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Welcome to SNX DLX, your weekly roundup of the best sneakers to hit the internet. This week is going to be a hard one for terminally online sneakerheads. The 2025 NBA All-Star weekend is heading to San Francisco this weekend, so many of the shoes releasing this week are dropping exclusively at partner stores in San Francisco and the larger Bay Area. That’s great news for NorCal sneakerheads and bad news for pretty much everybody else (unless you’re heading to All-Star Weekend).

If you buy the majority of your sneakers through apps and online, it might be a little harder to locate certain pairs, but given how robust the aftermarket is, scoring some of these sneakers isn’t going to be impossible. You just might have to wait a few days. While the majority of sneaker drops this week will be dropping in exclusive stores, that’s not the case for every dope sneaker releasing this week. In fact, the best pairs will still be readily available on the apps.

It might look like we have a short drop list this week, but one of these entries covers nine different sneakers that are all part of the same collection, so while it might look small, this week’s SNX is actually super-sized. Let’s dive in!

Nike Kobe 6 Protro Sail

Price: $190

2024 marked the return of the Kobe Protro, and it looks like the Protro love is going to continue into 2025, as this is already the third noteworthy new Protro to hit the SNKRS app. The Kobe 6 Protro Sail features a textured star pattern across the upper, a low-profile design, upgraded traction, and a Sail colorway with a contrasting black swoosh.

So far, we’d say that the 2025 Kobe drops are dunking on the 2024 designs. Sure, there is a lot of time left in the year, but so far we are three for three and that’s a great sign!

The Nike Kobe 6 Protro Sail is set to drop on February 13th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $190. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Air Zoom Spiridon Metallic Silver and Signal Blue

Price: $160

The late ‘90s runner icon, the Spiridon, has returned and it’s looking better than ever! This sneaker features a lightweight mesh upper and is outfitted with reflective piping for better nighttime visibility. As if a shiney metallic silver and bright blue sneaker needed to be more visible. Whatever, it looks great, so we aren’t here to complain. Reflective details are always appreciated!

The Nike Air Zoom Spiridon Metallic Silver and Signal Blue is set to drop on February 13th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $160. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Nike Basketball Black Label Collection

Price: $140-$550

Nike’s centerpiece drop this week is this 9 sneaker collection, released to celebrate the NBA All-Star Weekend. Dubbed the “Black Label Collection,” this sneaker features all-black colorways of Nike’s current roster of signature sneakers. Included in the set are signature sneakers from Giannis Antetokounmpo, Devin Booker, Kevin Durant, Sabrina Ionescu, LeBron James, Ja Morant (with a double drop), and Victor Wembanyama.

If you like stealthy sneakers and love the current roster of signatures out of Nike (shout out Book 1!), then it’s safe to say you’re going to love this set. Unfortunately, these drops are highly limited (the quantity of each coincides with the player’s birth year) and will only be available at physical locations in the San Francisco area.

The Nike Basketball Black Label Collection is set to drop on February 14th. Pick up a pair from the set at Future Game, Nike San Francisco, and Foot Locker’s NBA All-Star experience.

Bricks & Wood x New Balance “A Different Bounce Collection” (Fresh Foam BB v3/1000)

Price: Fresh Foam $160 / 1000 $140

Released to coincide with NBA All-Star Weekend, Bricks & Wood and New Balance have teamed up for a special black and yellow take on the Fresh Foam BBv3 and 1000 silhouettes. The “A Different Bounce Collection” takes two of New Balance’s best basketball silhouettes and outfits them in premium construction with dual branding, and a soon-to-be iconic colorway.

New Balance has been quiet this year, so it’s great to see the brand finally releasing something noteworthy.

The Bricks & Wood x New Balance Fresh Foam BB v3 and New Balance 1000 are set to drop on February 14th and 15th exclusively at the Bricks & Wood and New Balance pop-up in San Francisco. Try your luck on the aftermarket after release day.

