^ Two lesbians at the Brooklyn Museum of Art [ll]
For those of you that might have thought that Hip-Hop and rappers forgot how to express their love I give you this video from my homey DON WILL of the rap group Tanya Morgan.
This is how we should start off every Friday. Some latte and a love song for Laura.
And I get into HighLine Ballroom with an assist from my dudes the Ruffian, Blagavelli and Shamz-OKP.
I ran into Shamz yesterday afterwork. He had a shorty to link up with, and boy did he?!? More on the exploits of OkayPlayer’s very own Shamz later in this drop. The buzz tonight was for my main negro on the treegrow RONI the Ruffian to celebrate his 30th bornday, and the Roots to inaugurate their weekly residency at the HighLine Ballroom.
The Roots are about to revive Hip-Hop and rap music in the only way they know how. They come and tear the roof off the mothersucker. What hyperbole hasn’t been written about the Roots? Maybe the fact that Black Thought survived in the ocean from Haiti to Florida for almost two weeks with nothing more than a lit blunt and a package of Skittles. That shit is true. I saw it on Vh-1 storytellers.
The Roots are still the Roots and they are still earnest musicians who play their instruments like they mean this shit. If you have the chance to see them anywhere and the $10 that it costs at the HighLine Ballroom are too much for your blood… The Roots are sure to do a park jam somewhere this summer. Secretly, I think the name the Roots is missing a letter – ‘B’. These dudes play so much of the time I think the Roots might really be the RoBots. These dudes had themselves cloned years ago and that is how they can do concerts and work around the clock. No one works as hard as the legendary do.
The Roots residency at the HighLine Ballroom will most definitely be a legendary gathering. Emphasis on the Mos Def part. This harkens back to the days of the Roots jamming at a little space in TriBeCa called the Wetlands. Those were the best days of my life. These are the new best days of our lives. Celebrate the soundtrack of your life with the Roots as the backing band. You will thank me for this advice later on.
By now most of you realize that this site is all about my love for sneaker collecting. I just sprinkle other stories inside of these pages so that at least this isn’t one long drop about sneakers.
That is a picture of my first fixed wheel track bike. That is where the love began for me to go sprinting around the city like a fool on a bike with no brakes. I had a few smack ups on this frame too but it was a steel frame so that joint just kept ticking. My dudes used to bug the fuck out that I was going to the club on my bike, getting bent and then riding home. I prA’li used up all my family’s blessings with those after hours runs.
I have a nice little track bike in the crib even to this day but I’m way too heavy to ride that joint. I’ll look like one of those trained bears on a circus bike. I have a couple of frames for a guy my size but they are still in development. I have a Cannondale mountain bike frame that I have been slowly building. I’ve got the frame fitted our with all the minor components so all I need are the braking and gearing systems.
I lost my shit when I saw that NIKE has made some Dunks into SPD compatible cycling shoes. SPD is a clipless pedal made by Shimano that you attach your feet to with a cleated shoe. The idea is that if a rider stays connected to the pedals throughout they will never lose energy on the return stroke. It works and I busted my ass the first few times I used SPD shoes because I never took my foot off in time. I got used to it though and now I am fine.
I am stunting hard on NYC this summer with my bicycle and these Dunk Gyrizio…
The Team USA joints are tight and the red, white and blue colorways will be an effortless winner during the summer. Almost like shooting fish in a barrel.
The Japan Olympic team joints are just firestarters.
These joints gets busy with details like patined leather and contrasting stitchwork.
I remember when SPIKE LEE’s ‘Do The Right Thing’ was premiering twenty years ago. The supremacy apologist New York Times claimed that this movie was going to incite race riots across the city. As a supremacy bellwether, the NYTimes was trying to forecast the reaction to the disillusionment of justice Black felt towards the Yusuf Hawkins case. Little did we know at that moment, but the NYTimes was a co-conspirator in placing the five(5) innocent youth in prison for the infamous “Central Park jogger” case.
New York City still suffers from racism as do most metropolitan areas but now in the year 2009 it has become more clear to some that the real enemy was always the person behind the curtain pulling the strings. SPIKE LEE isn’t feared or reviled in Hollywood any longer. Even the band Public Enemy is viewed with whimsical nostalgia. What we thought was bad under the first Bush presidency we found was exponentially worse under the second Bush administration. And with that perspective lens I will view tonight’s screening of ‘Do The Right Thing’.
ImageNation Cinema Foundation proudly announces its 5th annual collaboration with Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to present ImageNation at Lincoln Center: A 20th Anniversary Celebration of “Do the Right Thing” with Spike Lee.
Sponsored by BET and our venue host, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, this Black History Month event will take place on Thursday, February 26, 2009 in Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater and will include a rock rendition of “Fight The Power” performed live by Chuck D and Apollo Heights, a screening of the Academy Award nominated film and discussion with members of the cast and crew, which will be moderated by actor/playwright Stew of the Tony Award-winning musical “Passing Strange”.
Where & When
Thurs. February 26th
@ Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater
70 Lincoln Center Plaza 165 West 65th St.
Reception: 6pm
Program: 7pm
For more information about ImageNation please visit the link
A DP.com shout out goes to Mr.SIMMS for this one.