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Friday, June 6th, 2008DP.COM DOES IT FOR THE KIDS!
Friday, June 6th, 2008
Happy new year Jonathan!
I need for all my friends to really get with this program on Saturday June 7th. Rooftop Films and New Design High School present a day-long music and graffiti art festival at Open Road Rooftop, a beautiful urban space overlooking the Lower East Side that is decorated with magnificent graffiti murals.
Due to city and state-wide budget cuts announced early February, New Design is being forced to raise money or they will have to discontinue numerous Arts Integration Programs, which include after school and summer initiatives, programs that enable them to keep their students in a creative learning environment. To help support one of our partner schools, Rooftop Films is helping to organize a spectacularly festive event in this stunning rooftop space.
Featuring FAB 5 FREDDY, ASE, KHALIL ALMUSTAFA, JULIA GROB, ANDREW THOMPSON, NDHS STUDENTS
Music by SCIENTIFIC, CATO, MELO-X, CHELA, GASLAMP KILLER, RABBI DARKSIDE, NDHS STUDENTS
Fashion show by LEROY JENKINS & SUSAN YENNI
Painting workshop by Martin Brecht & Keir Johnston
Live painting by Trust Your Struggle
The grand opening of the Rooftop Legends Exhibit
And the iNternets Celebrities latest smash hit ‘Checkmate‘ will be screened.
Krush Groove 2008
@ New Design High School
a fundraiser for NDHS’ afterschool programs
SATURDAY, JUNE 7th
1pm – 11pm
350 Grand Street (btw Ludlow & Essex)
on the ROOFTOP! | ALL AGES
Trains: F, J, M, Z to Essex / Delancey
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
With the NBA Finals upon us I decided to look back at one of the league’s greatest journeymen players. ANFERNEE HARDAWAY was a 6ft. 8in. swingman [ll]. He was selected third overall in the NBA’s 1993 draft, and immediately traded by Golden State to the Orlando Magic for CHRIS WEBBER. It was with the Orlando Magic and alongside teammate SHAQUILLE O’NEAL that ‘PENNY’ HARDAWAY would see the most success in the league.
HARDAWAY was considered a triple threat player on the court because he could pass, shoot, and rebound from three different positions [ll]. PENNY was also a monster in the sneaker game. He has some of the most sought after shoes by sneaker fiend collecting addicts. No pair more valuable than the Foamposite 1 “Pennys”. The OG version has a translucent rubber/silicon outsole that is almost see-thru.
As we go back in time, thanks to Google propietary search engineering, the wayback machine finds some of the great NIKE x HARDAWAY collaborations.
PENNY was a high flyer in his first signature shoe. The Air Max Penny I is a smooth and clean shoe. The outsole makes its way onto the shoes upper. The height of the shoes isn’t quite 3/4 either. It’s more like 5/8ths or even 9/16ths if you are using a micrometer. But if you are using a micrometer to read this drop then you have other issues.
The Air Max Penny II incorporated a scotch-lite piping strip along the upper. As an aside, I always thought that NIKE placed scotch-lite on their shoes so that people could be spotted in the dark.
The Air Max Penny III shows the early signs of the foamposite construction. The futuristic alien surface starts to make its way onto the upper of the sneakers. Its a mean concept to try to wrap around your brain that the best sneakers in the world are NOT worn by the best player. The monies that NIKE committed to the R & D of the Penny line of shoes was insane. Air Jordans are still the most popular athlete branded shoe, but the Penny is the most technologically advanced.
The Air Max Penny IV goes back to traditional leathers along with the full 3/4 height boot.
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Monday, June 2nd, 2008
The iNternets Celebrities are back on the scene with our latest video titled ‘Checkmate’. Don’t kill yourself yet if you haven’t seen the clip. Just go here. Not now, right now.
RAFI and CAS have been helping me get my dreams out for almost two years (I also include the time that RAFI spent consulting me on how to present my website to the world). My way of thanking these dudes has been to gift them with something that really shows my appreciation. We all know how much I go in for NIKE Dunks on the regulack. I have given a pair to everyone who I feel has helped this site move up to a higher level of recognition. Everyone that is, except for CASIMIR NOZKOWSKI.
As the director and O.G. editor of the iNternets Celebrities, CASIMIR is the dude directly responsible for whether our videos sink or swim. I doubt anyone here on these internets, including RAFI and I would want to sit through six hours of video footage in order to construct a ten minute video. Let’s just admit that RAF and I are not that endearing. None the less, CAS does that and more in order to make our videos web ready. RAFI and I just reap the public’s acclaim. CAS deserves a pair of Dunks by this time.
The Dunks I prefer to gift are the 6.0 skateboarder joints. Extra cushioning for the tongue and ankle collar with premium suedes and leathers on the shoe’s upper. The 6.0 are all around just a better shoe for athletic and/or casual wear. I should know since I have like uhdeen pairs of them. The first pair I tried to come up on for CAS were these all brown suede joints off eBay. I was outbid at the last second.
The next pair I tried to hook CAS up with was from Dr. Jay’s. Out of no where they had these joints on sale in navy blue suede with bone toned leather in the toebox and misole. Too bad Dr. Jay’s only has these in 9.5 and 13.
Now I see these on eBay. The price tag is steep, but these shoes have flavor. I will prA’li have to dip into my PayPal fund to copp these, but why not? The i.C.’s videos just keep getting better all the time. Shouldn’t the people behind the camera should get some shine as well?
WALE: The Best Kept Secret…
Sunday, June 1st, 2008
*Salute to GeekDown*
Beats and rhymes.
That is where you gotta go in.
The start and the finish.
The alpha and the omega.
First there was the word.
After the drum, of course.
The beats reigned down.
Thunder clap in day time.
The word is the truth.
repeat and rewind.
That is Hip-Hop in its base form.
Stripped down to nothing.
Nothing has a mathematical value.
So even nothing has a value.
But you already know.
Basically.
The Wale ‘Mixtape About Nothing’ is the best rap album since the KanYe West mixtape ‘Can’t Tell Me Nothin’.
Coinidence?
Both have more continuity than 99.63% of all the albums released today. They are the proof that concept albums can still work if the artist understands the overall concept.
That and the word nothing.
I have on my late pass to fuck with Jean Grae and Wale. Here’s your late pass. Rock it.
‘The Opening Title Sequence’
The verses about the New Jersey Nets and Eddie Murphy are both 2008 candidates for ‘Rap Verse’ of the year.
‘The Freestyle (Roc Boys)’
The Oksana Baiul reference had me getting my Surya Bonaly right [ll].
‘Vacation From Ourselves’
‘The Grown Up’
The Bet Kept Secret killed the music on this mixtape.
‘The Cliche Lil Wayne Feature (It’s The Remix Baby!)’
Nike boots.
‘The Hype’
‘The End Credits’
BLACK SWAN x 10DEEP = WALE Mixtape Party
BLACK SWAN x 10DEEP = WALE Mixtape Party
Chillaxin’ after the show
Best. Fitted. Evar.
One of the most important people in rap music. No, this is not Eskay.
The mixtape game going hand to hand.
WALE = official.
Supreme… Not so much.
Shout out to the Ambassador.
Eff ‘yo TV!
The internets is prime time.
DP Dot Commenters!
I got this 10xDeep party swag for you FREE.
One(1) t-shirt and Wale ‘Mixtape About Nothing’ gets snail-mailed to the first commenter.