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Lavelle 
@vdot_life
Owner of Succezz

"Me and my partner, Bobby Simmons. We in Chi, baby. Let's see what we can do with this."

"Since I was like 11, I've been into sneakers, man, like always watching, always into them. I always wanted to own a sneaker store. When I left college, I got me a job at a shoe store and now, speed me up to 2021, I own my own sneaker shop."

"And it's been part of our culture as long as I can remember. It's us. We always been fly and fashionable. It's all in love. It's all love. This is my 'Cool Grey' 2011, one one baby. When these first dropped man, the world shattered again."

"My favorite element of this shoe, the grey patent leather and the ice sole. This sneaker is so comfortable, man. It's like it melts on your feet. The Retro 11 'Cool Grey' ranks number 6 in my collection."

"These are my Cement 3's, 2001, 2017. The luxury of it. When Tinker put the air bubble in this shoe and a snake skin elephant print, it was amazing. When I rock these, I rock with anything. This timeless, it can go with any outfit. I got married in a pair of these shoes."

"I rank the 3's in my collection--number 1 shoe, honestly. The 3's the number 1. That's my favorite shoe in my collection. If you know anything about Jordan, man, and the history of Chicago, you got to know about these beauties right here. These are the Free Throw Lines from 2017."

"This is when Michael Jordan changed the game. It's clean. It's elegant. It's sexy, bro. You can wear it with a jogging suit. I'm ready to just throw them on. Give me a reason...party, event. Wherever you want to get me, I wanna come with it."

"I got my first pair of free throw lines from a great friend of mine. He came through for me in the clutch and my man hooked me up. The White Elephant Print 3 is number 2 in my collection."

"These are my Retro 5's, Black Metallics, '99, 2019."

"This guy played basketball real good. He could jump real high. And he came to gym with them and I'm like, what you got on bro? Like them are some Black 5's, whoa, Metallic 5's. The man scored 50 points on us in them shoes. So I went out and bought me a pair the next day."

"It goes with jeans. It goes with shorts, fits good. It's comfy. I love them, man. It's like the 4th favorite out of all my shoes."

"The Concord 11. My favorite element design on this shoe was the canvas. The upper was insane. The white upper with the black patent leather. We had lines down the street for this shoe. This shoe everybody really wanted was this shoe right here. This one made everybody want a Jordan."

"Number 3, this is my third best shoe. Retro 4's KAWS. This one, the sickest retros collab's that Jordan's done. The detail, the suede, the way it smells. The most missed element of this shoe is the toe tag. Two Xs. It's amazing."

"I would like to thank everybody out in the audience for taking your time out your precious day to spend time to see what I got. It's LaVelle V-Dot Sykes, signing out. Peace."

What You Got

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