Greg Selkoe on the Rise and Fall of Karmaloop

Greg Selkoe on the Rise and Fall of Karmaloop | The Complex Sneakers Show

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With the legacy of Karmaloop being a hot topic on social media in the past few weeks, we sit down with the company’s founder, Greg Selkoe. Selkoe tells never-before-heard stories about the company and also explains the highs and lows of running the streetwear juggernaut. Earlier in the episode co-hosts, Joe La Puma, Brendan Dunne and Matt Welty talk about Nike seizing $5 million in sneaker inventory from a Los Angeles-based warehouse.
Chapters:
0:00 - 1:02: Intros
1:03 - 10:04: $5M of Stolen Nike Products Recovered by LAPD
10:05 - 10:40: Are There Too Many Crocs Collab?
10:41 - 12:32: Adidas Plans to Sell Remaining Yeezy Inventory
12:33 - 16:56: Swarovski Nike Air Max Plus
16:57 - 21:24: Nike Air Max Day
21:25 - 22:33: Greg Selkoe Joins CSS
22:33 - 27:50: Sneaker Cam
27:51 - 30:13: Karmaloop Backdooring Nikes
30:14 - 38:46: The Supra Skytop Sneakers
38:47 - 44:43: Karmaloop Rep Codes
44:44 - 47:49: Selkoe’s Love For Adidas Gazelles
47:50 - 49:18: Brands Karmaloop Wanted to Work with
49:19 - 54:45: Selkoe on Working with Kanye
54:46 - 1:01:10: Karmaloop’s Bankruptcy
1:01:11 - 1:08:21: Selkoe on Working With Pharrell
1:08:22 - 1:13:21: The Creative Recreation Sneaker Boom
1:13:12 - 1:20:57: XSet
1:20:58 - 1:26:47: Karmaloop’s Recent Trend on Social Media
1:26:48 - 1:27:25: Outro
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@Complex 5 ай бұрын

*What was one thing you bought off of Karmaloop?*

@kevincollins8620 5 ай бұрын

God too much to name. I still have some of it. Crooks and Castles stuff on the low.

@bobdebuilda3877 5 ай бұрын

I bought so many christmas clothes with their bogo deals i used to deck my brothers out and then have like 3 free outfits. Diamond supply and cargo short days baby, shoutout to the elephant print 3s i rocked with ths hightop nike socks!!!

@zanemontego8090 5 ай бұрын

They had a 5 item mystery box. One I remember was a pink sock with marijuana leaf outlines. A hooded scarf from the kazbah. And I got a shirt from a brand initialed Two In The Shirt. 😉 It was one of my favorite graphic tees ever. (The socks were HUF)

@Chrisscreases2 5 ай бұрын

*One thing* - My entire childhood

@tedkrause 5 ай бұрын

artful dodger denim, black scale t's, too many things to count

@pompeiicruz6927 5 ай бұрын

Since fulls size run is over I’ve been watching this podcast everyday. Going back and watching every episode from the last few years. Keep bringing on guests like this who are apart of the culture and have cool stories to talk about

@nicolasganteille5265 5 ай бұрын

I watched this episode with a little tear in my eye. I grew up in a small town in France and I started my sneaker collection with the red Supra Skytop bought from Karmaloop in 2009. Complex and Karmaloop were the two things that made us feel connected to the culture, I spent soooo much time on their. This is a full circle moment, thank you !!

@kyleelliott512 5 ай бұрын

So many deep cuts in this episode reminding me when i first got into street wear. This guy is so unhinged, such a fun episode.

@Americansikkunt 5 ай бұрын

The Supra Skytops were truly a moment in history

@mikem4314 5 ай бұрын

the lo-tops were a genuinely great shoes. i loved those things, especially in my skater phase

@alexandresmith3103 5 ай бұрын

Had almost every one and my ex stole them when she left me 🥲 one of my worst days..

@Romanrothmanphotography 5 ай бұрын

Had the all Black high tops and loved them when I used to skate

@kenjiii_ 5 ай бұрын

I still have a pair in my garage and some vaders too

@thebros8157 5 ай бұрын

Shouts out to Karmaloop. When I got my first job at 7/11 and wanted to get into streetwear Karmaloop and CCS kept a young man fly on a budget.

