Edd’s MANtra: It Only Gets Worse

I long thought that hip hop’s worst fashion trend would forever be Kris Kross’ backward attire. Those two had scores of impressionable (read: dumb) kids wearing their clothes in the wrong direction. At my middle school, any child who was Totally Krossed Out was threatened with suspension.


Where are the school administrators now that I need them?


Nowadays, there’s a much stupider trend on the rise. Remember Gucci Mane’s stupid electric ice cream face tattoo? Yung LA has raised the stakes.

Yes, the man has a tat of a pink duck on his face. So that’s what’s hot in the streets? Pink duckie tattoos? Even though the duck looks like some sort of pink grim reaper, it’s still A PINK DUCKIE TATTOO. Until now, Yung L.A.’s greatest claim to fame (ahem) was that “Ain’t I” song from a couple of years back. Now he’s gonna be known as the pink Ducktales dude. And he’s OK with that?
 
Young readers, I beg of you – please explain to me what rappers have to gain from tattooing ice cream and ducks on their faces. Maybe it’s a generational thing because I’m totally at a loss. I just don’t get it.


But I never got that Kris Kross thing either.