Yeah I call BS on that one. Total BS.
@Sweet Square
What your post misses is that that hiphop and funk artists, labels and clothing brands have spent the last 30 years intentionally marketing and selling and spreading hip hop and funk culture directly to places like Tokyo, Seoul and Paris.
When I worked at a hiphop store in Hollywood in 1994 there were massive deals with Japanese and Korean businessmen for everything hiphop related. There was a mutually beneficially relationship and the prevailing mindset among the underground was that spreading the culture was good! Not "appropriation" or whatevs
Pretty sure they would buy stacks of URB magazine to bring there and there was a ton of marketing from companies like Echo Unlimited with Tokyo and Seoul businesses at the clothing conventions like Magic in Vegas.
You had street dancers like the Electric Boogaloos spending years in Asia specifically spreading and teaching hiphop and funk culture from California directly to kids from Japan and So. Korea.
If you go into these actual scenes like street dance youll never see this whack shite like getting mad over a haircut. The culture already was spread both for positive reasons and for profit, its too late to put genie back in the bottle.