I give credit to any region who was trending with the dreads before Y2K. And the only region that was known for that was NYC because so many of those nikkas is Jamaicans raised in America. All of them Boot Camp nikkas rocked dreads in the 90's because where they live at is the closest your going to get to Jamaica in America.
And DMV nikkas be having selective memory too much. They swear they were wearing fitted Versace and Gucci like they were dressing like it's 2018 in 2000 when they were really wearing baggy Warner Bros gear, Hobo gear, DDTP world and all of them other bootleg local brands cut off shorts and shirts with seashells at the ends of their braids.
Maybe big drug dealers in DC were dressing super fly, but the average DMV nikka had straight back cornrows, their zip up hoodie unzipped with the strings tied in a knot, a big white tee, big ass light blue jeans with ruberbands at the bottom showing off Flightposites.
When braids were popping in the early 2000's like 2000, 2001, no one had a head full of full grown dreads in Maryland or DC, period. Dreads only became popular when braids and plats got played out in like 02-03'. Even Wayne had braids before he had dreads. Most nikkas nationwide followed him in that journey because Wayne first started letting his dreads grow in like 2001.
And the only example nikkas online come up with of Bay nikkas having dreads back in the 90's is Opio from Souls of Mischief. But nikkas fail to realize the culture of the Bay encourages people to be themselves, so of course you gone find one nikka that had dreads back then. But I'm from Frisco and never hung out in the Town like that and I heard nikkas in East Oakland been on dreads since the 90's and it spread throughout the whole Bay during the Hyphy movement.
All dem Jersey nggas dreaded out.
