The Chaos at Sneaker Con: A Wild Ride to Chicago

As we arrived at the mall, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and anticipation. We were about to embark on an adventure, one that would take us to the depths of sneaker culture and push our patience to the limit. The plan was to make the most of our time at the mall, taking advantage of the fact that we had only about an hour left before we needed to head back to the hotel to gather our bags.

We were on a mission to find some dope white Yeezys, specifically the coveted Yeezy Destroyer. The first thing I noticed was how fresh and clean they looked, almost too good to be true. But as we began to search for more pairs, things started to take a turn for the worse. Our friend Adam managed to get his hands on a pair, but in a surprising twist, he had actually been wearing a size 9 instead of an 11. The group was shocked, and I couldn't help but wonder how he had managed to fool us.

As we continued to search, things only got more chaotic. Security began to crack down on us, warning us that we were being kicked out in just five minutes. But despite the impending doom, we refused to give up. We made a beeline for Starbucks, which conveniently happened to have an outlet where we could rest our weary heads.

However, our reprieve was short-lived. Security called the cops on us, citing that we had been causing a disturbance. With that, our adventure came to an abrupt end. We were forced to abandon our search and make our way back to the hotel, leaving behind any hopes of scoring some sick white Yeezys.

As we trudged through the streets of Chicago, I couldn't help but think about the games we had played in the car the night before. Our game of Mafia had been intense, with alliances being formed and broken left and right. It was a wild ride, one that I wouldn't soon forget.

But as we approached the hotel, I realized that our adventure wasn't quite over yet. We had to take care of our friends' luggage, which was scattered all over the room. It was like a treasure hunt, with bags upon bags of swag to sort through. And amidst it all, I managed to sneak in one last gift for my friend Mickey.

The trip may have ended on a sour note, but the memories we had made would stay with us forever. As we made our way to the airport, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the friends who had been with me every step of the way. We may not have scored those white Yeezys, but we certainly had each other.

A Few Last-Minute Details

As we settled into our seats on the plane, I took a moment to reflect on the events that had transpired in Chicago. It was a wild ride, one that would be remembered for years to come. And as I looked around at my friends, I knew that no matter what lay ahead, we would face it together.

We may have been banned from the mall, but our spirits were far from broken. We had made the most of our time in Chicago, and we would carry those memories with us for a long time to come. And who knows? Maybe someday we'll make it back to that mall, determined to score those elusive white Yeezys.

In the meantime, I couldn't help but think about what was next on the horizon. Sneaker Con Dallas was just around the corner, and we were going to be balling like pros. The rosters for Hoops Classic would be announced soon, and we couldn't wait to see who would be joining us on the court.

