www.illrapper.com | 7onthehip.tumblr.com | youtube.com/shirtathome | about.me/shirtathomeT.Shirt is the walking, talking, ill rapper dot com. Wyclef says it's his energy. With more than 500 original songs, 300 remixes, and 8 full-length albums recorded to date it's clear the kid is on a mission to get heard. The music details the everydays of the upstart MC from Queens, and his crazy friends. Music brimming with pure honesty, but still chest out ballsy, because T.Shirt believes he'll be a big name out of New York.
Most Recent:
*New Video* 24 Frames (Movie Night)
Released on February 28th, 2011, the night of the Academy Awards, the official video for T.Shirt's "24 Frames" has since been viewed over *75,000 times.
*Pulling Vimeo & YouTube number's together.
It's been featured on over 475 websites, including some of the major and more interesting ones worldwide:
PigeonsAndPlanes | HipHopDX | FuseTV | BirthplaceMag | TheHighDefinite | SlashFilm | PleaseDontStare | 2DopeBoyz | thisis50 | YouHeardThatNew | ThatsEnuff | Suburban-Dictionary | iHipHop | ColtMonday | YNotMyDream | TheCollegeCartel | StreetsCrack | AndNowMedia | CastTV | CleMagazine | FilmCrave | AmericanCountryMusic | PopScreen | GeekTyrant | DangerVision | GoldSweatshirt | LaRueDuHipHop | TheWorldsBestEver | OnSmash | RealMajor | PopCultureGods | TheILLZNetwork | StrikeGently
& shared on Facebook over 5,000 times!
Watch the video below:
"Over 120 films, 30 friends, and one-shot through 2 floors of a movie theatre in Soho."
Directed by Dred and Ronin of HotMop Films. The one-shot clip stars T.Shirt, and model Klazina Crawford, with various cameos by artists and producers such as Darvin Silva, twin rockband, The Astor Kings, jewelry designer Osa, of Complete Technique, and conceptual street artists, URNEWYORK, to name a few. 24 Frames (Movie Night) was produced by The Bird & The Bee, remixed and re-arranged by Darvin Silva. It can be found on last year's Tan-Face Children EP which you can download here, or here for the individual tracks.
Word of Mouth:
"...a barrage of genius..."
- ImpactLabel
"Very dope concept if I must say so myself"
- Lowkey of YouHeardThatNew
Official IMDB Write Up/link
- IMDB
"...could easily be a better opening for the Oscars than some we've seen in recent years..."
- IndustryOfCool
"...“24 Frames (Movie Night)” is like a rap gateway drug for me. It is incredibly cinematic. I mean that because it is one long, continuous take, which is really difficult to do. Also, the whole video is staged inside a movie theater. Oh, and the lyrics are entirely made of movie titles..."
- PiercedByAlance
"JESUS CHRIST. Electro-indie, film-centric Hip-Hop is my new favorite genre"
- TaReTaRi
"Music Video Of The Day"
- TheDailyWhat
*New Music*
On Valentines Day 2011, Shirt released, "In Love (Unmastered)" [Produced by Steel Tipped Dove]:
"Real talk about being in love and not having what it takes to leave a bad situation. We can all relate..."
- HipHopDX
*New Music*
In the month of January, 2011, remixes for both Britney Spears, "Hold It Against Me", and Curren$y's, "Record Deals" were released and featured on prominent blogs.
*Listen to the "Record Deals (Remix)" down below:
"T.Shirt's got this no bullshit kind of style, but he's still articulate and intelligent. I'm expecting big things from him."
- Confusion, of PigeonsAndPlanes,
Four Mixtapes Compilation Of 2010
At the top of 2011, T.Shirt re-released the four individual mixtapes he put out in 2010. The compilation went live on over 100 websites.The mixtapes included were November's, Life Series EP, July's, Cowboy In The Sun, March's Tan-Face Children EP w/ Darvin Silva, and January 2010's Top 40 T.Shirt Verses Of The Decade. They can each be individually listened to and downloaded at tshirt.bandcamp.com
Take a listen a few standout tracks below:
Word Of Mouth:
"T.Shirt's music artwork >"
- Ice-DotCom
"I know that when you across something like this there's that pull to keep it to yourself, but around here we're in the business of sharing. So enjoy, I hope you discover some new favorite music, too."
- RefinedHype
"...if you've been sleeping on him, you shouldn't be after Tan-Face Children..."
- DifferentKitchen
"...I don't rock with a lot of new shit out there... I don't want to review it or anything but... I just played it back to back 5 times as I always do when I listen to it so I think you should, too.."
- HipHopIsDeadly
"Don't let the name fool you, kid can spit."
- 2DopeBoyz
"...when I heard his voice, his flow, his passion, I was sold. He's witty without predictability and alternative without cliché. Even still, he's true school to the core - the kid's got bars for days..."
- Paul Cantor
*New Video* Never LOL
In December of 2010, Shirt released a song and street video titled "Never LOL". It went up on over 75 prominent websites and has sinced garnished over 10,000 views.
Watch the Dred of HotMop Films directed clip below:
"Got with the kid Dred for Hot Mop Films and shot something over the weekend. Nothing crazy here concept-wise, just 2 New York kids on either side of the camera. Filmed in Queens, NY."
Word of Mouth:
"Agreed. I’m more of a “haha” cup myself."
- Shake, of 2DopeBoyz
"Yes, the artist is NAMED “T-Shirt” his new joint is called “Never LOL” and he’s on some shittt!"
- CapitalBrand
"First Hov killed autotune and now Shirt is finna put an end to all you muf*ckas that like to laugh “laugh out loud” on your MacBook Pro’s and Crackberry QWERTY pads."
- Ice of Ice-DotCom
"T.Shirt is quickly becoming one of my favorite underground artists right now."
- WaitinForTheDJ
*New Mixtape* Life Series EP
On November 2nd, 2010, T.Shirt released the "Life Series EP", after a series of individual tracks were released during the months September thru October, all with their own accompanying original artwork by MTV collaborator, Reno of Spek Studios. Download the album here.The project garnished one video, which was finally released without Shirt's consent for unknown reasons on February 27th, 2011, by director, Kris Layng. Unfortunately, it has since not been officially released.
Watch it below:
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