Sneaker of the Year 2018 | ComplexCon(versations)

The return of the quintessential ComplexCon panel features Joe La Puma, Allen Iverson, Wale, Lena Waithe, Ronnie Fieg, Don C, The Game, and DJ Clark Kent debating the top ten sneakers of 2018.
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[@kimmonewright6553]

Iverson: "It is Halloween every night" FACTS 💯

[@christhestarwarsnerd]

Don C talks like the white guy from Malibu’s Most Wanted

[@crisnguyen571]

shaft johnson this man looks like Key with a fake nose on.

[@ludwinmax18]

chris the starwars Nerd lmaooo facts

[@agckgn14]

Don C an idiot.

[@mattusandreasen4813]

who's here rewatching in 2019, after this years wack list

[@miguelhernandezhernandez3175]

Bruh I respected some picks but as soon as they said sacais for #1 pick I was like DAFUQ

[@MaroonTiger]

Dude, this list was 40-50% fugazi.. i need to go back to the 2017 video..

[@MaroonTiger]

Idk if the 2019 list was bad or if the year was wack.. 2017-18 were HOT years for sneaker/fashion..2019 was mostly colorways

[@kanakanamathivha1933]

This year list and the panel was wack..

[@dubras1]

👍🏽

[@Just4uguys]

All the Kanye hate but Virgil and Don C both come from the school of Kanye.

[@t.j.styles356]

Lol at Wale " nobody asked for my personal top 10" Joe: "Yes we did.. you didn't submit it" 🤣 I agree with him tho. The Serena's not a top 10 shoe for 2018.

[@gluehigh416]

Definitely not!

[@KingBr33ch]

Allen Iverson the living legend💯

[@ProgramDocc]

Yet they say "Former NBA All-Star"! Who the hell gets slapped first for that disrespect!?

[@luisdaniel7027]

BR33CH HD VA in tha house ! 💯

[@KingBr33ch]

Docc Johnson real talk 👏🏽

[@abdulaliakbar1175]

BR33CH HD But he didn’t like “practice”

[@ujnvfbhvdfjhbdgvujob]

BR33CH HE you are a living legend

[@antoniomolina6628]

joe telling wale to put his phone away 21:22 lmfao. yall had too many people up in here and some convos/opinions were honestly awkward af

[@SecretSauce_24]

im fuckin weak asf 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tarheelsmyteam5361]

Don C sounds like he ties his shoes without bending his knees.

[@ShaolinSilk]

Everyone on this stage other than Ronnie and Joe look like it was the first day their Moms let them dress themselves.

[@ArkhitectProductions]

😂🤣...AI wasnt bad either.

[@MFLOVEify]

Right lol they all wack

[@josephbriggs7067]

Eric Wilke your wack

[@dad_onduty]

facts

[@TelevisionBobby]

Lmao. So you like that corny, plain drip. I 👀 you.

[@apryanto-b7184]

Don C always love and support Kanye You know it when you see people “booing” on the 500 Love his attitude🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@avalosalex1993]

Apryanto - B that’s his friend

[@rickmyvideos9789]

To me kanye is the one pushing the design to new levels, and the rest designers wait to see if there is hype on his shoes, and if there is they build from his design cause is been proven.

[@TrueblueDC4L-G59]

Still doesn't make that ugly ass shoe look good atall

[@843wj3]

@@TrueblueDC4L-G59 you have a fucking Jordan logo as your profile picture, I don't wanna see you talking about what's ugly and what isn't.

[@olliesmith4997]

I do respect that about him too despite all his antics and personal views he still riding with his homie. That’s what real friend do, not fold on you when the public perception of you changes. It goes to show you the game is fake af and it’s very few real ones

[@LupusAdNoctem]

I didn't know Don C was one of Keegan-Michael Key's characters

[@ASalv188]

This comment is underrated :'D

[@kokolatte825]

OMG! He was so annoying! I'm not that familiar with him, but he was trying SO HARD to be cool.

