It seems like yesterday we was chasin the ice cream truck...now we hopin that our ice bling plush, its kinda crazy right?
One minute you're a baby and the next, you're sexin without protection and now you holdin a baby like....damn, I was just in your shoes. Now you're the papa thats adjustin their shoes, teach em to walk straight.
Cause honestly they got a long way to go and what you tell them now is all that they know.
See I remember when my folks said...."You'll know what I mean when you get older."
I was only a teen, thinkin that I was a grown up...please....I had so much to see.
Thinkin the little that I saw was all this world had to offer to me.
At 18, I headed off in the streets without guidance....just the eyes of God watchin over me as time went.
I spent hours workin 9-5's to survive. Me and Jack up in the shack started hustlin sacks just to eat chips and soda, thinkin we finna blow up once this demo gets done. We gon' be stretched out rich, riding limos and such...
Boy I was just a dreamer...
Rockin shows like I went gold, you shoulda seen us.
We was full of youth, not yet abused by time...
It's like I saw the whole world through my rhymes.
It's kinda crazy right?
yea....that was kinda crazy.
Below The Heavens LP OUT NOW! Available On ITunes!
www.myspace.com/bluroc
Photo by sol-exposure.com
Saturday, November 17, 2007
Pictures With Words: Blu - In Rememberance
Focus: Eric Bailey - Birds and Bullets
The Words Of Eric Bailey
For as long as I can remember, I have always been creatively driven in life. I remember trying to emulate skateboard graphics as a child and, later in high school, being greatly influenced by grafitti art. While in class, I spent more time glued to my sketchbook in deep concentration than following the prescribed curriculum. This is the reason why, after high school, the next logical step was to study art.
San Francisco is where I would spend the next eight years of my life—studying, absorbing, growing and living. The city has offered me copious amounts of creative stimulation ranging from the atmosphere and attitude on its streets to my friends and fellow artists.
As I've grown as an artist and as an individual, my work has attracted some attention, but I feel things have only just begun. My time is now spent creating works for numerous exhibitions as well as for select commissions and illustration jobs. It is through my passion and dedication that I hope to gain a better understanding of the art of painting and of myself. 
I recently relocated to Los Angeles to live, work and broaden my career as an artist. Taking on a new environment and overall way of life I believe I can only grow more. Next stop New York? Who knows, only time will tell.
www.birdsandbullets.com
Girl Killed Herself Over An Online Hoax
Megan Meier thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.
Megan, a 13-year-old who suffered from depression and attention deficit disorder, corresponded with Josh for more than a month before he abruptly ended their friendship, telling her he had heard she was cruel.
The next day Megan committed suicide. Her family learned later that Josh never actually existed; he was created by members of a neighborhood family that included a former friend of Megan's.
Now Megan's parents hope the people who made the fraudulent profile on the social networking Web site will be prosecuted, and they are seeking legal changes to safeguard children on the Internet.
The girl's mother, Tina Meier, said she doesn't think anyone involved intended for her daughter to kill herself.
"But when adults are involved and continue to screw with a 13-year-old, with or without mental problems, it is absolutely vile," she told the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis, which first reported on the case.
Tina Meier said law enforcement officials told her the case did not fit into any law. But sheriff's officials have not closed the case and pledged to consider new evidence if it emerges.
Megan Meier hanged herself in her bedroom on Oct. 16, 2006, and died the next day. She was described as a "bubbly, goofy" girl who loved spending time with her friends, watching movies and fishing with her dad.
Megan had been on medication, but had been upbeat before her death, her mother said, after striking up a relationship on MySpace with Josh Evans about six weeks before her death.
Josh told her he was born in Florida and had recently moved to the nearby community of O'Fallon. He said he was homeschooled, and didn't yet have a phone number in the area to give her.
Megan's parents said she received a message from him on Oct. 15 of last year, essentially saying he didn't want to be her friend anymore, that he had heard she wasn't nice to her friends.
