TL;DR: I got my own style because...I was forged in da 90s... or whatever that means.He really didn't.
All he did was explain why he chose to adopt whatever he picked up and why he never changed.
Ask him why he embraces the very thing he identifies with. Of course his bias precludes him from seeing that he is merely a trend-hopper who never evolved, himself.
You can't act like you're original if all you're going to do is say that everyone else isn't.
people pick who and what they wanna identify with because it represents who they are...its like copping a pair of sneaker my size (imma 10) i dont cop a size 11 because i dont wanna FRONT like i got a bigger foot then i really have, and
i dont pick a size 9 because i feel like im too grown to fit those shoes. style and persona is alot like sneakers sizes, sometimes you real genuinely outgrow your "size in shoes" because things you once did or stood for no longer reflect who you
are, and thats perfectly fine for some people, others grow faster then others, some people dont grow at all, and thats fine too...its da erratic constant persona shedding attributes of hypebeasts and hipsters that annoy most people because it comes
across as disingenuous.
hypebeasts and hipsters dont hold onto morals or values of da very culture they siphon off their "cool" from...one comes and infects early on, da latter comes and milks da life outta something before it dies...then its off to da next one.
this is why no one takes to either of em kindly.
im a unapologetic 80's babies thats forged in da fire of da 90's so when i see hipsters doing things from my generation just to be ironic, like rockin dusty lumberjacks from da biggie era, or hypebeasts rockin snapbacks like those weren't slayed once
spike lee's odd request to New Era to make a custom Red yankee's non traditional red 5950 ushered in da fitted revolution. all i do is raise my eyebrow and keep it moving.
your style is your identity to da world, its da non verbal conversation you have with complete strangers, on a daily basis. when your constantly sending fraudulent signals da way hypebeasts and hipsters do it makes people question who you really are.
you know da saying, if you dont stand for something you'll fall for anything.
I like how you just needed that round-about justification to express why you're "so much more original" than everyone else because your "clothes represent who you REALLY are"
No one knows the meaning of those Tims... no one but you man. You get it bro!
I guess we should all look to cultural gatekeepers like you.
You and your peers have introduced a standard to which no one could never be compared to or contrasted against. You're TRULY original in the urban wear you chose to adopt.
You're original because in the 80s, you didn't even know what shirts were. You just started making your own cotton blended t-shirts with screen prints at home until you walked outside and realized you and millions of other urbanites had independently developed the same concept! Its like discovering the invention of the wheel in different parts of the world; Fascinating!
Like I said earlier, just be honest with yourself. You're not even that original yourself, and frankly you're ironically forgetting your own influences when you choose to chastise and denigrate others for having their own, and functionally harmless, forms of dress.
da sad thing is in your lil cloud of condescension is actually how style and culture organically emerge..especially da underlined quote.
in da 80's and 90's there was NO SUCH THING as "urban wear"...da hood took things that was from a foreign context and made it theirs...from timberland boots that da owners themselves shunned da popularity of
their products to minorities from da inner cities...to people just taking shirts and taggin em with bubble letters like da trains and rockin out like that (see killa cam in paid in full) to air force I's which could've easily been a 1 year oddity that
never releases again after 1982 but because da Tristate area decided to take that shoe and use it as a platform to represent who they are and what they wanna relfect to da world, it lives on as a symbolic flag to da urban generation.
things this generation takes for WILD granted now like peepin da latest styles and trends, while also observing cultures thats foreign was ALOT harder to do without da internet...things weren't so compartmentalized and organized in
cute lil bite sized boxes so culture vultures can easily just cherry pick w/e they wanna do like its so abundantly easy to do now...da way you dressed back then actually reflected alot more of who you was...look at da bloods and crips
in LA killing each other over colors in da 80's-90's...look at da OG lo' heads from da brooklyn taking a white brand catered to gated community and completely manipulating it to represent what they wanna project to da world.
so while u can easily laugh off "da audacity of my claims of originality" da fact of da matter is, its da truth.
For the first time in my niketalk career, I agree with one of your posts. Cheers to us
Who cares??? If you like toms, rock them. And to you guys who call people hipster, hypebeast, What is your style and what makes it original to you?
