Bad Jawn T-Shirts Now Available
The “Bad Jawn” T-Shirts are now available on the HotRazzberry webshop. That’s right folks, the tees are 100% cotton, classic fit t-shirts with “That’s a Baaaad Jawn” in bold typeface across the front of the tees. They are available in 4 (four) colorways, sizes small through 3XL.
Now for anyone from outside the Philly/Tri-State Area is probably wondering “what the hell is a ‘bad jawn’?” The quick and dirty explanation of a jawn is pretty much anything, anybody, any situation, etc. A jawn is one word that means all words if that makes any sense.
The folks over at PhillyMag.com gave this explanation:
“Jawn” seems to have developed as a Philadelphia variant of “joint” sometime in the 1980s, after the release of a hip-hop song called “That’s the Joint” by a group from the Bronx, Funky Four Plus One. Through more semantic bleaching, “joint” became less a place and more a thing. And because of the Southern drawl’s influence on Philly-tongue, not to mention that of African American Vernacular English, we tend to draw out our vowels and swallow our final consonants, so … no “t.” As a couple of grad students explain in the Philadelphia Encyclopedia, “In essence, Philadelphia created the pronunciation of the word, but its meaning already existed.”
An example I would use would be, let’s say you gotta go to see your parole officer tomorrow but you’ve been smoking weed and drinking all day every day for the past month and he hits you with a surprise piss test…that’s a baaaad jawn. Make sense? FYI there’s also good jawns, crazy jawns, fucked-up jawns, etc. Bad jawns are only one of many jawns, trust me when I tell you. Anyway, back to the t-shirts….
Below are the four colorways available for now. Sizes SM-3XL Unisex tees.
Also available in crewneck sweatshirts in black/magenta and black/white for the fall & winter months, as well as some graffiti supplies, sticker packs and artwork.
