![]() Back to that time where kids were angry, rap was fresh and West Coast fashion was king. Set in Compton in the mid to late 80s, we’re about to get a whole lot of 80s street style returning to the screen, so we’re going to take a trip back in time to where it all began. ![]() You can browse our great range of tall tees in our store. Especially young Cube rocking a white tall tee. This photo had us and everyone else psyched. The cast are relative unknowns, clever casting to see their stars rising like those of N.W.A.s. It features O’Shea Jackson as Cube, Corey Hawkins as Dre, Jason Mitchell as Eazy, Aldis Hodge as Ren and Neil Brown as Yella. and their time coming up in Compton, California. Dre, Eazy E, Ice Cube, MC Ren and DJ Yella aka N.W.A. The flick shows the rise and fall of the MVPs of the rap game, Dr. royalty didn’t manage to get its hands on an authentic Kareem and instead settled for a replica anyone with $109.95 can get at 2015, we’re getting excited about the imminent release of the new NWA biopic Straight Outta Compton. Instead, he finds himself shaking his head, wondering how a film made by and about L.A. The die-hard fan’s attention should be on the bacchanalian excess of the fete-as rap fans know, pool pride goes before a fall. Adidas didn’t secure the NBA contract until the early aughts, a decade after Eazy inflated his last beach ball. ![]() When an extra at Eazy E’s Wet N’ Wild Party boogies into the shot wearing a Kareem Abdul-Jabbar jersey with a prominent Adidas logo on the breast, it distracts. But for rap fans of a certain age and cast of mind, who might still have a Sports Specialties cap or Starter jacket in their old closet at their mom’s house, the movie loses a not-negligible amount of cred. Straight Outta Compton more than gets by on the strength of its lead performances and the appeal of the unlikely success story at its heart. Capturing every last nuance of hardware and hem line can become an end in itself, and not one that’s able to rescue a bad script or poor acting. Viewers today have been conditioned by the obsessive likes of Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner into expecting period accuracy that borders on the fetishistic, and perhaps that’s not necessarily to the good. New Era helped popularize these blacked-out riffs on teams’ on-field caps, but Szadja confirmed my memory that the style, known at the company as Black on Black or ONYX, didn’t appear until 2003. The hats show up in scenes set in the late 1980s and early 1990s: See, for example, this snippet from the film’s official trailer, in which Ice Cube is wearing the hat during the studio session that will produce the 1987 hit “Boyz-n-the-Hood,” or this one, from the red-band trailer, in which Dre drives through Los Angeles during the 1992 riots. ![]() logo, which is usually white, is rendered in black as well. Dodgers hats in which the team’s royal blue has been replaced by a midnight black and the stitching of the L.A. Strangely, even when it comes to the Los Angeles apparel, the film errs. They had a particular fondness for the gloomy black-and-gray color scheme shared by the NFL’s Raiders and the NHL’s Kings, though a more cheerful Dodgers jersey or fitted hat would also do just fine for a night out at Eve’s After Dark. Eager to establish the West Coast as a rap hub worthy of a rivalry with the East Coast, where the art was born, the group favored the apparel of the sports teams of their native Los Angeles. ![]()
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