Month: March 2021

Just a little over two years ago, Soulja Boy had his infamous “Drake??” moment on The Breakfast Club, where the “Kiss Me Thru The Phone” rapper claimed he helped influence Drake’s early success. Fast forward to the present and it’s clear that his sentiments have not changed.

Souja recently took to Twitter to share his displeasures with Drake’s recent comments about Bow Wow’s influence on him, which he had posted on Instagram. “I had to link with Wizzle,” Drake said. “Everybody wants to have drinks and everybody wants to celebrate and turn up and, you know, I just had to see Wizzle. I had to see Wizzle in person. If it wasn’t for you, there wouldn’t be no me. That’s why I’mma rock with y’all forever.”

But Souja had said he was lying. “That n**** drake is hilarious. Dude stole my whole bar then thanked bow wow,” he said. Drake showed love to Bow Wow after the three songs on his EP Scary Hours 2 debuted within the top three positions of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. As a result of the feat, he held a party to commemorate the accomplishment, which Bow Wow attended.

Despite all this, it’s likely the two rappers will stay on good terms. After his 2019 The Breakfast Club appearance, Soulja shared an Instagram direct message conversation between him and Drake, in which the Toronto rapper wrote, “You know it’s always been love all jokes aside.”

Shawn Bradley was one of the NBA’s most recognizable figures over the course of his 12-year NBA career, which included stints with the Sixers, Nets, and Mavs, the latter of which he spent the last eight years of his career before retiring in 2005. But tragedy struck the former center in January as he was cycling just a few blocks from his home.

According to a team statement released on Twitter Wednesday, Bradley was riding near his home in St. George, Utah when a car struck him from behind. Bradley has been hospitalized ever since after undergoing a spinal procedure and the subsequent recovery process. The injury has left him paralyzed.

The release also included statements from owner Mark Cuban and GM Donnie Nelson.

The Dallas Mavericks have issued a press release on behalf of former Maverick Shawn Bradley as well as statements from Mark Cuban and Donnie Nelson. pic.twitter.com/F9fCtlZ1zJ

— Mavs PR (@MavsPR) March 17, 2021

The NBA has a long and storied history of towering figures, both in the literal and figurative sense. But even among the trees, Bradley stood above most of his peers with his imposing 7’6 frame. He was the No. 2 overall pick in 1993 and led the league in blocks in 1997. Bradley also had a role in the iconic film Space Jam, as well as several other movie and television appearances. His former teammate, current Nets coach Steve Nash, was among those who offered his thoughts to Bradley and hope that he would make as full a recovery as possible.

People are still reeling from the tragic shootings in the Atlanta area, in which eight people were shot to death at three separate massage parlors. Six of them were Asian, prompting concerns that the suspect, 21-year-old Robert Aaron Long, was racially motivated. On Wednesday, a sheriff’s official, Captain Jay Baker, was called out for the curious way he described Long’s apparent motives, telling reported that he’d simply had a “very bad day.” Now things are even worse: As per BuzzFeed, eh appears to have previously shared anti-Asian T-shirts online.

In a Facebook post from last April, Baker shared images of some parody shirts, in which the Corona beer label was replaced with the words “Covid 19 IMPORTED FROM CHY-NA.” It’s pure Trump, from blaming the East Asian nation for the pandemic to his preferred way of pronouncing its name. “Love my shirt,” Baker wrote. “Get yours while they last.”

The post disappeared shortly after BuzzFeed reached out to Baker, who did not otherwise respond.

During the same press conference Wednesday, Georgia police said it was too early to determine a motive for Long’s alleged massacre, saying that he’d explained that he had sex addiction issues, and that he’d targeted the massage businesses to “take out that temptation.” Baker then put it more succinctly, saying, “Yesterday was a really bad day for him and this is what he did.” His phrasing earned the ire of people already deeply upset.

According to The New York Times, there have been nearly 3,800 reports of hate incidents against Asian-Americans across the nation since last March. Meanwhile, former president Donald Trump has long bandied about terms like “China Virus” and “Kung Flu,” and specifically blamed the nation for the pandemic. He even did it right before news of the massacre broke.

