 Alright, today we're going to be ranking the top 10 most iconic Nike sneakers of all time. I literally don't even know what to say. This is about to be the most controversial video on your channel. We picked out some shoes that I got from my collection. I feel like I have the majority of the iconic sneakers out there. It's just tough because to say Nike is like to say everything in the sports world. And everybody is different. Every single person is different. Every single generation is different. Every single what they do, the sport, the shoes that they like, Nike is so big. Yeah. I mean, okay, so tell them what we got to do because we got 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. We're going to eliminate eight shoes right off the bat and then rank them. And then get to the top 10. Right off the bat, bro. I know that like the older cats are going to be going crazy at me, but I have no idea what this shoe is. What? And I have no idea what this shoe is. I'm not even going to lie to you guys like I got into the sneaker game in high school. I was born in 1998 and I have no idea what these are. I've never heard anybody talk about them. I think this is why we got you on the channel. Let's go over this one right here. The Nike Trainer 1. This in particular is the 112 colorway, but we're not going colorway as we've got models. What makes this shoe so special that you decided to include it on this video? Nike Trainer 1, just the era, the athletes that wore this shoe. You name it. All the different things that go along with this shoe. It's hard to not put this on the list. And out of training shoes, I think this might be the, is this the only one? Don't look at me. I have no idea what we're talking about. I think this is the only trainer. And tell me what's so special about this one. Okay. The airships. I feel like because of the resale value and all the other things that go along with it, I could see why we don't put this on the list. And I feel like they trying to bring energy to the shoe right now, but not everybody was going after airships. For me, it looks like a, bro, I don't, I don't, I don't mean to sound disrespectful, but like as a consumer, I feel like marshals. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. Well, okay. That's what I'm saying. I can understand why we take it off the list just because like the OG collectors, they would go after this now and all that, but I don't, people wasn't talking about airships, you know, seven years ago, 10 years ago, 12 years ago. I think what we got to do, bro, is out of these two, which one needs to come off the list. First of all, airships. Okay. I'll say a ship. Take the airship. Goodbye to the airship. See you later. Sorry, but you got to go. Okay. What else we got? Now you, okay. You eliminated one. Monarch, I, for me, I don't know too much about the history. That's the thing. To me, the Monarch in today's is like the dad shoe. It's like the meme shoe. It's always been that, but why would it be iconic for the top 10? Because it makes it so iconic. There's so much more greatness though. What do you think about trainers? Iconic dad shoe, iconic. You know what I'm saying? Like they all have their different reasons. Okay. Between the trainer and the dad shoe, which one are you letting go of? Why are we comparing everything to the trainer? I just don't know what these are, bro. To me, I think like, okay. To me, I think like, dude, and I'm saying this in a non-biased, non-offensive way to sneakerheads. But when I was young, I could not afford any shoes. This is something that my mom's like, okay, we're going to shoe carnival. You have $50 to get a pair of shoes for the school year. And I envision that this is what I'm seeing in there. You know what I mean? Like this is what I had to choose from as a kid. I did not have any of this heat. Okay. How about this? We got to start eliminating them, DJ. Okay. Let's say what we're not eliminating. That's just what I'm saying. Let's do it that way. Let's pick five shoes we're not going to eliminate. This sneaker right here changed the game forever for sneakerheads. When this shoe came out, everybody went crazy. Could you make the argument that without this shoe, Jordans would have died down by now. Jordans? Oh, we. Because this really flamed up everybody. Yeah. For sneakers. It was crazy how like the red octobers came out in particular. And every single brand made a red shoe. Right. After that. Right. The following two years, three years, like every brand did an all red shoe. Do you think that Kanye in a way saved Jordans? Sheesh. Or do you think Jordans would have still had the full momentum that it had today without them dropping the shoe and without Kanye West, you know. The question is, did you really jump over a jump, man? No. But we got to keep this shoe. We got to keep this shoe. We'll talk about