Kith and Mike Tyson’s new T-shirt collab pays homage to a classic meme about the boxer that also happens to incldue the fashion brand's name.
The brand recently announced the “Now Kith” collab T-shirt that is set to drop on Monday. The front of the shirt features a picture of a younger Mike Tyson holding two birds together.
The internet joke on which the shirt is based typically includes this picture and the caption “Now Kith." The meme is a play on Tyson’s lisp that makes “kiss” sound like “kith.”
For the perennially online social media user, this shirt design feels like a collaboration that’s been destined to happen.
Tyson made headlines earlier this month when he appeared on the All The Smoke Fight podcast and opened up about meeting social media star Hasbullah for the first time.
Tyson explained what he thought when he met Hasbullah, who’s 22 years old but, due to dwarfism, has the features of a young child. “I thought it was a baby,” said Tyson. “That’s how I am with children. He’s like 26 years old.”
The heavyweight champion is set to face YouTuber Jake Paul in the ring on Nov. 15. The fight was initially scheduled for July 2 but was postponed.
At a press conference in May, Tyson gave a questionable response to Paul trolling him that left people shocked. Paul suggested that he wanted to “kiss Mike’s big juicy lips” as a way of getting under the legendary boxer’s skin.
"He wanted to kiss me?" Tyson said. "That's so ironic that he said that because I saw pictures of him dancing at 16, doing that little dance on YouTube, and for some reason I had an erection."
