Archive for December, 2007
A Filthy Dripped exclusive tee! You can only purchase this exclusive Stay Wet women’s tee instore or on our website. We keep our runs low so only a few selected women can have this special shirt. Stay wet ladies!
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Gift Certificates Available at 20% off!
Dec 17, 2007 Author: admin | Filed under: NewsFilthy Dripped is now offering gift certificates at 20% off! Give the perfect Christmas present with this cash saving gift
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Marshawn Lynch Getting Hyphy!
Dec 13, 2007 Author: admin | Filed under: News
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Check out Marshawn Lynch rocking his Nautiks Custom Tee on ESPN! Marshawn Lynch (born April 22, 1986, in Oakland, California) is an American football running back who currently plays for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Bills in the first round (12th overall) of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played collegiately at California.
The guys over at Free Gold Watch came in store with a bunch of cool gear for women. After some small talk they decided to challenge us to a game of NBA Jams. They got whoop! =) You guys ready for a rematch?
Imaginary Kingdom just sent us some interesting shirts. =) If you like naked b*tches, then these shirts are for you!
By popular demand we will be offering our dookie rope chains online! We will be stocking 30mm x 30in and 20mm x 30in gold and silver chains. Chains will be in next week instore just in time for the perfect Christmas gift!
If you look at some recent hip-hop videos, or even pictures from parties and concerts, you’ll notice artists such as Lil Jon, Nick Cannon, Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Nelly and Nas bringing back the world-famous gold Dookie Run DMC rope chains — or as they were christened in the ’80s, dookie ropes (also known to some as dookie rolls and donkey chains). It’s a trend that’s making MCs think about the true-school innovators like Run DMC who first wore them and what gold ropes symbolized back in the day, as well as what these classic chains mean today.
Has the time come for MCs to put their platinum chains on ice? Not ice as in diamonds - they’ve been doing that for years. This time we’re talking about rappers setting their platinum down on the shelf for a returning favorite that’s old school to the heart like a dookie rope chain.
“It’s my way to pay homage,” says Cannon, whose new publicity shots show him wearing no shirt and a gold dookie rope chain. “Back in the day, most gold Run DMC chains were hollow. I had to go [with] the official one. Everybody been rocking platinum; you can’t tell platinum from stainless steel right now.”
“Platinum chains are wack, unless it’s a rope,” asserts Kanye West, who debuted his new heavy thick fat dookie gold rope in the video for Drive Slow. “I’m not trying to dis nobody’s chain, it’s just wack to me.”
Like Cannon, Kanye says gold dookie Run DMC ropes chains are appealing because they’re a nod to the past. “History repeats itself,” Kanye says. “It was throwbacks [jerseys], my album had the Tribe [Called Quest] sound. Now its gold ropes.”
Lil Jon agrees with Kanye’s theory about throwing it back. “We love the old school,” he says. “Everybody got pleasant memories of the ’80s. That’s when hip-hop was fresh and new, it was like a baby. All those pleasant memories, we trying to bring back. I grew up seeing the Slick Ricks’s, Run DMC’s and Big Daddy Kane’s dooky, but I was a kid — I couldn’t get no big-ass rope chain. I’m grown, I can do that now.”
“Things that are really authentic always return,” says original dookie-rope-rocker DMC Run DMC, one of hip-hop’s earliest innovators on the mic and in the jewelry department. “It ain’t a mere thing of just bringing the gold rope back. It means something.”
Kanye West Stronger Shades SOLD OUT!
Dec 6, 2007 Author: admin | Filed under: NewsThe limited edition Kanye West Stronger Shades are now sold out and we will no longer be carrying them in our store and online. Congrats to all who were able to purchased these limited edition shades.
OK we lagged a little bit on adding this brand to our site and we are almost sold out of most of these shirts. Hey, better late then never. We would like to introduce to you our latest brand we got in a couple of weeks ago called L.O.R.E. We picked up the collection, “The Nightmare Historian” The collection resembles real old school horror movies with zombies and skeletons etc.
The 90s – The Era of Big
Dec 4, 2007 Author: admin | Filed under: ArticlesThe 1990s saw an economic boom after the depression brought about by the oil crisis in the decade before that. Because of that, people had more money to spend and boy did they find ways, often outrageous ones, to flaunt and to spend all that.
This decade was the era of ‘Big’. Everything had to be big in size, impact and spending. Rock bands played in stadiums with fancy lighting and pyrotechnics. Even hairs had to be big so people spent a lot of money on hair sprays during those days. And yes, even earrings had to be of the extra large variety!
But one could not really be big for a long time during that decade. It was the 90s and people always craved for bigger things. In other words, there was a constant competition to become biggest whatever of them all. From oversized clocks as necklaces, chains and Cazal sunglasses. Another good example of this outrageous trend is the parachute pants. This style of pants was popular during the 90s. They were tight and usually had extraneous zippers all over.
While these pants looked normal enough, rapper MC Hammer took it over the top by taking its size to the extreme! Hammer had these really baggy pants (also known as Hammer pants) that were so huge, two people could fit into each leg of it.
People nowadays may find such crazy behavior funny, but who could blame the people of the era? Each generation has its definition of cool and in the 90s, the slogan was that bigger is always better. And how happy (and crazy) life was back then.
Do we see these Hammer pants coming back? Hmmm…We’ll see! =)
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