"Got my Vans on but they look like sneakers..."

Vans.  Got my Vans on but they look like sneakers. Got my Vans on but they look like sneakers.  This song is moving out the Bay Area hyphy camp and getting spins in LA and (from what I've heard) South Florida radio.  Here's all you gotta know:

1) The song is about Vans.
2) The song disses Nike ("we throw away Nikes..")
3) The song gives a quick history about the Vans shoe brand.
5) The song talks about how cheap Vans are compared to other shoe brands.
6) The song is crack. Everyone likes it.

A marketing victory for Vans at a time when hip hop culture as a driving marketing strategy is on the decline?  Does The Pack actually sport Vans?  Street reports from the Bay indicate that Vans have been flying off the shelves since this song got heavy rotation.  What the hell?  I'm going to get to the bottom of this. 

Comments

[danyel]

I was JUST about to buy some Vans yesterday.

[sibber]

haha...i gotta hear it. i got a few pairs of vans...there le ones are dope as fuq. L dot A.

[csection]

some very minimal research found mac dre rockin them, so i guess there is the cred right there

[Curt McGirt]

Im from the Bay and have been hearing this song on the radio for a while. I didn't like at first but it really grew on me.

[mr. pilly wonk]

yeah your boy rocks slip-ons.

they got Too Short on the remix saying "I never wear Nikes, it's official".

i guess the story on the Pack is that they used to skate or something.

[JULIUS]

YEA THE SONG IS COOL, GO CHECK OUT THE NEXT BIG GROUP. tHA KNOC OF TEAMKNOC MUZIC, IF YOU LIKE THE VANS SONG YOU'LL LOVE THERE SONGS

[blah]

who sings that song?

[ZINA EDWARDS]

i popped into the bay area this weekend and lost my mind when i heard this sh@#. i work at the BIG station power 94.9 in bermuda and i have got to have this on the air like yesterday. who is it? what label? where do i go?
zina

[stephanie]

ohhh shiettt this song is off the joint i love it make me wunna get so vans its hott

[ian]

I know these kids and they def. sport Vans on the reg. as do many young kids in the hyphy scene and beyond. The Pack are down with Too Short and just signed to Jive records on the strength of the buzz "Vans" is generating at radio on the west coast.

[paigeeee]

haha i this song is good. it's even gotten to oregon, i'm from portland and even though they haven't been playin it on our radio at all. most of us all know the song by heart. loveeee it.

[BRI]

I'ma punk rock chick and fuck, I love this song.

Check it out at this link, just cut and past this shit. It's the one called Vans.

http://www.myspace.com/wolfpackmusik

[janaye]

omg!!!! i luv dis song =!!! dis iz offically my favorite song!!!!!!

[Markeeta]

OMG, I heard the song for the first time yesterday on satiellite radio, I forgot which station but I ran to my room and got all four pair of my vans and started dancing to the song1 I love that song!!!!

[Seanequa]

Dis song is da shyt!!! Yea dats rite i got my vans on goin dumb in da mirror (lol)!!! im bout to get dis album as soon as dis shyt drop!!!

[NaSasha]

WOW!!!! I got to admit, this song is pretty hot...but I don't think that many people from the midwest heard it yet, so i'm ready to see their reaction. Not that many people here wear Vans, but only time will tell when they hear the song.....

[woot woot]

thay mess iz tizite

[Abigail VanDeraa]

What up doggz...im here repping the AZ yo...this song is off the heezie...it bumbs real nice in my tahizzy(my pimp tahoe)laterz

[tgtg]

yall are bitches!

[ja rule]

this song is da fing shit..love it good job...come down my studio
we could make it happen

[april skater]

you know what really pisses me off... tehse motherfucking assho9les acting like they have some right to sa fucking shoe... i have been wearing vans since i was fucking twelve... what the hell... people turn airwalks into a paylessbrand craps shoe when it used to be the tightest skate shoe ever .. then chucks turned urban ... bitch please... only us skeezy stoners rock them right anyways... and now my precious fuckin vans... you all need to go out and invent you own damn shoe and quit with this ten years too late shit

[Maricela]

Hey waz up kids wat it do????? Win i was 10 years old i had vanz that liked like sneaker the yare hell kool i thout i waz all they!!!!!!!! All my friends ware dorksandwich and fruitcakes cuz they didnt have vanz that looked like sneakers!!!!!!!! Will peace out kidz chick ya laterz!!!!!

[efren vargas junior]

i dont like this song mmm...i like fresh air force ones thats the shit

[efren vargas junior]

i dont like this song mmm...i like fresh air force ones thats the shit

[willis da man]

off the hoook man, the song is da sh!t