As the plane took off into the night sky, I felt a sense of excitement wash over me. We may have started the day with a bang, but it was far from over. The adventures were just beginning, and I knew that no matter what lay ahead, we would face it together as a team.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right so currently still in Chicago we're leaving today but our flight is pretty late I think our flight leaves at like 6:00 p.m. the Hoops Classic was very very fun this is the main ball that I wanted to take home this is the threo championship custo oh was that the three-point Championship custom ball this was a Wilson ball and then they did a custom flame on it with the Sneaker Con logo right there I was supposed to check out a while ago but I'm GNA just chill here for a little bit so I could uh edit I did pick up a few sneakers over the past few days some were gifted to me some of them I bought that huge unboxing that I was going to do from the purchase that I got off of the goat app and I've been hyping it up and I wrote on the box saying do not open until Chicago I opened it before I left and that's because I didn't have room to take it and it was pretty much the sub tempos uh Supreme up tempos which a supreme right there I unboxed it and I didn't show the unboxing because like I feel like it would have disappointed a lot of people these are hype sure but it's a recent release so I didn't think anybody would really care so I was like you know what I'm just going to unbox them and just wear them so I wore these for like the first 4 minutes of the game and then I got hit over the head so shout of him into the Westbrooks but this was the shoe other than that I got these Ultra boost right here for retail I'm happy I got them these are the I don't know what they're called I'm call them the copper bottoms slippers the goyard custom slippers I got these from the homies so as I'm walking back to the CP protect Booth I see this booth of yo yo yo relax let me promote I'm a goyard guy like I'm slowly getting on the goyard and I saw these flipflops now these are not actual goyard flip flops but this is actual goyard like material they got it off of bags right they take it off of real bags and then they put them on to like Adidas Slides and they got a whole bunch of other ones let me show you guys guys LV MCM Gucci a whole bunch of other things like van my man's going to bless me with one the goard ones and I said if yall want to get some you can check out their Instagram and all that stuff you want to shout it out our Instagram is @ Detroit custom slides you can find us on there we also got a website link in our bio just message us if you want to do any custom DMS or just place an order on our website we'll take care of you we'll talk about future stuff too cuz I I want to do some maybe some other colorways too cuz we looking more colorway yeah maybe like a white bottom would be yeah we we only did the red cuz we made it pop a little bit you know for Chicago we're talking about going to La later this summer when you guys go there so we're going to come out with a lot more more higher end like goard we have some more stuff coming there for La too cuz it's a more higher end Market you know oh for sure for sure so I'm going to link them down below if you guys want to check them out like it's dope man if you like high-end you're not paying high-end prices but you're getting high-end brand materials if you know what that means but thank you bro appreciate it okay now you guys can scream Adidas slipper with the goard material on there I bought these for $300 I actually have another pair coming so this is a double up but it's on a sneaker that's going to be worn very very much so that's why I was H I was okay with doubling it up calabasis Adidas power phase Powerhouse power something I forgot what they're called but these are the uh Calabasas Yeezy Adidas I don't really consider this a Yeezy but it's the it's a Kanye sneaker technically so this is part of the Calabasas collection and yes they do look like Rebox but it looks like a much better ER version it kind of looks like a Gucci shoe in my opinion it's just a classic silhouette that's remade and look at this leather quality bro this crease is like hell but it's like a nice crease got those for 300 and then I actually got these I'll show you the best for last but I got these for about 200 I actually guy wanted 350 for him and then I said 300 and he said no and then I was like come on bro and then I checked the goat app and they were only going for like 230 on Goat app and I was like bro trying to finesse me and then he let him go for 200 so this let me show you that box obviously that's a Air Jordan one box but it's different I feel like after I show you guys these it will remind a lot of people and then you'll see some other sneaker heads go out and get them the Air Jordan 1 Dave White it's super cool I mean it's not a very wearable version of the Jordan one but they just went crazy on it basically there's no swoosh it's like this star splatter with the Elephant Print right here suede on the toe leather and then the black out midsole on the front kind of like paint splatter to the to the back this it really looks like this is a custom sneaker but it's really not David White 4 23 might bust these out for like a Jordan event or something something like that that's that's the type of occasion you want to save these if somebody want to act up at a Jordan event I might have to pull these out you know what I'm saying it's a dope box but I mean I don't have room for it so I'm going to just toss those away so I'm chilling at the at the booth taking pictures and some dude walks up to me and he throws this on the table and he said this is from Chicago to you and I was like what and he's like this is from Chicago to you it's like you can have these this is a gift from me and a couple guys and I'm like okay bam DMP pack in my size can't believe someone freaking gave me this I had their card I freaking had their card and I can't