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Get Ready For Combat…

Friday, August 19th, 2011

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The Combat Jack Show turns 1 years old.

Peace to CtotheJL, Mayor, AllDay ATF, Bonsu Thompson, Timeless Truth, Lessondary crew Che Grand and Donwill, Alvin Blanco, NY Delight, Drewpreme, The Internets Celebrities Rafi Kam and Casimir Nozkowski, Its The Real twins Jeff and Eric, Ed Woods and 88 Keys. #NEWMANATI

The Combat Jack Show (1 Year Anniversary Edition) 8-17-11 by PNCRadio

ALL DAY I DREAM ABOUT SNEAKERS…

Thursday, August 18th, 2011

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Our homey Dirty Jerz is dropping str8 science on the trefoil tip. He calls this video ‘LAVER DAY’. LOL.

I ain’t fuxin’ with you Jerz.

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Monday, July 11th, 2011

evolution

Editor’s note: Our homey cocotaso gives us this drop which is like a wake up call to New Balance and other brands on why evolution isn’t always a good thing…

I usually look towards New Balance as a quality/heritage driven brand. Creating classically designed shoes, made with decades worth of craftsmanship and top notch materials being the hallmarks of their brand. So like Reh Dogg “why must I cry”?. Well, its because New Balance has decided to seemingly forget all that history and join the ranks of Nike and adidas by making a mockery of a beloved model for the sake of updating it.

So here we have the offending shoe the 1574, New Balance’s attempt at creating a “fusion” or “remix”. or as I like to say 2000ing it. Even though we are well into this millennium 2000 still stands to me as the year of all things futuristic. I say stop the madness and stay true to what you do. How can you mess up the perfect all grey 574? This is how…

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No need for convict stripes, sonic welding and a ridiculously large heel cup. and when not on sale, they cost almost twice as much as a common 574. No thanks New Balance. What’s next air bubbles and teddy bear heads on the tongues? People like you because they know they can turn to you

In this era of pink cement print fusions and dirty vans authentics and have something respectable on their feet. It aint broke, so don’t try to fix it. just give us a 997 already, or at least make the 1500 with the old mold.

Peace,

Cocotaso

DP x SOLETRON: SNEAKER SHOPPING…

Saturday, July 2nd, 2011

Soletron.com came to hang out with me as I perused the sneaker inventory at Transit on lower Broadway in Manhattan.

Sneaker Fiends, I was on one.

The Grilchy Face Boot Camp Chronicles…

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

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Editor’s note: MarqSpekt from the GrilchyFace.com is a boot camp clique chronicle aficionado. Here’s a guest drop from ‘Spekt as well as pics of a pair of his classic Tims. Representado…

It’s all about living the LIVE-Style. Hip-Hop culture runs thru our veins and you gotta utilize your nature to embody your expression. It’s all about a fusion of the 5 elements. It’s POETRY IN LIFE. I can go back to 1987 going into a Kay Bee Toy Store with my 3 man team and coming up out of there broadying maaad Nintendo shit, games, controllers etc. without being noticed, lolz. That’s POETRY IN MOTION my g’s. Going to a Houseparty, taking a mic from the dj, spitting a verse and then bagging some dudes chick( and ride home) is POETRY IN POETRY tho’, lolz. All these things bring you to living a LIVE-Style.

It comes from experience. Never being too shook and making the impossible, possible. The irregular, your regular. Coming from the mean and unfriendly streets of Philly and moving to the more multi-cultural and dirtier streets of Jersey and being back & forth between there and NY until moving to ATL, I’ve had a chance to experience alot and cultivate a LIVE-Style. People need to open up and elevate their brainwaves!!!! Don’t take any of this shit for granted. Nothing is chance. We connect with people globally without even realizing it. Everything effects everything else.

It’s strange to think that by me moving to the South I actually got more opportunity to work with people I admired in the North who I would have never met living in their immediate vicinity. I would have never gotten the chance to meet and be mentored by people like the Ultramagnetic Mc’s, Company Flow, DOOM, C-Rayz Walz, J-Live and many others I consider my brothers. I can’t even tell you if I would be on these here Internets, INTERNETS! All I’m saying is monitor your ego and watch how you float thru life. Are you a leaf or are you just smoke? One can land and spawn new life, and one just dissipates as it emanates.

Focus and Lock the fuck in!!! Make mistakes. Shit I’ve hustled, had money under the mattress, had 5-6 different kinds of trees and well to do clientele. I’ve also chased emotions and wound up homeless living out of an MPV for 6 months, with all my shit in a $19.00 a month storage spot. Without fucking up, making mistakes I wouldn’t be able to fully appreciate the little things I took for granted when I was getting $. Shit like having heat in your home. Shit like looking up at a ceiling and feeling good because you under that bitch. It’s high’s and low’s but without them you can’t fully live a LIVE-Style.

I thanked God tho’ because I had been collecting fitteds, TIMS, Nike’s and Polo since the 90’s, so at least when I was roughing it, no one could really tell. Plus I still kept a chick to crash with as well, so I wasn’t entirely out in the cold, but trust, just being here on the Internets and having presence is a blessing in itself.

If you reading this now and you going thru something, draw in from your experiences and keep your focus! I ain’t one of those “it’s gonna be all good and it get’s better” people, even though it got better for me, but I will say that nothing is impossible no matter how deep in a hole you are. Just keep crawling out that bitch yaheard! Strange Shit Happens!

grilch

Float with this one wherever you are:


The Drum – produced by Top Chef Lex Boogie from the BX from the upcoming School of Sharks tape

I call these Tims the ‘Bulldozers’: There ain’t a terrain that these jawns ain’t helped me troop thru. The soles are like fuxing tank treads fam!

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