I gotta say, I really like dude as an artist. Great voice, swag, some real sick production choices (in fact, this guy has such an amazing ear for producer talent he is responsible for birthing a couple careers) and a pretty incredible fashion sense when it comes to eyewear. Now, as made clear in a statement today from the lawyers who rep Louis Vuitton, the folks at LV beg to differ with that last one, and they want nothing to do with Rick Ross or XXL, the magazine that started all with the confusion by featuring him wearing a pair of "counterfeit" Louies on the May issue cover. It's now just a few hours after the statement was released, and the whole internet is buzzing once again with more smack talk on their favorite rap punching bag, Officer Ricky.
My beef with all of this is that the true urban fashion heads should have something to say about this. I do. They should know and remember that Guess jeans never came airbrushed, Jordans don't always ship in the colorway you need to round out your show gear, I'm pretty sure T-Mobile didn't just happen to have diamond encrusted Sidekicks behind the counter when you went to cop your first joint, etc... The point here is, maybe dude did lie about his past as a corrections officer, maybe he should have left Trick Daddy's health problems out of his mixtape rhymes, but there is a difference between a product that is embraced by the streets being "counterfeit" on Canal and "customized" on Fulton, feel me?
One another note, but one still very much related to a discussion on hip-hop fashion trendsetting, tomorrow sees the end of Cam'ron's musical hiatus as his new album Crime Pays hits stores. I've been waiting on this one for a hot minute... me being a fan of originality, Cam'ron has always been one of my favorites. And I always check for how his releases change the rap soundscape each time out. He started the crack-rap craze, made it cool to experiment with sporting colors usually reserved for the fairer sex, and even influenced yours truly to start messing around with time signatures I thought rappers were afraid of till I heard him spitting about his favorite cruch on the Diplomatic Immunity album.
Cop it if you ain't got it!
This time around Cam seems to be making an attempt to relate to all hustlers, the G's and the nine to fivers, as made evevident by his first single "I Hate My Job" and I can't wait to hear the rest tomorrow. In the meantime, find out by clicking on the pic below:
Off to the airport to pick up my wife who has been visiting with her friends in Miami,
J.J.
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