Jay-Z's Rocawear No Longer Shilling Occupy Wall Street Shirts

RIP Occupy All Streets: 2011-2011

Jay-Z just couldn't stop with merely flogging the Occupy Wall Street zeitgeist by wearing a t-shirt: remember, he's not a businessman, he's a mmmm—Budweiser Select! Haters gonna hate, and man people really hated the fact that he was selling those "Occupy All Streets" t-shirts for $22 without contributing a cent to the movement. But AnimalNY noticed that the shirts have mysteriously disappeared from Rocawear's website.

His pal Russell Simmons thinks that what the mogul did was "great" no matter what, and at least Simmons deigns to show up in Zuccotti Park. But lets not mince words—what Jay-Z did by selling these shirts is completely different than what David Ortiz did when he named his Dominican nightclub 40/40, the same name as Jay's chain of nightspots, mainly because Ortiz made the mistake of conning someone who can afford attorneys. Learn from the pros, David: exploiting a nebulous, leaderless protest movement railing against economic inequality will never land you in court!

America's Most Trusted News Network, TMZ.com, spoke with "Grim, one of the leaders of the Occupy movement." Though Occupy Wall Street actually doesn't have any leaders, this "Grim" character is certainly the leader of giving hilariously crass quotes to TMZ:

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.

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By Christopher Robbins in Arts & Entertainment on November 12, 2011 2:40 PM

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Sarah H Nelson

According to Global Grind (Russell Simmons' news aggregator) Jay-Z did not pull the shirts.

Daniel

He pulled the shirt. Can people stop losing their shit now over the one time a black man appropriated a cultural phenomenon for profit?

Rony Byas

He does not even own rocawear anymore he sold it a few years back smh how do you profit from something you don't own???

Colonel_Ingus

the same way Dick Cheney did for 8 years

Daniel

False equivalency alert! Are you people going to call him Hitler next?

Christopher London, Esq.

Jay-Z is rapidly losing any
street credibility that he may have once had, even among the seriously
unenlightened and unsophisticated sheeple who tend to worship him. As one noted commenter on another blog eloquently
stated: “One thing the 99% DON'T need is
more money-hungry bastards trying to turn a profit on us. If a small-time
indie artist like Beltaine's Fire can afford to donate all proceeds from their
new album's sales to OWS, someone like Jay-Z who's already made more money then
anyone needs or deserves could afford to kick down. This is
shameful.”

Guest

Umm, sure, he experienced a sudden epiphany and realized the errors of his ways....

LittleBiggyGirl

is jay z just another opportunist who underestimated #OWS? http://littlebiggy.org/4660547

sarpedon1

If people are dumb enough to believe that any rapper gives a crap about anything beyond his or her wallet, then they get what they deserve.