Is the Era of baggy pants coming to an end?

By Jermaine Dupri

"Last night the Atlanta school board voted unanimously to ban students from wearing baggy pants. This has been goin’ on all over the South lately, in Louisana and other parts of Georgia. It’s been on the radar in New Jersey, Oklahoma and even Yonkers, New York. They also talked about outlawing baggy pants in Baltimore, until they had the good sense to drop it. It’s some of the dumbest shit I have ever heard and now it’s in my backyard. It’s time for me to speak up.

This is basically all about the older generation hating on hip hop. They can’t ban it, so instead they’re gonna try and turn kids into criminals just for being themselves. Kids have been wearing this look for more than two decades. Since before I first discovered Kris Kross, and they wore their oversized pants backwards, kids have been dressing this way, and all of a sudden local governments and school boards all over America are deciding it’s “indecent”. So why now?"


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In Zack Lee's opinion, banning baggy jeans is absurd. Granted, a certain stereotype comes attached to the baggy pants image, with 'Thug' being the most prominent. Of course, this mainly stems from an older generations point of view. While we believe its deeper than the older generation's disdain for it, we understand that's where majority of the heat is coming from. Basically, as Andre3000 put it, "Is every nigga with dreads for the cause? Is every nigga with golds for the fall?" Don't get caught up in appearance.