gators, and mink coats dripping to the floor. however, though, because of hip-hop being a new form of music and something that the youth cater to, basically everybody that was accustomed to wearing suits on stage just started dumbing it down to just keeping it just straight b-boy. ♪ the majority of hip-hop artists really just dressed b-boy style where you got on the lee's and you got on the pumas. and a bvd tank top, you know, with your gazelles. it was all part of the hip-hop fashion. >> hip-hop fashion was kind of derived through the music and kind of, we're not going to follow the rules mentality both in rap music and in fashion.