Yesterday Jay-Z added a new t-shirt to the Rocawear collection but just one day later, the fashion line has removed the tee from its online store amidst heavy criticism. More details after the jump!
TMZ:
Jay-Z and Rocawear have removed their Occupy Wall St. themed t-shirts from Rocawear.com — after the rap mogul came under heavy fire for profiting off the protests, without donating anything to the cause.
Jay-Z was photographed wearing the “Occupy All Streets” shirts earlier this week and began selling them on his website. Checking the site today … the shirts are now gone.
Before the t-shirts were pulled … TMZ spoke with Grim, one of the leaders of the Occupy movement, who told us, “Jay-Z, as talented as he is, has the political sensibility of a hood rat and is a scrotum. To attempt to profit off of the first important social moment of 50 years with an overpriced piece of cotton is an insult to the fight for economic civil rights known as #occupywallstreet.”
We’ve been calling Jay-Z’s camp for the past two days … no word back.
Who cares about the occupy wall street movement. All they’ve done is cause chaos, jay z being a smart business man took advantage of a business oppurtunity. That doesn’t make him a hood rat of politics
i agree with nick p. occupy wall street has caused nothing but violence on our streets. people getting ran over, raped, fighting.
FUCK THAT calling jay z a hood rat thats disrespectful hes a business man and he took advantage wtf fuck occupy wall street the only time white people protest is when they not getting any money when it was blacks no one cared cuz thats how it was “supposed” to be
@Jordan, so when was it the black population organised any protests before the occupy movement in recent times. You can sit an play the race card but nobodys gonna help you if you don’t help yourself. Change your mentality from ‘I’m not gonna protest that’s what the white people do’ to ‘its a fucked up situation we all need to stand up’
Jordan, are you SERIOUS?!?! Isn’t it everyone that is affected by what’s going down?
How racist. Seriously. Get off the color issue. You are quickly becoming the only ass still whining about it. Ugh!
Prime Example’s of ignorance in current events and society as a whole!! OWS isn’t about any race, it isn’t about who’s rich and who’s poor it’s by far the most important movement you’ll see in your lifetime!!! It’s about ppl from all walks of life standing united against corruption in a failed system. It’s about right vs wrong. For those of you who don’t get it, pay a little more attention to the world around you, cause what’s going on right now, WILL shape the world your kids live in when they’re adults.
I personally think its a clever thing he did with the spin on Occupy Wall Street to Occupy All Streets! That message is clear and clever! But to profit off of it and not donating a single cent to the cause is kinda low, even for Jay-Z. But I think it just goes to show where his allegiance lay…