I'm talking EXCLUSIVELY about the fashion... It isn't just Uzi, Thug & Yachty wearing clothing that would be deemed "feminine" i mean everyone from Ye, Pharrell, Wayne, A$AP Mob, Odd Future, Future, Pusha etc etc are all guys who i have seen be brought up when talking about "feminine clothing" . So yes those artist don't represent hiphop culture as a whole & they may be extremes to a point, but as far as the styling in hiphop it's def A LOT more feminine on a whole compared to a few doing it in the 90's.
Uzi is a perfect example, he's the "extreme" portion of feminine energy in hip hop. So while everyone doesn't dress or act like him, i will say that many rappers are more open than ever to wear clothing that in the past would be seen as "metro sexual" or wouldn't be seen as "manly".
We are also coming off of the the hyper masculine, baggy era. There are some cats stuck in that era that call skinny, slim or fitted jeans "feminine"
. Hell, Cam used to get heat and all he did was rock 5x pink tees and ****
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And yachty doesn't dress feminine at all. He just gets lumped in with that because of his age range...but dude literally wears nautica, sneakers and jeans all day.
I will say the The fitted clothes and high end fashion era lends to dudes dressing what's more feminine today though. I do believe that. Social media let's us see all this **** too. The Uzi/wiz/asap type dudes represent a niche that isn't reorientative of the entire culture.
I still don't fully get the "slim jeans is femine" thing when it comes to hip hop and fashion.
Hip hop originators wore slim and fitted clothing. The baggy era came later. I think it's just cyclical like everything else in fashion. People act like black folks in fitted or slim clothing is some alien concept.
I think it has to do with age ranges too and ardent "real hip hop" supporters tend to cite the 90s artists as real hip hop, so the whole imagery of 90s rappers is used as the baseline.
Now the blouses and dresses, that is clearly European fem fashion influenced but I wouldn't consider that hip hop anyway
But I remember my grandma telling my little 4x tall tee wearing cousins that they looked like they had on dresses or nightgowns and clown pants. That always sticks out to me when this conversation comes up.
But they were wearing super tight jeans and going to discos and **** back then so I don't know. Fashion cycles are weird.