The Coolest
Posted on July 13th, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
Billy Dee
Ebony Magazine has a list of the 25 “Coolest Brothers” of all time. Click here to see pictures of the eight covers.
Growing up, Billy Dee Williams was the coolest dude, and he is hands down the “coolest of all time”. He was so cool that he wore a cape as mayor (Administrator) of a city in the clouds (Cloud City) and destroyed the second Death Star. You can’t tell me that ain’t cool. Prince is second.
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Billy Dee… yes
But Prince ehm…. I have to pull your card on that one
@ rasheed
Two words for you: Lake Minnetonka
Morris Day is not on the list?? He even had a song called ‘COOL’
James Earl Jones didn’t make it either. Dude was Darth Vader for God’s sake.
The entire list is here
http://www.ebonyjet.com/coolmen/
Yes! (and the cutest during his time). People may also disagree with me on this one, but I also thought that Richard Roundtree was cool. Prince ?Hmmmmm. I thought that he was cool, but he is so weird.
L–
For real on Morris Day! I went to Ebony’s site and looked at the complete list. They left a lot of ice cold brothers out of the voting.
Andre 3000 was a good choice. He is just as cool and collected as he want to be.
@ Tariq
though I loath to admit it Billy Dee was thee epitome of “adult” cool back in the day, “don’t let the smooth taste fool you” he even made malt liquor “classy” and “desirable”
Now Prince was never “cool” LOL
I know the next lines I type are going to get me in trouble but oh well I’ve drove about 2000 miles over the weekend and I feel light headed LOL
Anyway Prince was never cool, man you have to deduct major cool points for the eyeliner and make-up HOWEVER, he got a pass since all of the women he was thought to have dated were beautiful , (ahem… I mean beautiful from juvenile non-Muslim perspective, which is no match for the outer and inner beauty of my modestly dressed sisters in Islam from the perspective of an adult. …was that a good clean up??? )
Basically, in my hood Prince got a pass, but if you dressed or acted like Prince you didn’t LOL LOL LOL
No matter how weird he dressed, nobody ever accused him of being gay, but if a dude dressed like him in the hood oh we were calling you gay and crack jokes. And even if you wanted to diss him you didn’t because you didn’t want the girls to call you a hater LOL LOL
when i think about even back then girls had a lot of influence thankfully they didn’t know it LOL
Prince is cool for the fact that confidence in being yourself is cool. What is cool if not confidence in who you are? Oh by the way…C.O.O.L by the Time was written and produced by Prince. I mean, damn - I’m 5′2″ - can wear high heeled boots, Victorian era ruffles AND pull more women than you while playing 27 instruments…that’s cool potnah
@Rashad
I get your point LOL however you still have to do the math
circa 1983-84
blouses + cutout rear pants + high-hills ? cool
leather jacket + baggy jeans + addidas = cool
lol Yeah - I didn’t say I was wearin’ it.
Run DMC single handedly saved a struggling shoe outfit called Adidas.
@Abu Usamah
LOL. You are 100% correct about Prince. I joke about it all the time–that brother got a pass cause he is a genius. No one else could ever have pulled off what he wore. And unfortunately I can never, ever forget those most tragic bottomless trousers (eek!).
But I also agree that, musical genius aside, he also is one heck of a poet/songwriter, has never been afraid to be himself, and definitely putting aside his most raunchy material–his social commentary songs are very deep. His war with the record companies–definitely gets cool marks for that.
Plus, have you seen the brotha’s suits lately? It don’t get much more fly than that.