that one later. Regardless, we got to keep this shoe. All right. So keep it over here. Dude, you know, I love. We have to keep the mag. Bro, I mean, here's the thing. We have to keep the mag. To me. Okay. I understand what you're saying about the mag. To me though, the mag is a sneakerhead's grill. Or a movie lover from the 80s grill. So many different reasons. Why? But is it in the general population? We may not rank it high, but we can't take it off the list. Fine. We already got one Kanye on there. I think it's safe to say that the Air Easy one has to go, even though this did technically change the game. Yes. Okay. All right. Let's keep it on. This is so hard. Cortez. Bro, we cannot take. Dude, Forrest Gump, are you kidding me? You cannot take the Cortez off. You cannot take the Cortez off. Even though I would never rock him. Bro, this is history. Okay. Keep it on there. All right. This one I want to take off. Can we say iconic though? I don't think so. And this is why I feel that way. I feel like, yeah, it's something that's affordable people can wear. But the Blazers. I'm not a fan of the Blazers. Blazers had a revamp recently because I feel like, they've had a couple. As gym culture, as gym culture is becoming huge, all the weight lifters are rocking the Blazers to the gym. This was the ultimate tiktok shoot back in the day. That was a couple years ago. If somebody that's 80 years old is watching, we're gonna get flamed. But I agree. Let's take it off. Take the Blazers. I don't like the Blazers, bro. And if I did Blazers versus Air Max 1 or Air Max 90, you know what I'm saying? Let's talk about that. We can't have both Air Max's on there. We can't have both Air Max's? I don't think we can have both Air Max's, bro. And to me, I mean, bro, you know way more about sneakers than I am. I do. But to me, I feel like this is more of an iconic shoot than the one is. Really? I feel like the one is more iconic than the 90. You gotta get rid of the Air Max 90. To me, when I think of Air Max, I think of the Air Max 90. Okay. Like, I don't think of the Air Max 1. I didn't even know that they... I feel like because the 90 was more obtainable than the 1. Okay. But it was the first Air Max. We'll leave it. All right. We'll leave it. Okay. What else we got? Phone posits. Penny phone posits. Great shoe. Very good back in the day. Gotta be off the table. No way. No? Phone posits you're leaving on? If it wasn't for... Not only is this one of base... Bro, these are the Jordans of Nike basketball. Bro, I just feel like you're thinking about your generation. My era, my time. Right. Bro, I'm telling you right now. This logo... You gotta think of like from Nikes... The logo, the commercials, the shoes, the disc, the that, the other, like... Okay. Who else can say... I want you to think about the overall picture though. We're thinking about from Nikes beginning to now. Yes. You're saying the phone posit is top 10. In sneaker culture? I think we're doing out of everything. Out of everything? Most iconic? Yeah. Yes. Phone posit. All right. I'd rather debate. I'd rather debate SB versus regular dunks. Sure. That's easy. Take the SBs out. We know that. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Because I'm thinking right now with these, I'm thinking nowadays like the kids are going crazy about these, but overall impact of all time. But, but, but, but, but, but, but, but, but... Dunks. I feel like high top dunks from back in the day was the move. Okay. And then dunks became dope in the low tops because of SBs. I just think it's fair. I think we have to remove these because dude, I mean we don't have like talking skateboarding. Like why is it fair that we leave a skateboard shoe on here? But we don't have a running shoe. We don't have a tennis. Like, you know what I mean? This Air Max is running. We got training. We got basketball. We got a football shoe. This is a... Air Force One was a basketball shoe. We don't have a football shoe. We don't have a soccer. Like, you know what I mean? No, no, no, no. We're talking about shoes. Shoes. But you know what I'm saying though. So basically we're going to get rid of the dunks and keep the SBs. Okay. Okay. Okay. Listen to this. Listen to this. Listen to this. I don't... I'm so like... Listen to this. Listen to this. Hear me out. Listen to this. Then there are dunks. Okay, okay, okay. You get what I'm saying though? I trust you. You know what I'm saying? I really... Okay. That's what I'm saying. You're a history major in... Prestos. Uptempo. Bruh. You can't get rid of neither of them. We can't get rid of neither. You don't think so? Okay. Not all five Prestos, but Prestos in general. To me, one of my favorite most comfy shoes out there. I love the Prestos. The Uptempo's... Bruh. 90s, 2000s, 2020s. Well, this video is too hard to make. Let's just... Let's just call it a day. No, bro. We