Kanye West Debuts $120 Plain White T-Shirt, It Sells Out Immediately…Huh?!
It looks like being a new father hasn’t stopped Kanye West from pushing the boundary on stupidity. The rapper, skirt wearer, and sperm donor to Kim Kardashian has debuted his latest work of art: a plain white t-shirt.
Reportedly, Kanye teamed up with French fashion label A.P.C to create the nine-piece capsule collection which has been two years in the making. Yes, you read that right. It took TWO FUCKING YEARS to conceptualize nine pieces of clothing, two of them being a plain white and plain black t-shirt, respectively. Yeezus Christ.
What. The. Fuck?
Seriously?! What the fuck is wrong with people these days? The worldwide economy is in the shitter and yet there’s still people who justify dropping $120 on a plain white t-shirt, simply because it was designed by Kanye West?
I’m pretty sure this so-called “Hip Hop T-shirt” is the exact same one you can scoop off the J. Crew sale rack for $12.
Not one thing special about it, at all, yet it sold out online just hours after its debut. My head is seriously spinning in disbelief at the stupidity exhibited by anyone who thought it was a great idea to buy this shirt. Do you know how many white t-shirts I ruin in a months time? Easily 5 or 6. I’m a man; it’s just our nature. The difference? Well, I spend about $10 on average for each one.
For those of you that didn’t read my “Things Wrong With America” column addressing the douchebaggery that Kanye carries with him in every walk of life, I’ll be plain with you: I hate the dude.
Yeezus was a terrible album, regardless of what you or any music critic says, and there’s a clear cut reason why Jay-Z left Magna Carta Holy Grail devoid of Kanye’s influence. I know that “Holy Grail” and “Oceans” were recorded during the Watch The Throne sessions, but clearly, Hova had good reason to keep them for himself, despite Kanye lobbying to include them on the duo’s project.
Simply put, Kanye’s pretentiousness has gone too far, and this latest high-end fashion escapade only contributes to that fact.
[via Metro]
Reminds me of the brand Bathing Ape, that modified Nike shoes to sell at a very high price to a very similar demographic. The owner said he was laughing at each and every one of his customers for buying his overpriced shit.
13 years ago at 3:02 pmI have that shirt at home.
13 years ago at 3:02 pmProve it.
13 years ago at 3:49 pmNot suprised. It is just Trayvon look-alikes that buy this stuff…
13 years ago at 3:03 pmThis guy certainly thought he was going to get a ton of “^This”
13 years ago at 5:08 pm^
13 years ago at 12:59 amI don’t know what I hate more, Kanye West or the fact that I still listen to his music
13 years ago at 3:03 pmDoes it come with a certificate of stupidity?
13 years ago at 3:19 pmYes. The receipt.
13 years ago at 4:15 pmI guarantee this fucker will be the first rapper to come out with a song about trayvon
13 years ago at 3:24 pmLil scrappy ^
13 years ago at 4:32 pmplenty of rappers have all ready
13 years ago at 6:50 pmI heard some people talking about how his song “new slaves” is about how people slave themselves to doing whatever the media tells them to do, like $120 plain white t-shirts.
13 years ago at 3:32 pmEven more specifically it’s literally about how black people have once again become slaves but this time to their own materialistic desires. I can’t tell if this shirt is blatant hypocrisy or a tongue-in-cheek joke. I actually lean more towards the latter. Kanye is pretty openly mocking his own fans with this shirt but most people are too dumb to realize it and instead act “outraged” which is the point.
tl;dr Kanye is laughing at you
13 years ago at 4:03 pm^
13 years ago at 5:26 pmim pretty sure kanye west’s extends past the black population
13 years ago at 6:52 pm^^ 100% Accurate. I tend to think he feeds his ego feeling like he is educating the masses about their unholy worship of the dollar bill then turns around and feeds his ego even more by being able to make money off such a stupid concept. In the end its all about feeding his own ego.
13 years ago at 8:17 pmthe new slavery started in the ’60s with the welfare state. the Dems supply the food stamps and the blacks supply 13 mil votes in every election. votes are the new cotton.
13 years ago at 12:38 amThis is nothing in the world of “high fashion”. Rappers and other wealthy celebs are shelling out thousands on seemingly plain goods just because of the name behind it. For example, those plain black sweaters Steve Jobs wore? $700 a piece. It’s ridiculous what branding can do, but hey, why stop if idiots are buying it.
13 years ago at 3:46 pmTo be fair, a lot of the brands people talk about on this site are doing the same thing. And Steve Jobs could spend 2g’s on a sweater and his bank account wouldn’t notice.
13 years ago at 4:18 pm^Because he’s dead amirite?
13 years ago at 1:49 pm“Spending everything on alexander wang, new slaves”
13 years ago at 4:02 pmI mean… wouldn’t people dropping $120 on a single shirt be boosting the economy.
13 years ago at 4:12 pmThis was my first thought…
13 years ago at 9:40 pmKanyes economy maybe
13 years ago at 1:01 am