Add-2 – Prey For the Poor T-Shirt

Description

Read the title twice. Prey, not pray. That’s the whole thesis.

In 2015, Chicago’s Add-2 dropped Prey for the Poor as his JAMLA debut. That’s 9th Wonder’s label, the same house that put Rapsody on. The Soul Council stacked the beats: 9th, Khrysis, Nottz, AMP and Kash, plus F.C. The Truth. The guest list kept it in the family too. Rapsody shows up on “Stop, Play, Rewind,” and a young Jamila Woods is on there years before the rest of the world caught up. Add-2 spends the album naming who feeds on the struggling and why, and he still finds room for love songs in between.

This is boom-bap soul with a conscience, built in the North Carolina lineage of Little Brother and delivered with a South Side point of view. It sits in the same conversation as Common’s early catalog: soulful samples, sharp writing, and something to say. Add-2 called it reporting on the world and on Black life in America, quoting Nina Simone: you can’t be an artist and not reflect the times. The art on this tee puts that collage of a mind into one portrait. Faith, smoke, Chicago, and the street, all wrapped under one crown.

Product Details

• Premium Bella Canvas 3001 – 100% combed and ring-spun cotton
• Lightweight (4.2 oz) with retail fit
• Pre-shrunk fabric
• Side-seamed construction
• Tear-away label for comfort
• Available in Black, Navy, and Chocolate

For the heads who dig through the JAMLA catalog past the headliners. For the ones who knew Jamila Woods from a hook on a Chicago rap record. For you.