Other than PursBlog’s readers (and writers), perhaps the people who love
handbags more than anyone else are rappers, and we’d like to think that
somewhere (probably in Paris), Kanye West will be celebrating National Handbag Day along with us tomorrow.
If you’ve listened to hip hop radio in the last 10 years, you know
exactly what we’re talking about – songwriters seem to shop as much as
we do, which is a lot, when you factor in that shopping is our job.
Handbags fit perfectly with exactly the kind of post-modern, upwardly
mobile braggadocio that rappers traffic in so commonly, which means
that, when you get down to it, Jay-Z raps about brands for the same
reason that so many people shell out to buy their products. Bags are
particularly recognizable and status-laden, and because designer bags
have, to some extent, entered the wider American lexicon, rapping about
them and carrying them are both supremely effective ways to telegraph to
others that you are, in the immortal words of Nene Leakes, very rich.
It’s yet another reason to love handbags, even if it’s not a reason
everyone’s willing to cop to.
There is, predictably, no shame in these rappers’ (and Fergie’s)
games. Check out the best sing-along handbag shout-outs below, but be
warned: these songs all contain explicit content and may not be
appreciated by you, your coworkers, your boss, your parents or your
pastor. If you get fired, grounded or sentenced to eternal damnation,
well, we warned you.
[Source: purseblog]
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