Fashion and advertising and marketing ambassador Phil Pabon was a staple and influential icon in Hip-Hop. He shall be missed.
Just a few weeks in the past, celebrated model ambassador Phillip Pabon mourned the dying of good friend Biz Markie. Yesterday, he tragically died after affected by most cancers, sending the Hip-Hop neighborhood into one other whirlwind of melancholy.
Reports of Pabon’s passing circulated similtaneously Baba Zumbi from the Bay-area rap group Zion I.
Pabon misplaced his struggle with pancreatic most cancers, an aliment he quietly suffered from, in keeping with sources with AllHipHop.
Pabon was one of many first to infuse Hip-Hop, trend, advertising and marketing, and leisure on a company and road degree. In the ’90s, he helped construct cross-marketing and co-branding campaigns to usher Mecca USA Clothing, ENYCE Clothing/FILA to the burgeoning Hip-Hop neighborhood. Both corporations made tens of tens of millions of their first yr in enterprise. From there, Pabon went on to work his magic with others corresponding to FUBU Clothing, Samsung, SouthPole, US Polo Assn, Cadillac Footwear, Levis Footwear, Phat Farm, Baby Phat, Mountain Gear holding a myriad of government positions.
His bio says, “Phill Pabon has earned worldwide recognition as a frontrunner in his area for his artistic imaginative and prescient, innovation, and enterprise acumen throughout advertising and marketing, product growth and gross sales. Pabon has an knowledgeable talent set that has not solely been solicited by Industry giants however has been instrumental within the making of multi-million greenback manufacturers.”
In his later years, Pabon stored pioneering in his profession, working with quite a few manufacturers, artists and jumpstarting his personal unbiased ventures.
On his final IG put up, a proverbial who’s who within the music, media, trend, and leisure commented their love, respect, and admiration for Phil Pabon.
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Below is a sampling of the condolences that have been broadly unfold everywhere in the Internet as phrase unfold of Phil‘s passing.
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