I accept it! I’ve done some things that hip-hop active would accede “suspect” (i.e. gay). Yes I have!—from actuality a ballet ballerina (something that Tupac and I accept in common) and a “Magic Mike” stripper (something that Blood assemblage affiliate & rapper The Bold and I accept in common) who wore a G-string adherent up amid my butt-cheeks—to repping for gay rappers—to cutting Prince-like artist shirts with applique & frills. Some guys can do this and abide absolutely heterosexual. (Shout-out to Prince! R.I.P.) That would be me! As Star (of Shot97.com) would say, “I’m a man of a assertive age!”—so I absolutely accord beneath than two-shits about a nigga bouncing the “suspect” banderole in my direction. F**k your abstraction of adulthood & masculinity!
Grown men commenting on added men’s appearances seems to be all the acerbity these days, and so, Adolescent Thug has accustomed all you macho hip-hop fashionistas article to allocution about. On the awning of his new mixtape there he is—dressed in a floor-length dress attractive fabulously trans! LOL. I’m aloof so amused at area hip-hop has taken its appearance sensibilities! There are no boundaries! The canicule of Timberlands, billowing jeans and over-sized T-shirts accept become as abolished as the dinosaur. Hip-hop don’ gone from the dress/kilt-wearing stylings of Diddy, Kanye West, Kid Kudi, Andre 3000, Snoop Dogg and ASAP Rocky to Adolescent Thug’s absolute women’s dress wearing!
At my age, I aloof acquisition this bits hilarious! A “thug” cutting a dress? If this isn’t the ultimate oxymoronic symbol. I bet Uncle Rico Lord Jamar is aloof agog to get on Vlad’s couch and accept a acrimony fit over what Adolescent Thug is accomplishing to hip-hop.
I’ve said it before! Lighten up! The canicule of the uber-hardcore rapper are gone for now, so all of you Lord Jamar’s ability as able-bodied booty several seats and ride this sh*t out. It’s absolutely affecting audition you old-heads try and beacon this adolescent person’s culture. Y’all are like an old done boxer sitting on the advanced balustrade cogent the young’uns war stories—lying to the kiddies about what hip-hop is—upset that the white kid (Eminem) has baffled his toy (rap) and the gay kid (Young M.A.) is alpha to angle up for himself/herself and allege his/her truth. Indeed! You old-head Negroes are hip-hop’s adaptation of Napoleon Dynamite’s “Uncle Rico”—who so badly wishes that Kip’s “Time Machine” could booty him aback to 1990 aloof to get one added adventitious at actuality quarterback in the State Championship game. (See what accepting accouchement will do? Keep ya accepted on band archetypal movies!)
I apperceive why you are afraid at Adolescent Thug’s dress. Adolescent Thug’s dress pulls at your heterosexual heartstrings, kinda like how Prince did to an beforehand bearing of music heads. Some of you swore that Prince was gay, yet, aback his afterlife not nann no gay man has appear out of the closet to verify the accuracy of your mind’s claims. Prince was a woman f**king apparatus affiliated to some of the finest women on the planet! Indeed, I apperceive why your panties are all bunched up!
Young Thug cutting a dress runs adverse to all that you accept been programmed & brainwashed to accept about adulthood & masculinity. Thug and Jaden Smith’s dress cutting is the emasculation of adulthood as we apperceive it, but don’t aberration this with the feminization of the macho species, which, according to bogus animal theorists of the Lord Jamar ilk, leads to homosexuality. Nope! Nunna dat!
I absolutely apprehend that you atramentous folk Negropeans are afraid (filled with abhorrence & shock) at Adolescent Thug’s dress. As a Negropean, you are no added aware than your white counterparts aback it comes to atramentous ability and history. Atramentous bodies are attractive at Adolescent Thug’s dress through the lens of this white, European, ethnocentric archetype and attribute of manhood. A man charge abrasion pants to be absolutely man. This is what we think. Adolescent Thug is no man for cutting a dress. This is our simplicity.
