Archive for the ‘Fashion Faux Pas’ Category

STILETTO FIENDS UNITE!

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

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I’m mad I didn’t go to the Association’s All-Star game in Dallas. From all the previous joints I attended I can tell you that there was reckless stunting going on. The All-Star game is like Juneteenth on the regulack and this year it was in Texas so you know there was folks up in that piece wearing mink underdrawls. Str8 foolishness.

You know ThunderDome was up in that piece too.

Vince Carter is the man version of ThunderDome [ll]. Not because I think he gives Dwight Howard awesome brain, but because that fool got a massive cranium.

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While the ballers were on the court putting it down the ballers were in the stands as well. I know there were chicks walking around Cowboy Stadium stunting in these retarded Air Jordan high heels.

I can tell by the construction that a lot of big girls copp these joints. I h8 to see big girls rocking the skinny-heeled joints and the heel be all stressed and buckling. These joints look sturdy enough to handle some truck thighs.

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aj high heels
aj high heels

Not that I support buying fake sneakers, because I don’t, but these heels are just the type of shit that I could see Nike manufacturing after learning about all the customers copping them from the chinaman.

Peace to Boomer on the link

The Boot Camp Clique Chronicles…

Friday, February 26th, 2010

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Peace to Brooklyn Technical…

I’m not fuxing around with the snow and it needs to be taught a lesson. Timberland’s mountaineering boot series was the most hardbody package of boots they ever developed. They had to stop manufacturing them because they were too good. That is to say the cost of making the boots nearly exceeded the amount they could charge consumers. Little did they know, but at that time die-hard Timberland addicts would pay $500 for a pair of indestructible boots. Even the box they were sold in was invincible.

I shot Timberland an e-mail to see if they would provide us with a picture of what the #68023 Hiking Boot looked like in brand new condition. The e-mail reply said that the boots were last manufactured in 1998 and that there was no other information available for these boots. It looks like I’m holding the last pair of these joints still viable for photos. I’ve got a few scuffs on them but that adds to the overall character.

The leather on this series of boots is some of my favorite that Timberland has produced. I still have to flick up the elephant skin Iditarod superboots that I refuse to part with. You are all gonna love those, but back to these mountaineering boots. These are heavy as hell. This is not for dancing in. As a matter of fact I think these are for breaking rocks with your feet. I like how Timberland kept their branding subtle and embossed.

These boots were definitely NOT made for standing on a street corner, but if you were, you would be stylin’ on fools hardbody deluxe.

68023 hardbody
68023 hardbody
68023 hardbody
68023 hardbody

If the snowfall from this noreaster persists I will pull out the super official and rarely seen 60 belows.

MEYHEM YORK CITY…

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

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I got up with the homie MEYHEM LAUREN for a minute last night to politic this production going down in April. The date will be here in a minute so I have to get busy nailing everything down to the wall. The venue first and foremost and then the artists. MEYHEM reminded me to holler at THIRSTIN’ HOWL 3rd and make sure he has the date open on his schedule. MEYHEM and THIRST go back and on the strength of the love of the lifestyle we all came together. I could say it was the Timeless Truth video shoot for ‘Priceless’ but in truth we was bound to come together at some point. NYC is a big city, but the group of people that are into certain shit hardbody are the smaller subsets and they always link even if it happens on some randomosity.

Here’s THIRSTIN’ HOWL 3rd and MEYHEM LAUREN fuxing around in the studio having fun…


Thirstin’ Howl 3rd and Meyhem Lauren – ‘Treat Her Like A Prostitute’

MEYHEM and I walked east along Queens Boulevard from the Queens Center Mall up to the Marshall’s in Rego Park. Macy*s at QCM had garbage. It’s been a thousand years since I caught any heat from that spot. I don’t even go into QCM anymore since they closed the Orange Julius spot. While we walked under the Long Island Expressway I peeped what looked like a wheatpaste label on the overhead concrete piers at least ten feet off the ground. The shit read MEYHEM LAUREN .COM and I laughed out loud. What was even more hilarious is that MEYHEM said he doesn’t even know who did that shit.

