Street Culture Blows or I’m old
May 17th, 2006 by Crza under archive, street wear, trendsDear Street Wear People,
Here’s a list of things I want you to stop doing cause it lacks credibility, originality and most of all substance. Also I threw in some suggestions to tighten up that game of yours:
- No more graphics referencing the following: Sopranos, Scarface, Biggie, Godfather, Guns, Wu-Tang or catchy hip hop phrases
- Designing just t-shirts doesn’t make you a brand, it makes you a t-shirt label. Expand the offering and bring some thing new that hasn’t been done in your field.
- No more military jackets
- No more references to Nike Dunks or AF1s
- No more limited anything. It’s obviously limited cause it’s not sold in Target
- No more Morrisey references
- Limit the skull graphics. Skulls are cool but let’s see if we can think “outside of the box”. Leave the skulls to skateboarding and heavy metal (throw them a bone..get it?)
- Try to do some thing that Supreme NYC and Stussy hasn’t done in the last 10 years.
- If you are going to sell your t’s for over $40 make sure it’s a custom body and remove the American Apparel label for christs sake. We know those t’s cost $6
- If you get interviewed and they take your picture please don’t hide your face. If you want to hide your face…don’t take the picture cause you look like an idiot. I’m just saying guy, relax
- No more photos where you pose with expensive wines or with “hardcore” poses, it looks ridiculous. Leave those poses to the gang bangers and hip hop acts
- Most of all no more cloning. I can’t tell any of you apart. It all belnds together.
Your’s truly,
A Friend of Ours
May 17th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
a-mua-fukkin-men!!! still respect Supreme, other than that, pretty much blanks for my (though i do have an aNYthing shirt, but it was free biatch!).
May 17th, 2006 at 12:10 pm
he said american apparel
May 17th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
blank american apparel is ok..they just need to fix their fits..like…make them consistent. I can’t stand the screens on blanks AND then they charge like it’s custom. That’s lame
May 17th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
And take those fokkin stickers off yur hat!
May 17th, 2006 at 4:46 pm
AMEN.
May 17th, 2006 at 6:11 pm
and what’s up with all over print hoodies for $350??!!?!?
May 18th, 2006 at 10:49 am
Sounds like you’re in Brink mode…
May 18th, 2006 at 11:41 am
and what’s up with all the cartoon characters on clothes??!!
May 18th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
cut down on molesting each other through your blogs
stop putting parenthesis after a person’s name and the clone company he works for on your blogs
stay afloat for more than year…
May 18th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Thank god! Can we repost this?!
May 18th, 2006 at 3:04 pm
F#ck Yeah you can repost it just give us the props. Dam I didn’t realize this would be such a hot topic. There is hope afterall…
May 18th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
how about you just wear what you want to wear and not give a shit about what people will think.
May 18th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
You are no fun Lexi. Way to be diplomatic…now we feel bad.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:05 am
* stop the purple
* stop the teal
* stop the all over prints
* stop the washed-torn-savage-damaged-crap with denim
* stop using fake selvedge
* stop the dick riding – I’m real serious about this one.
* stop the wannabe-gangsta attitude, we all know that you’re funded by your parents.
* stop the fuckin’ internet HYPE already. cuz that’s just what it is. HYPE.
* in other worse – bring back the authenticity.
May 19th, 2006 at 12:10 am
well said 78.
May 19th, 2006 at 6:06 am
stop the blogging
May 19th, 2006 at 7:11 am
Dont talk hard, when yr built like A -Trak , or I will B-Slap you……….
“It aint easy to make money thats why a n**** gotta take money”
May 19th, 2006 at 8:41 am
This post is so on point. The whole “street wear” mentality is hilarious. I think everything that needs to be said has been, but yeah, adding a skull or dagger to your design does not make you (a)street, (b)hard, or even (c)edgy. And damn, those of us who have been listening to hiphop for years have already heard all of the phrases that you’re trying to re-introduce or associate yourself with. Stop it already and get your own shit. You’ve played out a good thing.
May 19th, 2006 at 10:02 am
And stop with those goddamn handkerchieves. Fucking ridiculous…
May 19th, 2006 at 11:53 am
stop it with the Shemagh. that shit was hot for minute… in 2002. wearing it while throwing a molotov cocktail may have some relevance, wearing it around hollywood or williamsburg makes you look like a douche.
May 19th, 2006 at 4:29 pm
5D in this!