got to figure it out. I'm thinking because what I'm thinking now... We got to get to two shoes, bro. What I'm thinking now and I don't even want to go there... We have three basketball shoes on here. Okay. We have three basketball sneakers on here. This is a basketball shoe. Four basketball sneakers on here. This is a basketball shoe. Was it really? Bro, the Air Force 1 was a basketball shoe. Are you serious? Yeah. I had no idea. That's crazy. Okay, but realistically... I mean, we have four basketball shoes. What did we put four basketball sneakers in the top 10? I don't think we worry about what's in the top 10 based off of like, oh, X amount of basketball shoes. I think we think of the most iconic things. We think of South Beach Lebron 8. The impact on the culture of Lebron sneakers in general. Some people consider this to be the greatest Lebron sneaker of all time. We could have put the Lebron Zoom Generation 1 in there. We could have had other models in there. This is not most innovative. This is most iconic shoes. The moment that this, especially this colorway in particular, the golden era. These were in the golden era of Nike basketball. Think about it. I think if anything, we get rid of the dad's shoes. Yeezy 1 versus Yeezy 2. I say Yeezy 2. Okay. I'm with you. I think we don't put both. I'm with you on that because I think like, yeah, it was Kanye's first, but I think it's like that shoe is what made Kevin Hart have a shoe. Okay. Okay. So we got that. Like, if this would have been okay, and then that would have been a flop, we may not have seen it because that wasn't a flop. Okay. Okay. All right. We're down to the finals 12. We need you guys to hit the subscribe button because we are struggling right now. Did you just get rid of the Trader 1? I don't know what these are, bro. All right. All right. Go ahead. Go ahead. Maybe it's just my bias. That's crazy. I've never seen those. I'm sorry, guys. I'm sorry. I just, I've never seen them. All right. Let's get real. Let's get real down and dirty right now. So eliminate the presto. I think you could, bro. I think there's a lot of people that still don't know about the presto, bro. Like realistically, I think there's truly a lot of people that don't know about the presto. Okay. Least favorite then. Number 10. Yeah. What's like the bottom three? Cortez. For me, it would be. No. What? For me, bottom three is these three. The mag. The foam positive. Okay. The mag is like the grail of all grails. Right. Let's talk about the mag for a little bit. Okay. Mag is the grail of all grails. But what? Dream sneaker. But in the overall community, like, I feel like there's other grails out there too. Like think about the Louis Vuitton Air Force One. That's Air Force One, though. That's Air Force One. That's true. That's Air Force One. Yeah. The mag is its own shoe, which is crazy. Crazy, bro. Yeah, because every other grail is like Jordan Ford, Travis Scott, friends and family. Like, yeah. Every other grail is a sneaker, but the mag is its own sneaker silhouette. This thing is its own thing, bro. Right. Right. But we got both iconic. But so, I mean, yeah. Okay. All right. What's your bottom three? And we'll figure this out. Bottom three? Yup. I say SBs. Air Force One. Top three. Of course. Top three. Of course. It has to be. Like, if anybody doesn't think it's top three, they're tripping. Foam positive? Yup. I think foam's next. Air Max One. Because right now we're talking about top five. So this shoe does not make top five. This next shoe does not make top five. I think the Air Max One goes right behind the Air Force One, but above the mags. I almost feel like, for me, I would squeeze these in somewhere and take the mag out. Okay. So move the mag out. I'll squeeze these in somewhere here. Okay. Okay. Hold on. This is where we might have a problem. The foam positive, to me, is right online with the Kobe Six, but the LeBron Eight is behind the foam positive. Go ahead. You think that? Yeah. So like, if we go here, here. Sure. And then I say SBs LeBron Eight. LeBron does not make the top five. And I'm okay with that. Okay. But does SBs go over LeBron Eight? No. I think that's a big stab at the SB community, especially. Okay. Then switch it, bro. I don't know. You're putting me on blast right now. All right. Put it then. Put it. But I'm just saying, I love that. These are crazy, bro. Bro, I only rock Supras before I rock Nike. So I love skateboarding shoes, but I'm saying how are we going to be blessed with the skateboard community if we're not putting the tennis community, if we're not putting the running community, if we're not putting the football community, if we're not pulling like the weightlifting community. You know what I mean? Skateboarding is a sport at the end of the day. Most iconic. Yeah. All right. All right. I'm hearing you out. Okay. We're going to put the