The Suit That Started A Riot!
If you’ve ever seen the 1994 film The Mask with Jim Carrey or seen the lindy hop scene from the film Malcolm X then you will have seen the exuberance and unabashed gall of the zoot suit! The zoot suit came into prominence amongst young African American males around the 1930’s and stayed around to […]
Female MC’s and the Battle for Style Supremacy
By Ericka Basile In the late 1970s and 80s, during hip hop’s humble beginnings, female rappers developed carefully costumed persona’s found in concert flyers, album covers, and vividly articulated rap lyrics-unforgettable looks that helped define the rap genre- now itself a worldwide cultural force, originally created by youth of the African Diaspora in New York City. On […]