Sounds like they were quoting song lyrics, but their behavior was unacceptable. Typical ignorant behavior for today's youth. Pitiful.
Heckled by pre-adolescents for carrying my Gucci...
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What's up with the heckling and harassing by kids today? It's very disturbing! I think I would've laughed and then if they got aggressive I would've pulled my phone out to take a video. Down here in West Palm Beach, there's been a gang of "kids" - boys on bikes (ages 11-17) who are riding around on sidewalks and randomly harassing and hitting adults, trying to knock them down with their bikes, screaming in peoples' faces, etc. One man caught the whole thing on video and posted it on Facebook. A few of the kids were identified. One mom even had the nerve to say "they were just being kids" 
Consequence free acting out and the entitlement that follows from this is a lifestyle currently. And when people in higher (and lower) places not only condone it but incite it, what's to be expected?
Knowing a Gucci at 11? Wow, I have not had no knowledge of fashion until my 3rd year at uni. Kids these days. Sorry you had this experience.
I used to live in very chavy towns in the UK where walking past teenagers might have been avoided as much as possible - you would never know what people would scream or do your way... but that does not sound like it in your case. I would say lack of manners and parents not caring is a major part of it. I try to raise my kids differently but I also want my kids to handle such kids (they do with each other as well) - so if I raise them too politely they will be on the suffering end. you can't win... 
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I used to live in very chavy towns in the UK where walking past teenagers might have been avoided as much as possible - you would never know what people would scream or do your way... but that does not sound like it in your case. I would say lack of manners and parents not caring is a major part of it. I try to raise my kids differently but I also want my kids to handle such kids (they do with each other as well) - so if I raise them too politely they will be on the suffering end. you can't win...
These were not teens left alone and hanging out, they were children with an (in)appropriate adult.
It's true, kids are far more vulnerable to other kids IMO, but being polite and respectful doesn't mean having no street smarts or being a walkover. Most of these unruly kids are seeking attention to show off and pick on sensitivity, any signs of weakness. It's all about the dare and the drama.
Look at martial arts, respect for others and self-discipline are the first things learnt and underpin everything, anything physical is only for self-defence. Politeness and manners are signs of strength not of weakness.
I have children and actually, this is something I struggle with as well. I can't help sometimes feeling I'm doing them a disservice trying to bring them up to be polite and decent when so many parents obviously don't care about what their kids do to others, but rather seem to encourage and be proud of the me! me! ME! and too often aggressive antics of their offspring.I used to live in very chavy towns in the UK where walking past teenagers might have been avoided as much as possible - you would never know what people would scream or do your way... but that does not sound like it in your case. I would say lack of manners and parents not caring is a major part of it. I try to raise my kids differently but I also want my kids to handle such kids (they do with each other as well) - so if I raise them too politely they will be on the suffering end. you can't win...
Oh I agree totally which is why my 12 year old is doing martial arts, to handle himself with confidence without being totally out of line - and as an accompanying adult I certainly wouldn't let my kids get away with this. 10, 11 is frankly already as 'bad' as maybe 13,14 year olds - so I somehow often group them into that 'teenager' category. honestly, in a group kids can be problematic at all ages if one creates the wrong dynamic...
I just have to say this thread gave me joy to read and it was quite funny. I will admit that I wouldn't have liked to be in that situation (I don't like being pointed at or acknowledged by people I don't know), but maybe it's because I'm a mother and have experience with children that I wouldn't have been as bothered or flustered by it. Children will be children. I honestly don't think what they did was that shameful and it's probably just how you perceived the situation. Times have changed since we were kids. As the mother of an almost 12 year old girl, I would assume they got excited about the Gucci and started excitedly chanting and pointing. Did it really bother you that much to where the children needed to be hushed and reprimanded? I mean we become 'adults' so quickly and must conform to the socially constructed norms and BS, why not let them be children and say off color things while they can... It's not like they were teenagers or adults. I hope now that it's been a couple of years you are able to laugh at the silliness of the entire situation.