Cablevision has finally dug themselves out from under the storm of 2010 and restored my internets service. I was dying on the inside like you couldn’t believe. At least my feet have been plenty warm in all of this mess. Did you peep the video on the 40 Belows? You can best believe I cracked those new joints the minute the blizzard started. I could have gone outside wearing shorts as long as I had on the 40s.
Now that the snow is melting NYC is becoming a slushy, muddy, flooded mess. The Tims you have to wear in these conditions have to be light and agile, yet still ridiculously waterproof and insulated. This is when I pull out my urban aggressive boots. They are lightweight and usually cut right at the ankle. The boots pictured above are some futuristic ‘Beef and Broccoli’ type hikers. Fantastic nubuck uppers and Gore-Tex lining.
I got these boots from Timberland as a replacement for some defective hi-top field boots. The replacements came in a size 11 but this style is cut true to size and I need an 11.5 or even a 12. I’m reaching out to you internets to keep an eye out for these boots in a size 12. Let me know what outlet you spot these in so I can pounce on them ASAP. Here go the details…
Fur swag on one trillion. Shouts to Matthew Henson…
Dirty Jerz and Sean Price both sent me images of this parka. No doubt the joint is HOARD! I would have preferred an olive green or navy color, but this is the official tissue expedition parka.
Chocolate Snowflake recently gave me a book about Matthew Henson. That dude was super hardbody. Discovering the North Pole was some retarded shit. The North Pole is just ice over water. To get to the pole you have to literally commit yourself to die.
Henson loved adventure so much that he didn’t care if he never made it back home. He learned to communicate and fully integrated with the Inuit eskimos. But most of all Henson learned how to run a dog sled. Mushing dogs was key to moving supplies over the icy tundra and no one was better than Matthew Henson.
The Iditarod race is an 1150mile race across Alaska as an honor to Henson and all the expert dogmushers who navigate that rugged countryside. Timberland created a series of boots named after the great race and the 40-Below was the cornerstone boot. This is the holy grail of Timberland.
The following video is for Marq’Spekt, Dirty Jerz, cocotaso and all of the readers/viewers who have a respect for the craftsmanship of classic Timberland products.
I’m sad that Rugby won’t let people buy their patches anymore. Hyper-exclusive retailing is the aspiration of poor people attempting to be middle-class… Looking.
I’m glad that I bought my patches years ago and started the trend. I’ve been sitting on a pile of patches and a pile of knits copped from Marshall’s on the come up.
I figured I could marry a few I.T.s with DP.com as the congregation [ll]…
Internets. You need to have several colorway programs to be fully lifestyle. The PRL sport red is basic swag that you can rock all year around if you are a lifestyler from Florida to Texas. This knit was reduced from $34.99 down to $27.00 at first clearance. In all honesty I usually don’t copp from Marshall’s until second clearance or less than $25 bucks. The Rugby patch is funky. That cost me $12 on a sale at the store.
The African tailor on Washington is a good dude. I overpay him with a dub for applying the patch, but I make him do some fly shit to make the patch really popoffavitch. Cross check, outline the numerals and put this material in between the shirt and the patch.
This material gives the patch a nice puffy (no Last train To Paris) look and the material also picks up the sweat from you big sweat-back lifestylers [ll].
The next I.T. is actually a short sleeve rugby knit. Most of you know that the classic Polo short sleeve is fashioned after a polo match knit? This Polo is a rugby shirt. Crosshatched stitching re-inforced shoulder yoke. Marshall’s first retail price was what? $24.99?!? I’m gawn innnnnnnn!
Even tho’ I’m no Yankee fan I can top off this I.T. with the classic navy fitted on some school uniform shit.
The blue/grey program would get officially murderated if I copp the Air Jordan XI ‘Cool Greys’. BONG!
When you look the career of Ghostface Killah you might have to put him on the all-time GOAT list. Over Jay AND Em.
Who has been doing Hip-Hop this good for this long? Ghost still spit like he was in the cipher on Broadway and 4th Street outside of Tower Records.
I like this joint right here he rocks with Trife the God. I think Ghost gets a pass for letting his son merc’k him on his own shit. It’s like the second coming of Carlito.
