Take the sticker off your hat. Advice of an Icon feat. Spike Lee and @timberland
Summary
A stranger on the G train has strong opinions about hat etiquette. He's baffled that people still leave the stickers on their caps, calling it "straight up ghetto." The conversation spirals from price tags left on cars to vertical video, where Kareem poses a hypothetical about vertical movie theaters. The rider shuts it down immediately. "Let me give you a three-word answer," he says. "Nah." He stretches it out for emphasis. It's classic New York crankiness about keeping things the right way, whether it's headwear or how you watch Lawrence of Arabia.
Full Transcript
So, what's your take? People buy a new hat. I don't care what team it is, but take the mother sticker off on the bill.
100% agree.
Even under both the one under and the top, this big old silver thing on the bill.
This is an epidemic, bro.
It's out of control.
Why has it been like that? Cuz it's been like that since I was a kid. Was it like that when you were a kid?
Oh, hell no. We didn't do that here.
You used to take the stickers off.
Yes. I mean, there was a time where people were keeping the the sales thing on, you know, if they're on the price tag.
The price tag. And some people doing that with cars. You know, that thing in the window. [laughter]
No.
Yes.
They keep it on.
Yeah.
No, I never seen that before.
It's ghetto. Never seen that before.
Is straight up ghetto.
I think they see it as like some sort of fashion statement to keep a sticker on. Someone does something stupid and people just catch on. You know, I know I sound like old fuddy duddy, but you asked me the question. Am I doing your show on the G train going into the inner Brooklyn? Shout out Brooklyn.
Shout out to People's Republic of Brooklyn.
Shout out to People's Republic of Brooklyn. What else we talking about?
What do you think of vertical video?
I'm not a fan.
You're not a fan?
How could someone watch the laws of Arabia like this? I feel like snatching these phones out of their hand.
I mean, I just name one. I mean, like,
consider this. Look at David Lee. Lawrence Arabia Bridge Dashago like this and like that. [laughter]
No, no, no.
Closer counts like this.
No, but consider this fight. What if there was a movie theater and the screen was vertical, but it was it was it was the same size as a movie theater.
Let me let me give you a three-word answer. Okay.
Okay. Nah. [laughter]
And I elongated too. [screaming]