[@CrunchySoftServe]

Holy shit underrated comment lmaoo

[@Jay-vy2hg]

That Serena shoe is NOT a top 10 shoe lol 😂

[@oabobby]

The serena blazer were better than those shits

[@user-wx2ej1rf1q]

Jay The ROY 1s are 10x better than those trash ass Serenas.

[@jdelgado837]

if you HAVE to include a shoe because "it is by a woman", then the aleali may's are waaaaaay better. Even better than some of the shoes in this list. Serena's line is not that great

[@omarbolori5591]

Better than the yeezy 500

[@insubordinatenyctv3627]

They had the nerve to boo, when they ALL low key were online thirsting for Yeezys. FOH.

[@theLatestkraze]

Sean P Joseph right lmfao like just shut up and keep it movin

[@echln3209]

😂 No. Yeezys aren't even selling well. Chill.

[@ReVolt_e-Vlogs]

Did they boo because of its terrible place? I mean, I'd give the o.g colorway between the 4th-5th place FOR SURE!💯

[@28kcskate]

Yezzys are dying man.

[@jordanodom11]

Sean P Joseph naw them shits ugly

[@nyelle.1]

Wale sound high asf😂

[@ryder94faulk27]

He came off kinda suspect 😂

[@Ek-re8ts]

He mixes all the drugs.

[@imdatnigga9715]

Thank god somebody else noticed. This nigga wale was straight tweaking. Nigga sounded n acted like he faced 10 lines straight thru the nose right before he hopped up on the stage

[@fawcue5844]

That nigga be fakin, every video of him smoking he never inhales

[@alper8966]

He is buffering

[@xanluv534]

Dude brought the hood up outta nowhere 😂 no one knew how or why he said it 😂

[@pannenkoekspek]

The dude is a fucking tool.

[@kokolatte825]

Every time he spoke I was just hoping he would stfu! Like fr.

[@Pro-habits]

Was waiting for this one

[@meloblack3335]

List was trash but Wale with the macho man Randy Savage glasses are 🔥🔥🔥

[@theLatestkraze]

I really do love joe too man he is so neutral but also always has an opinion but always respects when others have a different one. No point of having these conversations unless you can hear everyone’s side and can agree to disagree. he is the perfect host

[@friendoftheshow3382]

He mos def held it down💯 Subscribe back when I can sis👍

[@dfrees42]

He is to wishy washy

[@Oyashio202]

Yeah, it's good for a neutral view. Too bad as a person, he has a personality of a dead corpse.

[@theLatestkraze]

Gnat Foehn also true lmao

[@rubenj2869]

Dope show, I enjoyed. Top 10 is hard with all the 🔥 we got this year.

[@Plashun]

Love this show ...dope panel ..nice conversation

[@melvyn.871]

the kanye hate is real smh.

[@illwill9396]

I disagree, I think it's just an ugly shoe...

[@PudWhacker]

😂😂

[@abdulaliakbar1175]

hoodbourgeois. It’s a ugly shoe, and Kanye is crazy

[@youwouldntgetit2618]

hoodbourgeois. Kanye shoes trash 🗑

[@outlet6018]

bike bikle complex fans are kanye haters anyway

[@pablosanders330]

They must have cut a lot of wale out I KNOW he talked more than that lol

[@kokolatte825]

If they were cutting, they should've cut Don C out every time he spoke.

[@CyborgNS6NL]

Loved this!!!...

[@johnwayne3566]

4:36 he’s mad cuz he in love with the shoe 😂

[@pyrean]

Wale extra af with the reactions. Funny af.

[@antchancey433]

Clark Kent a Living Legend!

[@Pro-habits]

All these folks collection 🔥

[@reggie4499]

actually really enjoyed this convo

[@morgan8881]

People dont understand how much Trinidad knowledge for sneakers goes

[@Etridamu]

He knows his shit sneaker wise

[@SamuRai-dn5xl]

Aka trash james

[@dvnking]

Is English a second language for you?

[@42kproductions]

He use to work at a sneaker boutique

[@42kproductions]

killa stormz why hate

[@neildrew-lopez271]

Bull1trc shouting BASURA 😂😂😂

[@DoomDeity]

no way was that really him lmaoo

[@neildrew-lopez271]

ZestyHD who else could it be? 😂

[@jdb9396]

NizKer what part was that at 😂😂?

