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More London Games Lifestyle…

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

My Brit homey Mr.Blister sent me a kite telling me that the Olympics were in Londontown again after the 1924 Olympiad. The 1948 Summer Games was the return of the Olympics to England.

Knowing Ralph Lauren’s asPirations like I do I thought I’d look thru some of the flicks from the 1948 Olympics to see if he cribbed some of his graphic details from the outfits worn during that time.

Sure enough Ralph Lauren found inspiration from Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen’s (also known as ‘the Flying Housewife’) bib numbers.

The 1992 plates series is one of the indisputable GOATs for lifestyle collectors. The tee shirts, rugbys and button downs fetch several hundred dollars apiece. The windbreaker jackets are my favorites.

“SLOW DOWN BABY!”

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

If you don’t understand what you are seeing right here…

Let me try and break it down for you…

EPMD

NEW YORK CITY

HIT SQUAD REUNION

REDMAN * DAS EFX * KEITH MURRAY * K-SOLO

LIVE N DIRECT – BESTBUY THEATRE – FORTY DEUCE – FRIDAY NITE

COMBAT JACK * FUNK FLEX * PETER ROSENBERG

TIMELESS TRUTH

Love & Loyalty On The Deuce…

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

If you told me twenty yrs ago that I would be friends on a first name basis with Lo-Lifes I would call you crazy. In the streets of Manhattan and Brooklyn there had been so much blood, sweat and tears spilled over the acquisition of clothing it was senseless. It wasn’t simply the struggle to attain a fresh level of gear, but the real struggle was in keeping that clothing on your back.

The ‘Lo Goose On The Deuce’ event was a celebration of surviving those days and remaining fresh to this day.

That boy Krash made sure he repped the royalty along with the love and the loyalty. Hail Meg!

I fux with the homies ‘Fit right here.

Layers and layers of Artic Challenge I.T.s

AYAK brothers rocked the RLX

Super Bad MC Solace brought the sickest accoutrement with him. His lady, in the RLX parka. Niiiice.

My goggle swag was on a trillyonnnnnn.

Rack-LO is one of the LO-Life founders

The gathering moved from 42nd Street to the TKTS triangle in Times Square. Circle ski representatives were in full effect.

Now the event was starting. The competition was to see who had the freshest ‘Fit.

The two sickest outfits were worn by Bob-LO and his brother Bek-Live. Bob-LO rocked the official police badge skisuit with a K-Swiss knit underneath. That shit was tougher than leather.

Bek-Live killed it too by popping tags on a Descente outfit. What do you know about Descente? Bek-Live took me all the way back to the Scandinavian Ski Shop days. Bek-Live shut it down by rocking the OG Gucci joints with the red/green laces. This is how you do it.

It was dope to see decades of brotherhood and style combined into one. Next years’ event will be even sicker and larger. Peace to the LO-Lifes, my Decep brothers, the A-Team and ALL the kids who made the Deuce the most exciting and stylish place in New York city.

FANBOYZ UNITE! – DWAYNE McDUFFIE

Monday, October 17th, 2011

Even from the alternate universe of the hereafter Dwayne McDuffie is of singular influence and importance to fanboys of any creed or color.

Dwayne discusses the difficulties in bringing Black characters into mainstream comicbooks. The rule of three being that if there are three Black characters then the series is ‘Black’. Let’s face it, Blacks in real life are already threatening to most white, so can you imagine the angst that Black males with superpowers gives?

I caught this clip at Kwame’s website GEEKMODEONLINE.com

LOVE & LOYALTY…

Sunday, July 17th, 2011

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Our homey Meyhem Lauren is featured in a pictorial of Lo-Lifes published in the current issue of Vice Magazine.

Here’s the linked version. Now go copp the inked version.

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