^ eh... he just sounds like some old guy trying to "keep it real", slightly homophobic, and wants "hip hop culture" to look the same forever (how he deems cool, which is obviously mostly 90's fashion)...
i see where he's coming from in some instances i guess, but there's holes all in his theories tho... like, for one, you can't credit run dmc for keeping it real and pioneering "drug dealer on the corner" street fashion in hip hop, but then act like they weren't wearing skinny leather pants (and pretty much all rappers then, and for a few years after that, were wearing skinny jeans), and somehow kanye is mad rainbow for doing it (or bringing it back, really... it's not like kanye's some super original trendsetter really, i think he prolly just got bored of typical american hip hop fashion and started looking to the 80's, hipsters, and europe for inspiration, and being one of the bigger artists now, he inevitably influenced the culture, and even his older peers, like hov):
today's hip hop fashion doesn't look much different than that ^^^ (it's obvious jamar thinks the often overly baggy looks of the 90's is more "true to the culture" tho)...
long tees layered underneath and long sleeves tied around the waist is aight in some cases imo... kilts on stage is one thing, kilts out on the town is a bit much, but still, that ain't that wild really... imagine how crazy hip hop fashion will be in another 10 - 20 years... if this stuff has got your panties in a wad now, you're gonna be really trippin' in 30 more years as a old man complaining about "kids these days"... who cares really? style and fashion evolve... music evolves... half this stuff ain't even really "hip hop" anymore anyways...
the basis of his whole argument on diamonds is there's a saying "diamonds are a girl's best friend"?... LOL! and because cats got both ears pierced means they're rainbow cuz that's what was kinda the unspoken rule 20 years ago?...
dude sounds mad stuck in the past... sounds like he wants there to be some hip hop fashion police to keep things the same forever... and while i can understand, and in certain ways agree with the argument for "preserving the culture", it's a pipe dream... hip hop doesn't just belong to the pioneers of it from the 80's and 90's, now the entire world is on it, and therefore their fashion is gonna influence it (hence why european fashion is influencing american hip hop style right now)... people get bored easily nowadays, and want something different... they're gonna dress more and more outlandish... couple that with the world getting less and less homophobic, and cats are gonna do all kinds of wild stuff (it's becoming a more open-minded, "liberal" time in fashion again, like there was that whole era in the 60's and 70's where dudes wore short shorts, and jimi hendrix was wearing lace and stuff, shirt unbuttoned all the way down, it was prolly considered a sexy look by women, and dudes doing it were straight as an arrow and plenty comfortable in their sexuality)...
and as much of a cornball i think wiz is, the claim that he's dressing like that now to "appeal more to white people" is crazy talk... i think wiz sings them corny hooks sometimes to get a pop hit on the radio and get money, but i think he's genuinely dressing how he is now cuz he's turnt out from all the weed he smokes and culture he's been introduced to now having toured the world... i don't like his style really, but i don't think he dresses any certain way for white people...
and now this dude sampled his own interview and put out a song about this? trying to get his first fame since brand nubian's last hit almost 20 years ago, off dissing 'Ye?
eh, whatever... flame away, old heads... i grew up on brand nubian, got all their hits on vinyl, but just calling it like i see it (i wouldn't even say i'm open-minded, just logical to me)... i'm curious what BIP's gonna say about jamar's comments...
enter the rest of my fashion debate essay here: __________.
P.S. i BEEN HAD the leather corset!
**** could have been so different.
