The Bootleg Nikes that Got Banned by Big Tobacco 

Ashaun Walwyn ikr it’s so meaningful and sleek and well made

i really just wear what i like and i really agree

Nah

No because Nike has so much history such as the relationship between numerous athletes and artists and designers. So dope that this guy decided to copy it.

fuk off

That box is crazy expensive, the entire shoe is. So if he want's to compete it's in the highest of the high end market. Not shoes for the common man. Also he must have known that they would sue him. The way trademark laws are set up they have to sue him to keep their trademark. If you don't you have no course of action when someone truly and maliciously infringes on your trade mark.

Völundr Frey All true, but that’s completely beside the point he’s making. I don’t think he intended that it would catch on and he’d manufacture and sell like a huge brand.

Yes is like to pay him to make me custom shoes they'd be nice👌

People bootleg all the time still to this day like Imran potatoes and others and they rarely get heat . Even dapper dan only got Cease letters when he became too big like a retailer . For the most part they leave you alone , but I think it was the connotation of tobacco and the similarity of Nike combined in a sneaker and Nike didn’t like that . Had it been a brand like snickers or a food brand then they wouldn’t give a damn but cigarettes is a no go for them

@@volundrfrey896 really?

Im dead 🗿

Lol all clearish off white upper lol

So icyyyy

The box could look like a big ass meth pipe and the shoes would be stuffed with chore boy when you get em instead of tissue paper 😂😂😂😂

I'm bidding on Cannabis Indica 8's Northern Lights colorway on eBay rn

Hemanth kamana Marlboro and adidas

@@RaceboyYT looks like the McLaren logo

MiGee D it is

@Hemanth kamana the shoe would lose its newport look so yes he would be allowed to make that shoe but there's no point if it doesn't look like newports

Make a red pair for the newport full flavor

GranP0ps I bet he has a hidden pair somewhere, I don't blame him either 😂

I really hope you’re right. Imagine if Nike ruined and destroyed all of the work he owned when it’s what they shaped into and are inspired to be today.

Obviously not, he has a pair in the video dweeb

@@capoxranquinpsn155 - Video said those were not his, that his friend brought a pair over because he could not legally own them. Now that could have been just BS for legal reasons but you cannot draw the conclusion that those were his pair from this video.

@@powertothesheeple5422 yes but we can also state he did not clearly throw them all way, because he friend owns a pair. How does his friend have pair if they were all disposed?

@koko*don* No, they should have hired NY designer Dapper Dan. He started that "Urban" custom design in the 1980s. But the corps shut him down, then ripped his ideas off.

@@C-Lyfe85 Yeah, that's usually what they do. Whenever they can recruit someone who's a creator of what a Corporation want and like, they know that person as creator is going to want ownership Rights an/or a large percentage. Generally they will throw a low ball offer, to buy out a newer Company and therefore it's hot product/s. If the offer is refused, which you MAY as well SELL it because if you DON'T take an except their offer. They'll simply make a small tweak to the Product, an steal it entirely. Which with the money and marketing large Corporations have, no one would even question the Company having STOLE the ideas. Or as NOT not being the original creators, an as an Established name brand would basically steal any attention or sales the actually creator would even get.

Mr. Chevy Mills no, Nike shouldn’t have hired dapper dan. Besides, Gucci hires him.

@@@levimowrer3539 Why shouldn't Nike hire Dapper Dan?

No way... he should start his own brand and not sell his soul to Nike

LOOOOOL

Lmao so on point

With a little michael scott

On fucking point😂😂

Omgggg lol

supreme was not "new" or "original" in 2006.

@@tommyholiday9880 Supreme was going hot in the mid 2000's. Now it's just eh

Phone bad phone bad phone bad durrrr

lol you sound like the type who mad that people are still discovering The Office, okay old

@@jamiec7502 You sound like a 12 year old with that comment

Right??? Shit is GENIUS

Copywrite infringement is genius? How did it turn out? It turned out NOT to be genius.

@@jamescoleman446missing the whole point but ok

I didn't even catch that , the air / Nike. Totally!

that foil touch is so dope

Trust 👌

sensei steve ur just saying that cuz he did stfu

@@izoo1687 am I? Lol. The packaging is sick so yea that guy n I agree. What's wrong with that? Foh frost

Hell yeah, opening up like a pack of cigs. With the Newport looking box and the foil wrapper inside. Surprised Newport didn't want to buy the Rights to those shoes, an sell them with all the other stupid fashionless gear they sell.

