In case you’ve seen them, or haven’t seen them yet, new billboards are going up around town to support Dallas Deputy Mayor Dwaine Caraway‘s fashion police initiative to encourage everyone to ‘Pull your pants up.’ Dallas rapper Dooney ‘Da Priest has even gotten involved and produced a song and video to help spread the message. Maybe I need to add that to the OrangeNoiseRadio rotation.
From NPR:
Dooney says that most of the boys and young men who are saggin’ don’t know where it really comes from. But another word for saggin’ is jailin’.
“They don’t know why their pants are low … They think it’s a fad, or it’s something to do or it’s cool. And I say, ‘Well, No … it come from behind the bars.'”
Clear Channel has agreed to donate billboard space around town and Dooney designed a billboard showing him with his arms crossed, standing in front of downtown Dallas.
Dallas is not the first city to confront saggin’. Shreveport, La., Atlanta and Stratford, Conn., have discussed passing laws. But Dallas is taking a different approach, trying for the hearts and minds of its young people.
Glad folks in Dallas have time to worry about such things.
Watch the news report from Fox 4 News:
And listen to the report and song by Rapper Dooney Da’ Priest from NPR/KERA.
folk are dying as a result of war or poverty or AIDS… and they are pumping money into stopping BUILDER’S BUM (British Bum)… There is something wrong in this world!
I say this because I am fat, short and struggle to keep my trews from sagging.
Crazy… we need to focus on the real priorities and not get distracted with nonsense like this.
Peas and Loaf
Thomas
folk are dying as a result of war or poverty or AIDS… and they are pumping money into stopping BUILDER’S BUM (British Bum)… There is something wrong in this world!
I say this because I am fat, short and struggle to keep my trews from sagging.
Crazy… we need to focus on the real priorities and not get distracted with nonsense like this.
Peas and Loaf
Thomas