Sudan
interview excerpt
“You know, we was from the hood, we was poor. You know what I’m saying. Whatever, we didn’t have it. I say the whole thing was, it was just, back then Lo was real expensive. Lo was expensive. Like a sweater like this, the Sportsman joint, these was like 3 or $400, $500 in the store. Like I look at Lo, cuz I looked at Lo from then until now, like even the new retro stuff is kind of expensive. It’s like half the price of what Lo was back in those days. You know what I mean. So, it was like aiight. We couldn’t afford it. So, it was just the whole nostalgia, of having a $500 shirt, going to the hood with a $500 shirt on. You know what I’m saying. Yeah, that was really just the thing. And that’s what we used to say about, say if you did have money, and you was a Lohead and you bought your Lo. You wasn’t official. Like, we wasn’t, know what I mean, like jacking it. If you like, say, like I said, say you was in school, say you had money and you just bought Lo to buy Lo and you didn’t boost, we wasn’t rocking with you. We wasn’t, like even if you had it, we wasn’t considering you an official dude. You know what I mean. Cuz if you didn't go out there and steal and you wasn’t nice...it was really like a sport. Like, the whole boostin thing, know what I’m saying, was like a sport. We used to look up to dudes that had a, that would come out the store with 10 shirts or something like that. Like I said, I got my stripes, I’d tell dudes I’m about to go get that, and then come back to school with it. Dudes was like “oh shit, you really went and got it.” So, it was like a whole big thing that I had the heart to go by myself and come back with it. So, like I said, it was a sport thing. That’s how dudes got their names up, like nah such and such.”