...To which I emphatically and enthusiastically say, SO?da sad thing is in your lil cloud of condescension is actually how style and culture organically emerge..especially da underlined quote.TL;DR: I got my own style because...I was forged in da 90s... or whatever that means.people pick who and what they wanna identify with because it represents who they are...its like copping a pair of sneaker my size (imma 10) i dont cop a size 11 because i dont wanna FRONT like i got a bigger foot then i really have, andHe really didn't.Ninja dropped that knowledge on ya'll. Well said fam.
All he did was explain why he chose to adopt whatever he picked up and why he never changed.
Ask him why he embraces the very thing he identifies with. Of course his bias precludes him from seeing that he is merely a trend-hopper who never evolved, himself.
You can't act like you're original if all you're going to do is say that everyone else isn't.
i dont pick a size 9 because i feel like im too grown to fit those shoes. style and persona is alot like sneakers sizes, sometimes you real genuinely outgrow your "size in shoes" because things you once did or stood for no longer reflect who you
are, and thats perfectly fine for some people, others grow faster then others, some people dont grow at all, and thats fine too...its da erratic constant persona shedding attributes of hypebeasts and hipsters that annoy most people because it comes
across as disingenuous.
hypebeasts and hipsters dont hold onto morals or values of da very culture they siphon off their "cool" from...one comes and infects early on, da latter comes and milks da life outta something before it dies...then its off to da next one.
this is why no one takes to either of em kindly.
im a unapologetic 80's babies thats forged in da fire of da 90's so when i see hipsters doing things from my generation just to be ironic, like rockin dusty lumberjacks from da biggie era, or hypebeasts rockin snapbacks like those weren't slayed once
spike lee's odd request to New Era to make a custom Red yankee's non traditional red 5950 ushered in da fitted revolution. all i do is raise my eyebrow and keep it moving.
your style is your identity to da world, its da non verbal conversation you have with complete strangers, on a daily basis. when your constantly sending fraudulent signals da way hypebeasts and hipsters do it makes people question who you really are.
you know da saying, if you dont stand for something you'll fall for anything.
I like how you just needed that round-about justification to express why you're "so much more original" than everyone else because your "clothes represent who you REALLY are"
No one knows the meaning of those Tims... no one but you man. You get it bro!
I guess we should all look to cultural gatekeepers like you.
You and your peers have introduced a standard to which no one could never be compared to or contrasted against. You're TRULY original in the urban wear you chose to adopt.
You're original because in the 80s, you didn't even know what shirts were. You just started making your own cotton blended t-shirts with screen prints at home until you walked outside and realized you and millions of other urbanites had independently developed the same concept! Its like discovering the invention of the wheel in different parts of the world; Fascinating!
Like I said earlier, just be honest with yourself. You're not even that original yourself, and frankly you're ironically forgetting your own influences when you choose to chastise and denigrate others for having their own, and functionally harmless, forms of dress.
I really don't need to address this, do I?
Nothing worse than someone who thinks hes old enough to forget his own influences.
This is such a ridiculous comment.
Yeah, its not like you didn't have TVs or Magazines either...
You basically said that you aren't, what you actually are.
So gangs were completely original themselves? They invented the concept of iconography?
No. Its not true. Its called having a selective memory.
Optimus/FutureMD/SillyPutty, why do you do this in every thread you post in?
abesent in this misplaced rant is da fact that people DO things because they LIKE IT and not because they SAW IT somewhere.....this was a common thing pre-internet, pre "urban" demographic......To which I emphatically and enthusiastically say, SO?da sad thing is in your lil cloud of condescension is actually how style and culture organically emerge..especially da underlined quote.TL;DR: I got my own style because...I was forged in da 90s... or whatever that means.people pick who and what they wanna identify with because it represents who they are...its like copping a pair of sneaker my size (imma 10) i dont cop a size 11 because i dont wanna FRONT like i got a bigger foot then i really have, andHe really didn't.Ninja dropped that knowledge on ya'll. Well said fam.
All he did was explain why he chose to adopt whatever he picked up and why he never changed.