I never thought I would see you here. In this case, hello! 👋

@@micahdiazoni189 hey wassup

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Honestly people are just blindly hating on them ketamine 4s

@@poopscholar1891 yeh I still need the crack 12s.

Menthol 10s

YES! The shoes came in a pack of cigarettes lmao

Id take a pair now.

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Absolutely.

Sharokis ikr but that’s what makes him interesting to me

@Freddy Drabble oh yeah yeah

Wthell did I just read 🤣🤣🤣

that’s how vice works

Or a 1920s cop 12:24

Right buying their shoes smh lol

“Great relationship” 😂

He was doing marketing for them i believe

Me too

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Lmao yeah

😂

Equine.edits.evermore Equine edits 😂😂😂

He’s prob gonna od before that

G eazy could never

Legend has it they're a few thousand. Rip all hopes and dreams of owning a pair at the moment

yeah i saw a few up for between $1000-2000 even if they are beat. hopefully i can find a decent condition pair someday

size10 on ebay. $3.200

i wish i was at the point where i could drop $3,000 or more on a pair of shoes hahahah

@@aaronmonaghantv ha! Freaking peasant! Maybe you should get a small loan of a million dollars to buy them.

Kevin Stewart these shoes> travis scott retro 1’s and 4’s

Travis Scott's are backwards. These are upside down and backwards

The Collin James a.k.a HIGHTOTHEC it’s not even a Nike symbol, it’s a Newport cigarette logo which was around before Nike

Reverse swooshes have been used many times before the travis scott 1s

Yeah but those are created by nike...

Devil wears Prada

@@mylesoakley8054 gay

Jh 27 😂

Jh 27 Xxx😘Love you

Jh 27 no homo

Saleh Hashmi 😂

the silver wrapper was there and everything 😂😂😂😂

🤐

money first. humanity second 😤

Lmao he's making knockoffs and using the excuse of "I was trying to make a statement". The only reason he has this attitude now is because it didn't work out in his favor. If he would've made millions and started his own successful brand he wouldn't be saying this. I'd understand if he made original looking shoes but he made complete knockoffs. He was trying to make himself a name like Nike. It's like people that talk shit about rich people when they dream of being rich themselves.

You don't have to be a sheep and buy those big name shoes! Stop being blind and buy my product! Lmao

@@brandenbright457 i get what he is saying though. its like people who view luxury car brands as the be all and end all

@@brandenbright457 he has a point

@Degenerates Like You Belong On a Cross shutup moron

Stack Bundles but it really is just a rip off of somebody else’s shit. It’s like me making McDonalds obesity themed clown Nikes. Or Walmart themed Porsche-design sunglasses... or Samsung flavored popcorn. But sure, he’s a creative mastermind.

@@interloper3138 late reply but can you even name the first person to do it

kodi No worries for the late reply. The first person to do what?

@@interloper3138 Who ripped off who/what?

Cant

@Jay Pay what's wear display?

As long as you’re making any profit off them you’re still violating copyright infringement with the logos

@ JellyDopeNut he means that you can't wear the shoes, you can only display them. I don't know much about the English language but maybe there is a comma missing between 'wear' and 'display'? That's why the sentence looks a bit weird.

Yah unfortunately if deemed as "close enough" to trademarks no money can be made,hell technically you can't even produce it profit or not. Any "likeness" or facility" of is infringement.

well duh ofcourse

A few probably

He's got some menthol 11s kicking around somewhere

His friend “owns” a pair that he wears/borrows Loopholes

LetsGoToMarsMan its not a loophole its just put in the vid so he doesn’t get in trouble dummy

Why wasn't he?

Rexy it said something about the lawsuit, I’m not sure

Thats probably his. How would they know he has that in his warehouse? Put in a bag and pretend somebody brought me this mint box.

the lawsuit said he couldnt own a pair, couldnt even have a digital picture of the shoes

Suburban Waste oh you think so? You actually think those are his hmm you might be onto something there sherlock 🤦🏼‍♂️

Or u can shut your mouth 🤣🤣🤣

talking stone 🙄 smh

@@talkingstone6308 What a wierd thing to say..

That's what happened with Dapper Dan

The whole point was to go against Nike not help them and feed into their horrible ethics… did you retain anything from this video. 😐

There’s a pair on Grailed for 3200

Lmao

Bro you laughing but steel toe air force 1s are rare as fuck and you can't find em anywhere (authentic)....

u can't afford it

dont say take my money when u got none of em

if you wear black air forces you beat your wife no cap

bruh that's cigarette smoke aging the docs lol

seven7wenty nah shit lmao

@@seven7wenty BEO THATVE WOULDVE BEEN AN HILARIOUS JOKE

Just edit them just enough to be legal.

