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Monday, June 14, 2010
Hip Hop Today
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Today, hip hop fashion is in a very different place than it was 30 years ago. Consumers have made hip hop fashion a billion dollar industry,...
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Hip hop artists Jay-Z and Russell Simmons saw the success of Puffy's label and decided to start their own clothing labels: Jay-Z began R...
Modern Day Hip Hop
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Eventually seeing the loads of money that could be made from hip hop clothing, Puff Daddy decided to capitalize on the demand and began the ...
Beginning of a billion dollar industry
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What started in the 1980s with the Kangol and Adidas would explode in the mid-to-late 90s, as demand for brand name hip hop clothing would ...
West Coast
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While East coast rappers mimicked movie gangsters, West coast rappers adopted an 'urban gangsta' look. They wore custom suits, but t...
Mafioso
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As the mid 90s arrived, hip hop fashion would settle into the identity that the 90s' period of the genre would be known for. 1994 marked...
1990s Begin and women in Hip-hop
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As the 90s came along, there were a lot of 'left overs' from the previous decade. People were still wearing baseball caps backwards ...
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