POW!! THIS IS DOPE! We draw stuff. Original Art Work by us, The African American is literally how we see ourselves on the inside, caught between awesomeness and ambiguity. 100% cotton SILVER loose fit. | Addis Ababa Ethiopia has too many letter to fit comfortably on a shirt so ...we squared the last "BA". We Smart. This design is a hand drawn flip on the familiar mixed with one of our favorite places: AFRICA. 100% cotton |
Soft print on 100% cotton. The Original David Groupie shirt. We're always "with the band" and you should be too! This classic design goes back to your favorite band/concert tee, the more you wear it the softer the print gets, making it your favorite go to rocker tee. | "Product of The Dark Continent" Africa is one of the continents that gets madddd respect here at The Original David. You can show your support too by becoming an honorary product of the continent. 100% cotton tee with hand cut and embroidered felt design. |
Our attempt at an explanation: Jean Michele Basquiat x Cotton x King Magazine x Nintendo Super Mario Bros.
Featuring hand cut sewn felt and vinyl 3-d graphic design. | 100% Heavy Cotton Crewneck featuring felt and vinyl hand cut embroidered design. |
"I make your mouthpiece obese like Della Reese When I release, you loose teeth like Little Cease"- Notorious B.I.G. Our tribute to one of the best rappers who ever did it, Biggie. This crew neck is a charcoal fleece raglan with felt and vinyl hand cut embroidery. | Inspired by: Brooklyn, Do the Right Thing, IKEA, and Best Buy. At The Original David "We design for the restless and underwhelmed". This heavy weight cotton crew neck features hand cut felt design. |
LIMITED Neoprene feel on the outside with an insulated fleece lining. Camouflage hooded scarf for the curbside and corporate hustlers. Blaze orange safety straps, neon gren/black stripped drawstring cord, and signature branded Original David patch. | 1in square Pin Back Button. Wild Style! |
1in round Pin Back Button | 2.25in Round Pin Back Button |
1.5in Round Pin Back Button | 1.5in Round Pin Back Button |
1.5in Square Pin Back Button | 2 hand knotted rubber barbed wire bracelets per pack. This item was designed for Amnesty International. This is a bracelet you won't take off. We suggest wearing at least Four at a time. $1.00 off shipping on bracelets only
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PRODUCT OF THE DARK CONTINENT! 50% Poly 50% cotton athletic grey tee. | LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION! The King of Afro Beat: Fela Kuti This sweatshirt is a limited edition and will only be available in limited quantities. 3D mixed media graphic featuring precision cut, double layered felt, vinyl, and leather! |
LIMITED COLLECTOR'S EDITION! The King of Afro Beat: Fela Kuti This shirt is a limited edition and will only be available in limited quantities. | Grace Jones epitomizes the Alpha Female! Cheekbones, shoulder pads, and fades, Grace's strong androgynous persona is iconic. The 3-D design features vinyl, felt, and zebra print jersey mixed media graphic on a tri-blend super soft coffee colored tee. (shown in XS) |
Designed in memory of a truly Original David. Nate's was a prolific voice, that masterfully cadenced songs in a way that could take you from hype to introspective through the simplest change in tonality and pitch. Respectfully immortalized. | Designed in memory of a truly Original David. Nate's was a prolific voice, that masterfully cadenced songs in a way that could take you from hype to introspective through the simplest change in tonality and pitch. Respectfully immortalized. |
From the Original Collection: The Original David " URI" on 100% cotton black tee with hand cut and embroidered design. URI: uri the globe trotter. planes, trains, and automo biles. uri is the original shape shifter. from hotels to hostels, you can catch him cool huntin the world over. not your average dandy, there's definitely a dark side to this expatriate. | Design Breakdown: The Dated series marks significant dates in history. The Dated Uri features Uri's signature glasses in embroidered felt, the name URI in cut vinyl is a common Hebrew/Israeli name. 1972 is the year of the Munich Olympics during which members of the terrorist group Black September massacred 11 Israeli Olympic Team members. |