Adidas Anthony Edwards 1 Champagne Metallic

Price: $110

To join in on the NBA All-Star Weekend hype, Adidas is dropping a new colorway of its best modern signature basketball sneaker. The Anthony Edwards 1 Champagne Metallic features a textile and synthetic upper with a hybrid BOOST and Lightstrike midsole for quick energy return and a lightweight feel that’ll keep your court game at peak performance.

We love the shiny panels of the Champagne Metallic colorway. The AE 1 has always been a futuristic-looking sneaker, but this colorway helps to further emphasize those forward-thinking design details.

The Adidas Anthony Edwards 1 Champagne Metallic is set to drop on February 14th at 12:00 AM PST for a retail price of $110. Pick up a pair at Adidas.

Nike Air Jordan 1 High OG Black Toe

Price: $180

This week’s Jordan 1 Black Toe is undoubtedly the most hyped sneaker drop of the weak. But it’s a polarizing one. Because this sneaker takes a legendary colorway, the Black Toe, and alters it just a bit. Instead of the usual Wings logo at the collar, this sneaker features “Air Jordan” branding, a reference to the prototype pair MJ rocked during his initial AJ-1 photoshoot. For hardcore Jordan fans, that’s a fun Easter egg. For those who just want a chance to own the Black Toe, it’s downright blasphemous.

We think it’s a cool look though, and make it so that this release isn’t just another simple refresh. To round out the design, “My Very Best,” in MJ’s handwriting is hidden on the left shoe collar, visible only by UV light, and the tissue paper this pair is wrapped in features unfinished sketches by the sneaker’s designer, Peter Moore. It’s a celebration piece for fans of the most hardcore fans of the Jordan 1.

The Nike Air Jordan 1 High OG Black Toe is set to drop on February 15th at 7:00 AM PST for a retail price of $180. Pick up a pair via the Nike SNKRS app.

Disclaimer: While all of the products recommended here were chosen independently by our editorial staff, Uproxx may receive payment to direct readers to certain retail vendors who are offering these products for purchase.

If not for the demands of rap stardom, WWE could have counted St. Louis native Sexyy Red among its stable of performers last year. In a new interview, Sexyy Red revealed that WWE’s Shawn Michaels offered her “a permanent role” ahead of her string of cameos in 2024, but that due to her busy schedule, she had to settle for hosting the promotion’s Wednesday night minor league show NXT, and popping into various wrestlers’ promotional vignettes.

In the profile for Dazed, Sexyy reinforced the oft-made comparison between rap and wrestling, saying, “Rapping and wrestling are pretty much the same. It’s not quite acting, but it’s kind of acting too, right? Because when we go home and take off all our jewels and gold and remove the costumes we wear, we then have to go right back to reality with our families.”

WWE has made impressive efforts over the past couple of years to reinforce the connection between its product and hip-hop, inviting rappers such as Travis Scott to participate in storylines and ring entrances, and featuring a wealth of pop-ins, such as highlighting a slew of attending rappers during its recent show in Atlanta including 2 Chainz, Lil Yachty, and Quavo. Heroes turned heels New Day even got some cheap heat from a Monday night hometown crowd in LA by dissing Kendrick Lamar (not wise, considering how mercilessly he cooked Drake). Unfortunately, there’s still no word on that Cardi B/Megan Thee Stallion tag team title run, but in wrestling and in hip-hop, anything can happen.

There were a lot of morons who were screaming in anger about Kendrick Lamar’s subversive Super Bowl LIX halftime show. But for Hayley Williams, it was screams of joy. The Paramore singer noticed that Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s backup dancers colored their hair with Good Dye Young, the hair color brand she founded with stylist and makeup artist Brian O’Connor.

“Peekaboo,” a post on Good Dye Young’s Instagram account reads, “GDY Spotted on the Super Bowl Halftime Stage @kendricklamar & @sza Dancers’ showed up and showed outtt with Good Dye Young custom split dye by @luckylettty.” In the replies, Williams wrote, “Screaming at my TV!”

The campaign to get Paramore to play the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show begins… now.

“People kind of started to recognize Paramore more easily because of the way that I looked, which I think at times I’ve resented, but it all just kind of unfolded in this way that felt really natural,” Williams (who is helping release her 78-year-old grandfather’s debut album) told Hypebeast about the origin of Good Dye Young. “With Brian and I both being from a small town and already interested in this subculture, the collaboration came really organically.”

