Music artist Kid Jay releases signature sneaker

I had to learn to play the game with the cards I was dealt. These two guys are, they've grown up with us here on the noon. Kid J, local artist, designer. You know, you got your own sneaker coming out, man. Yes, sir. Yeah, you're doing big things. Welcome back, Kid J. Welcome back, Pops. Thank you. Pops and Son podcast. Make sure you check them out. Look, guys, we heard about this new sneaker. So how did this idea come about, Kid J? Oh, so Rock Street Sports reached out to us. Shout out to Sean Streets. He wanted to do a partnership with us and he threw out the idea of having a shoe so I wanted the shoe to represent something that I'm passionate about so we Put it out and actually we working on it and it's going to represent autism and everybody that knows me knows that I'm a huge advocate for autism. So yeah, we appreciate what you do for the autism community and speaking up guys And this is the design of the sneaker right here. Yes. All right, so we get a close in on that close up on that one so that's what the sneaker will look like to be able to amplify the voices of many people in the autism community with having a shoe that includes them what does that mean for you oh man means everything to me because you know there's a lot of families a lot of people who aren't educated about the spectrum so we're just glad if we can put out a product that can you know bring them to want to learn about it pops tell me about your involvement and and what it's like to see part of your son's dream and idea you know come to life okay well you know i just want to put that the first idea you know he wanted to make an autistic high school high school for the kids which you know is a lot more work um so he said dad this is what we're gonna do we're gonna use you know my son as autistic cares loving um his saying that at first he first said was the love is different so we used it for our clothing brand we reached out like say we was talking to Sean Streets about it and he was like well he's in Vegas he's like i got a shoe company man we can partner so we end up partnering and uh the shoe should be out around christmas time um and it's in production you know i have uh little models i could have brought but this was better for you know the production of showing that you know we're bigger than just the shoe and uh it just feels great man just feels great to help all these young uh autism uh you guys are empowering people to find a voice uh and that that means that speaks volumes um what is it that you hope people can you know take away from the brand especially with the saying the love is different the love is different it's always different man you know like they they love different the spectrum has a this is as long as a whole bunch of you know some it's non-verbal or something that's a bit violent towards the parents it's something that you know uh it's just different man you know so everybody loves different with autism so you just you got to understand them uh kid what else are you working on oh uh so besides this you know uh every year i'm putting out um an album but next year i'm gonna just put out a whole bunch of singles so okay you know for people that love my music that's what that's what you can look forward to. What has been something that's been motivating you to say i gotta get in the booth i gotta put this in a song oh man uh my hunger yeah right um you know there's a there's a certain level that i want to reach when i you know stop doing music um so every day i'm just writing and writing i'm like man i gotta get in there i gotta get in there because you know every day you know is a new experience and you know you just want to put that content out like you know you make a song about anything so i stay hungry all the time man i got you gotta keep feeding uh you guys where and i know you said pops you said uh right around christmas the shoe will drop where can people find if they want to uh if they want to get one okay well i'll be putting it on our you know we got an online store with the love is different.com um where you'll see all the rest of our merch uh we go from coffee cups to uh book bag for our kids um in a drop on the on the line store and sean streets has he has a big following I know it's going you know we got some entries to some big stores like journey and footlocker for a new shoe brand so we're waiting on that confirmation and uh yeah let's go on the online store fellas we appreciate it folks check us out support autism we'll be right back