The next day, as Megan's mother headed out the door to take another daughter to the orthodontist, she knew Megan was upset about Internet messages. She asked Megan to log off. Users on MySpace must be at least 14, though Megan was not when she opened her account. A MySpace spokeswoman did not return calls seeking comment.
wow.
Severe Climate Change Threatens Our Existance
The Earth is hurtling toward a warmer age at a quickening pace, a Nobel-winning U.N. scientific panel said in a landmark report Saturday, warning of inevitable human suffering and the threat of species extinction.
The report also offered blueprints to avert the worst catastrophes. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said climate change imperils "the most precious treasures of our planet."
The potential impact of global warming is "so severe and so sweeping that only urgent, global action will do," Ban told the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after it issued its fourth and final report this year.
read the rest of the story on msnbc.com.
Friday, November 16, 2007
Late Night McDonalds Crackhead Antics.
i went to mc donalds at 3 in the morning last night to get a shake, and like many urban neighborhoods there was a crackhead on duty right at the window where the food is recieved. so she asks for some change....and im feeling generous so im like fuck it....get high. i give her almost 75 cents in change, she says thank you and then walks away from my car. then comes back and hands me two condoms.....
Rugby's.........what the fuck is a Rugby? i mean good lookin out and everything, i appreciate it....but thats a wierd gift to get from a crackhead, and Rugby??
the world is ending son......word to my muvah b.
Thursday, November 15, 2007
Jonas Samson: Light Emitting Wallpaper
We know you look back fondly on those high school days of zoning out to your trippy Pink Floyd black light poster in your bedroom, and while you may have outgrown that zoning out phase that doesn’t mean you’ve outgrown the need for having your wall illuminated with imagery. Jonas Samson has designed a high-tech, light-emitting wallpaper proving it “possible to use a two-dimensional flat surface as light source instead of a 3D object.” So not only can you toss that black light, maybe you should say goodbye to your desk lamp that you’re always knocking over as well. There’s a new light fixture in town, and it’s on your wall.
However, if you should feel like giving your new light emitting wallpaper a rest from its illumination duties, it retains its effectiveness as plain ol’ wallpaper. If your other wallpaper starts to get jealous and begins to light up you may just have poltergeists in your home at which point we’d recommend relocation to somewhere not built on an Indian burial ground.
Exactly Interesting...
2006 Homeless World Cup - Cape Town
Set up in 2001 by Big Issue founder Mel Young, the Homeless World Cup has held tournaments Austria, Sweden, Edinburgh and, last year Cape Town. Cape Town. 2006 saw the biggest tournament to date with 496 homeless people from 48 different countries playing. While the project hopes to give individual participants the opportunity to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, in each country they visit, the charity leaves a legacy of sustainable business and employment opportunities for homeless people of all ages, this year a football factory exporting hand-stitched footballs around the world, creating 20 jobs for Cape Town residents.
In 2007 the games will travel to Copenhagen. To find out more, how to support the cause, enter the tournament or just attend check out www.homelessworldcup.org.
lol.
Next Up: Ty&Kory Interview
To put it bluntly, Ty & Kory are exactly what’s lacking in R&B music today. With radio stations across the country bogged down with studio-engineered vocals and slapped-together dance routines, good soul music has become all too rare. Label execs everywhere try and try to manufacture success, but you’ve either got the instincts or you don’t. Luckily for lovers of R&B everywhere, Ty & Kory have the instincts.
Hailing from South Central, LA and Queens, New York respectively, the duo of 23-year-olds are bringing a much-needed change to the game with vocals reminiscent of Stevie Wonder and Babyface poured over Hip-Hop beats. In 2005, the first volume of their Raw & Bangin Mixtape made the rounds and became an underground smash. Featuring tracks from heavyweights J-Dilla and Madlib in addition to their own production crew (Jack Sample Pros), the duo's work earned them appearances on the soundtracks to The Cookout and Biker Boyz.
