Photo: nymag.com
Photo: nymag.com

Stop what you’re doing right now. Go rummage through your dresser drawers. You’re looking for any classic t-shirts you picked up at concerts. If you’ve found some, take good care of them. They might be worth some money.

DJ Ross One, aka Ross Schwartzman, has just published a new photo book called Rap Tees: A Collection of Hip-Hop T-Shirts From 1980-1999.

Schwartzman has created an extensive catalogue of “over 500 of the rarest, most coveted concert tees, album tees, and bootleg tees, all presented in chronological order”, reports Allison P. Davies in The Cut. Schwartzman, himself, has been a passionate collector of t-shirts since he was a teenager. Read more about why these t-shirts are so important here.