(Via BuzzFeed)

Back in June 2020, Kanye West announced that his brand Yeezy landed a deal with Gap. While he didn’t share too many details about the joint venture, some specifics about the partnership were revealed by The New York Times. According to “a person familiar with the negotiations, who was not authorized to speak publicly,” the deal holds a term of ten years, with the option to renew after five. Almost nine months later, Yeezy and Gap’s partnership seems to be a successful endeavor.

Bloomberg reports that the collaboration between the two brands, which is set to be available in stores later this year, could be valued as high as $970 million. The publication also reported that Yeezy itself is valued between $3.2 billion to $4.7 billion, thanks to estimates from UBS Group. West also has $122 million in cash and stock, $110 million from his music catalog, and $1.7 billion in other assets, including Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS brand. If the reported numbers are correct, it would bump West’s net worth to somewhere between the range of $5.1 billion and $6.6 billion — a sharp increase from the $1.3 billion that Forbes reported last year.

In other news, last week collaborator Cyhi The Prynce said that West got back to work on his upcoming album Donda, which was originally set to arrive last summer.

For weeks, P.J. Tucker’s future has been up in the air. The Houston Rockets are embracing a youth movement in the post-James Harden era, and Tucker, who is an unrestricted free agent after this season, wants to play for a team that can satiate his desire to win a championship for the first time in his career.

Basically every good team has been linked to him in recent weeks, and on Wednesday night, we finally got resolution to this entire saga. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, the Rockets and the Milwaukee Bucks came to terms on a deal that will send Tucker to the Eastern Conference, while a collection of other players and picks will also be moved in the deal.

In a subsequent move, the Bucks sent Torrey Craig to the Phoenix Suns.

It is worth mentioning that Tucker has not been particularly good this season — he’s averaging 4.4 points and 4.6 rebounds in 30 minutes a night while connecting on 31.4 percent of his threes — but he also hasn’t exactly been in a situation conducive to success. Plus, Tucker’s value has always come in the postseason, where his defensive versatility and ability to his threes has been coveted.

If Tucker is capable of being that, this move is a boost for the Bucks’ frontcourt. If not, well, their fortunes to win a championship will still be ultra-reliant on Giannis Antetokounmpo, but Tucker should at least be able to provide some defensive solidity once the playoffs roll around.

In another, better timeline, Black Widow would have come out last May. Instead the next Marvel movie is due in theaters this May, being one of many blockbusters that decided to wait out the pandemic, to see if humanity finally got a handle on a once-in-a-century catastrophe. Jump a whole year and, alas, even its current May 7 due date is being optimistic. Disney honcho Bob Chapek knows it, too, and when asked whether the long-delayed solo vehicle for Scarlett Johansson’s Natasha Romanoff would be getting an exclusive theatrical run, his answer was refreshingly honest — which is to say he doesn’t know.

Chapek appeared on Bloomberg Television, interviewed in front of Disneyland in California, which recently set a limited capacity reopening for late April. When asked about Black Widow, he noted that everything, now, still, even with the increasing vaccine rollout, is in flux.

“Our situation and our conditions change,” Chapek said. “Just a few weeks ago, theaters in New York and Los Angeles weren’t even open. Now, all of a sudden they’re open, so we’re waiting to see how prospective theatergoers respond to these reopenings. We’re going to remain flexible. We’ll make the call probably at the last minute in terms of how these films come to market, whether it’s Black Widow or any other title.”

Marvel, of course, is owned by Disney, and the company has either made their big films available free with a Disney+ subscription (Onward, Soul) or in theaters and PVOD simultaneously (Raya and the Last Dragon). So Black Widow could wind up dropped in multiplexes, to socially distancing crowds, and for $30 over their streamer.

Movie theaters in New York City opened two Fridays ago, while Los Angeles ones opened earlier this week — both having been shuttered since mid-March of last year. While movie theater attendance has since skyrocketed, it’s still nowhere near what it was pre-pandemic — in part because the pandemic is still very much in full swing. And even though vaccines are being more distributed than ever, only a small portion of the country is fully vaccinated, and anxieties about contracting or spreading COVID-19 remain.

