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She Rockers (London Rap/Dance Crew), Shepherd’s Bush Green, London, 1988

New York City has been home to a Puerto Rican population since the mid-1900s, with the most noticeable migration boom beginning in the 1950s. As Puerto Ricans settled in New York over the years they stamped the city with their culture, indelibly altering neighborhoods like the South Bronx, the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, and downtown Brooklyn with rhythm, style, flavor, art, language, and claro, Latino cuisine. Arlene Gottfried, herself a native New Yorker, grew up side by-side with the…

Hip-Hop fashion clothing was usually denim jackets, black bowl hats and sneakers

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The collaboration between Adidas and music legends is no secret. In the last decade the likes of Harry Styles, Beyonce, and Kanye West have all collab’d with Adidas. In the 90s, the Britpop lads like Blur and Oasis were big supporters of the brand. But where did Adidas and music’s love affair start? To find out, we have to go back to the 1980s clothing culture when streetwear and hip-hop were making waves. The two cultural phenomena with the help of Adidas shaped style and identity of…

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The 1980s were significant in pop culture, fashion, and music. This period was all about bright neon colors, p