A lifetime immersed in the sneaker culture is long enough to know what it’s all about. For Sean Williams and Dee Wells it’s simple: appreciate, educate and elevate. Between talking with Tinker and teaching a class, the Obsessive Sneaker Disorder front men took the time to talk with us. In celebration of the show’s five-year anniversary, take a look at what they’re rocking in this double feature?My 5.
YO! MTV Raps x Puma Clyde “Big Daddy Kane”
Sean Williams: “For me, PUMA was one of the first shoes I wore when I got into sneakers when I was 13. Back in the 80s when people were b-boying they were wearing PUMA Clydes. Those shoes go right back to the early days of hip-hop. As hip-hop culture grew and emerged, those sneakers were right there. For someone like me that is almost 41 years old, that shoe never wavered in importance to me. I always walked with those stories and that connection to them. The Clyde always stayed relevant. They?re one of the shoes that technically has never been retroed because PUMA never stopped making them.”
Nike Lunar Flow Woven QS
Dee Wells: “The Flow is such a classic shoe that a lot of purists didn?t want to mess up. Here you have this Lunar foam– but it works. Our friend Brian is an OG sneakerhead and he has multiple pairs of Flows from the 80s and I was surprised that he actually likes the remix version. I like these because you?ve got the woven and you?ve got the Lunar. Olive green kind of camouflages the front but the orange liner really sets them off.”