@rogermujica9400 5 ай бұрын

Still coppin off CCS 25 years later

@brendandunnecomplex 5 ай бұрын

A lot of money spent on CCS.

@AlexCastro1 4 ай бұрын

yup. i used to spend those lil summer check's in 2012-2014 at karmaloop on newbury st in boston and bodega

@austinhas10toes 5 ай бұрын

Welty be fighting for his life sometimes on here I swear

@Srjr0122 5 ай бұрын

Dude has problems needs a GF or something lol

@austinhas10toes 5 ай бұрын

@@Srjr0122don’t get me wrong I really fw Welty and usually agree w his takes over anybody else but sheesh they b going at the kid

@Srjr0122 5 ай бұрын

@@austinhas10toes hahahaah idk I think he takes this shoe thing waaaay to serious and lets that take over his emotions

@joser7894 5 ай бұрын

@@Srjr0122Watch your girl he might f**k her he’s been lifting

@mentallytrill3155 5 ай бұрын

It really is due to brendan's submissiveness to JLP and JLP's submissive nature to brands i.e kith and higher celebrities. While Welty is a die hard for what he likes 🗣️

@crackmarci 5 ай бұрын

Love these transparent guests salute sir

@kevincollins8620 5 ай бұрын

I still remember Gourmet Shoes. I look up the Dignan almost every season.

@Checkz_over_Stripez 5 ай бұрын

Even when I don't know the guest, you guys always keep it interesting. 💯

@2g4u7y 5 ай бұрын

Best episode you guys ever put out! Mad nostalgic thinking about this era. Great guest and dude. Wish him the best.

@AirJordanNothing 4 ай бұрын

This was a good episode, he was very interesting

@SouthJerseyBaitReviews 5 ай бұрын

Just hearing about Supra brings back memories i used to wear supra a lot as a kid it was a great bmx and skate shoe and they had a ton of great colors. Seems like they really havent changed or ever took off just kinda stayed where they were.

@Phamousillday 5 ай бұрын

You guys talking about Full Size Run and Trinidad at about 9:15 makes me miss the show even more 😢❤

@Resist_Oppression 5 ай бұрын

Meh. That show killed itself. It needed to be revamped

@SouthJerseyBaitReviews 4 ай бұрын

I'll bet it will be back they're just taking a break and they'll probably be more guest or different guest in general. @@Resist_Oppression

@drew1534 5 ай бұрын

Ending the last hour of the workday with the show. Thanks guys

@brendandunnecomplex 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching.

@SF_Native 5 ай бұрын

Man I used to rock with Karmaloop hard

@mastershake1124 5 ай бұрын

"Photogenic memory" lol

@rchrdp305 5 ай бұрын

Ah the memories, I still have the Karmaloop orders in my aol account from 2012.

@kevincollins8620 5 ай бұрын

I still have email from Greg Selkoe from back then.

@bloodshot6 5 ай бұрын

Great episode and great guest, HISTORY.

@robmotta9245 5 ай бұрын

Welty, Xsquared was Expressions’s high end chain of stores.

@YoUnGgUnNa360 5 ай бұрын

My clothing brand was on Karmaloop via the Kazbah program! Dope times! 🙌🏾

@overtheunder1133 5 ай бұрын

Great episode... excellent guest. I appreciate the interesting conversation and the information gotten from it 🙏

@kickzo 5 ай бұрын

Back in the day, I was getting into a club that had a dress code, and my creative recreations got flagged. Me and my girlfriend at the time convinced them that it was a luxury shoe, and they let us in.

@kenjiii_ 5 ай бұрын

Me and my homies stayed on karma loop back in the days. Being in San Diego we had a lot of local skate shops that we were copping from loved getting stuff from KL that wasn’t available to us and flexing em in high school it was an era forsure.

@SailboatSupplies 5 ай бұрын

Skytops were such a classic. I still have several pairs in my collection; more as display pieces since the materials are starting to really get damaged with wear… also have a 1/10 pair of Skytop 2 x Sony Piiq that are signed by muska himself. Such a grail.

@kevincollins8620 5 ай бұрын

Preach!

