Donks
I'm sure you've been cruzin' down the street and seen some shit like this and thought "Man, that's straight up mental retardation in vehicular form." The funny thing is that the style is catching on and this is becoming more common.
A black dude once told me "Man, I saw your car and I'm like 'a Mexican has to be driving that shit.'" Yeah, it's a '92 Cadi on 14" spokes. Damn right.
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The look on his face said it all, like he didn't get it and thought it was stupid, little wheels and all. To each his own I guess. I think my shit is tight, just gotta drop it a few inches. Imagine the look on my face when he showed me a pic on his cell phone of what he thought was tight: A Dodge Durango on 40"s. Yeah, it looked fucking stupid. That's when I knew only dumb ass could like that shit. The weird thing is, I've seen these donks on the street and immediately assume it's a black dude driving it (cuz they "roll big"). When I take a look, I often see it's either a Mexican or a White guy. What the fuck? I almost wanna pull them over and ask them what the hell are they thinking. Then again, these are the type of people that wear panty hoses on their head and grills. Another case of Identity crisis.
The dissapointing part is seeing Chicanos falling into that shit. I've been told my ride is dope by la Raza, but there was this vato outside a liquor store that told me that the style is outdated, "i'm doing it wrong" and I had to "slap on some DUBs, quick." Prefferably 22"s. "Nah, I'm not Black, homie" is what I told him and he just shook it head.
Oh, I'm doing it wrong, huh? Hmmmm... let me see. I can reduce that suggestion to one simple word: RIDICULOUS. I know for a fact that I am not alone in thinking that having huge ass rims on a car is stupid as fuck.
What is a Donk?
In recent years, black culture has popularized several different styles coming from the South: namely "Crunk" music and "Donks". You know what "Crunk" is, but what the fuck is a "Donk"? It's a piece of shit, and in the Bay Area they're called "scrapers". Let me explain it:
There's three different types of "High-rise" styles (high-rise meaning the car is lifted high enough to sport huge rims):
| Cars from the 80's (preferably Chevys) with big rims. Cars of this era have a "boxy" shape are considered "Boxes".
Get it? ha ha
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Cars from the 90's (preferably Chevys) with big rims. Cars of this era have a "rounder" shape in the front and
back are called "Bubbles". Get it? Clever.
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Cars from the 70's (preferably Chevys) with big rims and the front suspension must be higher than the back. Cars from this era have a more sloped back,
and are called "Donks". Get it? Me niether.
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As you can tell, the whole point of the style is to slap on as big of rims as possible on any car. "Bigger is Better" is the rule here. The truly hardcore alter the suspension to their rides to put rims as big as 28", which make the ride look like a "monster truck-car"... or something like that. Anyway, why would anyone do this? It looks so fucking stupid. I mean, you laughed when you saw the pictures right? If you didn't, take another look.
As I said, the concept behind this style is simple: "Bigger is Better", or more accurately "Bigger Is More Expensive". It doesn't matter how shitty the car is, if you got big ass rims you have "baller status" because it must have cost you a grip to buy them, right? And that, homies, is what's fucking wrong with this picture. It boils down to black people's obsession with money and monetary possession. It's fucking true, anyone disagree feel free to tell me otherwise. That concept applies to everything, from rap music consisting solely of a rapper showing off how much money they have or what's around their necks, to "iced out grills". Seriously, what was that Nelly song, "Grillz"? The girl even goes as far as saying "Let me see your grill, and how much did it cost?" What the FUCK? Rap used to be a testosterone driven art form, now it's just a bitch made circus of who blows the most money on ridiculously long chains and spinning belt buckles. Fuck Jacob the Jeweler.
Back on topic: You can have a small ass piece-of-shit car like a '94 Honda sittin' on 24"s and anyone would groan out-loud because of how ridiculous it looks, yet there's always a dumb ass person will get excited and say something like "Oh no he DIDN'T!" and start jumping around in admiration. Ultimately, style is sacrificed in exchange for "status". That is why when I hear someone dissin' the Lowrider style and saying that this is the way to go I am confused. Lowriders aren't about money. When you go to a lowrider show you admire the style, time, effort, and passion that went into creating the car. The details. How things are chromed out, how things are made custom. Yeah it costs money to do that, but that's irrelevant. What matters is the end result.
I didn't give a fuck about that stupid style til it got personal, so let's have a little comparison:
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To me, there is no comparison. The style on the right is absolutely wack, period. Now let me clarify one thing: I am in no way against having DUBs on a car, but they have to be 20's. No 22's, most cars' wheel wells aren't big enough to sport that size without looking stupid (exceptions are the Dodge Magnum and the Chrysler 300. There's room to go big on those). The problem occurs when you put on rims that are too big for the car and it makes it noticably higher than stock-height. That's what gives the appearance that you're over-doing it, when the rims stand out by themselves instead of complementing the car as a whole. The point is to fill the wheel well with as much rim as you can without adversely affecting the height of the car. Why is that so hard to understand?
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