In hip hop then becoming the lingua franca of popular culture worldwide, Abloh’s influence superseded the boom-bap and street culture realms. His hand in evolving rap music into a juggernaut capable of becoming, by 2017, statistically more popular than rock music for the first time is one of the most audacious feats ever. To say that he’s a visionary whose legacy is an aggressive introduction of irony and late-20th century African-American urban influence to the pinnacle of global art and fashion is underselling perhaps his most remarkable accomplishment. Impresario, musical inspiration, DJ, and fashion designer Virgil Abloh has died of cancer at the age of 41.
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