Hey, what's up, man? I'd love to get these from
my lady.
Oh, nice. That's the way love goes.
I was wondering if you had these in the size
6 1/2 these right here.
You can wear these anytime and any place.
Excuse me.
Yo, I needed Black Cats.
Like right now.
Watch your step.
Excuse me, Can I have some help,
please? Yes, I was looking for something.
I don't know, maybe a
high top? Kind of. These are all for you.
Oh, honey. Very cute. But I I know what you're
doing.
What's up for everybody? It's show from complex.
We're in New York City at Stadium Goods with the
Grammy award-winning,
Emmy award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Janet Jackson.
How you doing? I'm well,
thank you. And you doing great.
Going to do some sneaker shopping today,
going to see what she's feeling,
what she's not. And then hopefully she's going to buy
some sneakers for sure.
Let's go,
Janet. I want to take it all the way back.
Do you remember what you wore in the pleasure principal
video?
Yeah, the wrestling shoes, Adidas wrestling shoes.
So were those good for function?
And what was that choice like?
I loved it. I love the look of it,
the style. And wearing those out,
which I would from time to time just with my
jeans,
it was they're very easy to dance in,
OK. Felt like I had control of the grip of
the floor.
I could feel gripping with my toes so that that
I love.
Yeah, yeah. As opposed to like wearing a platform.
I wouldn't want to dance and or heal,
which I sometimes do. OK.
I like dancing and sneakers and back then was it
tough to find a dancing shoe?
You know now we have so many different iterations but
like was it tough to find a good functional dancing
shoe.
That's why like the wrestling shoes came into play.
Well, well to find a dancing well that's the sneakers
were for looks and then were the all also for
for training,
for working out. So it was really about something that
I liked the look of it and I would wind
up wearing that for rehearsal.
Totally. And it was important for it to have a
strong toe.
Toe box. Yeah, for sure.
And not the soft because when you dance a lot
of times you have to roll up onto the tip
of your toe.
And if not, that can either hurt your foot or
I would break it past the point of my skin
a lot.
Really. So yeah. So it's important for me to have
it
so many like iconic fits.
But this with the Nike Cortez,
I loved those. Yeah. Loved.
I was about 16 Nike Cortez Classic shoes.
That was it for me.
Do you remember like when those low profile Nike started
coming into play?
You know it's about comfort for me.
That's what made me fall in love with them for
sure.
Is it still is about comfort for me now,
but definitely with all the dancing.
Yeah, dancing was the the big focus
in all the years. Were you ever offered a sneaker
deal?
Did you ever have that conversation?
Do you? No. Really. No.
No brain ever approached you?
No, As much as I I wore and still wear
sneakers.
No. Interesting. We're in the store surrounded by Jordans.
He was a big fan.
There's a story that I found where a Kyle Brand
who has a football show,
this is a deep cut,
was trying to meet Michael Jordan.
He was a kid and he was like,
I was waiting outside the the Bulls United Center and
like all the players were coming through.
And then I was like,
I'm not going to meet him.
And then all of a sudden a Ferrari pulled up
blasting Rhythm Nation and
it was met like and it was Michael Jordan.
What was it like coming up?
And he was a big fan.
Like do you have any MJ stories?
Yeah I do. Not kind of
shit, OK. But like he was a big fan,
like a big cosign. Yeah.
He. He. Yeah. OK, OK.
But, like, is it crazy to see?
Yeah, I think he's, he's a wonderful guy.
Very nice guy. Obviously an icon.
Yes. It's still going strong.
I think it's incredible. Yeah,
I think it's incredible. And then another thing,
you know, we're at this station.
I heard that you get Jordans.
I heard that you get Jordans sometimes.
What are we, the Dior Rare Jordans.
What happened with these? These were given to me.
OK And the great shoes.
Amazing. Rare. Yes, very rare.
And I I wore them and there are times when
it's.
It's a little too high.
Top is. So it cuts strongly into my ankle.
Right. Right. Yeah. Which is
that was the case with these.
You're really going to make me say this?
So I wound up giving them away.
Wow, what a friend. You just gave the Dior Jordan
ones away.
I I wore them once.
Wow, this is too much.
But they're beautiful. I love really nice.
I loved them. Yeah. And I always ask this,
'cause I'm always fascinated. Do you remember,
like the last time you were in like a shopping
mall for sneakers?
How how many years? Most decades,
Right?
I can't even. Honestly, I can't even remember.
OK. Do you like coming to stores like this and
just seeing how big this culture got?
I absolutely love it. This is like a a sneaker
heaven.
Yes. Sneaker haven. It's it's great.
And it's nice to be able to shop like this
when there's nobody else kind of around.
So you can really have a good look and no
one's kind of wondering if it's you or staring at
you or take a picture of you.
It's great. It makes it so much easier.
Yeah. I've got my eye on a few.
OK.
I want to ask, I'm not sure if you're going
to remember.
Do you remember Michael and Michael doing the epic video?
Do you remember that? Yeah.
Was that like a big thing in the family?
Like 2 Icons? Obviously. I loved it.
I mean, we never discussed it.
But I thought it was so awesome.
Yeah, so awesome. I loved it.
Yeah. It's listen, may he Rest in Peace Brother and
just both brilliant.
Both of them. Yeah. Just so it's it's nice that
we have that memory. We can hold on to that.
