looking for this shoe but i know i was wrong on the Barkley and i know he had a pair.
before the flight i owned in purple and white.



art barr