The Sole Supplier Catch Up With Kurupt FM to Talk Trainers, Fashion Faux Pas & Much More

Following its first webisode in 2011, People Just Do Nothing developed an almost cult-like following that eventually lead to a hit TV show, a feature film and BAFTA success. Behind all the madness, we see Kurupt FM, a Brentford-bred gang of makeshift MCs and dodgy DJs, operating the finest pirate radio station in all the land.

Recently the heads behind Kurupt FM teamed up with eBay to set up shop and bring sneakers back to the people of Bethnal Green. Not realising the error of their ways, the group sold high-heat kicks such as the Air Max 1 DLX Atmos Animal 2.0 and New Balance x Salehe Bembury 2002R for just £15 each.

Following the event, we jumped on a zoom call with MC Grindah, DJ Beats, DJ Steves and group manager Chabuddy G to talk all things weird and wonderful about sneakers and learn just exactly what they're getting up to with eBay.

DJ Steves: "Yeah definitely. Just...eBay and trainers... and sneakers."

MC Grindah: "Yeah, do you mean today or just in general?"

MC Grindah: "Obviously sneakers are one of those things that cost bare P a lot of the time, d'ya know what I mean? So we just thought we'd put up a little stall, and shot like the sickest trainers for 15 bar."

DJ Steves: "We were blowing people's minds. They were all going 'you could get way more for this', and we were like nah nah, we don't want it."

Chabuddy G: "Because it was for charity. Hindsights a great thing, if we knew that then, we probably wouldn't have sold them for 15 quid, but you know what? Que Será, Será."

DJ Steves:"We were literally taking people's shoes off right there and making people wear them."

DJ Beats: "Do you know why it was good? Because we were like them weird people who in high streets and try and stop you? We were like them but we had a stall instead of a clipboard."

MC Grindah: "And people were coming to us instead of running away."

Chabuddy G: "Everyone was even."

MC Grindah:"You could say it was the first time in society where everyone was even?"

Chabuddy G: "For a moment in time, Bethnal Green felt like Cuba."

MC Grindah: "Oh yeah... British Red Cross. My immediate reaction was 'no I'm not racist', but it's actually a charity for stuff."

DJ Beats: "We gotta say about the raffle as well. Basically, through eBay we're doing a raffle for two pairs of trainers, it's a fiver to enter, and all the proceeds are going to go to the British Red Cross."

MC Grindah: "Oh definitely. Out there, dads just wear Stone Island, and they're not even racist football dads like in England. Like he doesn't even know what he's doing and he's rocking about in a Stoney and a pair of 95s."

Chabuddy G: "I got into the kimonos, but you know how sumo wrestlers wear that thong? I'm trying to bring that London culture. Man thongs. Straight up the a**hole."

DJ Beats: "I quite like the grown men with the braids."

DJ Steves: "I like bubble tea."

Chabuddy G: "I remember you had one bubble tea and you were sipping it for like two days. Your jaw was just going and going, and the straw was in absolute tatters by the end. That's why he's got such a strong jawline - because it's always swinging."

MC Grindah: "Both. I want to be comfortably stylish, and the shoe for me is going to be an Air Max 95. If we're talking pure style you know I'm just going for a pair of TNs, but because the Air Max 95 has a nice strong air bubble, it's perfect."

DJ Steves: "For me, it's a it's a Nike TN, with a plastic bag and rubber band to hold it on."

Chabuddy G: "I like the heel boots you know but I also really like the women's Uggs now, they're way too small for me and I have arthritis in my foot and athlete's foot, but there's something about the pain I like."

DJ Steves: "Do you remember at Glastonbury when you got the foot rub from the guy with the glitter on his chest?"

Chabuddy G: "Yes you know, I'm very free... very fluid. Very gender fluid?"

Grindah: "DJ Beats, what was yours?"

DJ Beats: "Oh erm, just a Reebok because they're really comfy and really cheap and if you f*ck them up, it doesn't really matter."

MC Grindah: "I wouldn't say cheap, I'd say affordable."

DJ Beats: "White denim. Yeah, I had a Spliffy, denim waistcoat that I'd wear with white Spliffy baggy jeans."

MC Grindah: "Yeah mine would be something similar, my black Spliffy waistcoat with 8 pockets and white stitching paired with the massive unravelled woolly Spliffy hat."

DJ Beats: "We wore them to a friend's wedding and did that dance. But your stage age is 24 and I'm 36, and it's weird two grown men wearing that, to be honest."

MC Grindah: "Yeah it was when we were into East 17. Steves?"

DJ Steves: "I don't remember anything. If you don't remember, you can't regret it."

Chabuddy G: "Yeah I was always a bit more of a bootcut jean man, but then all the aunties were saying 'show off your figure more, show off your bum', so I got into skinny jeans and that was not a good look."

DJ Steves: "They were saying that yeah?"

Chabuddy G: "Yeah they were saying, 'you've got lovely hips, show off your bum, we want to see your bum bum', so I started wearing tight skinny jeans and it cut off all the circulation and I nearly lost a ball."

