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The Life of Pablo Merch Guide: From the 21-City Pop-Up to Saint Pablo
Explore The Life of Pablo merch: the 2016 Pablo Pop-Up, Saint Pablo Tour aesthetic, gothic typography, and fan-made I Feel Like Pablo tees and hoodies. Read more...
Jesus Is King and Sunday Service: A Fan's Guide to Kanye's Gospel Era
Explore the Jesus Is King era: Kanye's 2019 gospel album, the Sunday Service choir, Coachella Easter set, IMAX film, and fan-made merch culture. Read more...
The College Dropout: The Story of Kanye's 2004 Debut, the Dropout Bear and the Era Fans Still Wear
Inside The College Dropout: the car crash behind Through the Wire, Jesus Walks, the Dropout Bear, and the fan-made merch honoring Kanye's 2004 debut. Read more...
The Unstoppable Influence of Hip Hop on Fashion
The Unstoppable Influence of Hip Hop on Fashion
Fashion likes to pretend it discovered hip hop somewhere around 2016, when luxury houses started putting hoodies on runways. Cute. Hip hop has been running fashion since before half those... Read more...
The Surprising History Behind the 'If You're Reading This, It's Too Late' Shirt
The Surprising History Behind the 'If You're Reading This, It's Too Late' Shirt
You have seen the shirt. Plain black, white text, a little crown: "If You're Reading This, It's Too Late." It is everywhere, and most people wearing it could not tell... Read more...
Reviews of Kanye West's Latest Concert and Album
Reviews of Kanye West's Latest Concert and Album
Reviewing Kanye West albums is a fool's errand, because the review you write on release day is wrong within five years. Yeezus got called career suicide; it is now taught... Read more...
Kanye West's Most Iconic Moments and Lyrics
Kanye West's Most Iconic Moments and Lyrics
Some artists have a career. Kanye West has a timeline of incidents. Twenty-plus years of moments so loud they stopped being music news and became regular news. We are a... Read more...
Kanye West Takes the Concert Merch Game to the Next Level
Kanye West Takes the Concert Merch Game to the Next Level
Kanye West Concert Merch: How the Tour Tee Became a Grail Before the fashion drops and the empty warehouses full of Yeezy, Kanye already understood something most artists missed: the... Read more...
The Ultimate Gift Guide for the Kanye West Fan: Featuring Tweet Mug and Tweet T-Shirt
The Ultimate Gift Guide for the Kanye West Fan: Featuring Tweet Mug and Tweet T-Shirt
Buying a gift for a Kanye fan is easy in theory and dangerous in practice. Get the era wrong and you have handed a Yeezus purist a gospel mug. Get... Read more...
YEEZUS era tour tee, unofficial BOOTLG
The Yeezus Tour: Masks, Mountains and the Merch That Changed Streetwear
The full story of Kanye's Yeezus Tour: the 50-foot mountain, Margiela masks, White Jesus, real setlist and dates - and where to cop the merch today. Read more...
Kanye West’s Funniest Quotes: A Legendary Collection of Ye’s Wildest Lines
Kanye West’s Funniest Quotes: A Legendary Collection of Ye’s Wildest Lines
☝ These aren't just quotes - you can wear them.Shop the Tweet Tees → Some people collect art. Some people collect stamps. Us? We collect Kanye quotes - the ultimate... Read more...