Timeless Truth, the hosts of Industry Shakedown Radio are shooting a video today for their track ‘Priceless’ featuring Sean Price. I’ll have some behind the scenes pix to post tomorrow. The lifestyle representatives will be in full effect. One of the messages Solace sent to me was to make sure I came dipped. With Meyhem, Thirstin’ Howl 3rd and Timeless Truth on hand I had better pull some official lifestyle from out the archives.
Here’s a video clip of Ruck going thru some I.T.’s in prep for the shoot.
If you are looking to see some new sneaker acquisitions on this page you will be disappointed for at least another 6 weeks while I get my finances back in order. That is why I am going so hard in the paint to win the free sneakers in the annual DP.com football pool. If I pull this win out I will be incorrigible. The DP.com football pool is as much as a marathon as it is a challenge to be the top football fan on the internets.
Going into week 4 the top 10 is actually 13 and the entire field of 50 still has a chance even though some of the players have yet to score a point. Those players may have quit on themselves already. I’m not looking backwards though. My eyes are on the prize. The good news is that my homey Pete who owns Premium Laces NY will make sure he has a pair of Green Bay Packers Nike SB Dunks available for me to buy the winner. Someone is getting hooked the fux up for the new year.
Longtime poolers JESSE and Flacco’s Mighty Unibrow contend for the top spot at the 1/4 mark in the 2009 NFL season, after them the jumble is wild and crazy. Keep making your weekly picks and one of you players could wind up the king of the hill.
So ‘Ye Tudda interrupted MTV’s flagship awards program to say that the ‘Single Ladies’ video was one of the “best of all time”. KanYe ain’t neva lie. Especially not after killing a bottle of that brown ‘truth juice’.
This latest KanYe West award ceremony outburst has the TWittter streets all aflutter tweeting. The truth is that KanYe’s statement was on point. BeYonce’s ‘Single Ladies’ video is well designed and choreographed to the tee oh pee. I’m sure the Taylor Swift video has good visuals too, but BeYonce is a fux’n specimen. KanYe and his muse lady Amber Rose were reportedly escorted from the building after his outburst. Who knows? And at the end of the day who the fux cares?
What I did want to talk about was the bottle of brown truth juice that KanYe is advertising on the VMA red carpet. Since ‘Ye Tudda is the Louis Vuitton Don and since Louis Vuitton is the owner of Moet (mo-way) and Hennessy I think it would be naive of us not to think that there wasn’t a corporate placement for this shot. I mean, a man of KanYe’s tastes and means would surely prefer Martell to Hennessy, no?
I was chopping it up on FaceBook with a fellow Commissioner, Jamal7Mile, when the homey pointed me to his weblog site – You Damned Right I Farted!!. By the way, J7M that is the funniest name of all time for a website, kudos. The homey’s latest drop talks about the state imposed timeout he is starting later on today. That is some pill to swallow when you know you are gonna be on lockdown. Your mind goes over all the shit that you could have done to not be in the position you are facing.
I think Jamal7Mile is already on the right path to getting his mind right in the long run. I wish I could say tha same for myself. I am an alcoholic. This doesn’t mean that I get drunk all the time because I don’t, but it does mean that I will seek out opportunities to be intoxicated and make decisions based on those opportunities that affect me long after I have placed down the bottle. I’ve dealt with counseling and rehab before for drugs and drinking. You learn that addiction is a lifelong process. You also learn that you have the power within yourself to overcome your demons.
I wish Jamal7Mile the best on his journey. He can definitely overcome this. No matter where you go brother there YOU are. Keep believing in yourself and keep your head to the sky. Peace.
NIKE has begun to unveil the latest design for the LeBRON JAMES signature basketball shoes. These joints are FIYAHVERKS. I haven’t liked a LeBreezy shoe up to this point because they all seemed too chunky and bootlike. I just didn’t care for their profile. Don’t act like you were fuxing with them either despite the fact that LeBRON has the best NIKE commercials evar. Better than the JORDAN Mars spots even.
The LeBRON VII(7) has evolved into a very nice shoe. I’m excited that NIKE chose to retain some of the features that were part of the scrapped design of the VI(6). The patined leather is one of LeBRON’s favorite treatments from back in his Air Jordan collecting days. I’m a big fan of the total Air Max platform. NIKE has figured a way to create an Air max footbed strong enough to support the rigors of a professional athlete while exposing the entire length of the foot. This is the future.
As if the Air Max platform for these shoes wasn’t enough of an evolutionary leap we see that the upper is constructed with the new Flywire carbon fiber technology. It was already impossible to keep LeBRON on the ground. With these new Flywire Air Max shoes on it looks like LeBRON JAMES will pwn the upper atmosphere. Up, up and away.
NYC is so wild I have to laugh to myself sometimes. I ran into my homey Dominican Chris on the subway Wednesday afternoon. Chris gets it in hardbody for the kicks. He used to work for Dr.Jays. Chris is a super SFU All-Star. He asks me if I’m going to the Harlem @mos (at-mus) store for their anniversary party the following night? Now I am. Sheeeeeeeid. @mos throws the best parties on 125th Street second only to the Apollo Theatre. All I know is that this joint is def gonna be an obama and it might even have grub. An obama is one thing, but a 2-4-none?!? Drinks, food and no cover? Act like you know internets.
I decided to boogie uptown directly afterwork. I figured I could play the strip and people watch until the doors cracked. 125th Street is one of the greatest people watching areas in the city. Madd folks hustling and bustling. 25th is still 25th even with the big box retailers putting their footprints on the sidewalk. Street vendors have their turf also and the uneasy alliance continues. There was a huge crowd on Lenox for some vendors pushing MICHAEL JACKSON memoribilia. If MICHAEL JACKSON could just die once every fiscal quarter Black folks might get economic footing straightened out. Harlem seemed a little danced out but then when I walked past the state building on 7th Avenue I understood why.
Harlem Week had just finished. What had been only 7 days of negro nonsense just twenty years ago was now Black bullshit for the whole month of August. Some people consider that to be progress. The truth is that Harlem is the heart of the American Black body. New blood always fills the arterial avenues and the capillary concourses. And it don’t stop. It’s only just begun. Peace to DJ Disco Wiz. He made sure I got into the building real early. Actually, the @mos staffer that I politic’d with at the Air Yeezy release saw me and let me fall through. The biggest lesson I have learned in this city is that you better be respectful to everyone because you will see them again and you might need them to co-sign your shit.
The scene inside the @mos store is high-end retail design. It’s a veritable downtown gallery on 125th Street. The sneakers on display are framed like pieces of art. The scenesters are all dressed up like SoHo hipsters or lower East Side punks. Everyone’s underwear is showing. Even mine, by accident(natch) due to my silly oversized shorts. The night featured an actual art exhibition that confirmed the gallery layout of the space. Graffiti legend JamesTOP had more than a dozen original pieces hanging throughout. The old and the new was all together thanks to @mos. Big up to Fab 5 Freddy. The godfather of Hip-Hop. He’s everywhere you want to be. If you don’t see Fab 5 then wherever you at ain’t really live.
