Ever been embarrassed by trends you or your generation has started, but then quickly became out of control?
Hi, I am 30 years old and my generation would like to apologize for suburban white kids acting like they were born in Brooklyn.
It really started out innocently. Rap music was just coming into its own in the mid-80's and really became the 'alternative' music for hip white kids. Some white kids would get clever and grow a "high top fade" or etch thier favorite sports team logo in the back of thier head. Real innocent, minor stuff. Legitimate rap acts like the Beastie Boys and 3rd Bass were kind of a nice niche to a further expanding list of rap diversity.
Then Rob Van Winkle ripped off a catchy bass line and it all went horribly wrong.
Really the embodiment of what was wrong with trend. Somebody who spoke with a 'put on' voice, claimed he was from "the street", packed a gun and remained defiantly ignorant the whole time. A new generation of ghetto white kid was born.
As rap music began to change (1993) and become increasingly, absurdly gangster .. the attitude and dress began to go with it. Unfortunately, suburban white kid tried even harder to keep up. By the mid-90's, it had reached an epic level of retarded.
I'm sorry for what we started, we had no idea it would end up the Icy Hot Stuntaz years later.
Hi, I am 30 years old and my generation would like to apologize for suburban white kids acting like they were born in Brooklyn.
It really started out innocently. Rap music was just coming into its own in the mid-80's and really became the 'alternative' music for hip white kids. Some white kids would get clever and grow a "high top fade" or etch thier favorite sports team logo in the back of thier head. Real innocent, minor stuff. Legitimate rap acts like the Beastie Boys and 3rd Bass were kind of a nice niche to a further expanding list of rap diversity.
Then Rob Van Winkle ripped off a catchy bass line and it all went horribly wrong.
Really the embodiment of what was wrong with trend. Somebody who spoke with a 'put on' voice, claimed he was from "the street", packed a gun and remained defiantly ignorant the whole time. A new generation of ghetto white kid was born.
As rap music began to change (1993) and become increasingly, absurdly gangster .. the attitude and dress began to go with it. Unfortunately, suburban white kid tried even harder to keep up. By the mid-90's, it had reached an epic level of retarded.
I'm sorry for what we started, we had no idea it would end up the Icy Hot Stuntaz years later.
