After months of absence I am finally back to my home topic which is music. Today lets compare two of the most popular fashion in the pop culture, the rockers and the rappers.
Fashion also describes what music we like, whether its Bon Jovi or Soulja Boy, we already know which one is the rapper or the rocker.
Now let the war begins, Rockers or Rappers: Who's fashion is better
The 80's
Lets go back to the 80's where wearing weird clothes makes you cool (for me its actually cool). The time where spraynet was IN and hair gel wasn't even available in the grocery. A decade where rappers looked like dancing waiters thanks to Vanilla Ice.
ROCKERS
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Check out Guns n Roses, this is a sample of the rockers of the 80's. The hair, its always the hair! the leopard skin jacket, the cool tattoos and skinny tight jeans. This is the era where lead guitar licks are like an orgasm to women, and makes them wanna take their undies off and throw it at them.
Popular rocker gears during that time are:
- Spiked bracelets
- Spraynet for the hair, to make them grow like birds nest!
- Torn skinny jeans
- Aviator sunglasses
- Marlboro cigarettes
- Chains, belts with a bad ass buckle
- Harley Davidson bikes (I wish I have one of those)
- Sando shirts
- Tattoos
- Rocker boots
- Chuck Taylors
- Bandanna
- Mohawk
- Make up
- Leather Jacket
RAPPERS
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Nope, this is not a fan boys of any major sporting league, these guys are the NWA. I can't remember some of them but I think on the left side is Ice Cube and next to him is Dr. Dre.
Fashion of the 80's are like Mr. T. wearing a sports shirt. In fact this is so much better than Vanilla Ice's dancing waiter outfit.
Hip hop gear of the 80's are:
- You should wear chains like Mr. T
- Baseball cap
- Jogging pants
- Adidas classic shoes
- Cargo pants
- A hair cut just like Bart Simpson
- A boom box for the B bois
- A Gun for Gangsters
- Catholic Cross bling bling (I wonder if they really do go to church)
The 90's
ROCKERS
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Cool outfits for the rockers of the 90's are:
- Long sleeves
- Nick Carter hair style
- Eye liners
- Nudity (ex. Flea, Blink 182)
- Gothic outfits
- Bonnet
- Polka dot pants
- Leather Jacket
- Checkered Jackets and long sleeves
RAPPERS
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I don't know who these guys are, but I kinda like their outfit. This is the rappers of the 90's, they look more like thrashers except they bring a boom box instead of skateboards. And check out those hair, it looks like from the guy from Street Fighter.
Cool Hip Hop gear of the 90's:
- Bigger boom box!
- Reebok shoes
- Bling bling. Its a symbol of rappers
- Daffy Duck and Mickey Mouse T-shirts?
- Plastic shades
The year 2000's
ROCKERS
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There are a lot of fashion influences on the year 2000 onward but I will site one fashion that took the rock fashion by storm, the "emo" or emotional. They are not actually rockers, some say they are homo's but this is the fashion of bands like MCR, the Used, Chicosci, Alesana and other punk emo bands used, 'till they've grown up and stop being emo all of the sudden.
It was trending especially for young girls and boys because you look like shit yet you still looked cute. Die hard emo fans usually slits their wrist for the purpose of "I do not know" maybe because its "cool" to have a bleeding wrist or whatever.
Besides emo's, the rise of metal bands with scary costumes also was a hit. Slipknot, Mushroom head, and Mudvayne are just some of the popular bands with costumes during the early 2000.
Fashion outfit for rockers on the year 2000 are:
- Emo. I think it is dead today, but early and on the mid 2000 it was trending like gangnam style. Every kid wants to be emo for the sake of being the cool kind on school.
- Black T shirts with rock bands printed.
- Long curly hairs are out long and straight are in.
- Chucks are back.
- Elephant jeans
- Adidas classic shoes
- Baggy pants showing boxer shorts
RAPPERS
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wamee loooh! crank that soulja wamee looh! oh yeah! the year 2000 was a experimental year for hip hop fashion. Artists like Eminem has started the sando shirt get up while gangsters like G-unit has redefined the wearing of bling bling by using huge spinning buckles as their accessories.
Skinny hip hops wear huge pants and shirts while the masculine one wears a sando or fitting clothes. Chicks during those times are expressing the saying "skin is in" and "less is more" that is why you see a lot of half-dressed women on hip hop videos, shaking their thing.
In the 80's up to the late 90's fat rappers are in, some are Big P, Notorious B.I.G. and Twistah. But now, most rappers like showing their six packs, its like the fat days are over, hehe.
Cool get up for rappers on the year 2000- 2010:
- Bloodz attire. If you haven't seen what they looks like. They are those gangster wearing red pants with red handkerchief.
- Crips attire. The opposite of bloodz, they wear blue instead. Also they wear leggings or some kind of stockings and sometimes matched with fitted pants.
- Long shorts. A shorts so long you would think its a pants.
- Huge bling blings
- Besides jewelry, their accessories are sometimes women.
FINAL SAY
I don't know which one you think is much cooler, I am not a fashionista. But there is one thing I am sure of, the old school are coming back. The boombox, the polka dots, the chucks all the elements from the 70's or 80's will be the next fashion for the next decade.
What do you think, did I miss something?
Are you a rocker or a hip hopper?
I'm a rocker!
ReplyDeleteIm with you bro :-)
DeleteROck ON!
i am dieheart fan of rock and rolls. i still listen to early 80's and 90's rock and roll not much after 2000's lack of guitar solo makes me kinda hate modern rock
ReplyDeleteI'm a Hipster so that's kind of a mix of everything, I like rock from the 60's-80's and underground modern day stuff. I also like political and minimalist electronic rap music and a bunch of other genres
ReplyDeleteHip Hop!!!
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