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Boutique labels like FUBU, Naughty Gear, Phat Farm, Pure Playaz, UB Tuff and Wu-Wear can legitimately claim--as they do, over and over--closer connection with street fashion than Hilfiger has, even though their clothes look a lot like his. But that street cred, along with their funky logos, is helping them gain ground. FUBU, which means "for us, by us," began in 1992 when Daymond John, at 24, started selling tie-top hats on the streets of New York City. The hats caught on, so he drew up some ideas for coats and shirts and asked...
...that blows teams out, and they've got plenty of issues, from that Chiefs debacle to the injury to Garrison Hearst to Fast Eddie DeBartolo's latest legal tussles, to work out on a Vikings team that's starting, believe it or not, Randall Cunningham. Finally, the STEELERS and phat back Jerome Bettis only giving one and a half to a Broncos team that has made every back look like Jim Brown -- bet the farm...
According to students participating in the program, mask making is "phat...
Mindful of our public image, most of our elders in the black community would rather see us repudiate rap than redefine it. But groups from the Fugees to the Roots to A Tribe Called Quest continue to blend phat beats, dope rhymes and intelligent ideas into high-powered rap, regardless of marketing data that say gangsta rap sells best. Who's pushing the rawest rhymes to No. 1 on the charts? For years now, the largest volume of hip-hop albums has been sold to white suburban kids who've deposed heavy metal and elevated hip-hop to the crown...
Your reporter concluded by quoting a volunteer in the Youth Build Boston Program: "It was just so phat." It might have been more interesting if it was reported that Dusan Makavejev, the Belgrade filmmaker now teaching at Harvard (pictured on your front page) had received the The Black Panther newspaper in Yugoslavia in the late 1960s, and if the efforts to create civil societies in both countries was touched upon. --Gerald O'Grady, Cambridge