Plastic Little Art at Union

Hip-hop group Plastic Little is known for blurring boundaries, chanting Harry Potter rhymes while grabbing their crotches, and a unique sense of humor that's as clever as it is asinine. These delightful qualities have garnered PackofRats, SQUID, No Body's Child, Jon Thousand and DJ Si Young much critical acclaim in music mags, and enabled them to spread debaucherous glee from Philly, where they're based, to London, to our smog-filled - and lately rain-soaked - town.

PackofRats, known to his mother as Jayson Musson, double-duties as an artist. His work typically handles serious topics with comedy, crossing the line with a wink to challenge our notions of who is allowed to make what joke. He wants your grandma to ponder such issues as the fact Jesus and Osama Bin Laden have beards--coincidence or correlation??

Musson's collection of black and white posters, titled Too Black For B.E.T., celebrates all that is taboo, equally ha ha and hmmm. These posters, published in a coffee table book with a silk-screened cover, have been well-received and lauded for their balls-to-the-wall conceptual cleverness. Musson tackles such subjects as 9-11, cocaine, Harry Potter, Jay-Z's lips, sex, money, theme restaurants, Puerto Ricans, role models and donkeys. Want to see them up close, personal, and in large format? Hip to all jive men's clothing store Union has obtained some of these posters and is displaying them right now in their store on La Brea.

Regarding his own work, Jason says, "Too Black for B.E.T. will be the best toilet reading you done ever bought in your entire life, or you can put it on your coffee table and impress your black friends, cracker."


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