‘Black Tequila’ featuring Cappadonna and Trife
This is the track that reminds you how ill Redman is when you mix him with the Wu. These rhyme bars is all drugs.
‘Troublemakers’ featuring Raekwon, Method Man and Redman
I’m giving Starks his props for letting Black Thought hop on this track. Thought loves killing niggas on they own shit but you can’t defeat a master in his own chamber. Why Ghost had to say Pink Champale? Jellies?! Shamz daBaron?!? Murder.
‘In The Park’ featuring Black Thought
Starks blacks the fux out on this joint. Ghost has one of the rawest rap styles of all time. If he isn’t a GOAT candidate then who is?
‘Starkology’
‘APOLLO KIDS’ was better than it needed to be since it got zero promo from the machine. There is some town on the Russian/German border that is bumping this album hardbody, and they don’t even speak English. This is rap music from the very beginning of Hip-Hop but it isn’t dated its more like timeless. Timeless truth.
A while back on XXL, BILLY X. SUNDAY talked about rap music’s best sneaker styles and without question the classic wheat colored Timberland was second only to the Air Jordan. It was after further review I realized that because Jordan brand Nikes have sooooo many different issuances and colorways that the G.O.A.T. Hip-Hop sneaker has to the Timberland boot.
I don’t consider sneakers to be qualified simply as rubber soled athletic shoes. Sneakers are the shoes that Black folks wear to place themselves in a tribe. How many of us wear athletic shoes to do things that are athletic? Or even aerobic for that matter? So how many people wear the classic wheat work boot to actually put in work? Unless of course your job is to wear jeans and stand on a corner.
The classic wheat Timberland is ubiquitous in urban neighborhoods during the winter and is considered by some to be a four season shoe when worn with shorts and a long white t-shirt during the summer. I have a pair in my archive that contain specific instructions to only be placed on feet prior to my burial in the Earth. It’s not like you can get more than four(4) crispy appearances with these shoes on before you get a random scuff or oil mark.
My favorite all purpose utility Timberland is the 3/4 field boot. I copped these ‘Chocolate Bars’ at the A.J. Wright in Hempstead for forty cent($40). These shoes are super comfortable and their medium height keeps your feet dry without the excessive leg commitment required from a higher shoe. They are also lighter than the the average work boot because of the airfoam core inside of the soles. The field boot is definitely one of Timberland’s signature styles, but they have hurt their legendary status in recent years by bastardizing the boots for urban consumption.
The appeal of Timberland since my youth has been the fact that these shoes were ridiculously rugged. I still own a pair of the original elephant skin 40 Belows. They were called the Iditarod superboot. Since then I have bought Timberland boots that were made to last. Shouts go out to JEFF and SID SCHWARZ for mailing me a pair of Italian crafted Tims for free. The best element of Timberland had been the design ethos that all you will ever need is one pair. You should recognize them for being environmentally conscious before it was a fad.
Timberland caught hell a few years ago when one of the founders made the statement that their boots weren’t made for people to wear standing on a corner. The carpetbagger Black leadership rallied around these remarks and called them code for saying that Timberland doesn’t care about Black people (no G DUBBZ). This was a low blow to the company that has already given millions of dollars to charity organizations that fund anti-poverty and anti-illiteracy movements. The truth is that Black people never bought Timberlands in the first place to stand on the corner.
Black folks are savvy consumers, but the so-called Black leadership likes to portray us as perpetual victims. Black people, along with white(gasp), originally bought Timberland boots because these shits are the most well made shoes ever and they were originally made right here in the United States. It pisses me off sometimes when everything related to Black people is either as victims or ne’er do wells, and then some loud mouth jig more than likely wearing a perm starts talking in rhyme about white racism.
I’m the last person here to make an apology for any corporation or person that is part of the plan for supremacy. Timberland just makes great shoes and they stand behind their work, and they gave a fuck about the environment before it was a fashion statement like a yellow fucking ribbon on your lapel. You don’t have to be like me and own fifty pairs of Timberland boots, because all you need to have is one pair, but if you don’t have any… You just might not be Hip-Hop.
