Random & Lesser known facts about LA rap & culture
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Origins of the Subculture
•The term "lowrider" did not come into modern parlance until the 1960s. However, the lowrider tradition began in Mexican-American barrios in the late 1930s, and it was part of the "zoot suit" style popular with teenagers. These "pachucos," or zoot-suiters, wore slicked-back hair and highly-polished shoes. The first lowrider cars were usually restored Chevys, sometimes lowered just in the back by sandbags placed in the trunk, or lowered all around by shortening the springs. Suitably lowered, the pachucos would slowly cruise the streets. According to Lowrider Magazine, this could be an extension of a time-honored Mexican tradition called the "paseo," in which the young men would slowly walk the street in an attempt to attract the attention of the young girls
http://www.ehow.com/about_5045711_history-lowriding.html
•The term "lowrider" did not come into modern parlance until the 1960s. However, the lowrider tradition began in Mexican-American barrios in the late 1930s, and it was part of the "zoot suit" style popular with teenagers. These "pachucos," or zoot-suiters, wore slicked-back hair and highly-polished shoes. The first lowrider cars were usually restored Chevys, sometimes lowered just in the back by sandbags placed in the trunk, or lowered all around by shortening the springs. Suitably lowered, the pachucos would slowly cruise the streets. According to Lowrider Magazine, this could be an extension of a time-honored Mexican tradition called the "paseo," in which the young men would slowly walk the street in an attempt to attract the attention of the young girls
http://www.ehow.com/about_5045711_history-lowriding.html
What the fuck that have to do with what group was wearing the zoot suit first? Black jazz youth hustlers and hoods were wearing the zoot suit in the east coast and midwest before that shit hit out west and became big with outlaw Chicano youth. THe black slang for the suit was the drape. Just because Mexicans still love the suit and get tattoos or low lows airbrushed with pachucos doesn't mean they wore it first just means they still like the suit while modern blacks could give a fuck.