It wouldn't surprise me if there are Chinese versions of Aris already

Aren't these Travis Scott shoes

@@prodbyanthony2900 lmao

Hi

It was deliberate. The opposite of serendipitous.

I didn't catch the 10's to 100's parallel.

@Complex Ez I just saw this video but that would be hard or the wine wood tip 5s

@@purplebeach7072 Menthol 10s are the shoes depicted in the video. Newport 100s is a longer version of the regular Newport menthol cigarettes

@@lilsomething8905 sorry the way I wrote that was pretty dumb. I meant that when I watched the video I didn't see the number connection until op's comment.

Kings -low top

Yo I’d rock Marlboro reds tough

Marlboro reds are fkn disgusting smokes

I'd wear American spirits sandals any day

Camel toes ftw.

Leah Bana $1,125

*they're

Too bad your box isn’t worth a fortune.....

Ed Rooney their’re*

Their’re’y

Andrew M moral of the story

+ youngmanners - Love it. Never forget where the saying came from...remember the Trojan War?

Ah the kids that payed attention in class

@@Mycrazylittlehead noted.

+ Shahan Bhai - 🤣😂🤣

BenThirty Productions eBay for 10K

miguel jimenez On second thoughts, I do care about the price 😂.

@@OhBombii hes lying , it cost 3,000 which is the most one. Theres this one for 17 hundred www.ebay.com/itm/Ari-Menthol-10s-Nike-Newport-size-8/323691087088?hash=item4b5d7e04f0:g:-24AAOSwDYdcEqiv

BenThirty Productions You went 100 to 0 real quick lmao

keoa I know......bruh sounds effect.

Kevin Michael u lying

A pair ended up in Manila, Philippines. The owner is asking $10,000

Lol same

Wish I had the money to buy them kicks

Facts

Fr why the fuck they put the nike logo UPSIDE DOWN

Rob Spagrenetti are you stupid its the newport logo

How much were they? Do you remember?

hiphopaddict007 I wanna say in the 100 to 150 range on eBay but that was literally ten years ago so I’m not 100% sure

PACOIMAxG he just said he was 12/13. A child couldn't afford them and his parents were not about to blow 100 bucks on knock offs.

nah dude these slap shoulda got them for appearance's sake

Thank god you didn't cop them. They smell like Newports too.

🤯🤯🤯🤯

because too big a fish

They did and they couldn't find any evidence proving nike ripped off their logo design

I got some ekin

Ares I knew it! We are living in an alternate universe.

Kelly Kerr - its true, and when you find proof, keep it to yourself or they'll say, "ye be mad". Yours Truly,

Still cost money. He is New York, you do what you do.

Even if it's an art project, it's being distributed commercially

Sold for profit… case would crumble immediately.

True now, but fair use policies were far from developed by the mid 2000's.

it's called "appropriation" in art, which is , yeah, transformative.

The logo is too similar which is the only problem i believe. Without the logo they would have been fine back then and now i'm pretty sure.

I’m not quite sure on how this law is worded but there are many similar laws on the books for similar situations amongst other categories. In the others there’s a consistency when it addresses the range of actions one is allowed to pursue and remain protected. With that being said, the language of these laws pertaining to profiting off such acts of expression seem to be pretty consistent in that the laws are NOT on the books to protect ppls right to profit on these ideas but rather to simply protect the freedom to create or distribute types of information they are passionate about sharing or feel is important. On one hand, collectively these hundreds of smaller, unheard of and “specific in nature” laws are everything that creates our fabric of freedom being woven YET UNFORTUNATELY since they don’t always get as technical as they should on the financial aspect (given its not the reason for being created) many ppl like this great gentleman have to simultaneously get a crash course in how insanely expensive this shit is considering the way most of these disputes originate from, which is a “David vs. Goliath” type circumstance where the larger party knows this already and has all the disposable income they need and more to seek and destroy anything that gets in their way. NOW, you’d have to be living under a rock to not sense the change in tide slowly developing and in the future the little guy is going to have the capabilities to compete on every level. Wouldn’t it be great if the reality wasn’t that they’ll just adjust the laws down the road once any type of inequality gap amongst the rich and poor starts to shrink. Regardless of any of it, you gotta respect this man’s passion for choosing to live his life and utilizing his talents & wisdom to make social change in the way he knows how. That’s the POSITIVITY and type of story we need to start holding these larger news corps responsible for choosing to push aside in an effort to show only things relevant to whatever opinions they feel strongly about.

