The Australian hip-hop outfit Butterfingers released a song called "Yo Mama" that made number 17 on the 2004 Triple J Hottest 100.

What adolescents wear to be cool has mushroomed from a $125 pair of Nike Air Jordans to $500 designer-brand-only hip-hop outfits.

The parade was noisy and lively and included two thousand dancers dressed in costumes that ranged from cancan skirts to opulent hip-hop outfits to wedding gowns, all representing aspects of Gaultier's work.

He also spent nearly all his monthly disability money - about $400 after rent - on pristine hip-hop outfits, often giving the old ones to his shabbier neighbors.

One 'big' band plays per month, and there are regular gigs by unsigned rock and hip-hop outfits.

He was briefly a member of alternative hip-hop outfit Collapsed Lung.

Consisting of more than 100 rarely seen items from the museum's permanent collection, the exhibition ranges from an 18th-century baby's cap worn by a signer of the Declaration of Independence to a hip-hop outfit created in 2001 by the design group Fubu.

The Irish-American hip-hop outfit, currently riding high in the US charts, signed to XL Recordings' new Ruffness label last month.

Participants: Two teen-age boys, dressed in baggy hip-hop outfits.