Peep the newswire to see who is in hot water now with the Humane Society for using Asian raccoon dog fur. Roc-A-Wear and Sean John shit is so expensive I don’t see why they can’t use actual fur and call it such. I understand that the raccoon dog is pretty plentiful in parts of Asia but it is still a low grade skin. These two brands both have opulent and excessive figureheads promoting the clothing lines. The least that the manufacturers could do is let the garment construction meet the international player status of the respective icon shilling for it. Here’s a look at some of the faux fur(raccoon dog?) items from the Roc-A-Wear brand…
The truth behind all of this nonsense is that the same person that OWNS Roc-A-Fella OWNS Sean John, and SouthPole and a few other brands. JAY-Z and PUFF are used as well paid models to promote those garments. You aren’t one of those people (read: numbskulls) that actually thinks that JAY-Z bought all the factories required to produce a clothing line?!? You don’t think he spends his time reading the invoices, shipping manifests, fabric weight documents and all of the other shit that you have to maintain in order to produce clothing? You aren’t that stupid are you?
This is not an enterprise like making t-shirts in your basement with a silkscreen machine and that means it’s a full time job to keep the operation on point and in the black. No time for vacations in the Bahamas or San Tropez, and no time for the pursuits of rapping. Even when you’re rapping poorly. This is why I give respect to NaS. He didn’t allow his namesake to be put on someone elses clothes just so he could walk around acting like he owned something he didn’t. NaS keeps it realer than most and so do I. For all my jackets that have a fox or mink trim, I wear my fur with the faces attached so that they can see where it is we are going.
