PHat Like Me - Page 2

#16 10-29-2003, 01:41 AM

how is it original to dress like nelly, p diddy or any of the other rappers on MTV?

I'm sorry folks, but there's only so many ways or styles to wear your clothes, unless you're gonna start wearing shoes from you ears, or a short sleeve t tied around your neck, you can bet someone before you thought of it.

I don't care what my clothes "SAY". I wear clothes to keep warm and to keep from being thrown in jail for public indecency. I just prefer jeans, polo's, button ups, etc. I may wear clothes from the GAP, or AE, but i never wear anything that is just a logo, or has a huge logo on it. I worked at Old Navy for 4 years, ask me how many logo tees i have, ZERO.

Mostly because i believe people who are 'label-conscious' are the most unoriginal folk out there. I don't care if you have American Eagle or FUBU emblazoned across your chest, they're both equally lame.

Kitso
KS 361 times someone needs to call me a racist cuz i ain't down with the hip hop fashion

valkyrie · #17 10-29-2003, 01:49 AM

Yeah, but seriously, if you rip on "do-rags" you're making fun of a specific race, aren't you?

#18 10-29-2003, 01:52 AM

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Originally posted by valkyrie
Yeah, but seriously, if you rip on "do-rags" you're making fun of a specific race, aren't you?

nope,

white trash wear what i call "do-rags" also. So do hispanics, indians, and yes, AfAms. They are a universal part of hip hop culture. Now, had i said something like Aunt Jemima(however you spell that) rags, THAT would have been race-targeted.

and i took great care to avoid the sensitive "ghetto" label too, as i know that GC has attached it racial significance.

ETA: FWIW, the main purpose for this thread was that i liked where the convo in the "FAT like me" thread was going and i was mad that ZA locked it.

Kitso
KS 361

librasoul22 · #19 10-29-2003, 04:52 AM

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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
ETA: FWIW, the main purpose for this thread was that i liked where the convo in the "FAT like me" thread was going and i was mad that ZA locked it.

Yeah man, she locked all the fun threads, and I am just getting off of work, hoping to let off some steam.

AchtungBaby80 · #20 10-30-2003, 12:05 PM

Unoriginal or not, I don't think it's attractive when people (men especially) wear pants that could double as a parachute. Give me a "preppy" guy any day.

KillarneyRose · #21 10-30-2003, 12:32 PM

What is a do rag? Like a bandana?

Steeltrap · #22 10-30-2003, 12:36 PM

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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
What is a do rag? Like a bandana?

A piece of fabric to protect your hairdo.

*Leaving this thread.*

Rudey · #23 10-30-2003, 12:36 PM

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Originally posted by KillarneyRose
What is a do rag? Like a bandana?

LOL Yes. I think even uncle Jesse in Full House called it a do rag.

-Rudey

MereMere21 · #24 10-30-2003, 12:37 PM

yeah its a bandana - I think Deion Sanders when he still played for the Cowboys made it popular....or at least I always heard the announcers refer to Deion and his "do rag"

starang21 · #25 10-30-2003, 02:16 PM

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Originally posted by ChaosDST
As Steeltrap pointed out, "do rags" were invented (many many years ago) to protect hairstyles and are still worn for that purpose. "Do rags" aren't the same as bandanas. They have become a fixture of what is called "hip hop gear," but let's not forget what "do rags" REALLY are and what they're REALLY for.

Contrary to common belief, let's also not forget what a "ghetto" originally is: a place where people of the same race and ethnicity lived. Therefore, there were (and, arguably, still are) Italian ghettos, etc.

Don't act as if GC has attached a sensitive racial label to "ghetto." AmeriKKKa (particularly AmeriKKKan media) has done that, as well as to "hip hop culture" and so-called "gangsta rap."

So, threads like this can easily take a wrong turn. But, let's not act as if we don't understand why they do so.

but i'm not racist..my best friend is black.

krazy · #26 10-30-2003, 02:23 PM

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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
how is it original to dress like nelly, p diddy or any of the other rappers on MTV?

I'm sorry folks, but there's only so many ways or styles to wear your clothes, unless you're gonna start wearing shoes from you ears, or a short sleeve t tied around your neck, you can bet someone before you thought of it.

I don't care what my clothes "SAY". I wear clothes to keep warm and to keep from being thrown in jail for public indecency. I just prefer jeans, polo's, button ups, etc. I may wear clothes from the GAP, or AE, but i never wear anything that is just a logo, or has a huge logo on it. I worked at Old Navy for 4 years, ask me how many logo tees i have, ZERO.

Mostly because i believe people who are 'label-conscious' are the most unoriginal folk out there. I don't care if you have American Eagle or FUBU emblazoned across your chest, they're both equally lame.

Kitso
KS 361 times someone needs to call me a racist cuz i ain't down with the hip hop fashion

Nicely put.....

To add to that, I ONLY wear PRADA. That is all. Don't even let anything else touch my body.

Rudey · #27 10-30-2003, 02:23 PM

I like it when guys wear timberlands and it's like 200 degrees outside all dressed up with gucci fabric and stuff.

-Rudey
--But that's just me...I'm high society.

#28 10-30-2003, 02:24 PM

Sorry,

as a poor and uneducated "white" man, i have always considered bandanas to be do-rags. Whether they be on Nelly, or a Biker in Sturgis. Granted the biker in Sturgis isn't part of hip hop culture but it's still a damn do-rag. What are they REALLY? and what are they REALLY for? National defense? Identification? What?

as far as the ghetto issue. For the love of god, do some people just wait on GC for someone to bring up an issue just so they can accuse them of being a racist?

and if i can't call the style "hip-hop", "ghetto", "rap" what the hell am i supposed to call it?

"style where people wear oversized clothes, white tshirts, lots of jewelry, DO-RAGS, hats and visors worn the wrong way, and AF Ones"?

Kitso
KS 361

Rudey · #29 10-30-2003, 02:26 PM

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Originally posted by AggieSigmaNu361
Sorry,

as a poor and uneducated "white" man, i have always considered bandanas to be do-rags. Whether they be on Nelly, or a Biker in Sturgis. Granted the biker in Sturgis isn't part of hip hop culture but it's still a damn do-rag. What are they REALLY? and what are they REALLY for? National defense? Identification? What?

as far as the ghetto issue. For the love of god, do some people just wait on GC for someone to bring up an issue just so they can accuse them of being a racist?

and if i can't call the style "hip-hop", "ghetto", "rap" what the hell am i supposed to call it?

"style where people wear oversized clothes, white tshirts, lots of jewelry, DO-RAGS, hats and visors worn the wrong way, and AF Ones"?

Kitso
KS 361

Sorry guy but you gotta wear a fitted cap slightly cocked to the side.

-Rudey
--Girls dig it and you look bad arse.

AXJules · #30 10-30-2003, 03:01 PM

Is this really that big of a deal??

It's impossible to be original anymore. To say that people that wear baggy jeans and sports jerseys have more style than guys who wear Abercrombie is ridiculous; maybe the first guy ever to sag his jeans was a visionary, but after him its just been one person copying another.

And isn't that what fashion is??? NONE of us are original. Guys are wearing women's low rise jeans, girls wear boy-cut undies and the 80's are back.

Big deal. Wear what you think you look good in, don't wear what you don't like, and don't think it's a personal attack against you if someone doesn't like your style.

I think the bandanna/do rag (I'm sorry but that is what it's called)/ baggy jeans/timberlands looks like hell, but that's my opinion. I also don't go for guys in too short khakis rocking pocket protectors. Neither makes me a racist.