[@92070]

timestamp?

[@TeAmoDre]

yes 2:25

[@sneakersonfeet9045]

Love your work

[@shalokare789]

Wow quite a conversation!!

[@wessmith2716]

Need the whole video.

[@Complex]

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[@queavogoldthedon4766]

U all off copy the hood*U got AI*everybody knows els pretty much week except for Trinidad he okay 😒The rest of y'all are like Sketches in the shoe game😂

[@jonathanlewis6834]

Complex I agree with tha game cuz , but I love the Jordan 17 college blue joints.

[@Msboochie2]

Entertaining show, I don’t even like sneakers. If they are comfortable and match my outfit, I’m good.

[@hnguyen218]

how y'all invite DJ Nike Kent when that fool clearly biased and paid in shoes by Nike lol. His opinions been invalid ever since he proclaimed some wackass J's as "shoe of the year." Fuck these industry plugs and get some cringy badly-dressed hypebeast shoetubers instead.

[@blackguyincali]

Can't enter. No Facebook.

[@SVL1AN]

brooo we need another episode like this part 2

[@christianlindbergh]

Respect to all of them

[@Togomei]

Wale be uuppsett!! - Vince Staples

[@marvinjean373]

Wale is absolutely right about the top 10

[@Jomonoupapjanmbliyew]

That was fun to watch as a sneaker head i love shows like this

[@TrueblueDC4L-G59]

Its my BIRTHDAY thanks for the video!!!

[@Renzo42173]

Lmao wale’s face at 4:05 😂💀

[@PudWhacker]

😂😂

[@wavyjae1988]

Good show 💯💯

[@jaymb23]

This is so damn cool !

[@davids.3724]

Throughout this whole argument Allen just sitting there like what am I gonna have for dinner a steak, fried chicken, how bout some Marcos

[@lokianda5391]

3:55 Wale Reaction got me weak😭😭💀💀💀

[@Yearmeeeeee]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kingdom9087]

That beat at the end tho 🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@professorb3843]

16:27 !!! What bro!! The Cactus jack 4's oh man...number 3 lol! HYPE HYPE HYPE!

[@HENCHMARV]

The game needs to visit his Barber ... LIKE NOW !!!

[@TrueblueDC4L-G59]

Don't mess with game when hes in crackhead mode hahaha

[@comgeturs]

That's a homeless clone

[@africasupreme3]

Judging by your icon pic, just DM your barber's info to him bruh

[@BLURZMATIC]

He sounds a little intoxicated

[@aprilmaryland7128]

He trying be like them young niggas lmaooo

[@MrDBcooper77]

What’s up to everyone smoking some 🔥 watching!!✌🏼

[@nickurbahn8639]

A stage of heavy hitters. Respect to complex for this

[@sagetscippio8878]

Great cast for this show though💯👏🏾

[@GaSneaks]

Can anyone else hear bull saying basuda😂😂

[@nyelle.1]

GaSneaKs 😂

[@paulzeller791]

Hell yeah

[@JeffM375]

basura*

[@GoldieVoerman]

GaSneaKs y would bull say that when he line up for every yeezy............

[@thatdude1354]

who said that iverson😂😂😂😂

[@ABgocrazy]

Who peeped when wale was told to get off his phone😂

[@dbarr]

Epic!

[@KingDxvid]

There’s a bunch of shoes that I feel should have made the list that didn’t, and also a few shoes that made the list that I feel shouldn’t have, but all n all they had a dope list. Dope panel also... shoutout to Complex.

[@007Crimper]

Virgil reminds me of the Key from Key & Peele acting like he from the hood lmao

[@SWRVMEDIA]

Wale always sound like he smoke more cigarettes than Joe Budden 😂 😂

[@IllDawgable]

The beat on the intro really bangz.