DJ Beats: "Jason Statham, he always looks very good."

MC Grindah: "Chase and Status he's talking about. It's his speech impediment. *Turning to DJ Beats* We haven't corrected you before. It's fine, nothing wrong with that. You were born how you were born. But whatever, one of them dresses good and one doesn't, we're not going to say who is who."

Chabuddy G: "I think that Lady Gaga dresses badly, because she wore that whole donner kebab suit didn't she? Also, Mason Greenwood dresses bad."

DJ Beats: "If they've been cancelled and can't hurt me I agree."

DJ Beats: "It's a Reebok Workout, alright?"

MC Grindah: "You know what I'd say? A Base loafer, because Brentford is known as the strong heel of the south."

DJ Steves: "Yeah I'd probably have to agree like grey Reebok Classic. Or a grey Base loafer if it was a smarter part like Ealing. It's quite a confusing question, I get weird about metaphors sometimes. I do like metaphors, but I just don't understand them."

Chadbuddy G: "For a first date I think it's important to have easy access, so everything I wear will be welcro. Welcro jeans, welcro top, welcro boxers."

DJ Steves: "Velcro?"

Chabuddy G: "Welcro. You never know where it could go, you know might get a bit steamy? Any chance I get and I'll rip it off like Superman, and that's it, I'm bricked up."

DJ Steves: "But didn't you have that incident in Japan where you got caught in the tube door?"

Chabuddy G: "But that's why I don't have my ponytail anymore, cause it got ripped off on the train."

DJ Steves: "Yeah Japanese police can be quite aggressive really."

Chabuddy G: "Tiny but aggressive."

MC Grindah: "Disgusting. I think if you're going to wear something fake you need to respect yourself because otherwise, you end up looking like a madman. The ring wasn't fake in the end either, it was the wrong shop."

Chabuddy G: "Has someone put a pair of b*llocks on the tongue?"

MC Grindah: "Yeah not my vibe at all, to be honest, they're a bit weird. Also, I'd probably be a bit scared if you slept with them in your bedroom and you woke up with them staring at you."

DJ Steves: "Id wake up and think they were coming for me. I'd probably end up chatting to them if I went a little bit hard... I do like to have a little dabble on the evening."

Chabuddy G: "You could market this to OAPs because of the dentures. Old people have a lot of money you know?"

MC Grindah: "I see Beats wearing these."

DJ Beats: "Really, why?"

MC Grindah: "Because of your foot problem."

DJ Beats: "I told you, I had the foot operation, and now I don't have to wear the security guard boot with the funny sole."

DJ Steves: "They're not coming off your foot. That's a mad amount of laces."

MC Grindah: "Yeah that's the good thing, the laces. The bad thing is absolutely everything else."

DJ Beats: "Are those real?!"

DJ Steves: "I like them. They look a little bit like my nan's old sofa, but in a good way."

MC Grindah: "I love the design, I just don't like the shape."

Chabuddy G: "I think the heel is quite long y'know? Pokey."

MC Grindah: "YES! Have you got this?"

MC Grindah: "You f*cking f*ck."

DJ Beats: "Yeah you shouldn't have queued for that."

MC Grindah: "My friends got a skateboard deck as well, I'm not really into that, but I tell you what, I'm into the clothing. That is me all over. If you could get me that matching two pieces, I'm anyone's money. Steves, I could see a bucket hat on you. Festival season. He gets third-degree burns if he goes into the sun."

DJ Steves: "Yeah I've got to wear the child-block factor 50."

DJ Beats: "He nearly died when we took him down the tanning shop."

MC Grindah: "Don't ask why."

DJ Beats: "I like those, they're nice in a weird way."

MC Grindah: "Yeah I could see Decoy with those ones."

DJ Beats: "Image that with a nice brushed red velvet shirt. On holiday, with a nice pair of denim shorts. Do you know what? I love a denim short. Nice 3/4 length short, crushed velvet shirt and those on the feet, that's the look."

Chabuddy G: "All buttons undone."

MC Grindah: "Maybe a bandana with skulls on it?"

DJ Steves: "You can be whoever you want on holiday."

DJ Steves: "I have vivid flashbacks of waking up inside something that looks exactly like that, just like a six-foot version. I'm in the middle of it, and I sit up and I'm covered in this ectoplasm stuff, and that's all I remember. Can you imagine?"

MC Grindah: "I couldn't imagine actually."

DJ Steves: "That's because you're not an abductee."

DJ Beats: "Do you remember that comedy we watched called Dune? Looks like something they would wear."

To give back to the sneaker community, Kurupt FM has teamed up with eBay to raffle off a pair of Nike Off-White Dunk Low 50 of 50 or a Jordan 1 High Union. To be in with a chance of winning one of these high-heat pairs, all you have to do is send a £5 charitable donation on either page. All proceeds will go towards the British Red Cross to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. The raffle is live until Tuesday 22nd March at 2 pm, so make sure to enter before then!