Word: hops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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African clothing, filtered through rap culture, influences fashion as well. The L.A.-based firm Threads for Life (also known as Cross Colours) sells hip- hop fashion inspired by urban youth and African designers, such as overalls with colorful kente-cloth patches. "It becomes not just a pair of jeans, but something that means something," says firm co-owner Carl Jones. Company sales rose from $15 million in 1991 to $89 million...
...Proctor. "We were poor. Mother raised us, six of us, when she was working as a cashier." Lawrence made his family laugh, then he made people on his street laugh. Then, realizing that he could earn a living at this, he headed off to the comedy-club circuit. Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons was impressed with Lawrence's "natural charm and presence" and hired him as host of Def Comedy Jam. Lawrence also landed scene-stealing minor roles in movies like Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing. "To attain universal appeal, the conventional wisdom is that you should dilute...
Nearly all of the city's interesting cultural activity, shopping and night life can be sampled in the four or five blocks closest to the University. Try to hop aboard a free guided tour of the Yale campus. Or if architecture's your fancy, New Haven Green features three lovely churches, each worth a look inside...
...hop's true creative center has moved out to the West Coast where groups like the Pharcyde and Freestyle Fellowship in Los Angeles and Del the Funkee Homosapien and Souls of Mischief in Oakland are exploring new ground. The more established New York groups have grown complacent, and that could be hip-hop's death knell...
Rhythm 95 on WHRB 95.3 FM plays hip-hop, dancehall, and related music each Saturday...