{"id":391955,"date":"2014-07-09T14:48:51","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=391955"},"modified":"2018-12-31T10:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T15:35:04","slug":"kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter: The Shoe That Got B.o.B Hooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>B.o.B<\/strong>\u00a0raps and plays guitar, and just as his new mixtape <em>No Genre Pt. 2<\/em> suggests, he does things his own way. While his flashy stage get-ups play well to his charisma, his approach to style and sneakers is more laid back than his double-time flow. &#8220;I don&#8217;t rush to anything. I&#8217;m like a laggard. I like to sit back and see how it plays out first.&#8221; Honest and patient, B.o.B hones a kick collection that&#8217;s more than modest, with &#8220;ParaNorman&#8221; Foamposites and &#8220;Bin 23&#8221; 5s serving as standouts. Still, there&#8217;s always that one pair that really kicked it off, so we caught up with B.o.B for this installment of <a title=\"Kickstarter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/kickstarter\/\"><em>Kickstarter<\/em><\/a> to hear about the shoes that got him hooked.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" onerror=\"this.src='https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2023\/12\/404-dead-image.jpg'\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-168297\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/06\/recap-wolf-1.jpg\" alt=\"Air Jordan 5 &quot;Wolf Grey&quot;\" width=\"620\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/06\/recap-wolf-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2011\/06\/recap-wolf-1-325x200.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>B.o.B:<\/strong> &#8220;The one that started it off was probably the &#8216;Wolf Grey&#8217; 5. I&#8217;m just a fan of the 5s the most, probably because of the tongue, but 3s, 4s, and 5s are all cool. I&#8217;m cool with pretty much everything except (the models) after 13. I&#8217;ve got the &#8216;Bel-Airs,&#8217; the &#8216;Bins,&#8217; of course the &#8216;Wolf Greys&#8217;&#8230;I&#8217;ve kind of lost count now! I think I&#8217;m officially a sneakerhead at some level. [<em>Laughs<\/em>] I still want to get the &#8216;Oreo&#8217; 5s and I wanted to get the &#8216;Fear&#8217; Pack, but I was on tour at the time. I want to get more 13s and I&#8217;ve also got some <a title=\"@bobatl on IG\" href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/lvQXQIhQWU\/?modal=true\" target=\"_blank\">custom 12s<\/a> from Ed the Artist.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>B.o.B&#8217;s <em>No Genre Pt. 2<\/em> mixtape is available for free download now at DatPiff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>B.o.B raps and plays guitar, and just as his new mixtape No Genre Pt. 2 suggests, he does things his own way. 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Still, there&#8217;s always that one pair that really kicked it off, so we caught up with B.o.B for this installment of Kickstarter to hear about the shoes that got him hooked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2415,"featured_media":391994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1219126],"tags":[1209026,1225889],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Kickstarter: The Shoe That Got B.o.B Hooked | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"B.o.B shares the pair of Air Jordans that got him hooked.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kickstarter: The Shoe That Got B.o.B Hooked\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"B.o.B shares the pair of Air Jordans that got him hooked.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Snkrs Day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NiceKicks\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2014-07-09T19:48:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2018-12-31T15:35:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/07\/kickstarter-bob.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"357\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Ian Stonebrook\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@snkrsday\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Ian Stonebrook\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":[\"WebPage\",\"ItemPage\"],\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/\",\"name\":\"Kickstarter: The Shoe That Got B.o.B Hooked | Snkrs Day\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/07\/kickstarter-bob.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2014-07-09T19:48:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2018-12-31T15:35:04+00:00\",\"description\":\"B.o.B shares the pair of Air Jordans that got him hooked.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/07\/kickstarter-bob.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/files\/2014\/07\/kickstarter-bob.png\",\"width\":700,\"height\":357,\"caption\":\"Kickstarter\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-b-o-b-hooked\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"News\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Columns\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/columns\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"NK Originals\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/columns\/nk-originals\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":4,\"name\":\"Kickstarter: The Shoe That Got B.o.B Hooked\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/\",\"name\":\"Snkrs Day\",\"description\":\"Sneakers News. 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