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RED BULL SNOWSCRAPERS – NYC

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

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TODAY!

In the Lower East Side at the East River Park (WildStyle location)

16 of the world’s best snowboarders will compete for their piece of the massive $100,000 prize purse at Red Bull Snowscrapers. Athletes will compete against the majestic backdrop of the New York City skyline in the East River Park from 6-9 pm.

Athletes include iconic Olympic Gold Medalist Shaun White, freestyle / backcountry legend Travis Rice and ultra-progressive phenomenon Pat Moore. World renowned Burton riders for the ground-breaking event include Kevin Pearce, Mikkel Bang, Danny Davis, Kohei Kubo, Kazuhiro Kakubo, and snowboard legend Terje Haakonsen. Other confirmed riders include Nitro’s Andreas Wiig, DC’s Torstein Horgmo, Forum’s Jake Blauvelt and Greg Bretz, along with Rome rider Bjorn Leines and Ride’s JJ Thomas.

Event Schedule

3:00pm – Gates open to the public
3:30pm – Riders open practice – All 16 riders
5:05pm – Valient Thorr Performance
5:45pm – Red Bull Snowscrapers contest starts – 60 minute jam session
7:10pm – Black Gold Performance
7:45pm – Red Bull Snowscrapers Finals – Jam session – Top 8 riders
8:50pm – Awards
8:55pm – Anthrax Performance

Event Format

Red Bull Snowscrapers will utilize a jam session format for both the preliminaries and finals. In this format, a rider is neither dismissed nor defined by a single run or fall—rather, the athlete who consistently lands difficult and creative tricks with skill and style throughout the entire jam session is deemed the overall winner.

BONGS OVER BROOKLYN…

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

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The Brooklyn Museum of Art First Saturday will be so crunktastical this weekend. Being Black should be this great 365 days a year.

DJ Spinna & DJ Rich Medina will join forces to bring their WTF?!? soundsystem to the museum’s grand ballroom.

JAMES BROWN x FELA KUTI

No matter the weather this weekend, Brooklyn will be extremely lifted.

*The Rub @ Southpaw jumps off afterwards*

STR8 SAVAGES…

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

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I found this old CD single in my crib when I was doing some reorganization. This was recorded by my dude Buddah Tye along with Slade Savage. They were part of the early Hydra Entertainment movement. I was gonna be a rap music record producer way back in the day, but I derailed those dreams with my greed and my foolishness. We will get into the particulars of that soon.

Buddah Tye and Slade Savage were dudes that I grew up with from the beginning. Slade Savage’s mom was my first babysitter. Buddah Tye is the dude that was my OG weedcarrier, literally. Buddah Tye, along with SoundWave were the first cats from my neighborhood to fuck with me and my Decept brothers at the March of Dimes Walk-A-Thon. We go back like lawnchairs my niggas.

Speaking of SW… This week was sonn’s new year. I wished him a happy 39th and you know what this fool had the nerve to say? He wasn’t born in 1970, but in 1971. WTF?!? That is just the type shit this foolio nigga would try. He is trying to push his age back by ONE year with the thinking that “Why would I only push my age back one year instead of two or three?” Listen SW, because I know you are reading this. Your old ass is 39. Quit yer’ bitching and be happy. You look great for an old ass nigga. Look at me. I look like I got one Air Max already in the grave.

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Slade Savage was about two years younger than us. He and ThunderCracker were in the same grade. Along with the homey June these dudes were the youngest cats getting blunted and stunted. If you took a day off from school with these fools you were gonna get high and you were gonna have sex with something young and lovely. This was their everyday mission. Slade and June used call TC a fool for running around the city with me since the shit I wqas doing was surely going to lead to being arrested but all these dudes did was stay high. Well yeah, they also fucked a lot of girls too.

TC’s death was a big turning point for all of us. TC was the bond that held us all together. June left NYC and went to Baltimore to grind. Slade Savage focused on rapping and I went my own way. It wasn’t until a few years ago that we all found ourself in communication again. June had survived Baltimore in the early 90’s when a lot of dudes had not. Savage has moved on from emceeing to raising his kids. I feel like he has about five or six on some SHAWN KEMP shit. I thought about these dudes as I straightened up my apartment and uncovered some memorabilia.

I miss this dude so much sometimes.

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Let The Dollars Circulate…

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

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KeiStar Productions along with a bevy of friends are hosting a musical tribute to the man, the myth, the musical legend – Jay Dee.

A portion of the proceeds will be donated to a Lupus Awareness fund.

Fellas, true story is that there will be so many ladies at this party that you won’t know what to do with yourself. Het breeder males will be in the minority. You can win like Rocky without being cocky.

Friday, Feb.6th
DIETY LOUNGE
368 Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
btwn Hoyt and Bond Streets

rsvp@ladieslovenyc.com

Koch Records, Kill Yo’ Self!

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

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I wondered aloud @ XXL if Koch Records was really the Def Jam Records that I remembered from my youth when the homey DJ DaddyMack hit me up on the Twitter that Koch Records had gone and killed they self.

Actually, they have dissolved themselves into their parent corporation. This can’t be good news. There was supposed to be a gang of records dropping under Koch including the homey Joell Ortiz’ latest joint. I think they were holding something from Slim Thug, Alchemist, Havoc and a D-Block project as well.

This fucked the fuck up economy is taking niggas out while they sleep like an Israeli helicopter gunship. It’s a good thing for Jim Jones that he stays wearing that 1929 soupline hobo swagger hairline. He might be the only cat that can weather this economic storm.

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