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Rappers on the runway Lil’ Kim 0

Rappers on the runway Coolio 1

Rappers on the runway Treach 2

Rappers on the runway A$AP Rocky 3

Rappers on the runway Skepta 4

Rappers on the runway A$AP Nast 5

Rappers on the runway Pharrell 6

Rappers on the runway Kid Cudi 7

Rappers on the runway A$AP Nast 8

Rappers on the runway Playboi Carti 9

Rappers on the runway Bladee 10

Rappers on the runway Playboi Carti 11

Rappers on the runway Lancey Foux 12

Rappers on the runway Jim Jones 13

Rappers on the runway Bktherula 14

Rappers on the runway YG 15

Rappers on the runway Clipse 16

Rappers on the runway Rejjie Snow 17

Rappers on the runway Cardi B 18

Rappers on the runway Jim Jones 19

Rappers on the runway Pusha T 20

Rappers on the runway Offset 21

Rappers on the runway YG 22

Rappers on the runway NLE Choppa 23

Rappers on the runway Offset 24

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In pictures: 25 times rappers ruled the runway

Despite moments such as those, it still took high fashion a hot minute to embrace hip-hop. Fashion trailblazer Lil’ Kim walked for Kimora Lee’s debut Baby Phat show at the turn of the century, but it wasn’t until over a decade later that rappers began regularly popping up on runways, when Black and POC designers made the changes themselves. By the early 2010s, as the great fashion/rap crossover was fully materialising, Hood By Air put a young A$AP Rocky on the runway, Nasir Mazhar tapped Skepta in 2015, and A$AP Nast even crashed the finale of an Off-White show in his own clothes in 2016. (Coolio, Tommy Hilfiger AW96 men’s, New York Fashion Week)

Photography John Aquino/Penske Media via Getty Images

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