NY nikkas only advantage was being so close to the garment district where the Jews shipped their clothes in from China first.
They have no style, they just wear what’s hot and a lot of that shyt is knockoff.
The mid-Atlantic is usually where the rest of the country gets its style cues from, usually with so many points in between they probably don’t realize it.
Between Delaware St and St Aug in NC, there’s like 20 HBCUs all within a 6 hour drive from each other, that have been filled with a large percentage of the most creative and best dressed black Americans from around the country for 200+ years.
They stayed, married together and into the local community, reproduced, plus all of that culture extends out to the surrounding areas, creating one extended culture of flyness pretty much from Delaware all the way to Atlanta.
Kanye admits he didn’t learn how to dress until he saw his VA/DC cousins dress.
Iverson, Pharrell, Pusha T; fashion icons.
Even Timberlands and Air Force One’s (fat heads) was popular in DC first then NY nikkas from Howard took the style back to NY.
Southerners dress very well, it just took deep Southerners awhile to put together hip hop style properly because they got shyt so much later than the rest of us.
They dress better than NY nikkas now though.