From the 9🦁

And he ain’t the only one that looked over the situation for the sake of the idea of hip hop.

@RampageStew Bruh anytime dude name came up, all I can remember is how KRS spoke about it all. KRS was somebody who I held to a certain standard but when he said this, I couldn’t fuck with dude at all. This was absolutely insane.

Yall calling him hood / when he’s a whole teacher & studied design & fashion in Paris.

Yall genuinely do not interact with White people and this makes you think higher of them than you should

James Brown in the Bronx, NY circa 1968

Y’all mad wild honoring a child molester .🤦🏾‍♂️

DC is the south. This argument that DC is not the south is from ignorance. The south is not all rural and country. But everything that DC is economically and socially, the south is. DC has more in common with Charlotte, Atlanta, Nashville than Philly, NYC, Newark, Boston etc

Boi shoulda been packed up,lost mad respect for some of the pioneers of hip hop because a lot of them knew about it and said nothing.

@TJ_Paperstacks Nah your perspective is cool, I had just never heard of the dmv partaking in that style but it’s dope to see region similarities.

@steff11only This I do agree with. And maybe or Jen was the wrong word. But I'm not paying for the level on Twitter where you can edit your tweets. I do remember watching gang documentaries and seeing their hairstyle. Just speaking from my perspective growing up.

I know there's are DC/Sheisty convo going on. But "Pop Smoke" braids are a Baltimore origin. They called them "Gangstas."

@TJ_Paperstacks Not about age honestly west coast has always been known for the braids lol you can go on ig rn and find gangbangers from the late 70s, 80s wearing those braids. Only thing i see the dmv talking about is the wire reference.

@steff11only May I ask? How old are y'all

You’ve got to be insane to still be eating McDonald’s.

The Black American Aura 🔴⚫️🔱

Black skin. Black braids. Black waves. Black days. Black baes. Black things.

Off topic, but paying your bets should be a fundamental thing men should have a high standard for

@Theoverclassman @mtoney919919 His mother was a partially white woman from Grenada. This is easily researchable.

@steff11only @mtoney919919 That man is Jamaican his mother is Jamaican passing white woman it’s in his autobiography all facts I swear

Jamaicans are 100% responsible for wallabees popularity in street fashion going back to the early 1980s. They never went out of style. A select niche still wears them

@Theoverclassman @mtoney919919 Your bugging. Malcom x is not Jamaican you’re probably thinking about Marcus Garvey.

Idk man. I don’t think Jamaicans count in regard separating black people from negro history in America. There’s a couple of powerful black history figures who lowkey Jamaican Malcom X being one. Also the reason dreads in Florida look so different from everywhere else is because it directly ties in Jamaican culture and not altering it too much… that’s a trend lmao. Let’s not even discuss the iconography of weed culture.

Once you get out of survival mode your morals come back - Nipsey Hussle

This is ho shit

I can’t believe music sounded so beautiful like that in the 80s