These videos range from to , and feature pimps, girl gangs, tag bangers, rebel crews, and more. But all of these videos raise questions about the underlying socioeconomic and racial complexities that we think are crucial to learn about. And, as an added bonus, the videos capture some of the earliest forms of streetwear—from khakis to Pendletons—before streetwear even existed.
This mini doc about 15 minutes was a segment that aired on 60 Minutes in In it, host Dan Rather interviews Los Angeles gang members with no-fucks-given attitudes.
For example, Fly, one of the Savage Nomads, sits on his stoop with an afro and no shirt, as he talks about gangs using beer-can bazookas and dynamite. The denim vests with patches, motorcycle helmets with no motorcycles , aviator glasses, skintight jeans, and the occasional choker make me wish I had been born a couple decades earlier. In the ensuing 90 minutes, the film continues to be gut wrenching.
The pimps, dressed in Kool-Aid colored three-piece suits and shimmery jheri curls, spew out hilarious one-liner after one-liner without a hint of irony. The segment opens with Shy Girl painting on wings with liquid eyeliner.
If it happens it happens. The footage is filled with lowriders, guns, gang signs, tattoos, weed, and a whole bunch of street fights between cholos with long shorts and socks pulled up past their knees.
