Pre-dating the start of MTV by about six months, the world once found humor in “The Preppy Handbook”. Time and technology changes, but preppies endure, only occassionally adopting new technology. Oddly, or maybe not so in some sense, I recall my first experience with rap and sailing at the Long Beach Yacht Club, when a team off of a Soverel 33 blasted “Staight Outta Compton” on the long dock right in front of the clubhouse. Needless to say, the Underhill’s and their friends were not pleased.
Eventually rap became mainstream, and now I can’t get on a boat with college kids as crew and not hear it in one fashion or another. I’ve always found it rather ironic that rich white kids who couldn’t survive for 10 minutes in the ‘hood want to pretend to be just like a bunch of rappers.
Seems like some prepsters have figured out how to marry technology and their (our?) cultural subset with this cute white boy rap song about life in the preppy ‘hood on YouTube here. Enjoy.
September 18, 2006 at 11:37 am
You’re just a toy punk to mess with that junk
September 19, 2006 at 10:25 am
NWA and Bubbleboy……………Must be getting cold back there
May 2, 2007 at 9:52 am
December 1, 2008 at 5:55 pm
I remember this book from high school. I bought it as a joke but upon reading it, I found this was a group of people (at least in dress) that I could identify with. I felt I could fit in. Today it doesnt matter so much-Ive reached an age where I wear what I want because I like it-fashion or not. But preppy really never goes out of style-and each can recognize the other. The hair, the shoes, Lacoste, tennis….preppy never dies, we just by our shoes in a different colour lol.