So will people feel comfortable enough in less than two months to go see the first new Marvel movie in almost two years? (The last one, Spider-Man: Far from Home, came out in July of 2019.) Like Chapek, we’ll just have to wait and see. But for now, Black Widow is due in theaters on May 7.

(Via Deadline)

The first time one of my kids had a panic attack, I didn’t have any idea what to do. The pounding heartbeat, racing thoughts, shortness of breath, and feeling like you’re losing control are disconcerting symptoms for adults to experience, but they’re even more alarming for a child who doesn’t know why it’s happening. As a parent, it’s scary not knowing how to help your child when they clearly need help.

The exact cause of panic disorder is unknown, but experts estimate it affects close to 4 percent of the population. Like other anxiety disorders, it also tends to run in families, which appears to be the case for my kiddos. But even people who don’t have a full-fledged disorder can occasionally experience a panic attack, and it’s good to know what actually helps.

My youngest was around six years old when he had his first bout of panic. It wasn’t long after we’d tucked him into bed when he called for me with a shaky urgency in his voice. When I got to his room, he said he couldn’t breathe and that his heart was going really fast. “I don’t know what’s going on,” he said through chattering teeth. “My whole body won’t stop shaking and I’m freaking out.”

I immediately recognized the signs of panic, having gone through it with his older sister, but he was a lot younger than she had been when she had her first episode. Thankfully, the tools we used with her also worked with him.

Here’s how we help our kids through a panic attack:

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1) Verbalize what’s happening to them.

Panic attacks are intense for the person experiencing them and saying something like “Calm down” isn’t really helpful. They want to calm down, they just can’t.

For our kids, explaining exactly what’s happening, what they can expect to happen, and what they actually can control is the first step toward regaining calm. After the first time through it, they don’t need this much detail, but here’s a basic script of where we started:

“You’re okay, even though it doesn’t feel like it. You’re just having a panic attack. The fear part of your brain is sort of stuck for a bit, and it keeps revving up your body. It’s like your brain thinks there’s a tiger chasing you, even though there isn’t. That makes your heart beat really fast and makes it hard to breathe. You might feel like you’re losing control. You might even feel like you’re going crazy. But it’ll pass soon, I promise. Panic attacks are just temporary glitches. Your brain and body will calm back own, usually within ten minutes or so. Let’s work on helping you feel better while it works its way out of your system.”

2) Use “box breathing” to help them catch their breath.

Breathing intentionally is one of the quickest ways to reset when your body is in a heightened state. The best technique we’ve encountered for this is an exercise called “box breathing” or “square breathing.” It’s actually a tool Navy Seals use to keep calm under stress, but it’s so simple even kids can use it.

Slowly draw the shape of a square in the air, starting from the bottom left-hand corner. As you draw the first line upward, have your child breathe in for a count of five. Then have them hold their breath while you draw the top line, then exhale while you draw down the right side. Finally, have them hold the exhale while completing the square with the bottom line. Then repeat—breathe in, hold, breath out, hold. Around four or five seconds for each breath and hold wonders for getting breathing under control, which helps calm the brain and body.

Here’s a quick video that shows how it works. (With our kids, I usually draw the box for them while talking them through the breaths and holds at first, then have them start drawing the box with me as they start to calm down.)

Box breathing relaxation technique: how to calm feelings of stress or anxiety

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3) Ground them in reality with the “4-3-2-1” exercise.

Panic is the brain gripped by a state of fear that doesn’t reflect what’s actually happening. It’s basically the amygdala—the fight or flight center of the brain—wigging out for no apparent reason. The intense fear triggers the fight or flight response, forming a sort of feedback loop, with the body freaking out because the brain’s freaking out, which makes the body freak out, and so on.

Getting the brain to focus on the body’s physical senses can help break that loop and bring the body and brain back to a state of calm (or at least calmer). For this, we use a simple grounding exercise we call “4-3-2-1.”

Have the child look for and then name, out loud:

– Four things they can see. (“I see my lamp. I see the cat. I see the window. I see my teddy bear.”).

