A Group Swimming in the river, the harbor had a dark. You had to know which way the current was so you could walk out of there. We used to take a popsicle and throw it in the river to see which way the current was going. Fashion is such that you have to Pay Attention to the current, its always moving. I cant control that river. Just see which way the current is going and then you dive in. When you talk about fashion, you have to talk about hiphop. The style of hiphop has always been more progressive and cooler than anything else in the industry. Hiphop is a culture, its about music, its about fashion, its about art, its about entertainment. Its colorful, its exciting, and its telling a story. Its fabulous. Its ghetto fabulous. If he was going to determine the future. Look what we have today. Growing up in new york city in the Early 70s And 80s was a very exciting time. It was electric. It was powerful. It was totally graffiti on the trains, it was kids saying we are here, this is who w
energy feeds energy. once we started making my own, we needed to see, more we needed to feel more of that. we needed to be more of that. one of my favorite moments in hipaa fashion is when ll cool j recorded the gap commercial. more of food, and nobody noticed. gap goes and asks him to perform this commercial and write the actual copied lyrics. they didn t have anybody that really believed or loved hip-hop enough to know what fubu, for us, bias, meant to us. he said can i wear this hat, he would never take his head off. he was wearing can go most of the time. they were probably happy that they weren t going to be promoting can go, or have that piece of tape on it. he puts in the room, gee ap gritty.
fight about this adorable new asian muppet? i just can t understand it. i can t fathom why it s difficult. i wish it had come on sooner. i think when we had roosevelt franklin on the show, the franklin syndrome. it was difficult because he was the first black puppet and he fulfilled everybody s dreams of what a black puppet should be. too street. not street enough. too hip-hop. not hip-hop enough. sadly what happened was they cut the puppet because everybody couldn t agree how a black puppet should be prevented. there was another black puppet on sesame street for 50 years. that s the problem when people can t decide or they think a whole culture has to rest on the shoulders of one character. yeah, mar len. i think that s the point. there is no character who can make everyone happy. but sesame street probably has tried than any other show to represent every child. there are red muppets, muppets
franklin on the show, the franklin syndrome. it was difficult because he was the first black puppet and he fulfilled everybody s dreams of what a black puppet should be. too street. not street enough. too hip-hop. not hip-hop enough. sadly what happened was they cut the puppet because everybody couldn t agree how a black puppet should be prevented. there was another black puppet on sesame street for 50 years. that s the problem when people can t decide or they think a whole culture has to rest on the shoulders of one character. yeah, mar len. i think that s the point. there is no character who can make everyone happy. but sesame street probably has tried than any other show to represent every child. there are red muppets, muppets can flight. i am a grover given.
kids and for the black kids, we were not seeing a lot of people of color but we saw you and you were our friend. i want to get your take, first, just on the fight that we ve seen. we just had an asian american muppet that was introduced to sesame street , all of that has apd on sesame street, what do you make of the fight about this adorable new asian american muppet? i just can t understand it. i can t fathom why it s difficult. i wish it had come on sooner. i think that when we had roosevelt franklin on the show, i refer to him as the roosevelt franklin syndrome, he was the first black puppet. and didn t fulfill the dreams, too street, not street enough, too hip-hop, not hip-hop enough. they cut the puppet because