Due to the mixtape’s success, Ty & Kory linked up with Buddah Brown Entertainment, who has worked with top notch artists such as Timbaland and the Black Eyed Peas. The two are poised to make a big splash with their first album Junior Radio - due in early '08 - and another mixtape this fall. Ty & Kory aren’t content to just make R&B; they’re changing the face of the genre from rhythm and blues to “Raw & Bangin."
AllHipHop.com Alternatives: How did Ty & Kory meet up and start working together?
Ty: We met each other in New York a few years back through a mutual acquaintance, and then again randomly in Utah during the Sundance Film Festival. We recorded two joints while we were out in Utah that came out crazy, and we met up again and recorded the Raw & Bangin Vol. 1 mixtape.
AHHA: Who were some of your influences coming up on different coasts?
Ty: I really felt DJ Quik, Dr. Dre and Babyface’s production. Getting older in high school, I got into the RZA and that whole Wu-Tang vibe, then I found out about Dilla, because I used to like that Janet Jackson song with Q-Tip “Got 'til Its Gone.” After that, I became a Dilla-head and now, I’m getting into other types of music.
Kory: Michael Jackson, Sam Cooke, R. Kelly, Stevie Wonder, Nas, all the QB artists from Cormega to Mobb Deep.
AHHA: Do you guys rhyme also or just sing?
Ty: We’ve always been singing, but we rhyme a bit too. Hip-Hop is what we live, so we have to rhyme. I was a straight Hip-Hop head when I met Kory and he was too, but we both sung and liked other music. We were like, “Lets take these Hip-Hop beats, sing over them and make a whole new genre of music,” and that’s where we came up with Raw & Bangin.
AHHA: How did you first meet up with Buddah Brown?
Ty: Venus Brown [Head of Buddah Brown] found us. We just got a phone call one day from Venus & Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas, so we went over to their office and it was official. They flew Kory out from New York, and we just decided to roll with Buddah. They had heard about us through the Raw & Bangin mixtape, which really got around the globe.
AHHA: How do you feel about the current state of music, and who are you checking for now?
Ty: Basically f*ck R&B and f*ck Hip-Hop; this is “Raw & Bangin!” Right now, I’m feelin’ the new Bone Thugs, Mos Def, Nas and that Amy Winehouse album is incredible. Sa-Ra’s album, Hollywood Recordings; I’m on two joints on there (“And If” and “Do Me Gurl”).
AHHA: Being that it’s summertime, give us your classic joint for the summer season.
Kory: Has to be “Banned from TV,” that Noreaga record from his first album with Pun and Nature. That’s the summer anthem.
Ty: You know me; I’m rolling with that “Players” from Slum Village.
AHHA: How do ya’ll kick it during the sunny days in Cali and NY?
Ty: You know… sit outside, holler at the girls, blow some trees, play a little ball.
AHHA: Do you think that club music is taking over R&B and Hip-Hop?
Ty: Good music is what makes the majority of people move. Whoever has the masses moving is what’s popping; you can’t down them. If everyone’s feelin’ that sh*t, then that’s what good music is. The people who really love music, people like us, they go out and look for it. Other people just hear what they hear; they’re trained like clones.
AHHA: Tell us about the new album, Junior Radio…
Ty: “Raw and Bangin” is the answer. Ty & Kory’s new sh*t is incredible. We’ve got something for the masses, but it’s still the same vibe with the vocals. Some of the beats are a bit more poppy, but you’re still going to hear all the chopped up samples and Hip-Hop sh*t; just with the drums of today. We’ve done about 100 songs so far, and now we’re just trying to get a hot 12. We want Junior Radio to be like Dr. Dre’s 2001 or Usher’s Confessions, where every joint was crazy.
AHHA: Are there any artists that you will be bringing up with you?
Ty: Our production team, the Jack Sample Pros. That’s Chordz, B Mo Jack, Snowman, and myself, Fly Ty. That’s what it is.