– Three things they can feel. (“I feel my pillow. I feel your hand. I feel the sheets.”)

– Two things they can hear. (“I hear cars outside. I hear the heater running.”)

– One thing they can smell. (“I smell your lotion.”)

I always have the kids say a full sentence for each thing they count, as that reinforces the physical aspect of the exercise. Without fail, my kiddos are always calmer when they get to what they can smell. Super simple, but super effective.

It’s important to note that these exercises don’t stop an attack in its tracks. Panic usually just has to run its course. What they do is take the edge off, make the attack more tolerable, and help the kiddo wait it out without feeling like they have no control at all while it’s happening.

Panic attacks and anxiety attacks (which share similar symptoms and can respond to the same tools) aren’t fun for kids or for parents. But when a kid knows what’s happening and a parent has tools to help them manage it, they’re a lot less scary for everyone involved.

The NCAA Tournament kicks off on Thursday evening when the First Four games tip off, followed by the usual March Madness craziness we have come to expect during this time of year over the next four days. Before things tip off, though, a number of college athletes, many of whom will participate in the upcoming bubble-type environment in Indiana, decided to speak out about the way the NCAA operates.

At the forefront of the discourse was standout Rutgers guard Geo Baker, who got this ball rolling on Tuesday in an interaction with Jon Rothstein of CBS and in a follow-up tweet. One day later and he created a hashtag, #NotNCAAProperty, to excoriate the organization for how it keeps a vice grip on players being able to profit off of their likeness.

Baker ended up boosting messages from a number of other college basketball players, while plenty of current and former collegiate athletes hopped on board with this message.

A pair of ESPN college basketball personalities, Dick Vitale and Jay Bilas, endorsed the message from these athletes — the former tweeted out a story about the hashtag, while Bilas created a video trying to address one of the misconceptions around compensating athletes.

Earlier this year, a bill introduced by Sen. Chris Murphy and Rep. Lori Trahan sought to remove any restrictions on name, image, and likeness that the NCAA could put on a college athlete. In a statement to ESPN, Trahan, a former college athlete during her time as a volleyball player at Georgetown, said, “I’m all too familiar with the NCAA’s business model that for decades has utilized the guise of amateurism to justify obscene profitability while student athletes have struggled to get by.”

There’s a ton of content on Netflix — so much that people can find themselves spending more time scrolling and scrolling and scrolling through their menu than they do actually watching something. Netflix itself has tried to find ways to help indecisive customer; for some there’s actually a shuffle option, which gives you a random option based on your viewing history. But one user found a way to narrow it all down, providing what you really want to watch is some grisly true crime.

As The Mirror, a TikTok user named Laura Lindsay made video in which she shared a lifehack in which you can whittle it down to only their many, many true crime documentary series. All you do is go up to the search function and instead of typing in a title, type in four letters: 9875. Voilá! Nothing but Tiger King, Making a Murderer, The Staircase, etc., etc., etc.

Of course, then you have to figure out which gruesome, nightmarish show you want to spend your evening with. But concentrated scrolling is better than aimless scrolling.

You can thank Lindsay later, though you can also thank The Mirror, who went next level, supplying similar numerical codes to all manner of genres. So if you’re not a true crime nut but are such specific sub-genres as “Dramas based on books,” “Dutch movies” or “Zombie Horror Movies,” then you’re in luck:

