Archive for the ‘Straight Laced’ Category

‘Ye Tudda Is A Storyteller…

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

ye tudda

Has the Vh-1 Storytellers special with KanYe West premiered already and because I don’t have television service I missed it?

Anyhoo, here is a clip from that program featuring ‘Ye Tudda performing the joint that Wang guests on.

If you didn’t fuck with ‘808s & Heartbreak’ because you thought it would make your dick shrink or whatever bullshit that the internets had convinced you cowards would happen then you lost.

It’s a masterful album which lets you vent your frustrations without hurting anyone in particular. KanYe already did all the crying for you. All you have to do is listen.

What if ‘808s & Heartbreak’ was the best Hip-Hop album of 2009?

I still need to hear that new DOOM joint, but until then KanYe got this off.

HOOP DREAMZ 2009…

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

baby jordan

^ Baby Jordan, the golden child…

It is officially that time of year again. Time to blow the dust off your HAROLD MINER sippee cups and get to bracketing. It’s gonna take a whole lot of overtimes to out do what ‘Cuse and UConn did in the Big East tourney last week, but anything goes when it comes to foes. Final foes that is.

All you have do is leave your intentions here in the comments section and an invite to play will be sent to you. As long as you put the proper e-mail address in the field that requests it we shall be, as the kids say “good money”.

As usual, the winner gets a free pair of kicks and I imagine that I will also have some other goodies and treats to issue to lucky folks in the collective. It’s like Lotto, ya’ gotta be in it to win it.

CARRION = DEAD MEAT…

Thursday, March 12th, 2009

roadkill

Has a politrickster ever had a more appropriate name as ADOLFO CARRION? The former Bronx Borough President and newly minted White House czar for urban policy hasn’t even had a chance to make his cabinet seat warm before we all find out that he is as crooked as anyone would be in the nation’s poorest urban area.

DP.com friends WWIB have been posting links to the Daily News and Village Voice investigative reports on CARRION’s cozy relationship with property developers and even architects that were granted contracts on capital construction projects in the Bronx. I’d hate to think how much other stuff is dangling around from CARRION’s time as BX BeeP. This is why the Bronx has remained disenfranchised, underserved and poor.

It’s too easy for funds to go missing when large sums are being moved around. The Bronx has required so much remedial development to bridge the gap from decades of negligence and irresponsibility. CARRION is just the tip of the iceberg for this boro’s woes. His conflict of interest with a municipal architect is such chump change. There were billions of dollars being circulated through the Bronx as it became the final frontier for NYC’s gentrification.

Although CARRION escaped the Bronx just as the construction bubble was bursting he has found himself in a hornet’s nest down in the D.C. Beltway. If you remember BERNARD KERIK then you know that the microscopic laser ain’t no joke when it is trained on you. BERNARD KERIK went from flying high as a Ground Zero Hero to just being a grounded zero. OBAAMA might have to pull another Latino from somewhere else to sit in this cabinet seat. I wonder if ProperTalks knows of any responsible Mexicans on the westside?

* i.C. BONUS * i.C. BONUS * i.C. BONUS *

Did I ever tell you folks the story about our ‘Bodega’ video shaping public policy citywide? After getting wind of our video a certain billionaire mayor and teh ghey councilwoman put the Healthy Bodega Initiative on the frontburner so to speak. Chea!

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Friday, March 6th, 2009

track star

By now most of you realize that this site is all about my love for sneaker collecting. I just sprinkle other stories inside of these pages so that at least this isn’t one long drop about sneakers.

That is a picture of my first fixed wheel track bike. That is where the love began for me to go sprinting around the city like a fool on a bike with no brakes. I had a few smack ups on this frame too but it was a steel frame so that joint just kept ticking. My dudes used to bug the fuck out that I was going to the club on my bike, getting bent and then riding home. I prA’li used up all my family’s blessings with those after hours runs.

I have a nice little track bike in the crib even to this day but I’m way too heavy to ride that joint. I’ll look like one of those trained bears on a circus bike. I have a couple of frames for a guy my size but they are still in development. I have a Cannondale mountain bike frame that I have been slowly building. I’ve got the frame fitted our with all the minor components so all I need are the braking and gearing systems.

I lost my shit when I saw that NIKE has made some Dunks into SPD compatible cycling shoes. SPD is a clipless pedal made by Shimano that you attach your feet to with a cleated shoe. The idea is that if a rider stays connected to the pedals throughout they will never lose energy on the return stroke. It works and I busted my ass the first few times I used SPD shoes because I never took my foot off in time. I got used to it though and now I am fine.

I am stunting hard on NYC this summer with my bicycle and these Dunk Gyrizio…

dunk gyrizio

dunk gyrizio

dunk gyrizio

The Team USA joints are tight and the red, white and blue colorways will be an effortless winner during the summer. Almost like shooting fish in a barrel.

The Japan Olympic team joints are just firestarters.

These joints gets busy with details like patined leather and contrasting stitchwork.

dunk gyrizio

dunk gyrizio

dunk gyrizio

Slaughterhouse Sessions – ‘Fight Club’

Wednesday, March 4th, 2009

fight club

Did y’all forget about what was going down with the Slaughterhouse?

This group is not just some internets hype. These dudes are spitting as if their life depended on it, and it just might. After an incident where Crooked I might have almost got his wig peeled the Slaughterhouse collective renewed their music making imperative.

If these dudes live long enough to make their album it will be game fucking over.

fight club