Wednesday 27 August 2008

Heaven At Night

Check the behind the scenes footage for Kid Cudi's video 'Heaven At Night'. If you are not aware of who he is, then well you're waste. He is killing it right now, check the tags cos I put up his mixtape a while back. This track is particularly nice, can't wait to see the final cut.

Tuesday 26 August 2008

I love my...

NEW SHOES!

When the weekends are good...

Plenty of Booze is involved


You see some cool stuff out and about and get trigger happy with the cybershot



You visit great exhibitions

The Stone Island collection was pretty impressive, I want a Mille Miglia Jacket! My brother was so excited he asked for his photo to be taken, the Mille Miglia piece is kind of a big deal...




Some cool pieces there, got a few more pics but don't want to spoil it, you should check out Fashion VS Sport @ the V&A though its a cool exhibition for all sneaker heads, sports brand and fashion lovers alike.

And you go to the first home game of the season and win 3-0

Sunday 24 August 2008

"SHATAP SHATAP SHATAP!!!"




THIS IS THE TRACK THEY ARE PROMOTING



(cue Tim Westwood Impression) IT'S ABSOLUTELY, DISGUSTINGLY, WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, A CERTIFIED 100% BANGER!!

I Wish I was going to Carnival today but instead I'll be in Manchester watching City beat the Irons! Big up to Jammer, he's the most entertaining man in Grime, had one of the funniest nights with him at Cambridge Uni, if you're reading this Jammer by some obscure, highly unlikely chance all I can say is "American Toooeeees."

Silverlink feat. Jammer & Badness - The Message Is Love - OUT ON THE 22ND SEPTEMBER ON NO HATS NO HOODS

Saturday 23 August 2008

Street Smarts

I'm a massive Hip Hop fan (obviously) and I love to reflect this in the way I dress, but I've always had an affinity with Football Casuals and classic looks. Whats lacking in the execution of my style right now is its tailored edge. A classic way in which to change this is to embrace the preppy style that is having some what of a resurgence right now, with the likes of Andre 3000 and Fonzworth Bentley leading the way with a node to the English Gent.

Andre 3000 is set to launch his Benjamin Bixby range at Harrods this season and its going to cause quite a stir. In embracing classic English styles, inspired by the fashion of American sports from the thirties with a desire to retain luxury status, Andre is establishing a look that I am very much a fan of. I don't think its going to generate the mass appeal of brands such as BBC and BAPE, a good thing if you ask me, both brands have tried to develop luxury street wear and in my opinion have become quite tacky in their execution. lets hope the Bixby range won't defer from the classic looks I've seen thus far. This desire for a tailored finish to street wear was bound to happen, a natural evolution as Hip Hop is some twenty years old in the mainstream and B-Boys reach their forties!

I recently conducted an interview with the legendry Fats Shariff aka Fatsarazzi, for Time Out London.(watch this space) His take on this style is "A preppy Mafia B-Boy."



In switching up the look I'm embracing the classic mens casual wear that has proved popular with Football fans. Wearing the brands which I love such as C.P Company, Stone Island, Belstaff, Penguin, Lacoste, Ralph Lauren etc while retaining my obsession with kicks, sports wear and Japanese denim. Where as in the past I've maintained a distinct line between the two, I'm now looking to fuse both looks to form "The Hip-Hop Casual". I think this hooded shirt from Nom De Guerre sums up the look perfectly.

Wednesday 20 August 2008

The Wackness

The premier of Sir Ben Kingsley's new movie 'The Wackness' is happening in London tonight, I'm not going, unfortunately, I’d quite happily spend the evening at a big glitzy showbiz affair but anyways the commute home beckons and I can't wait to see it. The film has everything I’m looking for in a fun summer flick: heavy soundtrack, great cast, cool theme, so it should be alot. I love films set in New York City, reminds me of the great escapades I’ve had out there and the rapport I personally have with the home of Hip Hop. The Big Apple inspires me, I feel vitalised, refreshed, energized, excited, and alive within its labyrinth of mammoth sky scrapers and busy avenues. As people may yearn for the shopping spress in Manhattan, the Brownstones of Brooklyn are a much more vibrant enclave for my imagination. Anyways I wish I was in New York right now, so all my NYC crew hold it down for me out there I’m thinking of you as I write this.

Anyways check the trailer for ‘The Wackness’ below and enjoy, think it drops August 29th??? But could be the 26th - don't quote me homes!



Check Josh Peck and the M-E-T-H-O-D Maaaaan in a little interview below!

Friday 15 August 2008

The Old Bill Rapping To Raskit



I was at Underage Festival last Friday working with some brands looking after the artists etc, managed to go and see Diz perform and while I was standing at the side of stage next to three coppers I noticed one of the Met's boys in blue spitting along to sirens, I only managed to get this short clip before he clocked me. I should of got the camera out quicker!

Raskit's music has spread far and wide, when I had a quick chat with the fuzz he seemed quite proud of the fact that his station had arrested Dizzee in the past!

Steve Van Klaren



Steve McClown's faux pas dutch accent.

Tuesday 12 August 2008

Nature's Revenge


Ludo is an incredibly talented street artist from Paris. His images transcribe man's destruction of nature through art. I'm not an eco-warrior in the slightest but his portrayal of nature in an urban setting, often incorporating machinery or weapons, is particularly plaintive and engages us the viewer to question our own interaction with the world around us, particularly nature.

