So NY nikkaz Are Walking Memes in 2016 now?
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Kenny West
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lmaooIm from Chi and Timbs heavy asf for me , these are a much better alternative
Yeah chicago ny nj and to a certain extent dc nikkas pretty much dress the similarChicago nikkas be trying to compare there's no comparison y'all the bad ass lil bros though...
Chicago nikkas don't dress too different than NY nikkas honestly...
I was surprised when drill came out in 2012 to see y'all wore True Religions and Robins...
NY nikkas in '09 was wearing Robins with a BB belt and Pelle Pelle leathers and all that shyt Sosa was wearing...
But you guys rock timbs with everything.
Ny nikkas stuff timbs during christmastime instead of stockings
them boys so lost
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You Win Perfect
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corny as fukk. i feel like these memes are created by cacs
MalikX
Superstar
Chicago is about 70% the size of NYC. NYC is about 300 square miles. Chicago is about 210 square miles. NYC is about 8 mil in the city, 20 mil outside. Chicago is about 3 mil in the city, 10 mil outside. They're comparable. NYC is barely bigger than it landwise, but population wise it's about twice, which is why NYC is much more dense and crowded. In Chicago its still urban and has a big city feel but, you can breathe there.
#SOG_soldier
New York knicks and phoenix suns stan
Soft ass cityi miss being about to walk around a city without always having to keep a pistol on me.
Seeing threads like this only make me :spurs: that I live in the GOAT city, you out of town small time nikkas obsessed with NYC 
surgical gloves
All Star
Yo the imagery
uh.. That's the name of the shoes. It says so in their box. Fukking try hard ass ny'ers
"ohh nahhh b those are them uptowns right there son, word to maw dukes dunny"
Fukk outta here
ISO
Pass me the rock nikka
Cynical Thoughts
All Star
Breh females like anything that's seems new. You could be from a third world country if you new they'll be on somenikkas talk shyt about ny, but i get love everywhere i go
bytches out here in the midwest loving this ny nikka.
regardless. Midwest people are nicer in general.Being from a different part of the country is that and only that lol it's not cause you from NY.
I understand you tryna defend your state though.
How Timberlands Became an Icon of Hip-Hop Style | Highsnobiety
We examine the history of the Timberland 6″ Boot and its journey from humble workwear staple to global icon of hip-hop style.
Timberland’s 6″ Work Boots – known as Style #10061 to the brand’s employees or by their street monicker “Timbs” – have come a long way since their release in 1973. Originally designed as a hard-wearing boot for New England construction workers, the six-inch high waterproof nubuck shoe has become synonymous with hip-hop style, appearing on the feet – and in the songs – of everyone from Notorious B.I.G. to Kanye West.
The story behind the brand’s popularity in hip-hop circles is a strange one; Timberland never intended for their boots to be worn by rappers, and found the association so far removed from their blue-collar roots that they at first tried to distance themselves from their new-found “urban” audience. But like so many brands who found popularity in places they didn’t know existed – Converse, Dr. Martens and Vans, to name a few – the subculture association has become such a large part of the brand’s identity that today that it’s hard to imagine them without it.
In the early ’90s, when Timberland was serving its core customer base of blue-collar workers – who adored the brand’s boots for their hard-as-nails construction and superior waterproofing – the company noticed a strange thing happening in New York City. The Big Apple’s hustlers, rappers and scoundrels, miles away from Timberland’s rural heartland and oblivious to the brand’s blue-collar reputation, had become obsessed with their boots.
As consumer journalist Rob Walker reports in his book Buying In, “the legend goes that the first ‘urban’ buyers of Timberland boots were New York drug dealers – guys who had to stand on the street all night and needed the best possible footwear to keep them warm and dry.” Ever keen to enhance their hustler credentials, the city’s rappers followed suit, and soon the boot was everywhere; on Tupac’s feet, in Biggie’s lyrics, on Wu-Tang’s feet and in Mobb Deep’s artwork. Rap magazine Vibe reported that “everyone from thugs to step teams were stalking, walking in their six-inch construction boot,” as they “stood up beautifully to urban elements like concrete, barbed wire, and broken glass.”
As a brand priding itself on its rugged, salt-of-the-earth roots, Timberland actively tried to distance itself from this new-found street cred. Timberland’s CEO Jeffrey Swartz (and grandson of the company’s founder Nathan Swarz) told The New York Times in the early ’90s that “If you want to buy us and you are not our target customer, we don’t have a point of distribution that speaks to your lifestyle.” That didn’t deter any of the boots’ fans though, as trekking to backwater New England towns to cop Timbs became part of the experience; a pilgrimage of sorts.
