It is unsurprising that the hustler was an inspiration to a student body of underdogs.Īt the time we started school, the prime minister, Tony Blair, was announcing his plan to create a knowledge-based economy, and his ambition to get 50% of young people through university. In the year I completed my GCSEs, 75% of my fellow students failed to get the five A*-C grades necessary to go on to further education.
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My school had a high intake of students poor enough to qualify for free school meals, but even the poor kids wore luxury streetwear. New-Era baseball caps felt like part of our school uniform. My friends and I wore American hip-hop streetwear: baggy Akademiks jeans, Fubu tops and Timberland boots. A Jamaican-born mother had died after her home was raided by police officers, a policeman was killed in the ensuing revolt, and the tension between the residents and the authorities has festered ever since.īy 2003, much of the area could have slipped with ease into the background of a rap video in Queens. My whole life, this corner of the city has been notorious for the anti-police riots that broke out in the 1980s. I grew up in Tottenham, north London, a multiracial area between the city and the Hertfordshire suburbs with a character defined by its then underperforming football club and its Caribbean, Ghanaian and Turkish Cypriot communities. For me, it was the constant reinvention of the hustler made good in hip-hop that stuck. Everyone loves an outsider, because deep down most of us believe we are one, and each generation has its own version for inspiration.
There are few things we find more compelling than a fable of overcoming the odds and achieving self-made success. Curtis Jackson may have been born black and poor in New York, but as 50 Cent, he was now worth $30m. His debut was the bestselling album of 2003, selling 12m copies worldwide. The most precocious kids in class declared the debut hip-hop album an instant classic and hailed the rapper’s legend: “He’s been shot nine times, you know?” The failed attempt on 50 Cent’s life was at the centre of his sales pitch as the bulletproof king of gangsta rap. Like the plot itself, the costumes in Hustlers are sure to inspire women to take back what’s theirs-and maybe try wearing statement hoop earrings once in a while.I was a 14-year-old schoolboy when the rapper 50 Cent released Get Rich or Die Tryin’. The very Kendall-and-Bella-friendly low-slung, chain-belted pants and cropped one-shoulder top seen on Wu’s character, Destiny, are early-2000s-era fashion highlights too. She wears a Juicy Couture velour tracksuit, as well as plenty of Fashion Nova–esque minidresses in a mix of metallics. Lo’s character Ramona seems to be the most fashion-obsessed in her giant furs and large gilded sunglasses. Set to Cardi B’s “Money,” the trailer offers an early glimpse at the sexy, nostalgia-ridden costumes, which may have once been deemed stripper clothes but now, as women are reclaiming their bodies, feel empowering. The women start stealing the customers’ credit cards and cash and using it for themselves, whether to help out their families, pay for childcare, or, as Wu says in the trailer, “maybe go shopping every once in a while.” The story goes something like this: A group of strippers band together to seek revenge on the lying, cheating, greedy Wall Street misogynists who frequent their club at night and take from the poor during the day. Lo stars along with Constance Wu, Keke Palmer, Lizzo, and Cardi B. Slated for release this September, the film is an adaptation of writer Jessica Pressler’s 2015 New York magazine feature titled “The Hustlers at Scores,” and the leg-swooping J. The trailer for Hustlers begins with Jennifer Lopez at a pole in a pair of plexiglass, ultrathick platform heels.
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