Jedi Mind Tricks Violent By Design Hoodie

Description

Two mics as one. Vinnie Paz and Stoupe locked in a room. Underground rap changed forever.

Released in 2000 on Superegular, Violent By Design is the album where Jedi Mind Tricks became a movement. Stoupe the Enemy of Mankind’s cinematic beats — orchestral loops, kung-fu samples, church organs collapsing into 808s — gave Vinnie Paz and Jus Allah the exact soundscape their politics demanded. This was pre-Napster underground: dubbed tapes, mail-order 12"s, message-board dogma. If you were there, you remember.

"I Against I," "The Age of Sacred Terror," "The Deer Hunter," "Suicide" — track after track hit like a body blow. Guest spots from Killah Priest and Louie Rankin made it a summit of underground gods. Twenty-plus years later, the album still gets pulled up in every "greatest slept-on hip-hop records" argument on the internet. The blueprint for every backpack-era emcee who refused to compromise.

Product Details

• Premium Gildan 18500 Heavy Blend hoodie — 50% cotton / 50% polyester
• Air-jet spun yarn for a soft feel and reduced pilling
• Double-lined hood with matching drawcord
• Front pouch pocket, rib-knit cuffs and waistband
• Available in Black, Navy, and Chocolate

For the heads who caught "I Against I" the first time it dropped. For everyone still bumping Stoupe production a quarter-century later. For the ones who never let the underground die.