On The Soul De La That Is....

Over the weekend, i spent the weekend up in NYC, Lower East Side with my boy Chris P, and he hooked me up with some long loves of mine, the Nike SB De La Soul highs. Deadly combo, Prince Ali rocking the lows, and SWAT with the highs..TOUGH
Nike really should go back to the early 2000s drawing boards and cook up some instant classics.

Finally

I thought it would never come. One more week and the real spring will finally kick in.


I need a break!

Word on the Web...

Word on the web right now is (not 100 percent official yet but definitely in the talks) that Jordan is planning to rerelease the retro Air Jordan 11 Space Jams. They're talking about December 09, so no need to get excited just yet but if they come out, you can believe i will be at the store early for my pair. Not only are 11s one of my top 5 Js of all time, but Space Jam...come on, only one of the best animated movies ever. So I'm definitely going to be keeping my eye on announcements about those

Hype TV With None Other Than DCs Own....

Wale is a fool, but so cool, he goes through DC with the camcorder, showing his spots, such as CMONWEALTH, home studios, WKYS 93.9, all things that look all so familiar...
via hypebeast.com

The 2nd Coming: Air Griffeys

Finally, one of the highly anticipated NIKE drops of 09 have come out. The now retro, Nike Air Griffey Is! We were in georgetown, just chilling and got the good news. When news came, faces lit up. Next day, we went, saw, and conquered.

 

Throwback classic

had my itunes on random this morning as i was washing some clothes and i forgot all about this song...

Beef: Rhymefest Again

Rhymefest speaks yet again on Charles Hamilton. I like Charles, the songs I know by him, I'm feeling em. I haven't listened to too much Rhymefest, but he consistantly is going at Charles. Calling him all types of shit. I think what he's saying is funny and he definitely goes on Charles, but at the end of the day, i still like both artist and respect both their music. The one question i have is: 

Is this unnecessary roughness? 

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Another Tease: Wordplay by Wale

Wow. The past week on walemusic.com, he has had a list of events and basically his whole musical agenda. This past tuesday, he had scheduled an announcement for the Back To The Feature Mixtape with 9th wonder. The anticipation built up leading until tuesday, and all I got was word that the mixtape has a set release date, April 29th (one month away). Now, today I was on hiphopgame.com, and see him and Curren$y the hot spitter put out a song, Wordplay. The song is an Ipod must! What is not to like about this song? The beat is smooth, the production is clean and crisp, the lyrics are tough. All around a good song. This is just Another teaser from Wale. I really hope his album isn't too commercial and its strictly just GOOD MUSIC

Download Wordplay by Wale ft. Curren$y & Tre (from UCB) (produced by 9th wonder)

09 Spring Drops

It looks like its that time of year again... All the company's are come out with their spring releases and their have definitely been some that I've been excited for and others that so far seem to be a little disappointing. Although, I've been looking at some pieces, i've been expanding my range, looking into some different pieces.

Tournament Time

March is by far my favorite time of the year for sports. March Madness, theres nothing better. Every year I look forward to seeing nail bitting games, heartbreak come backs, and everyones favorite, cinderlla stories! My picks are in and for it's looking like all Louisville this year, but you never know. From my experience, the tournament is always a love-hate relation. I love to see good basketball but when it comes to teams messing up my bracket, costing me money, makes me want ot kill someone. Well see how the finals roll out, as of right the first few games, im 100% with my picks (knock on wood)

How?

I watched this at least 50 times.

¡Blah!: Back In The Days

Looking back through old photos is always so fun. For some reason, my mom felt she would tonight and pulled out some pictures way back from '93 with a Supreme NYC twist. I coulda been a model for pegleg kids

Licky Licky Licky here comes GUCCI

ladies and gentlemen let the hype begen....

So we all know how much a pair of Nike Sb Gucci Dunks run, for those who forgot its an easy $2500 - $3000 now that your memory is refreshed It seems Nike as gained some type of insight or logical sense and decided to release these to the public so now that we don't have to pay a grand plus but instead we have to probably camp out, scrtach and fight for a pair, and if you decide to sleep in from your previous wild night expect an easy $400 for a pair compliments of ebay. Ill be up bright and early and ready for these the day before maybe even eariler for my holy grails, will you?

