The Art Of Styling It Out - RWD & Come Again - July 2004

I believe that styling it out has become an Art form. People go to great lengths to save face. No one likes to be pointed and laughed at by their mates. So if you've used the line "Mum those files were on my pc when we bought it" read on cus this is for you.


1. The fake phone call flex.
I've seen this done when approaching a group of the opposite sex. Holding the phone to your ear makes you seem cool and important. Just don't let that mission impossible ring tone go off.
2.Is that a phone in your pocket?
Those ones when you're a little bit excited and you put your hands in your pocket to cover up. The guys will know what I mean by this one.
3. Trip...slip...and run.
This is done a lot up and down high streets across the land. This is usually performed when you trip on the pavement, and there are many ways to style this out. For those of us that have perfected this new Art form, we style it out by pretending after the trip that we are running for the bus or in some kind of high street race.
4. Those people with death breath.
Come on man... eating 20 mints a day will never cover the fact that you haven't brushed your teeth for like 3 weeks.
5. Curfew? What curfew?
It's all about saying that your Nan is coming over, so the fact that your mum wants you in at 6.30 is never realised by your crew.
6. Crazy stains?
Ok this is when you have a weird stain on your boxers/knickers. It's all about sayin that they are chocolate stains man (no one needs to know the truth).
7. Let the dog take the heat.
Ever used the lines... "What's that smell" or "boy, that dog needs help". When we know damn straight it was us who did it.
8. That trim.
For those out there that go to a family member for a trim/new hair do. I love the lyrics you pull off, saying it was done by the popular barbers for 10 bucks, when really it was your blind aunt. Don't forget the girl dem whose new hair style flops and they say..."j-lo was rocking this last week".
9. The cover up text!
This is sent rapidly after you text the wrong person, instead of someone your on. So then you have to text them again to pretend it was a joke ting. The cover up text is always like... "only jkin bro, I hd u den, ha ha"
10. Those PAUG ones.
People on Pay As You Go have their own rules when it comes to styling it out. The best ones have to be the..."Call me back my reception is dying" or the... One ring flex (I hate this). Why can't they just say... "Boy, you might have to call me back, cus my credit is like 13 pence."

After taking all this in, I must stress, there are some things that you can't style out, and you are left with some kind of runny egg on your face. Like when you get clocked by someone looking somewhere you shouldn't, or when the phone goes off when approaching that group of girls/men. Just remember this is a new art form and news ways of styling it out are born everyday. So next time you fall down the stairs at the cinema...err...pretend that you were checking the carpet for durability.