Nike Cortez: If The Shoe Fits Directed by Estevan Oriol
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Short documentary with Nike Cortez on the chicano culture in Los Angeles. This documentary was to celebrate Nike Cortez 45th year anniversary and the global influence of L.A.'s Chicano fashion and art with Mr. Cartoon and Estevan Oriol.
Nike Cortez are the West Coast version of the Air Force 1- For Example (Most Popluar Kicks people wear in New York are Timbs & Air Force 1 and in LA are Chucks & Cortez)
Have to reverse that. Cortez were out first.
Cortez is the most gangster shoe
They both are shitty shoes
Yeah but in Cali back in the 90s its not like everyone was wearing Cortez, people were scared to wear Cortez cause they were associated with gang members, alot of people that act like they were wearing cortez back then, really weren't. Taggers mainly stuck to Reebok Classic and the occasional tag banger might wear Cortez. But Cortez were mainly a gang thing in Cali . But now days everyone wearing cortez , since the gang violence at what it used to be.
For some but for others it cost people there life’s so you’ll see Me rocking af1s in the west
I’m from a country called Bhutan 🇧🇹 but love Chicano culture.
I'm a Korean raised in LA and been all over the world. The realest people I know are LA Chicanos
Gracias se aprecia mucho
What do you mean exactly by being the realest people? And with all due respect to you and to the LA Chicanos, I doubt you've been all over the world..
@@SenpaiDaT I'm not going to waste time explaining myself or try to convince you. All due respect
@Amuro Ray not really actually. I didn't know about chicanos before this video. I'm not from the US that's why. It's just that this guy pretend he has been all over the world and have seen it all and that's a little bit too much of bullshit. I have only respect for you guys even If I don't know you that much.
Gracias hermano
The oldies songs is the cherry on top
Nike Cortez didn't make us, Chales!!! We made Nike Cortez!!!
C/S
East Side Of The River✊🏼
Ora' le.....
the joggers did it first son!!!
@@MovieGuy666no they didn't the shoe wasnt even popular.till mexican gang members wore them as part of the style..They even outlawed them in schools in Los because the school board knew they were gang related😂😂😂😂on the real SON
Best lyric of all time quoted by one of the best rapper of all time it ain’t Cali without Mexicans 💯💯💯💯💯🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽 ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿
Delpriest Stokes Pac
Thats why most Chicanos will forever fuck with Pac... He seen beyond the bullshit. Beyond the shit that tries to devide our Cultures. He showed Mexican Americans love and respect. Black love, Brown Pride!
Agree homie, I’m a Mexican American, we absolutely love 2Pac, black and brown together, we are unstoppable, and we make beautiful babies 😉 🤜🏿🤛🏽
Pac had love for us spanish people...he loved Puerto Ricans when he was in NY & shouted us out in "Old School" from the Me Against the World CD & told Angie Martinez the same in their legendary interview...& obviously Mexicans in "Live & Die in L.A."
@@lucianoloya703 2pac had love for Mexicans not manny black rappers say that
Where my Mexicans at?🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🤘
Working foo
Simon
Right here foo
It’s 5am and I just got home from work homie. Sitting at the table eating a sandwich, watching this short film, and dusting the bread crumbs off my black Dickies and plain black tee! Night has been long, no more creases in these shorts.
Right here compa eating some tacos al pastor
I could only find these songs -
love me -Clarence Williams
Don’t wanna be late-notations
Darling(bring your love)-Phil and Harv with mixtures
Hero
Chicanos & Mexicanos, Latinos Always will be decedents of this great land... Viva la raza from the boggie down bronx nyc.