Design Breakdown: The Dated series marks significant dates in history. The Dated Uri features Uri's signature glasses in embroidered felt, the name URI in cut vinyl is a common Hebrew/Israeli name. 1972 is the year of the Munich Olympics during which members of the terrorist group Black September massacred 11 Israeli Olympic Team members. | |
Wear this every day. Tri-Blend (50% cotton, 25% polyester, 25% rayon) athletic grey gym shirt with Uri's eyes emitting their most sinister gaze. Embroidered felt design and signature branded leather David patch. | Tri-Blend (50% cotton, 25% polyester, 25% rayon) athletic blue gym shirt with Uri's eyes emitting their most sinister gaze. Embroidered felt design and signature branded leather David patch. |
Tri-Blend (50% cotton, 25% polyester, 25% rayon) athletic plum gym shirt with Uri's eyes emitting their most sinister gaze. Embroidered felt design and signature branded leather David patch. | The Mostly Uri tee is one of our most popular pieces. The super soft tri-blend shirt is easy to put on and hard to take off. The triple pack comes in Grey, Blue, and Plum. |
Yellow fleece | Digitized URI Glasses on 14" black chain. DOPENESS!! |
Olu from "The Originals" collection is our most popular style to date. The color combination is a perfect compliment to your fresh kicks. When you're just not in the mood to put yourself together this is the shirt you grab to make an effort. OLU: olu the african's pet peeve is sentences that begin with "in my country...". usually nigerian, always african, olu hails all corners of the dark continent. self proclaimed afro beat afficionado, he claims distant relations to fela kuti. a nice guy but don't debate him, 'to conced is to recede' is his stance | Olu from "The Originals" collection is our most popular style to date. The color combination is a perfect compliment to your fresh kicks. When you're just not in the mood to put yourself together this is the shirt you grab to make an effort. OLU: olu the african's pet peeve is sentences that begin with "in my country...". usually nigerian, always african, olu hails all corners of the dark continent. self proclaimed afro beat afficionado, he claims distant relations to fela kuti. a nice guy but don't debate him, 'to conced is to recede' is his stance. |
NEW! independence | Most of your favorite David "Olu". Less is more. 100% Cotton tee with felt hand embroidered detail. Signature branded leather David patch. *check out the other styles to see the rest of him. |
Less is more! The "Mostly Olu" is more of a "Ghostly OLU" of classic The Original David character OLU. Comfortable hoodie with a fun design. | |
RE-RELEASED BY POPULAR DEMAND!! 85 all the way live! The 1985 collection pays homage to way back dopeness. This is a classic! Olu with the redstripe is one you don't want to miss having in your collection. | RE-RELEASED BY POPULAR DEMAND!! 85 all the way live! The 1985 collection pays homage to way back dopeness. Davi-san is rocking a grey and black athletic stripe sweat suit, sneaks, black fedora, and white cazals. |
The Dated Series pinpoints significant dates in history. The Davisan Dated features Original David Character Davi-San, an asian character who for this series represents China and the 400-800 protesters killed in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. The Davi-san graphic is double layered embroidered felt. The "DAVI" text graphic is cut vinyl. "1989" is embroidered felt. | "I EAT CTRL+V" or more plainly "I EAT PASTE". Kindergarten Geekology! The vinyl lettering stands out, giving the design a great 3Dimensional contrast. |
