“I want to see my young guys on the block with a CRIME PAYS T-shirt on and they surrounded by they homies and they all pointing at the shirt. “Our intention is to be cool as hell,” Hendricks says. A percentage of the sales of the shirts, and of all Trap House Chicago clothing, goes to fund the organization’s nonprofit wing, TRAP (Teens Reaching All Potential), which seeks to address the root problems of poverty and violence through teaching the values of restorative justice. On the back of the shirt is a list of professions that “depend on crime to pay their salaries,” Hendricks says, such as “police, lawyers, ambulances, judges, probation officers, and coroners.” Last on the the list, bolded and underlined, is the phrase but not us. The first shirt design Trap House issued is stark red, with the words CRIME PAYS printed on the front in a bold white graffiti-style font.
Trap House is Hendricks’s brainchild, a graphic T-shirt brand that’s a synthesis of his love of streetwear and his zeal for community work and social justice. “The only intentional thing I’ve done is Trap House Chicago.” However, “none of that was really intentional” Hendricks says.
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Mashaun Hendricks is only 30 years old, but he says that he’s “retired.” For the average 30-year-old, that professional status would be ridiculous, but Hendricks boasts an unusually extensive resumé: he’s been an economics teacher in Chicago, a restorative justice specialist at Chicago Public Schools, and a mentor for juvenile offenders.
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