I got this other style I ain’t flip in a while”
Remember me? Did it all for the B-L-O-G. True story: every white guy on the Rap Internet resembles someone from a Pop-Punk band. I’m reliably informed that I’m a Travis Barker guy, and I ain’t even mad at that – it’s infinitely better than being a Dexter Holland guy, a Milo Aukerman guy or a Tye Zamora guy innit? If you’re unfortunate enough to be a Deryck Whibley guy then take some solace that you look like a bloke with two 10/10 singles to his name and a hot wife on his arm.
Let’s talk gear. If Rap music didn’t inspire you to wear stupid shit as a teenager then being into Rap music as a teenager was wasted on you, mon square. Me, I done shocked everything from clocks around my neck, Reebok Pump hi-tops on my feet, visors on my head, XXL Ben Davis shirts on my back, and 42″ baggy jeans on my 32″ waist. But my biggest crime against clobber was copping a pair of snow-camo cargo pants in 1991 in a misguided attempt to look like Public Enemy’s back-up dancers the SW1s. Them kecks were wack like World Cups, but by 1992 they’d become great beater pants to do graffiti in, particularly since the cargo pockets came in handy to pilfer cans of paint from Halfords and Kwik Save. We were a gang of Goonies lookalikes doin’ Subway Art recreations, shout out to my CD brothers with fly names and I.D questions.
To paraphrase a very different Travis B, snow-camo cargo pants have followed me my whole life everywhere – in bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, even in Blink-182’s All The Small Things video where Travis Barker wore a pair. You can fight for your right to party, but you can never fight your sartorial destiny. Probably shoulda bought two pair like Nelly.
