Rims and hip hop!?

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OK, there are a lot of crazy things in hip hop used for bragging about material wealth but the rims are becoming the most important one. why do you think that is and when did actually that transformation from golde chains to car rims happened?
even Nas did a rim commercial...

― rimman, Monday, 16 August 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

If Big Slice reads ILM we're all set.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 16 August 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I dunno rappers (esp West Coast) have talked about rims for awhile...I remember the 100 Spokes song by Above the Law and "Daytons" were always a big touchstone in rap/lowrider culture

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 16 August 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

any more songs about rims? twista's 'like a 24'?

― rimman, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 13:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"Riddin Spinners" - 3-6 Mafia

― CrunkWithChrist, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

a song off the first Mack 10 album , something about daytons(danas)
Rims have been the thing for at least 10 or 12 years. I remember a Source article with Erick Sermon showing off his rim shop and I haven't read the source in forever yearswise.

― Killa Poe, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this would be a thread about rimshots in rap songs :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

chris rock had a funny bit about this on his last standup thing.

― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Thursday, 19 August 2004 01:57 (twenty-one years ago)

T.I. - "24's"

(are any of these other rims songs any good? because the T.I. track sure isn't)

― Nick Mirov (nick), Thursday, 19 August 2004 02:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah weakest song on a strong album.

― djdee2005, Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:00 (twenty-one years ago)

[i]I dunno rappers (esp West Coast) have talked about rims for awhile[/i]

From my understanding, the lowrider culture, which eventually included putting nice shiny rims on a car, was started here on the West Coast in the late 30's early 40's and was purely a Mexican-American thing. Within the last 20-30 years, the African American community adopted A LOT of this culture as well. From there, with the emergence of West Coast gangsta rap, a little bit of this was brought into the hip hop game as a whole.

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Thursday, 19 August 2004 05:33 (twenty-one years ago)

spreewells son, spreewells.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 19 August 2004 07:08 (twenty-one years ago)

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