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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)
Album: Get Rich Tryin Or Die Tryin'
Black Star (1998)
Album: Mos Def & Talib Kweli Are Black Star
Ghostface Killah (2000)
Album: Supreme Clientele
Mos Def (1999)
Album: Black On Both Sides
John Forte (1998)
Abum: Poly Sci
No Limit (1995)
Album: Tru
Bone Thugs-n-Harmony (2000)
Album: BTNHResurrection
The Anger Management Tour (2000)
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP
Ghostface Killah (2006)
Album: More Fish
Young Buck (2004)
Album: Straight Outta Cashville
TRU (1995)
Album: Tru
Tragedy Khadafi (2001)
Album: Against All Odds
Rap A Lot Records (2005)
Album: Sweet James Jones Stories
Free Yayo (2003)
Album: Beg For Mercy
The RZA (1998)
Album: Bobby Digital In Stereo
Stimulated Records (2000)
The Knux (2008)
Album: Remind Me In 3 Days...
The Anti-Backpack Movement (2002)
Album: The Anti-Backpack Movement
Stretch & Bobbito (1995)
Stimulated Dummies (2000)
Album: Stimulated All Stars/ Del Meets The Dummies
Snoop Dogg (2000)
Album: The Last Meal
Screwball Records (2000)
Album: Y2K: The Album
Pharoahe Monch (1999)
Album: Internal Affairs
Outsidaz (2000)
Album: Night Life EP
Organized Konfusion (1997)
Album: The Equinox
Non Phixion (1999)
Album: I Shot Reagan 12'
Kool Keith (1996)
Album: Dr. Octagonecologyst
Keith Murray (1998)
Album: It's a Beautiful Thing
Jeru the Damaja (1996)
Album: Wrath of the Math
Jay-Z (1996)
Album: Reasonable Doubt
Hell Rell (2007)
Album: Eat With Me or Eat a Box of Bullets
Duck Down Records (1995)
Gang Starr (1999)
Album: Full Clip: A Decade of Gang Starr
EPMD (2000)
Album: Out of Business
Eminem (2000)
Album: The Marshall Mathers LP
ego trip (2000)
Album: Ego Trip's The Big Playback
Common (1997)
Album: One Day It'll All Make Sense
Cashis (2007)
Album: The County Hound EP
Group Home (1995)
Album: Livin' Proof
Cappadonna (1998)
Album: The Pillage
Busta Rhymes (1996)
Album: The Coming
Bun B (2005)
Album: Trill
Bubba Sparks (2003)
Album: Deliverance
Big Mike (1994)
Album: Somethin' Serious
Afu-Ra (2000)
Album: Body of the Life Force
Big L (1999)
Album: The Big Picture
B.G. (1996)
Album: Chopper City
Slick Rick (1999)
Album: The Art of Storytelling
Bonus: Trapped In The Closet
Album: Trapped in the Closet Series
