air

2y

New Boyz are way more influential than Tyler

We Didnt Like That

2y

Everyone either had a Bulls, Knicks or OBEY hat those fits were trash and we just all went with it

le epic poster xD

2y

Soulja boy was part of the movemenT too

Bb

2y

Nobody ever mentions them

Shady

2y

the yellow g-shock

Nuja

2y

G-shocks had me in a chokehold lmaooooo

Bestowed

2y

Put some respect on The Cool Kids.

Nuja

2y

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EDIT:
To pay proper homage in throwing Mikey and Chuck at the top of OP because I don’t want it to be confused I would ever exclude their impact.

I’m not saying any of the names below were FIRST to do anything. But they ushered in the era for people (mostly black kids) to be more expressive with style and being true to themselves.

New Boyz had the Jerk movement. That was the first initial shift from baggy clothes to skinny jeans/fit clothing. The jerk movement was obviously short lived but it’s impact can’t be denied. For my older 20s posters idk how it was on the west coast. But In the South at least wearing anything that wasn’t baggy in the mid 2000s would get you flamed. So people transitioning to tight jeans was huge. I don’t think we have that discussion about that era a lot. New Boyz walked so a lot of you younger cats can get away with a lot of the fashion y’all have today. Granted 2009 was an awkward dressing period, but it was still the beginning of trends to come.

Travis Porter and Odd Future deserve credit for their impact as well. Travis Porter was just perfect for the timeline. Very swaggy like New Boyz but also with the trap vibes infused. They really put an emphasis on being different (literally a track called I’m a Differenter) again they didn’t start anything and they were also short lived. But huge in the south at least and their impact gets kind of swept under the rug for pretty much influencing a lot of people to gravitate away from 2000s styles as well.

Now on to Odd Future. Tyler made it a huge point to tell kids to be themselves. Tyler obviously in the older days was far from an actual good role model with a lot of his behavior, but a lot of kids still looked up to him. He influenced a lot of style changes. Again here in the South you really didn’t see black skaters like that and they popped up everywhere after the OF movement. Tyler was out here dressed like an Easter basket taxi driver and a lot of people followed behind that. His influence is obviously undeniable. Tyler made being yourself look cooler than anyone else did. Mix that with Lil B’s formula of music being a huge inspiration for a lot of artists that are big now and you pretty much have the recipe for 2021.

A lot of these early 2010 trends were cringe and you can look back now and say yikes. But the freedom to wear pretty much whatever now, any kind of whacky hair styles or dye, and make very unorthodox music in hip hop, none of that would fly without us going through the “swag” era

Don Santana

2y

ahhh, simpler times. 6th-8th grade was lit

UIP

2y

how you say swag and not mention Lil B???

all of OF was singing his praises in their primes, he influenced the f*** out of them

lacriminal

2y

Tyler killed the jerk movement

UIP

2y

how you say swag and not mention Lil B???

all of OF was singing his praises in their primes, he influenced the f*** out of them