 Today, we're gonna be taking a look at a highly anticipated Air Jordan 5 and that is the Green Bean Jordan 5. This is a colorway that we have seen one time in the past before and I'm excited to unbox this shoe and re-add these back to my collection. So if you guys didn't know by now, my name is DJ and this is the DNA Show. On this channel, I love breaking down different sneakers like this, talking about styles, cuts, materials, history, nostalgia and all those fancy things. So if you haven't already, consider subscribing and joining the fam. We're on the road to a million subscribers and you could be the next one to get us there. So with all that being said, let's go ahead and crack this box open and see what these shoes are talking about. Starting with the top of the box right here, you have your classic Air Jordan 5 OG style box but it definitely does have a major twist to it. On here, you're gonna have silver on the back end and silver on the lid with a green jump man in the center of that. Now going to the side of the box right here, this is actually one cool element that I really do like and I'm not sure if it is 3M reflective, we will check on camera if so I'll show you guys some B-roll but basically it has the speckle pattern all throughout the rest of the box right here and it actually has a texture to it. I don't know if you can hear it or not but. Normally when you see an Air Jordan 5 box like this, it's just smooth with the texture pattern printed on there and you can't really feel the texture. So on here it is kind of dope to see that element on the box. Now going to the size tag, it reads Air Jordan 5 Retro Silver Green Bean Flint Gray. Size 13, just for me and retail on these things was 200 bucks. Now flipping open the lid of the box, you have that same type of texture print that you saw on the sides of the box. That's going to be all over the paper and then you got the shoe. Oh, you got this shoe. Okay, first impressions of this sneaker. Bruh, I ain't going to lie. Originally I thought the shape was going to be kind of messed up when I saw the toe box in the new OG style but these are pretty fire. Now before we get into breaking down the styles, cuts and materials like I was talking about the toe box area of the shoe, we got to talk about the history first. So as we all know, the Air Jordan 5 originally came around back in 1990. We saw Jordan wearing that shoe on the court and we all remember the 3M reflective tongue that was so iconic throughout the years. I'll never forget back in 2006 when I saw JQ walking through the cafeteria in high school and he had the new green bean fives that had just came out on his feet. I seen them and they were flashing just shining from across the room and I was like, bro, I gotta have those. So shortly after that, as I started to collect sneakers more seriously in high school, I immediately copped a pair as soon as I had a chance. I'm sure a lot of older sneaker heads remember those days of the times when we had the burgundy fives, the olive fives, the green bean fives, the fire reds with the black tongues, the stale fives, you name it, there was a bunch of great colors. We can't forget the grapes. I know everybody remember the grapes? That was just a very, very dope shoe in its time but we'll keep that one for another video. Either way, there were a lot of dope fives coming out during that time and this one in particular really stood out to a lot of people and it's dope to see that a lot of people still appreciate them to this day. Now, before I get into too much storytelling about all of my sentimental reasons why I love this shoe and everything, let's break down the styles, cut some materials so you can see some more in-depth shots and then we'll talk about my opinions, everybody else's opinions, resale values and what my predictions are for the future. Starting with the bottom of the shoe, you have your classic Air Jordan 5 outsole, blue translucent pods, the green bean junkman in the center of the ball of the foot and then the Jordan in the back end on the gray rubber. Going to the midsole, this is gonna be pretty much similar to the OG as well. You got your darker gray here with the green on the front and on the shark teeth. Now looking at the upper, oh the upper, like I said before, we all remember the iconic 3M tongues on the Jordan 5s. Well, when they decided to do this on the entire upper, having the whole shoe be reflective, there is a lot of positives and there's a lot of negatives, right? This shoe is flashy, it looks extremely dope and you could just really pull off a crazy fire fit with it but one of the problems that everybody has is what? Creasing, most sneaker heads know the Air Jordan 5 does have heavy creasing right here around the toe box and especially on the inside of the foot and sometimes over right here around the toe but when you have the 3M, you can see the creasing and it kinda shows when it reflects off of light and it kinda leaves a dark line on the shoe and that's something that people don't like when it comes to wearing the shoe. So again, there's some positives and there's some negatives. But besides all that, when you see the shoe fresh out the box or freshly worn on a pair of feet, you're like, bro, that shoe looks extremely clean. I love it. So taking that all into account, that does lead to people questioning, do they wanna have the shoe because if they wanna wear it, how long are they gonna be able to wear it without having to deal with all those issues? And that's always something to take note of if you have never owned a sneaker like this before. Now besides that, you got dark gray plastic eyelets right here running up the foot. These come standard with a pair of light gray laces. You got a clear bib with a green bean lace lock and then you have the same thing right here, 3M on the tongue with a green bean jump man on here. You got that green bean coloring on the sock liner and behind the tongue and then your Air Jordan patch that goes behind the tongue classic like every other Air Jordan. Now looking at the insoles of the shoe, it's gonna be a light gray with the green bean jump man as well. And those are gonna be essentially all your major details. I forgot to mention the jump man on the back, another dope hit. Some people are like, we need Nike Air on everything. This is not a Nike Air type shoe. I get it. I know we want Nike Air on a lot of stuff, but I feel like it's okay to have jump man on shoes too. I don't know. Let me know what you guys think down below. Now that also drives me to my next question on what you guys think down below and that is the longevity of this sneaker. So we saw these come out in 2006, it's 2022 now. So it's been a long time, over 15 years since this shoe came out. So with that being said, there's gonna be a big gap. Could they potentially ever release this shoe again? That's another question. Are we gonna see this retro 10 or 15 years from now again? And in that time, is this shoe gonna hold the tail of time when it comes to the materials? I feel like they are aware of that. And the only thing we can do is see what happens. I think when we look at the five lab threes, I used to have those in my collection and I started wearing them. And then I got that weird kind of like wrinkly crease kind of on the toe box. And I just wasn't really