Salutes to Bronsolino and the Outdoorsmen taking over South by Southwest this week.
Archive for the ‘Blipsters = Hipsters’ Category
Outdoorsmen In The Great Outdoors…
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012“Must Be Hercules”
Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
Respect the moustache, and respect the double entendre of the term ‘Action Figure’
‘Blue Chips‘ is still rocking in my earholes.
First Round Draft Pick Rap…
Tuesday, March 13th, 2012
You knew this shit was coming and here it is. Action Bronson continues the winning streak with another project that goes hard in the paint. Party Supplies gives Action the types of grooves he really like to splash off with. Jazzy and hard like Tommy Mas, but with just a little extra bounce.
Don’t be confused into thinking that Party Supplies can’t body a beat just because he is from the Fool’s Gold camp. Hipsters like their rappy songs hard too. Danny Brown anyone? I wish I was in Austin to mash out with the Outdoorsmen clan for the SxSW festivities, but hearing this tape has me amped to get ready for Meyhem Lauren’s next project.
The flood continues…
Action Bronson x Party Supplies = Blue Chips
Pouches Of Tuna ft. Roc Marciano
Thug Love Story 2012
Expensive Pens ft. Meyhem Lauren
103 And Roosy
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 $uite’
‘who fuckin’ with u$’
Is This What’s Fresh?
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012
I certainly can’t be mad at the nods to Danny Brown and Roscoe Dash who are both young verterans already in the rap game, but the annual list by XXL mag reminds me of how little I know when it comes to the rappy music. Maybe next year we’ll see Action Bronson, Maffew Ragazino, Meyhem Lauren, Troy Ave or Mr. M’F’N eXquire on the freshmen list?
In any case I should salute all these white people making rap music now and remind any young Black or brown kids I encounter not to do the rap music anymore. Their time, like mine, has passed them by.