A Bathing Ape Winter 2008 Collection

I always liked the Bape sneakers (even if the Bapestas are pretty much a rip off of the Nike Air Force 1s) and the fullzip sweatshirts, but come on, this shit is getting out of control! Their winter collection looks like the bad part of grandpa's closet in the 70's, not to mention the astronomical price tags. Come on Nigo, you can do better than that.

Quit Hatin on Rik!

I really don't get it. People are attacking Rik Cordero's videos because he manages to make excellent videos on small budgets? What the fuck is goin on?...if it wasnt for Rik, wed be seeing the video to "We Takin Over" (not to say that its not a DOPE song...) again and again no matter who the rap artist was. Rik is raising the bar for what can be done creatively with low budgets and certain other people are just resistant to that change. He bring s grittiness and style that makes his videos more like short films than videos. Good shots are better than frivolous bullshit bells and whistles. The hip-hop community needs to understand and embrace the change of aesthetic that Rik is bringing. Here are a few of my favorites of Rik's videos.


I been bumpin to this song for a while now...hot like fire.






You know i had to put some DC love in there, shout out to the undisputed ambassador of rap for the capital, Wale!

Hatin Hard With MJ in NYC...

The title and the picture really say it all...

Curtis!

I just want to know WHY, after putting such great artists as Wale, Kid Cudi, Blu and B.o.B this month, would XXL decide to give this clown another cover. Can you even remember what 50's last album was called? Do you know what the upcoming is supposed to be called? What the hell happened to G_Unit? After Kanye destroyed Curtis in last year's sales showdown (with Yeezy pickin up a few Grammys along the way) i haven't heard anyyyything from him. The last time i bobbed my head to some 50 was listenin to "Hate It or Love it", and most of that was The Game's doing...

HATERS OF THE WEEK: THE D.M.C.A

Alright. Something extremely unfortunate happened today over at our other blog, Fresh Like Green Tea. Some of you may have seen the Kanye West post from yesterday, which included all the already leaked tracks off his upcoming album, as well as all his animated music videos (straight from YouTube). Today, all of the post was removed from the blog by Blogger, and i was notified via email that apparently i was violating other people's rights through some of the things on my post according the D.M.C.A (Digital Millennium Copyrights Act). I'm seriously shocked. I only posted songs that have already been leaked all over the internet and showed videos that were easily available on YouTube. On top of all this, I was encouraging my readers to go out on Nov. 24th and purchase Kanye West's new album. What the fuck is wrong with a world in which a lowly blogger with a small audience giving free promotion to an artist they like and admire by re-posting already leaked material easily available elsewhere? I am in the process of drafting a statement for both Attack the Wakk and Fresh Like Green Tea in which I ask anyone that has a problem with that is posted to email me, and if the claim is reasonable, i will remove the material. And just one more thing: FUCK the industry for this.

Soup alla Beef Vol. 2

So here's a pledge to the new Urban Secretary:

With the car industry crunching and shriveling up its the perfect time to expand and improve public transportation nationwide. I think this would be essential to not only provide a cheap, convenient and clean way of transportation, but also social development to the US as a nation as one.

We all know public transport IS cheap, because its cheap, IS convenient, because you avoid traffic and parking, IS clean because you are saving gas, congested highways, and wannabe roadkill, but what else can public transport do for us?

Personally I grew up in a German city with excellent public transport, as in most European cities. This is not because we are better over here or anything, but because we have, in Germany for example, 82 million people living on top of each other. Thats like having 10 New York Cities between NYC and VA Beach! So to get your drivers license in Germany cost you around a grand and gas is about 4 times as expensive as in the states. Quite the incentive to us public transport.

I myself recognized another benefit. Everyday as a kid I would wake up, get fly, put on my backpack with everything I needed for the day, and head on out. And I wouldn't be home till dinner. Its unbelievable the amount of different people I met along my way, and NO city spot or even "close by" city was to far away. Imagine three cities within 20 minutes of each other! VERY different cities at that... Now you can only imagine the network of people we built up and were exposed to.

You meet people from all walks of life. This is a good thing. It makes you grow up and learn about LIFE. True life. And this is exactly what America needs more of, for a better cultural understanding. Especially the land of Suburbia.

In a wrap: Quality Public Transport is the first step towards a healthy, strong, aware and open society, in which people truly get to know their neighbor and hopefully eventually become not only their brothers keeper, but their neighbors keeper too.

So get out on that bike, hop on the metro, cruise to work and observe the daily grind wake up. Get on that pulse of the city and live as one.

Peace and be safe.

Where Da Gold At?!

After laughing so hard for 10 minutes that I nearly cracked a rib, i began to wonder a few things about this clip. Is it real? I see the NBC logos on the mics, but the amateur sketch (which was pretty much the funnies thing in there)? If this is real, then I am truly in disbelief of the ignorance that exists i this country. And also, one might think that the reporters chose the most ignorant people to interview, which in my view, is completely unprofessional. If this is fake, all I can say is that it's amazing. I hope it's a hoax...