When did black people stop setting trends in entertainment?

[Money Be Green]

2006. I remember in 9th grade everybody was still rockin the baggy clothes. Next school year nikkas started rocking them lil ass shirts, rocking Ed hardy, Aeropostale, American eagle, vans, & DC shoes. I came back to school confused

 

[Lana Kane]

I dont follow trends.

 

[timothy_strickland]

Man this is really disturbing.

Black youth struggling to get its creative juice going, it seems.

I agreed that 2007-08 was the turning point. Kid Cudi getting popular too. Party Like a rockstar and the whole indie/hipster/rock scenester steeze gained momentum too. 2006- first half of 2007 was the last moments of the baggy clothes, gangster rap , late 90s/early 2000s stuff. By 2007 the stuff was considered

Hipster culture became the dominant culture in the fall of 2007, winter 2008 to now, and it shows no signs of abandoning its domination. No other explanation.

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

We still set trends, we just don't get/demand credit for it. Most recent/egregious example is Iggy Azalea

 

[AyBrehHam Linkin]

coli got some retarded nikkas on it bruh

 

[Black Magisterialness]

fukk ya'll saying


We still make shyt that persists.....fukkin "Whistle While You Twerk" came out in 2000 and it took white folks like 14 years to catch up.

Ya'll nikkas is fools if you think all those memes you see white folks rebloging and shyt on IG aren't coming from black social media and black twitter....we are still the forerunners of culture.

 

[Sbp]

I'd say 2007

 

[ba'al]

Around the time Party Like A Rockstar came out.

Ay you remember this one breh? Smh .

 

[karim]

Like Elvis all over again. But I think the next batch of creativity is going to be more complex or unique in the wake of Yeezus, Magna Carta, etc

 

[(Lean Ambrose)]

Ay you remember this one breh? Smh .

Oh lord Remember this shyt like yesterday breh... I had family on and still on that wave

 

[Terrance Curtis Beasley]

yeah sure

 

[iFightSeagullsForBread]

Some of y'all are so out of touch with your own people and contemporary culture it's almost adorable.

 

[Mr.Big Meat McGee]

Following Trends <<<<<

Rather just create my own wave.

 

[Wild self]

2006. I remember in 9th grade everybody was still rockin the baggy clothes. Next school year nikkas started rocking them lil ass shirts, rocking Ed hardy, Aeropostale, American eagle, vans, & DC shoes. I came back to school confused

Man, I remember that time period when Jim Jones and Stack Bundles came out with that shyt, then everyone abandoned baggy clothes. Lil Wayne caught on with that shyt, and revealed his tendencies soon after.

Man this is really disturbing.

Black youth struggling to get its creative juice going, it seems.

I agreed that 2007-08 was the turning point. Kid Cudi getting popular too. Party Like a rockstar and the whole indie/hipster/rock scenester steeze gained momentum too. 2006- first half of 2007 was the last moments of the baggy clothes, gangster rap , late 90s/early 2000s stuff. By 2007 the stuff was considered

Hipster culture became the dominant culture in the fall of 2007, winter 2008 to now, and it shows no signs of abandoning its domination. No other explanation.

It was under attack since 2005,but by 2007, that shyt was a wipeout. It was when a lot of the #newblacks came up and started to get too comfortable being the token instead of starting/running their own trends. When brehs started being like old ass rockstars on top of lack of acknowledgement of their roots, was when this shyt became the norm. I mean,there are some people like Childish Gambino, J. Cole, and Kendrick Lamar that address this a bit, but a good portion of the young generation, it been to say the least.

 

[ba'al]

Oh lord Remember this shyt like yesterday breh... I had family on and still on that wave

Yeah dudes would dress like Urkel, talk like Carlton and act like Braxton