skinny jeans VS saggy jeans

Today I wanna talk about skinny jeans in the hip hop fashion today!!! It looks like hip hop is going back to the old school when it comes to fashion… what happened to baggy pants? It’s all about wearing skinny ones now !!!…

its kinda ironic when I think about it cuz I remember myself laughing at Grandmaster Flash’s style in his video “the message” I must first say that  I really do respect this guy, cuz he’s like one of the earliest rappers and his songs are still a reference in the HH game but seriously the clothes in that vid are hilarious!!!! I mean I understand that it was the fashion back then but if someone wore the same now, people would definitely think he’s some kind of masochist fagot or sthg….

Since the new boyz’s success giving rise to the jerk movement, it seems that hip hop is going back to its old image, no more XXX t-shirt with a baggy pants and a pair of timbo, all you need right now to look hot and hip hop fashioned is a pair of tight pants, tight t-shirt and a pair of supra…

Although it may look kinda gay for some, at least the good thing about it in my POV is that it spares us the underwear view… cuz I really don’t like saggy pants, I find it disgusting and veeeery uncomfortable and it can fall very easily, I don’t mind the underwear exceeding the pants by a inch or two showing the brand name especially if it is a fancy one, I personally do it sometimes in the summer at the beach…

But what I don’t get, is how can people walk around with their waist of their pants at their knees and still find it appealing!!!

For those who don’t know, sagging originates from jail; prisoners were not allowed to have belts due to the possibility of suicide or violence. Thus, their pants were always sagged so people started to wear saggy pants out of prison to impersonate out laws and give them this thug look (same thing for shoe laces), why on earth would I wanna make people think I am a felon? And even if I was actually a felon, I think I can afford buying a belt out of prison -_-

Anyways, hallelujah!!! Saggy pants are over, adopt the skinny ones ;)

Johnny Dang

Lately I have been watching some new HH videos and I kinda noticed a familiar funny face appearing in a Diddy video, there is this short skinny Asian guy who pops up from nowhere lol… I remember seeing him in the Gucci bandana video of soulja boy… I said to myself this guy must be a big shot since he keeps showing up in rappers videos, I did my lil research and I was quite surprised by the results… Check this out:

From Lil Jon’s famous crunk cup to Nelly’s mad grillz to Rick Ross’s black diamond ring, this man is behind all that bling bling, he’s the Pablo Escobar of jewelry and he goes by the name of Johnny Dang… This guy customizes almost all the jewelry for rappers. I didn’t know much about jewelry for man till now and it’s a biiiig world especially when it comes to hip hop in the US…

Although he has nothing to do with hip hop music, JD has a big contribution to making these rappers looking supa fly… He speaks English with a heavy accent but he earned respect from the hip hop community and I’m sure he is making a lot of paypa…

If you wanna see more, check out his website www.tvjohnny.net he even has a documentary called Grillz showing all his shinny toys and explaining how he started his business with the rapper Paul wall.

Rappers signature sounds

Today I wanna to talk about rappers signature sound, y’all know that almost every rapper has a special word, sentence or sound that makes him authentic and distinguish him from the others, so I made a list of my favorite sounds of rappers, I checked on the net before doing so and I realized that there isn't really a clear list summarizing these sounds + u can't hear them which is not interesting, so I think I’m gonna be the first to do this (click on each link to hear the sound)

Snoop Dogg: ouhhh weee !!!

snoop sometimes speaks in a high level tone to impersonate pimps and macs, I think the voice is inspired from bootsy callins, an old school funk artist who always speaks like that and which snoop usually collaborates with especially when it comes to instruments, snoop likes to rap on old school funk melodies mixed with hip hop beats, he also likes to spell out words like D.O.G.G, L.B.C (long beach city), D.P.G (dog pound gang. He is also famous for creating his own slang by adding "izzle" or "ezy" in the end of each sentence like ''for shizzle my nizzle'' (for sure my nigga). He also uses the word sticky yicki icki for weed

http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/16054753/file.html

Xzibit: shsh…shsh..shsh / ahaaa ahaaa (this particular sound is used in the beginning of the song ''ghetto bird'' by ice cube, apparently it is frequently used by gangs in the west coast area to signal the arrival of police)

http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/47998285/file.html

Lil Wayne – Ah ummm / young mullah baaaby / wizzy F baby:
http://www11.zippyshare.com/v/42034853/file.html

