Rising Trend: Bucket Hats.

Schoolboy Q may have single handedly brought bucket hats back to life, because he is straight up committed. Ever since his musical inception, or at least Habits and Contradictions, I have known him as a bucket hat wearing visionary. He owned that shit, and was really the only person I saw wearing them. But I noticed at SXSW, bucket hats were sprinkled around the joint like big booty white girls....bad analogy, but they were around.

I feel like it's a symbol of real hip hop coming back again. The bucket hat was first popularized in the 80s with artists like LL Cool J and Run DMC, and it coming back is really just respect for the art. It's still in it's initial phases, but already artists like Joey Bada$$, Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky, Earl Sweatshirt, Trinidad James, Drake, Mac Miller, and even Usher (oh Lord) have been spotted rocking the new trend. Taking it back to some true hip-hop type shit (minus Trin, lol).



It's funny, because I didn't imagine buckets catching on like they are, but it's slowly but surely becoming the lowkey, kinda ultra-cool, but don't give a fuck new trend.  And I will say that every dude I saw wearing one, looked cool (except Usher during SXSW...I don't think he gets it.)

On the recently released 2013's XXL Freshmen Class Cover, both Schoolboy and Joey B rocked the new trend. Oh it's coming....get familiar.

Schoolboy Q

Schoolboy + A$AP Rocky

Trinidad James

Usher

Joey Bada$$

Mac Miller

Earl Sweatshirt

Cudderr

Drizz Master Flex

Joey Bad + Schoolboy Q