LL Cool J promoting FUBU during a GAP commercial, might be the greatest branding coup.

[detach]

Clothing brand that just put their logo on a plain t shirt are just that, a clothing brand and they never last.

I rather just wear a plain tee.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

What part of "casual" did u not read? I'm not talking about their "urban" shyt...that been died out. Sean John casual is still good in 2018 homie. So is Sean John cologne.

Their plain non descript shyt is actually kinda good.

I actually own this.

 

[Brolic Scholar]

I think you're confusion what cats in the hood rock created by white folks compared to actual Black people making the clothes and promoting them like Fubu, Sean John and Karl Kani. The difference is that Supreme wasn't aimed for us....similiat to how Polo or Timbaland wasnt aimed at us either....The hood just made that into hip gear...thats why Polo and Timbaland dont die out either because thier original intention wasn't aimed at "us"

Remember Black Bart t shirts and Malcolm X hats? That was aimed at "us" and thats why the shelf life was short. Anything aimed at "us" has a short shelf life.

I hear you. You’re right.

 

[Verbal Kint]

FUBU was dope but they fell off because they were so heavily branded that eventually it was gonna get played out to rock shirts with big 'FB's on them. I know they eventually tried to get more diversified with their gear but that's also what happens when you're mainly appealing to youngns.

 

[Supreme365]

How many black/urban brands are left? Between the mid 90s and mid 2000s, hip hop clothing was everywhere. Most of them have been sold off.

EAT clothing Home
DC always had our own black clothing lines just one of the reasons why we the goat black city

 

[Truetalk]

EAT clothing Home
DC always had our own black clothing lines just one of the reasons why we the goat black city

I might visit dc one day

 

[Dre Space Age]

I've seen Asians as recently as this year wear Fubu overseas.

I guess because they make it it really is FUBU to them.

For us by us
Made by us so it's for us
Get it

 

[get these nets]

EAT clothing Home
DC always had our own black clothing lines just one of the reasons why we the goat black city

DC is the exception.

we r one......and several other clothing lines from the area and black owned lines still get burn out there
Not sure if you're a fan of The Wire, but

Spoiler

In season 2,when string meets up with the guy from DC to order the hit.....the dude is wearing a Mecca sweatsuit, like it's 1996

 

[Nighthawk]

Ll had to been on coke back in the day

 

[Vic Damone. Jr]

Luda’s verse though.

Superhead

 

[panopticon]

Classic shyt

 

[panopticon]

fubu should've stayed out of the mall

& should've invested in the vision of the young & popping

make it their launching pad to create what fashion & style is through our eyes

they reached for mass.appeal & money the cool was lost

same issue with sean.john & any other brand from the hood

we need a aa rooted design house we are the most influential tribe on earth it's a must someone flexes that fact

*

 

[panopticon]

hold up though...

didn't DAYMOND JOHN scam a fellow COLI poster out of $1,000 a few years ago? He was charging dudes for business consultation phone calls or lunches or some shyt and a poster on here went and said he basically got blown off

Anyone remember that thread?

Coli gumshoes we need a link

 

[Devil Plisken…CMS]

But we let FUBU fall off so we can pay some gay Italian dude $200 for a shirt to be "fly"

If you knew you would know that was happening before, during and after

Plus 200 sounds lowwwww

 

[panopticon]

Luda’s verse though.

The nikka was in his bag back then

OG Luda criminally underrated