Ask him why he embraces the very thing he identifies with. Of course his bias precludes him from seeing that he is merely a trend-hopper who never evolved, himself.
You can't act like you're original if all you're going to do is say that everyone else isn't.
i dont pick a size 9 because i feel like im too grown to fit those shoes. style and persona is alot like sneakers sizes, sometimes you real genuinely outgrow your "size in shoes" because things you once did or stood for no longer reflect who you
are, and thats perfectly fine for some people, others grow faster then others, some people dont grow at all, and thats fine too...its da erratic constant persona shedding attributes of hypebeasts and hipsters that annoy most people because it comes
across as disingenuous.
hypebeasts and hipsters dont hold onto morals or values of da very culture they siphon off their "cool" from...one comes and infects early on, da latter comes and milks da life outta something before it dies...then its off to da next one.
this is why no one takes to either of em kindly.
im a unapologetic 80's babies thats forged in da fire of da 90's so when i see hipsters doing things from my generation just to be ironic, like rockin dusty lumberjacks from da biggie era, or hypebeasts rockin snapbacks like those weren't slayed once
spike lee's odd request to New Era to make a custom Red yankee's non traditional red 5950 ushered in da fitted revolution. all i do is raise my eyebrow and keep it moving.
your style is your identity to da world, its da non verbal conversation you have with complete strangers, on a daily basis. when your constantly sending fraudulent signals da way hypebeasts and hipsters do it makes people question who you really are.
you know da saying, if you dont stand for something you'll fall for anything.
I like how you just needed that round-about justification to express why you're "so much more original" than everyone else because your "clothes represent who you REALLY are"
No one knows the meaning of those Tims... no one but you man. You get it bro!
I guess we should all look to cultural gatekeepers like you.
You and your peers have introduced a standard to which no one could never be compared to or contrasted against. You're TRULY original in the urban wear you chose to adopt.
You're original because in the 80s, you didn't even know what shirts were. You just started making your own cotton blended t-shirts with screen prints at home until you walked outside and realized you and millions of other urbanites had independently developed the same concept! Its like discovering the invention of the wheel in different parts of the world; Fascinating!
Like I said earlier, just be honest with yourself. You're not even that original yourself, and frankly you're ironically forgetting your own influences when you choose to chastise and denigrate others for having their own, and functionally harmless, forms of dress.
You know its not even true and its appalling that you'd even suggest otherwise?
So you mean to tell me that tons of youths all across the country didn't get their influence from media in the 80s? You all just randomly happened to come up with the SAME influences while locked away?
Come, don't be ridiculous.
I really don't need to address this, do I?
Nothing worse than someone who thinks hes old enough to forget his own influences.
This is such a ridiculous comment.
"the hood was aching for a voice, b!" all while forgetting that they took something and made it their own WHILE CONSTANTLY evolving themselves.
Yeah, its not like you didn't have TVs or Magazines either...
Of course those 1980s kids didn't have any influences.
You basically said that you aren't, what you actually are.
Everyone picks and chooses what they want to embrace in every cultural movement because nothing is binding like that.
You act like every "hipster" is actually a member of a monolithic organization that issues uniforms of ironic and self-degradation.
So gangs were completely original themselves? They invented the concept of iconography?
No. Its not true. Its called having a selective memory.
Your argument is: "Kids in the 80s didn't have the internet so thus we were more original"
AS IF you didn't clearly adopt the things that you choose to wear now because someone marketed the concept to you in the first place as something worth embracing.
Why'd I see this big-o hipster girl riding her bike the other day?
Hipster characteristics:
Fixie with drop-down bars (obviously too big for her)
Thick framed glasses without the lens
Beats
This girl looked like she hadn't ever ridden a bike before. Probably 200lbs and ugly (like 3/10). She stopped at the light and had a look in her face like she was smoking hot. Almost as if the fixie had turned her into a ten.
at kept driving.
wasnt flex the first to play trick daddy "nann n' " , we supplied yall too
of course it worked both ways... cypha sounds was da first dude to play rick ross in NYC
agree with all of this, i dont mind the hipster chicks if they give me some play, kirko bangz is buns :x
