 This might be one of my favorite sneakers to wear in 2024. Today we're gonna be taking a in-depth look at the Howard University Air Jordan 1 low OG. And if you guys didn't know by now, my name is DJ and this is The DNA Show. Now before we get started breaking down all the crazy details on this shoe because these things are beautiful, we gotta talk about the history first. For those that don't know, Howard University is sponsored by Jordan brand and that means what? They get their own player edition shoes. Now they haven't been sponsored by Jordan brand for too long so it's only been a couple years. And back in 22, we saw the initial debut of the sponsorship with the Air Jordan 6 Howard University. That shoe is amazing and one of my favorite sneaker pickups of last year. And as you guys can see from this in-hand look right here, this shoe is nice. But one thing that I can say is they didn't slack at all when it comes to this shoe either. So following the player exclusive release in 2022, we then saw the Air Jordan 1 low hit the streets in 2023. Now this did not only consist of Howard University, this was all of the Jordan brand sponsored schools. Now when I saw the initial images hit the internet, I was a fan of some of the sneakers, not all of them. But this one in particular, I definitely was in love with. And why? Because it's similar to the Chicago color blocking and you can never go wrong with that. So let's go ahead and take it to the studio so I can give you guys a full in-depth look of this sneaker. So here we have it. The Air Jordan 1 low OG Howard University. This is a beautiful sneaker. I keep saying it over and over again. Now there's gonna be a lot of similarities between this sneaker and the other colleges when it comes to the college PE pack. We noticed the trend over the years when they do a shoe for the college pack, they essentially do every shoe the same and then they switch up the colors depending on the school. If the schools have similar colors, they like to do opposite on the packs. Like for example, on the Oklahoma University, you see how they did the black instead of the red because it would look a lot more similar to these. So I like how they also did that in the design process to help distinguish the difference between the shoes. So like typical fashion, we're gonna break down the sneaker starting from the bottom of the shoe and then working our way up, going through all the styles, cuts and materials and especially the details because these things are dope. Looking at the outsole, as you can see, they have been worn because, Loki, I've been rocking these a little too much. You got a semi-translucent gum outsole right here and wrapping up to the midsole. You have an all-white midsole but instead of being like a pure white, it's more like a sail type of color and then that's gonna be the same sail color right there on the stitch as well when it comes to the midsole. Now going to the upper, this is gonna be similar to the Air Jordan 1 high in some aspects. You have your distressed leather on parts of the panels, giving you that similar to the Chicago color-blocking style when it comes to the color-blocking. That's gonna be the same thing here and it's actually a great example because this is a red sneaker but on those panels, on the top, on the eyes stays and in the center right here and around the front end of the toe, on the back end, on the heel cap, you're gonna see that red distressed leather all throughout the sneaker. Now going to the other panels of the sneaker on the side of the foot and on the toe, on the vamp right here, you have more of a grayish under tone type tan colored material. It's gonna be more of that premium leather that we see, something, I guess, the best example I could give you guys is kind of like the off-white Air Jordan 4s but I feel like this one is kind of like in its own little lane at the same time too and actually the trophy room ones is set to be similar to these so when you guys see those in person, you might get a better example of what the materials are like. Now looking at the swoosh on the side of the foot, another dope touch right here, you got that stingray like material in the all navy blue swoosh and that's gonna be the same thing on the inside of the foot as well and then you have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven holes right here instead of the eight like the OG. Now going to the front end of the shoe right here, you have a small little touch with the hint of blue on the Nike swoosh just embroidered in there. Now these come standard with a pair of sail wax laces and then you also have an additional pair of navy wax laces that come in here and you have an additional pair of red wax laces that come with the shoe. So you can switch it up, do whatever you like to do, school colors you name it. Honestly I feel like these would look dope with any of them but I got them and they came with the sail laces standard in there so I just rocked them like that and I haven't really taken the time to switch them out but honestly I feel like again they would look dope with any of the three. Let me know down below in the comment section which color you guys would rock with. Now just behind that you have that same material on the leather going up the tongue and then you have a navy blue tab and then the same sail color branding right here on the Nike Air on the tongue. Now going to the inside and the sock liner and everything around it, oh my gosh they did an amazing job. Not only is this around the collar area of the sneaker but it's on the back end of the tongue as well. So you have a red piping that goes around here and bordering that in a red mesh and then you have a diamond stitched all around right here around the collar and behind the tongue that's going to be all red satin with a red stitch and then on the sock liner here you have a red sock liner and then it says Howard Bison on the left foot and the same thing right here on the right foot. So if you guys haven't seen in the past I did a review on my Florida Gators Air Jordan 1 Lows and as you can see you just with the two shoes side by side, a lot of similarities even when it comes to the tab on the tongue. The navy tab, the navy swoosh, the orange tab, the orange swoosh, everything is essentially identical. Again just flip for the school colors depending on the school and as you can see again right here the dominant color being blue and then the secondary color being orange and again I feel like the only one that really was kind of flipped was Oklahoma just because they did an all red shoe for these so I understand that aspect. Now like I was talking about earlier referring to the stingray right here on the side with the swoosh that's also similar to the high top version right here but these actually came out a few years ago and at the time when they were doing the Jordan 1 College Peas in the high top Howard University was not a Jordan brand school so that's why you don't see this sneaker in the Howard University version but they took a lot of similar elements from this shoe right here. The distress leather on the side panel adding that to the main part of the shoe the stingray on the swoosh that's very similar as well. Color blocking a little bit different this is a toe style this is a Chicago style when it comes to color blocking but overall definitely a lot of similarities between the two shoes but again at the end of the day this is all hypothetical stuff and just random things that we talk about at sneaker heads because Howard wasn't sponsored by Jordan brand at the time so I'm just kind of like you know assuming how it would have been. Let me know what you guys think what it would have turned out like down below in the comment section if they would have been sponsored by Jordan brand at the time. So now when it comes to a sneaker like this typically the price in the market on the Jordan one Lowe's on the college PEs they range anywhere from again used size color of the school different things like that you can find pairs from 1800 bucks to $5,000 it's gonna be a huge range when it comes to these so as of right now they have the Howard University Air Jordan sixes and then we saw the Howard University Air Jordan one Lowe's let me know what you guys like more down below in the comment section I've done a review for these in the past if you guys want to see it I'll make sure it's linked down below in the description for you guys if you enjoyed this if you want to see more I have a full playlist dedicated to samples PEs all the crazy exclusive shoes that may be in my collection or collections that I have toured in the past I'll have that at the end of the video for you guys to watch I'll see y'all in another one I'm out if you enjoyed this video and you want to learn more I have a ton on the inside when it comes to my sneaker head academy it's a eight week program that breaks down everything when it comes to the ins and outs of the shoe game learning the market and how to grow and scale your collection at the same time or turn it into a hustle and get a bunch of money if you'd like to do that as well and if you want to invest in the real estate I have all the tips and tricks in live meetups where we do monthly meetups and everybody jumps in and we go over a call and we talk about different goals and aspirations that we have and how we can help each other get there so if that's something that you're interested in hit the link down below get signed up I would love to see you on the inside it's the holidays right now so we got a special going as well all right you guys I'm out also I'm not sure if you guys have seen it but the college PE of the year is the Air Jordan 23 we've talked about this a little bit on the channel I have the Oklahoma's right here and here's a quick picture of the Howard University 23s I'll begin those in my collection soon don't worry