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Predictions For 2029…

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

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I think I will zag while most people are zigging. I will still Zig-Zag in 2009, actually, I am doing more bonging and bowling. I never really zagged at all. Especially since the Gonzaga basketball team is affectionately nicknamed the ‘Zags in the mainstream sports media. White men can’t jump. My point is that I like to do shit different not just to do shit different but to do shit on a more futuristic level.

How many nickel and dime fools are talking about 2008 like that shit was all that? Nothing happened in 2008 that is gonna change shit in 2009, but in 2016 we will have the first woman president of the United States of America and that will bring all kinds of crazy shit into our lives. We won’t even hardly be listening to rap music by then. The kids will be listening to this crazy melding of country music, salsa and R-n-B that was created by WyClef, T-Pain and Taylor Swift during a threesome they had in Mexico.

If you hate auto-tune you might should kill yourself today. The hottest christmas present in 2010 was this cellphone that converts all voices into that robotix sound you hear next to the MySpace captchas. That shit is fresh homeys. The best part is that all the people with emphysema that have had their tracheas removed don’t feel so fucked the fuck up anymore when they speak in public.

In 2029 some of us celebrate the 20th anniversary of the demise of MTV. It was a tough pill for MTV to swallow in 2009 that upon turning 28yrs old they were irrelevant and laughed at for their vain attempts to control the younger and stronger YouTube and its cousins like MetaCafe, Kyte and Vimeo. That and the legions of disgruntled former Viacom employees who help found the indie artist music network called fMtv (I pray one of my friends copyrights this).

Thankfully there are still some things that harken back to the simpler years like 2008…

  • DMX is arrested weekly.
  • T.I.’s gospel music tops the charts.
  • Asher Roth is widely considered the greatest rapper of all time.
  • No female rap records are released, but Jean Grae wins an Oscar for her portrayal of Leslie Uggams.
  • Jay-Z and BeYonce admit to being married after she hires cryogenically frozen attorney Raoul Felder to file divorce papers.
  • XXL Columnist and iNternets Celebrity Billy X. Sunday dies in fiery bus crash in Cuba.
  • American Graph-iti…

    Thursday, January 1st, 2009

    drnt

    You big dummy!

    There is something that I find humorous about the visceral nature of humanity. We give far too much credit to our eyesight for our peace of mind. Seeing is believing, or so they say. Well whatever happened to faith? And our guts? People don’t trust their intestines for anything anymore, but I bet you that a scientist would pull out your innards and tell your life story as if they were reading a papyrus scroll. This is because we lack soul collectively. Stop believing what your eyes are telling your brain.

    A few days ago I posted a drop here and at the X spot to talk about the mainstream media’s account on the mortality of the Black male. Now for those of us that are, ummm, Black males, this isn’t any particular news that we haven’t likely experienced in several forms. Even the fact that it appears to have worsened isn’t surprising to us. Sad to say. In the wake of this newsstory I was inspired to create a graph which described the relationship of Black male mortality to the commerce of music that highlights Black male mortality.

    The internets went nuts thanks to ProperTalks, but the only thing people focused on was the graph I created. No one wants to deal with the story on how we are all complicit actors in the drama of supremacy. People want to quibble about a gotdamn graph that doesn’t mean shit. This is because people lack soul. Even Black folks. I know that Black folks like to think they inherently have a conscience but CLARENCE THOMAS, CONDOLEEZA RICE and ROBERT JOHNSON are all proof positive that having a soul is nothing that is mutually racially exclusive.

    The truth, without the use of a graph or even an article in the supremacist apologist NYTimes is that the Black male is the most marginalized and disenfranchised person on the planet. This maintains the hegemony of supremacy and assists the design of capitalism. This is why we can afford to buy t-shirts at Wal-Mart for $2 and why this country is building prisons faster than they are building schools. 1 out of every 100 Americans is in prison right now.

    Do you need a graph for that?

    humoreless

    The R3MIX

    Proper Talks: NYT Report on Murder Rate of Black Teens is Misleading
    The Atlantic: The real problem with black on black crime
    MotherJones: Gangsta Rap ≠ Street Violence

    HAPPY NERD YEAR!

    Thursday, January 1st, 2009

    dpeezy

    Let’s go in bigger and better than evar!

