Where are you guys shopping before tour?
MIKE: I’ve got spots. Lowkey, every time I go to LA, I hit Dover Street [Market].
Earl Sweatshirt: I feel like people don’t know about the Nepenthes store in LA. I was talking to a homie that worked there last time. They have all of that shit. All the Needles, all the Engineered Garments.
MIKE: Nepenthes is tough. I love it.
Earl Sweatshirt: But it’s off the [beaten path]. You’re not going to stumble across it.
MIKE: There’s this spot 18 East [in New York] that has hella good blanks. Maybe hit up Margiela for just the one-off.
Earl Sweatshirt: I hit Dover. I check downstairs at the H.Lorenzo in LA. They always got the Japanese pants. I’m at Stone Island. I’m at Margiela. I’m at RRL.
Are there any newer brands you guys are fucking with?
Earl Sweatshirt: I’m fucking with Dertbag. That’s my dog forever, Phil [Post]. He’s just a guy. Just an actual real legend. I like what my dog’s doing at Saint Mxxxxxx. Cali DeWitt is a rock-and-roll legend.
MIKE: I’m fucking with Dauan Jacari. This dude, Curtis Spenser from France. There’s another dude that my homie Taco put me on to, Charlie Constantinou. His shit is pretty tough. I really like YaTuSabe.
Earl Sweatshirt: He’ll quietly [show up] in Loewe sneakers.
MIKE: [Laughs] Yeah, yeah, yeah. I fuck with Loewe. I fuck with their shoes. They got the slip-ons.
Earl Sweatshirt: But, that’s what I mean, you do them your way. It’s not just having the crazy Loewe on. You found a thing, and it was cool. I don’t really want to give away too much. Not like you did it out of spite—when the greater friend group at large got the Gap memo, they’d pull up Gap’d down, finally. Then, here he is, Loewe Man, like, “Let’s get it. How you feeling, man?”
MIKE: [Laughs] I’m fucking crying. Margiela, I just fuck with everything they do. A designer but she’s also an artist [I love is] Elisha Brockenberry. Her Instagram is @righteouspath.2002. She’s from Connecticut. Her whole shit is recycled. She’s just using shit that’s done being used to make clothes. [Her ideas] all kind of live in the same world [as Margiela].
Who are some of your top MCs, dead or alive, strictly from a fashion perspective?
[Earl zips his hoodie up over his face.]
Earl Sweatshirt: We’ve got to be so for real here. So serious. This is what’s fucking me up. There’s single moments that meant so much, where that person did not repeat that level of emotion.
I think it has to be bigger than that.
Earl Sweatshirt: Jadakiss. They never thought that that was going to come out from us. Jadakiss has to go up there because we can check in with him today to see where he’s at. His big moments, bro, since COVID, how have you seen him? When they were putting him as the sun on the meme, why did they do that? Because he had a floor to ceiling, fucking cream yellow, Stone Island fit on…
