There’s making lemonade out of lemons, after which there’s Travis Scott, who’s making T-shirts out of mug photographs.
The rapper (born Jacques Bermon Webster II) has launched merch that includes his personal mug shot simply hours after he was arrested in Miami very early Thursday morning on fees of disorderly intoxication and trespassing on a property after a warning after officers allegedly discovered him on a dock engaged in an argument with somebody on a yacht, “yelling on the vessel occupants,” in keeping with an arrest affidavit obtained by Folks. Police wrote that Scott was informed to go away the dock “or he could be arrested.”
“All through the lengthy stroll from the vessel to the boardwalk,” authorities alleged within the report, “[Scott] walked backwards, yelling obscenities to the occupants of the vessel.” He did allegedly depart the dock, however after 5 minutes, returned and allegedly brought on “a public disturbance.” Police then arrested him and introduced him to the Miami Seaside Police Division.
Scott “later admitted that he had been consuming alcohol and acknowledged, ‘It’s Miami,’” the report continued.
He was launched Thursday on a $650 bond for the 2 fees after pleading not responsible, and by Friday, Scott’s web site featured a $35 black T-shirt emblazoned with Scott’s grinning mug shot and the phrase “It’s Miami.” The product title is listed because the “Free the Rage Tee #2” and the outline says that $5 from every sale will go to the Cactus Jack Basis, Scott’s charitable group that, in keeping with its web site, serves youth by “offering entry to schooling and inventive assets to make sure long run success.” Scott additionally based a document label by the identical title.
Scott’s lawyer, Bradford Cohen, shared a press release, per Folks, that the incident was “a misunderstanding.”
“Mr. Scott was briefly detained attributable to a misunderstanding,” Cohen stated. “There was completely no bodily altercation concerned, and we thank the authorities for working with us in the direction of a swift and amicable decision.”
Representatives for Travis Scott didn’t instantly reply to Self-importance Honest’s request for remark.