In the 90's, was "looking rugged" worked on?

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Like, did the rappers treat it the way people treat fashion these days? Did they stand around like: "Naw dun, you take too many showers son - word is bond.:scusthov: You gotta get with the program, god, quit washing your Nautica jacket so damn much and stop braiding your whole head duke, leave half as a fro." I'm just wondering here.:lupe:
 

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Quite the opposite. The 'look' was actually cultivated to appear that way. None of our gear or our bodies went unwashed. We HAD to since we actually danced with women when we went to clubs and built up a sweat.......unlike you effeminate, wallflower, tight-pants wearing e-thugs that trip on molly and mean-mugg while posted-up on the wall scaring females away like Black Hebrew Israelites in Times Square.

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lol i don't think it went that far but there were definitely marketing schemes to make artists look togher or more rugged than they really were. just look at someone like Boss
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Quite the opposite. The 'look' was actually cultivated to appear that way. None of our gear or our bodies went unwashed. We HAD to since we actually danced with women when we went to clubs and built up a sweat.......unlike you effeminate, wallflower, tight-pants wearing e-thugs that trip on molly and mean-mugg while posted-up on the wall scaring females away like Black Hebrew Israelites in Times Square.

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I don't think the "rugged" look was pre-determined. It was more about wearing what you liked and what was popular during that time. nikkas washed they clothes they just did shyt that actually made a nikka rugged. Unlike now and days where that "look" is trying to be achieved. Kinda like hipster who want that "homeless" look.
 

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Smh.

Fly nikkas have always been around. When was it cool to actually look dirty? Or are u just talking about that 90‘s ‘meth/odb‘ look?
It was cool to look ‘grimy‘ in a cool way...never dirty.
 

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YES IT WAS.

They try to skirt around this by saying "They weren't giving each other fashion advice like these hipster fakkits of today." That's true, but that's not the point.

You didn't get friendly fashion advice on how to look rugged when I was growing up. It was more like you tried your fukking HARDEST NOT TO LOOK SOFT OR LIKE A CLOWN. They would be cracking on you harshly for wearing tight jeans, highwaters, bootleg sneakers (ahahahaha), wearing your du-rag all wrong (remember that?), when the barber fukked your shyt up, etc. Also, don't confuse ruggedness with being a bum. It wasn't cool to have some dirty ass sneakers, ashy hands and chapped lips. They'd make fun of you for that back then just as they would now.

Even when we wore uniforms way back in middle school, everybody made sure to buy their pants and shirts extra baggy.

They weren't like "Well, you need to sag your pants your a little, put that cap on backwards, and wrap your du-rag like *this*. That's it! Looking great!"

It wasn't like that.

It was more like negative reinforcement, people learned what not to do when the group of popular kids would surround you and start a fukking comedy session. They'd call you out in front of EVERYBODY like: "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THIS nikka! HIS JEANS IS MAD TIGHT, SON! *Class erupts in laughter* Why you got on those extra tight jeans, nikka? Can you even walk in those shyts? Damn, your nuts can't even breathe in those jeans, you ain't never gon' have kids! Yo, what kinda sneakers is you wearing, son? You can't afford some Jordans, or some Air Forces at least, nikka? You mad bummy!"

It was brutal and hilarious back then.
 

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YES IT WAS.

They try to skirt around this by saying "They weren't giving each other fashion advice like these hipster fakkits of today." That's true, but that's not the point.

You didn't get friendly fashion advice on how to look rugged when I was growing up. It was more like you tried your fukking HARDEST NOT TO LOOK SOFT OR LIKE A CLOWN. They would be cracking on you harshly for wearing tight jeans, highwaters, bootleg sneakers (ahahahaha), wearing your du-rag all wrong (remember that?), when the barber fukked your shyt up, etc. Also, don't confuse ruggedness with being a bum. It wasn't cool to have some dirty ass sneakers, ashy hands and chapped lips. They'd make fun of you for that back then just as they would now.

Even when we wore uniforms way back in middle school, everybody made sure to buy their pants and shirts extra baggy.

They weren't like "Well, you need to sag your pants your a little, put that cap on backwards, and wrap your du-rag like *this*. That's it! Looking great!"

It wasn't like that.

It was more like negative reinforcement, people learned what not to do when the group of popular kids would surround you and start a fukking comedy session. They'd call you out in front of EVERYBODY like: "YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! LOOK AT THIS nikka! HIS JEANS IS MAD TIGHT, SON! *Class erupts in laughter* Why you got on those extra tight jeans, nikka? Can you even walk in those shyts? Damn, your nuts can't even breathe in those jeans, you ain't never gon' have kids! Yo, what kinda sneakers is you wearing, son? You can't afford some Jordans, or some Air Forces at least, nikka? You mad bummy!"

It was brutal and hilarious back then.


nikkas wuznt trying to "out hard" each other for attention though...nowadays cats tryna look more "flamboyant" than the next man cuz they stylist said its the next big thing.....we wuz united back then and as a community decided what wuz acceptable together:to:...whether it wuz thru word of mouth or telepathically where nikkas just knew it wuz time to throw the Fubu out:....it damn sure wuznt a "my outfit gotta make me look harder than the next nikka" the music just reflected that and u had to look it to a certain degree obviously....I suppose rappers on that fly shyt wuz trying to look flyer than the next man and maybe that's why the shyt stands out so much today bcuz EVERYBODY wants to be on that "I'm the flyest:youngsabo:".....so in regards to lookin hard ima say no overall....fly rappers wuz doin the same as these nikkas do now but they wuz the minority so it didn't stick out as much and there definitly wuz boundaries:whoa:...a nikka might throw sum weird shyt on tryna sneak it past nikkas and sumtimes it would work and catch on,but it wuz a slower proccess....these young cats don't know how to pace theyself:why:...Camron wearin pink snuck past and nikkas jocked it and the pink trend lasted a year or two......but now a skirt will sneak through one week,then the next week its a nikka sneakin a full dress through,silk grandma blouse a few days later.....if young nikkas don't pace theyself the outfits y'all will be wearin will just be:snoop::laff:
 

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LMAO....at the mainstream level, yes, i would think that nikkas kinda played up that backpack/camo look. Not it wasn't nikkas dressing like that, but they ain't just start paying attention to trends when the internet came about. No different than nikkas wearing frilly shirts in the 80's.

Look at a group like das efx...you nikkas really living in the sewer b?

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nikkas had me scared to step foot on the east coast :laugh:
 

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Love how the 90s rappers stayed fly, without being homoerotic like today :scusthov:
 
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