The Knicks literally rode Lin ’til his wheels fell off. Jeremy Lin’s knee injury will keep him out of the rest of the Knicks season including the playoffs since I doubt the Knicks are going to escape being first round lunchmeat to the Heat.
The wild shit is that the Knicks held back info on Lin’s injury until after they sold their playoff package [ll] to the season ticket holders. Sports are ghey for shit like that.
I’ve got hell’a ‘Pick Ups’ videos to post but in the meantime and in between time I thought I’d give you a look at the latest LeBron signature shoe. The Lebron 9 ‘Summit Lake Hornets’ is a tribute to LeBron’s pop warner basketball team.
I like how the shoes remark the colorway from the OG Charlotte Hornets. I can see Kendall Gill rocking this swag with his flattop (before he got those frosted tip dreads – uggh)
Kendall Gill might have played for every team in the league, but he was never better than when he was in Charlotte.
The teal and royal purple are like they were meant for each other.
I really like the LeBron 9 for the instep of the shoe. The arch support is supreme. The ‘SL Hornets’ also have the slickest of details.
I bet you these shoes could have helped the Hornets get past the Bulls back in the 1990s? Okay, maybe not.
It was all a dream…
A few months back I got an e-mail from a rep at Reebok who had seen a TWit I posted about how I thought the Reebok Basquiat’s were dope. I honestly liked the collaboration because it didn’t look forced or contrived. The shoes actually made me look at Reebok a little differently.
I also received an e-mail from a rapper named Esso. He’s been around for a minute and he’s someone I like as a person altho’ I hadn’t fully connected to him musically. Esso is a talnted dreamer tho’. I can’t forget about the project he did to pay homage to the 25th anniversary of Thriller, and then M.J. passed away a few months later, but right before the release of the project.
Good for Esso that he didn’t let crossed stars deter him from his path. Esso kept making his art and this time he had a project which was inspired by an iconic NYC artist. Jean-Michel Basquiat.
Esso had sent me the link to his ‘Son Of SAMO’ mixtape. SAMO (say mo) was the graff alias of Basquiat and a fellow artist. Basquiat thought he could challenge the art scene by being provacative and subversive. Mainly tho’, he was trying to find his place in the world. Aren’t we all?
I thought I could find my place by creating a dynamic visual document to one of Esso’s tracks while placing him in a pair of Reebok’s Basquiat sneakers. Art. Commerce. Fashion. Consumption. Music. Blackness. All the things that I have dropped science on since this website has been online.
All of these concepts will come together on Thursday evening when I host the premiere of Esso’s ‘Death Do Us’ music video and live performance at the Reebok Classics Space in NYC’s infamous Lower East Side.
If you are in NYC on Thursday, March 29th, please stop by 145 Orchard Street at 7pm and celebrate this life with me and Esso. The journey never stops Internets, I’m so glad you could come along for the ride.
I should apologize for waiting until the end of Women’s History Month to bless y’all with this gem. E.S.G., short for Emerald, Sapphire and Gold was an all girl band out of the South Bronx who would be influential in several musical genres and generations. Their music was powered by funk and driven with punk.
E.S.G. was the jazzy disco apocalypse. Their groove wasn’t canned and their funk was unchained. I’m a big fan of the Go-Gos and the Bangles but E.S.G.has the womb from where those bands were birthed. Rap music would also owe a debt of samplitude to these funky sisters from the South Bronx.
Just try and imagine the scene while UFO plays over massive speakers and B-boys break the night away.
Thank you E.S.G.
Because New York City NEEEEDS Jesus!