Hip-Hop Lyric T-Shirts

Many sites carry shirts with lyrics from rappers that had hits in the eighties. A great place to start is at Zazzle.com, they carry many cool custom t-shirts, hats, hoodies and other items that you can customise. I have found some very cool early era Hip-Hop t-shirts as well as a few mouse pads and dope stickers. They also allow you to add your own text and pictures to the product.

What kind of Hip Hop t-shirt designs can I expect to find online when I do a common search?

Well, as of writing this article, you will come across a lot of the new Electro style throwback designs with bright colors and graphics of Biggie smalls, Tupac, NWA and Easy e shirts from sites like Hot Topic.com and a few other well known sites that promote a lot, But if you really want to find some funny off the cuff style designs, like lyrics or parody, then you might need to make your search a little more specific and type in “the rap artist name” lyric shirts to find some original gear with the rhymes or throwback artwork on it from that rapper or crew.

What other styles of artwork are available besides rap artist shirts that represent Hip-Hop?

Alot of people like shirts, backpacks and hats with graffiti text with HIPHOP slang and some of the other common symbols used in Hip Hop shirts and artwork such as microphones, Boom boxes, turntables, City outlines, Brick walls, Break dancers, Poppers, cartoon characters. All of these elements are found in old school rap covers and pictures.

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