“Born in the Eighties/Crack baby/Mama, she was in the streets/So guess who raised me?,” Dolph rapped on 2014’s “Preach,” which also details witnessing a shooting at age 9.Įven earlier, and not a hit, is “Much Deeper,” a detailed and expansive recounting of lost loved ones, including a grandmother and uncle lost to illness and two friends to gun violence.ĭolph’s music was suffused with familial loss, and so was his public life beyond the music.
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Part of this was the autobiography established early by a Hamilton High graduate who grew up on Castalia Street in South Memphis, raised by a grandmother in the shadow of largely absent parents. And then another later the same year in Los Angeles, which put Dolph in the hospital. It was the third since his rise to musical notoriety, following two incidents in 2017: One in Charlotte, North Carolina, in which 100 rounds were fired at a bulletproof SUV he was in. It’s nice to think we’re one Memphis, but most know we are many.Īs most reading this now know, the shooting of Dolph on Wednesday was not a first attempt.
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Unlike homegrown stars of earlier eras - Elvis or Otis or Al or even Justin - this is how a self-described “King of Memphis” could make music that meant everything to some pockets of the city and nothing at all to others. It’s also because of the kind of music Dolph made, a strand of street-oriented rap loved intensely by some but particularly forbidding to many more. And in a time when most music is streamed, it’s hard to know how much chart success really means. Girls comment on the pics and say he's the cutest guy.The big bangs of the ’50s and ’60s made Memphis a music mecca, but as the pop-music galaxy has expanded, nearly everything has become niche. Not only family, friends like it as well.ĭo kids ever stop you and compliment you or say anything to you about your outfits?ĭiefenbach: He gets some weird looks from other older people, but sometimes I get personal messages on Instagram saying that I've got the coolest grandpa in the world and that they love him. My family in Slovenia has seen the pictures on Facebook and Instagram and they like it as well. What does your family think about the way you dress? It’s something different, and with the Boost, he’s older so comfort is more important to him than just how a shoe looks. He might know some of his music, but he doesn’t know it’s Pharrell. Do you know who Pharrell is? Are you a fan of his music?ĭiefenbach: He doesn't know who Pharrell is. Your grandson photographed you in the adidas Pharrell Human Race NMD. But I know the basics about Supreme-it started as a skate brand and now it’s collaborating with Louis Vuitton. So you’re familiar with Supreme’s and Stüssy’s backstory? I'm on Facebook as well so I see whatever he likes.
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It started with seeing the clothes on my grandson. How did you get into streetwear brands like Supreme and Stüssy? We spoke to Abram, with help from Diefenbach who translated the conversation for us, about how and why he got into streetwear, what his family thinks of his outfits, and whether or not he’s actually familiar with the backstory of Supreme. He doesn’t mind it though he likes to stand out and be different. His interest in streetwear began about a year ago, though he admits the culture isn’t huge in his neighborhood.
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But now he does it like it’s his job.”Ībram, a retired gaffer, was born in Slovenia but has lived in Mainz, a small town in Germany about 40 minutes outside of Frankfurt, for the last 49 years. The first ones were kind of awkward to do because he’s never really stood in front of a camera and modeled. “It was my idea to take photos of his outfit,” Diefenbach said, “but surprisingly, he liked it more than I expected. It’s 71-year-old Alojz Abram, who became famous after the photos his grandson, Jannik Diefenbach, took of him wearing Supreme camp caps and Thrasher hoodies went viral this past January. The latest streetwear sensation isn’t another millennial decked out in Supreme.