{"id":415835,"date":"2014-11-19T14:51:33","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=415835"},"modified":"2020-03-28T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T15:26:02","slug":"kickstarter-shoe-got-iamsu-hooked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/kickstarter-shoe-got-iamsu-hooked\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter: The Shoe That Got Iamsu! Hooked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, new artists emerge under the <em>CSS<\/em> spotlight. Over the course of\u00a02014, The HBK Gang&#8217;s <strong>Iamsu!<\/strong> has become a fixture of the column, rocking everything from hard-to-get Supreme collabs to Air Jordan 16s that most newbies wouldn&#8217;t touch. That&#8217;s because Iamsu! is not new to this. Having just released his debut follow up, <em>Sincerely Yours 1.5<\/em>, we caught up with Suzy to hear about the pair of kicks from back in the day that got him hooked and started it all. Peep his story in the latest <a title=\"Kickstarter\" href=\"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/tag\/kickstarter\/\"><strong>Kickstarter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n photo via Kixclusive\n<p><strong>Iamsu!:<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;ve been into Jordans for a long time, but my mom was not having it with me buying shoes. I had to work to for all my shoes. I got into buying shoes in probably the 10th or 11th grade in high school. I bought a pair <strong>Air Jordan 19 SEs<\/strong>. After that I was just buying hella shoes. I would do any job I could do. I&#8217;d help family out and I worked at this youth program, it was like a radio station. Every Friday and Wednesday I would go up there and I would make enough money to buy some shoes. Every two weeks the check would be literally the Jordans plus tax and I would just spend the whole check on shoes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 19 SEs were white, blue and yellow, the ones Gary Payton wore on the Lakers. At that point, everyone was wearing jerseys and Enyce and stuff. [<em>Laughs<\/em>] I&#8217;m not even a Clippers fan so I&#8217;m hella embarrassed to say this, but I had a Clippers throwback jersey and I had a powder blue Lakers jersey I used to wear with them &#8212; but I&#8217;m a Lakers fan at the end of the day. I was a high school kid, so I was wearing them for style. All the of the hoops team had them, but I had them for style.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recently, I actually wanted to pick up the White\/Grey Air Jordan 19s. I like more recent Jordans these days, I&#8217;ve just been wearing them to throw people off. I&#8217;ve got some 16s that I wear from time to time and I wanted some XX8s hella bad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Iamsu!&#8217;s <em>Sincerely Yours 1.5<\/em> is available now on iTunes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, new artists emerge under the CSS spotlight. 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