[00:00.00] 作曲 : Virgil Abloh/Kaelin Ellis/Wasalu Jaco p/k/a: Lupe Fisaco
[00:10.92]Been standing in line since Thursday
[00:12.56]I heard a rumor they might be dropping them early
[00:15.02]Should have 'em just in time for your birthday
[00:17.76]Irrelevant holiday affair
[00:19.32]Got one of those three-leg folding chairs
[00:21.56]I am what you call prepared for the campout
[00:24.80]Evening brings the battery-powered lamps out
[00:27.39]Warm clothes but blanket 'case it get cold
[00:30.84]Corn chips and basic staples to hold
[00:33.38]Hunger over till Uber Eats is ordered
[00:36.08]Maybe pizza, or quesadillas and sopa
[00:38.23]Got a little cooler with assorted waters and sodas
[00:41.07]Cinnamon sugar-coated malassada, the odor
[00:44.21]Makes me the envy of the line
[00:45.86]If not the enemy, not my energy
[00:47.95]I'll be spending plenty of time
[00:49.20]Inside the books that I bought
[00:51.24]Got audios and regulars
[00:52.89]Quite the party goer and reveler
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[00:57.02]So, on today's to-do list is to design a pair of running shoes
[01:07.29]The goal is as always in my work
[01:10.37]Is to add emotion to inanimate objects, so
[01:15.85]Release day is finally upon us
[01:17.70]More celebratory than the former
[01:19.55]But mixed with bittersweet vibes most certainly switched to different beats
[01:23.74]More policed than Justinian's Byzantinian Christian beliefs
[01:27.34]There's a risen rhythm you can feel it all in the streets
[01:30.03]Like a marathon or a parade
[01:33.08]Poets might wanna pull they pens out like grenades
[01:36.07]Or that model for a year and a half
[01:38.17]And write down all the tears and the laughs
[01:41.17]A shot across the bow of the tyrannous class
[01:43.57]Quote from man standing on float
[01:46.42]The whole event is just biggest-fan-channeling dope
[01:49.93]I mean, one just feels privileged and esteemed
[01:52.48]Inwardly serene and spiritually clean
[01:54.62]Even the line feels like a team
[01:57.22]In stark opposition to a competition for things
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[02:02.01]With that, these shoes that we are about to design with words
[02:08.79]Starts with a sole
[02:12.08]Not a sole, but soul, you know, what touches you to earth
[02:16.58]That's floating in nowhere, the soul
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[02:22.00]With touching signs of equality to match
[02:24.70]White kid at the front let me go first cause I was black
[02:29.12]Said it was only right
[02:30.57]He was used to having head starts his entire life
[02:32.57]Maybe it was time to step aside like trilobites
[02:35.46]Touching, I never forget it like riding bikes
[02:38.35]The ordeal starts to spring feelings like guiding light
[02:41.10]Permanent villains go about chilling they psychic fights
[02:43.74]Nice, and to a buyer's delight
[02:46.34]You're limited to two so that means I'm buying them twice
[02:49.49]One pair to wear, one pair on ice
[02:51.48]Aftermarket speculation will surely hike up the price
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[02:55.86]Call that all in the plans
[02:57.57]Feeling like Mike with the ball in my hands
[03:00.11]Swear to God, it's like the best game he ever played
[03:03.51]I get to wear the first pair possibly ever made
[03:06.11]What does that sole look like
[03:08.25]It's soft to run on
[03:11.40]But tough enough to withstand the reality of the ground
[03:17.31]Or the reality of the context we're living in
[03:20.07]That's the soul
[03:21.96]Let's just call it black
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[03:27.57]I get applause as I step outside the pop-up
[03:29.72]The shop resembles the unfinished house he was in before they shot us
[03:33.11]We fell down, then we got up
[03:36.21]Pick Pac up, pick Nip up
[03:39.51]This is the type of tripping that scuff kicks up
[03:41.32]Traditionally creases was a style to refuse
[03:43.12]But now they represent every mile in your shoes
[03:45.92]Any mud on your sole gets toweled and removed
[03:48.82]It's like I'm retracing every trial, know it took strength
[03:51.97]Giant steps flowers growing out of the footprints
[03:54.47]Liberation, here's your invitation
[03:57.47]It's a relay race, continuation
[04:00.26]Get the baton and keep bringing it back
[04:02.27]That string theory means we'll keep being attached
[04:05.75]Last thing, this is something of a sight
[04:08.44]Even when you take 'em off they keep running for your life
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[04:12.78]You know, can withstand multiple beatings by the ground
[04:19.26]But it's tough enough to continue on, that's the sole
[04:24.06]Now there's an upper on top of that sole
[04:27.21]The upper is made of leather
[04:31.73]Or maybe mitt or maybe both, you know?
[04:38.31]That sole and that upper combined by stitches
[04:44.84]Leaves for a dynamic enclosure around the foot
[04:49.83]There's a tongue, there's even shoelaces
[04:53.19]You know, those shoelaces
[04:54.64]They are literally as elastic as a rubber band
[05:04.69]But as tough as links of steel, let's call it chain links
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[05:10.96]So, here we have the shoe taking shape
[05:15.80]There's a logo on the side, fill in the blank with your favorite one
[05:20.05]They're all man-made, it's all good
[05:22.54]But this shoe, these Air Ahmauds or these Air Arberys
[05:31.07]Are starting to take shape now, you know?
[05:36.11]They connect man and earth, they allow you to run
[05:44.49]That running is freedom,
[05:47.39]Accelerated heart rate by design through design
[05:54.01]Air Ahmaud, Air Arbery
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[06:00.92]What color are these shoes? The upper of these shoes
[06:07.86]Maybe white, maybe black, pick your favorite
[06:12.95]But, you know, the world's black and white anyways
[06:17.69]So might as well limit the whole color palette to that
[06:21.39]Signed, Virgil Abloh, in quotes of course
[06:26.59]Oh yeah, there's a red zip-tie on this thing, it makes it our own
[06:34.82]It's tied into a history of art that's now
[06:38.22]Copright 2020