Double Trouble

Hm, while our general opinion about Puma´s attempts to connect with Jamaican popular culture (for more information on how their little adventure trip back in 2004 ended up, check The Afflicted Yard, The Guardian and FIRST magazine #4 (spread 2). By the way: does anybody have that Channel 4 documentary called “Trainers, Reggae and the Olympics” by John Deol and Paul Blake? I accidentally deleted my copy…) is not a big secret, everybody can decide on his own what he/she thinks about “Riddim” magazine.
Why I´m writing about this? Well, Puma and Riddim now cooperated and put out a limited edition version of the Clyde sneaker (which it looks like Puma kinda tries to make the next Superstar) that - like every Puma “sneaker” - is perfectly described by the lyrics of German rapreggaefunk-hero Jan Delay: verse 2, line 13. Nuff said.











January 10th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
[…] Puma has shown us quite often (last try: teaming up with Riddim-magazine) how shitty Jamaica-”inspired” sneakers can actually look like, this time Adidas tries […]