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A popular dining and drinking spot in San Antonio is under fire
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after posting a joke on Instagram banning Edgar haircuts,
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a bowl shaped cut popular with young Latinos man.
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Why are you doing my boy,
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Ralph like that? Oh man.
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But the post showed a picture of a young Hispanic man with
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the haircut and the words no Edgars across his face and some
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criticized Ricky Ortiz, the owner of El Camino and other establishments
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as racist for the post.
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So we wanted to get the opinion from an expert,
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you know, the world's most famous barber,
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Rob the original. Well,
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bro? Hey, thank you for having me.
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I know that the Edgar cut has been causing a lot of
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controversy for the past few years.
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I think at the end of the day,
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you know, we were living in a different generation.
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We gotta let the the young kids,
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you know, that's their hairstyle,
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that's what they're like wearing.
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So I know at the beginning when I,
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we started seeing the kids come into the barbershop asking for the
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editor cuts. We were,
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we hated doing those,
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you know, because it's a taper and it's just like,
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don't touch the top just,
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you know, clean the sides and it just keeps growing and
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growing growing. We're like,
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But,, but at the end of the day,
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you know, I like my sister.
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I have a sister that has,
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you know, my nephew doesn't let him get that haircut and
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you know, you gotta let him be,
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you know, like maybe later on he's gonna look back and
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be like, why did I get that haircut?
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You know what I mean?
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you know what I'm saying?
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the cette the libri,
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we had like all these hairs that were whack.
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But for us, we're cool when we were,
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you know, teenagers.
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let them be and what are your thoughts on the Edgar news
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So like the restaurant and all that,
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what are your thoughts on that too far?
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What's going on, man?
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sometimes, you know,
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when we, we don't want to adapt to,
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you know, certain things and I know it's difficult,
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in this life we gotta adapt to whatever is coming new and
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you know what I'm saying?
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That's why it's, it's good to innovate and like to think
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don't think of what's the usual,
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what everybody is following but like,
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you know, it's cool to do new things,
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you know what I'm saying?
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it's to each their own,
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you know, in my business,
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obviously, you know,
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editors are welcome over here,
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you know what I'm saying?
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you can't judge everybody with that haircut is not a criminal or
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You know what I'm saying?
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I know a lot of good kids that have Edgar haircuts and
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that doesn't make them a bad kid.
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You know, I mean this one sweet edgars.
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speaking of the request you get daily,
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what's the crazy request you've had in the barbershop?
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Crazy request. I've had people ask me for a portrait of
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their girlfriend. I thought that was pretty crazy,
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bro, that portrait haircut and I know you can deliver.
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I seen you do the Vicente Fernandez on the back of the
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car and I know you would deliver too.
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the haircuts with the portraits and stuff.
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I did it to step out of the box just to
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kind of go viral on social media and obviously it grabs attention
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because it's not normal is weird.
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And that's kind of how the idea came,
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you know, for doing you know,
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art with different art mediums.
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It came from first from the haircuts.
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people don't usually come in and ask for a design that's like
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intricate like that. Usually it's,
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you know, a small pattern or something that they can wear
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something that looks cool.
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but what I'm doing is like,
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it's not wearable. You know what I mean?
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Like, if you wear it,
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it's gonna definitely turn heads because it's not normal to see.
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Turn heads, turn your heads.
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There you go. What trends do you see in 2025?
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And what do you think is the next Edgar?
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I know people are doing the Peso pluma one or what do
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you think is the next top?
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That's a hard one to tell.
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Honestly, everything comes unexpected.
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But I think that people are going to start growing their hair
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out more like, you know what I mean?
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We'll see more long hair because,
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you know, we were bald like in the nineties and the
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eight and the early two thousands,
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but the fades, you know,
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we were doing the ball fades but now it drifted to,
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you know, the kids are having hair and I think that
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just having hair, it's becoming more popular.
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I know my dad gets mad at me.
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He's like, because like,
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I like to grow my hair out.
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I've been wanting to grow my mole for the last year,
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but we had a baby shower,
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we had a wedding like my sister got married.
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I couldn't let it grow.
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And I my dad every time like no misque clean.
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But I'm like, I like my longer hair because homeboys bald
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it's like you just wish you had hair and that's why
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I think he's kind of like,
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you know, forcing me to like keep it nice and clean
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Like I like my mole.
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But I feel that yeah,
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I think long hair is it coming back in style?
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Just like baggy is coming back as well.
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You know, baggy clothes,
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go skinny jeans, everything comes back and then what topics
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are off the table inside a barbershop?
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Because I know o she man,
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like there's no tomorrow too,
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you know, like us like we us in nail salons and
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and men in barbershops.
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what is something that is like off the table inside a barbershop
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Probably like racial stuff that's off the table like we just
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don't, we don't touch those topics.
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people still like talking about competitive stuff and also politics,
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you know, especially in the area where I have my barbershop
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there's a lot of you know,
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older white men so we don't talk about politics.
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You know, my barbers are all Latinos and stuff,
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you know. You know what I'm saying?
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So it's just, you know,
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there's certain things you just don't talk,
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you know what I mean around,
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you know, you gotta be a chameleon.
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That's what I tell my,
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you know, they're young kids,
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they think, you know,
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I'm, I'm kind of a little hood looking but you should
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still be respectful and,
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and know how to talk to people and make them feel welcome
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it's all about who you're around.
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When you're with your homies,
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you could be hood or ghetto or talk however you want.
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But you know what I'm saying,
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you know what I'm saying,
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to talk, how to talk around.
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Who for sure. And where can people follow you on social
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media? Instagram is my,
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the, the main account that I'm always on.
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but I do use Tik Tok and everything is Rob
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the original so I can just go Rob the original on everything
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Well, I'll start growing my hair out and once my
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mu it's almost ready and then I'll come to you and give
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me that bookies treatment.
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No, I want to see that we can do a drawing
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there you go. Do my girl or my baby on there
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Let's do it. All right.
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Well, thanks. I appreciate the time and I guess it
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was cool. I thought we were in the barbershop a little
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