The folks at Hi-Lo Brow let me be part in their themed series about the bronze age of Hip-Hop music (1979-1983). I wrote a lil’ ditty about the Sugar Hill Gang’s eponymous classic ‘Rapper’s Delight’.
Wanna read it? Here it go…
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Respect The Architects…
Monday, July 29th, 2013
Outfit Architecture isn’t just about putting your clothes together with footwear and accessories. It’s about understanding your relationship as to how you represent yourself to others. Strangers and like minds alike.
One of my National Football League heroes was named Ernie Barnes (RIP). As an offensive lineman he protected Jack Kemp while he was a quarterback for the San Diego Chargers.
As a fine artist he was the author for some of the most enduring and expressive paintings I have ever seen.
You must have surely seen his painting ‘Sugar Shack’ which was used os a cover for a Marvin Gaye album as well as part of the set for the television show ‘Good Times’.
Even tho’ I wasn’t in that portrait I feel in my soul that I know the place Barnes was describing. I can smell the hot-buttered soul sweat steaming up that juke joint. I’ve done those dances before in my life. Ernie Barnes got soul.
And I got sole. I copped this Ernie Barnes throwback jersey to rock with my Air Jordan powder blue North Carolina 2012s.
The irony is that because UNC was segregated at the time Ernie Barnes was an All-American high school athlete he couldn’t attend the school. Barnes ended up on full scholarship at the HBCU North Carolina Central.
Respect the architects always my Internets. Whether you realize it or not we do this life thanks to them.
BLACKOUT…
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
In honor of the memory of Trayvon Martin and so many other people unjustly murdered in the AmeriKKKan apartheid system I have opted to black out my social media presence until further notice.
Thank you and may God be with you.
This Goes Out To My Brooklyn Crew…
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
“Put ya’ hands up in the air if ya’ fell me!
Eff ’em all day, eff ’em all night.
We don’t love these ho’s.”
Peep the R.K.O. Albee movie theater before it was demolished to make way for the Albee Square Mall.
And now the new City Point shopping center is opening up with an Armani Exchange as the first tenant.
Brooklyn done changed just to remain the same.
You Gotta Eat This…
Sunday, June 30th, 2013
The homey Premium Pete has partnered up with Bun B the Trill OG and founded a new website called ‘You Gotta Eat This‘. Premium is the Instagram champ of food pictures. He decided to take that to the ‘nother level and make a site where people could post their favorite recipes and meal preparations.
I copped two three pound lobsters from the Fairway market in Red Hook and banged out one of my favorite meals of all time. Lobster! Bitches.
Since the Complex checks are picking up my Polo costs I figured I could afford to splurge for $10 a pound on some of Maine’s finest.
Took out the biggest pot in the house…
Old Bay is the minimum mandatory for the boil and the Stella is to add that
A dab of virgin olive oil in the skillet for I can saute me some…
Vegetables. Bitches.
How good do these look?
Like I said before… Vegetables. BITCHES!
I split open the tail and put it back in the oven with a quarter stick of butter in the crease.
FIYAHVERKXXX!
And I kept it seafood for desert with the Swedish Fish.
