You gotta love those cheap tv commercials for those “urban” clothing stores at the mall.  They are so ridiculous that you can only laugh.

You know the stores I’m talking about.  They have names like “Step ‘N’ Style” or “Tha Hard Ta Knock Shoppe,” where you can go for all your ghetto clothing needs.  What I can’t understand is why every mall around here needs like 5 or 6 of these stores.

Anyway, back to the commercials.  First of all, they look they like they were filmed on a cheap camcorder found on the side of the road on trash day.  And of course you have to have some dude rapping about all the clothes you can get (Baby Phat, G-Unit, whatever).

And let’s not forget the ghetto children (bebe’s kids) that they always have in the commercial, wearing their Sean John and Rocawear fur bubble coats.  They always look lost too, with blank stares on their faces while they stand there and model the clothes, or they are rapping out of synch with the music. 

The audio/visuals also just as bad.  I saw commercial where the picture was so dark you couldn’t even see the person.  I know that sounds bad, but it’s true.  And the audio sounds like it was recorded on a cassette player in a laundry room with the dryer on.  What the hell are they saying?   

There also a great commercial for place around here called “Uloho’s” (or something).  It’s one of those places where they sell like 30” rims to put on your 1986 Cutlass, effectively making the wheels worth more than the actual car itself.  Not to mention the stepladder now required to actually get in the vehicle.  Good luck trying to take a corner at more than 15 mph in that rig.  The commercial features some incoherent homemade rap with some ghetto dudes yelling nonsensicals at the camera while pointing at their spinners.  What you basically hear is;

“BlubudubahjibbajabbaULOHOSbabbledabblefimmelfammelaightyaheard.” 

Then they show what is supposedly Chad Johnson, but you can’t be sure because the lighting is so bad and you can’t hear what he’s saying.

Hilarious!

These places have everything you need to satisfy your inner thug or hood rat.  Everything except taste.