Therefore any fan yelling “that’s skinny jeans rap” or “real rappers don’t wear skirts” is missing the real issue of unimaginative and uncreative music. Remember Kanye looking like a microwave meal at the Met Gala? His outfit that day proved that trousers look just as daft on him as skirts do. And it’s pretty clear that Kanye West looks like a walking joke regardless what he wears so a skirt looks just as absurd on him as trousers. For example, Young Thug wearing a dress doesn’t change the fact that his music is appalling, his androgyny has nothing to do with making substandard music. What I mean by this is that upon hearing bland Hip-Hop, fans incorrectly conflate the issue with fashion but this correlation interferes with the real issue of dull, formulaic Hip-Hop music. Hip-Hop’s support of fashion labels is no longer an issue of selling out your music but instead is a diversion from an artist’s mediocrity. music has escalated to the point of distraction. I was always critical of black artists lining the pockets of rich white designers but these days the issue of clothing vs. Whilst on the topic of fashion, although big labels including Adidas and Timberland have always been part-and-parcel of Hip-Hop, once we went from the street (Dapper Dan) to the high-street (Tommy Hilfiger) mainstream fashion labels suddenly became the genre’s leading marketing tool and during the noughties, catwalk fashion almost usurped the music. Maybe everybody needs to look for a third option. One thing is certain one of these looks is out-of-style and the other is a year away from becoming out-of-fashion too. Okay, so the old adage “don’t judge a book by its cover” may come to mind when you read my previous sentence but today’s rap-fans seem more like leaflets they’re not very deep and more often than not, you can tell the person’s tastes and opinions just by glancing at their exterior. West division in the 1990’s, in the 2010’s we can observe two clear factions within Hip-Hop on one side we have a cliche of 1998-2006 (someone who still wears Mecca rugbies, baggy jeans, and Lugz boots) and on the other side we have a cliche of 2008-2016 (someone who wears Supreme sweats, pre-ripped skinny jeans, and Air Jordan reissues). Now I’m all for criticising mediocre music but these days it seems to me that the majority of fans are set in their ways they’re either “old-school” purists or blinkered “new-school” followers and if either camp sees or hears something from the other side they instantly dismiss it as sounding “old” or “new”, strangely with both contrasting terms serving as a disparaging description of each clique’s so-called opposition. In contemporary Hip-Hop culture it seems that fans, critics, and even musicians are constantly bickering with each other, often resorting to contrived responses and offering conventional examples of what they perceive as an accurate representation of Hip-Hop music.
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