Stop Snitchin' T-Shirt

Surplus Gildan T-shirt remade with a hand-painted STOP SNITCHIN’ graphic, referencing early-2000s street messaging and informal community codes.

Category: Remade

File Under: #StreetCulture, #Early2000sEphemera, #GraphicIntervention

Description

Surplus heather-grey cotton Gildan T-shirt remade with a large, hand-painted stop-sign graphic reading STOP SNITCHIN’. The lettering was executed in layered acrylic paint with visible brushwork and deliberate wear worked back into the surface. A hand-painted Post Humanizm label is stitched at the lower hem; incidental paint transfers and marks from the making process remain visible across the garment.

The phrase “Stop Snitchin’” circulated widely in the early 2000s as street-level messaging tied to informal codes of conduct within over-policed communities. Appearing first on locally produced T-shirts, posters, and mixtape artwork, the slogan reflected distrust of institutional systems and the risks attached to cooperation, before being absorbed into broader hip-hop culture and media discourse.

Here, the phrase is treated as an artifact of that period — not sloganized anew, but re-presented through hand process and wear, retaining its bluntness and the social conditions that produced it.