Cortez above the SB. Look, here's what I'm doing. I can tell you what I'm doing right now because we're already getting close to the end. I'm telling you exactly what I'm doing right now. Okay. Easy two at number three. Mag at last. Yeah, dude. I love mags. Mags are my favorite sneaker ever. Like that is my grail. This is the shoe that everybody asked, but do you have the mags? Do you have the mags? Do you have the mags? Like this shoe, to me, number 10 on the most iconic Nikes with these, I just like no hyperside, no like not dollar value. Like it's just, it doesn't make sense to me. There's no way you could put the up tempos above the mags. Okay. If we talk about cars, right? Are you putting a Bugatti in the top 10 cars ever made? I don't like the Bugatti at all. It's expensive. Right? It's iconic. Top 10? You know what I mean? Like I just, I just feel like you're being a hype beast right now, dude. Top three. Top three. Top three. What do you think of the top three right now? I'm not going to lie. I can give you the top three. I'm a little bit not educated enough to talk about the rest though. Okay. I stand solid with the top three. But I need your help. I don't know though. I feel like the, what would you switch this with? Don't tell me the mags. Do not tell me that you're going to switch it with the mags. No. I just think about, I also think about the phone pos in the Kobe six. Like the impact it's had. All I'm saying is, all I'm saying is the vast majority of people did not hear about it until this shoe dropped. This shoe changed the game. 100%. I feel like all these shoes are icons in their own ways. Can we do a little, just a final, final recoup? Yes. Let me just do it, please. Do what you want. Let me get the mag to like move it up a little bit to right here. Okay. Can I say that the SB is more iconic than the Cortez has a bigger impact on the sneaker community and everything than the Cortez. I think so. To me, I think a lot followed the Cortez though. To me, I think this is like the grandfather of everything we're looking at. Okay. You went to sneaker con. How many people were wearing Cortez's? How many people had shoes that's out on their booth with Cortez's? How many people was even talking about the Cortez's? Even the young kids even know what the Cortez is. That's like saying who's driving the first Corvette, you know, nobody's still driving the first Corvette, but it paved the way for a lot. You know what I mean? So we'll just put that right here. This is like the original Tesla, right? It innovated and talk about here. Yeah. All right. Give me that. Here we go. Final result. You're moving it up a little bit. You're moving the mag up, bro. The only... Dude, I don't want to seem like I'm a mag hater. I literally pressed up like Marty McFly. But over Braun, over the billionaire, over the billionaire, like over the building that Nike has, did Nike make a building for this right here? Did Nike dedicate an entire building to the innovation of the Airmen? All right. All right. Just because you went to the little Braun building for the first time. Yeah. Here we go. Number 10. Nike Airmor up temple. Number 10. Sure. Number nine. Nike Cortez. Okay. Yeah. We saw it with that. Number nine. Mama said, yeah. Number eight. Nike SB Dunkalow. Number eight. Most iconic. Number seven. Crazy. Nike Mag. Number six. Braun. The King. The Braun eight. The King. South Beach colorway. Insane. Number five. Penny phone positive one. I still think it's above the Kobe, but we'll go with it. I don't know, man. It's had a longer impact on the community. Okay. Okay. But this had a huge impact on innovation in the community as well. Number four. Kobe six. Number three. Nike Air Yeezy two. Huge impact. Number two. We have the Air Max one. And then number one. The Nike Air Force one. Do you agree with that, by the way? Or did you think the Air Max goes above the? I 100% agree with this. Okay. It's funny because I was already thinking the Air Force one is at the top of my list. So let us know what you guys think down below in the comments. Comment down your list down below. Let us know what you think. There's no right or wrong answer. There's no right or wrong answer. This is just great debate. It's participation award. All right, show up. We out. I will never let you down. So before you go, I just launched my sneaker head academy where we got everything on the inside. I teach you all the stuff that I learned over the past 15 years. When it comes to sneakers, scaling, real estate, you name it. We talk about all of it in there. And there's an eight week program plus a bunch of monthly giveaways. I give away shoes literally way too much, honestly. But either way, I'll see you guys on the inside. Hit the link down below in my description or pinned in the comment section for DJ sneaker head Academy. And I'll see you guys over there.