The 80s hip hop style, also known as the b-boy ... This era, also referred to as the Black Pride Era, featured fashion pieces that expressed social consciousness, and political, and racial ideals.

But, in the early 1980s, fashion brands faced a dilemma: embrace hip-hop, an exciting, raw sound, or shun it for fear of offending mass audiences. Along came Run DMC, who proved it was possible ...

The 50-plus-year-old genre has had distinct moments within the fashion industry in the early 2000s, but the Golden Age of Hip-Hop is the one ... into the mid-’80s to mid-’90s.