Highsnobiety How skinny jeans took over hip-hop

While the skinny was present during hip-hop’s glam-tinged genesis, it was the baggy “roughneck” style that dominated the '90s. But when a new generation of rappers started wearing skinny jeans in the ’00s, it not only changed the history of denim’s imprint on hip-hop style, but also how men could express themselves at large.

What was once the subversive, gender-bending uniform beloved by the underground and sneered at by OGs has become a wardrobe staple for mainstream rappers today. Here's how it happened.