    Yeah, yeah, I know…

    “That’s what she said”

    Thanks to eskay and n8tion, Rafi, Cas, UnKut, 2dopeboyz, Terrence Elenteny, Marvelous Mo, Combat Jack, khal@rockthedub, VeE, the prA’li believers, Liam, Joshua, Amadeo, Peter, Jeff, Tony, Tiffany, Lion XL, Regina from Sweden, Andre from effin’ Switzerland, illroots, propertalks, Piper Carter, 1969, 2830, Royal, H8torade, Eff, 40 Diesel and Mighty Healthy, Ferris Bueller, Chubbs, PaperChasr, Dee and Chad from Obsessive Sneaker Disorder, The Shoe Game, Jermaine Dupri and Lil’ Bow Weasle, Pete @ Premium Laces NY, Duk-ki @ Major, Dart Adams, Ambassador, Maxine, Nerditry, Desedo Films, Rooftop Films, Bronx River Parkway, DaRuffian, Hobbs, Carl ‘Jackpot’ Chery, Kev Clark, LowKey, Dave Lucas, Stephen Lewis, The Apple store in SoHo-NYC, Flawless Hustle, BeatHustle, Joell Ortiz, Block Royal, Heltah Skeltah, DuckDown, Deceps, Asher Roth, Joe Budden, George Bush, all the haters,

    Old ass curmudgeon ass Ernie Paniccioli, and of course, but certainly never least nor last, Tony’s Kansas City.

    And especially all of you good folks that wade through my typos and my inane rants on bullshit or the whatever.

    This one is for y’all.

    *pops champagne*

    SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

    Wednesday, December 31st, 2008

    ajp

    I don’t hardly ever feature Air Jordan products on my page since I don’t buy them any longer. One of the reasons I stopped copping Air Jordans was because of the pricing shenanigans that developed due to the scarcity of the shoe. I shouldn’t be such a hater though since Nike knew they were dealing with instant classics on the day these shoes were released. Good capitalism says that you can fux with the demand when you fux with the supply.

    Anyhoo, I thought to myself that Nike would have to be really progressive to bring me back to copping Air Jordans (not that they even need my scrilla). I thought to myself about what it would take for me to become excited about a pair of Air Jordans and then it hit me right in the eyesocket.

    AIR.

    I reached out to the Twitternation for anyone who could bang out some photoshop .jpgs and I got a bunch of folks that stepped up to shoot their shot. In the end it was our techmeister and videostreaming homey DJ RAYZ that came through with a sick pair of Air Jordan X(10) x Air Max 360 hybrids. How fireworks are these?!? Str8 fire flames for your foot game.

    I am calling these joints the AJaX360

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    Sneaker Fiends Unite! NYC tour pops off again this weekend on a brand new year trip. Affordable kicks, exclusive fitted caps, and classic NYC locations are all going down this Saturday 01.03.09. I expect a special guest or two to join us for this tour so don’t miss out on the movement of futuristic sneaker fiends.

    SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

    Sunday, December 28th, 2008

    major black

    We Major!

    SFU chairman from the DMV district Jaislayer told us to fall thru this spot called Major when we were posted up in D.C.

    Major is located in the hallowed ‘hood of Georgetown on Wisconsin Avenue. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect when I got to the store but I was immediately overtaken by how much the store reminded me of a sneaker fiends playpen. These dudes have EVERY shoe ever made. Okay, that was an exaggeration but they definitely have at least twice the active stock of any sneaker boutique. These dudes are holding heat. I saw several editions of the Dunk Trainer shoes that I am smitten with as well as hard to find Air Maxes and adidas.

    I kicked it with the store managers who were actually familiar with this site and the i.C. movement. I was even comped a Major DC x New Era fitted cap. They called this piece the KRS-3M which is flyboy speak for Kente Reflective System featuring 3M materials. I usually come up on fitted caps that are inspired by my sneaker acquisitions. This will be the first time that I have ever had a fitted inspire me to copp a pair of kicks.

    major black

    major black

    Major isn’t just a sneaker store but an official streetwear brand repping the DMV hardbody. Their logo is clean and professional like something I would expect to see on a Capitals jersey. I wouldn’t be surprised either if they had a fitted to rock out with the latest version of the Washington Caps colorways. I should have asked if they had those Dunk Trainer Hi’s in a size 12. On my next trip to the DMV I won’t be so shy. Major is that officialness.