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Graff kids are the OG guerilla marketers. They invent newer and slicker ways to put their brand in front of your eyes. They develop the nuanced ways to attract your eyes. When I talk about the “lifestyle” I am literally talking about MEYHEM LAUREN. He lives it all. Polo, sneakers, graffiti. I’m extra sick because he wears a size 12. I’m just lucky he doesn’t collect action figures. He’d take that game over too.


Meyhem Lauren – Got The Fever

We fell thru this spot on Queens Boulevard called Format. It was a tiny little BMX specialty shop with some sick ass bike frames and SBs for sale. Quagmires and such. Nigel, the brother working at the shop asked me if I was a “Lo Head” and I told him that I wasn’t a ‘Lo head but a “Lifestyler”. Polo Ralph Lauren is my favorite clothing brand fa’sho but my love for ‘Lo goes deeper[ll] than my vintage bear baseball caps. I’m all about matching my knit sweaters with hats and scarves of the same design. I’m all about coordinating my sneakers with my outfit as well. And if you keep your eyes wide open you might see remnants of my presence somewhere in the city.

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The Marshall’s on Queens Blvd was tapped out as well. MEYHEM pointed me to a couple of I.T.s they had on the floor but nothing had the dazzle top make the kid thirsty to cop. I kept it moving and MEYHEM and I parted ways for now with more ideas about who we can connect with for the ‘Lo-End Theory event. I feel like this joint will be epic. In the handful of blocks that we walked and talked I learned a lot about Killa Sha that most fans of his didn’t know and I learned that MEYHEM even knew some of my closest friends from when I lived another life. The world is hell’a big my peoples, but when you fux some certain kinds of shit you will always meet the other people that fux with that shit too. It’s inevitable.


Meyhem Lauren, Timeless Truth and J-Love – ‘Timeless Greatness’

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

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“Too hard for white linen, too straight for white denim.
You fux with white women that listen to Lyfe Jennings.
I black Nike Venom with the white stripe in ’em,
black Levi’s with the knife to strike get ’em. P!!!”

Premium Pete tells me this is the 3rd time that Nike is releasing the SB Venom shoe. It’s been one of the most popular SB’s overall at the PremiumLaces site. The shoe is all about simplicity and subtle details. Most people recognize the name and the colorway to represent the Spider-Man villain that Todd McFarlane made legendary.

What you won’t notice until you get the shoes in your hands is that the Nike ‘swoosh’ is a faux snakeskin leather, hence giving the namesake ‘Venom’ its double meaning. If God is in the details he must be working for Nike SB.

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The Boot Camp Clique Chronicles…

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

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Sean Price – ‘Boom Bye Yeah'(explicit)

In our last Timberland drop the Grand Master asked me if I had a pair of Timbs that I would bring to a cobbler for re-soling. I have already had a vintage pair of elephant skin Iditarod boots given a new sole. I’ll flick up that pair of boots in a few days. Timberland shoes are pretty much indestructible, but when they do fail it almost is unfeasible to repair them. I mean, some of the materials and designs that Timberland uses on their shoes can’t be reproduced by a traditional bootsmith.

I have a pair now that is getting worn down. The style number is #59053. They are a pair of classic Gore-Tex moccasin chukkas. I will definitely try to have these re-soled because the boot upper is too comfortable to give back to Timberland. I’ve been wearing these boots since 1997 and they are broken in so perfect I would hate to lose these. I did a search on the eBay system for these joints in my size and the only pair that came up was in a size 9.5 being traded from London, UK.

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timb 59053
timb 59053

You can see from the above image that the moc chukkas have a Gore-Tex lining. The Gore-Tex is actually sandwiched between the leather upper and a calfskin leather inner lining. I’ve worn these boots while camping for days without untying them because they are so comfortable. These are a pair of boots that I will be keeping forever. If I find the all-Black moc chukkas I will be extra good.