Nike Cortez: If The Shoe Fits Directed by Estevan Oriol
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- 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
The oldies songs is the cherry on top
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
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
My very first pair of NIKE's were Cortez... Loved them ever since childhood. Makes me proud of the culture behind the shoe.
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
Watching this video brings a sense of pride. It's not so much if you're Mexican-Chicano-Filipino-Salvadorean- or any other race, it is more of being attached to the culture, feeling a sense of belonging. Reviving the 80's and 90's. Stay up and remember loved by a few, hated by many and Respected by all.
Chicanos & Mexicanos, Latinos Always will be decedents of this great land... Viva la raza from the boggie down bronx nyc.
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
Man the Chicano life style is fresh I grew up around Chicanos much respect and love to how y'all keep it real
much respect from Jamaica, always followed your artwork.... keep strivin'
I’m from a country called Bhutan 🇧🇹 but love Chicano culture.
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.
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’m proud to be first generation Mexican American in LOS ÁNGELES ! My parents worked 2 jobs to give us what we had . Loved this 💜
I always love watching this no matter how many times I’ve watched
I definitely dig the Chicano life style, music, clothes, food, car's all of it. It's as American as you can get.
Estevan oriol is a LEGEND and our people need to see and appreciate what he has done for our culture. LA ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
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.
Thanks Cartoon for keeping our culture alive and art.
Proud to be from southern califaz puro south central L.A homie
ORALE VATO! DO IT FOR THE RAZA.
Just finished LA ORIGINALS shit was badass much respect
I love that show shout out to cartoon a legend for real
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’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 !
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
Amazing tribute to the Chicano culture 🇲🇽🤎🫶🏼
I respect Cartoon he doesn’t shy away from the truth when it comes to culture like others he real all the way around
I really miss going to Los Ángeles I'm from Houston Texas.. and I'm ah go visit again
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
These artists are amazing. I wish they could bring the art to our community
I Appreciate that this was well put together and well presented. Nicely done.
😉👌
I just bought a new pair today. OG Cortez 🏁
Nylon and suede or all leather?
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.
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 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
🔥🔥🔥WAS IT REALLY THAT HARD??!! FINALLY MEXICANS/CHICANOS GET THEIR PROPS!!! I'm STILL waiting for NWA to get called out!!
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
Proud of my culture 💪🏽🇲🇽🇺🇸
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💯
Mr. Cartoon f.n.a “Flame one” one of the best to ever do it since back in the day sooo glad for him!!!
Can someone please tell me every song that came out on this documentary
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,
🙏💜🙏
Thank you for paving a way for the raza and for the future 🤎💯 Raza Unida Brown Pride Till I Die Love & respect from Ariza 🔥 🌵
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
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.
Shoutout to my brown cousins! Brown and proud! Love From Philippines
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
Chicano Pride! 😎💪🏽🇲🇽
What’s the song In the beginning?
I love Cortez they are my favourite pair of shoes and I got a lot of shoes though
Our cultura is so beautiful!
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.
Chicano culture influenced me to rock with Dickies & Ben Davis pants and flannel shirts.💥💥💥
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...
2:36 That's Alemão duckin, here from Brazil! Que viva la raza
I knew about You Mister Cartoon and Estevan Oriol before Netflix show, and I'm just guy from POLAND. Much respect to You guys!
This is what TH-cam is all about. Quality content.
We in the PHILIPPINES too 🇵🇭 🔥
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.
70% of my family is in LA I've been through there plenty of time's cool place
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✊🏽
Dope ass video ! Love it ! And congrats on LA Original on Netflix. You two are LA !
Right on homie miss hand ball back in 97 in walla walla state pen
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..
Not me watching this while cleaning my cortezes
Sick video bro👊keep them coming!
Its the love n respect here ppls words aint worth shit n the art work is amazing much love to the Raza
What song is the first one
Those sneakers are dope!!! Where can I find those Cortez with the Aztec Warrior ? I’m going to check in the Nike store.
I might just have to show this to my film class mañana
Where can I get a pair of them Azteca Cortez?
Where do I buy the Aztec Cortez
Vato's loco 4EVER ! CHICANO ✊ POWER ...
Amazing film! Great job! Thank you for this!!! ✊🏻
I live in Phoenix Arizona I got them to my birthday when I was like 23 years old .
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..
Not gonna lie. I'm here supporting the channel after I seen that netflix doc. Much love West West
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😎
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!
Proud to be chicano!!!
Alguien me podría ayudar con decirme las canciones del video por favor, muy buen video
I'm neither Hispanic or from LA but Cortez is my favorite shoe. When Kendrick collabed with Nike for Cortez, I had to cop.
The Nike Cortez lightweight made a comeback.
#bestintheworld what's good fam!!!🔥🇵🇷🔥🇲🇽🔥
Cortez were made to run fast and comfortable...from cops we turn into track runners. That's what the shoe was made for...
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
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.
Dickies and Nike Cortez, es todo lo que ocupas man!!!
Living in the 🇬🇧 Uk I love this!
@2:16 Rest in Peace MONO Chivas Malos that was my child hood friend theres pics Esteban took of CVS members thanks Mono was on his way to bigger things ..
i would pay every cent in my bank account rn for a pair of those Aztecs
Big fan... Nice shots 📺📹
I had a pair of those blue and white LA cortez. I did a photoshoot wearing them. And I am so glad I did bc they got lost at an ex's house. I still think about the shoes F the guy.
I’m blessed to be born here in California! 😎❤️🤟
Yo i need those Aztec and LA Cortez ASAP!!!!
Love la such a cool city from ireland, great film 👍man. Where u get the idea...?
County red lines baby, miss all my home boys, and girls, East Los.
What's the song name " If you goin to loved me"
Bad ass video homie ✊🏽
I have a pair of ORIGINAL CORTEZ tennis shoes and I LOVE 'EM!!!!!
Please list the oldies
darling - phil and harv
I don't wanna be late - notations
Love me - clarence williams