I am losing my favorite Brooklyn Museum of Art First Saturday after-party institution. Ripple Bar on Washington Avenue right off St. John’s Place was that nice little neighborhood bar that would get oh so crunk every now and then.
The only problem with little neighborhood joints is that you need a constant influx of cash to keep the lights on and the investors happy. It seems like my $50 monthly tab wasn’t going to be enough.
Peace to SYRON. See you when I see you playboy.
As soon as TY touched down in NYC he mae sure to holla at the kid. TY knows I live on the streets and if he wanted to get a deal on some fly gear I would be the one who knew where it was popping off.
I met up with TY on 125th Street in the new Harlem. He told me he was looking for some jeans. I brought him to the Marshall’s on the corner of Lenox. TY fucks with LRG, Akademiks and RocaWear, all of which Marshall’s carries in abundance. I wasn’t feeling Marshall’s price points however. $30US for jeans? Since TY is from London that is actually a great price, but from my point of view it was too much. I decided for us to hit up a spot in the Bronx I knew where he could get more for his quid (Brit money slang).
A.J. Wright on the Grand Concourse and Fordham Road is the shit for affordable clothing and whatever. If you have one in your area I suggest you consume from them before you consider any other store. RocaWear jeans for $20US which is the equivalent of 10 British pounds. Needless to say, TY racked up. Since we were on Fordham Road I thought we should fall through my favorite sneaker spot, Dr. Jays, to see if any new Dunks or Air Max were released.
Dr. Jays is one of the top stores in NYC to copp sneakers from since they have all the general release shoes on their shelves as well as the special ‘urban footwear’ account they have with NIKE. It just so happens that Dr. Jays was having a table sale that day and they had a grip of sneakers for $20US. Do I need to remind you that is the same as 10 lbs. British money and that is quite a deal. Just ask Dan Love From Da’ Bricks. He pays quite a lot for his Air Max.
Once again TY racked up. The NIKE Untold Truth Josh Gibson Dunks, and the Nike Vandal Highs in brown each for only $20US a pair. FYI, I copped both pairs of Dunk Lows and I sent the pair with the rasta laces to my cuzzo in Atlanta. I couldn’t let them joints go for twenty cent. Neither could TY, due to the fact he is a big fan of Dunks and he even designed a pair as a special NIKE iD charity promotion in the U.K. along with several other musicians.
TY was on his way to D.C. the following morning for a show and you know homeboy was going to go dipped out. I was happy that I helped him get hos swagger correct and affordable. If you are going to be in NYC and you want to make a run for some kicks or some wears then you need to get at me. Sneaker Fiends Unite! NYC tours will be in full effect this summer.
Sometimes the ubiquity of the New York Yankees logo annoys me. The ‘NY’ somehow conveys power, strength and possibly virility. Why else would so many men that don’t even follow baseball wear the hat. I have at least half a dozen Yankee ‘NY’ logo caps in my fitted repertoire and I don’t even like the Yankees like that. You just have to own at least one of these caps for valid street credibility.
Street credibility is important to disenfranchised folks like myself. It’s all I have in this world. No, really. I’m not even joking right now when I say that. I’ll tell you later this week about how fucked the fuck up my world just turned, but for now understand that I am living on the edge. As I was walking from a job site in Crown Heights I saw this lonely Yankee hat left sitting on a cast iron fence. I wondered who in Brooklyn would leave their Yankee hat behind. These New Era fitted caps aren’t cheap, even from the wholesalers I pay $10 per cap.
I decided to take some pictures of the Yankee caps I encountered on my subway ride home. Since I was in Brooklyn the likelihood of me encountering a fan going to the stadium to watch the game was low. These folks wear their Yankee caps not to support JOE GIRARDI, but to maintain their status as average joes in the ‘hood.
Yankee hat in brown and tan to match the PePe Jeans outfit. As an aside, is PePe Jeans considered the national brand for Mexicans?
Traditional Yankee hat in foreground and exclusive Fulton Street monochromatic remix in the background.
Off in the distance, you guessed it, Yankee cap.
Yankee cap reflection in window belongs to someone whose face I never had chance to see.
Like father. like son. Yankee hat status starts as soon as baby is born.
Knitting Factory
74 Leonard Street, NYC
8pm
TY – ‘Dreams’
TY featuring De La Soul – ‘The Idea’
TY – ‘Music 2 Fly 2’
Memo to Fader,
I know you dudes have it in you, but you need to step up your mag and subsequent mag release party game.
The Mass Appeal party for their 50th issue would have been just fine with the Seagram’s gin Obama and the classic true school Hip-Hop blaring through the speakers. Plus the random chick who climbed up on the platform and took off her top.
Mass Appeal is the only magazine I am reading now. Occasionally I will buy a King or XXL, but only when I am working at a job site on Court Street because the newsstand sells them shits for $3. I usually leave them joints on the subway during the afternoon so the kids can get them. I bring my copy of Mass Appeal home.
You would imagine that a company that can produce a magazine worth keeping might be able to engineer a party worth attending. You would be right. There were tons of pretty people hanging out. My homies from ThinkTank Marketing always roll with a grip of iCandy (shouts to iFux). That chick from the Neptunes’s clique had a crew of young ladies. I believe homegirl’s name is VASHTIE. She is wild pretty in person and not as little as I expected her to be since she runs with PHARRELL.
Ferris Bueller and Plain Pat came through. Neither of them are pretty, but that was cool since they brought the entertainment. You may have heard of this dude – Kid Cudi. Pronounced “cuddy”, he is from the midwest like his idol KanYe West. Cleveland to be exact. He even resembles the flow of some of Cleveland’s best known rappers, Bone Thugs and Harmony. His song ‘Day ‘N Night’ has been making the radio rounds here in NYC.
‘Day ‘N Night’
He has that singing flow that BTH used to spit with. It’s a half rhyming cadence and a half harmonizing flow. I fucks with this shit. Kid Cudi did a short set for the drunken gathering and then he kept it moving. He prah’lee went on to the next party with even prettier drunk and hot girls.
I took a subway to Brooklyn.
‘Love Stoned Freestyle’