Hurricane Carter White w/Grey Print Tee

"Pistol shots ring out in the barroom night" - so begins Bob Dylan's epic "Hurricane," and such remains the source of great mystery and controversy in the life of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter. The one-time contender for the middle weight crown is far more famous today as having been convicted and then, twenty years later, acquitted for a 1966 triple-murder shooting spree at a bar in Paterson, New Jersey. Passions still run deep about this case, and the fact remains that today the drama of Carter's life outside the ring has almost entirely obscured his achievements inside it.

Those are the achievements that No Mas celebrate with this t-shirt, those of an innately ferocious fighter who learned his trade in prison, a damn-the-torpedoes practitioner of "the manly art of no defense," and a puncher of such startling volume and power that to call him "Hurricane" never seemed a question of colorful nicknaming so much as a merely an accurate description of a phenomenon in motion.

The brand got its start in 2004 when Chris Isenberg began to create t-shirts for himself and friends, which referenced iconic moments in sports and celebrated his childhood athletic heroes. After receiving a steady stream of compliments, protests, and requests to purchase on the street, he began offering limited run pieces in stores. From its inception, No Mas was something between a streetwear brand and an art project, as Isenberg was especially focused on what the New York Times Magazine called “the deeper meaning of sports."