Why does the Black community depreciate Black clothing brands while putting white clothing brands on a pedestal?

Luke Cage

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Trying to blame the culture for:
1. Not even being alive when Rocawear was hot
2. Choosing to not wear of the moment fashion from 20 years ago

We're not gonna sit up here and act like Rocawear was timeless fashion, or a staple of american fashion like blue jeans :heh:



Jay himself stopped wearing that shyt.....in favor for the button up era which was arguably worse.
Jay a part of and a victim of the culture too.
Them people that weren't alive 20 years still rocking european brands that have been around since WW2. And nobody see Gucci ad's like that. Its mostly the shyt you find in walmart you see in commericials. Hanes underwear, Levi Jeans shyt like that. I don't remember seeing any prada ad growing up.
The culture does all the advertising for those exotic euro brands
 

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Black designers cash out at their peak and sell the brand to foreign sweatshops that pump out bullshyt under their name so they can sip champagne with the trannys and kingpins at the Puffy parties.

Smart designers reinvested in factories, relationships with high quality, reliable material wholesalers, and staff that was invested in becoming better craftsmen instead of better hustlers so they could make it to the Puffy party too one day, and their brands have stood the test of time as a result.
 
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These are not, and never were streetwear.... It was literally clothing for burnt out white dudes from the 80's who thought they still had it...and hip hop just adopted it during it's "rock star" era...then quickly bushed it.

Nobody wants to really address that a huge part of marketing your brand should not be shaming people into buying your brand....nor should you try to anchor on price points solely because a well respected brand does it...... That's borderline panhandling.


European brands..


Were put on the map in america from print model for Johnson publications.

As I was raised by the lead Johnson publication print models.

It went outta style from being to jiggy in the early eighties.
Black people created the boom permeation and domestic gateway for those brands too.

These white people did not blow those brands up originally.

Black people always blew those brands up.


Art Barr

I woke up seeing nikkaz like:

_______[protected identity] popular rnb smooth singer nikka sneak out the crib as a shawty.
I was raised by the first hot chic..
Big fiyoine black woman six eight, or six nine in nine inch heels.
The original black banana baddie.

no bullshyt..
The hardest out in the hood.
Bring it to you live.
Ring ya doorbell.
bytch come outside beat you in front of yo kids. Snatch ya wig and tiddies out. he Auntie with a bag, divorcee in big v8 Seville fastback, big house. Money from adopting kids hustle etc.
you do nuffin wrong in public.
do not grt caught.
or hill gonna whip rhe unholy shyt outta you. Kick yo ass, falcon punch, followed up with a holy sheit extension cord. Back when a civilian could discipline you.


All dem hood hustles and shyt females on.


I was raised by an originator.

No bullshyt.


I am big on not getting caught.
All becsuse I was raised by hill and if hill find out.

you want no problems.

hood nikkaz before crack was all raised by her. That you was a goofie if you got caught. Plus hill was gonna beat the shut outta you, for real. No bullshyt.


She still alive and will still fukk you up.


Art Barr
 

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Because we don’t like to see our own get too big. So we sabotage their them by saying that stuff is out of style after a few years or saying the rapper ain’t putting out hits no more or the comedian ain’t funny so they become in cool and then we go back to propping up the brands that don’t need our support because they already on top.

“The culture” is trash.

Also as a business man myself doing business with black people be super disappointing. We talk a good game but our customer service is trash. I’ve had multiple people I tried to do business with be terrible at responding to questions, we always off on unavailable
We have 10000 excuses as to why they can meet deadlines in a timely manner. But we want to charge top dollar
 

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Also part of this is because rappers realized that promoting an established brand is easier money than starting your own clothing label.
They'd rather get a check for a versace ad, then worry about running their clothing line.
 
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