Minority and Underserved $$$ and Culture for Sale
October 25, 2025 was the first time in 35 years, since 1990 that not one rap or hip hop song was in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 40, but many of these artists and figure heads of the culture have been very present in the world of haute couture and high fashion. The rap and hip hop culture went mainstream in the late 1970's, growing out of the civil rights movement, as a musical expression vocalizing many of life's issues minorities and the underserved were dealing with. By the 1990's, the culture expanded into fashion. From the boycotts of the civil rights movement in the 1950's to the growth of the rap and hip hop culture in the 1990's, minorities realized that real change in a society comes when minorities and the underserved quit financially supporting businesses that don't support them. The boycotts of the 1950's and 1960's was the main catalyst to the the success of the civil rights movement impacting longterm change in gaining legal rights for minori...