Zulu Khalil Williams is a Harlem born Japanese African American whose parents met in Mississippi during the civil rights movement. He is head designer for PNB Nation, a hip hop urban wear company that was founded in the 80's by Zulu Williams, Roger Brue McHayle and Isaac West Rubinstein, grafitti writers who turned a small silkscreen T Shirt concession into a multi million dollar clothing company. In 1999, Brett Johnson, from Source Magazine, wrote this about PNB:

"PNB's success has been in lieu of their resistence to being pigeonholed as a typical urban clothing company. In fact, the multi-ethnic partners --Brue has Chinese Jamaican ancestry, West is a Russian and Zulu is Japanese and African American--believe they bring a multicultural sensibility to their designs that is directed to hip-hop informed consumers who are culturally and politically aware and fashionably broad minded. Consequently, PNB Nation has maintained a level of exclusivity and cult following for their progressive yet undeniably hiphopcentric designs for ten years".

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