Survival Series: The Bag Revisited

Got that bag packed? Since Mother Nature is talking, I figured that I would refresh the memories of what to have on deck just in case...I have that same compass BTW. Eddie Bauer. You might want to know where you're going if you're lost and there's no stars in the sky. You do have a map of where you reside right? Got this yet? Since last year there are other water filtration bottles out there. The best invention the last 10 years. Lake, sea,...

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He's One of Us!

i may not be the biggest fan of his music, especially his major label shit. i mean, the mixtapes was WAY better. he got a couple of songs thats real forward and creative on them (i think it's the Airplanes joint), and hopefully he gets back to that, so he can show the world that he really got talent. but when i saw this, i knew right away, that the baw is no pose...

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High At Most Fear

last night, i was coming from the studio when the hurricane started touchin Philly. i made sure i went thru the buildin makin sure wires n shit was off the floor, takin power lines out of the wall and cappin the electrical sockets. shit, i even took my computers off the floor. 2 Mac G5's? fuck that... i saw a piece of corn in the ash tray and wondered if i should torch that before i left...

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Time is Tickin away! the folks at Coca-Cola wanna see your moves!

this is a promotional campaign thats being run by Coke Zero to find who has a real ill dance. they wanna see what people come up with. you can get more info on that from the video. now this is my take on it.....

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You're running thru a meadow, when u realize...

its all weed! wouldnt that b some fly shit. look at this as far as the "i" can see, there's all weed plants! its crazy cause, i read in an article that government agensta re claiming that illegal growers are leaving toxic byprodu cts as a part of their harvesting methods. know how to fix that? MAKE IT LEGAL. boy i bet the air around there smells great. iys probably the only place on the map where the residents are wishing for a brush fire! whole...

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You're a hustler? Really?

i dont know if many of you will know who this is. i know you know the name. this is Bernie Madoff, and he made-off like a motha fucka, to the tune of around a billion dollars. I SAID A BILLION DOLLARS. look at him. do you think any lady on the street is gonna clutch her purse when he walks by? but he done took more money than all ur oldheads in every jail u can think of. no gun. he robbed people blind wearin a suit and ti...

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Fresh Mix-DJane P. Galore

this is a mix from my homegirl all the way from Greece, DJane Pussy Galore. sis got crazy soul and this mix is crazy fly. she is sooo passionate about music and its infectious. if u listen, u can hear her in it. i can. get ur head noddin to this... shout out to all the mothers... what is life without you? shout out my mother, Pearl, cause i will always love you....

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Bgirl Fresh: Door Knockers

  i mean, shit, all thru this little run thru time i been mentionin these, why not go there? big, hollow, overpriced, but still fly as shit was the door knockers, also known as bamboo earings. i heard door knockers more in NY and Bamboo more in Philly. it didnt matter where. the ladies always looked right in these. jeans or skirt didnt really make a difference. it was always fres...

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Bboy Salute: The Slow Drag

there used to be a time when you could go to a spot n hear some new music, cause the DJ used to break the records, not the program director at the radio station. the dj used to put on a show for you, cause he always had an emcee that he travelled with, who would rap. then he'd have a moment when he would just cut it up for you. in the world of music, this is called a solo, and i'd rather call it that cause djs were musicians of a different sort. the in the middle of all of this, THIS SONG WOULD COME ON......

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Bgirl Fresh: Laura Biagiatti

only the flyest chicks rocked these... the other day i dropped the post about the EK's. my man RASAD saw it on Facebook and immediately shouted these out. and it didnt surprise me that he knew the deal. cause of u ever messed with fly girls, you saw they style. you know these things. this used to be the route for the ladies without a shadow of a doubt. these wit the bob cut, the door knockers, the shearlings, turtleneck underneath with some stone...

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Bgirl Fresh: Emmanuel Khan (EK's)

peep the snakeskin around the top. u caant see it, but they were also wrapped around the  handles on the sides... this was the ill eyewear for the ladies! i mean some dudes wore em, but i always thought they was fresh for the ladies. and boy did they rock 'em! they came in a number of colors, but these was the ones that i always thought was fresh. and the black. and these chicks think they brand new wit the supa star shades. ha! these was...

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Bgirl Fresh: Aigner

i could not find a picture of the sneakers. the girls used to be so fly in these... if u used to date a fly chick, then u probably heard of this by default. fly girls was wearin the bags, some clothing and especially the sneaks that this designer made. as i recall, they was a cream color and they was tuff. there was a girl in my brother's class who was gorgeous, and fly, and of course i fucked up on her. but she used to rock shit like this. she...

