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.
