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All Day I Dream About SlamDunks…

Monday, November 7th, 2011

The labor negotiations for the NBA have turned into the pissing contest you knew it would become between the owners and players. I hope the players union can hold tight this time and not cave in like they did during the 1999 lockout fiasco.

In the meantime I’m gonna rock these MVP class Derrick Rose signature shoes I just got from adidas. The adiZero Rose.2s are super lightweight and comfortable without sacrificing any materials quality. The shoe reminds me in some respects of a boxing shoe for how it wraps the foot securely.

Don’t take my word for it tho’ and go out and touch a pair of the adiZero Rose.2 to feel what I’m telling you might be the next great basketball shoe. I can’t wait to see what Derrick Rose does in these kicks this season. The tagline for these shoes is ‘ALL FLIGHTS CANCELLED’ #shotsfired! LOL

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NOW FEATURING DALLAS PENN…

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Taking ownership of your future is putting your dreams first. The Combat Jack Show is now FEATURING Dallas Penn. What does that mean? Log on to PNC Radio tonite and find out Internets.

The Combat Jack Show featuring Dallas Penn
10pm-12mid Wednesdays

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All Day I Dream About Sneakers…

Monday, October 31st, 2011


‘Sucker MCs’

Run-DMC is forever etched in my mind as the first hardcore rap band. They didn’t rhyme over disco breaks. Run-DMC was simply hard rhymes over a drum beat. This is the stripped down essence of Hip-Hop music. The drum and the voice. Simplicity. Perfection.

‘Perfection’

Run-DMC changed the way rappers would present themselves to their audience. The disco dance club influenced regalia was replaced with the stoic gangster ‘hood uniform. Black leather jackets and Lee jeans. Run-DMC were the OG all Black everything.

run dmc

Everything except for their kicks. Run-DMC wore adidas Superstar lowtops in the most gangster way possible. With NO shoelaces. This drove progressive ghetto parents bananas because the only people who wore sneakers with no shoelaces were convicts. Parents just don’t understand. This was the style of the youth and Run-DMC rhymed to hard to be denied.

‘Beats To The Rhyme’

You can’t even imagine how geeked I was to get this box from adidas. I already knew what was inside but I didn’t know just how detailed and thorough adidas had packaged this shoe release. Twenty-five years ago Run-DMC forever cemented Hip-Hop’s relationship with sneakers. This song is the definition of ‘kicking it’.

‘My adidas’

Extra laces, printed insoles and lace aglets, 14K gold rope chain dubrays.

God is in the details and adidas definitely took some cues from heaven above when constructing this release.

The reason the heel tabs and the striping look grey from the camera flash is because the material has DuPont 3M coating which will reflect light when flashed upon.

Shining in the dark is a fitting tribute to Jam Master Jay. R.I.P.

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Wale Needs To Get His ‘Ambition’ Up…

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

Let me get one thing clear, I fux with Wale. I dig his rhymestyle and his content has always felt smart to me. After his Seinfeld themed mixtape I was a fan. I still give Wale mad credit for namedropping Oksana Bauil. Who does that crazy shit?!? Wale does, but only on mixtapes.

Wale’s albums are a disappointment to me for not having the consistency of cleverness that his mixtapes boast. They are just… Meh. I felt that way about his debut CD ‘Attention Deficit‘ and I feel similarly nonplussed about this new project ‘Ambition’. Wale isn’t a bad rapper and he is far from boring but he does not dominate on his tracks the way he should. Wale is becoming a background rapper on his OWN music. I fux with the tracks I posted below tho’ almost all of them are R&B rap tracks.

When the Maybach Music honcho tabbed Wale for his team I thought that would be the watershed moment for his breakthrough. No one is more confident than Rick Ross. Who else in rap has survived as many fuck ups as Rick Ross? He’s gone from stealing the swag of a drug dealer, being a former law enforcement officer, to battling bloggers and the beast of all rappers, 50 Cent. If Rick Ross can rise up from all of that so can Wale from an embarrassing internets meme moment.

And Wale has risen up. His singular and obvious contribution to Maybach Music is that their sports references have jumped up several levels, and no one knows high end designer hypebeast shit like Wale. You see how crazy Rick Ross sneaker game is now? Give Wale the credit for that. I wish Ross would imbue Wale with the ability to make a consistent album. Not even a great album, just a joint not populated with features which disappear Wale into the background of his own ambitions.


‘Lotus Flower Bomb’ featuring Lloyd


‘Focused’ featuring Kid Cudi


‘Slight Work’ featuring Big Sean


‘That Way’ featuring Jeremih and Rick Ross

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SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Sunday, October 30th, 2011

BEEN HAD STUSSY!

Chocolate Snowflake has me on a no-new-acquisition cycle right now to catch up on my bills and to send the both of us on a little vacation somewhere warm for the winter. I had been doing pretty good up until I walked into NordstromRACK to use the pisser.

NordstromRACK already sells kicks at prices similar to Century21. They are decent pickup prices especially for a shoe you might have slept on or totally missed the release of. I know some folks that have come all the way up on brands like Gucci and Louis Vuitton fuxing with the RACK.

I came up, but nothing too crazy tho’. A pair of denim Dunks (Supreme) for $25 and the Air Carnivore for $27.50 was what I copped. They had some heat up in there too like the Air Flight Total Max and the Flightposite II for $40 each.

Truthfully, there would be no way I could deal with C.S.’s teeth sucking if I had beasted like that. Still and all right now she is looking at me to see which (or both) of these joints I am going to include in the Deadstock Dallas program next week at the Brooklyn Flea.

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