Has the polarization of high fashion become oversaturated within music and no longer holds true value within the state of rap today?

Personally it's hard for me to actually associate any brands being named dropped within rap today with value as an art.

The rappers don't even hold value to their OWN craft nowadays and to hear a brand being mentioned is further destroying the integrity that the fashion houses once held. And the culture of it all.

When Ye, Drake, & Rocky were name dropping certain fashion houses it aligned with their brands because the music they made wasn't mediocre.

I say fashion within rap today is reduced to the lowest level of classism; a fabric with a tag, no integrity, no reason.

I literally get no type of feeling of seeing these rappers drapped in gucci, fendi, ysl, rick, s-mc

i know youre not sneaking in Drake with rocky and ye when it comes to fashion rap

otherwise i agree w you

Most likely just you. Either it's just not your taste or you're just out of touch but no

believe it or not, big sean & drake started the name dropping of higher fashions brands way before rocky even dropped

imagine not repping walmart $5 shorts and t-shirt

why not?

Yeah why is he trying to sneak in the most popular rapper in a discussion about the culture of music/fashion

It's like there's some connection

drake is not known for his fashion

You think this is touching Rocky

i mean it shouldn't be surprising that the art reflecting the reality of a consumerist culture is fixated on consumerism as an identity.

i think a better question is is the extremely pitchfork notion of black artists being subversive just by nature of being associated with high fashion starting to wear off ? or is the nature of that association the reason for the acclaim and followed success of rap now ?

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not only just fashion was drake name dropping, he would name drop certain champagnes, hotels, locations, foods, & events that granted the reason I included him within this post

jay z dresses like s*** why would anyone care

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that's fair

I get what you're saying but clarify

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Absolutely. Just peep music videos from back in the day to now people had regular ass s*** or a jersey on. Niggas swear their fresh because they bought a $3k shirt and they still end up looking like a bozo. Can’t stand it fr

You got 3 topics in op but I'll start with the first

"Has the polarization of high fashion become oversaturated within music and no longer holds true value within the state of rap today?"

No, what value do you think it's lost compared to 5 or 10 years ago? What are you basing this off? Your feelings? Not to be rude but it's actually got bigger over time. I suspect you're no longer in that demographic but as you can see from youtube, Instagram and tiktok the value is stronger than ever. Whether that means anything is up to you but if we go by number of people younger and older people are still watching what rappers wear and taking influence. Virgil and other designers come ditectly from the music culture and cite influence. Start up brands are still relying on rappers wearing their clothes. All these big collaborations sell out constantly

We hitting peak value as far as music and fashion feeding off each other. Social media has only enhanced the value of high fashion in hip-hop, there may or may not be oversaturation but it's not having a negative effect on the value in an measurable way

boy, on top of that, nobody literally has taste

Well of course he's mostly known for his main career and focus but he's definitely influenced the fashion culture. I don't care for his taste but it can't be ignored if we're looking at the entire culture

They all hop from one expensive brand name to another and 90% of it is garbage it’s wild to me man. If I were rich I’d be content being able to cop some Nike techs with ease or some other basic s*** lol don’t need to drop racks to be fresh