Of course, things are a little different today. Timberland, realizing that there was nothing it could do to deter a demographic hell-bent on appropriating the brand’s boots for themselves, soon embraced the hip-hop association. The brand has since hooked up countless rap artists with boots (like the ones worn by OutKat’s Big Boi on the cover of Speakerboxxx), expanded their collections to include more ‘urban’ oriented product (pink Timbs, anyone?) and collaborated with tons of streetwear brands; including Supreme, Black Scale, Ronnie Fieg, Billionaire Boys Club, Stussy and many more.
Shop the latest gear from Timberland here.
We examine the history of the Timberland 6″ Boot and its journey from humble workwear staple to global icon of hip-hop style.
Timberland’s 6″ Work Boots – known as Style #10061 to the brand’s employees or by their street monicker “Timbs” – have come a long way since their release in 1973. Originally designed as a hard-wearing boot for New England construction workers, the six-inch high waterproof nubuck shoe has become synonymous with hip-hop style, appearing on the feet – and in the songs – of everyone from Notorious B.I.G. to Kanye West.
The story behind the brand’s popularity in hip-hop circles is a strange one; Timberland never intended for their boots to be worn by rappers, and found the association so far removed from their blue-collar roots that they at first tried to distance themselves from their new-found “urban” audience. But like so many brands who found popularity in places they didn’t know existed – Converse, Dr. Martens and Vans, to name a few – the subculture association has become such a large part of the brand’s identity that today that it’s hard to imagine them without it.
In the early ’90s, when Timberland was serving its core customer base of blue-collar workers – who adored the brand’s boots for their hard-as-nails construction and superior waterproofing – the company noticed a strange thing happening in New York City. The Big Apple’s hustlers, rappers and scoundrels, miles away from Timberland’s rural heartland and oblivious to the brand’s blue-collar reputation, had become obsessed with their boots.
As consumer journalist Rob Walker reports in his book Buying In, “the legend goes that the first ‘urban’ buyers of Timberland boots were New York drug dealers – guys who had to stand on the street all night and needed the best possible footwear to keep them warm and dry.” Ever keen to enhance their hustler credentials, the city’s rappers followed suit, and soon the boot was everywhere; on Tupac’s feet, in Biggie’s lyrics, on Wu-Tang’s feet and in Mobb Deep’s artwork. Rap magazine Vibe reported that “everyone from thugs to step teams were stalking, walking in their six-inch construction boot,” as they “stood up beautifully to urban elements like concrete, barbed wire, and broken glass.”
As a brand priding itself on its rugged, salt-of-the-earth roots, Timberland actively tried to distance itself from this new-found street cred. Timberland’s CEO Jeffrey Swartz (and grandson of the company’s founder Nathan Swarz) told The New York Times in the early ’90s that “If you want to buy us and you are not our target customer, we don’t have a point of distribution that speaks to your lifestyle.” That didn’t deter any of the boots’ fans though, as trekking to backwater New England towns to cop Timbs became part of the experience; a pilgrimage of sorts.
Of course, things are a little different today. Timberland, realizing that there was nothing it could do to deter a demographic hell-bent on appropriating the brand’s boots for themselves, soon embraced the hip-hop association. The brand has since hooked up countless rap artists with boots (like the ones worn by OutKat’s Big Boi on the cover of Speakerboxxx), expanded their collections to include more ‘urban’ oriented product (pink Timbs, anyone?) and collaborated with tons of streetwear brands; including Supreme, Black Scale, Ronnie Fieg, Billionaire Boys Club, Stussy and many more.
Shop the latest gear from Timberland here.
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MalikX
Superstar
NYC is 470 miles, Chicago is 210...
Chicago is like the size of Queens breh c'mon...
You including water in city size now breh?
New York City
• Total 468.9 sq mi (1,214 km2)
• Land 304.8 sq mi (789 km2)
• Water 164.1 sq mi (425 km2)
Chicago
• City 234.0 sq mi (606 km2)
• Land 227.3 sq mi (589 km2)
• Water 6.9 sq mi (18 km2) 3.0%
Chicago is like 70% the size of New York.
That's something that people don't realize when they talk about Chicago's crime. Yea, it's bad. But it's mostly concentrated in the South Side, which would be one of the 15-20 largest cities by population alone (750,000 live in South Side Chicago) if it was a city. More people live there than the entire cities of Denver, Seattle, Boston, Washington D.C., Atlanta, Miami, Detroit, Memphis, Baltimore and Las Vegas. That's how big that muthafukka is. Then you still got the North Side, West Side and Downtown.