It's a kind of spiky deal when trademarks are involved, you usually have much less of a chance to claim fair use when they pull in trademark law. Branding and logos are under trademark and considering the means he went through to produce the shoes, legally, it would stick enough. On top of that, they probably have some applicable defamation too. Shame though, this is a real neat idea, and corps need more fucking.

caroline like he said, just create it

You can do it!

Just try to embody that attitude and be yourself remember its only when you try being something your not that's usually grounds for infertile soil, flower baby.

I say you could. Even if you not an artist. The things you do, the things you wear, the things you own(he's a very nicknak guy) let them mean something to you. If someone would to pick something off your room have story about it. Don't be frivolous in your frivolity.

My ex friend used to date him and he’s mad funny & a big hip hop head!

High key

I think you meant high key af. ngl i'd rock the fuck out of these like damn, I almost feel called out by Ari.

Man them bitches ugly as fuck

Looks something a crack head would wear on the streets

@Robert Johnson Johnson they would have sold them before wearing them to get actual newports.

He dead

Tj Naptown nah his mom

Indra you are beautiful

Remya Mathew In a heartbeat

Remya Mathew They are just not able to produce them, samples only, you need to have access to the sampled nike shoes, then you understand that they can do this themselves! CEO people stay ultra conservative, not their designers. Fans is a brand that changed that, letting Skaters involve with the art and shoe designer people. Why you need the Woosh logo on this product, just do a more original Woosh!

@Smogger911 Yeah, as in addicted.

@@lucasrem I think you missed the whole point of this shoe, and don't understand what it is he did lol, everything in the design was very deliberate. It's not just a "woosh" it's the logo for Newport cigarettes...

@@cooliodiablo6117 U need to understand the law here, then you understand how Tobacco is operating here, you need to have power to deal with them! What can the Nike people do, if he called them mental, same package, he was in business! He has no power, that is the only issue here. These cigarettes are not even legal anymore, not with candy flavors, kill that Tobacco gang, and the US patent offices too!!!!!

There only 250 pairs in the world how do u wanna buy them?

@@abdi646 I won't, and even if they were available I wouldn't have the money But generally speaking they are special shoes with effort taken into designing them and I do want them. It's a shame they don't sell them

@@THEGAME-ko3mg FR BRu 🤝

You do! 🤗 You really do, though. I have faith in you. (Seriously)... I wanna see pics later when you’re done LOL

@@LaRedPDX Fr he can people are so much capable of great thinge.

That's the problem of attending public school buddy. They don't teach creative arts.

Dexxter Lincoln: if you’re unable to pursue creative arts on top of public schooling, why expect different results without public schooling? 🤔 You can start now my friend

It's never too late. You gotta start somewhere bro

@V Vito wtf

Trace Kimes what does no homo means?

@V Vito says the person who brought up the subject in the first place. Projection is a bitch!

No port did

Eric Hood fr...Sh*t

The upside down swoosh is on every pack of Newports

Or they will steal it and he will sue

@@nikkibreezy6058 look at travis 1 . The swosh . To late they stoled it

@@CasperUTM the swoosh isnt upside down. its only mirrored. are you blind?

@@CasperUTM and it's literally the menthol symbol. Did you not watch the video

P0k3D0nd3M4cG He's a consumer remember.

I have always wondered the same thing, possibly because it's based in Japan.

They did however sue Buscemi shoes.

OMerOMG9 Because in a sense Bape already paid nike so its cool.

It's not illegal to use a similar/same shape or sihouette. Just have a look at all that rip off shit in urban outfitters. It's only illegal to make direct counterfeit goods that present themselves as original brand items.

airhab airhab wrong

3 PACKS A DAY?! Daem thats hard

then we have china

*THESE BIG COMPANIES USED TO BE small companies from 1 or 2 people, Developed into corporate companies* wake up..

@@cykablyat5910 did they. How insighful

Nah they've convinced minorities for the last 40-50 years , shoes made for $3 in China are works of art and everyone who is cool should own a pair for over $100++++.

What hole? Which part

that's cool. nice story Frankie barns

Lol

Dude you are killing me, good one.

_Spookyphantom smh

I've been diagnosed with the same since three days

How long do i had left. The doctor wouldn't tell me

Get off em bro, if you know what's good for you. Smoking is for fucking retards

Boxy Brown im working on dying

Lowki Based Stooopid! 😂

Lowki Based thats the attitude i like to see around here

smoking raises all cause mortality, it's not a preference/interest unless you prefer/are interested in shortening your life. but i'm not gunna judge another mans intellectual abilities so you do you bruh have a blessed day