Top 5 trash clothing brands of the 90's

[KFBF]

Had to wear a uniform for school and outside of it I never wore none of that off brand shyt. South Pole always seemed so corny.

 

[Knicksman20]

Only giving you a pass for Maurice Malone wave.

Kani was done.
once Malone innovated.

Boss was commercially wack.

House ducks that wete ghetto wore that.
Not bboys or bgirls.

Gangstas, house, and ghetto were all segregated from hiphop.

all those wack ghetto goofies and ducks used to try to clown us in girbaud and polo back in the early nineties. Then in 1993. They got a clue and bit girbaud.

Then they bit. In the mid nineties. To try to rock lo.


Ghetto, house, and gangstas used to rock wack clothes with chiffon and rayon shirts, slacks and steppas. Huff ass towel coats, used, and damaged suits.
Bboys and bgirls did not wear that huff ass shyt.
Originally when Jordan's dropped and troop in the eighties. Gangstas, house, and ghetto did not rock one's. When the two's came out. Is when gear became what it is now. Where now you could get killed for your jordan two's. Which started violence or theft for your gear at gun point.

That is when it got dangerous rockin gear. You could get stripped. Or hat snatched started when the twos xame out. Plus gamgbanging ratched up because of the explosion of crack. Before that. Black americs was beautiful and totally safe. It was a dreamscspe.
when i think back to that time before crack. You could rock expensive track suits, like a two stripe. Then Adidas three striped dropped. Then later expensive track suits popped off. Like Sergio etc.
Once the jordan two's dropped. Then the jordan flight suit popped off. You could get killed for two's and a flight suit easy.
Then it became troop and task force jackets could get you killed.

Which is how the gear in hiphop. Got segregated from ghetto. Before 83. More people were receptive to hiphop. Yet once Leroy from fame became gay. Breaking got dissed in favor of crack and gangbangin. Then the new way of thought in hiphop was instituted. Where the stop the violence movement almost even'd the gang shyt out. When krs visited all the chicago high schools and some elementary schools. Walking down the hallways with the kids singing one two three...the crew is called bdp. It was glorious.

How krs stopped doing the job he asked for with puff and later the exposed bambaata. Is hiphop's death tragedy.
Before that. Hiphop protection mechanisms. In the new school way of thought worked. Bboys and bgirls were totally segregated from house, ghetto and gangstas COMPLETELY.

. Krs destroyed all cross over shyt in chicago.
like hip house serving Kool rock steady.
krs singlehandidly took out violence in hiphop all together back then.

It was the golden age and the best time for being a bboy or bgirl. Plus it created a safe haven from gangbangin and crack. As it made inroads outside to keep us safe from the nonsense.

Plus we looked different and gangstas just respected us and left us alone. While they went to go listen to house and bass music.


Back then they did not listen to hardcore rap. They listened to two step, rnb, and house.

We were completely segregated in hiphop away from the bullshyt. Till the prison industrial economy and communication ruined this.
placed the blame erroneously on hiphop.

by blaming us for house duck misappropriation of gangsta rap in the nineties.

Also it is a difference between gangstas and other places having crews.
Only chicsgo and la had gangs. Other places had crews.

Crews did not exist in chicago.
till after the large indictments. Locked up all the chiefs and heads.
Plus the destruction of all the project towers like calumet, Taylor's, etc...then The row houses and later cabrini.

Which made chicago safer in 2000's. Till vice goof ass ruined it. Glorifying violence to people. When crime was four time less than the before.

Vice made all this shyt ratchet up. By glorifying the bullshyt.

With splintered leadership, new breeds and renegades going crazy. To where we are now.

Through all that hiphop was and still segregated socially.

You not gon find no bboy from back in the day. Trying to be no hardcore ol school gangsta in an actual organization.

Only gangstas in hiphop in chicago in the nineties was:

Gun smoke

Gangstas did not listen to or fukk with hiphop at all.


Past that...you got ostracized. For turning ghetto or called a duck. if you was switchin sides.

so if you went from girbaud ro towel coats..

You was ostracized from hiphop all together.


Plus it created weird segregation. If you were a bboy.
Who had a homie. Who joined an organization.
That you had to keep it on the low. Or be looked at in a weird light.

Like example.

ibn who cut kanye hair.

Ibn homie chewie flipped to being street adjacent maybe even gangbangin. Giving ibn a weird look. Yet it allowed ibn to migrate back and forth through both worlds. Which is how kanye got to migrate both worlds. After dissing whpk and hiphop in 1996.
kanye was ostracized from hiphop. While boogs, happy, Ed, don c were still regarded as bboys.
Where boogs took to producing.
plus made gangsta rap and hiphop with no issues. As boogs and ed was from euphonics. Plus never violated and was ostracized like kanye. Euphonics had a whole tv show on public access. Before the bd twins had the gangsta rap radio station. That bboys did not listen to. We listened to hpk, wnur, loyola.
Where Don c and happy culturally connected kanye as well as boogs. After being ostracized from hiphop.

So weird dynamics like that took place back then. To see how things arise now.

Art Barr

Boss was hot in the late 80's early 90's because they were one of the very few brands (besides Karl Kani) in NY during that time frame that purposely made baggy clothes. I have no idea what nikkas in Chicago was wearing back then lol

 

[Art Barr]

Boss was hot in the late 80's early 90's because they were one of the very few brands (besides Karl Kani) in NY during that time frame that purposely made baggy clothes. I have no idea what nikkas in Chicago was wearing back then lol

In hiphop culture in chicago.

Boss was completely gangbangin.
As it was adjacent to brothers on the struggle.

Or putting it on the Boss.
Which is gangbangin. You would get approached for rockin that in the chi back then.
Possibly killed on sight in the wrong neighborhood too.

