NIKE AIR FEAR OF GOD RAID FRIENDS & FAMILY UNBOXING! 200 PAIRS IN THE WORLD?!
NIKE AIR FEAR OF GOD RAID FRIENDS & FAMILY UNBOXING! 200 PAIRS IN THE WORLD?!
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Let the Band Deal with It: The Nike Air Fear of God Raid
Jerry Lorenzo saw the Nike Air Raid for the first time as a high school sophomore when a fellow student came into class with it on. The shoe itself was an immediate object of desire. Lorenzo loved the gray and black color scheme, he said, and the nuances of the geometric patterns and the impact of the crossed straps. He noted there was a positive, pro-Black feeling about it. It was the first Nike shoe outside of Jordan he had an emotional connection to. "When the kid walked in the classroom with the Air Raid, no one told me that I was supposed to like the Air Raid. I was just drawn to it, the design, the colors. It was like, oh my God, what is that?" Lorenzo recalls. "It became interconnected with all these other real emotional things that were happening at the time of the shoe." I was just drawn to it, the design, the colors. It was like, oh my God, what is that? As he learned more about sneaker culture, Lorenzo discovered that the Raid was designed for play...