Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
I remember reading that this fashion statement came from folks who had been in prison and they were either issued clothes to big, couldn't have belts to hold up their pants or just lost weight and the issued pants were droopy. Makes sense that this "look" is associated with thugs and wanna be thugs.
Heard elsewhere from a prison guard at one of the prisons in NY that inmates did that so they could have quick assess to a sharp object that they kept between their butt cheeks. Either way, yep, its a thug look.