[@reeceriddin]

21:28 watch joe tell wale off about his phone like some school teacher 😩😂

[@frankdogg1985]

Nice pink beanie Wale... my daughter has the same one

[@joeypierce8663]

Frank Dogg it was crazy seeing him with his legs crossed just like the woman who was sitting beside him🙈

[@uigij1]

Don c think he gangster 😂😂🤣

[@SamuRai-dn5xl]

He really seem homothug

[@gluehigh416]

He's from Al Capone's city! You don't have to prove your gangster when you come from certain places!

[@SamuRai-dn5xl]

@@gluehigh416 Kanye Gangster as fuck too people dont know but He really is especially since he can hang with the Kardashians. But it still doesnt change the fact Don C seems Bi-Thug just something about him... that doesnt discredit he got that Capone heart them LGBTs are the hardest like Marlo (the wire) and China Mac say too. This world is kinda mixed up anyways.

[@P1LLSTV]

Beat at end is mad 🔥

[@thechancellor8942]

Wales facial expressions 😂😂

[@dgunthorp]

Wats up my good ppl hope everyone has a wonderful day

[@friendoftheshow3382]

U do the same myguy Sub back one time

[@dgunthorp]

@@friendoftheshow3382 I got you family

[@yungcee321]

DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!!!? JK.

[@dgunthorp]

@@yungcee321 lol

[@TrueblueDC4L-G59]

Its my BIRTHDAY!!!

[@bamirelamin56]

R fieg elite shoe designer...thank you for those salmon asic g lytes💙💙🤙🏿🤙🏿

[@cactusjack2264]

This is like the Player Haters ball Chappelle show sketch but for sneakers lol

[@EarlJLourenco]

Agree or disagree with the list, but this was damn entertaining y'all absolute fire.

[@miked.336]

I thought wale was drunk when he first started talking.

[@joil1759]

Game is funny 😂🤣

[@jacquesboutros9637]

I love these sneaker talk shoes!

[@myrondavis1416]

Go to 16:40. The look on Wale face when he says Travis Scott makes great music 😂😂

[@jrllanos24]

This is dope and needed . Stalley missing

[@Brandonforever21608]

Damn Stalley! Completely forgot about him. Wtf happened to him??

[@thatdude1354]

hes not signed to MMG no more i know him personally he was a fake phony anyway once he signed to MMG he starting acting different towards friends including me god dont like ugly he sold only ten thousand records for his album and ross dropped him cuz he couldnt sell records😂😂😂🤣

[@nhoodjazz]

That Dude damn forreal ? He had that woke humble persona going on

[@ShawnVegaz]

FACTZ

[@thatdude1354]

@@nhoodjazz snake in the grass bro he didnt have a place to stay i use to visit him in shelters he signed to ross he started acting like he didnt want me around and rolling his eyes and shit so i deleted his number and kept it pushing stalley is the definition of a wolve in sheeps clothing he even has a special needs kid that he doesnt claim he just shows off his pretty daughter for the gram smh

[@elteco4967]

AI said “if you look good you play good” lol don’t seem to be working for PJ Tucker ha haha 😂

[@haydirockets]

I wish Trinidad spoke more, I always love his passion and knowledge for sneakers, #DAD

[@staycegmst369]

FINALLY

[@toddharris94]

Ronnie Fieg rocking the dope ass New Balance collab. They put out some HEAT! List is crazy biased.

[@bigtimewillie8846]

It's crazy a few years ago all you had to do was get up early, wait in line, and everybody in line got their pair

[@noname-by9nj]

DJBVA08 man I remember when you didn’t even have to do that you just had to go. Because it wasn’t a hypebeast thing it was a cultural thing. If you weren’t into b ball or from the hood you weren’t rocking Jordan’s. The hypebeast era began with the Nike Dunks they started this line up outside for sneakers shit around the mid 2000’s 05-07. Because of their colour ways they started that. If there was ever a line up for other sneakers it was because the actual athlete was there doing signings

[@Oyashio202]

@@noname-by9nj Thank god hype went away from adidas. I can get my comfy fire shit without any trouble now. Hypebeasts can have all the nikes and Jordans in the world. Ok, maybe save a few reacts for me in case they actually make good pairs, but still.

