DJ Ross One

DJ, Author, New York

Favorite Shirts
I don’t have one fav, but it’s the groups that I grew up on: A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy. I grew up in Cincinnati as a hip-hop fanatic but my access to T-shirts was limited. I always dreamed of Tribe shirts and other shirts I couldn’t find from my favorite artists. I bought my first Public Enemy shirt in ’92 from the CD mail-order form.

The Big Dig
I used to go to college in Rochester. There’s a place called House of Guitars that had a very high ceiling with vintage T-shirts tacked on there. They also had this huge room with a big mound of shirts in the middle. So I’d go dig for records and then after I’d go in this room. From this mountain I pulled a Kurtis Blow shirt from like ’85.

Holy Grail
The shirt that was hardest to find for the book was the Showbiz & A.G. “Soul Clap” shirt that they’re all wearing in the video. We actually had to go to Showbiz’s studio to shoot his—that’s the only one I’ve ever seen—it was a sweatshirt. I begged him to sell it to me, but it didn’t work.

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