Shouts to VillageSlum‘s Mel D Cole and LTD Mag‘s Hawaii Mike for turning out Thursday nite (the new Saturday).
TanyaMorgan’s DonWill told me the MLB New Era fitted caps that every collector MUST own without question. It’s bigger than Hip-Hop. It’s about where you come from and how you represent. At the end of the day, it ain’t where you are from it’s where you’re hat.
You gotta have the Clemente Pittsburgh alternate just like you have to rock a Yankees joint. It’s called the rap dude uniform. Like Dickies, Chucks and wifey-b’s.
The Atlanta joint goes hard. Shouts to OutKast for making this hat more popular than any Brave can (current Braves, Henry Aaron is still the HR GOAT, natch).
Cleveland’s Chief Wahoo joint has a similar colorway to the ATL joint. This was one of the first 3-D 59/50s back in the day.
You might could imagine that the Dodgers joint stays on top. Crisp and clean as all get out. Classic. Iconic. Timeless.
Big up to Reginald Jackson. This is why some heads say they from the ‘Ay.
The Cincinnati Reds joint is close to DonWill’s heart. I might have a gang of Cincy hats in my archive, mostly to match with all my deadstocked Griffey Max shoes, but the Cincy hat also matches up riderk with your Jordans.
This is one of my fave joints. The red, white and blue is so American. Polo Ralph Lauren does a lot of shit in this colorway and the ‘P’ says it all.
Respect to Thundercracker.
Peace to Polotron, Ambush, Soundwave, Viceberg, Buddah, Gary, ‘Drun, Gardy, Rahiem, Duncan, Colin and all the Whypticons.
This hat design was originally made for a team whose owner skated from Washington D.C. because there were too many brothers moving there.
We still there.
We still here.
Motherfuck the Yankees and motherfuck Yankees caps, I’m sorry– unless Roy White lays one on me for free (any ya’ll remember the Roy White sports Store?) I ain’t buying SHIT with that goddamn logo on it, not even if I could $ell George $teinbrenner’$ corpse for fertilizer to pay for it.
I’ve never bought the “New York” pride crap on this either, there’s no possible subervsion of meaning there except that the wearer has been SOLD– or is a genuine fan of the team, which I can’t fathom but… I know the caps ** are ** dudes uniforms but sadly, I think that’s testament to the culture’s weak spot more than any strength.
That said (as one who grew up with Aunt in High Bridge who had an original Yankee stadium chair stashed out on the fire escape)–
Both P! caps kill but especially Clemente.
Am I too much of a homer to still rep the Jackie “B”? Even Spike couldn’t murk that story.
Money Makin JamBoys post to a Cap Rap post, you must really love Fear of a Black Hat.
Red Sox fitteds ftw. I used to have have a white leather and gold red sox fitted which was incredible, 60 bucks and some fuck stole it.
I get on my old school with a Montreal Expos fitted.
EXPOS FOREVER
I don’t rock any of them, because I don’t follow any teams. If anything it would be basketball teams, but given a lot of the players who were smashing it early-mid nineties no longer play (when basketball cards, gear was big out here), don’t play for that team no more, that’s even wack to me.
People shouldn’t be wearing gear of a team they know nothing about just cause the logo looks cool. But then look at the world we live in, a lot of people don’t really care about the history of anything really anymore.
Oliver,
You sound like someone stole your safety blanket.
Team caps represent cities, colorways and whatever swag you can connect to them.
I’m sorry that you don’t rock fitteds, but maybe that’s because you lost your damn mind.
im not knocking love for fitted’s but to say someone ‘lost their mind’ cuz they dont fuck with hats (or any type of gear) is real 85%. Paying $20+ for something you can get for $5 because of ‘style’, which comes 100% from socialization, is actually the more insane action.
Cats in L.A. don’t wear the Dodger blue hats, unless they’re Mexican (not hispanic, Mexican). Niggas rock the blacked out’s though.
Personally, I’ve only wore L.A. teams all my life, because out here, a hat can literally get you into some shit. Plus, I rep my city to the full. I’d feel like a fronting ass clown wearing a Yankees hat.
fredMS,
If you fux with this site on the regulack (and I thought you did?) you would see me tell the people early and often about copping fitteds from A.J.Wright for the super cheap under $10 steez.
Read this drop again. Really READ it, don’t just skim it like you may have, and then read that dude’s comment who I made fun of. Rocking a fitted is bigger than baseball or any sports team. It’s bigger than your city or any region. The 5950 fitted cap is an iconic representation of Hip-Hop. Just like a Polo shirt or a pair of Timberland boots.
The people that rock these items have made them more important than the companies that produce them. We understand them as much as the CEOs and execs of these companies. So when someone says that they are going to zag while the rest of us zig I’m not mad at dude, but I will clown on him for being a da-dunn-da-dunt who totally missed the point.
Ya’ deeeg?!?
Word, surprised the BK Dodger fitted ain’t up there.
That Clemente is hot (n). Yankees though, since the snap back fall in the front hats.
@dp, i understand that fitteds are bigger than beisbol, but i think its important to note that all of this shit is still material. Using a hat to symbolize where your heart is, is cool, but even more so are your words and actions. growing up, gear was something i could never afford, so the desire for them only further perpetuated my hood behaviors, which i’m sure still happens with today’s youth. Like how you’re a sneaker ‘fiend,’ that feind-ishness is something that we would all be better off without, like in Buddhism, they say desire is the root of suffering. In any case, i’m sure we can agree to disagree. Much props and much love.
Two things…
1) You couldnt catch me dead in a yankee fitted, not only is it played the phuck out… but imma mets fans to the death!
2) I think the phillies shit is wack. In general royal blue/red is a corny ass colorway. Navy blue and red? now thats that timeless shit… Besides, the american flag is navy blue. not royal!!
The pirates alt colorway is dope but i might have a hard time rocking that after that 20-0 loss, and the cleveland shit goes better with alot of classic ‘Lo pieces that have that faded navy color to em.
@Shuttleworzworff: Preach! Rapper in Yankees cap = played out; rapper in Mets cap = interesting. Maybe not great but at least interesting.
Co-sign $yk on the Brooklyn Dodgers; just to mix it up, I have a 59/50 of the 1912 version–
http://www.hatland.com/store.cfm/hats,4,13252.html
Plain blue and white and blue pinstripes remain classic.
Any ya’ll rock Brooklyn Royal Giants caps?
@ Willis Still Sunweet
Yo i had the royal giants joint in high school, back in the early 2000’s when damn near everybody was rocking the same Homestead greys hats, i paved my own lane and repped for BK!!
FredMS,
I hope no one reading these drops has to do any dumb shit to copp a fitted from A.J.Wright, but with this economy who knows? Respect.
A. Shuttlezworff,
I wish New Era was making the Negro Leagues joiints. I had the entire league in my collection at one point…
http://dallaspenn.com/pics/albums/slumblc1/mo_d1.jpg
my favourite new era team fitted is mets without a question. the orange and blue def go together [II]. i used to have a gang of fitteds but seem to rock em less and less. may just go and cawp a mets fitted for the summer. that brooklyn dodgers fitted looks ill, would buy that in a hot minute if i’d ever find in a store.
i wear fitteds every once in a blue moon and i love how almost anywhere you go in the world. you will see people wearing yankee fitteds and they don’t even know about the team. i know that george is making a couple mill off the yankee hats alone every year. casual people own them who don’t even know about baseball. fans get 2 or 3 new ones a year and fanatics have them every style every colorway that comes out. i personally have one and it’s a couple years old all black joint.