The text on this 5O record could easily be changed to “Go-Go Boy Gay Party.” Whereas this picture of Mr West at Fashion Week in Paris shows a well dressed guy about to go drink champagne and suck pussy.
There’s a rap war brewing between the “tight clothes”-ers and the baggy set. In short, the baggy crew is saying tight clothes trend is too gay and must be stopped. Here’s some XXL blogger:
Hip-Hop had already been on a creative downswing for more than 10 years now. Certainly, the fact that mofos are walking around wearing purses and tight-ass pants showing off their nuts was a sign that hip-hop had crossed some sort of threshold into complete and utter teh gheyness.
While I love the colorful language above, he’s wrong. Sure, rap’s not in its 94-97 glory days, but “creative downswing” is incorrect. In fact, more rap is being recorded now than ever. The music industry’s shrinking profits have led to more output not less. Producers, hungrier than ever, are taking the sound to new and exciting places—the rise of the South has added so many new soul, funk, and r and b infusions.
Secondly, saying guys who are comfortable enough in their sexuality to where tight clothes are gay forgets just how homo-erotic rappers like, say, 50 Cent are. With their shirts off and glistening muscles, their album covers look like gay club flyers.
Verdict? Clothes don’t make music, people do, and worrying about fashion is a waste of time.
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July 11th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Amen! ATL is the capital of baggy (it’s the home of the tall tee!) but no one gives a ish about what Kanye’s wearing. I saw him and Jeezy today in Bankhead shooting the “Put On” video, and the crowd of on-lookers was like something out of A Hard Day’s Night. Or a Barack rally.