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Hip Hop is Gay: The Irony of Saggy Pants

Started by Daniel Miessler · 7 months ago

Everyone knows that the hip hop culture has popularized the saggy pants phenomenon. Few people know how it came about. Perhaps if these guys knew how it started they’d be less inclined to participate.
The sagging pants behavior comes comes from prison.  It indicates that one ... Continue reading »

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  • Jon Henshaw

    1 year ago

    Daniel, that's hilarious! Where did you get that quote from?
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  • yermam

    1 year ago

    since youre too dumb to know the definition of the word irony, I doubt that this is very credible, unless you happen to know about the subject from personal experience in which i acquiesce to your unsavoury knowledge
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  • Daniel Miessler

    1 year ago

    yermam,

    First, the situation is ironic because hip hop saggy jeans are worn by those are attempting to show how tough they are. The fact that the fashion statement comes from those who want to be buttfucked is ironic. Consider more schooling.

    Second, this fact is widely known. The fact that you can't find support for this by cursory web searches supports my first recommendation. But perhaps I should have included a source of support.

    Urban Dictionary
    http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=...
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  • ars

    1 year ago

    Might very well be true, but a lot of this type of stuff also turns out to be folklore. I'd ask for a more authoritative source where I can at least tell what kind of effort went into the research. But, even the Urban Dictionary site has another derivation:

    3. The way I've heard it is that sagging was a way for guys in prison to show that they had a gang behind them, or that they were in charge of a large group of inmates. It was like saying "here's my ass, go ahead, TRY to rape me."
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  • Daniel Miessler

    1 year ago

    Snopes doesn't think this is true. Interesting.
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  • CoAX

    1 year ago

    I thought the baggy pants were a combination of ill-fitting clothes and absence of strings (preventing suicide)
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  • mohammed malik (LEEDS)

    4 months ago

    makes sense that the belts were not allowed in prison. Hip hop is about taking the disadvantages n making them cool. Pants didnt fit without belts.....so they came back with saying we dont need belts. Chains were used in slavery.....so now bling is back at your face. you just cant beat it. Say what you want. I dont like hip hop...but its big
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  • urban clothing

    4 months ago

    me too is wondering,why is hiphop pants has to be low waist.is it to show the underwear they are wearing especially the color,the brand of their brief.it is shocking experience if i wear it.
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