Apparently the discussion will be on sleight of hand tricks. But seriously, this is a great opportunity for those of you in the LA area who constantly badger people for advice on building a grass-roots brand, who lurk around 9th & Los Angeles, Rosewood & Fairfax to come out and realize you have a lot more work cut out for you & props from Ma Dukes ain’t cuttin’ it in the street (where?) street! (where?) streetwear scene.
“Oh My God”, I think I’ve made my affection for Lily Allen quite clear this year; now she comes off like a street-savvy version of Jessica Rabbit in this -the latest video from Mark Ronson’s Version project, “Oh My God feat. Lily Allen”.
Version is a Criminal Slang Award Nominee for Best Revisiting of Previously Recorded Material by Artists That You May or Not Have Heard of But Now Like Either Way.
BTW -I did indeed coin the phrase, “all up on the boobies”, in that previous post -biters beware.
If you ride fixed, stack chips and rock OBEY, you might just want to get with this exclusive (300 only) OBEY x FUJI track bike.
Store 13 will have two (of 300) available for sale in November December -call 626.430.6650 for details or click here for ordering information.
SPECS
Color: matte black with graphics by OBEY
Main frame: Fjui Elios 2 custom butted Cro-Moly Round Tubes joined by
Traditional Lugs, no water bottle mounts, no bosses
Rear triangle: Fuji Elios 2 custom tapered Cro-Moly with Tradition Lugs and track dropout, bridge drilled for rear brake
Fork: Fuji 1′ Cro-Moly w/Lugged Crown, Curved blades with round profile, drilled for front brakes
Crankset: Custom Miche Primato, 48T
Bottom Bracket: Miche
Pedals: Wellgo Track pedals w/ custom gold anodized cage, steel toe clip & leather double toe strap
Cassette: 18T Fixed Track Cog
Chain: KMC Z410, gold
Wheelset: Formula Hubs w/ Alex Crostini Rims & black stainless spokes with gold nipples
Tires: Continental UltraSport 700×23c
Tubes: Kenda presta tubes
Headset: First Gold Anodized threaded
Handlebar: Custom Fuji Gold Anodized Track bar
Stem: Custom Fuji Gold Anodized quill style stem
Saddle: Brooks Swift Leather w/ Cro-Moly rails
Seat post: Custom Fuji Gold anodized
Spotted on The Hundreds porch…
Steve Rocco molded an army of young miscreants into freewheeling giants and had them turn on him. Like a graff writer, his mark is everywhere, but he’s nowhere to be found. Any kid that picked up a skateboard after the Bones Brigade era should know where their swagger comes from. Corporate types hail him as a marketing guru and successful entrepreneur, mad people got beef with him, a generation of Jackasses were spawned from Big Brother Rocco, and parents still buy shit emblazoned with cartoon devils for their bad lil’ seeds to wreck shop with after Sunday Service.
Don’t forget that dude made it rain over skate contests in his own private helicopter back when your favorite rapper was sellin’ crack or broke pretending to be hard in college. Or publishing naked chicks on skateboards -in his own magazine, (occasionaly packaging issues in cereal boxes and throwing in a mixtape) that also promoted his brands -long before Larry Flint got his stinky fingers ahold of Big Brother and made it (real irony) go limp.
And somehow, in true-Rocco fashion, he hustled his way into a School Board seat in the City of Orange.
Go see The Man Who Souled the World
It’s a no-brainer fellas…make a day of it and take the lucky winner to LaLa’s afterward.
Packin’ dancefloors from Bodymore to Sur Central, Aaron LaCrate gives Crank Dat the Murdalander treatment and rinses it through the gutter nice and dirty.
Souljah Boy never sounded so good.
Download - Souljah Boy Crank Dat (Gutter Remix)
Oh, it does it’s namesake proud…
Tracklisting:
Black Mags - Cool Kids
I’m Mikey - Cool Kids
Crank Dat Juke Jams Remix - Soulja Boy/Benzi
Gettin Some - Dj Nehpets Juke remix
Nann Ghost on tape Juke Remix
Ass & Titties
Diggin Me - Crime Mob
Shake That - Bangers & Cash
B.O.O.T.A.Y. - Bangers & Cash
Throw That D f/ Ludacris & Luke - Trick Daddy
I Wanna Rock [Doo Doo Brown] - Luke
Some of you remember the days of the 96 hour super-progressive ultra mega mix -that shit’s over son! The 20 minute mix is just enough to pop in during drive time to school the less musically adventurous passengers without gettin’ the inevitable,
“yo cut this shit, I’m tryin’ to win tickets to see Chingy for ma girl on the radio”.
A lot of accidents are caused from this situation because the driver, in an effort to keep it as real as possible says something like,
“I wish you would try to cut off this Heartfood mix [pause] little bitch”.
which only prompts the driver side passenger to stick the driver in the back with a carving knife found in the knife set he bought as a wedding present that day -in an effort to keep it realer.
*In fact, this is the exact origin of the phrases, “Stabbed in the Back” & “When Keepin’ it Real Goes Wrong”.
Download: Doo Doo Brown
It’s crazy delicious and moving pretty fuckin’ quick, the Street Noise collaboration between artist Danny Estrada and Store 13 is restricted to 130 pieces. I got one ziplocked and iced for this reason alone. The artwork is derived from a painting by Sr. Estrada -which is currently hanging in-store and available for sale at the right price.
Street Noise (M-2XL) retails for $25 online at store13.com or over here in real life.
Call (626) 430-6650 for details, you can also ask about pre-ordering the super-official Store 13 x New Era fitted cap.
Did I just let that one slip?
Peep the flyer, that’s a grip of artists for one show. Robert Nichols would definitely be worth checking out -as I’m sure you’ve missed his recent exhibition in China. Yes China -the one that’s stacking American debt like playing cards.
His artist statement reads like this…
“I am interested in playing with the interaction between daily life and concepts of consciousness - in relation to the constituent parts of 21st Century experiences, particularly those connected to issues of interconnectivity via new technologies, TV, music and fashion, et al which amalgamate to help form fluid individual identities for Generation-’whatever-we-are-now’ers.
This includes design and the visual environment surrounding us with commercial bombardment. At the other end, the reinjection of the individualistic and hand made. My work involves exploring through visual means the grey area between the opposing ideas of probabilistic states encouraged by these things (including an odd connection to past, present, and future) and experiential experience.
In quantum mechanics there have been experiments, such as the famous double slit experiment, that show that the observing person effects the collapse of the particle/wave function into one probabilistic state of either ‘choice’ into a singular one. I like to think of my work, and of the process in which I make my work, in a similar way.
I consciously take gathered images, drawings, photographs, and graphics and “collapse” them into a piece. There is a certain calculated degree of repetition in my work. This is because I sometimes think of my different pieces as manifested, probabilistic versions of a single painting, as if we actually see the numerous super-positions of the piece, and therefore in a constant re-creating of the piece at any time in a somewhat ‘Multiverse’ manner.”
Yes Virginia, there is life beyond the Wilshire Corridor…
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So if you’re going to make it down Downtown this Saturday night to Hangar 1018, make sure your fast is bangin’ Banger’s & Cash ’cause you’re sleepin’ behind the wheel if you’re still trying to find a good album cut on Cuuuurtisss! It’s certified, this record’s hot sex -shouts to Spank Rock* and Benny Blanco, Amanda Blank and Santo Gold.
Buy it here!
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*Well look who snagalagged the cover of the October issue of The Fader.
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