I’m Asian and grew up in the Mission in San Francisco in the late 70’s. Yes, I became a cholo around 1978 with all my homies after we watched Blvd. Nights. I didn’t live on the projects but I hung out there and there was one a half block from my house. I got out of the scene bc it started getting rough and friends were getting more into the gangs and doing the stuff that young gangsters did back then. So after 3 /4 years of being a homeboy, I got out. Plus the rest of the world was going GQ and I said to myself, even tho non of my friends were going GQ, I went for it and changed my image. Of course my friends didn’t understand my change and went from Dickies to designer jeans. So I got a pair of white, red and blue Cortez around 1982. My old homies were like what the fk is up with your new look and what kind of shoes are those?’ Funny now that the Cortez is the Homies choice sneakers in the 90’s.
So I say, don’t let ppl. judge you and your style bc 10 years later, they might be claiming that these are the dope shoes that reps the hood. Not easy being different and trying to be original. Same with being GQ, 8 to 10 years later, I started seeing the homies starting to get GQ.
Yo, Mission D representing, pretty much the same years but different details. Those where the good ol' days before gentrification !
I was born in east LA but had moved when I was young my father is Mexican American and my mother is white ever since I was young I had seen the black and grey tattoos, lowriders, Dickies, Cortez and white tee as normal but I had gone to a all white school my whole life and was discriminated against for the way I had dressed and they never understood. I love my culture and I am not ashamed of where I am from.
People quick to jock los angeles chicano stilo/culture but dont want to stop and truly understand the daily chicano lifestyle/struggles like police discrimination and prejudices and negative stereotypes and profiling and constantly getting rejected from society. Not all of us chicanos have negative attitudes, self hate, we aren't all stupid street thugs/bullies/drug addicts, etc. A lot of us search/strive for a good woman to love us for who and what we are, a happy family household, a well paying 9-5 full time job, and we strive for peace, love, respect, and unity in our barrios/communities. 1 love
You can go just show much respect
pisces Lord of the sky Simon 🤘🏼
Sounds like the every struggle of black folks who have been through worse
shut up Karen
Especially black people. Every one copy us, especially the gang culture side, but don't know what living in tha hoodz like.
My very first pair of NIKE's were Cortez... Loved them ever since childhood. Makes me proud of the culture behind the shoe.
🔥🔥🔥WAS IT REALLY THAT HARD??!! FINALLY MEXICANS/CHICANOS GET THEIR PROPS!!! I'm STILL waiting for NWA to get called out!!
Damn I miss South Central Los Angeles East Los Angeles born and raised but moved to Arizona in 1998 I wanted to do the family thing but every chance I get I go out there and show my kids where I came from and I try to show them my heritage a lot of people hate on L.A out here but they don't understand and they never will I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT LOS ANGELES STILL REPPING OUT HERE IN BUCKEYE ARIZONA WITH MY 501 JEANS WHITE TEE
Man the Chicano life style is fresh I grew up around Chicanos much respect and love to how y'all keep it real
I definitely dig the Chicano life style, music, clothes, food, car's all of it. It's as American as you can get.
I’m proud to be first generation Mexican American in LOS ÁNGELES ! My parents worked 2 jobs to give us what we had . Loved this 💜
Noting like California Chicanos/Mexicans from Northern Cali to Southern Cali we do it the best, put all the Politics aside we all love our History/Culture. And are just alike Love my peoples/Culture Much Love from East Side Oakland, East Bay, Northern California!
Northerner jocking the scraps, look at you!
@@cervantescisneros712 only a wanna be would say some shit like that. Lol 😆
I was born and raised in central fl and idk this culture from LA with the flannels, baggy pants, Nike Cortez and lowriders and stuff really is catching on to me
Wannabe
I respect Cartoon he doesn’t shy away from the truth when it comes to culture like others he real all the way around
Im in Australia n wouldnt have my 64 n lowrider passion without the hente bringing it they may not had the $ but changed the world with there culture n deserve the recognition there now getting
much respect from Jamaica, always followed your artwork.... keep strivin'
Estevan oriol is a LEGEND and our people need to see and appreciate what he has done for our culture. LA ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Just finished LA ORIGINALS shit was badass much respect
I love that show shout out to cartoon a legend for real
Mr. Cartoon should have a WHOLE line of Nike Cortezs. His art style to me is on par with Warhol, Basquiat and other World reknown artists. I've loved his style since I first saw one of his articles in a tattoo magazine in my teens. After watching the Netflix special about him and Estevan grew a greater appreciation for both. If given one man to give me a tattoo it would be Mr. Cartoon.
