Hate It Or Love It: Hip-Hop's Fashion & Its Clones

Isn't it funny how fashion, in general, is fueled by the things celebs wear? This is the same for hip-hop as well. All it takes is one rapper to wear something trendy, and all of the sudden, every kid in school and every industry groupie is running out to the stores or scouring the net to find that one item.

This shit is so damn stupid, it pisses me off. Well, it just irritates me. Not because of the fact that some of the shit is gay and I have no idea why cats would even wear some of the stuff, but because when you walk up into a spot and it looks like a sea of clones.

Yea, I've seen some hot shit I saw somebody wearing and wanted to cop it, but I'm definitely not going to go out of my way to change my style just to be like EVERYBODY else. Dudes don't even have a sense of individuality anymore, like I said before, dudes are exact clones of what they see on TV, videos or somebody wearing.

I decided to compile a list of a few items that I see EVERYBODY wearing, and who I first saw rocking this shit.

Pink Attire.

Now, the whole pink movement is disgusting to me. I mean, Cam started this whole men wearing pink trend thing, and maybe he did it to be unique, but it's homo (sorry Cam). What gets me is everyone jumped on the bandwagon and tried to make it cool. I don't give a fuck how many of ya'll cats come at the woodwork and try to say it's fly in the comments section, PINK IS FOR WOMEN.

What's funny is before Cam made the shit hot to do, most any dude would say "I would never rock pink." But now, all the sudden, it's the thing to do. All you so-called "fashion-savvy" cats, put the pink down because I know for a fact when the shit because totally played out, most everyone will deny ever jumping on the trend. Whoever came up with the phrase "real men wear pink" need to take that shit to the grave with them because where I'm from, you rock pink, you getting punked, period.

Fruity Colored Hoodies & Tees.

The fruity colored hoodies, what can I say about these? Well, some of them are ok, but for $80 a pop and up, that's crazy. When Pharrell, Kanye and whoever started this shit, they helped these companies (BAPE, LRG, etc.) blow up their shit majorly. But honestly, would you have really worn a rainbow-colored hoodie about 3-5 years ago? Hell no, no rap dudes would, but all of the sudden the skateboard (a.k.a. skurban) fashion trend is what's hot and you got one million dudes acting like Kanye, Lupe and Pharrell clones all across American. IT's disgusting people. Be fucking original. Ya'll is like women, you might as well go pick up a fashion magazine and see what the next "hot" summer dress is you clowns.

I swear I was at an industry event just a few days ago, and everyone had their multi-colored hoodies on, with the hood on their heads in the dead of summer. Fashion is that important huh? And what's even funnier is I saw like 5 dudes with the exact same BAPE hoodie on. Shit is pathetic. Gay men put rainbow stickers on their rides to let people know their sexual preference, so are all you dudes wearing them rainbow hoodies and Tees trying to say something? The skateboard fashion is cool, but if you are jumping on the bandwagon in the past year plus because of the new breed of rappers wearing the shit, you're a mindless zombie who need rappers to find out what to wear or you're a woman. Either way, it's not cool.

Iced Out Skull Belt Buckles.

Jimmy Jones was the first cat I ever saw (in hip-hop) rocking the iced out skull belt buckle, which is fine, it was kinda cool. But, honestly people, all you motherfuckers are rocking that now. And what do you tell people? "I had that shit way before Jimmy." If you do, you're a damn liar. You know damn well you saw the cover of Jim Jones' P.O.M.E. album or a pic of the dude wearing it and ran right to the fucking mall.

What gets me is that cats actually think they are up on fashion or something 'cause they rocking the belt buckle. How is that? How the fuck are you fly if you had to copy Jim fucking Jones? If ya bought it because you wanna be like Jimmy, just say it and I'll leave ya alone, if not, quit frontin'. The only cats that was wearing big ass belt buckles before were from Houston and other parts of the South and it should stay that way.

Oversized Ice

Ok, first off, let's face the facts, some of the rappers can barely afford a house, so to go out and buy an oversized iced out chain is beyond me. I mean, yea, you can buy it, but why? The richest man in the world, Bill Gates, you don't see him walking around with the biggest diamond chain ever. Shit, even 50 Cent ain't rocking that oversized shit.

Why I think it's wack is because this is influencing the kids and some of the cats out there just getting into their 20s. They think having a fly chain is what's important, when you should invest your money into more profitable things like property for example. Kids see rappers in videos blowing money on bottles of Cristal, Bentleys with 24 inch rims and all this ice (most of which is all rented), and they think that's what's up. Some of these rappers are like the worst role models for the kids, and that's the truth.

Fuck your iced out chain. I own a house. If you live at your moms, rent a room or have an apartment, you have no business copping an iced out chain or Bentley. Go home you fakes.

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