Thirstin Howl the 3rd is one of those rare visionaries in Hip-Hop who wants to move the culture upward using dynamic visual content, better known as the moving pictures.
TH3’s production company, Skillusions Filmwworks, doesn’t just make videos for Thirstin Howl, but his entire camp and cadre of comrades from Fi-Lo to J-Love to Meyhem Lauren and so on.
The video below is the title track from his latest album ‘Natural Born Skiller’ and is the perfect complement to All Hallow’s Eve festivities.
‘Sucker MCs’
Run-DMC is forever etched in my mind as the first hardcore rap band. They didn’t rhyme over disco breaks. Run-DMC was simply hard rhymes over a drum beat. This is the stripped down essence of Hip-Hop music. The drum and the voice. Simplicity. Perfection.
‘Perfection’
Run-DMC changed the way rappers would present themselves to their audience. The disco dance club influenced regalia was replaced with the stoic gangster ‘hood uniform. Black leather jackets and Lee jeans. Run-DMC were the OG all Black everything.
Everything except for their kicks. Run-DMC wore adidas Superstar lowtops in the most gangster way possible. With NO shoelaces. This drove progressive ghetto parents bananas because the only people who wore sneakers with no shoelaces were convicts. Parents just don’t understand. This was the style of the youth and Run-DMC rhymed to hard to be denied.
‘Beats To The Rhyme’
You can’t even imagine how geeked I was to get this box from adidas. I already knew what was inside but I didn’t know just how detailed and thorough adidas had packaged this shoe release. Twenty-five years ago Run-DMC forever cemented Hip-Hop’s relationship with sneakers. This song is the definition of ‘kicking it’.
‘My adidas’
Extra laces, printed insoles and lace aglets, 14K gold rope chain dubrays.
God is in the details and adidas definitely took some cues from heaven above when constructing this release.
The reason the heel tabs and the striping look grey from the camera flash is because the material has DuPont 3M coating which will reflect light when flashed upon.
Shining in the dark is a fitting tribute to Jam Master Jay. R.I.P.
El-P is one hard rapping dude and a pretty slick producer to boot.
I fux with him from the homies Das Racist. Now I’m realizing I need to check for him a bit more.
I picked up this track over at Byron Crawford’s website.
I took a few flicks from my trips to Paris in 2001 and 2005 to make this clip.
Hopefully this video will catch some of the buzz created by KanYe performing in his Illuminati indoctrination gown.
It’s one thing for me to blog here and tell y’all about some of these incredible boots that Timberland has made. It’s a whole ‘nother level when one of y’all takes a minute to send me pics of your acquisitions.
NessRhymes sends us these flicks from his recent Timberland World Hiker pickups. He caught the Italian made 68015 and the Iditarod superboot version. Both of these joints look like they are in brand new condition. This is a mother lovin’ win like no other.
If you have a pair of Timberland World Hikers (style #68***) please send me a photo or two to the_Dallas@DallasPenn.com and I will post them over here.
Don’t be embarrassed to send me a picture of boots that are well worn either. That, after all, is what Timberland made them for.