Thomas Calhoun Jr.
Founder, Own Your Masters®.Before asking anyone else to sit for this, the person asking sits for it first.Ten minutes on what the brand was, what it got wrong, and what it’s for now.
Transitioning Black buying power into Black building power.
Before we perfected our sound
Ten conversations recorded before the format existed. Jay-Z was speed-rapping before he found the pocket — these are ours. A demo is what you make before you own anything, which is exactly what they are.
The Classic Silhouettes
The drip is a pun on style, and it earned its place. These are the hoodies and tees that existed before there was a catalog to number them into — the last Own Your Masters garments printed in contrast.
Caviar was always the one. Caviar ground, bone-white mark, brass at the drawcord — the colourway that shipped years ago is, near enough, the palette the brand is built on now. What comes next is tonal, but it comes from here.
- OYM-000
- Caviar · Heather · True Red
- Drip, contrast
- Final · numbered
- $85–120
Season One opens March 2027
Five Masters, one every two weeks, all filmed before the first releases. Every conversation runs the same five movements — and the season’s Pressings are designed as a set, numbered to the Masters they came from.
First look: the drip returns in Ink on a Foil oversized hoodie. Same mark that shipped in Season One. Nothing about it changed except what it’s printed on.