{"id":532431,"date":"2017-04-11T11:24:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/?p=532431"},"modified":"2017-04-11T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:34:40","slug":"interview-juvenile-mannie-fresh-talk-cash-money-classics-reebok-workout-collab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/interview-juvenile-mannie-fresh-talk-cash-money-classics-reebok-workout-collab\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview \/\/ Juvenile & Mannie Fresh Talk Cash Money Classics & Reebok Workout Collab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hip-hop reflects kindly on DJ Premier and Guru, Pete Rock and CL Smooth and the heyday of Snoop and Dre, but where will Mannie Fresh<\/strong> and Juvenile<\/strong> land in the record books? If you were old enough to watch Rap City<\/em> around the ’99 then there’s no doubt that the bounce sound brought out of New Orleans had you coughing up your cash at Sam Goody or tying up your landline hovered over Napster.<\/p>\n

While everybody remembers the impact of “Back That Azz Up” or even the dance from “Get Your Roll On,” what even the hippest of Hot Boy$ fans may have forgot are the kicks from the “I Got That Fire” video. A Cash Money makeup for Juvie and the clique long before Drake donned his own Jordans or Kanye laced up Air Yeezys, these Solja Rag inspired Reebok Workouts were a grassroots gift from the brand to the stars and city that wore and repped Rees as proudly and organically as it gets.<\/p>\n

Rehashed and revamped by Reebok Classic, Sneaker Politics and Humidity for All-Star Weekend and brought back out this past weekend, a new take on the Hot Boy hit is now available for all. A small group of media caught up with Juvenile and Mannie Fresh to hear about their respective kick collections, their Cash Money come-up and if either of them still have the OGs in storage.<\/p>\n

Ian Stonebrook for Snkrs Day: Whether it was in New Orleans as a whole or in the Magnolia Projects specifically, what made the Reebok Workout such a staple coming up?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mannie Fresh:<\/strong> I’m not from the Magnolia, I’m from downtown, but Juvie and them are from the Magnolia. That was the budget and when you’re young you’ve got a budget. Reeboks worked for the budget and everything that was us. It worked in the hood, you heard me?<\/p>\n

Zac Dubasik for Sole Collector<\/a>: Once people started seeing you guys wear them how fast did it take off for everybody else?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mannie Fresh:<\/strong> It was always a popular shoe in New Orleans, we call them the ‘Soldiers’ down here. But once we put them on the map and started making records about them the world got hooked on them and it took maybe a couple months time and everybody was on Reebok.<\/p>\n

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Ian Stonebrook for Snkrs Day: The new Reebok Workout collab derives from an OG pair of Workout Mids that James Hardaway brought to the set of the “I Got That Fire” video. What do you remember about that day and that shoot?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Juvenile:<\/strong> I remember it being hot as hell because they had a lot of fireworks! And they had us on the top of the building, I changed like 100 t-shirts that day. I remember that day very vividly.<\/p>\n

[James plays Mannie the video]<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Mannie Fresh:<\/strong> That’s from 2000, damn I still look good! God is good!<\/p>\n

Ian Stonebrook for Snkrs Day: The original pair from the video is like 17 years old now. Do either of you still have them either at home or in storage?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Juvenile:<\/strong> No, because that was before Katrina so after that a lot of that stuff was gone.<\/p>\n

Mannie Fresh:<\/strong> Yeah! I’m a sneakerhead, dude. Anything that has to do with jerseys, sneakers or whatever, I have. That’s the one thing I am about. My closet is covered with everything I consider great to me. Kicks, jerseys, old school Cash Money paraphernalia? I love that kind of stuff.<\/p>\n