Australia is going in hardbody for comeups and the culture. Join the homey Pinky as he drafts a motley bunch of down under dunns and hits up the outlets.
Makes me wanna host another tour on this side but the sales have been wack as of late. Plus all the SFU-NYC crew has been O.T. JaiSlayer, Nattiez, Diesel, GrandMaster, Encyclopedia Black are all from outside of NYC.
I need to take the SFU tour to a new town. Yo G-Roc what up?!?
In the meantime and in between time take a look at Pinky go in on the Sean Price approved Nike SB ‘Big Gulps’. Sneaker Fiends Unite is worldwide bitches.
I’m back in NYC. Washington was a trip. Meka and Ambassador were re-united in a HipHopDX x DC takeover. I fell thru the usual suspects in Georgetown. Shouts to Duk-Ki from MajorDC. Always one of my favorite heat holders in the Beltway zone.
Back up top I had to fall thru my spot Richie’s on Delancey. I was determined to copp the Air Max 2009 ‘Megatron Dons’. I saw so many homeless dudes in D.C. rocking the Penny 1/2 Cent shoe.
Since I’m a bum from the NYC area our shoe will be the Air Max 2009.
The Air Max ’95 remains one of Nike’s most enduring styles desspite the advancements made in the air soles up to this point. That is due to the original colorway of this shoe. The neon accents alomg with the 3M details were fantastically understated. The undersole identification of the air bubble PSI rating made this shoe a technical piece of equipment.
Tech gear was at the height of fashion in the streets. Polo Ralph Lauren, Northface, Timberland, and Nike were introducing Gore-Tex, 3M, and other futuristic fabrics to their product lines. The new millenium was in front of us and all of these fashion brands envisioned a glorious day-glo Y2K. It’s now ten years after 2000 and we are still looking forward to a new ’95.
Last summer Rafi Kam turned me on to the alt-rap wunderkinds Das Racist. In many ways they are who I can imagine I would have been if I had the talent and reckless abandon to make rap music, or any music for that matter. Smart, funny and incredibly talented at appearing NOT to give a fux, all the while, REALLY giving a fux. The world is a cruel place and Das Racist wears a coat of armor made of unforced farce. But don’t call these dudes ‘joke rap’ either or you will be missing the point. Das Racist is reality rap. Albeit altered reality. I fux with these dudes. For real.
Das Racist just released a free album called ‘Shut Up, Dude’ and it highlights their zany, focused, multi-culti-influenced rap style. If I had to put this album in a genre I would call it coke rap, but not where you are selling it, where you are taking it. The mistake you are making is looking to find a reference point for Das Racist. Can you imagine what the love children of Afrika Bambaata and Ayn Rand might rhyme like?
It’s called Das Racist, now shut up, dude…
Das Racist – ‘Who’s That Brooown!’
Das Racist – ‘You Oughta Know’
Das Racist – ‘$1 Can’
DP.com fanboy videos are in order. You’ve been warned.
Premium Pete isn’t working with Premium Laces any longer, but he still keeps dropping the premium designs. Pete calls these joints the Glow-posites. They are the Penny 1 Foamposite with an upper made entirely of 3M material. The kicker is that the soles are glow in the dark rubber. These joints are too futuristic for even Nike to compose.
The Penny 1 Foamposite is one of Nike’s most iconic sneakers. It changed the game as much as the the first visible airbag did. These shoes are the looking glass to the future. Super lightweight and virtually indestructible and unlike most of the Nike retro styles the Foamposite’s price point has barely changed. This is the ONLY sneaker on the market worth $200.
Premium Pete just designed a shoe that eclipses the Air Yeezy in design and value. Pete also knew I would enjoy the Kid Cudi reference. Premium Pete has some other Foamposite designs on tap that are sure to keep the internets going nuts. Would someone at corporate please fly this man to Beaverton so we can get at least one of his designs into production?
Hello?!?
Rob??!!??
You can keep up with Premium Pete on his column over at SneakerNews.com
