Beginning with the earliest rap concert shirts from the Sugar Hill Gang and New
York Fresh Fest, circa 1980-84, and spanning the next two decades, Rap Tees incl
udes rare shirts from a wide selection of the who's-who of the business includin
g: Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Beastie Boys, Eric B and Rakim, Wu Tan
g Clan, Jay Z, Nas, EMPD, and many, many more. Rap Tees bookends the golden age
of rap with unique street-corner memorial shirts commemorating the deaths of The
Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.
Unlike typical rock n' roll shirts, hip-ho
p tees were often made in extremely limited quantities. The elusive concert, pro
motional, and bootleg tees included in this book are nearly impossible to find o
n the open market. Only DJ Ross One could track down these gems for you in this
one-of-a-kind book, making Rap Tees the consummate guide for these unique pieces
of music history."
