When did Lexus (and to a lesser extent, Acura) fall out of favor with Hip Hop?

[Whips-n-Chains]

Lexus LS model really fell off after the 2000 model

 

[FreshAIG]

When real rap money started coming in and made Lexus and Acuras looking like regular cat luxury cars.

The lex land cruiser should have never went out of style though. They were hard but if they weren't so shytty on gas mileage I'd buy one right now

Pretty much.

Lexus and Acuras were nice luxury cars if you had real money, and they were like status symbols in the hood.

Once rappers started making way more money, the more luxurious the lifestyle they rapped about became. And then it went to Benz, then Bentleys, etc...

Same thing happened with watches and clothes. Only a select few rappers was rapping about Balenciaga, Prada, Louis V back then. Now they're commonplace.

 

[<<TheStandard>>]

Raekwon was rapping about Mazda MPV's on CREAM.

At one point in time, Lexus, Acuras were aspirational for rap nukkas.......that's less than one show for a lot of these rappers now. I remember seeing a documentary where Biggie was making like 10 gs a show. Nukkas of his status getting 100s thousands. That puts them in the rolls royce and bentley category.

 

[WIA20XX]

Last sportable AC was prolly the Vigor/Legend. Acura/Honda put their money in with the Super Street/Fast & Furious crew, and stayed in that lane.

Last Lexus that was coveted was the "bubble eye" Lex aka the GS300.

Infiniti - After the G35, they were done.

And overall trends has moved towards Trucks/SUVs and Mayback/Bentley/Rolls on the luxury end, Lambo/Ferrari for super cars, and Bugatti for hypercars.

So the Kingpins are doing those, the soldiers are pushing Challenger/Charger and now the Cyber Trucks...

IMO, If you can't put a big body Gulfstream G700 on spinners, you not really doing it.

 

[Tommy Gibbs]

when dudes started making millions and buying cars like bentleys, maybachs and others they couldn't afford to maintain long term. shyt, mfers were talking about Suburbans, Acuras, Lexuses, and even 500 series Beamers in the 90s regularly. The broke ass fans would laugh at someone talking about a Lexus on an album now. And these are the mfers catching rides with others and at the bus stop.

 

[revan]

This is partly correct, as Lexus primary lineup of vehicles were mostly RWD oriented until the early 2000s when Lexus began transitioning from primarily RWD models to FWD models.

 

[maxamusa]

When rap became an avenue to really get rich

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Pretty much.

Lexus and Acuras were nice luxury cars if you had real money, and they were like status symbols in the hood.

Once rappers started making way more money, the more luxurious the lifestyle they rapped about became. And then it went to Benz, then Bentleys, etc...

Same thing happened with watches and clothes. Only a select few rappers was rapping about Balenciaga, Prada, Louis V back then. Now they're commonplace.

This.... but also.... rappers who can't afford Louis V are still rapping about Louis V

shyt, you got rappers talkin bout private jets and yachts. How many actually have that kind of money? A select few...

 

[Barney Rubble]

Now rappers dissin each other over their brand of private planes In the future, they'll be saying you got that offbrand SpaceX shyt while I fly NASA

 

[Ol’Otis]

I want an Acura TLX

 

[Mac Ten]

Prodigy (R.I.P)was probably the only rapper that I knew that loved those cars…. Luda still has his Gold Acura Legend


These days, rappers wouldn’t get caught in one and would rather drive a G-Wagon.

Acura Legends these days have been ran into the ground.

On FB marketplace, id seen a couple for sale

 

[Awesome Wells]

After the GS300 in the mid-90's, Hip Hop moved on to other foreign whips.

Ac's and Lexus were everyday consumer vehicles by then. Not as cool to rap about or boast with. Too easy to attain.

 

[Escobar305]

Infiniti’s too. Now its rolls Royce Bentley maybachs.

 

[010101]

trendsetters..........*

 

[HiphopRelated]

That's when your successful rapper was on the level of the top neighborhood hustler.

Money changed in the mid-late 2000s