Mike from "The Originals" collection. 100% cotton shirt with hand cut and embroidered felt image. MIKE: mike doesn't dj but you wish he did. mike knows music and mike knows sneakers. he will drop the most obscure facts about both and leave you feeling like your trainers came from stride rite and your records look like a sesame street collection. back in the day mike used to wear triple fat goose coats inside out with the tags hanging and british knights ...but now mikey's all grown up. what to wear? what to do? what to listen to? he's on a constant quest to find the answers, be it unsigned hype, underground labels, and sub radar flyness, mike is the culture vulture keeping you on the level. | The Original David character Mike is the cool guy from around the way that doesn't dj. Classic 3D graphics on soft mint tee. |
Mike Blah!! Original David Character Mike in embroidered hand cut felt with signature tongue, leather branded tags, 3-D design and blah blah blah. Tri Blend tee poly/cotton/rayon. | |
Mike Blah!! Original David Character Mike in embroidered hand cut felt with signature tongue, leather branded tags, 3-D design and blah blah blah | Zeus! The Myth is up for interpretation. Initially designed to resemble a greek god, this winged brotha has come to mean many different things to many different people. 100% Cotton black tee featuring a bearded Original David "MIKE" with wing background. Hand cut and embroidered felt design with signature branded leather patch. |
Zeus! The Myth is up for interpretation. Initially designed to resemble a greek god, this winged brotha has come to mean many different things to many different people. 100% Cotton black tee featuring a bearded Original David "MIKE" with wing background. Hand cut and embroidered felt design with signature branded leather patch. | Zeus! The Myth is up for interpretation. Initially designed to resemble a greek god, this winged brotha has come to mean many different things to many different people. 100% Cotton black sweatshirt featuring a bearded Original David "MIKE" with wing background. Hand cut and embroidered felt design with signature branded leather patch. |
Shock-G/Humpty and Digital Underground are icons of Hip Hop... they had us limpin and twitchin all over the dance floor back in the day. 3-D design mixes Faux fur hat, Original David Uri glasses, vinyl nose and felt tongue on a soft tri-blend athletic grey tee. | Shock-G/Humpty and Digital Underground are icons of Hip Hop... they had us limpin and twitchin all over the dance floor back in the day. 3-D design mixes Faux fur hat, Original David Uri glasses, vinyl nose and felt tongue |
AWWWW YEAH Gangstarr has got to be the sure shot! When that beat dropped in '94 Gangstarr and Nice and Smooth ruled the airwaves. We've flipped and mixed this design with The Original David logo letter "d" and CMYK, the four color printing process, because we're artists, and creative, and mad deep and stuff. | In Stand By me Mr. Clark (Morgan Freeman) declared that he was the HNIC: the Head Nigga In Charge
Dr. Dre and his pals were: NWA, Niggaz Wit Attitudes
Put it all together and you get: "H" = Head, "NWA" = Nigga With Attitude, "EYE" = I = In, "SEE" = C = Charge |
In Stand By me Mr. Clark (Morgan Freeman) declared that he was the HNIC: the Head Nigga In Charge
Dr. Dre and his pals were: NWA, Niggaz Wit Attitudes
Put it all together and you get: "H" = Head, "NWA" = Nigga With Attitude, "EYE" = I = In, "SEE" = C = Charge | |
It's the verb of all verbs, DO! Logo letter D and The Blah. 3-D felt cut design. The Do promotes an active lifestyle of mischief and shenanigans by David's across the globe. | Black Sheep, Black Moon, and Blackstar, groups that gotcha open, seeing honeys by the strobelight, and actually listening to the lyrics from two lyricists that made choruses and hooks obsolete. All Blacks shows hand cut vinyl design over felt and double felted hand cut letters. |
Back in the day on the boulevard of Linden A Tribe Called Quest Checked the Rhime. This design was inspired by Q-tips lyric in "Check the Rhime": 'Industry Rule Number 4,080, record company people are shady". 4080 mixes hand cut vinyl with felt design to create a 3-D graphic as classic as ATCQ. | |
Back in the day on the boulevard of Linden A Tribe Called Quest Checked the Rhime. This design was inspired by Q-tips lyric in "Check the Rhime": 'Industry Rule Number 4,080, record company people are shady". 4080 mixes hand cut vinyl with felt design to create a 3-D graphic as classic as ATCQ. | |
