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Rude boy or rudy is a subculture that developed in the early 1960s on Jamaica and has close ties to skinhead culture.
The rude boy culture originated in the ghettos of Kingston, where disaffected, unemployed youth started wearing sharp suits and pork-pie hats in an imitation of the upper class. Most rude boys were armed and organised in gangs, and violence was an integral part of rude boy lifestyle.
With growing emigration in the late 1960s, the rude boy culture and its music, ska, spread to England and from there to most other western countries. It has had considerable influence on early skinhead culture.
The name Rudy often appears in ska lyrics as an allusion to the rude boy subculture.
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