Cultural clash. Hm, I don\'t know what else to say. The only thing difficult to make out would be the vinyl records that make up the belt. But then again, it doesn\'t have to be records.

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The design is distorted on the template, so check out the larger view:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/pixel_bandit/africa_largerview.png

Thanks.

I like this a lot.

Best I've seen in a while!

Hilarious. 5

Oops, I used white, so 4 colors then.

Wtf? ha ha ha. 5

Hm, I didn't intend the design to be funny. I guess the pose of the figure could be funny. I don't know.

I hope this is funny in a good way.

nice package (in stereo too). that is a hilarious idea!

wow, wow... sort of offensive, but also pretty amusing, good concept... don't really know what to say about this one but it's a clever idea.

Offensive as in racist? It's not meant to be though.

Maybe because it is directed at a certain race, but it's only to compare a culture to its subculture, if that makes any sense. I love hip hop.

OH MY GOD SO FUNNY.

very interesting. i think the message may depend on who's head is above the shirt.

offensive?
why?

when i saw the title i laughed uncontrolably. and i don't think its offensive in any way shape or form. it doesn't say "black people suck" on it. its a good image with a quirky title. its not directed at a race, more a continent and a certain subculture which has become associated with people from that regeon. last i heard hip hop wasn't all that popular in most of africa. now forgetting all this bullshit i like the concept a lot. but i'm not so much a fan of the follow through. you should work on the image, although i can't tell you precisely what would make it better.

i dont like it. its offensive.

oh poor kid dynamic~ you must have been picked on. The freaking design is sooooo not offensive. It is great. I am not a huge fan of hip hop. and I love it. Why must everyone read too much into things? Great idea and follow through.

This makes a great social statement. Well done.

I can understand why many of you( including the designer) don't see anything wrong with this shirt. But here's why it is offensive to me . . . Mask and loincloths have little to do with the richness and diversity of "African culture." At the same time, although stereos, spraypaint, sneakers and mics may be associated with hip-hop culture, they have little to do with the "African-American experience".

So, instead of being (as the artist intended) a cultural commentary, the design is instead a bizarre amalgam of stereotypical relics. I am African American. My husband is African and this shirt makes me sad.

Ha. I-shaka! Funny!

Without a doubt this artist has succesfully demonstrated how seemingly different cultural artifact and ritual are at once linked to a distant common archaic past. Tribal rites and celebration are unifying to all races in our original prehisoric state, and this instinct dwells within us. Today, music is at the forfront of this internal desire to return to the tribal, spawning the DJ, House, Hip Hop, Club and other dance/ drum intensive music. Beautifully this peice apptly celebrates the internal drive to return to the primal, mystic by illustrating a DJ as a kind of tribal shaman.

Wow. Nice comment Seppi.

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