Old School Hip-Hop Hats

Hip-hop is dated to August 11, 1973, when DJ Kool Herc extended the breakbeats at a back-to-school party at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx. Fifty years on, the people raised on it are old heads: the golden era is usually bounded as the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, and a classic hip-hop festival founded in 2018 celebrated the 50th anniversary in 2023. These hats are for them. OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP, HIP HOP HEAD, GOLDEN ERA HIP HOP and BOOM BAP FOREVER are the loyalty flags, and CRATE DIGGER is the other proven hat phrase, sold on dedicated hat shops for about 19 dollars. HIP HOP RAISED ME borrows the title of a book. The bits are about getting older in the culture, a subject with its own academic book, Old in the Game: Aging in and with Hip-Hop: B-BOY WITH A BAD BACK, I'M A RETIRED BATTLE RAPPER, MY MIXTAPE WAS FIRE IN 1996 and HIP HOP DAD. OLD HEAD is the term for older fans who think the genre has moved on. Artist names are left off on purpose. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. B-BOY WITH A BAD BACK and MY MIXTAPE WAS FIRE IN 1996 each come in two colorways.