Cover of Run-D.M.C.

Chivalrous Culture has just gone international! It’s one thing when your boys down the street know exactly what it is and what the movement is all about. It’s another thing when the Netherlands is anxiously awaiting the hottest thing in fashion since Run DMC put Adidas on the map.

The Netherland online publication (which had to be translated just to understand how cool it was) announced that Chivalrous Culture would be bringing their sneakers in July. They managed in their short blurb about us to promote the most important thing about this shoe: it’s balance between street and luxury. Because when you’re talking about being a gentleman, that’s exactly what you are talking about: balance.

I know finding something that walks the line between cool and classy isn’t easy. Classy is a lot of things, but cool isn’t always one of them. That’s the true essence of Chivalrous Culture. It’s making a statement but being comfortable doing it. This is a pair of shoes that you can rock with your favorite pair of jeans or your slickest looking suit. Just like a classic car, it’s balance is timeless.

Now, why is it important that it’s coming to the Netherlands? That’s a good question. It’s important because it represents the spreading of style and the progression of movement. A trend can’t be a trend unless it spreads beyond the circle. You guys are in the circle. You understand what ChivCulture.com is all about. Now the Netherlands is getting a taste of it too. Being a flashy, classy gentlemen just went international. 

Is it just me or has hip hop gone Chivalrous Culture? No, I’m not talking about the hottest styles that the world’s best MCs have been sporting. I’m talking about the ultimate collaboration of ideas. Just like ChivCulture.com is about melding together the flash of the current male with the class of the urban gentleman to form a style unlike any the world has ever known. That’s what’s happening in hip hop.

Blowing up a verse on someone else’s record is pretty commonplace. It’s almost as if you ain’t respected if you ain’t on someone else’s track, but now people are throwing up whole albums together. Jay-Z and Kanye West are about to drop “Watch the Throne.” You’ve also got Royce Da 5’9’ and Eminem with their “Bad Meets Evil Hell: the Sequel” album that is getting played all over and has got mad respect from some of hip hop’s most trusted critics. Dropping a track ain’t enough; now you have to take it to the next level.

Of course we here at ChivCulure.com understand the thought process behind collaboration. After all, when you are feeling something with someone else, whether it be your girl, your friend on the court or in the studio, or a classmate, you gotta push it till you can find maximum results.

Hip hop got wise and the keepers of the throne started bringing hot minds to make beautiful music together. It’s this kind of openness to ideas that I can get behind, and it’s exactly why hip hop is better than ever.