1982 who's Kilgore came up with the Nike Air Force One and blessed Moses Malone with that shoe and in turn he blessed the city with the championship in 1983 the rest is history it was the full Flint community that wore those stickers off the back to play ball and then it started spilling of course they went from being a basketball specific shoe with air to ensue that now is accepted worldwide it wasn't like Nike was like wow the shoe a choice this is for you it was something that happened slowly one kid at a time I painted my sneakers afterwards with acrylic paint I mean Elvis's a means of just being unique and having something that nobody else had there's just so many ways to do it you know it's limitless someone thought about it we're gonna make art pieces on people's feet this is really really hard you can wear a pair Air Force Ones and a pair of Levi's for the rest of your life and you never be out of style this is our cultural shoe this is our hip-hop uniform no matter how much money any other shoe company give me I'm still where was i Rock'em butterfly suit cuz I put on my little tux Twitty and get married in Pisa L that's just sample some ones that none of you rappers got they knew there's seventeen hundred different Air Force Ones there is no other sneaker that made that many variations do you know this yes it's a corporate company that manufactured and develop in design issue but the culture and the phenomenon in the existence of the shoe still main state from urban America how it became such a cultural icon is the mystery to me people want other planets where Air Force Ones Martians wear Air Force One