This is a fade.
You've probably noticed that it's a haircut that Travis Kelce has rocked for years.
Though recently, he was also credited for popularizing it in a New York Times article, which even dubbed the hairstyle the "Travis Kelce."
The piece was about how people have apparently been going into barbershops and requesting fades amid Travis's blossoming relationship with Taylor Swift — when, in reality, it's a very classic mens haircut, and has been a favorite within the Black community and others for a minute now.
Thankfully, Travis knows better because he totally shut down the notion on a new episode of his New Heights podcast.
"Yeah, can you guys stop telling people that I invented the fade?" he said. "I didn’t, all right. I walked in a barbershop one day, didn’t even know what I was getting. I didn’t invent the fade."
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You can see his comments around the 22 minute mark.
He also called the idea that he created the fade "ridiculous" at a later press conference.