Proud to be from southern califaz puro south central L.A homie
ORALE VATO! DO IT FOR THE RAZA.
I'm from Durban 🇿🇦 but damn the LA dress code is hard to let go, from the 90s growing up. Now I battle to get clothes like good All Stars Van's Dickies and Levi's. I wish I could hook up with someone who can send them down so i can sell them online, partnership obviously.
Ain't NO better upbringing,growing up and FAMILY
And Culture
Like
California
Latino
West Coast
Cultura.
I wore Cortez from 1977 until
2020.
Much Respect to SA and Cartoon.
Originators in the Game.
I always love watching this no matter how many times I’ve watched
Chicano Pride! 😎💪🏽🇲🇽
Too bad most youngsters nowadays wanna be something they’re not. I understand times change and styles do too, but we should never be ashamed of what we are. ✊🏽
This is the problem i have, im 15 and i dress like this becase it makes me feel comfortable and i feel like myself when i dress like this.I know ill get shit because of it but i want people to respect me by who i am and not because of how i dress.But it seems alot of kids now think im a wanna be cholo or something like that when in reality i Dont bother anyone and im just myself.
@@korbz34 I was referring to the youngsters that are ashamed of our culture and try to be something they aren’t. Keep your head up carnality.
Thanks Cartoon for keeping our culture alive and art.
Been into the Chicano styles since early 90’s. Being Aussie n all every body was listening to Cypress Hill but didn’t know truly where they came from. My Bro ran his Hiphop shop in the early 2000 distributing Tribal Gear clothing n Beyond the DVD’s, Has G
Shoutout to my brown cousins! Brown and proud! Love From Philippines
Man i grew up in the streets of chicago but throughout my life my mentality was that LA culture was how a chino should dress, talk, and be💯
I was 12 when I got my first pair of G Nikes. I was the only Flip weren’t them back in NorCal. But all the homies were Chicano. Fast forward 32 year later I’m still rocking them and buy multiple color ways.
I remember just last year going into a footlocker. This young white employee comes up to me and said I see you like cortezs.
I said fool these G Nikes and these are like my 100th pair in black and white homeboy lol
Did you feel funny about buying them? At first I avoided buying them due to the association they had, but eventually I did.
Nope I was a banger back then so I already knew I had to have them. But I still rock them . Now mainly when I run tot he store etc. I even got the stranger thing in red and white leather.
But if I’m going out or anywhere I normally put in some fresh J’s
@@DitchPickler yeah, they looked g.. The funny thing ppl were already associating them as "Mexican" in the early 90's n I was embarrassed to buy them, but then I saw the black homegirl wearing them n felt like that was obviously a stupid thing to think. Eventually I felt the same, had to have them n they were my favorite kicks for awhile.
I’ll love G Nike’s till I died and love them even more when the Nike outlets have them for $39.99 lmao
No denying chicanos put a stamp on the them and started a style. But they didn’t event the shoe. I mean I didn’t go buy all Ben Davis, dickies and flannels either.
White American is easy to judge a book by its cover. But I don’t blame them cus normally when you do a see a person that looks like a banger outside Cali even in Cali they are lmao
@@DitchPickler it ain't even just Gringos tho.. Sometimes it's even Mexicans themselves judging. I ended up liking the whole style, with khakis, Pendletons, etc..
Proud of my culture 💪🏽🇲🇽🇺🇸
Does anyone know the song at 4:32
My father's music group from Compton California, the Xplosions🎶 "Animated Heart "🎶 is part of their culture... thanks for telling the truth about the Moors
I just bought a new pair today. OG Cortez 🏁
Nylon and suede or all leather?