@kevincollins8620 5 ай бұрын

You make crazy customs

@SailboatSupplies 5 ай бұрын

@@kevincollins8620thank you so much boss! Always trying to change things up and keep it fresh and different. Appreciate you taking the time to check em out!!! 🙌🏻🙏🏼

@InfamousKidLos 4 ай бұрын

Being from Boston, I'm happy to see how it all started, always kept me fly in high school and glad I got to meet selkoe later on after all these years, I said hey aren't you the one on Twitter sharing all the codes 😂😂😂 Im still a fan to this day with Xset, got so much respect for the guy and see him as motivation and role model to make it big no matter what you chasing in life, Great Interview 👏👏🎬 love ya guys ❤ REP THE SET ❌🎮❌

@theofficialjemy 5 ай бұрын

This brought back so many memories

@tylerbihh7209 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Welty lol24:48 cactus foams🔥🔥🔥definitely reminds me of that

@adamneustaedter4820 5 ай бұрын

Supra Skytop! That's a flashback to a different life. Hadn't thought about those for a minute. Lots of fun nights in those things.

@J.E.T.Lee16 5 ай бұрын

Extremely insightful. Good interview for the culture

@MetaMan09 5 ай бұрын

How did he not mention AVNTSPACE! They are the new and improved KARMALOOP 💯🔥😤

@TwntyUp 5 ай бұрын

copping lrg off karmaloop was a super go, shouts to turntable lab too

@kevincollins8620 5 ай бұрын

I remember buying Saucony off Plndr. Which is the cousin/brother site. Im sure I bought plenty shoes from em. But I remember the saucony over a decade ago.

@Chrisscreases2 5 ай бұрын

I was today years old when I realized the guy who owned Karma Loop also started Faze Clan

@TheSneakerBench 5 ай бұрын

Great episode as always!

@setogon 5 ай бұрын

I loved the Supras Skytop. I still have an unused pair on DS. The ones with glow-in-the-dark outsole.

@solefather406 4 ай бұрын

Great episode !

@SSGVB 5 ай бұрын

This man really told it all

@DavidAMoore-ux7nc 5 ай бұрын

Bring back Full Size Run. This show just blows smoke up guests as*es where the FSR would call them out and make the interview so much more interesting

@ordinerii 5 ай бұрын

I grew up on karmaloop and worked for plndr at one point!!

@kozykev 5 ай бұрын

Karmaloop era was special

@lpanzoni 5 ай бұрын

Selkoe🙌🙌🙌

@KromaQee 5 ай бұрын

It's actually not true that Concepts had a Newbury St. Nike account during the KL days. Back then, Concepts was only in Harvard Square. Technical, a skate shop on Newbury had a Nike account and had MAD SBs. The manager there let me get SBs a few days early all the time. Greg must have just remembered. That's all :)

@csn2213 5 ай бұрын

If FSR had to be taken from us, then at least bring back the eBay community question of the week/free sneaker!

@bieberboy 5 ай бұрын

DOPE33 for life‼️

@rogermujica9400 5 ай бұрын

Dope episode

@gunniellottjr483 5 ай бұрын

I copped a red Lacoste double gator dad hat from karmaloop circa 16' 17' gonna pull it out tomorrow

@joshua3275 5 ай бұрын

Unrelated to the podcast but the audio from the Complex Sneakers Show always seems to be mixed a lot lower than other youtube videos.

@BookerT69 5 ай бұрын

Welty with the best shoes AGAIN!

@jeremyjeremy1831 5 ай бұрын

Karamaloop is the blackberry of streetware

@wilseph1 5 ай бұрын

Thank God for that velcro strap!

@sneakerdad8324 5 ай бұрын

Clean trim on the stashe Dunne

@overtheunder1133 5 ай бұрын

What is the book that is stacked on both ends of the set in the glass end tables? I can see from the spine that they are complex books, but I dont know what book it is. I appreciate if anyone knows and can let me know. Thankyou ✊

@perealty5105 5 ай бұрын

The Hip Zepi reference.

@alexnash2562 5 ай бұрын

Joe with the photogenic memory 😂

@dylives7667 5 ай бұрын

Rep code fam, wuzzup!

@ajgonzalez63 5 ай бұрын

Anyone know what palace jacket Joe La puma wearing??

@ethanabelquist5369 5 ай бұрын

Greg pulling up NOT in the KarmaLoop Reebok Questions is a missed moment.