You can check out Good Dye Young’s shop here.

For as much fun as it can be for fans on the outside watching the chaos of the NBA trade deadline, it’s a much different experience for the players who get their lives uprooted. There are all kinds of logistics to figure out with living arrangements, family, and everything else in life outside of basketball that gets suddenly flipped on its head.

There are a variety of emotions and reactions players can have to a trade, as well. For some it’s excitement to go to a better opportunity or relief to finally have a resolution to long-standing rumors. Others feel betrayed or hurt to be traded away from an organization they had deep ties to. And then sometimes it’s just sheer confusion. That was the initial feeling for Markieff Morris, as he was one of the “others” put into the Mavs and Lakers blockbuster deal to swap Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis.

As Markieff explained on his Twin$nWin$ podcast with his brother Marcus (3:00 mark of the video below), his first thought when he got the call from his agent that he was being traded was simply, “who the hell want me? Who wants to trade for me?”

It’s a very funny first reaction, but Markieff just couldn’t believe he was even part of a trade because he’d played in all of seven games for the Mavericks and less than 35 minutes this season. As has been noted a number of times, the Mavs and Lakers were keeping the trade extremely secretive, so no players, coaches, or anyone not directly involved in talks was aware. That extended to Morris even on the call from his agent he was getting dealt, and he didn’t learn it was a bigger deal involving Luka until he saw the news on his phone.

At that point, it all made a lot more sense to him and he joked that if they’re willing to trade Luka, they’d trade him for “a bag of popcorn”. Morris obviously took it all in stride but did note that he wishes he’d been aware he might get dealt, because he recently bought a house and was looking to build a life in Dallas. Now he’s in L.A. and is making the most of being flipped to a hopeful contender (and has played in both games since arriving with the Lakers).

In an age when pre-album promotional cycles can last just days or even minutes, Bartees Strange has been taking his time rolling out his latest, Horror: He shared the project’s first single, “Lie 95,” back in July 2024, and has dropped new tracks gradually since then.

Now, the album’s February 14 release is nigh, but before the project drops, he has one more pre-album single: “Backseat Banton,” which he premiered with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! before sharing the album’s studio version today (February 12).

Bartees previously said of the album, “In a way I think I made this record to reach out to people who may feel afraid of things in their lives too. For me it’s love, locations, cosmic bad luck, or that feeling of doom that I’ve struggled with for as long as I can remember. I think that it’s easier to navigate the horrors and strangeness of life once you realize that everyone around you feels the same. This album is just me trying to connect. I’m trying to shrink the size of the world. I’m trying to feel close — so I’m less afraid.”

Listen to “Backseat Banton” above.

Horror is out 2/14 via 4AD. Find more information here.

Kendrick Lamar famously has some pleasant history with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Black Panther: The Album, released to accompany the original Black Panther movie in 2018, was a No. 1 album for the rapper, and the project yielded the top-10 singles “All The Stars” with SZA and “Pray For Me” with The Weeknd. Now, it looks like he’s getting ready to get back into the MCU fold, as he appears to have a song on the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World.

In an interview with Entertainment Tonight shared yesterday (February 11), star Anthony Mackie said, “Kendrick did the title song for my movie. I hope that’s not supposed to be a surprise. I’m breaking it here first. I’m so excited, man. The beauty and mastery of his craft.”

Based on Mackie calling it the “title song,” it would seem the song may be called “Brave New World.” The movie is set to hit theaters on February 14, so we ought to be hearing Lamar’s song soon.

Lamar, of course, is fresh off a big-time Super Bowl Halftime Show performance last weekend. Shortly after the release of the new Captain America, Lamar and SZA are set to head out on the joint Grand National Tour.

