 wearing streetwear always you know made me feel comfortable just wearing like you know delfast clothes hi i'm samantha cox para for cal tv music here with hyphy fashion designer and owner of the backwards company brian so what was it that drew you to hyphy music what did you what do you find exciting about it just the the culture like i was saying like you know it it made me feel you know like i belong somewhere with like the creativity behind it um and you know the music just sounds hella good you know so what are some of your favorite hyphy songs oh damn um let's see probably uh feeling myself uh get stupid since 84 tell me when to go those are just like you know the major you know hyphy songs uh i probably you know like all the pack music vans in my car there's all kinds of you know different barrier culture you know different different music so what was it that made you decide to create your own clothing company creativity through clothing it was something that just really drew to me pink dolphin rare panther uh rocket there's all the major companies i guess diamond supreme bape there's all kinds of you know different companies that i don't know i think they they influenced me all differently awesome okay so you mentioned earlier the hyphy movement was also a social movement and with that talking about kind of like the politics of the community and things going on you have a shirt that is called to serve and protect can you give a little bit of background about it um well that situation was something that happened in belayal it was i'm pretty sure it happened right across the crest and i don't know it was just something that i thought was handled really inappropriate you know the way the cop treated you know that that citizen you know by you know using police brutality the purest form you know beating that guy so hard and i mean yeah i just thought it was it was inappropriate and wrong the way he handled the situation so and it happened you know so close to home that i feel like it was almost necessary to put it on a shirt so what was your personal experience like growing up in the bay area with all these different culture movements you know that made me feel comfortable with myself it's given me the opportunity to embrace it through clothing i used to always draw growing up so i wanted to use that towards something and i put it towards clothing so in your clothing there's also a lot of references to different bay area sports teams i'm wondering like draymond green and like stuff curry and all these guys like especially march on lynch when he went like hyphy on the sidelines recently why do you why are you connecting sports with hyphy fashion the march on situation i think he's just using using you know the movements and like the the culture he's just embracing it through sports and uh he's you know taking advantage of all the things that's happened in his community and putting it towards the sidelines just going crazy having fun okay awesome so thank you for taking the time to interview with me and i brought you and your cameraman friend some cow tv lighters yeah and um so can we get a go bears on three okay one two three