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A Brief Outine Of Hip Hop Fashion


by Rashad Brown


When one examines the dress of the 'Hip Hop' culture it can be really evident that 1 key factor affecting the dress of this subculture has been their dances. Whether or not the dancer was doing 'break' moves, 'electric boogie' moves, or 'free style' moves loose fitting clothing was a prerequisite as a way to do these moves.

Not only is baggy clothing critical, but footwear also. So sneakers became the preferred shoe for the hip hop community. And it isn't hard to find young men and women who follow this style of dress. But, it could not be clear why the pants of the hip hop people are not fastened on their waists but considerably lower.

This particular way of wearing pants didn't develop out of the hip hop dances. Several young folks who dress in this way aren't familiar with the origins of this style. Unfortunately, the style came from prisoners. Unfortunately, there's a high percentage of young minorities that are incarcerated at some point in their life. Once behind these locked doors prison officials usually remove inmates' belts for obvious reasons.

Sadly, a significant proportion of young minority folks spend time in jail whilst nonetheless very young. The prisons have a standard of denying prisoners their belts as these are commonly used in suicides. Simply because prisoners don't have belts, they would be forced to wear their pants low as they had nothing to secure them with. When returned to their houses, the prisoners adopted this as a trend and made it well-known.

This style became well-liked with young males without their realizing they had been emulating a style that had originated in prison. I by no means am implying that if these young males had known the origin of this style that this style would not have become so well-known. If 1 talks to any 1 who has been incarcerated they'll substantiate the reality that this style has been in prisons for numerous years.

Although rap music is mostly performed by black males, and majority of blacks appreciate it, it can be more common with white individuals. It's far more common in the white, suburban audience when it comes to percentages. This is according to market figures and was 1st published within the early nineties.

The article was titled "The Rap on Rap: the 'Black Music' that Is not Either". Samuels attempts to substantiate this fact by revealing that the number 1 selling record in 1991 based on Billboard Magazine was Niggaz4life, a celebration of gang rape along with other violence by the group N.W.A. (Niggers With Attitude).

At that time, Billboard magazine had began a a lot more precise way of counting the number of record sales. This was accomplished by using bar codes that exactly where then scanned each and every time a record was sold. This was a a lot simpler and much more precise strategy than depending on record stores to accurately declare their numbers of sold records.

Samuels went on to state that the a lot more rappers had been packaged as violent black criminals the bigger the white audience became. I don't believe any 1 can account for the popularity of rap to a white audience no more than one could account for the popularity of the black entertainment within the 'speakeasies' towards the white audiences of the late 1920s and 1930s. Apart from the attraction which exists for some thing that is taboo or forbidden by one's social group.




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