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De La Soul | Oodles of O's


Chanters play the part of a herd at a show
Pos prints the peace on his jeans or Girbauds.

Pete Rock & CL Smooth | Skinz


But anyway, you know the résumé
Time to drop the Girbauds and parlay.


Pete Rock & CL Smooth | For Pete's Sake



The P.E.T.E.R.O.C.K., résumé
With the route to Brut by Fabergé.

Salt-N-Pepa | The Showstopper

Was he cute? Negative, he was a dupe
Instead of Polo he wore Brut.
He said, “La-di-da-di.” What?
"La-di-da-di." Uh-huh, word to mother.

Salt-N-Pepa | The Showstopper


The train made a stop (Where?) Two hundred and five
And a little soft guy walked inside
He wore plastic Bally’s and a booty Gucci suit
Cracked a little smile and showed a fake gold tooth.

Note: Long before Snoop Dogg riffed on Doug E. Fresh x Slick Rick’s La Di Da Di in 1993, Salt-N-Pepa issued this female response –– yet another testament to the song’s iconic status.

Salt-N-Pepa | I'll Take Your Man


But I really don’t want him, the guy ain’t fly, shoot
He can’t afford to buy a Fila suit.

GZA | Investigative Reports


The baggy blue Guess jeans, pull strings off in Palm Springs.

— Ghostface Killah

De La Soul | Live @ the Dugout '87


That backyard scrap, like BVDs,
Tale Lords devils and pinstripe Lees.

EPMD | I'm Housin'


Posse kept rollin’ it was hard to get with ‘em
So I stepped back, and unbuttoned my Lee denim.

GZA | 4th Chamber


Build with Genghis Khan, the red suede Wally Don.

— Ghostface Killah


GZA | 4th Chamber



The only man a ho wait for
Is the sky-blue Bally kid, in ‘83 rocked Tale Lords.

— Ghostface Killah

A Tribe Called Quest | Buggin' Out


I sport New Balance sneakers to avoid a narrow path
Mess around with this, you catch a size eight up your ass.

— Phife Dawg

Inspired by Nike’s tribute to ATCQ, DJ Mars decided to customize his own 574’s in the style of The Low End Theory.


A Tribe Called Quest | Excursions


If you botch up, what’s in that ass?
A pair of Nikes, size ten-and-a-half.

— Q-Tip

In 2011, Nike produced these Blazers inspired by the cover of The Low End Theory, the album this song came from.


Digable Planets | The Art of Easing


Quiet, please, in the back, quiet please
You will have two texts
And finally, we are taking a field trip
To the East Star Housing
Projects, speak perfect slang
Black Caesar, Super Fly, Goldie
These are the images we want you portrayed in.

Digable Planets | The Art of Easing


Quiet please, quiet please
Welcome to this class
Black Studies 700: The Art of Easing
I’m your conductor instructor Mr. Castro
Take a look at your syllabus
You are required to be plushed out and dipped daily
Guess, army suits, Timbs, Lugz, whatever.

Public Enemy | Rebel Without a Pause


P.E. a group, a crew – not singular
We wear black Wranglers
We’re rap stranglers.

Nas | One Love


I sat back like The Mack, my army suit was black.

De La Soul | Me, Myself and I


Now you tease my Plug One style
And my Plug One spectacles
You say Plug One and Two are hippies
No we’re not, that’s pure plug bull.

Digable Planets | Where I'm From


We be reading Marx where I’m from
The kids be rocking Clarks where I’m from.

Note: Good explanation behind the popularity of Clarks here.

Digable Planets | The May 4th Movement Starring Doodlebug

 I drape soul hearts, I make soul darts
Cover mad areas in my crepe-sole Clarks.

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