I came to say this. When I was growing up in middle-high school in the mid to late 2000's everyone wanted to be like Wayne.
Wayne obviously drew a lot of inspiration from Marley so ultimately the credit goes to him.
Who popularized the dreads hairstyle. Florida cats or bay area cats
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Wayne obviously drew a lot of inspiration from Marley so ultimately the credit goes to him.
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Wayne then flocka then keef
nikka's been rockin Dreads in Jersey as long as I can remember tho.
But Wayne definitely influenced even more to lock up.
At that point the shyt litterally looked like Kingston outside.
nikka's been rockin Dreads in Jersey as long as I can remember tho.
But Wayne definitely influenced even more to lock up.
At that point the shyt litterally looked like Kingston outside.
Tell that to early 90’s Atlanta hip hopNobody in Atlanta give a fukk about south Florida
This. Lil Wayne had everyone rocking dreads for real.
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I always attributed DC people, but this is really when it blew up.
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.
Andre 3000 had freeform dreads in Erykah Badu's otherside of the game video. This like 95 or 96
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I was so fukking mad when Lollipop and A Milli came out...
Started my process and was all unique and shyt...then here come this nikka lil wayne...
The whole next year..."You growing your hair out like wayne
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No mufukka I started this shyt before wayne
Started my process and was all unique and shyt...then here come this nikka lil wayne...
The whole next year..."You growing your hair out like wayne
"No mufukka I started this shyt before wayne
1st Idc what yardies were doing in new york. Trust tht whatever they were doing up there they were doing in florida too cuz they came from tha same place. Dreads aren't a ny or Florida thing they're a Caribbean thing first.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?
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2nd of all nikkas outside of ny werent taking cues from them oddball nikkas
ion even think non yardies from ny were rockin locs as a whole like tht, could be wrong on tht tip tho. Like i said b4 tha two nikkas tht popularized it to young street nikkas all over were lil jon and weezy. Then tha 2nd wave of popularity came with waka & when Chicago nikkas ran with it. Tha bay when it comes to culture & they shyt is very insular so i doubt cues were taken from them like tht.
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You said a lot and you’re wrong. Hip Hop- wise NY made the popular like the title asks. I was there so I know.1st Idc what yardies were doing in new york. Trust tht whatever they were doing up there they were doing in florida too cuz they came from tha same place. Dreads aren't a ny or Florida thing they're a Caribbean thing first.
2nd of all nikkas outside of ny werent taking cues from them oddball nikkas
popular to who, backpacking nikkas who performed at poetry slams?
we talkin bout nikkas in tha field not wannabe taweb kweli nikkasYeah you're from ny so u can't speak for what goes on ot. Tha majority of non Caribbean nikkas from tha south & places not named ny got it from lil jon & weezy, hell tha whole crunk era in general and then waka & Chicago. nikkas grew tha shyt to shake em to music, not on no afrocentric tip like tha ppl u posted.
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I can speak for what goes on OT, unlike you I travelledpopular to who, backpacking nikkas who performed at poetry slams?
Yeah you're from ny so u can't speak for what goes on ot. Tha majority of non Caribbean nikkas from tha south & places not named ny got it from lil jon & weezy, hell tha whole crunk era in general and then waka & Chicago. nikkas grew tha shyt to shake em to music, not on no afrocentric tip like tha ppl u posted.
The dudes I posted were far from poetry jams (which didn’t exist back then)
Lil John and Weezy
They didn’t popularize it, maybe for baby niqqas like you.
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Its easy. Look at old photos of nikkas and see who got the earliest /longest dreads lol
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Far as I can remember, DMV nikkas been rocking dreads since the late ‘90s and early ‘00s. I think I’ve seen a few pictures of OG’s rocking dreads back in the mid ‘90s as well.
RVA nikkas been rocking dreads for a minute too.
RVA nikkas been rocking dreads for a minute too.