Action & Adventure: 1365
Action Comedies: 43040
Action Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 1568
Action Thrillers: 43048
Adult Animation: 11881
Adventures: 7442
African Movies: 3761
Alien Sci-Fi: 3327
Animal Tales: 5507
Anime: 7424
Anime Action: 2653
Anime Comedies: 9302
Anime Dramas: 452
Anime Fantasy: 11146
Anime Features: 3063
Anime Horror: 10695
Anime Sci-Fi: 2729
Anime Series: 6721
Art House Movies: 29764
Asian Action Movies: 77232
Australian Movies: 5230
B-Horror Movies: 8195
Baseball Movies: 12339
Basketball Movies: 12762
Belgian Movies: 262
Biographical Docs: 3652
Biographical Dramas: 3179
Boxing Movies: 12443
British Movies: 10757
British TV Shows: 52117
Camp Movies: 1252
Children & Family Movies: 783
Chinese Movies: 3960
Classic Action & Adventure: 46576
Classic Comedies: 31694
Classic Dramas: 29809
Classic Movies: 31574
Classic Musicals: 32392
Classic Romantic Movies: 31273
Classic Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 47147
Classic Thrillers: 46588
Classic TV Shows: 46553
Classic War Movies: 48744
Classic Westerns: 47465
Comedies: 6548
Comic Book and Superhero: 10118
Country & Western/Folk: 1105
Courtroom Dramas: 2748
Creature Features: 6895
Crime Action & Adventure: 9584
Crime Documentaries: 9875
Crime Dramas: 6889
Crime Thrillers: 10499
Crime TV Shows: 26146
Cult Comedies: 9434
Cult Horror Movies: 10944
Cult Movies: 7627
Cult Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 4734
Cult TV Shows: 74652
Dark Comedies: 869
Deep Sea Horror Movies: 45028
Disney: 67673
Disney Musicals: 59433
Documentaries: 6839
Dramas: 5763
Dramas based on Books: 4961
Dramas based on real life: 3653
Dutch Movies: 10606
Eastern European Movies: 5254
Education for Kids: 10659
Epics: 52858
Experimental Movies: 11079
Faith & Spirituality: 26835
Faith & Spirituality Movies: 52804
Family Features: 51056
Fantasy Movies: 9744
Film Noir: 7687
Food & Travel TV: 72436
Football Movies: 12803
French Movies: 58807
Gangster Movies: 31851
LGBTQ Dramas: 500
German Movies: 58886
Greek Movies: 61115
Historical Documentaries: 5349
Horror Comedy: 89585
Horror Movies: 8711
Independent Action & Adventure: 11804
Independent Comedies: 4195
Independent Dramas: 384
Independent Movies: 7077
Independent Thrillers: 3269
Indian Movies: 10463
Irish Movies: 58750
Italian Movies: 8221
Japanese Movies: 10398
Jazz & Easy Listening: 10271
Kids Faith & Spirituality: 751423
Kids Music: 52843
Kids’ TV: 27346
Korean Movies: 5685
Korean TV Shows: 67879
Late Night Comedies: 1402
Latin American Movies: 1613
Latin Music: 10741
Martial Arts Movies: 8985
Martial Arts, Boxing & Wrestling: 6695
Middle Eastern Movies: 5875
Military Action & Adventure: 2125
Military Documentaries: 4006
Military Dramas: 11
Military TV Shows: 25804
Miniseries: 4814
Mockumentaries: 26
Monster Movies: 947
Movies based on children’s books: 10056
Movies for ages 0 to 2: 6796
Movies for ages 2 to 4: 6218
Movies for ages 5 to 7: 5455
Movies for ages 8 to 10: 561
Movies for ages 11 to 12: 6962
Music & Concert Documentaries: 90361
Music: 1701
Musicals: 13335
Mysteries: 9994
New Zealand Movies: 63782
Period Pieces: 12123
Political Comedies: 2700
Political Documentaries: 7018
Political Dramas: 6616
Political Thrillers: 10504
Psychological Thrillers: 5505
Quirky Romance: 36103
Reality TV: 9833
Religious Documentaries: 10005
Rock & Pop Concerts: 3278
Romantic Comedies: 5475
Romantic Dramas: 1255
Romantic Favorites: 50267
Romantic Independent Movies: 9916
Romantic Movies: 8883
Russian: 11567
Satanic Stories: 6998
Satires: 4922
Scandinavian Movies: 9292
Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 1492
Sci-Fi Adventure: 6926
Sci-Fi Dramas: 3916
Sci-Fi Horror Movies: 1694
Sci-Fi Thrillers: 11014
Science & Nature Documentaries: 2595
Science & Nature TV: 52780
Screwball Comedies: 9702
Showbiz Dramas: 5012
Showbiz Musicals: 13573
Silent Movies: 53310
Slapstick Comedies: 10256
Slasher and Serial Killer Movies: 8646
Soccer Movies: 12549
Social & Cultural Documentaries: 3675
Social Issue Dramas: 3947
Southeast Asian Movies: 9196
Spanish Movies: 58741
Spiritual Documentaries: 2760
Sports & Fitness: 9327
Sports Comedies: 5286
Sports Documentaries: 180
Sports Dramas: 7243
Sports Movies: 4370
Spy Action & Adventure: 10702
Spy Thrillers: 9147
Stage Musicals: 55774
Stand-up Comedy: 11559
Steamy Romantic Movies: 35800
Steamy Thrillers: 972
Supernatural Horror Movies: 42023
Supernatural Thrillers: 11140
Tearjerkers: 6384
Teen Comedies: 3519
Teen Dramas: 9299
Teen Screams: 52147
Teen TV Shows: 60951
Thrillers: 8933
Travel & Adventure Documentaries: 1159
TV Action & Adventure: 10673
TV Cartoons: 11177
TV Comedies: 10375
TV Documentaries: 10105
TV Dramas: 11714
TV Horror: 83059
TV Mysteries: 4366
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy: 1372
TV Shows: 83
Urban & Dance Concerts: 9472
Vampire Horror Movies: 75804
Werewolf Horror Movies: 75930
Westerns: 7700
World Music Concerts: 2856
Zombie Horror Movies: 75405