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We Reminisce Over: Case 2,TFP, a REAL Hip Hop Legend...

 for those that might not know, this picture is of the immortal CASE 2 (left, with the Cortez Nikes i  blogged about earlier last month), another 70s legend and whole car master, BUTCH, and the skinny dude is DEZ, who yall probably best know as DJ Kay Slay, from Hot 97, NYC for those of you who like rap music, may not understand what this post is about. this post is about a true pioneer in the culture of Hip Hop, a graffiti artist by...

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Bgirl Fresh: Reebok Freestyle (for the ladies)

why you dont buy me Reeboks no more? these was those things! i mean, it should tell u how fly these joints was cause the chicks was willin to lay it out for you for a pair. i searched for a picture of red ones, which i think was the most popular color besides white, but i couldnt find one. they came in all them saucy colors, and females was fly in em wit the door knockers and the bob cuts. you know, back when girls LIKED lookin like gir...

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Branding Like a Muh Fu¢_a...

white girl mob?  its a different day and time, homeboy. i always be a lil caught off guard from where i see white people now a days. and sometimes im impressed at the heart it takes to b where i see em. other times im really doin the knowledge like, this aint the hood that it used to be either. a lot done changed since the crack game. even a lot of peoples addresses. all this talk about V-Nasty got me thinkin, like, is it really ok to drop...

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WE TRYIN TO DO IT BIGGER

this is just a small video of an event i used to throw called "Secret Society". it was a real, underground, dirty, graff heads, bboy, bbgirls, breakers, thugs, whatever, that came to experience some real Beat Street shit. we took a warehouse and turned it into a bboys paradise, wit a live dj, performances, all that. we tryin to go bigger. we got a few ideas in the works. the continuation of Secret Society, or a more prolific festival called "Survivor Series", where the whole primise of that is an ill outdoor excursion, fixed to live performances, set in a real rugged environment in Oregon, a smokers paradise. get ur mountain gear out for this...

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In The Crates: Who used this?

this for the homie DV. made me feel bad last time when i dropped the last selection, like i wasnt diggn. ok, homie, lets see how deep the hip hop knowledge run, since u seem to be a knowledgeable brotha. 2 right answers. ready and........

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i bet they missin the drug game now

its raining fear! these mothafuckas is scared! the markets takes a dip, then gets back up, to slide a lil bit. they out there playin wit it. they out there bettin that this thing will recover. a lot of money is bettin on the fact that the thing will FAIL. all i hear is all these people talkin bout how hard the economy is, but Wayne and Drake gettin it in the mills (thought i was goin somewhere else?) ... officer Ricky saw close to 6 million dollars...

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Super Congress??? No Cape?

well, as far back as i can remember, bboys was concious. Bambatta, an ex-gang leader of The Black Spades, was the 1st to implement awareness into his parties in Bronx River Projects that gave way to Melle Mel, a 5 Percenter, to write concious songs like "The Message" very early in hip hop's presentation to the masses. if u are not concious in these days and times, then u are plugged in to the machine that feeds you, yet keeps you sleep. if any of...

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Bboy Salute: Led Zeppelin

you see the fallen angel? you think Jay n 'em was on this shit first? if you aint hip, get hip. cause this is one of the greatest rock groups of all time. these dudes was takin down Beatles records for concert attendance and sales back when they were out at the same time. these dudes, along wit Ozzy n Blac Sabbath defined the hard rock/classic rock sound of the 70s. but they get props over here cause a bunch of hteir records was early break...

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OG Stripes Ch.1 - Thirstin Howl

i know if yall bang wit me regular, yall hear me speak on LO-Lifes quite frequently, specially cause one of the founders, B-Bill, (RIP) was my homeboy. this dude, Thirstin Howl is better know to us as Vic-Lo, also one of the originators of the now worldwide crew. as Thirstin Howl, sun been grindin on the underground for quite a minute. i caught this joint and had to post it cause the breakdown on the history of shit is accurate AND flavorful. if u go back wit hip hop far enuff, this joint will touch u like it touched me. ...

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Bboy Fresh: Benetton

this was that shit! when the hood was breakin out of converse sneaks, and Nike was startin to be the brand of choice, when casual took over the suit wearin players of yesteryear, this was one of the brands we turned to make sure it was known and understood that we were fly. Benetton was a favorite of guys and girls alike and we looked fly in it. the buckets were crazy. this was one of the brands that we helped to establish. they started doin some...

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Watch The Throne Snippets... whachu think?

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J.Cole-Any Given Sunday EP download v2

For the record, these are not mixtapes, not EP’s either. I wake up on Sunday’s and I decide what songs I want to let out or rerelease for yall. You’ve been so patient for 2 YEARS! I think you deserve some insight and unreleased music. Tracklist and download link below. 1. Bring Em’ In- Made this in ATL during the “single hunt” phase. Even though it wasn’t a single and won’t make the album, I love this shit! 2. Roll Call- Just some real shit. Venting 3....

