Who popularized the dreads hairstyle. Florida cats or bay area cats

[Jesus Is Lord]

Foh all y’all

That started hip hop-wise and mainstream-wise in NYC and Jersey. Especially Brooklyn.

You come lately niqqas swear it started with y’all?

Busta

Das Efx

Lauren

Heltah Skeltah

 

[West Coast Avenger]

........

 

[Losttribe]

Afrika
Then Caribbean immigrants
Then Nyc made it popular.
Then florida and the bay w 2 different styles
The atl rappers
The Chi town made it Very Common all over and no longer a unique style.... Sorta taking away from the style.

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

Foh all y’all

That started in NYC and Jersey. Especially Brooklyn.

You come lately niqqas swear it started with y’all?

Busta

Das Efx

Lauren

Heltah Skeltah

Lol

 

[Jesus Is Lord]

Think rastas started dreads brehs.

Wtf is wrong with these dudes

 

[New Jeruzalem Journalist]

I had dreads in 1995 and I got the idea from seeing someone else with dreads

I was aware of the fact of dreadlocs since I can remember so I know for got damn sure nobody in Hip Hop STARTED dreadlocs

And I grew up in NC. I had no clue what the Bay even was until way after I was aware of dreadlocs

There's actually nikkas talkin bout LIL WAYNE started cats wearing dreads.



I've been seeing knotty heads since as long as I been alive and I've been wearing my own hair locked since '96.

I remember cats on the Pan-Africanism movement with locks when I was just a little kid in the mid-80s.

Even if we're talking on a hip-hop level, cats been rocking locks routinely since about the late 80s, early 90s.

Have no clue when it got popular down south, but I remember seeing videos of Society and even Bushwick Bill with dreads back in the early 90s, way before any of these cats 15 and 20 years later came on the scene.

 

[ba'al]

Wtf is wrong with these dudes

Yeah, people have been wearing locks since antiquity we weren't even debating that just who popularized it in the states. I'm going with NY because you can see rappers in late 80s and 90s music videos rocking twisted locs.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

NFL Defensive Backs

At one point all the dudes in the NFL who had dreads were cornerbacks..atleast that is what it felt like .

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

As far as rap....Lost Boyz

 

[MaxPain]

Florida ofc cuz it's right next to the Carribean.

Then ATL & the South in general along with Lil Wayne & Waka POPULARIZED it for the MASSES

Yes NY had dreads back in the day but they didnt popularize it the way the south did

It was to the point where if u saw a dreadhead u ASSUMED he was from down south while NY cats was rockin Caesars and Cali with braids/cornrows

 

[YoungSimpson]

Y'all nikkas young as fukk.

 

[ucanthandlethetruth]

Think rastas started dreads brehs.

Of course rastas didn't start dreads idiot but Rastas popularized it

 

[ba'al]

Of course rastas didn't start dreads idiot but Rastas popularized it

And you think most people wear freeform rasta dreads rather than the twists?

How can you popularize a hairstyle when most people don't wear that style? Rastas are natty nikka they don't get their shyt parted & twisted.

 

[FukYaFeelings]

Florida of course

And Atlanta copied South Florida for a while until they found their own style

Nobody in Atlanta give a fukk about south Florida

 

[newworldafro]

I don't know but I can tell you that in the southeast Lil Wayne directly influenced A LOT of people. People will straight up tell you if you ask. Beyond that, Bob Marley made the style very popular moreso than any American region just by himself.

If the answer ain't Bob Marley and the Rastafarian movement, then the answer is probably wrong.