Lil Jon – Yeahhhh / What / Let’s go / BME click / Okay:
http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/10695091/file.html

E40 – uuuuuuh:

http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/9550118/file.html

Master P – uhhhhh:

http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/57001799/file.html

DMX: grrrrr / ough ough :

http://www10.zippyshare.com/v/12115122/file.html

Ice Cube: yiyeahi yiyeahi / brrrrrrr / west siiide

http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/1256173/file.html

50 cent : GGGG unit

http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/18135698/file.html

Method man: Meth likes to say the work ''TICAL'' a lot which means marijuana from the Native American tribe

http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/2745879/file.html

Busta Rhymes: woo hahhhh

http://www24.zippyshare.com/v/24063648/file.html

Timbaland: fikkki fikkki (imitating a scratching sound)

http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/48406934/file.html

Street Dance

Today's HH news is about DANCING!!! When I say hip hop dance, y'all automatically think of break dancing: the popping and locking, the spins, the freezes...I remember watching these incredible international battles, these "b boys" were like stars, my favorite dancer was mr wiggles from the legendary Electric Boogaloos and way after salah (a french champ) but ever since hip hop has changed a lot... so as dancing XD

I remember right After break dancing, I discovered the C walk (Crip walk) and I said to myself this is definitely me XD, it's cool, easy and very rhythmic, unlike break dancing where the song is by itself and the dancers is trying to do extremes moves that has nothing to do with the beat XD but still c-walking was not really easy to do, u need a lot of practice and a very good pair of sneakers XD

So recently, this past few years, there is this wave of new street moves...finally some easy stuff for us XD I mean frankly who can break dance nowadays??? It's certainly entertaining but that shit is hard to learn -_- u need to be strong, flexible and in good shape in order to do just the basics, actually is more sports than a simple dance to me -_-

But anyway, I'm happy we got some new stuff XD for me, personally, I kinda grew out of break dancing, I mean I'm not into it anymore like before, common! even if I knew some moves right now, I don't see my self swapping the dance floor with my shirt and standing on my head in a club hahaha...Of course I respect bboys, Break dance is one of the oldest dance and still remains, all the new dances r derived from it, when u dance to a HH beat, u def would use one or two tricks from the old school times XD whether it's waving, tutting or gliding...

So from where these new moves came from?? n who created them?? I don't really got the answers to all but I have some ideas ;)...most of these moves r related to a precise song, the more u love the song, the more u get hooked to the dance XD So let me give you a list of the latest dance I know:

I'm gonna start with my favorite one, easy and super catchy XD

- "The snap dance" or the "lean wit it rock wit it" : I dono if there is a difference between both, I hope i'm not saying non sense XD but they look pretty much the same to me, so these two dances appeared respectively from the song "snap your fingers" by lil jon and Lean Wit It Rock Wit It by Dem Franchise Boyz

- ''Harlem shake'' this one is quite old actually

- ''2step'' by Unk

- "Chiken noodle soop" by Dj webstar

- The "wu tang" still dono who did it but not the wu tang clan XD (this one sux btw)

- "Pop lock n drop it" by huey, actually this one is for them girls with big booties XD

- "Crank that soulja boy", that dance was really a hit for a big time XD

- "Stanky legg" buy GS Boyz

- "Thizzle dance" by mac dre (RIP)

- "Doogie" by cali swag district

- Krump (this one when also very big, there is a nice documentary on it calledRize )

- Clow dance (inspired form c walk but without all the gang thing envolved)

- Shuffling (more for electro music)

- Turf dance

- Flexing

And last but not least, this one I definitely got to learn it, I think it's the newest: "the jerk dance" or "jerkin" by new boyz, the bangz, the rej3ctz, audio push...dono who started it but I got a feeling that its becoming a movement if not already like the hyphy movement with their thizzle dance...