The Combat Jack Show on ComplexTV wrapped up production of the season 1 cycle last week.
That means there won’t be any more late nights in this Bushwick studio we called home since February. No more Combat Jack Show logo painted on the floor.
No more Brooklyn Bridge backdrop on the wall.
Jadakiss was the guest for the finale.
Dude’s outfit architecture was impeccable.
Peace to Juanito (Just Blaze’s assistant)
Peace to Just Blaze
Peace to Combat Jack and Combat Jack Jr. the third.
I always think about the first time I met Timeless Truth in the NYC streets. We was all catching the subway at the 2/3 14th St station and these dudes called me “Diamond Dallas Paige”. Classic. LOL, nah, but they fuxed with me and I fuxed with them.
They were ‘LO dipped with a grip of I.T.’s on like I hadn’t seen since 1992. Mind you this was 2007 tho’ and their pieces were 15 years old. Damned if these dudes weren’t 15yrs old. How could these young niggas have so much OG flavor? I felt like they had come from a time machine. I especially loved the Hi-Tech pieces.
What I learned then about Timeless is that they are old souls and students of the art of being fresh in NYC. Shouts to the whole planet Earth, but NYC is one of the hubs of the aspirational lifestyle. Polo defines that lifestyle in their clothing because of the people in NYC who rock it while they earn their stripes. However they earn their stripes. And whatever you do to defend those stripes. People that rock Polo manifest their dreams.
Timeless Truth let me play a part in their album release with my official fanboy of Hi-Tech. The video was actually a message to the brothers about where we come from in the galaxy of Queens. I used Queens landmarks, but these brothers need no reminding to remain centered. They have their Hip-Hop GPS locked in. Listen to the melody of RTNC respecting the power of the 88 keys.
The video below is for the track which I think represents Timeless Truth’s aspirational values in rap form. Family first, love and loyalty always. It won’t be an easy road, but what a life…
The prelude to the Lo-Life BBQ will be this show at Public Assembly with Thirstin’ Howl 3rd headlining. But wait there’s more…
Rock from Heltah Skeltah
Timeless Truth
Bklyn Stick Up
Illa Ghee
Cambatta
All of this at Public Assembly in Williamsburg. 70 North 6th Street, 11pm
Modern day Brooklyn is a refuge for hipsters running from the breakneck rents of SoHo, Chelsea, TriBeCa and the Lower East Side. Brooklyn has always been a refuge of sorts for Manhattanite outcasts. During the NYC race riots of the 1860s Brooklyn was a safe haven for freed Blacks trying to escape the murderous white immigrant gangs of New York.
The neighborhood those Blacks came to was called Weeksville. What we know today as Bedford Stuyvesant, Crown Heights and Ocean Hill Brownsville is where this Black township was situated.
Weeksville is more than 150 years old and predates the Harlem renaissance by 75 years. The truth being excavated in Weeksville is that you have been here before. And you will always be here.
Stay logged on to dP.com and I’ll keep you posted for the event happening at the Weeksville Heritage Center. Happy Juneteenth Internets.
Catch me uptown this Thursday night…