@tammurray8576 5 ай бұрын

I tune into this show on occasion just to see 3 absolute helmets

@jeremyjeremy1831 5 ай бұрын

Karamaloop needs a movie made by A24

@treb3234 5 ай бұрын

Did Joe inspire the up coming black and yellow corteiz 95?

@user-ke7vp9wy9i 5 ай бұрын

My boy is all about that money

@wizkidgizmo 5 ай бұрын

Was the brand Greg was on about at 40:00 Trainerspotter?

@willyfg4656 5 ай бұрын

If you didn't have a purple pair of Supras you wasn't outside

@zoomingno7 5 ай бұрын

Dangers of the convertible note!

@nianguyen5269 5 ай бұрын

The number of 10Deep button ups I bought off Karmaloop back in the year 2000s is embarrassing

@luckypetercardcollector 5 ай бұрын

🙏🤘🍀

@savagebyreason 5 ай бұрын

always had a nice package even on deployment.

@Standonbiz81 5 ай бұрын

Why is karmaloop street where when nobody in the streets wore it s**t is crazy to me

@dfrnt_hues 5 ай бұрын

I loved Karmaloop, but I'm not feelin this guy. I odnt get the vibe hes cares about any other this outside of teh money he made lol

@maricuchisdelafuente 5 ай бұрын

Welty episodio

@jaredculbertson3800 Ай бұрын

Haaaa... bruh, I'm like the Emeril Lagasse of "Nike by you." Never pull the trigger though, colors/options available are never just quite right.

@qu3nt 5 ай бұрын

humm he made the right call in not calling himself a “Gamer”

@solesoldier2577 5 ай бұрын

I wouldn’t be here it’ll it wasn’t for karmaloop 🙏🏾

@Georeo-et3ju 5 ай бұрын

yall need chad musk on here

@ghost.hardware4931 5 ай бұрын

Welty derails the potentially fun Air Max day convo into a jaded rant then shares cool memories in the most negative tone possible, dude never fails to drain the energy 😂

@PadreDePato 5 ай бұрын

Just heard episode 351 of a rival podcast where the dood admitted to microwaving his dunks for 30 seconds before wearing! Thoughts on this?!

@Rogue328 5 ай бұрын

I've heard of this a while back where skaters would do this with new pairs of sneakers to break them in quickly

@JHillNC 5 ай бұрын

Well known trick to break em in quick.

@SouthJerseyBaitReviews 5 ай бұрын

They been doing that since early 2000s that and they also boil water and hold shoe at sole depth and boil it for like 15 20 seconds and it softens the rubber.

@ryanh5848 5 ай бұрын

This is NUTS

@kyngmillz 5 ай бұрын

If you where a black dude wearing Supras Lil Wayne was most likely the reason why. I remember getting my first pair off PYS

@KidCracken 5 ай бұрын

Giger Force 1 = friend of the program. Wavy Baby = enemy of the sneaker community. Interesting.

@Phamousillday 5 ай бұрын

If I see another iPhone commercial

@BWen3 5 ай бұрын

Were Weltys feelings hurt after the Banana banter? 😅

@on10toes 4 ай бұрын

East coasters are some of the most pompous people on earth 😂

@YungJules001 5 ай бұрын

Welty is becoming a total diva

@williamsmith9315 5 ай бұрын

Umm, the tables are the wrong way around, lol.

@Srjr0122 5 ай бұрын

Thumbnail need to be changed back

@EnthusiasticIcyComet-yq2bv 5 ай бұрын

The ego oozing out of Joe le Fupa is palpable.

@BigMac785 5 ай бұрын

Was it yellow? 😂😂😂

@SpacelyAdams 5 ай бұрын

I miss Trinidad James

@Jeremy8123. 5 ай бұрын

Not a fan of the new setup. Go back to the desks. I feel like it’s a more natural, relaxed set. I know it’s hard not to spin in those chairs yall sitting in now lol

@jscottcollins6752 5 ай бұрын

Matthew j Welty astute cultural commentator….****** trademarked

@superben790 4 ай бұрын

I'm not buying a pair of Trump's sneakers, they're not for me!!!!!

@GravityLordz 5 ай бұрын

Funny how you guys grilled the F out of Marcus Jordan about back dooring but this guy admits it so blatantly and yall act like its all good. i'm definitely never going to subscribe to Complex in any form or fashion.