Archive for the ‘Straight Laced’ Category

COPP THIS SHIT… NOW!

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

kanyeezy

Shouts to my music editors over at PARDON ME DUKE Dot Com. They’ve been trying to get me to listen to the KANYE WEST mixtape for months, but I didn’t budge until COMBAT JACK said it bumped ‘Red Gone Wild’ from the prime slot in the whip rotation. And if C.J. told me that Jay-Z grew a pair of wings and flew to Hollywood, I would drop that story without question. So now I’m wearing the late pass around my neck like a Jesus piece. Shouts to PLAIN PAT.

Turns out that the mixtape game isn’t dead, it just came back to New York City to get it’s mind right. KANGHEY continues to improve his rhyme flow like he really means that shit. He’s still out of control as the Louis Vuitton don, but he’s spitting like a young O’SHEA JACKSON. It looks like hanging around COM SENSE has definitely helped dude find that next level. One of the best parts of the mixtape are the interludes where KANYEEZY talks incessant hilarious shit. True story is that after listening to this mixtape I shined up my DRIES VAN NOTEN wingtips with the kilty over the laces. I might even pull out my leather Gucci sandals. It’s like 1996 all over again and I am going to Cancun, Mexico for Memorial Day.

Go out to the Africans on Fulton Street or on 125th and copp the ‘Cant Tell Me Nothin’ mixtape. It’s G.O.O.D. like that.

**NOT RADIO READY – If you’re playing these joints at the office put the headphones on**


‘Southside’


‘Young Folks’


‘Interviews’


‘Us Placers’


‘Throw Some D’s Intro’


‘Throw Some D’s Remix’


‘Cant Tell Me Nothin’

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SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

hiro

All this baseball talk has me excited for my trip to Atlanta in August to see BARRY BONDS at Turner Field. It will be my first visit to that ballpark too so I decided to make sure that I styled on them Georgian fools. And for $36 dollars on eBay?!? Y’all already know…

josh gibson

josh gibson

josh gibson

These Dunks are part of the Untold Truth series dedicated to memorializing some of the great baseball players from the Negro Leagues. They were fashioned in honor of JOSHUA GIBSON, the man whom some baseball experts claim is the greatest home run hitter of all time. I remember discussing with y’all the Latin legacy within the Negro Leagues. This circuit of teams enabled Black professional ball players to compete against their white American counterparts during the off season (read: kick they azz). From Cuba to Mexico, Black ballplayers received the same respect accorded with any other man wearing a ballcap and pinstripes.

Peep the premium leather on these jawnts. Shits is cocoa butter soft like a Fonzerelli jacket. That shit has me from the gate. The stitching details are effing crazy too. Do you see the baseball stitches all around? And then NIKE freaks it by giving me a printed insole!?! These shits are mighty fly. Shouts to 40 and the Mighty Healthy gang. See you biatches in the ATL 8/15 – 8/20.

josh gibson

josh gibson

josh gibson

josh gibson

THE HAMMER WAS HARDBODY DELUXE…

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

hammer

If you feel like reading a really good baseball book go to a library and pick up a copy of GEORGE PLIMPTON’s ‘One For The Record’. This book details HENRY AARON’s life at the end of the 1973 season. AARON ended the season with 713 home runs and his eclipsing the all time mark set by BABE RUTH was a foregone conclusion. The off season was filled with hate mail and death threats directed at AARON. Still he went forward.

I enjoy the book mostly because PLIMPTON’s writing style is filled with details and suspense. I almost get worried that AARON won’t break the record. HENRY AARON’s only respite from supremacy is on the baseball diamond. That is where he reigns supreme and cannot be vanquished. The moment that AARON hit his 715th home run he felt like a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. No matter how many more home runs BARRY BONDS or ALEX RODRIGUEZ or whoever hits for their careers they will never have had to be as courageous as HENRY AARON was.

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KEISTAR Productions Presents ’90s Flavors’

Friday, July 20th, 2007

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** TONITE **
Keistar Productions presents ’90s Flavors’
@ Peppers Lounge in lower Manhattan
95 Leonard Street / corner of Broadway
(4 blocks south of Canal Street)
10pm – 4am

$10 all nite (say DALLAS PENN DOT COM)
All cancers FREE until 11pm

DJ SPINNA drops nothing but hits from the 90’s
Special tribute to Notorious B.I.G.

I Fux With Flash Gordon (no FREDDIE MERCURY)

Thursday, July 19th, 2007

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Let’s keep riding out with these movies that I dig. With my folks HBO account back in the days I might have watched ‘Flash Gordon’ about fifty eleven times. Actually, I watched ‘Flash Gordon’, ‘Annie’ and ‘Oliver’ every time they were broadcast. I know the entire score to ‘Oliver’ too. Nullus to that true confession.

‘Flash Gordon’ is a fun flick to watch. This joint might be fifty percent greenscreen with totally campy, bootleg special effects, but it’s obvious that the actors in this film enjoyed themselves. The costuming was designed to be a throwback to the O.G. Flash Gordon televison series and the great MAX VON SYDOW plays a ruthless and comical Ming The Merciless. The chick who played the role of his daughter Princess Aura was smoking hot and she seemed somewhat Persian come to think of it.

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The best part of this film though is the score which was done by Queen. Yes! The balls out teh ghey glam rock band who created such classics as ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’, ‘We Will Rock You’, ‘Under Pressure’ and ‘Another One Bites The Dust’. Listen to some of these joints from the movie and tell me that Queen didn’t rock the effin’ house.


Flash Gordon’s Theme


Prince Barin’s Battle Theme


Vultan’s Assault Theme