[@darkspyda1406]

When I was growing up we always struggled for money trainers had to last . I remember having cheap and cheerful hi-tec, puma, deadora, and my first proper trainer being Adidas kick, and then Adidas magnum. But Nike were only a dream only the rich could afford them in my eyes. I made my self a promise that I would make sure I never had to struggle with money again and that I could afford those Nike trainers that the rich man had! I have 50 pairs of trainers not because I’m obsessed but because I love trainers and the sneeker culture! I now only wear Nike.

[@viktorcorleone647]

Notice how everytime A.I speak, everybody stop what they doing and listen to him. Only him. Nothing but respect.

[@rickcross5377]

Wale deserves his own shoe 4real

[@cdawg9531]

Bruh is Wale all good? Dude sound like he got Parkinson’s or something.

[@tigerhoods7927]

No bullshit

[@imdatnigga9715]

I’m telling you niggas this dude snorted 10 lines to the dome right before he hopped on stage. Nigga straight tweaking

[@cgunna1175]

Probly horsed from recording my guess

[@HEAVYCHEVY409]

he was being sarcastic

[@politic1148]

And he got this huge ego that makes no sense for someone that hasn't did anything special, he aint all that

[@stardawg4719]

Mann how did we get to this! Sneakers is cool and all but damn!!

[@adrianjeudy6178]

I like how they’re coming up weigh more ideas to connect with the world

[@dfrees42]

“It’s Halloween every night now” lol Iverson is a G. Allen do those remind you of the old questions? NOPE.

[@truth517]

What's going on with Wale ?

[@vicbarrios7966]

Flyy Starr he smoked some flacca before the show

[@yungcee321]

@@vicbarrios7966 😂

[@truth517]

@@vicbarrios7966 Damn 😂😂😂

[@fawcue5844]

@@vicbarrios7966 wale doesn't smoke fr

[@DonavanMcdabb]

He just doing too much. A lil corny. Then get mad and emotional when niggas call him corny

[@Queenofsole100]

This was the last time I was interested in the conversation. 🤷‍♀️💯👟

[@A1Smalls]

Got my favorite artist up there in Wale and my favorite sneaker of the year at #1 🍿😬

[@youngmaze126]

All these collabs with other rappers and Wale still doesn't have a kick... That's what I have a portion with

[@AaaaAa-yf6ku]

lol they didnt even put trinidad name in the caption the disrespect

[@infamousctown651]

Joes like wtf is security 😂😂😂🤣🤣

[@cdnr6311]

How are the 4Ds not in here? Revolutionary and lots of new collabs.

[@umeshfarmah3182]

All these people and panel are Nike bias. Adidas had some amazing shoes this year but they never get included just because they dont limit their stock like Nike do.

[@LaLira7]

like what

[@umeshfarmah3182]

Jay Lira Adidas had many sick releases like the kamanda, continental 80s, Sobakov, the new Parley range, 4D futurecraft. The list goes on.. The Sobakov in fact is my fave shoe of the year

[@emwebb10]

Mesh Farmer then yung model. This just a Hypebeast list

[@umeshfarmah3182]

Benjimen Wingate hypebeast stuff only exist because Nike limit stock for a few of their collab items. They create the hype and people fall for it. Adidas designs are creative and comfortable. They deserve more respect imo

[@funtimewallace6580]

Yung 1 was definitely in my top 10 this year, it's crazy how slept on the shoe is

[@dad875]

Game ❤️❤️

[@felixpfeiffer3825]

i love this vid just because bull 1trc screamed bassurrraaa

[@mathewandrist7566]

What shoes y’all got from the list?!? I got the cdg air max 90s , the Travis Scott’s and the Sean’s! And I think they snubbed the John Elliot lebron collab that shit fire I had to have them

[@theloniousvic]

Wale was not feelin Don C at all 😂😂😂

[@kokolatte825]

Nobody was, including me.

[@heatholderinc4961]

No Mayor? That was a fumble

[@gluehigh416]

Mayor lost the passion!

[@Brandonforever21608]

Fuck mayor! He corny af

[@alonzogreen6602]

Joe told him to put the phone away 😂😂

[@Reezy_Tha_Fundraiser]

The Beat at the end though