How Haze Made One of the Greatest Nike Dunks of All Time

The Complex Sneakers Podcast

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🗓️ 7 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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The Complex Sneakers Podcast is co-hosted by Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne, and Matt Welty. This week, the three co-hosts talk to graffiti writer and graphic designer Haze. The artist talks about his long history working on collaboration sneakers, from his New Balance 574 to his Nike Air Force 1 to the set of Dunks he did in 2003. Haze also discusses building his brand and connecting with Japanese streetwear icons Hiroshi Fujiwara and Nigo. Elsewhere, Welty gets a brief birthday celebration and the co-hosts talk about the effects of sneaker hype.

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? It's Joel Puma. You were listening. You were watching the Complex Sneakers
0:07.0	podcast as always. I'm kind of with my guys, Mr. Matt Welty. Yeah, we're here, but in different
0:13.2	places, right? Different places, but the show goes on. And of course, Mr. Brendan Dunn. How
0:18.3	we doing, guys? We're here, but we're there. We're everywhere, all together, and nowhere at
0:22.8	once. Joe, where are you right now? I am in LA. I am in a room that is a, there's a lot of
0:31.6	makeshift stuff going on. What are you doing in LA? Can you tell us? We're shooting a lot of
0:36.4	episodes for the new season of sneaker shopping. That one good thing besides the one drawback of
0:41.8	not being with you guys in studio. The pro of it is, yeah, the pro of it is we did get a bunch of
0:48.8	episodes for the new season of sneaker shopping in the can. So give us some hands here.
0:53.9	I can't give any hints, but we do. Oh, come on. I can't. I can't. I can't really. I can't.
1:00.8	I try. I try. I try. I'm a little secretive. I'm sorry. I'm a little secretive, but I think
1:04.3	people are really going to like it. I have to my left right here, Dave Matthews. Dave Matthews,
1:11.6	okay, he produced LA. Super producer Dave Matthews, we flew to LA. 806 AM. 806 AM, I'm on the plane
1:21.2	already. And he texted me, what do you guys want from Shake Shack, me and Jose, the director?
1:29.6	806. Then he goes Shake Shack is closed. He goes Shake Shack is closed. So I'm going to get a
1:37.2	burrito instead. And he ate in perfect day, Matthews fashion, he ate a burrito,
1:41.8	at the gate, and then got on the six hour flight to LA. At least the 80 before he got on the plane.
1:46.8	At a clock in the morning, eight o'clock, I checked the timestamp before 806 AM. He had a burrito.
1:54.3	And usually his move is to eat it on the plane. Right, right. We've heard about that before.
1:58.7	Did he have the mountain dew fired up? Did he have the mountain dew? I don't think he had a mountain
2:04.8	dew. But here's to that point, last night on set, literally someone of the crew was like,
2:09.7	man, Dave, you know, I remember one day you showed up to with that code red. I'm a code red fan.
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