Archive for the ‘Ninjas’ Category
Go Shawrly, It’s Ya’ Berfday…
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012Rock, Sk8, Roll, Bouuuunce!
Monday, March 12th, 2012
My homey from The Shoe Game, G-Roc invited me to go rollersk8’g at the Atlanta hotspot called Cascade. This is the joint which was highlighted in the movie ‘Roll, Bounce’. Sunday night is the popoff at Cascade when all the college heads and young people get they roller boogie right. Sure enough the crowd was ready to ‘TURN UP’ (newest Atlanta lingo for going ham).
I haven’t sk8’d since the closing of the Empire roller rink in Brooklyn so I was a bit rusty, actually dusty, but I finally got around the rink with my stiff leg technique. It was fun to watch the sk8rz go in on their favorite jams. The deejay was spinning strictly southern rap and when the hottest song in Atlanta dropped the whole rink got on the floor to ‘TURN UP’.
Modern Explorer Lifestyle…
Sunday, March 11th, 2012
There are times when Ralph Lauren designers knock an entire series out of the park. This spring ‘LO blue label collection called Modern Explorer would be one of those times. If God is in the details then these glorious garments are heaven sent.
After I peeped the series online I had to holler at my PRL gurus on the TWits…
These pieces definitely remark 88 Keys style to me. But I actually first saw these joints on Just Blaze back at the Brisk Bodega ‘Star Wars’ event last month. We already profiled the embroidered dragon s/s knit and identified it as an heirloom I.T. but take a look at some other joints from the series. Everything is FIYAHVERKX!!!
Patched up rugby with elbow pads and reinforce stitching shoulder yoke.
Flag patch polo knit with toggle neck closure.
Oh my lord.
Another s/s knit with dragon screen print.
Details, details, details. I need all of these joints, but I can’t afford to put a stack down on cotton schmatte. This series is taking shit back to the hustlers and the boosters.
At least I got the aspiration if not the determination or the resignation.
Lightspeed Lifestyle…
Saturday, March 10th, 2012
A few months back I was invited to host a Taz Arnold showcase at Tammany Hall. I was surprised that I got the invite but I can thank the homey Meyhem Lauren who was cool with the show promoters and respects my Polo steez. Taz Arnold set the Polo Ralph Lauren collecting world on fire when he repurposed his archive of holy grail I.T.’s into the project he called ‘The Americans‘.
The Americans was at first perverse to me because I thought it mocked some of the items which people tried to acquire and would subsequently defend with their everlasting manhood. It wasn’t until I met Taz in person, and saw some of the pieces firsthand where it all made sense to me. The Americans isn’t a mockery, but a celebration. Taz Arnold is a fucking iconoclast. He is Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Ralph Lauren and Karl Lagerfeld with the Blackness of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Willi Smith.
I chilled in Taz’ hotel room at the Hudson Hotel for a few hours and kicked it with him about his motivations for fashion, music and style. It’s crazy that you watch this dude from the prism of social media and think that maybe he is wrong for his shit. Maybe he’s forcing his shit?. Nope. This dude is more centered and focused than 99.9% of the people who you might look to for artistic inspiration. Taz Arnold doesn’t play that safe lane because he’s been doing his thing for at least twenty years.
That blew my mind. Taz Arnold was more like me than I would have cared to admit before we had this meeting. I privately gave him props for pulling MCM from the vintage dustbin and making that shit hot again, but I secretly thought he might have lucked up with that move. Nah, Internets. Taz Arnold is locked in on that future funk flow flavor. You might will not be able to understand what his doing right now with this latest musical project.
Taz calls it ‘rAd AmericA‘ and this shit is nuts. File this under future vintage cocaine blow flow bounce.
‘cAliforniA $uite’
‘who fuckin’ with u$’
Cormega: M.A.R.S.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2012
Cormega featuring Action Bronson, Roc Marciano and Saigon is M.A.R.S.
Just don’t call them a supergroup.