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abesent in this misplaced rant is da fact that people DO things because they LIKE IT and not because they SAW IT somewhere.....this was a common thing pre-internet, pre "urban" demographic...
Yeah...they didn't see those images, they were just telepathic representations of originality!
I guess magazines and TV didn't exist either.when people traveled styles would change so drastically because guess what? things weren't so homogenized with da internet da way it is now...Rap music PRE yo YO MTV raps actually had to be DISCOVERED by people outside New York...
i remember when tapes was one of da VALUABLE things you would bring back from a vacation trip from where ever you came from because where else would you hear regional stars that dont get air play outside their respective homes.
Oh the good old days...Comparing groups of regional markets that draw their influences from each other! How original all of those people were, not drawing on influences from each other that is.
my cousin from FL would come back with a duffle bag FULL of bootleg cassettes from harlem and da heightz of tapes music that wouldnt get a chance to hear down south...begging me for Clue tapes, beggging me for kid capris, etc.
And?
ya got it easy now.. this generation merely has to fire up its PC/mac and download what swag they wanna imitate.//no paying dues, no doing homework on ish, no learning why certain clothes and music is held in such high regard...nope...
just look, copy, playout da swag...repeat.
Doing homework?
Oh, so watching a video of someone else's trip counts as "doing homework?"
Man, i'm sorry you invested all that time "soaking up game"
I bet you pull out the leather bound encylopedias when its time to do research papers, huh?
I bet you stealin--I mean "learning" about other "regions" means that what you were doing wasn't copying, but "embracing" ...
This dude is trying to say that when HE embraced a style, he was actually original about it.
I wonder where that Nike collection started...
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