Viewers today have been conditioned by the obsessive likes of Mad Men’s Matthew Weiner into expecting period accuracy that borders on the fetishistic, and perhaps that’s not necessarily to the good. Indeed, though neither Dre nor Cube were bangers themselves, NWA presented itself as a gang as well as a group, and this presentation was very much part of the vicarious thrill of following them: “This is a gang, and I’m in it,” Cube raps on “Gangsta Gangsta,” “my man Dre will fuck you up in a minute.” Other rappers had costumes-Slick Rick’s signature Kangol and eye patch, for example. Their music offered a bracing glimpse of life in the gang-dominated enclaves of South Central Los Angeles, where subtle sartorial cues could suggest allegiances as much as an aesthetic. But NWA had a distinctive look, one that was not incidental to its appeal.
“I think it’s fucking hilarious that people are making a big deal about that,” the film’s costume designer, Kelli Jones, told Uproxx in an interview published on Wednesday. This may seem like an absurd exercise in nitpicking, and it is.
Aggie Szajda, senior PR manager at New Era, told me that the company began that practice in 1993. The New Era Cap Company, the official supplier of MLB’s on-field fitted hats, had not yet begun placing the MLB logo on the back of its hats in 1986. The hat also features the Major League Baseball logo, a detail that renders it doubly anachronistic.
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But jumping the gun on the White Sox logo isn’t the only mistake the movie makes-it’s not even the only mistake it makes on that hat.
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