The Jheri curl is a permanent wave hairstyle that was popular among Black Americans, Black Puerto Ricans, Black Dominicans, Black Canadians, Black Brits and Black New Zealanders during the 1980s and e
Hip-hop artist and actor Ice Cube sporting a Jheri curl hairstyle in 1987
Billy Ray Bates is a retired American professional basketball player. Bates played shooting guard at McAdams High in Mississippi and attended Kentucky State University.
Jheri curl
…critic Owen Gleiberman took it as a "tacit comic statement about the ghettoization of [Black people] in movies". Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Billy Ray Bates was reported to be unpopular with other players "because he had a really moist Jheri curl, and the ball would get all slippery." List of hairstyles…