NYC and out east.

Y'all have no hat politics. In the chi. Hat politics existed. Then vice brought it back.
So now you have to be on neutron shyt hardcore. Unlike the 2000's where. You could break yo shyt off and be cool.
if you wanted to.
after vice In 2010's.
you would get approached with you hat broke off.

Out east. There are no ol school hat politics. This is a thread on gear. Hat politics is a whole other thread to itself in chicago.


You could get killed for hat politics in the chi. Back In the day. Then again after vice.
in the 2010's hat politics ratched back up.
Playy with it if you want to.

i am just to old to participate in hat politics. I just rock my shyt neutron now. In the 2000's though.
i broke my hat off however i felt. Usually to the left. Like how the city was in the cvl era before crack.
After i moved on to 64th and saint lawrence. Across from all the vice activity. Is when i just became too old..to even be involved in hat politics and wore my shyt neutron.

Back in the nineties tho. If I went out to bmore or whatever. I brought all my taboo hats and broke them bytches off all day tho.

now i live in rhe south. I own hats that i can not wear at home in chicago. So when i go back. I still leave my politically incorrect hats in the south.


Art Barr



Art Barr

 

[Geordi]

I'm in London and people was getting flammed for southpole in my school early 00s

I think it started coz Southpole used to make them knock off looking avirex leather jackets loool

There was something similar to Southpole aswell, had a similar name and brand style. It was as shyt as Mecca USA but one level up. I just remember we used to rinse this kid for wearing this jacket broo looool. Hopefully it comes to me. Might need to look at an old source magazine or sutm

Was it Enyce, Iceberg

 

[Kaypain]

I can't take a fat breh with a flipped back snapback, nose stud, yt wife beater, and baby christening chain/pendent in 2k24 fashion advice.


sorry not sorry

Yeah....

you're not the first nikka that tried to go at him, and he's destroyed every last one of them. Just saying

 

[Art Barr]

Nautica becoming commercial hurt my heart back in the mid nineties tho.

The nautical down coat in the early nineties was crushing the land.
Can not even find any pix.

All the nasa polo sport down coats and pullovers were next level and no pictures on the net too.

I remember malik had the white polo sport nasa pull over. I never seen nobody else with that shyt.
that was the coldest down coat all time ever in any brand.

Man rhe memories...




Art Barr

 

[Won Won]

When was Marc Ecko spelled Echo?

Dusty Baker is right, it was Echo Unlimited when it first came out. Maybe lasted a year before the change

 

[Art Barr]

Was it Enyce, Iceberg

Enyce and iceberg were Baller level commercial ghetto and gangstas adjacent gear.

They were top flight and sonned all the brands in that era. You was getting washed. If a nikka had the original snoopy iceberg.
No gear all time ghetto, hiphop commercial. could compete with the first iceberg snoopy.

Enyce was buss'n..then it feel off for being to obsessed with velour.

Originally when rhey had tweed sweaters and other plush shyt. Enyce was cold.



Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

Dusty Baker is right, it was Echo Unlimited when it first came out. Maybe lasted a year before the change

You trying to cap?

@Won Won


As real talk..
I am the best dresses rapper in hiphop nikka. Frfr.

Tha fukk.

As well as being a headliner.

I crush my contemporaries nikka.


I was with kalif protege. Almost a whole decade. Way before kanye goofie.

this is international too.

Like how the fukk you think waves and hiphop got popular for drake in tdot.
Mek..
Dat who...



Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

South Pole always looked like some bootleg, off brand shyt and nobody around me wore it.

Nobody would be caught dead in the plex with it on. @keon

Nobody.
Monkey would have had jokes for that.

Sype ain't even wear it. Rip??
[Did sype, crip and cubby pass]
@keon


Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

I had alot of Southpole and I never heard of anyone being made fun of for it at my school. And my school was like the fashion captial of the city.

@Worthless Loser
No cap.

Where you from?


Art Barr

 

[Geordi]

Enyce and iceberg were Baller level commercial ghetto and gangstas adjacent gear.

They were top flight and sonned all the brands in that era. You was getting washed. If a nikka had the original snoopy iceberg.
No gear all time ghetto, hiphop commercial. could compete with the first iceberg snoopy.

Enyce was buss'n..then it feel off for being to obsessed with velour.

Originally when rhey had tweed sweaters and other plush shyt. Enyce was cold.



Art Barr

Facts. The kids in school was all talking about Iceberg like it was the hottest shyt out.

How do you pronounce Enyce? I used to think it was EE - nice

 

[Art Barr]

Facts. The kids in school was all talking about Iceberg like it was the hottest shyt out.

How do you pronounce Enyce? I used to think it was EE - nice

Enyce = in - e - chi


Chi at the end is pronounced like Kung fu, chi.

The whole word is Pronounced like some Italiano type shyt.

All time..
Commercial, gangsta, ghetto in street wear. Iceberg was the next hottest all time tied with troop jackets.

No gear was hotter in its era. Only troop era was in the eighties was bigger.
As troop was the first street brand. Made to be a street brand. It is the originator in the hood. Of street wear....all shyt falls in line to how troop was in popularity.

You got killed for ;

troop
air pythons = lux jordan two

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Art Barr

 

[Art Barr]

Nobody would be caught dead in the plex with it on. @keon

Nobody.
Monkey would have had jokes for that.

Sype ain't even wear it. Rip??
[Did sype, crip and cubby pass]
@keon


Art Barr

@keon

yo...
Did crip, cubby and sype pass?


Art Barr

 

[TheMailMan]

C.H.A.P.S.= Coulda had a Polo shirt

I used to see this on display at the Norfolk NEX along with the echo shirts .bout as bad as buying the winter caps with the brim lol