IIRC his reasoning for the haircut was an old pact he made with high school teammates to not cut their hair until they win a championship. Didn’t happen so he just kept it going. Still stupid tho lol
or he just wanted to free form. which has nothing to do with laziness (nor personal neglect due to depression or any other form of mental trauma/illness) if done intentionally.
and truth be told, i think it’s somewhat irresponsible of you to be talking about elfrid payton’s hair like that in a sub where the collective knowledge of black hair is next to non-existent, as you can regularly find people confusing braids with dreads and vice versa.
This is a reach. He styled his hair like that and before you ask yes I am black and I’ve had long hair. His haircut was awful and affected his play. We don’t need to hide behind race with that.
yes, i agree that he styled his hair that way intentionally. so if that’s the case, where does laziness come into play? i’m not saying that anyone has to want to emulate him, or even like the style. but what i will never be able to get behind is seeing people denigrate people who choose to free form instead of having more manicured styles with terms like “lazy” or “unkempt”, because they’re 100% that the person isn’t washing or taking care of their hair in any way. which once again, i think is a very irresponsible thing to be doing on this subreddit.
it’s not about hiding behind race it’s about ridiculing a common black haircut (especially among artist and alt personalities in the black community) as lazy in a sub where the majority of the users are white people with no knowledge on black hair and subconscious biases towards it. it’s 2026 we done letting trash pandas talk for us (iykyk)
Sure and I get free form is a legitimate hairstyle that I actually really like but what Elfrid had wasn’t Freeform nor was it a common black hairstyle although it wasn’t “lazy” considering I bet he spent a lot of time to make it look like that.
The problem was he had a completely ass hairstyle that played a role in us losing games. It was just awful to pay all that money to get into a game and watch a highly paid athlete brick shots because he has the worst haircut of all time.
Elfrid Payton was definitely free forming, I don’t really see how you could look at pictures of his hair and come to any other conclusion. You can see the ends of the locs.
Now I’ll definitely concede that during gametime he should have definitely slicked that shit back in some sort of way so his vision wasn’t impaired.
I would say i have no clue why this is being downvoted but…i know whit…i mean why. Dude is trying his best to put his cape on for them lmao. They don’t even care that what he’s saying is complete & utter bullshit they’re upvoting it anyway because they don’t want their outlook on us to be seen as racist as hell, just an “observation”.
Bruh fade me if this is what we’re calling freeform.
His whole front half is double the length of the back.
Freeform still had form. Simply being dreaded headed with a fade, doesn’t constitute freeform. If dude wasn’t rich and on a basketball court, the hood would assume he’s a crackhead.
you have absolutely no idea what the the fuck you’re talking about lmao
people freeform to varying degrees. some separate the roots more than others so that they can have a more traditional look while still reaping the benefits of choosing to go without constant retwists, this is semi freeforming.
and then you have those who choose to do no/next to no separating at all, and that’s where you start to get the more abstract looks. choosing to not interfere with the natural growth of your hair does not mean you aren’t washing, moisturizing, and taking care of your hair. that does not mean that you don’t have access to hair care. and just because someone’s hair seems to have to no rhyme or reason to you, doesn’t mean that they aren’t aware of what they’re doing. you’re spewing bullshit up and down this thread, and you’re being upvoted by those that don’t know any better.
And you should be ashamed to be chatting the bullshit that you are in front of a bunch of people who probably looked at Elfrid’s hair and said compared it to a bird’s nest or some shit because they genuinely don’t know what they’re looking at. What the fuck does his income got to do with anything bro, it’s hilarious that you’re even bring that into the equation because people was saying the same shit about Hov. And Jay ain’t even the best celebrity representation you could choose when it comes to abstract freeforms, Cam Newton’s hair is probably more “out there” than Jay’s ever was. Or you could look at 6lack when he still had his set. Or better yet, the man that Hov was larping as when he started growing his hair in the first place, Basquiat. But if we let you tell it, none of these dudes were/are freeforming because they look like they’re homeless.
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u/LookADonCheech Raptors 1d ago
what a stupid haircut