AHHA: Will Junior Radio be similar to the style of the Raw & Bangin Vol. 1 mixtape?
Ty: We’re stepping it up to a different level, but still keeping it gangsta. We’ve got Snoop on the record, some crazy production from the Jack Sample Pros and plenty more coming. There’s going to be crazy club joints, real soulful live joints and worldly music.
Junior Radio is about everything that’s going on around the world. It’s for the people from the streets all over. I’m from South Central, Kory’s from Queens; it’s not just like we’re city boys, this is street sh*t. We’re recording everywhere from Los Angeles to London and Jamaica. We just want to get a feel for the streets everywhere and what’s happening in every city.
Souljah Boy Teaching Natalie Portman To Do The Souljah Boy
somebody should definately superman that hoe......please....for me.
Police Charged 16-Year Old Kid With Shooting 2 Police Officers In Philly
A 16-year-old boy was charged Wednesday in the shooting of two undercover narcotics officers in the Frankford section of Philadelphia, the city's fourth and fifth police shootings in less than three months, officials said.
The two, both plainclothes officers wearing badges, were wounded about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday while trying to serve an arrest warrant in the city's Frankford section.
One officer was shot in the leg and the other was wounded in the hip. Both were treated and released from hospital and were recovering at home as of Wednesday morning.
The names and faces of the undercover narcotics officers will not be released but one of the two officers shot spoke with NBC 10.
"You never think when you walk out the door that you might not come home or that something like this is gonna happen," the officer said. "It was like any other one we do, a knock and announce, and the next thing I knew it felt like a sledge hammer hit my leg."
full story on http://www.nbc10.com/news/14591248/detail.html?dl=mainclick
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Vans Syndicate W)Taps No Guts No Glory SK8 Hi
The latest Vans Syndicate x W)Taps No Guts No Glory SK8 Hi's has dropped. A black suede toebox is highlighted by detailed printed canvas panels which comes in three different colors including white, orange and green. This marks yet another collaborative effort between Vans and W)Taps which has been a popular release in the past. Available now at Supply in Australia.
Images from Hypebeast.com
Exactly Fresh....
Nas pulls a "Jada" at Jay Z show last night
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1574259/20071114/jay_z.jhtml
Hov then circled back to his current LP. "Can I play something off there real quick?" he asked before the intro for the song "Success" started.
"I got watches I ain't seen in months/ Apartment at the Trump I only slept in once," he rapped. "N---as said Hova was over, such dummies/ Even if I fell, I'll land on a bunch of money/ Y'all ain't got nothing for me."
Jay then signaled for Nas and started looking to his right for him to come out. But Nas came up behind him, holding a huge cigar and a bottle of champagne. It was a huge moment, but the giddiness of seeing the two New York giants together lasted only momentarily, because Nas could not remember the lines to his verse.
Hov did his best to cover him with ad-libs, but it wasn't quite the same impact as it would have been if Nas had remembered his chilling rhymes. God's Son did quickly recover on "Black Republican," another show-stopper.
*shakes head* unprofessional ass kneegrows...
Jay Z's American Gangster Sells 425,000 First Week
Jay-Z scores his 10th No. 1 album on The Billboard 200, as "American Gangster" (Def Jam) debuts on top this week after selling 425,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The rapper thus ties Elvis Presley in second place for the most No. 1 albums on the chart; only the Beatles have had more, with 19.
Since 1998, all eight of Jay-Z's solo studio albums have hit No. 1, in addition to his "Collision Course" project with Linkin Park and his "Unfinished Business" collaboration with R. Kelly.
Word.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
NEW JOINT - Pacific Division - Taste (snippet) prod. by DJ Khalil
From Left To Right - B Young, Likewise, and Mibbs
they say they love it.....cant wait for the full version.
F.A.T LP Dropping March 18th!!!!!!!
www.myspace.com/pacificdivisionmusic
TiRon @ The Knitting Factory w/ Special Guest Ayomari 10/24
TiRon & Tunji
The lighting was immaculate in there
Can you hear me now?
