Nike Air Force 1s were originally considered the favored shoe of inner-city youth, then hip hop artists and streetball players. Rapper Nelly and his group, St. Lunatics, collaborated on a 2002 single entitled Nike Air Force Ones about the shoes. As a performance shoe, the AF1 is still used for street play as well as for professional play. NBA players Jerry Stackhouse who now wears Adidas and Rasheed Wallace have worn AF1s on court. The Air Force 1 or AF1 athletic shoe is a product of Nike, Inc. created by designer Bruce Kilgore. This was the first basketball shoe to use the Nike Air technology. Although the shoe comes in many different colors and color schemes, the most common Air Force 1 Mens sold are solid white often referred to as white-on-white and solid black colors. The medallion is engraved with the inscription AF-1, with the year '82 inscribed below it, and has historically been made out of a silver-colored metal perhaps pewter.
