Just Rankin’ Sh!t
7 Hip-Hop Fashion Brands That Make Us Nostalgic, Ranked
It’s a ’90s streetwear time capsule — back when sizing started at XXXL tall
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7. Akademiks
There’s only one Akademiks we acknowledge — and it doesn’t have a Twitch account.
6. Enyce
This streetwear brand’s flavor was New York City to its core, if not its pronunciation (out-of-towners, say it with us now: en-EE-chee), but its appeal was universal.
5. Cross Colours
With its loud, pan-African color palette, Cross Colours was the perfect garb for hip-hop’s early-’90s love affair with Black nationalism, its rise dovetailing with that of acts like X-Clan and Public Enemy (and, for some reason, Marky Mark). There were no better threads to fight the power.
4. Karl Kani
Long before Khalifa Kush became stoners’ green standard, there was a sartorial KK blazing the hip-hop fashion game. Everyone from The Notorious B.I.G. to Eminem has lyrically paid homage to one of the originators, Karl Kani.