Sir Vein performing Denim Luggage
Exactly.
www.myspace.com/tiron
www.myspace.com/omarisan
www.myspace.com/inversehiphop
Jay Z Freestyle @ American Gangster Concert
nigga this shit right here.......if you havent seen it already. suite.
18 Year Old Kid Shot 20 Times By Police In Brooklyn Over A Hairbrush!
A young man was fatally shot last night in a hail of 20 bullets fired by five police officers who responded to his mother’s 911 call for help in a domestic dispute in Brooklyn, the authorities said.
The police said they believed that the man, Khiel Coppin, 18, had a gun. But when the gunfire stopped, it turned out that he had been holding a hairbrush.
Officers went into the building at 590 Gates Avenue, in Bedford-Stuyvesant, about 7 p.m. The police said they were responding to a 911 call from the mother reporting domestic abuse and asking for help to “deal with this,” and that on the call a man was overheard threatening to kill her and claiming “I have a gun.”
Mr. Coppin then climbed out a first-floor window and confronted more officers outside the building, and multiple shots were fired at him, bystanders said. Wounded, Mr. Coppin fell to the ground and was handcuffed, witnesses said. He was taken to Woodhull Medical and Mental Health Center, where he was pronounced dead, the police said.
It was unclear how many of the 20 shots hit Mr. Coppin, a law enforcement source said.
Mr. Coppin’s mother, whose name was not released, was among the people outside the building during the shooting. Earlier in the day, she had called a hospital psychiatric unit asking for urgent help in dealing with her son, the law enforcement official said. Psychiatric workers came, but Mr. Coppin was gone. After waiting two hours, the workers left, and later, Mr. Coppin returned.
Two bystanders who said they saw the shooting said that Mr. Coppin was not armed, but was carrying a hairbrush when he climbed out the window and that he dropped it when the firing began. The two witnesses also said they both heard one officer yelling for the shooting to stop.
According to the police, another witness described Mr. Coppin as concealing the hairbrush under his shirt, pointing it outward.
A restless crowd quickly gathered and grew to as many as 150, as some neighbors shouted protests against police brutality. “You need training — this is absurd!” one woman shouted out a window to the police. Another man pressed against a yellow crime-scene tape and said: “I’m not trying to start a riot. I’m just saying it’s not right.”
The site and surrounding blocks were cordoned off as dozens of police officers, detectives and community affairs officers arrived to investigate the shooting and control the crowd. Community leaders at the scene included City Councilman Albert Vann.
Witnesses and the police offered different details about how the shooting occurred.
Mr. Sanchez said that just before the shooting, he went outside and saw several officers there with guns drawn. Mr. Coppin approached the window, backed away, then returned and stood on the sill, Mr. Sanchez said. When an officer told him to get down, he jumped to the ground and started to go through a gate in the fence in front of the building, Mr. Sanchez said.
An officer told Mr. Coppin to put up his hands, and when he did he dropped the hairbrush and the shooting began, although one officer called out to stop the gunfire, Mr. Sanchez said.
Officers started chasing Mr. Sanchez and knocked him to the ground after, he said, he protested: “Why you got to shoot him like that, for nothing?”
A similar description of the shooting was given by Precious Blood, 16, who said she heard about 10 shots fired, most if not all by one officer. Another officer called out: “Stop, stop, stop shooting — he’s down,” she said, but the shooter kept firing, “like he was playing with a toy.”
The law enforcement official gave a different version of the encounter, saying that Mr. Coppin charged toward the officers and refused repeated orders to stop. The police said they were also exploring the possibility that Mr. Coppin was trying to prompt a shooting, a phenomenon known as “suicide by cop.”
Mr. Coppin’s mother was at the 79th Precinct station house last night and gave a statement to the police, they said.
The five officers who fired all passed Breathalyzer tests, the law enforcement officials said.
taken from new york times.