Vato's loco 4EVER ! CHICANO ✊ POWER ...
Csnt hate .. no matter what u want to say . I'm not from Cali.. biut ido appreciate things that make me who I am today . .... Chicano is a brother hood.. I love my people..
2:36 That's Alemão duckin, here from Brazil! Que viva la raza
I'm a proud ass mexicano born and raised in my gangsta ass city of angels...REPPIN THE NELA SIDE!! Que siga la loquera!!
Manny Zapata glassellland
HIGHLAND PARQUE😎
I really miss going to Los Ángeles I'm from Houston Texas.. and I'm ah go visit again
Mr. Cartoon f.n.a “Flame one” one of the best to ever do it since back in the day sooo glad for him!!!
Amazing tribute to the Chicano culture 🇲🇽🤎🫶🏼
I have a pair of ORIGINAL CORTEZ tennis shoes and I LOVE 'EM!!!!!
These artists are amazing. I wish they could bring the art to our community
They said the return of the Cortez! The Cortez has never gone anywhere, it’s always been here for the chicanos/chicanas from the north to the south, this shoe knows no colors! It’s new to all the little hipsters trying to look cool and fit in. This shoe is definitely and will always be a Classico✊🏽
The good ol days stop dressing like that long ago about 2 yrs ago found some of my old G style clothes trashed it all except for my Wayne Gretzky LA Kings hockey jersey kept that probably a collector's item , honestly I hope the style never dies I used to like Ben Davis over Dickies any day, Ben Davis creases were hard and Dickies were thin and all your damn change would fall out your pocket when you sit down , orale from the (559) Fresno shaaaaaaaaow!
Good call on the Dickie's. Never understood why they make the front pockets so shallow.
Thank you for paving a way for the raza and for the future 🤎💯 Raza Unida Brown Pride Till I Die Love & respect from Ariza 🔥 🌵
i would pay every cent in my bank account rn for a pair of those Aztecs
Chicano culture influenced me to rock with Dickies & Ben Davis pants and flannel shirts.💥💥💥
Cortez were made to run fast and comfortable...from cops we turn into track runners. That's what the shoe was made for...
Proud to be chicano!!!
Its the love n respect here ppls words aint worth shit n the art work is amazing much love to the Raza
Can someone please tell me every song that came out on this documentary
Thank you Estevan I’ve always wanted to be bringing the life of the Chicanos and todos Indigenos through a life of a lens like yours and mine Tio, thank you
I’m blessed to be born here in California! 😎❤️🤟
Hermanos brasileiros y chicanos 🇧🇷🤝🇲🇽
Our cultura is so beautiful!
I love Cortez they are my favourite pair of shoes and I got a lot of shoes though
Big fan of Estevan and being Mexica a descendent of the Mayans and later the great Aztecas, just wished the Chicanos or the ones comming up growing up know that the Cortez shoe is named after the guy who conquered us... Let's not forget to pass our knowledge in history. Still we wear them. I never understood that. Just my opinion carnales y carnalas
Cultura chicana é referência no Brazil também 🇧🇷🔥
Opa!!!!!! Brasileiro Aqui. Living here in America
i used to live in south gate the best year of my miserable life. independence and otis just north of the tracks and a beautiful home. one my first wife lived at to.
Its funny in LA in the 90's only gang bangers would really wear Cortez , now taggers and everyone acting like they used to wear them back in the days. Gangsters wore Cortez and taggers wore Reebok Classics.
Facts
I was a tagger and I wore Cortez, Chucks, Filas, Adidas, Pumas and Kswiss
Exactly!
Beautiful work
I watched you in an interview say how much you loved doing what you do and it’s very inspiring as if we don’t love what we do creatively, it should not be an option especially when you have learned the life lesson of this already.
I love what you do with the palm trees because there must be more in El Sereno than Beverly Hills or at least it felt that way for some years back
Thank you for sharing your work as you really do something that is heartfelt if I were famous I’d want you to tell my story.