find it anymore so I don't even know who to shout out right now I found two business cards here and I don't know which one it was okay it's definitely not this one Hickory roast chicken barbecue yeah I don't know what that is okay this is this might be the people that gave me this cuz I know I get a few business cards per Sneaker Con but this is the only one that I can find right now if it's not them I apologize I just gave a shout out to someone else but if it is then thank you to them for gifting me these shoes very very good leather quality like insane what the bro this this is leather quality that I've never seen before on a Jordan this is like Balenciaga type material this is like high-end fashion type of material this is like a midnight blue I'm not sure if the camera picks it up but it's not Pitch Black it's like a midnight blue so yeah those were gifted to me and then I almost forgot about these but these were gifted to me too by a homie who does custom this one right here this is his card you guys want to get some custom work done or something I don't really wear custom sneakers and I told him that but he told me he just wants me to have these so I was like okay I'll take it custom made in the allstar colorway from like back in the day when they had it in Arizona I appreciate the sneakers very dope very dope all right now I need to get out of here going to edit checking with you guys very very soon okay guys so Adam and slim and the rest of the crew Everybody they missed their flights this morning yeah we like 4 hours late I think about 4 hours so we actually get on our flight around 6:25 and they're leaving you guys are leaving tomorrow yeah so they're here for another night but um their room is actually actually 529 if you want to visit them huh okay my bad slim picked up some heat for Sneaker Con he got the white Yeezys and I got to steal bro but you know they don't stay white for so long so you got to break them in man come on play stop stop stop just look at mine is dirty yours is step on it guys stop stop one time okay let me draw no bro I should draw on it right look I drew mess it up mess it up it's too it's too fresh it's too clean when you're not looking I'mma sign them all right the Yeezy Destroyer attacks again there's four pairs of white Yeezys come guys that shut no no hold got the white Yeezys on got the white are you serious okay wait wait Adam has them Adam has them on too dud come on he took it off trying to mess my w that's how you oh slip play bro he's kicking nobody else got all right we'll let him we'll let him live for now any white shoes like even if I was wearing like yeah finally that finally looks like your size yeah 11 yeah see he's been wearing a nine he's been wearing a nine and pirate blacks and his size is 11 the people struggle to do for you pirate blacks but they fit me though honestly no they don't fit you I'm n 11 look this is a good size for you oh stop bro stop all right guys so we just got to the mall we have about an hour until we need to head back to the hotel to get our bags to go home we're going to take advantage and kick it with everybody and I got to say man this is probably one of the funnest sneaker cons outside of the actual convention just cuz we were all together and Def last night we were up to like 1:00 a.m. 2: a.m. playing this game called what is it called Mafia Mafia it's a card game bro it was intense it was super intense but we're at the mall I say about 15 minutes until security says stop vlogging in here we'll see what happens Brandon is still here and uh thanks for the win K I got you bro I got you basically this is the schedule right now if the Warriors win game three we have to go to Cleveland for game four because we got to take a fan and to the final if we don't take them to the game three to game four and warriors sweep the caves the contest gets you know we can't do that we promis somebody tickets to the finals and we are going to give them so we might be going to Cleveland that's going to be crazy at the end of this week but other than that there's nothing really else on the schedule we go back to LA Sneaker Con Dallas is in July and then Sneaker Con La is July 22nd 23rd and that will be a Hoops Classic so we will be balling and The rosters will be announced very very soon but anyway let's go see what they got hopefully we can find something dope here cuz actually I'm not really looking for anything now guys we're getting kicked out in 5 minutes guaranteed guaranteed 5 minutes we're getting kicked out yeah security kicked us out it's all good though we out here Starbucks got yo guys so they called the cops on us what the hell anyway we're headed back to the hotel cuz we got to go get our stuffs and then we got to head to the airport and um then we good to go man can I just say when this goes to trial I'm not coming back to Chicago because I wasn't in that car ex all right guys so a few of the guys that didn't go in that first Uber with us they got banned from the mall the rest of us made it out and now I'm headed to the airport I'm not sure if we're going to make our flight but I think we should be good hopefully let's just say bye to everyone cuz it's going to be a sad mint moment I'm fre all right guys they didn't care that I was leaving oh my god let's just say you still got us barbecue so Mickey and um his boy they went to they oh hey are we're leaving today let's go to downtown Chicago the traffic is horrible and now make it back in time let our friends now we have to take all their this is literally all their luggage so many bags bro we had to take it for them you know but I'm a good friend yeah what happened to swag all of a sudden swag's disappear swag let's just say something's fishy no goldfish that's rookie you make the rookie hold the bag hold the bag wow than you bro you have a good one man one word for Chicago WA lendy I knew you wouldn't be mad at me cuz I got you a gift Dam you went to RSVP no way did you really yeah that no way shark that's for the house I talk so much about you