(Via The Mirror)

Welcome to SNX DLX! This week we’ve got fresh new sneakers from some old friends — yes, we count Nora Vasconcellos, Kanye West, and Pharrell as friends of the series, wouldn’t you? — and some new, thanks to Bad Bunny’s first collaborative sneaker with Adidas. It’s a major step up from the reggaeton star’s Croc collaboration, we can promise you that!

Rounding out the list you’ll find some new looks out of New Balance Japan, a sleek pair of Jordan IIIs with a classic colorway, and the repeatedly postponed Love Letter iteration of the Nike Air Max, which may have come a month late, but… better later than never. If you’re looking for an outfit to complete the fit, be sure to check out last week’s apparel roundup after you scan this week’s best kicks.

Let’s get it!

Bad Bunny x Adidas Forum Low Buckle The First Cafe

Hot on the heels of winning a Grammy for his album YHLQMDLG Bad Bunny is in the midst of a victory lap. In just two days he has received his first Grammy win, and now his first Adidas sneaker collab has dropped, what will the end of the week bring us from the Puerto Rican trap star? Who knows, but it feels like Bad Bunny is about to blast off into the moon!

While BB is no stranger to the footwear game (dude designedsome Crocs because, of course), this is his first sneaker and according to Adidas this is merely the start of a much longer collaboration. The Adidas answer to Nike’s Travis Scott drops? Sounds like it.

Inspired by BB’s morning ritual of drinking a hot cup of coffee, the First Café features a beige, brown, and cream white colorway across a Forum Low silhouette that makes it resemble, well, a cup of coffee. Rounding out the design is a set of brown or blue laces (or both!) and a reinforced buckle that reads Yo Visto Así, which is the name of one of BB’s tracks on 2020s El Último Tour del Mundo and translates to “I dress like this.”

The Bad Bunny x Adidas Forum Low Buckley “The First Cafe” is set to drop on March 17th for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair via the Adidas confirmed app, select Adidas retailers, the aftermarket and, if you’re in Puerto Rico, Uber Eats.

Nora x Adidas Gazelle ADV

We’re big fans of pro skater Nora Vasconcellos — both for her skills on a deck and the pastel aesthetic she’s been infusing into her sneaker and apparel line with Adidas. The latest piece from the star features a fresh take on the Gazelle silhouette with a white leather upper beside nubuck suede detailing, an exposed foam tongue, and Adidas’ Soft Vision Purple on the sneaker’s throat and three-stripes.

The design is rounded out with original art and words by Vasconcellos along the heel tab and sock liner. It’s simple and clean, another solid effort from Vasconcellos, Adidas best skate shoe collaborator that isn’t Blondey McCoy.

