50 Awesome Rap Promo Shirts You Wish You Owned

Check out these amazing old rap promos shirts we pulled out of the back of our closet.

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One of the perks of being a rap journalist is all the free stuff you get. Okay fine, most of it could accurately be described as worthless junk like struggle mixtapes and being on the guestlist for a show for an act you never heard of. But one of the few decent perks is getting free promo shirts for labels, artists, and albums.

While the promo shirts get are usually best for sleep wear (I personally prefer to catch some ZZZs in my Nas' Life Is Good shirt) some of them are as good—if not better—than the rap shirts you buy for $20 at Urban Outfitters. And after about 10 years or so, those hard to find promo tees have a distinct throwback appeal. So Complex went through our deep closets and archives to pull out 50 Rap Promo Shirts You Wish You Owned. If only they weren’t all 6XL we’d totally wear them!

Photography by Liz Barclay  

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50 Cent (2003)

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Black Star (1998)

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Ghostface Killah (2000)

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Mos Def (1999)

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John Forte (1998)

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No Limit (1995)

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Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (2000)

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The Anger Management Tour (2000)

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Ghostface Killah (2006)

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Young Buck (2004)

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TRU (1995)

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Tragedy Khadafi (2001)

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Rap A Lot Records (2005)

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Free Yayo (2003)

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The RZA (1998)

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Stimulated Records (2000)

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The Knux (2008)

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The Anti-Backpack Movement (2002)

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Stretch & Bobbito (1995)

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Stimulated Dummies (2000)

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Snoop Dogg (2000)

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Screwball Records (2000)

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Pharoahe Monch (1999)

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Outsidaz (2000)

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Organized Konfusion (1997)

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Non Phixion (1999)

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Kool Keith (1996)

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Keith Murray (1998)

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Jeru the Damaja (1996)

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Jay-Z (1996)

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Hell Rell (2007)

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Duck Down Records (1995)

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Gang Starr (1999)

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EPMD (2000)

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Eminem (2000)

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ego trip (2000)

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Common (1997)

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Cashis (2007)

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Group Home (1995)

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Cappadonna (1998)

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Busta Rhymes (1996)

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Bun B (2005)

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Bubba Sparks (2003)

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Big Mike (1994)

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Afu-Ra (2000)

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Big L (1999)

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B.G. (1996)

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Slick Rick (1999)

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Bonus: Trapped In The Closet

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