Dope I saved it. Maybe I'll just do some looking around tonight

Did y'all see the fake drain gang merch being made by culturekings?

Stumbled across the reddit post as it was reccomended and laughed my ass off at it

reddit.com/r/sadboys/s/Z9xSoFG42b

are you from aus lmao?

No is that an aus brand? I was bored looking at a reddit feed and that post was reccomended to me

lmao it's a whole story but yeah they started in queensland, made incredible amounts of money off of "skate culture" s*** aka vans reseller then slowly started pivoting to "american rap sports n stuff culture" merch over the years to the point where they hired inhouse fake designers to just absoutely rip everything - especially the 'cokemagic' type s*** - make everything as "bling" and "ironic" as possible. i think they finally caught some lawsuits because they were selling fake mike tyson? merch and instead of giving up they doubled down on hack mode and just told their marketers to dig two layers deeper into 'drain gang'

I like hearing about s*** like this fr, thats good to know. I just thought they looked like a trash ass wannabe streetwear brand but that makes it worse/even funnier tbh

Ok this peak unemployment bag

nah it's so much worse than a cheap temu type beat on social media, this is genuine millionaires (at least a few years ago) throwing everything they have at the 'cultural market' and i knew someone who worked there in the early days and by that they meant 'reap rap merch money'

I just looked em up a bit more and wow weird s***

Are they actually selling fake Jordan 1s and just calling them "reimagined" or am I missing something

honestly i only know them for their bootleg "merch"
i feel like they get tyga, bluface and nas over a lot though to do store apperance + generous one rap before they lose breath and confetti bursts from the ceiling for no reason

Group album - Trash Island
Group album - D&G

ECCO 2K - E (best solo album from the group imo)

Thaiboy digital - Legendary Member
Thaiboy digital - Back to Life

Bladee - Eversince
Bladee - red light
Bladee - Spiderr
Bladee - 333
Bladee - ice dancer
Bladee - The fool
Bladee & Ecco - Crest

Since 2020 Bladee has been on a crazy run.

Oh hell yeah, I'll be going thru this over the weekend

Only album I prob care about that dropped today is bar Italia anyways

He’s great

Just like Kanye is black

There’s even more projects that I forgot to list or didn’t get to listen to. They have a lot of music. Especially Bladee, who’s a good painter as well.

Yeah I last tried bladee specifically when I worked at a factory and needed music but it was just too draining to listen to at that time

his post 2020 music a lot more uplifting and pretty

Gud is the goat, been listening to his work on Stranger, those beats god damn

some otherworldly s***

he was working with carti and kanye 2 years ago

Damn good to know cause at the latest I last tried his stuff in 2019

I watched the lean doc since then tho that s*** was painful

man yall wasnt there

take me back man

crazy that his rooster work has barely been posted in here