Most people believe there is NO difference in Hood Culture and Prison Culture even though each has taken from each other.
The problem is when both cultures want to be accepted in the general society. For instance, when you go for an interview at say, Microsoft, IBM or Apple wearing hood clothes and tattoos I guarantee you will not even be consider for hire.
That was such an uneducated response right there, but thats what happens when you think you know what your talking about. First foremost educate yourself buddy, prison culture and street gang culture take from each other, the only thing you can have credible evidence of the hood culture taking fashion wise is the hangin pants look, but you know what you could also go tell car mechanics they taking from prison culture as well with their jump suits or whiteboys with the shaved heads they taking from the skinheads, or any man who wears sleevless shirts must support men who beat their wives, or tell steve harvey and cedric the entertainer to put away their pimp suits because they are emulating pimp culture. I have never seen a prisoner with nike airs, roc a wear jeans and a NY fitted cap with a diamond studded watch. Didnt know you was allowed to dress like that in prison.
And if anybody is stupid enough to go into a interview for a job like that
dressed in THEIR EVERYDAY CLOTHES. Then you are just as stupid as they are, because why would someone with that fuckin amount of sense obviously with the college education and know it all to get an interview for a job like that walk up in that interview NOT dressed to impress, Oh they smart enough to get the interview but not smart enough to dress the part, you just insulted educated brothas out there. Like I said
EDUCATE yourself my brotha before you speak, YOU SOUND STUPID!!
Just like anywhere else in this world there are The Good and The Bad. The Bad part of the hood is the violence, gangs, poverty, backstabbers, prostitution, convicts, missing fathers.
The Good is the survivors, go getters, hustlers, street smart people, unity amongst blacks, marches against violence, strong mothers, and more importantly FAMILY.
What you are doing is getting the good twisted with the bad, because you
want to do what a whole alot of others do and that is judge based on appearances and what you hear, instead of what you know. My grandfather (god rest his soul.) was a manager at his job that required him
to wear a suit, but when he go home, especially on his days off he loved his sleeveless white Ts and a bottle of Jack Daniels and used to sit in the kitchen especially on friday nights, drinking and talking with his buddies. And when he would go out he used to put on his gators, have grandma iron the nicest suit and he would put on his jaxon blues crushable fedora hat. And him and his buddies dressed the same way would kick it at the bar, and get drunk. But I guess to you he would be nothing but a woman beater and pimp.
Its fucking fashion you can say it came from prison culture all you want,
but if you look at african tribes and alot of the american black fashion, I see we are doing what is in our ancestry and that is make a fashion statement and be cool, you may not like where it comes from, but blacks have been doing it for years, you may not like some of the fashion statement case in point the hood clothes, but you know what rather it is from prison or not it is a fashion trend, somethin blacks have been doing for years, since of they days of african tribes.
