Matthew Welty
@MatthewJWelty
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@complex. Co-host @fullsizerunshow, The Complex Sneakers Podcast. I support a football club in New Jersey. 🇦🇲🇵🇱🇺🇸
Jersey City, NJ
Joined October 2009
It's crazy to look back to the first Jim Jones ep of FSR. 4+ yrs ago. Many consider it the zenith of the show. At that point, I was at the lowest i'd ever been personally. You don't want to know how much i drank back then or how i viewed myself. Crazy the path that God had in
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just trying my darnedest to put out good sneaker content every day.
It's been 20 years since the Tiffany Dunk came out. We got @NickyDiamonds to unbox the legendary Nike SB Dunk and tell the story of the shoe.
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100% cosign this.
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The Kith runway show yesterday was crazy. Here's everything that happened at the show and behind the scenes. Like, why did Nems flick me off.
Here’s a behind the scenes look at Kith’s fall/winter runway show and some of the faces we got to see 👀
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the Kith runway show tonight was unreal. Looking at this video, with Dave East, Jim Jones, Victor Cruz, Fab, Westside Gunn, and Jim Moore of GQ. And realizing i've had all them on one of my talk shows or another. Kind of surreal moment.
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cant say we arent working out here.
Dearly departed 😠what’s the last pair that crumbled on you?
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I sat down with Angelo Baque and talked about his upcoming Awake x Air Jordan 5. but also how he designed the Supreme x Air Jordan 5s. And made ASICS cool. And a whole lot of other stuff.
Angelo Baque, with 20+ years in the game, talks to Complex’s Matt Welty about designing Nike Air 180s, Jordans, and the meaning behind the "A" on his AJ5s—plus the rise of fakes, even with numbered pairs. Full interview here:
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still got something left to prove. still got a little something in the tank.
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this one of the wildest sneaker moments i've seen transpire. Always great to talk to Nick.
The Diamond x Nike SB Dunk "Canary" is one of the most hyped ComplexCon releases and Nike SBs of all time. But the sneakers couldn't drop because of the riot that broke out. @NickyDiamonds relives the story about the madness that ensued.
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DC in the Action Bronson 990s. Sneaker Moment of the Year (So Far).
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man what a week. Podcast coming back announcement. Sat down with Nick Diamond and have a bunch of videos coming out from that. Have a full-length sit down tomorrow with Angelo on the Awake Jordan 5. Going to the Kith runway show on Sunday. Can't complain.
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The podcast is back btw.
We're proud to announce the return of the Complex Sneakers Podcast as well as our new cohost @Upscale_Vandal 🔥. See you in a few weeks 🫡
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funniest thing about this photo is that some ppl think this is the shoe surgeon confronting TwoJs? That's Nick Diamond lol.
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i have zero interest in yu-gi-oh, but these are prob the coolest sneaker of the year, in my personal opinion.
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i was most surprised that JLP didn't drop all the shoes when we shot this tbh.
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I always feel like the moment sneaker culture, as we know it these days, went pop culture mainstream turbo overdrive was when the Space Jam 11s got retroed in 2009. After that, it was off to the races.
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ISS and NikeTalk were cut of the same cloth. But were too completely different worlds. NT was wild, but a bit more reserved (you couldn't curse). But ISS was the wild west lol.
This…. I think there’s also a divide between people on Niketalk and people who were on ISS (SC), and people who weren’t on either.
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it was the greatest single resource for ppl anywhere, online or IRL, if they were into sneakers at the time.
Niketalk was used to keep people informed. Now people use the internet to tell people their wrong.
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I feel like there's a huge divide in the sneaker world between ppl who were on NikeTalk and ppl who weren't on NikeTalk. And that's why a lot of arguments about what was/wasn't cool comes up.
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