Rap mogul Jay Z has come under heavy fire for attempting to profit off the Occupy Wall Street movement by selling ‘Occupy All Streets’ t-shirts on Rocawear.com without donating a portion of the proceeds back to the movement.
Jay Z quickly pulled the t-shirts from the website amid heavy criticism in the media.
The Occupy movement organizers say Jay Z is typical of the corporate greed that gave birth to the Occupy movement. Jay Z, Kanye West and Russell Simmons have been widely criticized for pretending to be supporters of the movement when they are really looking for ways to line their own pockets.
Before the t-shirts were pulled … TMZ spoke with Grim, one of the leaders of the Occupy movement, who told us, “Jay-Z, as talented as he is, has the political sensibility of a hood rat and is a scrotum. To attempt to profit off of the first important social moment of 50 years with an overpriced piece of cotton is an insult to the fight for economic civil rights known as #occupywallstreet.”
