Hip hop 2014 cd is a distinctive style of street fashion. Rooted in West Coast
surf and skate culture, it has grown to encompass elements of hip hop fashion,
Japanese street fashion, and modern Haute couture fashion.
Hip hop 2014 cd is fashion that is considered to have
emerged not from studios, but from the grassroots. Street fashion is generally
associated with youth culture, and is most often seen in major urban centers.
Magazines and Newspapers like the New York Times and Elle commonly feature
candid photographs of individuals wearing urban, stylish clothing. Japanese
street fashion sustains multiple simultaneous highly diverse fashion movements
at any given time. Mainstream fashion often appropriates street fashion trends
as influences. Most major youth subcultures have had an associated street
fashion.
The Hip hop apparel was a clothing store opened in 1993 by
fashion designer Maurice Malone that was better known for its open mic contests
than its clothing. It quickly evolved into one of the main destinations for rap
competitions in the Detroit hip hop scene. The spot, located on 15736 W. Seven
Mile Road, had open mic contests that were managed and hosted by rapper Proof on
Saturdays from 4:00 - 6:00 P.M. Its rap battles inspired the similar scenes
depicted in the movie 8 Mile, starring Eminem. The Hip Hop Shop closed down in
1997 when Malone and his partner Jerome Mongo decided to move to New York and
focus on the clothing line. It has since reopened under new management.
Currently talks about a Hip Hop Shop return has been in the air for Spring
2015, at the forefront of the project is Derwynn Matthews (nephew of Maurice
Malone) and entrepreneur Khalid (Kah) Cooper.
Hip hop apparel (or hip-hop) is a
cultural movement that formed during the late 1960s among African American
youths residing in the South Bronx in New York City. It is characterized by
four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestations of
the culture: rap music (oral), turntablism or "DJing" (aural),
b-boying (physical) and graffiti art (visual). Even while it continues to
develop globally in myriad styles, these four foundational elements provide
coherence to hip hop culture. The term is often used in a restrictive fashion
as synonymous only with the oral practice of rap music.
Hip hop attire is simultaneously a new and old phenomenon; the importance of
sampling to the art form means that much of the culture has revolved around the
idea of updating classic recordings, attitudes, and experiences for modern
audiences—called "flipping" within the culture. It follows in the
footsteps of earlier American musical genres such as blues, salsa, jazz, and
rock and roll in having become one of the most practiced genres of music in
existence worldwide, and also takes additional inspiration regularly from soul
music, funk, and rhythm and blues.
Hip hop attirehas
always been a big part of hip hop’s social and cultural impact and as the
genre’s popularity increased, so did the effect of its fashion. While there
were early items synonymous with hip hop that crossed over into the mainstream
culture, like Run-DMC’s affinity for Adidas or the Wu-Tang Clan’s championing of
Clarks’ Wallabees, it wasn’t until its commercial peak that hip-hop fashion
became influential. Starting in the mid- to late 1990s, hip-hop culture
embraced some major designers and established a new connection with classic
fashion. Brands such as Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger all
tapped into hip-hop culture and gave very little in return. Moving into the new
millennium, hip-hop fashion consisted of baggy shirts, jeans, and jerseys. As
names like Pharrell and Jay-Z started their own clothing lines and still others
like Kanye West linked up with designers like Louis Vuitton, the clothes got
tighter, more classically fashionable, and expensive. Hip-hop culture’s
new-found emphasis on designer goods led to a redefinition of masculinity in hip-hop
culture and a decrease in the genre’s homophobia.
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