But we accept a aggregate acquainted brain-teaser (a ambagious & difficult problem); that is the actuality that pants are a almost new apparatus in the account of men’s fashion, dating aback alone a few hundred years, created by white people.. According to these Internets “Pants” comes from:
A 3rd aeon Christian doctor who was accursed to afterlife by the Romans for adequate the poor. The Church canonized him, giving him the name “Saint Pantaleone”—Pan is Greek for “all” and leo is the Latin chat for “lion.” In ca. 800 CE, in banana ball according to Robert Hendrickson in his book Facts on File: An Encyclopedia of Chat and Phrase Origins, the fool in a banana assembly was alleged Panteleon (“all lion”). In time this afflicted to Pantaloon. The amateur was dressed in breeches that were bound beneath the knee but which bloused out in a abounding billowy appearance from the waist to the knee. In the 18th aeon the apparel became one beat by abounding men. The acclaimed account by Hyacinthe Rigaud begin in the Louvre shows Louis XIV in a august pose, assuming off his legs in a “Pantaloon” costume. The appellation was beneath to “pants” in the 1840s. (www.dl.ket.org/latin3/vocab/etym/history/pants.htm)
Pants, britches or trousers are European! Adolescent Thug is African. Pants are a European invention—and a backward one at that, yet we diss Adolescent Thug for alleviation the fashionista shackles which white bodies gave us. Pants were alien to the African, the Egyptian, the Hebrew, the Moor, etc. These bodies wore dresses, tunics, caftans (for abridgement of bigger words). Even the white Greeks & Romans wore article akin a dress as did the Scottish with their kilts. Again, aback you do a analysis of the accomplished of men throughout history—the dress was acceptable, bigger and worn. Like monogamy, the blame marrying of one wife for a man’s absolute life, which has been a 500 year old agreement gone angrily awry, pants are a new thingy on the evolutionary calibration of masculinity. We’re aloof on some babble and Adolescent Thug is “man enough” to betrayal it.
The admirable dress-wearing West African men of the Wodaabe Tribe.
Even Adam & Eve wore dresses fabricated of leaves to adumbrate their abashment (according to the myth).
For you religionists that would use the Bible area it says, “The woman shall not abrasion that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abhorrence unto the LORD thy God” (Deut. 22:5)—this was a prohibition adjoin a religious practice, not an admonishment on how to dress! There were no pants about 3,000 B.C.E. so they could not accept been talking about clothing. In fact, they were talking about a religious convenance area women would carve themselves board dcks penises (or dildos) and use these strap-on ccks phalluses in the temple, fucking practitioners of the Goddess & Sodomites faiths. Sex, as ritual, had been acclimated aback Time Immemorial as a appearance of account and adoration to the Deities. As for men bathrobe like women aback then—again, that was the Israelite’s acknowledgment to Hebrew men who advantaged in sword-fighting & cock-jousting (homosexuality) in the name of Sodomite gods, and not any admonishment by God on how to dress. (Like really, what does the God of Creation affliction about how we dress? Accord the Big Guy added credit, wouldja?)
How can you alarm yourself a “conscious” atramentous person—a Kemetic thinker, a Hebrew Israelite, a Moor, yet accept a botheration with Adolescent Thug cutting a dress? This is your aggregate acquainted conundrum! Even if Adolescent Thug is on some dress-wearing gay shit, the acquainted apperception faces a conundrum. Condemn the dress, which the African, Egyptian, Hebrew and Moor all wore or big-up the pants that the European invented.
The dress was ok for the Egyptian, but Adolescent Thug is antibacterial your white archetype of manhood? Ok, right!
Dare I say that you “conscious” folk aren’t as acquainted as you think? You still accept some Negropean in you. Adolescent Thug & I are aloof actuality to point it out.
Khalil Amani, C.O.O.N. (Consciously Optimistic, Overtly Nihilistic). Blogger, Writer, columnist of seven books. IG, Facebook, Twitter @khalilamani. AllHipHop.com, DJ Kay Slay’s Straight Stuntin Magazine, Originators Magazine.
