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25/05/2026

The Merch Vault: Pen & Pixel drop 7

It’s the final day of Pen & Pixel week - this last drop brings together 8 super rare concert t shirts from some of the biggest names in the late 90s southern rap scene, plus a custom Rap-A-Lot / Geto Boys jacket. Thousands of these tees were lost from a warehouse lock up, with only a small handful ever resurfacing

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We’re auctioning 8 of these t shirts straight from Pen & pixel founder ’s personal archive.

Available for 24 hours only, bidding closes tomorrow at 3PM NYC / 8PM BST

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24/05/2026

Pen & Pixel Drop 6: The Covers

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It’s the final few hours to bid and buy some of Pen and Pixels most iconic covers - a small slice of a design output that sretches over 19,000 albums, and a sphere of influence that spread across an entire generations design philosophy.

Explore signed and sealed 12 x 12 Flats from MJG, Ghetto twins, Crime boss and much more, by 3PM NYC

Later today, we’ll be announcing the final drop to come out of Pen & Pixel week; a collection of some of the most coveted, rare concert t-shirts and apparel, including rarities from Lil wayne’s early group ‘Hot Boys’, and custom Rap-a-lot jackets.

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23/05/2026

Duck Rock Accetates: These are the original accetates used by The Supreme Team in the creation of the scratches heard on Malcolm McLaren’s landmark album Duck Rock.

“The influence of Duck Rock seems an eternal presence in pop. A rough estimate suggests the album has been sampled on around 400 tracks, by Eminem, Drake, Dr Dre, J Cole, Missy Elliott, De La Soul, Pharrell Williams, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, J Dilla and Madlib among umpteen others. And that’s just hip-hop: elsewhere, borrowing from Duck Rock is the thread that links Lana Del Rey to Linkin Park, the KLF to Alicia Keyes and Erykah Badu.” - The Guardian

Released in 1983, Duck Rock fused early hip hop, South African mbaqanga and Latin rhythms, helping introduce sampling culture, turntablism and the wider language of hip hop to mainstream audiences. Recovered during a storage clearance at Sarm Studios, the London studio headquarters of Trevor Horn in the 1980s, these acetates contain the drum, bass and vocal elements.

Just 24 hours left to bid on these acetates and secure the materials used to create one of the most influential albums in music history

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22/05/2026

Patta x Wax Poetics x Pen & Pixel T-Shirt available for pre-order on patta.nl from Friday, May 22nd at 13:00 CEST, for one weekend only. As this is a pre-order, all items ordered will be shipped within 6 weeks.

Patta continues its longstanding partnership with Wax Poetics through a new collaboration honouring one of hip-hop’s most influential visual institutions: Pen & Pixel. Emerging from Houston’s Rap-A-Lot era in the early 1990s, Pen & Pixel redefined rap artwork through bold, maximalist designs that became synonymous with Southern hip-hop culture. Best known for creating iconic covers for artists including Master P, Cash Money, Geto Boys, 8Ball & MJG and many more. Their unmistakable visual language of chrome typography, diamonds, flames and surreal compositions helped shape an entire era of music and design.

Bringing together Patta’s deep-rooted connection to music culture, Wax Poetics’ archival storytelling, and Pen & Pixel’s legendary aesthetic, the collaboration celebrates the lasting influence of independent creativity and hip-hop visual history through a limited-edition T-shirt release.

14/05/2026

Pen & Pixel Week. 7 Days of auctions. 24 hours to bid

From May 18th we’ll be dropping daily items from the expansive archive of Pen and Pixel, the Houston design studio that brought bling to the face of hip hop with over 19,000 album covers.

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Through collaborations with Snoop Dogg, Master P, Lil Wayne, Juvenile, Three Six Mafia, Chris Rock, Destiny’s Child, Scarface and countless others, they cemented themselves as architects of an aesthetic that went on to define generations.

We’ll be celebrating their legacy through original signed artworks, records and coveted concert t shirts released across a 7 day week.

May 18 - Cash Money Records
May 19 - Rap-A-Lot Records
May 20 - Pen & Pixel: The Architects
May 21 - DJ Screw, ESG & The H town underground
May 22 - No Limit Records
May 23 - The Covers
May 24 - The Merch Vault

Expect a new drop everyday at 3PM NYC / 8PM BST / 9PM CEST

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11/05/2026

Louis Theroux took a trip down south and wound up at Pen and Pixel’s Houston studio. Keep watching to see the album cover he left with 👀

From May 18th we’re launching 7 days of drops straight from the Pen & Pixel archive, with rare posters, records, t shirts and more

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05/05/2026

Introducing our latest issue.

4 covers. 14+ articles. Only the deepest music stories.

Now available at WaxPoetics.com

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Excerpt from our Editor’s Letter...

Professional networks, tight-knit scenes, and informal underground subcultures are invaluable to creative development, giving artists and musicians a forum to find their voice, and workshop creative ideas before joining the glut of the broader market.

You’re probably familiar with Malcolm Gladwell’s ten-thousand hour rule. In his 2008 book, Outliers, the social theorist argues that ten thousand hours of dedicated practice is a prerequisite for the sort of success we associate with creative genius and game-changing innovation. The Beatles’ Hamburg years, wherein the Lads from Liverpool found their rhythm performing six shows a day (seven days a week!) is one case study. When it comes to music—and most other creative disciplines, too—there’s another component that I’d argue is just as crucial as talent and diligent practice, though: community.

In this issue, we explore the ten thousand hours that preceded the professional breakthroughs of some truly iconic figures—the work before the work, if you will— and the role that community played in facilitating those breakthroughs. We start with and Tupac Shakur—some might say the definitive recording artists of the 1990s—and a pair of circa-’88 demo tapes that have come to light as part of our Wax Poetics Collections.

Words by Jesse Serwer.

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