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Thanks and good looks @BIP Roberts, not too many from our era...what the new generation will never know was how tough it was living in those times. Having Polo meant a lot back in the day, it probably was the most respected and influential brand in the urban community. It also associated you with many things, being a possible Lo-Life or just an exclusive trendsetter (I've never been a Lo Life, just by association Lol) , but more importantly people got robbed or hurt from just wearing the brand on a daily basis. Sidebar kids these days wear MJ sneaker like white tees...back in the late 80's early 90's you'd be glad just to make it home still wearing MJ's. anyway I digress. It's always great to reminisce, I'm glad I made it out that era. Y'all young bucks just don't know
Exactly. Wearing boss Lo or TNF was like wearing jewelry.
I'm 5'6 and w a classic white boy. I went to high school in the BX in the mid 90s and my best friend was this bad black chick from Woodside. I threw hands every week, and half of those times had to spit out the razor or get it on with foreign objects - and I wasn't even smashing LOL, it was just a rep yourself thing. Not to ramble, but I live in the same neighborhood in which grew up and hear these transplants talking about straight nonsense - I'm like, I used to have to kick crackheads off the steps in this building in the Dinkins era. Kids coming up nowadays don''t undestand what this used to mean. I see these kids rocking nowadays on some young boy steez, and I'm like, I used to send your brother to he store for me. ...And, I'm not even some tough guiy - I'm just a dude who survived them times and new what it was.
...That's why I don't rock jewlery anymore. I have post grad degrees and work an office job. I rocked a 3K chain in '98, but I don't really live that life any more. It doesn't make any sense to be "hard" when you're grown like that.
I'm rambling, but all by 70s and 80s babies who made hoenst know what I'm talking about.
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