If Barack Obama doesn’t win the 2008 Presidential election, I’m putting the blame squarely where it belongs - on rappers.*
Seriously, if I need hear hip-hop artists talking about politics in rhyming couplets, I’ll break out It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.      

Normally I’d think that Puffy would reserve this type of buffoonery for the swill he’s […]

Well, if these aren’t the best, bootleg, most hilarious, ghetto fabulous shirts on the block….

Forget those so-called streetwear brands. Look no further than a table outside Rainbow Shops in a ‘hood near you for the biggest hit graphic of summer 2008. They are a particularly delightful sight on middle aged Mexican van drivers and corner […]

I’ve spent most of my life in New York City (Bronx, Brooklyn & Queens to be exact) and had a brief stint in LA. But Minneapolis, is where I spent my most formidable and (high school), and thus I consider the land of 10,000 lakes rather influential on my life.
Musically, Minneapolis benefited from being landlocked […]

Sometimes self promotion can’t be avoided.

Volume 3 Issue 2 is out very soon.
We’ve put our heart and soul into this one. The idea for the theme sprang up 18 months ago, and it really has been a journey to get it completed. We do it with no advertising, a super small staff and with the […]

So about the ‘Early 90’s NYC’ post I put up yesterday - I mentioned the Adidas Winterball and how little love the internet is giving it, and how the shoe was one of the factors in meeting my good friend Gerry V - it seems Gerry read the post and he did some digging in […]