Blessings,
🙏💜🙏
CHICANO PRIDE!! 🇺🇲🇲🇽🇺🇲🇲🇽
15 years old 96 freshman year I had the blue swoosh with thin blue laces ...Now all u get is black and white ...We did Ben Davis 501s KSWiSS or Reebok NPC2s Reebok classic west side did dickies like south central
What song is the first one
Nikes are new school my days were hush puppies, navy shoes polished blk 2 strap sandals, frisco jeans etc times have changed...
Im from Chicago and Ive never seen a Chicano in my life. Only in Movies and now youtube.
You ain't from Chicago.
I love black and grey tattoos and big white tees😂
Living in the 🇬🇧 Uk I love this!
Chicano es más que una forma de vestir , es toda una filosofía de vida y acerca de la vida , es una nostalgia por los viejos días , muchos ven cholos firmes sin saber que por dentro luchamos con la depresión , el luto , los carnales en la pinta , los desamores y todas
Solamente chicanos y mexicanos pueden tener esa cultura
Omg, The black hair bae 2:28 is so pretty. Angel in the hood .
#bestintheworld what's good fam!!!🔥🇵🇷🔥🇲🇽🔥
Nicely done Mr. Oriol, cool azz footage. Salute from that Lone Star State to all the Raza out in Cali! No doubt LA is known for that Chicano Lowrider/Arte scene. Here in TeXas, we Chicanos got down in our own TeXas way.
I live in Phoenix Arizona I got them to my birthday when I was like 23 years old .
Love my natives. All forms of colors.but we all have 4 thing in common lowriders, love eachother ladies, Bangin food at the vatos an blacks functions, An have the same enemies 12.Things starting to change with some of the south siders an the blacks.O Boy O Boy cali gonna be really sweet when the homies an the blacks get together on common goal.💪🏽💪🏾💯. We all the same Mexican an African pride💯💯💯💯💯💯
I Appreciate that this was well put together and well presented. Nicely done.
😉👌
1:56 Yes L.A. is close to Mexico so is Texas and there are Chicanos in Texas too.
Dats ryte let em no......
Chicanos in LA is different though homie. But shit same raza
@@edgardmartinez6026I agree..
@Chicken Man that's your opinion. You've probably never been or lived in TX. I've lived in both states. And I like both Cali and TX.
Kansas southwest Kansas to b exact is about 65 percent Hispanic. Its the borderlands of aztlan #620city cortez luv
Dickies and Nike Cortez, es todo lo que ocupas man!!!
Amen been wearing my Cortes since middle school in Illinois even though I get checked down in Chicago because they consider it gang related but homie I was born in LA and I will never change them I’m Chicano I’m proud of it and but in the Illinois they are too but here they don’t consider them selfs that some don’t even know what it means Il be back in Cali soon
County red lines baby, miss all my home boys, and girls, East Los.
I knew about You Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol before Netflix show, and I'm just guy from POLAND. Much respect to You guys!
Thank you mr cartoon and Spanto and 2Tone
My 1st Nike.
I didn’t ask to be CHICANO, I just got lucky.
C/S
Growing up in the 80's thru the 90's was the best yrs of my life .. wouldn't change it for the world ...thanks for the video...
Right on homie miss hand ball back in 97 in walla walla state pen
Black love brown pride in the sets again 💯👌😎
Dress kinda this way In Aus, but wear Air Max 90s and TN's. I think it originated for us in the early 2000s dirt bike scene, Kottonmouth Kings, Big B etc.. Who no doubt got it from being LA based.
Not me watching this while cleaning my cortezes
I miss chilling @ Tommy's, King Taco and Carnitas Michoacan on Broadway on those crazy late nights . 👐K☕
Saludos from Sorocaba São Paulo Brasil
Chicano influence, Chicano culture, Chicano’s stretch far beyond “SoCal”, don’t ever forget about the impact us Chicanos in the “NorCal” who stamp the imprint as well. 🤙💯
One love. ☝️