You have to admire the balls on the editorial staff at Complex Magazine, this month’s issue (with the Johnathan Rhys Meyers cover) highlights the little known beef between Weezy & Pharrell.
While interviewing Pharrell on fashion, and it’s influence on his sound and style they touch on his love of all things Bape.
Since you popularized trucker hats and don’t rock them anymore, could it come to a point in two or three years where you won’t rock BAPE anymore?
No. BAPE is a brand, but it’s a mentality.What’s the mentality?
It’s just whatever we like. BAPE, BBC, and Ice Cream are the same. We’re glad people like it, but we move on. BBC got sick duck boots that we just did, and Marc Jacobs is teaching me tons of shit, and behind the scenes I’m over there at Louis Vuitton. I did a season’s worth of sunglasses for LV last year, like 14 different joints. I named them after different things from Scarface. I’m learning so much about how fashion works, the business of it, and to go beyond what I like, and make shit for different individuals that would be into my shit. Everything I’m learning with LV, I’m bringing it back to my own shit. I’m doing all this incredible, fly regal-type jewelry dropping in like early ‘07. Most of the time jewelry is based on value, but for me, it’s aesthetic.
Then, later in the mag, they question Lil’ Wayne on The Clipse and Pharrell.
On Clipse and Pharrell
I don’t see no fucking Clipse. This is a fucking legend you’re talking to right here. How many years them niggas been around? Who the fuck is Pharrell? Do you really respect him? That nigga wore BAPE and y’all thought it was weird. I wore it and y’all thought it was hot. What, I gotta go in the store and say, “ I like these colors, but I can’t buy them because other rappers wore them?”
That’s some gangsta journalism, wonder who Pharrell pissed off over at the Complex offices to make them essentially play him like this?
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