Swag?

So, can anybody really define the word for me? It's not really clear. On Facebook, there are so many stupid pages for "Chicago's Finest" or "Chicago's Most Dope" or "Chicago's Bhaddest" some other really dumb shit. When I look at these pages though, it's typically a bunch of nobodies with Jordans, snapbacks, khakis, and jean jackets. Oooh, swag? Nah, I don't think so.

Just because you wear khakis, converse, and dyed the front of your afro blonde while screaming TGOD doesn't mean you have swag. Just because you take ALL of your pictures showing the bottom of the J's that EVERYONE in the city of Chicago got at the same time doesn't mean you have swag. Just because you still rock your fitted doesn't mean that you are a swag-less loser. Who even said that was okay? I don't think swag is getting your belly button pierced and wearing only crop tops and J's with ya legs all pigeon-toed and bowlegged. Swag isn't posing in the mirror with your weave and your polo hat with your acrylics to the camera flipping the bird. Swag isn't buying out the Hollister store. Swag isn't posting pictures of you smoking weed. Swag isn't getting hella pointless tattoos. Doing all these things doesn't mean you have "swag."

Now if you do all that stuff, then shit, do you. I'm not here to tell you to stop. It's just the fact that everyone is following a trend, and wants to be the first motherfucker to call someone out wearing a fitted or some dumb shit. Fuck, let them do them, just like you and 80% of Chicago are on that other shit... that just so happens to be the same shit. If that makes you happy then by all means.

I think swag is the way you carry yourself. The way you do things because you want to. The way you just are. I personally don't think swag is only a materialistic thing. There's reason someone has swag... and it can't just be because they look like the next guy with cargos and a snapback. But hey,

I guess the term is up for interpretation.