¡Blah!: Living For The Weekend

With only so much time left in high school to go, every day of the week, im just counting down days for the weekend. The past few weekends, we had a few birthdays go past (Me & Bingo). And we had our self a lil fun, if we didnt have fun, we definately had a story to tell. Unfortunately, every weekend isn't the best but the past few were fun. Each weekend should be described as getting twizzy, girls booty shaking, taking the very freaky girls back to the "so icy compound (YEAAAA)" :-D, wake up and hit the stores, chill all day, and do it all over again.

(Stanky Leg....LLS)


Another week of school is coming up, and already, im tryna plan my weekend. Even looking towards summer time and spring break. Be prepared because we're really trying to find a spot to lock for parties. But for now, i'm looking forward to see what's in store for the upcoming weekend.


(PS. Doesn't Preach (dude with the glasses) look like wale?)

Hmm...DMP 2?

The Jordan packs have been keeping sneakerheads and J Lovers happy for the past year. Now in the 09, with yet a pack to be released. Word has gotten around that one the packs for the 09 is going to be a Vs pack. Now detailed pictures have been on the internet of the "Raging Bull Pack", some nickname the DMP 2 package. Release date is still not official but expect these to come out around the memorial day. I have mixed feelings about these, i really like original colorway for Vs way better...




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New Music: Mayer Hawthorne

Anyone who knows me knows, i love smooth old classic music. Especially I love smooth oldies, soul groups, all of that. I was on the web looking at new music and on dctobc.com, they had highlighted this white dude Mayer HAwthorne. When I played his record, I was hooked. His voice and the whole 60s 70s doo wop style is so smooth and different. He's really taking it back with even the whole oldies sound, scratchy, format, everything. Big shout to DctoBC for putting me on.

Others to pay attention to:
Theophilus London
Big Sean
Kid Cudi
Charles Hamilton
Drake

Kanye + 88 Keys

These 2 dudes are wild on the video shoot, going for the eddie murphy old man look...the beat is smooth, can't wait to see these fools in the full video.

Maui Wowie

Kid Cudi has been making a little name for himself lately and I was going through his songs, this is definitely my song of the week. Even though i dont really smoke, this song of his A Kid Named Cudi mixtape is the song of my week. I geek every time i play it.


Click to Download Maui Wowie by Kid Cudi
:-D

GUCCI!

Gucci Mane is scheduled to be released from Jail sometime this upcoming weekend.

¡Blah!: WRECKLESS

Sunday Sounds.

so as im settling into having my computer back im getting back to my mixtape groove, over the last few months the name Asher Roth has been popping up I heard a few songs and mistakened him for Em' I like his style how he's able to throw humor inside of his lines, but then again im not big on the whole i love college theme.

Mixtape: Don Cannon & DJ Drama The Greenhouse Effect. Vol.1




As time goes by I realize more and more how there is no one out there with close to as much talent as 9th Wonder. No questions asked, he's in the top 10 for best producers, but could he be number one on top of Dilla... only time will tell, he's still at it.


Mixtape: 9th Wonder & Wale Back to the Future

1/2 Cents

Well most of us know the price tag was far more then half a cent, but of course we had to cop its been so long since a good sneaker from Nike that hasnt been retroed has dropped.

JAM!

Been in the Ipod for the past week.

FELT

one of my favorite Duo's let alone one of my favorite songs, creative video scheme, it doesnt get any better then this.

JB 2009.

Good Idea, JB coming out with the classic Nubucks couldnt get any better especially for those who slept on the 11/12 pack cough (sherman) but this is deff going to be a hard one to get your hands on.




Bad Idea, Finally some pin stripped Jordan 7's to match my pin stripped suit to where to prom! No. this is the worst combination I've seen next to Soulja Boy's Yams, Scrap it, Burn it, just don't release it.

Extra Butter

A couple weekends ago I got to visit the concrete jungle, its been along time but it felt good to be home and hit up some old spots. Seems like ways are changing up in the big apple from clothing to music. DC has Go-Go, Chicago has Juke, New york has... Jazz-hop, a mix of Jazz and Hip hop bringing back that old school soul feel with samples and clips of J Dilla and other God like producers, and replaying hits from groups such as De la Soul, Jeru the Damaja. Live Jazz acts with the rugget lyrics spit by MC's make a great atmosphere. It's just the beginning of this genre but I see it going far in the future with acts such as, rivive da live, and the foundation. Who ever came up with this concept is genius and for those who don't know who the brains behind this is it should be easy to find out just take a wild guess......

Off Days

NO school tomorrow everyone enjoy!