Leave it to Cash Cobain to make two disparate sounds blend so sweetly as he does on his new single, “Trippin On A Yacht” with Bay Swag and Rob49. The New York producer has made a career of mashing up genres and bending them to his “sexy drill” paradigm; here, he takes inspiration from the regional sound that inspires guest rapper Rob49, blending hazy, relaxed drill production with the chattering chants of New Orleans bounce. With a sample of Big Freedia yammering away over a ghostly synth, the vibe evokes a really turnt up yoga class — or, I guess, chilling on a yacht.

“Trippin On A Yacht” constitutes Cash’s first drop of the year, but he hasn’t lost a step in the five months since he released his debut album Play Cash Cobain, picking up right where he left off as one of his city’s premiere producers and rappers. His Q1 breakout with “Fisherr” last year carried the remainder of 2024, with a XXL Freshman class selection, a remix of fellow breakout artist Laila!’s fan-favorite viral hit “Problem,” and a string of splashy guest appearances. With his 2025 off to a strong start, we’re looking forward to seeing what the next 10 months brings.

Listen to Cash Cobain’s “Trippin On A Yacht” with Bay Swag and Rob49 above.

As more and more music stars (and athletes) get their own meals at McDonald’s, the phenomenon has hopped the pond, roping in UK rapper Stormzy, who becomes the latest artist to get his own meal from Macky’s (that’s what they call McDonald’s in “cheers, bruv”).

In the new ad promoting the meal — which consists of nine McNuggets, fries, Sprite, and an Oreo McFlurry — Stormzy’s order prompts average Brits to “order like Stormzy,” including speaking in his instantly recognizable baritone, complete with South London lingo. At the end of the ad, Stormzy gets his order, only to find his own voice transformed into that of British actress Alison Steadman (she plays chimp Robbie Williams‘ grandmother Betty in Better Man), who informs him from the next table over that she shares his favorite order. It’s cute and funny.

Of course, all this does for US Stormzy fans is give us a hankering for his next project. When last we heard from the English-Ghanaian rapper, singer, and songwriter, he told us This Is What I Mean in 2022, earning an Album Of The Year nomination at the 2023 Brit Awards. Meanwhile, he caused a bit of a stir last year when he was seen kissing R&B singer Victoria Monét at Heathrow Airport, prompting fans to wonder if the two stars are dating. The two were seen together as recently as December, but have left the public to speculate.

You can watch the ad for Stormzy’s Macky’s meal above.

A lot of pressure comes with being signed to one of rap’s most storied and successful labels, Top Dawg Entertainment. Along with the expectations of fans who’ve become spoiled by a legacy of groundbreaking success comes the constraints of working within a proven formula to achieve the same heights as your iconic rostermates — which means a lot of waiting around for lightning to strike twice.

But Del Amo rapper Reason never had those expectations for himself. He’s a rapper’s rapper, but unlike some, he never dreamed of worldwide stadium tours, platinum plaques, and Grammy Awards. He’s a working-class artist from a working-class town (Del Amo is an unincorporated neighborhood just south of Compton and lying between Los Angeles’ logistics hubs of Carson and Torrance, meaning a lot of warehouses and container trucks on its main street). Reason just wanted to make a living doing what he loved.

His prolific, workmanlike approach — which has been employed to great success by indie darlings like LaRussell and the Griselda crew — clashed with TDE’s slow-cooked process, which had previously produced the unparalleled triumphs of Kendrick Lamar, SZA, and just last year, Doechii. Reason just wanted to drop music; Top wanted that music to win awards, sell millions of copies, and reformat the landscape of pop culture. Things came to a head last year over the course of a messy public falling out resulting in Reason being released from the label.

This week, Reason returns with his first independent project, titled I Love You Again. As you might guess from the title, a running theme of the project is Reason rediscovering his passion for producing introspective, wordplay-riddled rhymes after admitting that any other outcome would have led to him quitting music.

“I was so serious about it where I was like, ‘I just won’t make music anymore,’” he tells Uproxx via Zoom. “That’s how certain I was, that I just wasn’t doing it that way anymore.”

