The Best-Dressed Men In Hip-Hop
The Weeknd
On paper, Abel Tesfaye’s approach to style is simple – stick to staples from the world’s best brands and don’t deviate from black unless you have to. But hey, it works. He branched out a little further this year – just check the fluffy HAL 9000 jacket, from Undercover’s autumn collection, which he rocked at the Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show. But in the main, we got the black jeans, the black denim jackets, the black bombers, that worked for him last year and will look just as good in 2019. Well, if it ain’t broke.
Stormzy
At the 2017 Brits, Stormzy turned up in a fitted-to-death Burberry suit. Cue the pandering applause from those men’s mags that are always astonished when a rapper wears tailoring that fits well. This year, he rolled up in a metallic silver Richard James number, finished with boxfresh Adidas runners. It marked the transition from the Stormzy who always kills his look onstage to the Stormzy who can demolish a red carpet too. Which is handy, considering how many of them he’s on these days.
Wiz Khalifa
Wiz Khalifa is cool. The kind of cool that transcends clothes, that seems to seep out of the man inside them and imbue everything he touches with a kind of ineffable awesomeness. He seems to always be on the verge of floating away, which is perhaps why his shirts never seem to stay on his body for very long. What clothes he does wear tend towards the airy, as diaphanous as his own spirit (and the fug of weed smoke through which he travels). It’s impossible to say why he looks good, just that he does, in a way no one else can seem to emulate. Which is pretty much the definition of cool, in our book.
Lil Pump
Being an 18-year-old multimillionaire, Lil Pump tends to dress like an 18-year-old millionaire. But the ‘Gucci tiger or all-over camo. And while it might not be to everyone’s taste, it’s at least evidence that when you commit to something wholesale, a look that seems to make no earthly sense can actually come together. Although, like we said, it does help if you’re an 18-year-old multimillionaire.
