Dear Jay-Z: I’m 14 & Won’t Be Caught Dead In Your $695 Ski-Mask

[DemureNatural]

Dear Jay-Z:

I’m a 14-year-old that lives in the suburbs of Maryland. Sometimes I listen to your music, but Kendrick Lamar is more my style as well as some 80’s music. Although I applaud your efforts in donating profits from your Barney’s collection, I do question one of the items.

As you may know, racial profiling is something that us young black boys have to deal with. It doesn’t matter if you live in the suburbs of Maryland or Brooklyn. When I tell my mother that I’m going out, even during the afternoon, she always warns me to be careful. It’s not that I’m out there wildin’ out or anything but she knows what can happen to young black men.

Although I don’t feel as though people should be policed, for a lack of a better word, in what they wear, your ski-mask screams, “Profile me, 5-0. I’m a young black man with a skull-mask on and I must be up to no good.” Bank robbers commonly wear ski-mask covering their faces. If you happen to be racing on the Iditarod, you may need a ski mask covering your face. But if I’m walking down the street at night with a ski-mask on, I’m quite sure the cops in my county will not think I’m an Iditarod racer, but someone who just committed a crime.

As much as I like cashmere, my grandfather just bought me some cashmere sweaters; I think I’ll pass on this cashmere ski mask. 1) Because $695 is crazy — and 2) I’d like to live to see 25. I’m sure you already know those statistics about black men.

Jaden Steele is a 14-year-old high-school freshman living in Maryland and plans on majoring in Biochemistry in college.

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[ugksam]

isnt Jaden Steele a porn star tho?

 

[the cac mamba]

 

[QuintessentialBM]

 

[marcuz]

clutchmagazine is propaganda. i appreciate the effort but i guarantee a black woman wrote that.

 

[Taadow]

Jay Z: "These cost $700 cocksucker, beat it!







...do this chit even come with allowance?"

 

[Ronnie Lott]

dont buy it then

 

[2CT]

 

[Nintendough]

clutchmagazine is propaganda. i appreciate the effort but i guarantee a black woman wrote that.

Would that make the words less valid? Some of the great writers wrote under different personas.

 

[mozichrome]

thank god for free will huh

 

[the next guy]

thank god for free will huh

In the attention whore era, everyone has to know what you are doing by any means.

 

[Super Ramon]

No pics of this mask?

 

[VerticalGrille]

i hope this sells underwhelmingly. fukk the charity. its doing it wrong

 

[Bolzmark]

dont buy it then

Basically. Suddenly it seems that there is some idea in the air that all of us was supposed to buy this stuff. Does shorty write the same thing to Gucci, LV, and Ferragamo? Because believe it or not, Jay-Z did not invent expensive sh!t.

Bet this dude got some $200 Jordans though

 

[ThaBoyBam]

Pretty well written for a 14 year old