May 19th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
I LIKE HIDING MY FACE IN PICS. IT’S SPOOOOKKKKYYYYY!
May 20th, 2006 at 2:35 am
Yo i dont know maybe im old or i jus like money and sucess but i think there is too much love wit each clothing brands “yo son thats my boy ya mean du mad props”, FUCK That! i would find it in a honor of good business to know i made another clothing brand go out of business jus because i work harder and smarter and my designs have some good substance to them. look @ nike knockin reeboks out the box, they had to merge to adidas for help! thats called business mahfukass and also the over print fuckin ‘02 be more creative
May 21st, 2006 at 1:11 am
yes! fuck yes! i feel guilty though. its so true people are clones nowadays. gosh i should be original like roger bell and foul kobe plus shoot three pointers at the buzzer just to look cool. or better yet pull the mike barrret from cubs and false a pyrzinsky for slapping home plate.
May 21st, 2006 at 10:33 am
Incorporating your gay ass logo into the Louis Vuitton pattern does not make you a baller.
May 21st, 2006 at 2:28 pm
http://www.thehotcrew.com/2006/05/21/street-culture-to-do-list/
May 22nd, 2006 at 5:15 pm
Its really sad to see all these shitty streetwanna be brands. lets do one more misfits tee too.
May 23rd, 2006 at 1:47 pm
Did you ever notice that when you hate or just call shit out you get far more response than when you just talk about news or talk about positive shit?
I love that…
May 23rd, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Brands owners, sorry “t-shirt label” owners reading this are bummed because the truth hurts and there ultra-protective dick- riding “We’re huge in Japan” comfort bubble just got popped. And one more thing being from New York doesn’t make your tee label any more legit, it jut gives you a “cool” mailing address. You ain’t street cause you live on one.
May 25th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
Them hats/pants with the 50 NBA logos on them… that’s the wackest style since the Avirex jacket. And y’all need to stop with the XXXXL Haynes white t-shirt. You can spend more than 75cents on a shirt homeboy!
May 26th, 2006 at 9:47 am
No more Wu-Tang…What if your from Shaolin, and just got off the cell conversing with Trife Diesel (Ghostface’s Protege) to let him know I (Mauro Di Camillo) paid proper HOMAGE to one of Shaolin’s Illest Esoteric Emcees of all time…I rep Staten Island. Not Downtown. I do business downtown. I party downtown. S.I. is where I rest. All these other companies that did a Wu-tang Jump-Off…Ask them not to do one. Me daddy, I do whatever the fuck I want, and rep Shaolin to the fullest. Figure 4 Leg Lock. All-Day. Give me time, so I can seperate the men from the boy’s…
May 26th, 2006 at 9:51 am
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June 1st, 2006 at 4:43 am
werd! true..
June 1st, 2006 at 8:08 am
best dowh. aku harap kau paham apa aku cakap nie. hahaha
June 6th, 2006 at 1:20 am
hey hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha im tomie boys friend and hes rite lol i wanna punch any chav fagot like some guys in my scool i hope they all die u chav fuckers
June 6th, 2006 at 6:45 pm
Dont take it out on the InTHErNet….people on the STREET wont take notice. and im from there but im on here to educat. a lot of people are too much into the talk talk, but not a lot of people do the actions. but the writer is ok keep to ur business boi
October 17th, 2006 at 2:47 am
no more pink color for say stoopids answers
no more pink color for “cool/shit” people
no more bad tipographys in “trendys” blogs
no more “GURUS” they think be gods
less to speak and to design more!!!
peace love and respect for all ideas
October 19th, 2006 at 9:07 pm
fuck the hype,general release has been killing the collabs for the most part(except the michael lau dunk&one time 90 brown).plain jeans,plain hoodies.minimal shit is the hottest.half tempted to rock some tank theory though.but the creativity is lacking fer sere in the “street wear”scene.there is some well executed ideas being produced that i respect.cats need to tighten shidup!im at the point where im gonna start making my own shit.
November 22nd, 2006 at 9:20 am
@ Nova, i agree. There are some folks out there doing amazing things, but overall, the creativity is lacking nowadays. I’ve even started making my own shit for that very same reason. A lot of folks need to stop rehashing the same ol’ shit and try something different for a change.
December 18th, 2006 at 11:58 pm
Air Jordan/Gucci/KMD 4 Life*
June 12th, 2007 at 2:02 am
i want to join in this gang
December 14th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
yea all of that stuff is getttin old and lame… people need to stop getting peer pressured and explore new things