"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

[Wisdom]

HEll no i ent goin 2 get no Vans i ent no white boy about i got my vans on no i got my air force 1 on with low jeans and a baseball can fuck vans let the white people take our shit black people dnt take theres we dnt need to we got our own shit

[Wisdom]

and the bad thing is ,is that the pack r geting PIMPED by vans how they gonna hav sum gold teeth like sum G's but then the rockin Vans and then most of the song dnt even rhyme what is hip hop cuming to where u can just talk on a trak and sell thats wack u need to give dem niggaz a mic and no beat c how gud they r then

[Smurf]

CHYEAH dis ya boi young Smurf got ma vans on st8 from da B-town

[Smurf]

CHYEAH dis ya boi young Smurf got ma vans on st8 from da B-town

[skateboard m]

ok.this how I look at it if they wanna wear vans let them wear I mean its there swag.They got a nigga on here talking about white people shoes.so if I go buy some vans there going to say white people only.Get open minded about shit.the pack muzik is dope I'm feeling there not the best I heard but yea I skate to there muzik and shit.But if them niggas saying fuck nikes fuck I say fuck jordans all the time so....

[skate board m]

But imma keep it real tho only thing i didn't like about the song is that everybody started to jump on them.Cause I know from experience When i had my vans on when I started skatin niggas was calling me white and now its like cool and shit hipercrites and shit now its cool every wanna jump on the vans boat and shit but its too late the then sailed but yea I ought to go around calling all the blk with vans on white boys and girls

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[Got my vans on but coincedinatally they lok like sneekers]

I'm buying vans on sunday!!!

[Jordans]

those are some hot kicks

[terry]

only reol niggaz wear vans. fuck tha nikes and jordans and shit. them vans are tha shit. all yal niigas should wear vans.

[Sheep Dog]

BAH! BAH! I think main stream is so bland...im mean come on you guys...have fun being someone else. I worn half cabs to Soloman Agah's year ago but, do to this mass community of biters always ruining a good thing i had to comment.

Be yourself...dont lose yourself trying to be like some one hit wonder.

[love vans]

e kaj su vansice za hiphip-ere???

[Kassie]

so wuts it kalled, who sings it? get 2 da fukn point!

[Mason Shoes]

Thanks for taking the time to help, I really apprciate it.