Hey drumatic.
Feel ya. Being from Philly and being an ole head, I'm exhausted with the long azz shirts and the pants. Damn. They are everywhere. Local Butch Dykes are even loving it too. They gitting they soft thug on. But, hey let's take a Hiphop look back for a sec.
Today's long azz shirts cover up the jail suits, (Think of Eazy E running thru those old NWA videos...1989-1990) that became baggy pants, that became increasingly bigger baggy pants. (Think of CrissCross's Totally Crossed Out! Yall remember them, don't yall? I know somebody got their stuff at home. For somebodyl that was their first record purchase. Well. Look at their gear. Look almost like these cats today.) What I mean by cover ups, is that the shirt/dresses actually gotta cover their azz cuz the pants don't.
At Xmas, I was in Target and a woman came up to me and asked could she measure some clothes on me for her Grandson who was at home. (I'm 6ft 2in -220lbs) I asked how old he was. She said 14. He was only 5ft-5in and she thought if they were big on me, they'd be a perfect fit for his lil, non-creative, non-thinking, punk azz.
Yeah. While we're thinking back, remember how Pac used to walk? That sh#t was dope. He had a deep ole skool stroll. That sh#t wasn't just about thuglife, that was about keeping his pants up! Look at people today. It's funny. I saw some idiots trying to cross the street in front of Temple University's dorm on a yellow light. They had to pull up their long azz dresses to hold up their pants, so they could run. Each of these fools had on belts and the waist of their pants started somewhere above their knees. Damn. That sh#t is stupid.
I've been saying for a longtime that has become Hiphop is a corpse that the doctors won't let die. A zombie. The walking dead. No Black Popular cultural form has survived commercially strong this long in America. Black folk usually move on to something else when white folk and particularly corny, white folk catch on.
Anyway, it's time, over time, been time for a change.
Peace and no disrespect to all.
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