No, you paid extra to have your velvet crushed so it's nice and soft for the ladies.
Yeah, some lesser pimps wouldn't bother to velvet and zebra stripe their hat, because they're not true pimps. Pssh, yeah right! Nothing says class like wearing some faux zebra stripe as you strut down the boulevard. You wouldn't be caught dead in non-crushed velvet, and if any of your pimp friends saw you in it, you'd be the laughingstock of the neighborhood.