Another thing I got to ask the auction,
There was a big auction and I was looking online
and there was so many Janet Jackson sneakers that went
to auction.
One that stuck out. We're talking about platforms.
We're talking about the Cortezes.
What about these? Oh my gosh,
come to Garcia? You wore those a lot like great
shoe.
You had loved it and gave me the height that
I wanted when I was in that mood.
Yeah. And comfortable. Yes, comfortable.
Yeah. They sold for like
3300 dollars. Is that crazy to see
3300, I guess. I guess so.
Not as much as the Terry Dior ones,
but I love you for that.
You know, 3300, we're getting up there.
And you've had so many iconic fits throughout your career.
But one moment that came up that I actually like
this morning I saw Northwest and the poetic justice.
Oh, how cute. Did you ever see this?
No, I didn't. Yeah. So this was like last year,
Kim and Kanye's daughter Northwest and Kim just said poetic
justice.
How cute. What's it like to see,
like generational fits that whether it was a movie or
a music video still stand up to today that you
had?
I, you know, I'm very fortunate.
I'm very blessed and I can't honestly take credit for
all of that,
that it was, you know,
everyone that was involved and may he rest in peace,
John Singleton. But I think it's wonderful when you have
something that stands up and stands the test of time
and generation after generation,
they're really into it and still love it and watch
it.
I get people comment a lot on that film still
to this day,
definitely, yeah. So it's it's nice to see that.
Absolutely. You love like platform sneakers.
How were you wearing them your whole career and what
was it about those types of sneakers that like you
really like?
Not my whole career. I mean because
platforms, they've come and gone.
But I it was once again I I I it
depends upon the style,
like what I have on my yes.
But I I love these because I've always like a
little bit of a heel some some height but yet
comfort another comfort shoe.
I know you've had a ton of these Nike shocks
throughout the how they just flew.
I I haven't missed once
Nike shocks you a lot.
I performed in the before yeah.
Once again it's that comfort and I I know I
keep saying that but it really is it's important when
you're always on your feet and always dancing and having
to get foot massages comfortable very comfortable.
Supreme they did these yeah.
Supreme did a did a special iteration,
yeah. And breaking them in,
that's the thing. Having to break them in to get
that,
that forced arch. Being able to get on and to
break them in.
So you just don't go immediately to dancing them.
What's the process of breaking new shoes in,
wearing them sometimes just taking them and bending them and
working them OK Yeah,
a lot, 'cause they really get broken.
And to be the the way they fit on the
foot as well,
not having a lot of room.
It's snug. That's why a six are so nice,
I think too. And coincidentally,
here we are. You know,
a six were like super running shoes,
which they still are, but now they're having like a
fashion moment.
I originally bought them for training
and I was like, you know,
wait a second, Yeah, I could probably rehearse in these.
Yes. Which is so funny because I've often said I'm
going to do a tour where we just wear sweats
and sneakers.
That's it. Because we're in the heels and all that.
OK, it's cute and all this,
but I I want comfort.
So maybe we'll see one day a full sneaker tour.
Yeah, that's that's great. Let's speak to Gil about it.
My creative director, he used to dance with me,
so he was a dancer point for a very long
time.
What could fans expect from the tour?
Not, you know, I'm talking about the function,
but what can fans expect from the tour?
No sneakers, unfortunately. At least I always wind up changing
something in the show.
So it might what at the end of the tour
might be that
it's the together again tour,
but it's the the base of that.
But it's changed. It's different.
Set list is different. There might be a couple of
new songs that no one's ever heard before.
Songs that I've never actually performed before that have been
on my albums in in the show,
a little bit of the set is different.
Wardrobe is different. OK Some more iconic fits in the
mix.
Yeah. So it's it's, it's different from the last one.
Awesome. Well, talked about everything now is the easy part.
Browse the shelves, see where you're going to take home.
Awesome. Let's do it. OK.
Can you see anything you'd like today?
Actually, yes. I'd like to
try a little something For my baby.
For my son. Sure. For Isa.
Can I can I see these?
Sure. We definitely had those.
Yeah. I like that. And
as well as maybe these.
Those. All right. And. And this over here,
the classic. This one right here.
No. Over. Yes, please. I think you'd like those.
We definitely had that for you.
Awesome. And I can't reach for these here.
These one right here. Yeah.
Perfect. Yeah, we definitely have your size.
Awesome. All
right. What else you like Smith.
Jackson. I I'm not really
a a pink person but let me try this because
it's like a dusty
dusty rose. Like a like a rose pink almost.
Yeah. Dusty rose kind of.
And I saw a pair of
ASICS kit that I like
and I like those. Rihanna's the ones that she did
with the Fancies.
Yeah, those are cool in black.
You definitely had that in your size.
You won't bring them to the register.
OK. Thank you. No problem.
Hi. Did we find everything OK today?
Yeah. Thank you. OK. So your total is going to
be
$2000 with 21 cents.
Thank you.
Thank you very, very much.
OK.
Have a good one. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
So the legendary Janet Jackson came through.
Thank you so much for taking the time.
No, thank you for having me.
Really appreciate it. Make sure you check out the Together
again tour,
a new documentary. Coming. Stay tuned.
Thanks again. Thank you. Let
me get these for you.
OK. I can help with something.
You sure? And I'm positive.
Let me at least carry two.
OK. Oh, there we go.