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In Search Of The Holy Grail…

Thursday, July 4th, 2013

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Instead of buying a new Samsung phone I used my Complex digit to secure one of the jewels in my POLO RL holy grail. I’ve been sweating this jacket ever since I saw it on the streets.

The first dude I saw rocking this piece was a white diddy bopping down Fulton Mall. I tracked sonn down to ask him about the jacket but then he bolted from me like he was try’na escape a jack move. He ain’t even know I wasn’t one that flex. Maybe twenty five years ago, but not in 2010.

I bumped into a Black kid on the New Lots line who had the jacket and he said he copped it while he worked for Ralph Lauren. To my dismay he said they ain’t make the jacket in an XXL. I’m glad and lucky he was dead wrong.

Dude on the eBay system wanted $325 for the joint.

I got my jewel.

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This Goes Out To My Brooklyn Crew…

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

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“Put ya’ hands up in the air if ya’ fell me!
Eff ’em all day, eff ’em all night.
We don’t love these ho’s.”

Peep the R.K.O. Albee movie theater before it was demolished to make way for the Albee Square Mall.

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And now the new City Point shopping center is opening up with an Armani Exchange as the first tenant.

Brooklyn done changed just to remain the same.

Outfit Architecture…

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013

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Whatever you do for this holiday weekend keep it safe and don’t Crispus Attucks ya’ shit nah’mean?!?

If red, white and blue is the theme then you know I’m coming correct without even having to pop a tag or a flag.

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Camo shorts of course because there’s a war going on outside.

Nike SB’s are where the popp is on this ‘Fit.

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Nike SB camera case is so swag

High socks made in Japan. God bless America tho’ f’real.

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Yeezus Is The Christ Of Soul Music…

Friday, June 21st, 2013

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By now you have listened to the new KanYe West album. If you haven’t I really don’t want to talk to you on this drop so please don’t leave me a comment. As it is I don’t think I can talk about this album with most people since rap fans nowadays aren’t particularly versed in Black music.

The Yeezus album is a tour de force in Black music that has been technofied. Acid Blues. Has anyone ever used that moniker for a musical genre? But it’s not just Blues music on this album. There’s mad Funk going on in this composition. Of course Soul and Rock are getting burn on this disk.

The album is sequenced so that it shakes off the timid Hip-Hop heads early with the experimental soundscape. If you can make it to the end you get the rewards of Kid Cudi and Charlie Wilson’s stirring soulsanging. Most people won’t make it to that point tho’. You’ll be frightened by the frankness of Kanye’s promiscuous content.

My first listens to this album made me reopen my 808s and H3artbr38k files and it was stark to my ears how raw 808s really is. I still love that album but Yeezus is on another level. Another level of production. Another level of sonic sensibility. KanYe West is the GOAT. Hip-Hop is dead like the strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Long live Hip-Hop.

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BLACK PRESIDENT

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

Somebody told me that we have a Black President,
just ‘cuz he didn’t want to go to ‘Nam
and ‘cuz he smoked weed,
and ‘cuz he cheated on his old lady,
and ‘cuz he says words like ‘cuz.

But the only Black man that I know,
never smoked a joint,
fought in the war against Black America,
and did two rounds with the VIET CONG,
he was a champion for the foundation of Black culture;
FAMILY.

You won’t agree with everything he says,
but you know he will never lie to you.
That’s the only Black man that I know.

Dad.

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CLARENCE A. PENN III July 31, 1944 – June 7, 2005