{"id":457542,"date":"2015-07-28T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T18:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=457542"},"modified":"2019-01-22T18:33:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T23:33:37","slug":"dj-kevin-scott-talks-dj-ams-legacy-as-an-artist-sneakerhead-human","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/dj-kevin-scott-talks-dj-ams-legacy-as-an-artist-sneakerhead-human\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ Kevin Scott Talks DJ AM’s Legacy as an Artist, Sneakerhead & Human"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many people claim to be ahead of their time, but how many actually are? Adam Goldstein, better known as DJ AM<\/strong>, was one of the few. The early bird to both genre bending mashups and collecting kicks with a baller budget, AM helped usher in each wave years before they hit the primetime, doing so with a sense of passion, fearlessness and fun that still inspire today.<\/p>\n

While those in the know in both DJ and kick culture are familiar with the legacy of AM’s career and collection, it’s often lost on the many that never met him on just how generous and down to earth he was. The new documentary As I Am: The Life and Time$ of DJ AM<\/em><\/a> aims to tell the story of AM the artist, man and humanitarian who did much for music, much for recovering addicts and much for his friends.<\/p>\n

As the documentary looks to pick up funding (yes, you can support by purchasing kicks from his world-renowned collection), we caught up with his good friend and collaborator\u00a0DJ Kevin Scott<\/strong> to learn more about the man, the musician and the kick collector that will forever be DJ AM.<\/p>\n

Snkrs Day: How did your friendship with DJ AM begin?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DJ Kevin Scott:<\/strong> I was producing vinyl records for DJ\u2019s and he wanted to get some free stuff. DJ Vice put me in contact with him and we hit it off instantly. We had a ton of the same interests: DJ\u2019ing, 80s music, playing poker, cats, early 90s rave music, just a bunch of common interests. We would chat on AOL Instant Messenger all night and battle each other over music until the sun came up. We became pretty inseparable very quickly.<\/p>\n

Snkrs Day: For those that never got to meet DJ AM, what was he like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DJ Kevin Scott:<\/strong> Completely down to earth. A guy\u2019s guy. He loved to make his friends happy, he was very generous but also very competitive. He had a great sense of humor and an incredibly broad knowledge of music history. He also was amazing at connecting people together that could help each other. He helped so many people in business, recovery, and so many other areas. He loved to see his homies do well.<\/p>\n

Snkrs Day: His sneaker collection was well documented. What are some of your memories regarding DJ AM\u00a0involving\u00a0kicks?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DJ Kevin Scott:<\/strong> That he REALLY loved having kicks that no one else had or could get. He was a wearer of kicks so he rocked them out for the world to be envious of. He pretty much never kept anything deadstock. If you wore something fresh, he would say, \u201cMan, I already got those, but do you have these?!\u201d and pull out something he knew you didn\u2019t have. It was all in fun though, he was just competitive and wanted to one-up you at all times. His favorite day-to-day kicks were definitely the Black\/Cement Air Jordan 3s and the Air Jordan 1 “Chicago” colorway (Editor’s Note: This was over a decade ago, so we’re talking Nike Air on the heel AJ3s and ’94 AJ1s<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Snkrs Day: What made his interest in sneakers so organic?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DJ Kevin Scott:<\/strong> He always referred to kicks as “works of art,” he loved the shapes, the colors, everything about them. He felt his whole attitude changed when he wore a fresh pair of kicks. I think shoes really reminded him of his childhood growing up Philly, where sports and music and kicks were the thing. DJ Clark Kent says in the AM doc, \u201cWhen you walk in the club, you want to look right\u201d \u2014 it was part of the uniform for AM. He wanted to look fresh and have style at all times.<\/p>\n

Snkrs Day: What would you consider AM’s biggest contributions both to modern music and the sneaker culture?<\/strong><\/p>\n

DJ Kevin Scott:<\/strong> For music, he was a born tastemaker. He set trends and did things before they were cool. No genre of music was off limits, he was never afraid to play any song at any time and he brought different groups of people together, people that wouldn\u2019t normally be together grooving to the same music.<\/p>\n