feeling it. And then I had the darker pair, the darker five lab threes as well. And it just wasn't really tickling my fancy with actually wearing the shoe. I liked it. I appreciated it. I thought it was a cool flashy shoe and it gave me those same vibes of owning a green bean five. But I just, I didn't wanna wear it because I feel like it had to be brand new every time with that crease line. So I don't know, maybe that's just an internal issue. And I'm the only one that's dealing with that. And other people don't really care about the creasing. But I feel like when I see that shoe, they did a little bit better on the creasing compared to the 2006 green bean five. If you look at some pairs from the past, you can definitely see right here with these images. People's pairs, as they worn them over the years and the creases start to come and the midsole start to fall apart and all those different things. It causes you to be like, I don't know how long I could really keep this shoe in my collection. For me, I think now, from learning that thing from all them years before, I think it's a shoe that I take advantage of the opportunity, rock it. I don't have to rock it right now, but within the next couple years, start walking the shoe and mixing it with different outfits and understanding that this shoe could potentially be a shoe that I'm like, it's time to sell after I've gotten my creases in it and done my things and pulled off all my outfits that I like with it. Because when it comes to the pairs that I've owned in the past, I've actually owned three different pairs. I had like a really beat pair that I got for the super low that I used to just wear all the time and just like flashy with it. The other pair I had was clean and it looked really good. I was like, cool, I could pull a dope fits right here. And then I had a dead stock pair that I had got some, even probably like four years after they had came out or something like that. Ended up finding a dead stock pair. And this picture right here is the dead stock pair that I used to have. And I think I wore those like one time and I was like scared because I remember my North Carolina fives, the midsole started to fall apart. And when I saw that, I was like, damn, those were dead stock too. So I was just kind of scared of seeing the, you know, the file on midsole falling apart on a shoe like that. So it kind of just brought all these things to my mind. And I'm like, you know what? I'm going to sell it. It's okay. Like maybe it's just a shoe that I'll never have in my collection again. And then boom, 2022 comes around and we have the retro coming out. And I'm like, I immediately, I need to cop. I have to have this shoe. Because I've had this shoe for so many years. I'm so happy to have it back in my collection and have the opportunity to wear the shoe again. And I think that's another thing that sneakerheads don't talk about and why they justify why you need multiple pairs and you need the different driven iterations and stuff like that is because the old pairs, they fall apart and that's okay. You got your wares, you did your things, you had your fun. And then they retro one 10, 15, 20, 12 years, whatever anniversary it is, they retro another one. And you have the opportunity to enjoy that memory from high school for me or whatever it was for you and a different stuff like that. So for me, it makes me extremely excited to have this shoe. I have nothing but thumbs up. I feel like the toe box, it is kind of interesting because they've given us that OG style toe box. And on the previous pair, it had a completely different cut. We've gone over this before in the fire rare review showing you different types or in the raging bull fives or anything like that. I should have brought my burgundy fives so you could see those as well. That'll give you kind of a different look at the toe box and the style from that era. But either way, hopefully these pictures that I just showed you from some previous references kind of let you see the difference with the toe box and the shape and everything. So I'm interested to see what the toe down looks like. It looks really wide, especially with this being a size 13. But overall, besides that, I love the shoe. I'm gonna give these a solid. I'm gonna give these a solid nine, eight. I'm gonna give these a solid 8.5 out of 10. So now that you guys have my rating on the shoe, clearly I think the shoe is fire. I'm interested to see what you guys think. So if you haven't already, consider following me on IG so you can participate in the polls and see all the results here on the channel. Ask the people a simple question. This is what they say. 70% of the people chose fire and 30% of the people chose trash. And honestly, that makes sense. Like I said earlier, all the different reasons, sometimes people say the shoe is just too loud or whatever and I get that. Or they say the functionality of it with the creasing. There's a lot of different pros and there's a lot of different cons. I think it's gonna be up for you to decide how you feel about the sneaker. One thing that I can say when it comes to pricing and everything like that, the older pair, a dead stock pair, you're gonna find online for four or 500 bucks. You know, that's 15 year old shoe. I get that, I understand. That's kind of like the max value of the sneaker. I don't think it could ever go to something any higher, especially saying now that we have a retro, if anything that could cause the price to drop. So again, having the wiseness of knowing like, oh, if this shoe is coming out again, I should sell it before the next one comes out that way. I can get the max potential value of the dollar on the sneaker before I get the next one. And then so, you know, there's just a lot of different nuances to the game. Again, we talk about all that in the hobby to hustle if you wanna learn more about that stuff. But either way, that's kind of where I'm at with it. I'm interested to see what you guys think. The shoe hit for 200 bucks, going for a little bit over that. I think it should be a pretty easy cop for those people that missed out on the drop. And I'm sure a lot of people that wanted the shoe, got the shoe, and were happy about that. So I think it was a pretty good overall release for everybody, not a crazy hype release, kind of just went under the radar. You should probably be able to pick these up for the next couple of years. And then we might see a trend in the spike for people that kept, you know, a really clean pair or a dead stock pair, you know, two or three years from now. Then we'll start saying, oh, okay, now I see the shoe being worth, you know, $300, $350 and slowly creeping up over time. So that's kind of my predictions. Let me know what you guys think down below. I'm excited to talk about more. We got a lot more shoes to review. I've been picking up a bunch of stuff for y'all. Yo, if you enjoyed this video and wanna grow your collection or make extra money on the side, I built a VIP mastermind that will teach you everything that I've learned about growing my sneaker collection over the past 15 years. 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Let's talk about alternate colorway, something like the green beans or the burgundies or something like that. So I'm interested to see what y'all think. Let me know down below.