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Imma Go Wit The Big Homie On This One...

im sure by now, most of yall know who Warren Buffet is. he's the owner of Berkshire/Hathaway, one of , if not the largest investment firm in the world. he is consistently ranked in the top 3 of the world's richest men, even tho he lives in an $80,000 house. you gotta love that. well, being as tho my man is worth somewhere around 45 BILLION dollars. thats what he's worth, not his company. old head got chips. everywhere, you hear all this talk about the downgrading of the nation's credit rating. and a couple of my homies is all worried, like damn, the end cometh! i'm like be cool and let me kick some facts to you. 1st off, the firm Standard...

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Bboy Salute: The Millennium Falcon

who needs rims? i dare one of yall to act like you wasnt wit it! Star Wars???? Whatt????? man, there wasnt a cooler movie for years, sun, like 20, that could fuck wit this. seriously. that movie was The Matrix. as an adult, i totally agree with the belief of the Jedi. there really IS a force that exists in center of atoms in smallest particles called quarks that cause these atoms to behave in a certain way, to attract to certain other...

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Double Black

these joints are ill! i told yall that i fucks wit the dunks and this is why! i got a few marketing initiatives on deck, or i'd cop these shits right now! now imagine these joints with that black Marmot bubble i featured the other day. SICKNIN! then id murder you with an old school Carhart hat on top of that! sun i had crazy visions... wheeeew weeee! these joints is mean. aint nobody in the hood floatin around like this! they might after this tho....

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One way Ticket!

this some funny shit! and even tho i would never wish jail on nobody, i can, as a single dad with no help from my daugher's mother side (i dont need it. but thats the shit that women spend all day callin men triflin over. and they all women...), i dont feel no remorse for none of 'em. i was glad that they had the female on the list to show it wasnt a bias. cause when i was goin thru processes to get my daughter squared away, people was lookin at me funny cause i was a MAN takin the proper measures against a woman (maybe i should say female) that ran out on her daughter for a year, the FIRST year of her life. (my daughter is almost 3.) like...

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We Outta Here!!!

Mexican gangstas made THE WHOLE POLICE FORCE QUIT. now you tell me who really ridin. it used to b a time when police was scared to come in the hood. now they RUN the place. and dudes run from em. thats gangsta? THIS is gangsta....

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Since we brought it up....

this is one of my joints from back in the day. DEN also DENSKE, WAB,ATP,TUK. i did this on the Amtrak train traks that lead into 30th St. Station here in Philly, in the dark. illegal shit. this piece actually made it into the graf movie 'Infamy", produced by QD3. i had a lil interview in there while they was interviewin my homeboy, NM, who was doin his thing at the time. i was maybe a year or two home from a 5 year bid when the interview took place....

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Thurz-"Riot" feat: Black Thought

THURZ "RIOT" ft. BLACK THOUGHT (prod. DJ Khalil) by #92CREW this is a joint i seen floatin on the web and had to post it. it's produced by DJ Khalil and it's NASTY. the baw Black Thought is NOT the dude you let go first. you have so many pieces to pick up afterward. dont think so? check it for yourself...

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LETS HEAR IT FOR THE BOYS (repost, orig: Feb 26,2010)

pictured at left is the legendary Les Paul, the inventor of multi-tracking. he may be more known for his solid body electric guitar, but make no mistake, this is what makes him important to modern music for all of us. he is pictured here with his original eight track board built by Ampex in the 50's. there is no Hank Shocklee without Les Paul... the other day i was watching a documentary on the copyright issues sorrounding sampling. it was a good...

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In The Crates: Who Used This?

classic shit. and dude is an all time legend. they just dont come like this no more. not soundin this much like a man. baw sang, "i swear by my blood, one day your heartache will stop". damn! thats some real man shit. tragic life. come to think of it, his life would make an ill biopic. $yk, we might have to start takin some script writin classes. shit, my oldheads in Cali now... (shout out CEE67)...

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Strike A Pose®

i'm a graffiti writer. a real one. i went to the top of the game in Philly and am considered one of the all time best here. i didnt say that to prop myself. only to say that when i speak on alternative culture, i come from an informed place. a lot of the graff writers were also avid skaters and the worlds overlapped seamlessly. now in North Philly, you have to understand that a lot of the graff writers during a certain period were all street dudes....

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Bboy Fresh: Marmot

this joint is ill! down filled and guaranteed to keep you warm up to 8000m above sea level! feel that! thats mountain climbin shit!Time to do it to yall again. let ur boy put u up on game. this is another one of those winter lines i was speakin on in this post. this is some real stay warm, dry, and dry from ur own body heat (these jackets are made of breathable fabrics and are cleverly ventilated). Spyder is more ski apparrel. this shit is for tackling...

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