Hip-Hop en fashion zijn de afgelopen decennia hand in hand gegaan. Toch bleken ze niet altijd coherent. In GQ heeft Zach Baron een artikel geschreven over het verleden én hoe het allemaal begon. Hierin komt mede-oprichter van Def Jam Records, Rick Rubin ook aan het woord. Een buitengewoon interessant artikel over de vroegere jaren van Hip-Hop style. Een kleine passage uit het artikel:
“Rick Rubin on Russell Simmons:
Russell’s uniform in those days was like what a substitute teacher wears—like, a tweed jacket with arm patches. He wore penny-loafer shoes. I think, at the time, he wanted to give off the air of, uh, professionalism.Once I met Russell, he would take me to Disco Fever, Broadway International, different parties. When we started the Beasties, we would play in all these places in Queens and the Bronx. The Beasties had a youthful swagger about them, and they were always really stylish—each one of them had his own style, and they always had the coolest T-shirts and the coolest tennis shoes.
Russell would book the Beasties into proper hood hip-hop venues, and we went to all those places. It was terrifying; it was clear we didn’t belong there. But once people knew who we were, there was sort of an acceptance. It felt better. It wasn’t just the weird white guy in the T-shirt who doesn’t belong here. It was “Oh, that’s Rick.”
Rick Rubin on B-boy style:
Run-DMC, I think, was the first group to establish what we called the B-boy style, more like what the kids in the audience were wearing than what the people onstage were wearing. The people onstage wanted to look more like Eddie Murphy, who wanted to look more like Michael Jackson.”
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