*FIND ME ON THREADS* // The Hundreds, Adam Bomb Squad // Bestselling author, This Is Not a T-shirt, NFTS ARE A SCAM // Subscribe to my newsletter, MONOLOGUE:
The best part about this shirt was Kawhi ordered it from our Online Shop himself. Like, with his full name on the order. Then he got it and wore it that day to the press conference.
The best part about LA during the holidays is not family. It's that you can get anywhere in this city under 20 mins, you can just find street parking and walk into your favorite restaurant, no one's an asshole. It's like if Coachella was for two weeks straight.
I don't know why it's so shocking, every election cycle, to realize how racist half of America is. We've been knowing this. Why does it still upset me?
So, what happens now? Streetwear without Virgil is like Apple without Steve Jobs. Nike without Virgil is like Jordan vanishing at the height of his career. Nothing will end, but everything will change. The wound is too deep. The Post-Virgil Era.
Reminder that twice as many men invest in crypto than women, and women only make up 16% of the NFT market. Thanks
@ReeseW
and other women leaders in the space who are committed to changing that.
Keep protesting! (but also allow yourself breaks and escapes because activist fatigue is a real thing and we need you in a week, in a month, in a year...)
@LoganPaul
@PrimeHydrate
My only job as a father this weekend is to find these for my sons or else they’ll make a podcast about their shitty childhood one day
My job has become teaching Web3/NFTs to streetwear/fashion people. And teaching streetwear/fashion to Web3/NFT people. Because once the worlds converge, we'll be unstoppable.
NFT people - we started the year inspired by artists like Beeple, Pak, FVCKRENDER. We're ending with headlines dedicated to the 2 biggest shoe companies on the planet, Zuckerberg, and Pepsi/Budweiser. No judgment, but let's keep artist-centered projects top of mind.
One of the most annoying things about having insider knowledge in streetwear is watching friends blindly wear the “coolest” brands when they are owned and operated by assholes, bigots, racists, and white supremacists. Streetwear’s dirty little secret 🤫
Just like we thanked the healthcare workers on the frontlines of COVID-19, thank the protestors in the streets tonight. They are both risking everything for you.
If Apes can flip Punks in 8 months, then another project can come in and flip them in 4, based on the way things are accelerating. And also because why the hell not.
We're not early. We're the architects. Systrom, Zuck, Jack - weren't early to social media. They built it. People who get into NFTs in 1-2 years will be early. We're prophetic.
I can't see COVID, so I don't believe in it. I won't blindly obey! - Christians // I can't see GOD, but I believe in Him. I will blindly obey! - also Christians
Being a streetwear brand in 2020 means every time you design a T-shirt, 35 brands you've never heard of come forward and claim you stole their idea. Meanwhile, you all ripped the same reference 🤣.
Thousands of people in Philadelphia continue to protest racism and police brutality following the death of George Floyd. Crowds in Center City stretched from the steps of the Art Museum and past the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul.
Brand building is about community building. And community building is about curation. Don’t try to convert everyone. You want the right people for your brand, who empathize with your mission and share your voice. Edit, edit, edit.
I’m announcing this here for the very first time, but will repeat it 100x 🚨 We are about to tokengate
@thehundreds
🚨 the first to gate our collections on Shopify. That means you will need to hold an
@AdamBombSquad
NFT to access certain product or get in early on specific drops.
When you're investing in anything, you're investing in the creators behind the project. Track records matter. Reputations matter. Vision, work ethic, and grit matter. Hard to see when founders are as fresh as the market itself, so choose wisely. Time will sort 'em out.
I wish society emphasized how to build healthy relationships as much as education, career, wealth. Some of the most successful people I know are unhappy because they're in bad marriages, toxic partnerships. None of the professional and financial status matters in that context.
Middle school kids are poring over NFTs the way my gen hung Lambo posters on our walls and begged our moms for Jordans. If you think these first-edition NFTs are valuable now, wait 10-20 years when these kids have $ and are in power. The retro/vintage NFT economy will be 🚀
Before we take physical clothing to the metaverse, we bring the metaverse to streetwear.
@thehundreds
is collaborating with
@BoredApeYC
. This is the next step in blurring the line between this side and the other. The Street Does Not Really Exist…
Right-click savers be like, "I prefer REAL art," and have nothing on their walls besides an IKEA poster and a photo booth strip from 2011. Meanwhile, their Zoom background is SpongeBob's pineapple house.
Every year, Michael Dupouy publishes the ALL GONE compendium documenting the finest of the last 12 months of street culture. This year, he positions Bored Ape Yacht Club and NFTs front and center…
There are 429 brunches, dinners, and parties going on for NFT LA next week. Would make much more sense for us all to just go on a retreat. Camp Crypto.
First day of the rest of our lives,
@BenHundreds
.
@thehundreds
will be the biggest brand in the world.
@AdamBombSquad
will be the best NFT community. Almost 20 years in, we Start Today.
If yesterday’s Twitter commercial taught us anything, it’s how powerful we can be Together. So, question for you all: Who should
@thehundreds
and
@adambombsquad
collaborate with next??
“The bad thing about the Coronavirus is that if it had just happened a few months earlier, Juice Wrld wouldn’t have gotten on that flight and Kobe wouldn’t have been on the helicopter.” - my 10 year old.
I can hear my son and his friends talking about celebrity crushes and it's a tie between Charli D'Amelio and Addison and all I can think is "Oh no they're into white girls ☠️💔☠️ RIP"
NFTs are meant to be radical and innovative, yet most everyone defaults to the same templates and strategies in building projects. 10k because Punks. Roadmap/Utility because BAYC.
Build different. Add. Say something new.
IF YOU PLAY BY THEIR RULES,
THEY'LL NEVER LET YOU WIN
My
#Hamilton
story happened on Broadway last year when my family was escorted out of the theater because I fought 4 drunk white dudes who were vocally racist and misogynist throughout the show. They got to stay.
As a streetwear designer, I've learned a lot from NFTs. But, my next essay will be about how NFTs can - and should - learn from streetwear. Almost everything I've seen happen in this space is an echo of what we went through twenty years prior.
The Hundreds and Billionaire Boys Club for Black Lives Matter. Available for the next 48 hours in
@thehundreds
Online Shop and App. ALL PROCEEDS will be donated to Black Lives Matter and the Black Mental Health Alliance.
My
@Postmates
delivery was dropped off at the wrong home, so now I'm driving up and down my neighborhood trying to match up the photo of the door with its house. Someone asked if I am searching for my dog and I yelled back, "No, I lost my banh mi."
People ask me for advice on their brand. I tell them to read my book. They say, No, they need an immediate answer now. If you aren't willing to spend some time to work, make mistakes, listen, learn, grow, or read a book, I'm sorry, you aren't gonna make it. No cheat codes.