Rick Ross even claims the Miami based producer to be “The Sneaker King,” ha!

Champs Sports recently sat down with DJ Khaled to get to know the guy a little bit more. From discussing his taste for Air Maxes, to when his love for the shoe game started.

CS: It’s crazy to come back 360 here. When did you realize the shoe game was your passion?

KHALED: Shoe game’s been my passion from birth, ever since I came out my momma’s stomach I’ve been wearing sneakers. Sometimes you collect sneakers you don’t even notice it because you have so many, [but] I’ve always kept my sneakers. I cared if I scuffed ‘em up, I would clean ‘em, somebody stepped on ‘em I would go crazy, or sometimes I would want to keep them in the box and never wear them for a while… that’s just a natural thing. And then in time I become a grown man, a young king, I realized, “Damn, I got all these Jordans and all these adidas and all these sneakers” and I would never want to throw ‘em away. I try to keep them as crispy as possible and save some, so just growing up I realized, man I loved sneakers. And of course, the game changed, it got more exciting. When Instagram came out people started stuntin’ more, but I’ve been doin that [since] before that. Now [that] we got social media to promote our sneakers, you’re going to see a lot more… but I’m one of the day one guys.

You can check out the full interview over on Champs’ blog right here.