![]() Up until then, I was getting by on several pairs of old Army boots (I can feel your ridicule already) and a pair of Merrell boots that I purchased eleven years ago for an excursion through Torres del Paine National Park in the Patagonia region of Chile. This is why, when my editor asked me a month ago if I had a pair of hiking boots, I was a little embarrassed. It’s about here where I feel I should confess that I’m a bit of a cheap-ass. I tell you all of this because as of a month ago, this was the extent of my knowledge about the brand. It was this popularity in the hip-hop community that helped propel Timberland into the billion-dollar company it is today. And if you’re a child of this era, you probably remember the footwear of choice for many rappers were the Timberland boots, dating back to the days of Tupac, Biggie, and the Wu-Tang Clan. If you were in high school or college then, you can probably still recite lyrics from Eminem, 50 Cent, or Nelly, even if-like me-you were never a fan. I’m not talking about the real gangster rap of the early- and mid-nineties I’m talking about the faux-stuff of the early 2000s. ![]() I grew up in the age of wannabe gangster rap.
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