However, that doesn’t mean there’s any animosity between Reason and his former label (the fans are another story). But with a new lease on his career, Reason is hitting the ground running; I Love You Again is just the first of three releases he plans to put out this year. The list includes a proper album bearing all the hallmarks of his past output: layered storytelling, moody instrumentation, and appearances from his partner-in-rhyme, Dreamville rapper Cozz. For now, though, he’s basking in his newfound freedom, which has delivered a return to form that should keep fans satisfied until that album materializes.

You’re getting ready to release your new… what are we calling this? A mixtape, an album?

It’s a mixtape or a project. I know it’s funny because we’re in a day and age now where I know a lot of artists say that, and I don’t usually play that game, but it’s genuinely, when you hear it, you’ll be able to tell, “Okay, this is just something that he wanted to get off for his fans.” It is not really conceptual in that way, but the records are really good, and it’s a collection of songs that I’ve loved for a long time, and then newer songs in the space of where I’m at now.

Let’s call it an appetizer.

Yeah, let’s do that. Let’s call it an appetizer. It’s a warm-up.

Maybe this is just my position as having been an artist, having been around artists, being a writer, and being around the business for so long, but I thought people made too big of a deal out of what happened with you and TDE; Everything ain’t for everybody. So if you could just address and give a response that lets people know why there’s still love, but there’s also like, “This is why this works for me and that didn’t work for me.”

I think you hit the nail on the head: everything ain’t for everybody. And it is funny because that’s actually what the single, “Not What You Think,” is about. It’s from the outside looking in, you see this world where you think that, “Oh, this is what it is.” And especially with the TDE aura, you feel like everybody is on board and living this way, and it’s like, “Nah. Every artist is not on board with that.”

That’s not to say it’s any ill will. It was just one of those things where it was just like, “Yo, this is the way that y’all do things and it’s worked for some of y’all artists, and less for other artists. And I don’t want to be one of those artists that it’s worked less for that just sits here and is okay with it working less for them.” That was what I was trying to communicate through that whole process: it doesn’t work for me. It’s crazy because with the TDE fan base, you got to cope, and I love it and I hate it because that fan base is aggressive.

All the fans now have changed the way we deal with music. It’s like rooting for sports teams, but if every fan base was the Lakers’.

It’s nasty right now, bro. It’s tough because that level of commitment and fandom is also why I have the core, loyal fan base that I have now. So it’s a double-edged sword. I’ve had a bunch of fans hitting me, especially with the takeoff of Doechii, they’re like, “Oh, do you regret leaving?” And I’m like, “No, bro.” Just because that’s happening for Doechii doesn’t mean it would’ve happened…

From the day I met Doechii, I literally remember going to Moosa, and I was like, “Bro, she’s out of here.” I mean, the day I met her in the studio, when she was still just driving around a little bucket and stuff, just moved out to LA, and we chopped it up, and she played me some music. I went to Moosa, and I was like, “Bro, she’s gone. She’s one of those.” It don’t matter where she signed to, it don’t matter what her situation is, she’s that talented. So you couple that with a brand like TDE, you couple that with the backing of a major, it all makes sense, but that works for Doechii because that is who she is. She’s an icon. I never got into this thinking I wanted to be an icon. It was more like I looked up to Jadakiss and Fab and n****s like… I’m just like, “N****, I just want to rap.”

Let’s talk about just the process of putting together this… I want to say it’s nine songs, 10 tracks. What made it important to put these out? There are some more vibey records on here; I know you stepped away a little bit from the storytelling stuff.

It’s funny that you noticed that, because I was just talking to my guy that’s helping me distribute all this, and on the vinyls, they put a sticker that said “Reason’s first independent album.” And I was like, “Change it from ‘album.’ It’s not an album.” Because I know how serious my fans are about that. “I want “Colored Dreams” and I need a n**** to die in this.”

So for me, I’m like, “Okay, let me prep my n****s.” Because I know how my n****s are. Let me prep my n****s on the front end and let them know this is a project, and also you don’t have to wait for a long time because I’m spinning the block right away. The first thing I did was go to the hard drive and said, “Okay, what records do I absolutely love and what records do I feel like I’ve outgrown?” That took about three weeks to go through that.