Hi Hater Remix

Kanye West - Champion

Monday 11 August 2008

Childhood Dreams

I came across this guy via Oprah (I KNOW, I KNOW, THE SHAME) this guy is a great speaker and its quite an interesting lecture. Its kinda off of the usual tried and tested path of which I normally follow but its important to acknowledge those items you come across which move you and make you think. I'm trying to achieve my dreams, and some of the things i've done in my life so far have surpassed my own expectations and desires. My dreams and goals morph and change all the time, I am a dreamer!! LMAO, its corny I know but you might get inspired by this guy.

R.I.P Isaac & Bernie


Isaac Hayes was an absolute legend. Check my post on Stax Records a couple weeks ago, him and the label were amazing, its a great loss.

Also this week Bernie Mac passed away, both will be dearly missed.

R-E-U-P-G-A-N-G

After Pusha sported a Man United Shirt in his latest video 'The Fast Life' I decided that my love for the Virginian rap duo the Clipse had more than diminished... In fact, purely on principle alone I couldn't support the duo with the same vigor I once did. 'The Fast Life' is probably their poorest record to date but for me these two are the "Rae & Ghost" of the modern era, I love what they do. And even after hearing that their cocaine tales of criminal glory are not all they are 'cracked' up to be, pardon the pun, nonetheless I still find them entertaining. 'Hell Hath No Fury' provided the soundtrack to my year in Miami.

Check the interview below. Oh and if you know where you can cop Play Clothes from, their clothing line - holla.





Shout out to Nah Right.

Snake

This is amazing.



Shout out to T.Magic

Tuesday 5 August 2008

Witness The Newness

DJ MK today posted a short mix of cuts off of the new Roots Manuva album 'Slime & Reason' cop it here

I'm more than excited after listening to this 15 minute mix. It's sounding incredibly fresh, I wasn't initially convinced by 'Buff Nuff' but its certainly grown on me, and after having heard this mini-mix I'm eagerly anticipating the full release.

Roots Manuva is some what of an enigma, a fascinating character both on and off wax, I had the fortune of working with him a couple of years ago at Itch FM's 5th Birthday Bash. Rodney killed it, I was helping run the stage that night and it was quite an experience. Performing with his entire Banana Klan, consisting of about 9 or so members, affiliates, musicians and MCs it was quite the task getting them all on stage! It was a heavy show and Mr. Manuva was as humble as ever, a real nice bloke.

He is easily in my top 5 UK MC's of all time! He broke barriers with 'Run Come Save Me' and shifted an awful lot of units, with die hard hip hop heads, students, broad sheet readers and a few in between taking heed of his South London, yard-slang driven raps.

Two videos off 'Slime & Reason':
Again & Again


Buff Nuff


For those of you who have been a sleep for the last 10 years here is a selection of classic Roots Manuva material:
Witness


Dreamy Days


Too Cold


Cold Cut feat. Roots Manuva - True Skool


Go cop the full release when it drops later this month on Big Dada.

Monday 4 August 2008

Hardest Working Man In The Game


SEMTEXTV - BACKSTAGE AT ROCK THE BELLS [FEAT REDMAN, JAY ELECTRONICA, GREEN LANTERN, AND SUPERNATURAL] from DJ SEMTEX on Vimeo.

And I don't care what any of you say, this guy grinds 24/7, its a pleasure to have worked with him.

Sunday 3 August 2008

The Rebel

"I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my own proclamation and I am compelled to believe, at least, in my own protest. The first, and only, datum that is furnished me, within absurdist experience, is rebellion. Stripped of all knowledge, driven to commit murder or consent to it, I possess this datum which gains greater strength from the anguish that I suffer. Rebellion arises from the spectacle of the irrational coupled with an unjust and incomprehensible condition. But its blind impetus clamours for order in the midst of chaos, and for unity in the very heart of the ephemeral. It protests, it demands, it insists that the outrage come to an end, that there be built upon rock what until now was written unceasingly upon the waters." - Albert Camus.

Car Park Cool


I came across Axel Peemoller via the good people over at Frank151. (shout out to Justin)

He is a heavy designer and I'm really feeling a lot of his work, his site is doing alot for me and I really like how he's put together his page, check him out here.

A project that he's recently curated in a Melborne Car Park is particularly inspiring. When we are exposed to so many notices, signs and directions everyday in the city, it is always refreshing to see someone take a truly mundane but practical notice and flip it. A lot is to be said of a well signed car park! The amount of times i've acknowledged losing the whip in a multi-story is pathetic!

Trading Places @ Sketch


On saturday night I reached Sketch for the second installment of Trading Places. Masterminded by two of the leading blogs on London's creative scene; ATCN and TMI so shout out to Kish, A-Cyde, Biz and all the crew who helped put on a wicked night in an amazing venue.

Roadblock.

Rolled up with my mate Adam and we had to give Fats some much deserved props, a legend in the game.

A-Cyde & Biz handled their business on the ones & twos.

It was a wicked night. Shout out to Kish for the hook up.

Street Life

I saw this



and it reminded me of this

Friday 1 August 2008

Ghetto's Birthday Set - F*CK RADIO DVD



Heavy footage from Ghetto's Birthday last year, with Ghetto, Devlin, Chipmunk & Lil Nasty.