HELLA DOPE |

 If you know my background you know that I have lived in California for most of my life and I exude Californian essence in many ways including a deep knowledge for lingo and vernacular. Hella is a term popularized by Northern California, a contraction of “helluva”, which is heavily peppered into youth vocabulary. During some of my formative years I lived in NorCal, during the peak of the hyphy movement and I have lots of love for the bay. If you hella fuck with that I hella fuck with you.

Hip hop is another culture that is near and dear to me. Hip hop coined the word “dope” but dope is scientific also. It’s derived from dopamine, another concept I’ve touched upon this season. The reason why people commonly refer to street drugs as DOPE is because they are substances that when entering your body, block your brains dopamine receptors, in turn flooding your brain with the chemical and causing the feelings of euphoria that are associated with that type of experience.

To recap: HELLA DOPE. Basically it means an abundance of euphoria.

The front graphic on this crewneck is a representation of 5 different handstyles and icons we have incorporated over the course of 5 years of DazedNotConfused.

Lately I’ve been wanting to give people colorful artwork that causes the brain to experience dopamine release so that is the reason behind the back print artwork. My portrait drawing of some person possibly getting their rocks off, pretty standard.

Last but not least I’ve included some additional slogans/mantras/what have you -

DazedNotConfused MOVINGTHINGS2022 STAGNANTENERGYBEGONE KEEPITMOVING

One thing about life is that it goes on, and we must embrace change within that parameter. So just enjoy keeping it moving, and letting stagnant energy be cleared. Asé.

100% cotton. Dtg printing.