in the car I told him I was like I'm going to let him be mad at me the whole way and then give him a gift I'm using this on the plane bro hell yeah thank youall right so currently still in Chicago we're leaving today but our flight is pretty late I think our flight leaves at like 6:00 p.m. the Hoops Classic was very very fun this is the main ball that I wanted to take home this is the threo championship custo oh was that the three-point Championship custom ball this was a Wilson ball and then they did a custom flame on it with the Sneaker Con logo right there I was supposed to check out a while ago but I'm GNA just chill here for a little bit so I could uh edit I did pick up a few sneakers over the past few days some were gifted to me some of them I bought that huge unboxing that I was going to do from the purchase that I got off of the goat app and I've been hyping it up and I wrote on the box saying do not open until Chicago I opened it before I left and that's because I didn't have room to take it and it was pretty much the sub tempos uh Supreme up tempos which a supreme right there I unboxed it and I didn't show the unboxing because like I feel like it would have disappointed a lot of people these are hype sure but it's a recent release so I didn't think anybody would really care so I was like you know what I'm just going to unbox them and just wear them so I wore these for like the first 4 minutes of the game and then I got hit over the head so shout of him into the Westbrooks but this was the shoe other than that I got these Ultra boost right here for retail I'm happy I got them these are the I don't know what they're called I'm call them the copper bottoms slippers the goyard custom slippers I got these from the homies so as I'm walking back to the CP protect Booth I see this booth of yo yo yo relax let me promote I'm a goyard guy like I'm slowly getting on the goyard and I saw these flipflops now these are not actual goyard flip flops but this is actual goyard like material they got it off of bags right they take it off of real bags and then they put them on to like Adidas Slides and they got a whole bunch of other ones let me show you guys guys LV MCM Gucci a whole bunch of other things like van my man's going to bless me with one the goard ones and I said if yall want to get some you can check out their Instagram and all that stuff you want to shout it out our Instagram is @ Detroit custom slides you can find us on there we also got a website link in our bio just message us if you want to do any custom DMS or just place an order on our website we'll take care of you we'll talk about future stuff too cuz I I want to do some maybe some other colorways too cuz we looking more colorway yeah maybe like a white bottom would be yeah we we only did the red cuz we made it pop a little bit you know for Chicago we're talking about going to La later this summer when you guys go there so we're going to come out with a lot more more higher end like goard we have some more stuff coming there for La too cuz it's a more higher end Market you know oh for sure for sure so I'm going to link them down below if you guys want to check them out like it's dope man if you like high-end you're not paying high-end prices but you're getting high-end brand materials if you know what that means but thank you bro appreciate it okay now you guys can scream Adidas slipper with the goard material on there I bought these for $300 I actually have another pair coming so this is a double up but it's on a sneaker that's going to be worn very very much so that's why I was H I was okay with doubling it up calabasis Adidas power phase Powerhouse power something I forgot what they're called but these are the uh Calabasas Yeezy Adidas I don't really consider this a Yeezy but it's the it's a Kanye sneaker technically so this is part of the Calabasas collection and yes they do look like Rebox but it looks like a much better ER version it kind of looks like a Gucci shoe in my opinion it's just a classic silhouette that's remade and look at this leather quality bro this crease is like hell but it's like a nice crease got those for 300 and then I actually got these I'll show you the best for last but I got these for about 200 I actually guy wanted 350 for him and then I said 300 and he said no and then I was like come on bro and then I checked the goat app and they were only going for like 230 on Goat app and I was like bro trying to finesse me and then he let him go for 200 so this let me show you that box obviously that's a Air Jordan one box but it's different I feel like after I show you guys these it will remind a lot of people and then you'll see some other sneaker heads go out and get them the Air Jordan 1 Dave White it's super cool I mean it's not a very wearable version of the Jordan one but they just went crazy on it basically there's no swoosh it's like this star splatter with the Elephant Print right here suede on the toe leather and then the black out midsole on the front kind of like paint splatter to the to the back this it really looks like this is a custom sneaker but it's really not David White 4 23 might bust these out for like a Jordan event or something something like that that's that's the type of occasion you want to save these if somebody want to act up at a Jordan event I might have to pull these out you know what I'm saying it's a dope box but I mean I don't have room for it so I'm going to just toss those away so I'm chilling at the at the booth taking pictures and some dude walks up to me and he throws this on the table and he said this is from Chicago to you and I was like what and he's like this is from Chicago to you it's like you can have these this is a gift from me and a couple guys and I'm like okay bam DMP pack in my size can't believe someone freaking gave me this I had their card I freaking had their card and I can't find it anymore so I don't even know who to shout out right now I found two business cards here and I don't know which one it was okay it's definitely not this