The Nora x Adidas Gazelle is out now for a retail price of $100. Pick up a pair at the Adidas webstore.

Nike WMNS Air Max 90 Love Letter

The WMNS-exclusive Air Max 90 Love Letter has been postponed so many times, they might as well have renamed the sneaker. It’s clear that this release was originally meant for Valentine’s Day weekend, but now… here it is!

Sure the theme doesn’t quite connect anymore. But the Love Letter is still a dope look.

Featuring a white upper with pink suede paneling, the Love Letter utilizes core white, university red, and tulip pink colorways for a solid design that showcases the best the Air Max has to offer.

The Nike WMNS-exclusive Air Max 90 Love letter is set to drop on March 16th for a retail price of $140. Pick up a pair at select Nike retailers and aftermarket sites like GOAT and StockX.

Auralee x New Balance Tokyo Design Studio R_C2

Coming out of New Balance Japan and made in collaboration with premium Japanese clothing label Auralee, the New Balance R_C2 features an elegant upper of muted pink or forest green and is reinforced with GORE-TEX lining for a sneaker that combines that high-quality construction of a New Balance silhouette dressed in Auralee’s muted and elegant aesthetic.

This baby is ultra-clean in both color options, and the whole thing sits atop a slip-resistant outsole. We’re not sure why you’d ever need that, but we felt it was worth mentioning.

The Auralee x New Balance Tokyo Design Studio R_C2 is set to drop on March 19th for a retail price of $260. Pick up at SSENSE.

Pharrell x Adidas PW Triple Black Collection

Pharrell is dropping his largest collection with Adidas yet with the super sleek Triple Black Collection. Consisting of a Hu NMD, Terrex Free Hiker, D.O.N. Issue 2, Crazy BYW, Trailmaker Mid (with GORE-TEX!), and 0 to 60 silhouette, this six sneaker collection features a mix of Adidas classics and new designs made in collaboration with Pharrell.

The entire collection is dropping in a single colorway — Triple Black — and comes accompanied by an apparel collection that also utilizes the famous Adidas colorway. If you ever wondered what Darth Vader’s sneaker closet would look like, this is it!

The Pharrell x Adidas PW Triple Black collection is set to drop on March 19th for a retail range of $110 to $220. Check out the full collection at Adidas.

Adidas Yeezy QNTM Sea Teal

This sneaker straight up looks like a mountain. A snowy chunk of rock you might see looming in the distance along some never-ending road trip. We gotta hand it to Ye, this is probably his best iteration of the Yeezy QNTM, it mixes the futuristic and minimal design with the best of Yeezy’s earth-toned textured uppers. Proof that Ye’s still got the fire.

The Adidas Yeezy QNTM Sea Teal is set to drop on March 19th for a retail price of $250. Pick up a pair at the Adidas webstore or via Yeezy Supply.

Air Jordan III Midnight Navy (Georgetown)

Dressed in the signature colors of the Hoyas (no stranger to Michael Jordan, he crushed the team on his way up to an NCAA national championship) this colorway is another great iteration of one of Nike and Tinker Hatfield’s greatest designs.

Featuring an upper of navy blue tumbled leather which pairs perfectly with the gray-scale elephant print overlays, the Midnight Navy III sports an embroidered navy Jumpman logo over a synthetic leather tongue and matching outsole. A polyurethane midsole keeps this sneaker extra light.

The Air Jordan III Midnight Navy is set to drop on March 20th for a retail price of $190. Pick up a pair at GOAT.

Adidas Yeezy BOOST 350 V2 Ash Pearl

Looking at the newest Yeezy 350 colorway you might think you’ve seen Ash Pearl before, but you haven’t quite seen this mix of throw-up-like earth tones.

This one isn’t a groundbreaking makeup of Yeezy’s most popular shoe, but that’s not what 350 fans expect from the brand. This isn’t just Ye’s most popular sneaker, it’s his most consistent, for better or worse.

The Adidas Yeezy BOOST 350 V2 Ash Peal is set to drop on March 20th for a retail price of $220. Pick up a pair at GOAT.