The Retro kids

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:16 pm

Hmm...
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I'm gonna just keep my mouth shut on this one but Im curious. Thoughts?

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 7:48 pm

Points for being thorough. Kinda just wish Juelz Santana rapped on this instead of these aspiring actors/performance artists/models/blow jobbers.

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:19 pm

So, bringing back the 80s went out of style in about what.....a few years. I'm wondering how long these trends of bringing back the 90s thing will last. They can rap though......

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:21 pm

Who is this supposed to appeal to, exactly? I would think that the Twin Hype blasting, cavaricci-clad, Iroc-Z driving Staten Island club hoppers of 1990 are probably paunchy Frank Sinatra fans by now.

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:36 pm

Thun wrote:Who is this supposed to appeal to, exactly? I would think that the Twin Hype blasting, cavaricci-clad, Iroc-Z driving Staten Island club hoppers of 1990 are probably paunchy Frank Sinatra fans by now.

Yeah. My thoughts exactly. I used to see these guys walking around the village blasting Cool C out of a boom box. I was impressed with their dedication to the look but it seems a touch contrived. A BIG TOUCH.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:38 pm

backpackers: are you happy now?

truthaddict · Post by **truthaddict** » Fri Dec 10, 2010 9:19 pm

What did I just watch?

zombie · Post by **zombie** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:06 am

lol. Blockhead likes this.

Blockhead · Post by **Blockhead** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:13 am

zombie wrote:lol. Blockhead likes this.

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:18 am

This video looks like a bunch of niggas tried to go to the Land Of The Lost but took a wrong turn and wound up inside Parker Lewis's trapper keeper.

stype_ones · Post by **stype_ones** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:19 am

These dudes were all over SOHO a couple of years back. I work by Broadway and Houston and they would literally be outside every single day all dipped in 80's gear and flattops. A couple of them were cool, but I always felt like they just tried wayyy to hard for their own good. Like some of them were like 19 in 2007, which means there were like born in 1987, thus never had a clue as to what was really going on in the 80's. I tried to sell one of them my old Notre Dame Starter with the the mascot on the back, but he kept fronting on the price. I got $250 on ebay. lol

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:21 am

Maybe they're all the result of BDK-groupie one-night skeezes?

Solo45 · Post by **Solo45** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:21 am

Retro Kidz... New Era...

Thun · Post by **Thun** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:22 am

These guys are higher on the social evolutionary scale than FOB AZN b-boys stuck in 1982 though, right?

Rob Sonic · Post by **Rob Sonic** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 4:09 am

OH GOD DAMNIT!

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 8:33 am

We need to take bets on how long this will last. They'll switch to the darker side of the 90s in no time. With the Timbs, crazy looking locks, chewsticks, and army jackets within next few years. Keeping it retro.

And if it goes back to the 90s, we'll see the re-occuring trend of nuccas getting robbed for their Starter coats. I'm waiting for them to do a video with the overalls and one strap look.

Digs Darklighter · Post by **Digs Darklighter** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:06 pm

good grief

maclethal · Post by **maclethal** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 12:49 pm

This is a couple years old. Initially, this started popping up on MTV2 almost EXACTLY around the time The Cool Kids started to bubble. I'd say 2007-2008 or so? When allllllll the magazines were on The Cool Kids nuts, when they were on tour with M.I.A. etc.

My guess was some 32 year old gay and/or Jewish A&R convinced the label that 1991 throwback vintage party rap was going to be the next big thing, and that throwing major label money behind it was necessary by all means.

Maybe trying to steal The Cool Kids success before it even happened?

Either way. The rest kinda unfolded how it... unfolded. Obviously the A&R got fired, and no one won.

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:07 pm

pradadon wrote:These dudes were all over SOHO a couple of years back. I work by Broadway and Houston and they would literally be outside every single day all dipped in 80's gear and flattops. A couple of them were cool, but I always felt like they just tried wayyy to hard for their own good. Like some of them were like 19 in 2007, which means there were like born in 1987, thus never had a clue as to what was really going on in the 80's. I tried to sell one of them my old Notre Dame Starter with the the mascot on the back, but he kept fronting on the price. I got $250 on ebay. lol

Rob Sonic · Post by **Rob Sonic** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:12 pm

What idiot dropped the ball here and had the Kids dress up like like D-Nice and not Turbo B?

zombie · Post by **zombie** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 1:23 pm

dubs wrote:
pradadon wrote:These dudes were all over SOHO a couple of years back. I work by Broadway and Houston and they would literally be outside every single day all dipped in 80's gear and flattops. A couple of them were cool, but I always felt like they just tried wayyy to hard for their own good. Like some of them were like 19 in 2007, which means there were like born in 1987, thus never had a clue as to what was really going on in the 80's. I tried to sell one of them my old Notre Dame Starter with the the mascot on the back, but he kept fronting on the price. I got $250 on ebay. lol

truthaddict · Post by **truthaddict** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:26 pm

Yall are just too old to get it. This is whats real in the streets right now yo. Get with the program.

zombie · Post by **zombie** » Sat Dec 11, 2010 5:32 pm

Isn't that the main dude from Tiger Army