You don’t find too many manufacturers who have success in courting the Hip-Hop demographic who then actually stick around for the long haul. Flud watches has been a different kind of company because their owners ARE actually Hip-Hop and not simply just here to take advantage of the culture for profit.
You can see it in their watch designs that reflect the Technics 1200 turntables or the Panasonic boom boxes. You can feel their Hip-Hop pedigree in the materials they use to craft their timepieces. I’m mad that I slept on their A Tribe Called Quest homage which would have been so sick with the ATCQ Air Jordan 1’s.
Flud watches is here to stay and I’m proud to be down with their movement. They were cool enough to gift a few timepieces to the readers at DP.com and I can’t think of any better website to give these watches to than the folks here who wade through my typos and grammatical mishaps on the daily.
I want to run this contest a little different than the ones I usually post here. This contest is gonna be about the shit I drop here on this page. If you fux with DP.com hardbody then you will be having a sick wristwatch mailed off to you before the new year. Let’s see who really fux with this website…
DP.com has produced several ‘fanboy’ music videos in 2009. List the videos.
Name two of the past celebrity ‘guest editors’ who have appeared on the DP.com pages.
Name the director of DallasPenn.com and the executive producer.
I take it for granted sometimes that y’all fux with the shit I post on this site. I don’t believe that anyone internalizes these drops the same way that I do. How could y’all? That would make y’all as crazy as I am. But some of y’all are as crazy as me. Some of y’all live for the day that you can put on a Dr.Doom mask and green cape and just walk through the subway system. I salute the people that know what the fux it is that I’m about at heart.
The homey DJ Franchise from Know the Ledge hit me with a TWitter kite that the Macy*s around his way – killer Cali – had a few of these Marc Ecko Boba Fett hoodys left lying around and they were on sale for 50% off. You already know that 30% off is official, so 50% off is like, superficial. Ha. I amuse myself most of all with my own retardedness. Good looking on that joint DJ Franchise. I got a little something extra coming to you in the mail with that check.
During the Tiger Woods imbroglio I have thoroughly enjoyed the TWits coming from my Cali sweetheart Mz. Ahmad. She is one of my blogosphere heroines and I love that she always keeps her steez so fresh and so clean. When she gets tired of something she puts it aside and starts working on a new project. I love her energy and her style. You can find her alter-ego Aunt Jackie dropping fashion jewels on the internets now at The Recessionistas.
Everybody knows our homies N8 and Meka right? N8 isn’t from Cali though, but he started a weblog aside from his Nah’Right grinding to give the internets a look at some of his interests outside of the rap game. What?!? N8 does something else other than listen to rap and watch Hip-Hop videos all day? His new page is called It’s The Calm and he gave some space for Meka from 2DopeBoyz to give us the story of his ascendancy on the world wide web.
Cali internets work their asses off just to keep up with the info cycle of us folks here on the east coast. Make sure you pay a visit to these folks pages in your web travels when you aren’t here fuxing with your boy. Thanks, and you’re very welcome.
I wanted these joints but I was too cheap to pay the retail offering. If you squeezed off and copped these Dunks you get an Alife tee.
The next pair is a fly Air Max 90 model. I like these too and I had a chance to come up on them at the VIMs on E. 149th Street (South BX) but I fronted on the $50 price tag.
The first people to shoot me a pic of themselves with these shoes gets the t-shirts. One t-shirt per entry. E-mail me the_dallas[at]dallaspenn.com
I hope that you don’t end up like homegirl did and since you are fuxing with a computer you shouldn’t. Doorbuster sales are for chumps. Who wants that bullshit anyhoo? If I had my videocamera still in my possession I would have posted up outside of the Wal-Mart where son got merc’ked last year just to see if any of these nimrods learned a lesson in humanity. I doubt it tho’. Brick and mortar shopping is for losers.
Combat Jack introduced me to the dude who owns this clothing line called 12 BAR. The clothes are dope and the dude was also mad chill. What most of you don’t know is that in real life I’m quite a douche so when homeboy from 12 BAR reached out to me in an effort to put me into his gear I rebuffed him. You see, I’m not some internets whore. I’m actually a slut. Whores do shit for money. I do my shit for love of the game.