one Hickory roast chicken barbecue yeah I don't know what that is okay this is this might be the people that gave me this cuz I know I get a few business cards per Sneaker Con but this is the only one that I can find right now if it's not them I apologize I just gave a shout out to someone else but if it is then thank you to them for gifting me these shoes very very good leather quality like insane what the bro this this is leather quality that I've never seen before on a Jordan this is like Balenciaga type material this is like high-end fashion type of material this is like a midnight blue I'm not sure if the camera picks it up but it's not Pitch Black it's like a midnight blue so yeah those were gifted to me and then I almost forgot about these but these were gifted to me too by a homie who does custom this one right here this is his card you guys want to get some custom work done or something I don't really wear custom sneakers and I told him that but he told me he just wants me to have these so I was like okay I'll take it custom made in the allstar colorway from like back in the day when they had it in Arizona I appreciate the sneakers very dope very dope all right now I need to get out of here going to edit checking with you guys very very soon okay guys so Adam and slim and the rest of the crew Everybody they missed their flights this morning yeah we like 4 hours late I think about 4 hours so we actually get on our flight around 6:25 and they're leaving you guys are leaving tomorrow yeah so they're here for another night but um their room is actually actually 529 if you want to visit them huh okay my bad slim picked up some heat for Sneaker Con he got the white Yeezys and I got to steal bro but you know they don't stay white for so long so you got to break them in man come on play stop stop stop just look at mine is dirty yours is step on it guys stop stop one time okay let me draw no bro I should draw on it right look I drew mess it up mess it up it's too it's too fresh it's too clean when you're not looking I'mma sign them all right the Yeezy Destroyer attacks again there's four pairs of white Yeezys come guys that shut no no hold got the white Yeezys on got the white are you serious okay wait wait Adam has them Adam has them on too dud come on he took it off trying to mess my w that's how you oh slip play bro he's kicking nobody else got all right we'll let him we'll let him live for now any white shoes like even if I was wearing like yeah finally that finally looks like your size yeah 11 yeah see he's been wearing a nine he's been wearing a nine and pirate blacks and his size is 11 the people struggle to do for you pirate blacks but they fit me though honestly no they don't fit you I'm n 11 look this is a good size for you oh stop bro stop all right guys so we just got to the mall we have about an hour until we need to head back to the hotel to get our bags to go home we're going to take advantage and kick it with everybody and I got to say man this is probably one of the funnest sneaker cons outside of the actual convention just cuz we were all together and Def last night we were up to like 1:00 a.m. 2: a.m. playing this game called what is it called Mafia Mafia it's a card game bro it was intense it was super intense but we're at the mall I say about 15 minutes until security says stop vlogging in here we'll see what happens Brandon is still here and uh thanks for the win K I got you bro I got you basically this is the schedule right now if the Warriors win game three we have to go to Cleveland for game four because we got to take a fan and to the final if we don't take them to the game three to game four and warriors sweep the caves the contest gets you know we can't do that we promis somebody tickets to the finals and we are going to give them so we might be going to Cleveland that's going to be crazy at the end of this week but other than that there's nothing really else on the schedule we go back to LA Sneaker Con Dallas is in July and then Sneaker Con La is July 22nd 23rd and that will be a Hoops Classic so we will be balling and The rosters will be announced very very soon but anyway let's go see what they got hopefully we can find something dope here cuz actually I'm not really looking for anything now guys we're getting kicked out in 5 minutes guaranteed guaranteed 5 minutes we're getting kicked out yeah security kicked us out it's all good though we out here Starbucks got yo guys so they called the cops on us what the hell anyway we're headed back to the hotel cuz we got to go get our stuffs and then we got to head to the airport and um then we good to go man can I just say when this goes to trial I'm not coming back to Chicago because I wasn't in that car ex all right guys so a few of the guys that didn't go in that first Uber with us they got banned from the mall the rest of us made it out and now I'm headed to the airport I'm not sure if we're going to make our flight but I think we should be good hopefully let's just say bye to everyone cuz it's going to be a sad mint moment I'm fre all right guys they didn't care that I was leaving oh my god let's just say you still got us barbecue so Mickey and um his boy they went to they oh hey are we're leaving today let's go to downtown Chicago the traffic is horrible and now make it back in time let our friends now we have to take all their this is literally all their luggage so many bags bro we had to take it for them you know but I'm a good friend yeah what happened to swag all of a sudden swag's disappear swag let's just say something's fishy no goldfish that's rookie you make the rookie hold the bag hold the bag wow than you bro you have a good one man one word for Chicago WA lendy I knew you wouldn't be mad at me cuz I got you a gift Dam you went to RSVP no way did you really yeah that no way shark that's for the house I talk so much about you in the car I told him I was like I'm going to let him be mad at me the whole way and then give him a gift I'm using this on the plane bro hell yeah thank you\n"