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Archive for the ‘Ninjas’ Category
DOOOOOOOOOM! A Primer…
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010Got Lifestyle?
Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Meyhem Lauren got it all day…
The XXLmag.com features article on the lifestyle is giving shine to the younger heads coming up in the game.
Jose Hustle is a young cat from down south who became an Internets Celebrity with his ‘Been Had _____’ meme videos.
I see that shorty been had that Polo, but then I had to ask Jose Hustle just how ‘LO he could really go…
SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
I stays on that comicbook superhero hypebeast shit.
Copped for $52 at NiketownNYC.
Peace to my peoples.
And I’m gone.
Follow The Leader…
Friday, December 3rd, 2010
Even tho’ Eric B ran with a mob of dudes from Walt Whitman Houses (Fort Greene projects) including the O.G. Fifty Cent his style of fly apparel was that of a Harlem paper chaser. Polo, Bally and Fila was how the Brooklyn cats got dipped. The above pictured Dapper Dan Gucci ensemble was the shit you saw on the backs of the drug dealers from Uptown.
You see, the pushers were the only dudes who could afford these tailormade outfits. Gucci, MCM, YSL and Louis Vuitton (actually back then LV wasn’t even the shit) were expensive enough in the flagship 5th Avenue stores but you couldn’t find any XL or XXL pieces. So Dapper Dan started his customizing business and it became synonymous with Harlem’s swagger.
Years later Gucci’s lead designer Tom Ford would swagger jack the streets when he designed the all-over monogram jackets that would bring the company back into prominence. It’s a curious tradeoff that the streets give to high end designers. The streets believe these rags ascribe affluence. The rag dealers also want the credibility and the desire of the streets.
Night Catches Us…
Thursday, December 2nd, 2010
Somewhere in Hollywood there is a place for a great story where Blacks are the lead characters. I don’t mean the Madea archteypes either. I mean the Henry Fonda everyday American types who persevere thru strength of character as opposed to sight gags and off color slanguage.
Anthony Mackie (who stays needing a hairline) and Kerry Washington (who called me a fat sweaty dude on the Hip-Hop Honors red carpet) combine to deliver a heart wrenching performance about a family in south Philadelphia in the mid-1970s. After the Black power movement had been disbanded and discredited what and who was left for the people to believe in? That is the backstory. This movie is really about a family finding its way in life.
‘Night Catches Us’ will open this Friday in the Magic Johnson multiplex in Harlem. I implore you to keep your eyes open for your opportunity to go see this movie. The stories I want to deliver to the big screen don’t stray too far from this theme. There has to be more films of all people which don’t play to the widely held stereotypes of those people. As long as the story is beautiful, and true. ‘Night Catches Us’ is that movie. Support independent films my people.