12 BAR dude stays cool with the kid tho’ and he sends me an e-mail that he is having a clearance sale on his gear. I can get 60% off using the promotional code BLACK at the checkout. I don’t fux with promo codes less than 30% off. Do we all understand that 60% off is even greater than ‘HALF OFF’?
So I go to the 12 BAR website and peep some of the joints they are fuxing with.
The sweatshirt in the center is hardbody. Joint has elbow patches too.
The tee is the center and the right are FLAMBAY! The one in the center is the Fela Kuti joint. Don’t be retarded 60% off $24 is like $5 bucks. I don’t know math like that, but where on God’s green earth are you gonna score a dope tee for that cheap?
I like the all black hoody on the right. What is 60% off of $70?
This 60% off sale is what’s up and I have to keep it 100 and say that I slept on the 12 BAR pedigree. Sadly, all the sale shit has sold out of the obese man sizes that I prefer. If I was to wear an XL tee that shit would look like a sports bra on me. At least there is one I.T. they have I know will fit.
I’m such a wild burnout that I forgot to tag the pic above for who sent it to me via the TWitters. That is a dope ass pic tho’. As you can see them in their full glory. The 40 Below is the most hardbody Hip-Hop shoe of all time. Word to Das-EFX and Bishop from ‘Juice’. Also as of recent times Timberland has seen their stock on the streets find a little upswing with all the famous cRappers rocking the classic 6″ boot.
My Timberland collection is down from what used to be almost seventy pairs to now a humbling 35-40. I am holding something in my back pocket however which will add another pair to that number. Timberland issued to me a product voucher late last year that I still haven’t excised. I returned a pair of black leather hard bottom penny loafers that I managed to split the sole of. As usual Timberland stands behind their products 1000% and they mailed a voucher to me instructing me to call their customer service division so that my order could be fulfilled.
But which shoe to copp has been my dilemma. Just recently I was in an A.J. Wright with Chocolate Snowflake and I happened upon a pair of the ‘Beef n Broccoli’ 3/4 field boots for $50. C.S. dissuaded me from buying them (she is so smart) because she told me I could prA’li find them for $40 if I wanted them so badly. She was right. Lord knows I don’t even have money to spend on sneakers let alone winter boots. That’s when I decided to dig out the product voucher so I could at least give my brain the temporary endorphins that come with consumerism.
Come and do some internets window shopping with me…
White Ledge Mid Hiker – $85
I like these hikers and they are a smart choice recession pricepoint for only $85. The outsole is equipped with Timberland’s proprietary BSFP system which stands for Brake-Support-Flex-Propel and is a dynamic feature for anyone who likes running naked in the woods (that is a DP.com in-house joke that you just had to be here to see).
Field Boot – $130
The classic ‘Beef-n-Brocs’ will forever be in style. They are lightweight and super-rugged. I equate these joints to being a bulletproof sneaker. As a matter of fact, thanks in part to the Boot Camp Clik there are kids in Brownsville wearing these joints on the basketball court. The most recent feature these shoes have been equipped with is a fiberglass shank in the forefoot replacing the steeltoe and making these boots more airport friendly.
Classic Trekker Chukka – $155
These are the type of boots you buy when you aren’t buying boots again for another twenty years. All the engineers at my office own these joints and they have been wearing them for the twelve years I have worked for the agency. They wear these boots from November until April. The boots are waterproofed, lined with Gore-Tex and the outsole doesn’t go away. I have a pair of these in olive green that I came up on at Filene’s way back in the day. I keep them fresh enough so that when I have children they will become my ‘dad’ shoes.
Front Country Winter Extreme Boot – $130
Do you see these joints? This is legendary Timberland material. Before the Vasque, Merrell or ACG boots there was the invincible, indestructrible, iconic Timberland Iditarod series of boots. These are the shoes that dogmushers wear during that grueling artic trek. I’m blown away at the pricepoint for a shoe that is as fully loaded as this one is. Gore-Tex lining and a Vibram outsole make this shoe the Maybach of boots. It isn’t just waterproof, this boot is bombproof. I’ll be ordering these today.