NEW JOINT BY MIGUEL - VIXEN (prod. by Fisticuffs)
pretty fly...
www.myspace.com/miguelsmyspacepage
www.myspace.com/fisticuffsmusicpage
Monday, November 12, 2007
LG Championships
Chris Haffey puttin extras on the launch.....
Brian Aragon backside royale up the rail....
Cut The Mothafuckin Check....
Then Kanye And Luda shut it down.....
1st) Chris Haffey $10,000
2nd) Jeerasak Tassorn $7500
3rd) Alex Broskow $5000
4th) Jeff Stockwell $4500ish
5th) Erik Bailey $3500
www.be-mag.com
LONDON///CONSERVING BANKSY…
Banksy’s revenge: City workers maintain his bombs…
Nary a week creeps by without some news regarding our favorite art outlaw turned high art demigod, BANKSY, but this week’s notice in the EVENING STANDARD that the London district of Islington has given Banksy’s street works official protection was trumped only by the revelation that Islington’s city workers were now being trained as art conservators (using taxpayers’ funds) so that they are able to touch up and otherwise mend Banksy’s street installations that get defaced by other taggers:
COUNCIL ADDS ITS OWN TOUCH TO A BANKSY
By Jack Lefley, Evening Standard
Works by maverick street artist Banksy are being restored by council workers to protect them from graffiti vandals. One piece in Islington has been repaired five times by workmen who paint over the offending “tags”. A worker was spotted retouching the artist’s “Tate Gallery” piece in Martineau Road, near Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.
Banksy’s work sells for six-figure sums to Hollywood stars such as Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. But some of his pieces that appear in public places without permission have been condemned as vandalism. Tower Hamlets council has threatened to remove any work by the artist that appears on its patch without permission.
But it seems that Islington makes a clear distinction between his creations and that of the graffiti vandals ” tagging” over his work. One onlooker thought the workmen were about to remove the piece in Islington on Monday afternoon and stopped to remonstrate with them. Vicky Bamforth, 40, of Hackney, said: “I was driving past and got out because I thought they were about to try to get rid of it. I asked them what they were doing and they were very cagey. But eventually they admitted that it kept getting vandalised and they were repairing it.”
She added: “A lot of people in the area really like Banksy’s work and it’s a bit worrying the council thinks anyone with a paintbrush is qualified to restore pieces worth thousands. “At what point does it stop being a Banksy and start being a collaboration with Islington council?”
Islington today defended its policy to clean up and repair the artist’s work. It insisted it was spending taxpayers’ money on the operation in response to residents’ demands. Deputy leader and executive member for environment, Lucy Watt, said: “We take a very hard line on graffiti and remove it within 24 hours when it is reported to us. However, residents have been telling us Banksy is in a class of his own, his art sells for thousands, and they don’t want us to remove the work. Because of the quality and renown of Banksy’s work in Islington many people want to see it preserved.”
A couple more strokes and “Banksy is shite” all but disappears…
The old man, nearly good as new. Banksy 10,000, world, naught…
Don’t even think about calling, your neighbours will kill and your children…
Jadakiss Chokes During American Gangster Concert
Jay-Z made an announcement that Jadakiss is the newest Roc Boy. Jadakiss then choked and couldn’t perform a song, he could only do his signature laugh, so Jay-Z went back to performing, “Roc Boys.”
*In chinese accent* Aww, so sad...
Best Week Ever - Dog The Bounty Hunter
this dude lost his mind....
is it me or is everybody crazy and somebody's gon get shot?
Angry Nintendo Nerd - TMNT Review
hahaha I dont know if you played Nintendo like I played Nintendo, and liked ninja turtles like i did (talkin about dancing to Vanilla Ice - Ninja Rap @ my schools talent show), but if you did....then you definately connect with the frustrations of this particular video game....meet The Angry Nintendo Nerd.
Swiff D vs. Nobody Famous (BEAT BATTLE)
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hahahah@dude smiling and nodding at the same time.
www.myspace.com/swiffvega