{"id":379816,"date":"2014-05-13T14:21:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T19:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=379816"},"modified":"2019-01-01T20:06:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T01:06:30","slug":"kickstarter-the-shoe-that-got-thurz-hooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-the-shoe-that-got-thurz-hooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter: The Shoe that Got Thurz Hooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Coast MC <strong>Thurz<\/strong> hails from Cali, but the pair of kicks that started it all for him now reside in Belize. In this installment of\u00a0<em><a title=\"Kickstarter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/kickstarter\/\">Kickstarter<\/a><\/em>, Thurz tells a\u00a0tale unlike any sneaker story we&#8217;ve heard before. Get the background on the pair of Jordans that jumped things off for Thurz below, along with a preview of the pairs that reside on his current radar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thurz:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;The kicks that started it all for me were probably the Air Jordan 6s. My mom was taking me to Belize, and I bought a pair on Market Street at Inglewood Sports. I went crazy over those. What was crazy, though, is before we left Belize, my mom made me give away my Jordans to my cousin! [<em>Laughs<\/em>] I probably got two weeks of wear out of those before I gave them away. They didn&#8217;t have a lot of outlets for sneakers at that time in Belize, so it was a good deed my mom wanted to do. She always gives clothes and money back to family out there so it wasn&#8217;t a big thing. I was kind of hurt at first, but I saw the big picture.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t bought those since, but I&#8217;ve copped a few Jordans over the years. I&#8217;m looking to pick up a pair of the Black\/Red Air Jordan 11 Low IEs, those are some of my favorites from high school. I&#8217;ve also been looking for a pair of those &#8220;Bin 23&#8221; 9s, those are a beautiful shoe. My current rotation includes Alexander McQueen PUMAs, Y3s and Mutombos. Hopefully I can get my own design with one of these cool brands. I have some ideas that might be better than the Yeezys! [<em>Laughs<\/em>] Nike, adidas, PUMA, holler at me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redbullsoundselect.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Red Bull\u00a0Sound Select<\/a>. Thurz&#8217;s single &#8220;High Castle&#8221; is available now on iTunes. Keep up with Thurz on <a title=\"@Thurzday on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thurzday\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a title=\"@kingthurz on IG\" href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/kingthurz\" target=\"_blank\">IG<\/a> and stay tuned for his upcoming &#8220;21&#8221; single.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit:\u00a0Jeremy Deputat\/Red Bull Content Pool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Coast MC Thurz hails from Cali, but the pair of kicks that started it all for him now reside in Belize. In this installment of Kickstarter, Thurz tells a tale unlike any sneaker story we&#8217;ve heard before. 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