{"product_id":"two-copies-tee","title":"Two Copies Tee","description":"\u003ch2 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBuy the record twice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSomewhere inside most funk and soul records of the late sixties there is a stretch where the arrangement gets out of the way. The horns stop, the vocal stops, and the drums carry alone for a few bars. Musicians called it the break and thought of it as furniture — a breath between sections, not the point of the record.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe crowd disagreed. Clive Campbell, a Jamaican-born teenager in the West Bronx known as DJ Kool Herc, watched people stand through entire songs waiting for fifteen seconds of drums, and then go up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe break was the best part of the record and the record would not give you any more of it. That problem has exactly one honest solution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eYou buy the record twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eTwo turntables, the same record on each, cued to the same place. Play the break on the first deck. While it runs, spin the second copy back and hold it. Just before the first one runs out of drums, cut across. Now the first deck is free, so you spin that one back — and you keep going, deck to deck, for as long as your arms hold out. Herc called it the merry-go-round, and the name is exactly right: it does not go anywhere, it comes back around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eFifteen seconds became five minutes, and five minutes is enough room for something to happen. The dancers got a form long enough to enter, build, answer somebody and finish. They got a name, too — Herc named them after the thing they were waiting for. The microphone got a job. The DJ stopped playing records and started editing them in real time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eEverything else in this culture grew inside the space one repeated passage opened.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThis is the first shirt in the Shadow Series, and the series has one rule: the chest carries a phrase and nothing else. No explanation, no logo, no date. Charcoal ink on a black body at roughly thirty percent contrast.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAcross a room it reads as a black shirt. At conversational distance the words arrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThat isn't a manufacturing compromise. It's the same logic the culture ran on — the information was always there, and it was only ever legible to people close enough to be paying attention.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eA single stroke cuts through the phrase, and set along it, much smaller: \u003cstrong\u003eINFINITE BREAK\u003c\/strong\u003e. The phrase says how many copies. It doesn't say why two is enough.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe back carries three lines under the BX mark. The left sleeve carries a code that opens the full history — how the technique worked, which records it was built on, and who never got paid for them. Inside the neck, where only the wearer sees it, the same code is repeated with one line of plain English, so the link survives the tag being cut off.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKNOW YOUR HISTORY: \u003c\/strong\u003eLink to VAULT ARTICLE\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"bxoriginals.com\/blogs\/the-vault\/the-break\" title=\"The Break: Where Hip-Hop Began\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The Break: Where Hip-Hop Began\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScan the sleeve for the full story — how the merry-go-round actually worked, the records it was built on, what Grandmaster Flash added to make it repeatable, and the drummers who played the foundational passages of an entire culture and were paid either late or never.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDETAILS\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ccode\u003eTWO COPIES\u003c\/code\u003e centre chest, stacked two lines, charcoal tonal print, single weight, all caps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiagonal stroke through the lockup — one pass, cutting from the phrase down and out\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ccode\u003eINFINITE BREAK\u003c\/code\u003e set along the stroke, small, roughly 0.2\" cap height\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack yoke: BX Originals mark in charcoal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBack imprint: \u003ccode\u003eONE RECORD\u003c\/code\u003e \/ \u003ccode\u003eTWO DECKS\u003c\/code\u003e \/ \u003ccode\u003eNO END\u003c\/code\u003e, staggered, charcoal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQR code on left sleeve with \u003ccode\u003eTHE VAULT\u003c\/code\u003e handstyle above, light ink\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMATERIALS \u0026amp; CONSTRUCTION\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e100% combed ring-spun cotton\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFabric weight: 4.3 oz\/yd² (145.8 g\/m²)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSet-in sleeves, side-seamed, ribbed collar with shoulder-to-shoulder taping, double-needle hems\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRegular fit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePre-shrunk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSIZE SPECIFICATIONS\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003cthead\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003eSize\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003eChest (flat)\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\"\u003eLength\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eS\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e18\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e28\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eM\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e29\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e22\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e30\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eXL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e31\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e2XL\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e26\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e32\"\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis product is made especially for you as soon as you place an order, which is why it takes us a bit longer to deliver it to you. 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