Back in the day

Cyberpunk futurist Bruce Sterling once said that if you wanted to see the future, look back 18 years for a sense of what the next tipping point is: LL Cool J TROOP jacket, Edwin jeans, Slick Rick gold chains and the blaring 808 beats of PE’s "Fight the Power." 1989 was the year hip-hop burst into the mainstream, back before street style was logo-fied and segmented by ROCA-pet labels.