When we were supposed to do the deluxe for There You Have It, “My Own” was on it. So what I did was I took the first verse and then I wrote a new second verse, because the second verse just sounded way too outdated. Then I just started recording. So I did “Stuck On Moments,” which I loved. Then I had two verses, I took one off, I gave it to Kota, and Kota delivered a really, really dope verse. “Not What You Think” was probably the last joint that we did. So I went back into all of the records that I love that were supposed to make projects before, and we did a combination of all of those.

Yes, you don’t have the super, super deep introspective storytelling, but we’re going to spin the block, and that’s definitely coming on the album. On the album, I’ll address everything with the label, ego stuff that I had to… because I went through a lot of growth in that time, but I didn’t want to rush that process without including who I am now with the independence. So when I was about to turn in the album, I’m like, “Damn, this whole album is sounding bitter.” Like I didn’t learn nothing, I didn’t enjoy it.

So I was like, “Let me do some other sh*t, and then I’ll spin the block on the album and get it to a fair perspective.”

Tell the people what it means for LA that LA had the run we had last year, to cap it all off with Kendrick Lamar, somebody that you know, somebody who advocated for you, because you’re closer to him than a lot of people are.

It reminds me of when G-Unit was the biggest thing in the world, and then they signed [The Game] and it was like, “Yo, Game is over there.” And then he started coming out with all these smashes. The thing that’s so impressive about the Dot sh*t is that it’s easy to captivate people when you’re a new artist because people are excited. It’s hard to have the biggest energy ever in your career when you’re not a new artist anymore. The bar is set so high that it starts to become a thing where if you just even can get close to the bar that people have set for you, that’s a win. For him to just f*cking blow by the bar and to the moon when he was already on the moon, so whatever’s past the moon… he’s just out of this galaxy, it’s crazy.

I think it’s important for us because now as West Coast everything — and I mean media, fashion, music, everything — it’s almost like we’re finally allowed to pop our sh*t. We’ve never been allowed to pop our sh*t because the industry has just ignored us. Y’all come out with these rapper lists and y’all don’t put n****s on and y’all talk about the fashion. You n****s dog us. And now you see every single media, Joe and them talk about it, Ebro was talking about, B.Dot finally got five n****s from the coast on his rapper list. We’ve been wanting that for so long and we going to keep it as not even me being biased: we deserve it, bro.

Because we have to talk about the same questions a lot, I always end my interviews with this: What are the questions that they would love to be asked, the things they want to talk about, that if they had the choice to write the questions and figure out what they want to ask.

I like that. I think what I would want to talk about is… it’s so tough because this is the world that they tell you as an artist to never touch on, but I just want to talk about other artists and music, but from a fan perspective. From a space where people aren’t going to take what I say and read into it too deep. It’s like, “Bro, I’m just chopping it with you. I’m just chopping it with you the same way that I would chop it with the homie about music or an album or anything.” And it sucks that we, as artists, don’t get to express… we still love music. We don’t get to express how we really feel about projects anymore or about music anymore.

I Love You Again is out 2/14 via Do More Records/195 Oak Inc. Find more information here.

Jack’s back. After ending 2024 with a pair of new singles suggesting that his fourth studio album could be on the way (November’s “Hello Miss Johnson” and December’s “Tranquility“), Jack Harlow continues to tease his comeback with another new song, “Set You Free.”

Like the previous songs, “Set You Free” finds the Louisville native preoccupied with the nature of relationships and the tension between pursuing romance and chasing his dreams. “I love you but I love my freedom too,” he ruminates. “I know what I must do / But I’m really just scared to leave you / I want to be alone, more than ever / Less free time, more endeavors / Less romance, more get cheddar / Some say both, I’m more instead of.”

Fans have been waiting a little under two years for the follow-up to Jack’s last album, the deeply personal Jackman. After achieving star status with his glitzy second album, Jack reset to a more thoughtful stance; it appears that he may continue in that vein on his next project, considering his recent releases. If not, he’ll still have plenty to talk about; since his last album, he’s purchased a soccer team, dropped his first-ever sneaker collab, and expanded his acting CV.

Watch Jack Harlow’s “Set You Free” video above.