Our best sellers from Acropolis, Okayplayer, and Ropeadope are back in stock.

Click the image for all the current Ropeadope shirts.

Winners of Brand Battle III, Ropeadope, are now available on alwaysurban.

Check out the summer tee line, and look forward to new designs in the next few months.

Playing in the office this morning — The Bulls vs. Celtics first round playoff game and the Black Landlord album Addicted to Distraction. Being a live band hip hop group from Philly, the comparison to the Roots is almost unavoidable. Black Landlord doesn’t sound anything like the Roots. More like a Philly soul version of Breakestra or Budos Band.

Available from Ropeadope Digital

Tell us about how you came up with the name of your brand?

It was fun to say.

Tell us about how you came up with your logo?

through a painstaking process of simplification, the same process that everything at Ropeadope goes through.

What should your fans/customers know about your brand that they might not know?

We’re a record label, a music blog, a web site. You’ve probably seen our brand on stage at your favorite show.

What should your fans/customers know about your current line/designs that they might not know?

one of these is about to become your favorite shirt.

What inspired you to start your company?

boredom

What inspired you to start designing?

looking at the crap at the store.

What can you say that might convince someone to never buy clothes at the mall again?

ummm, hopefully you never have. but if you did, you can find forgiveness right here. the mall is not a place, it’s the matrix. if you don’t believe in it, it will not be there.