2010
Bun B – Play Cloths (Freestyle)
Bun B spits on the track “Popular Demand (Popeyes)” by Clipse, founders of one of our favorite brands – Play Cloths. Definitely a hype up for King of the Trill’s mixtape “No Mixtape” that is expected to drop soon.
Bun B – Play Cloths (Freestyle)
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Source: 2dopeboyz.com
2010
Kilowatts And Vanek
About five years ago, Keith Shogun sent me a track by the duo known as Kilowatts and Vanek titled “Lies.” The moment I began to listen to the track, I was struck with awe. Since then, it has been a needle lost in a 60GB haystack of music. The other night, as I was going through all of my music in search of some sort of nostalgic feeling, I came across this track again and decided to give it another listen. The feeling was refreshing and remembering how they collaborated was a spark of inspiration.
Kilowatts, or Jamie Watts is from Philadelphia, and Vanek, or Peter Van Ewijk is from Belgium. They met each over the internet through a music forum years ago. They shared files of their productions and eventually began recording a couple of tracks together… all over the internet! Finally, after many months, they met in person after a fan requested that they both play a couple of shows as a duo in Germany.
How incredibly neat is that?
Last night, I decided to do some extra research on the interweb to find out if they ever pursued their project, and low and behold, they have released two albums! The first one titled “Rawq” and the other “Focus And Flow.” It’s always exciting for me to find new music. Especially now, since I am starting to feel a little jaded with all of the new rock music sounding mediocre at best.
Kilowatts and Vanek – Lies
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2010
The Cleveland Show
You may have heard or seen the name Chip Tha Ripper. He is a good friend of Kid Cudi and has appeared on a few of Cudi’s tracks on his mixtapes and album and undoubtedly has talent that won’t go unnoticed. Now, he has his own featured mixtape titled “The Cleveland Show” presented by Mick Boogie and Terry Urban.
I’ve had this mixtape for a little over a month now, and is definitely my favorite mixtape of 2009, which says a lot considering Lil Wayne’s cohort Drake, 10Deep’s 2009 feature Donnis, and Oklahoma native Jabee also dropped great mixtapes in 2009 that I’ve enjoyed. The production is unparalleled and has a couple of tracks that use samples from Santogold and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. His lyrical style takes after the title, and now someone else is running the show out in Cleveland other than Lebron James.
Also gotta love the cover art with an illustration of Chip fitting Black/Pink Nike Air Yeezys and Louis Vuitton Millionaire sunglasses in a fashion that mocks the animation of ‘Family Guy’ and the actual ‘The Cleveland Show’.
Chip Tha Ripper – Movie
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Chip Tha Ripper – Whoa
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Chip Tha Ripper – Mansion
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2010
Diplo x Gucci Mane “Free Gucci”
If you’ve ever stepped foot into our store, then you may have noticed that we are big fans of hip-hop, trip-hop, electro, indie, and everything in between. Our playlist consists of everything from the late Notorious B.I.G, the sample-genius DJ Shadow, the sappy verses of Death Cab For Cutie, the tempo-shifting Bloc Party, to the up-and-coming Oklahoma native Jabee. We appreciate good music.
With that said, John Shogun shared this with me the other night knowing that we were both fans of the DJ / Producer Diplo. Diplo rounded up a few friends to produce and remix a few tracks from Gucci Mane’s “Cold War” series of mixtapes. The download is free and in high quality (320kbps), granted you give them a name and an email address, so why not give it a listen?
Gucci Mane – Dangers Not A Stranger (Diplo Remix)
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Source: maddecent.com
2009
FFB Series 2 Release Party Recap
For those of you that don’t know, your friendly neighborhood Fur Face Boy had a release party at the shop this past Saturday. It’s been awesome watching the FFB grow as he expands his brand around the WORLD! This guy puts in hard work in his craft, from meeting his fans and writing personal letters in each of his online orders…if you don’t believe me click [HERE]…oh yea his designs are ill too!
We had a great turn out, the FFB x Shogun Tees sold out in a matter of minutes! Shouts out to the Deadstock crew, the Unkommon Kolor guys, our homie’s Pete & Bev from Sugarlush Cupcakes, DJ Niro, Centre, and Heatseakers Fam for all coming out and supporting the shop and this brand called FUR FACE BOY!
Sugarlush hooked it up!
FFB Series 2
Party was popping!
A dog, a cat, and a mouse
The homies
Monse x Jillian
Morgan x Jalil
The line to cop the FFB x Shogun colab tee
DJ Niro
Pacquiao fans??
FFB x Shogun love
Pizza Party!
Till next time!
Read FFB’s recollection of events [HERE]
Check out Unkommon Kolor’s pictures of the event [HERE]
Check out Kiddrae254’s pictures of the event [HERE]
The new homie Duane Smith did a dope write up of the shop on his blog, check it out [HERE]
Friend of the shop, Jeremy is working on a video of the event…in the mean time peep Unkommon Kolor’s video:
2009
He’s the King, I’m the DJ
UNDRCRWN has teamed up with DJ Jazzy Jeff to release this special edition Michael Jackson x DJ Jazzy Jeff tee, the tee coincides with MJ’s movie “This Is It”, that comes out tomorrow October 28th. We were told only 10 stores across the country got this tee…tees are very limited so come in and cop yours before its gone!
He’s the King, I’m the DJ Tee
Along with the tee there is a free mixtape that Mick Boogie and Jazzy Jeff created. You can download it here.
2009
Fame Kills: Kanye West x Lady Gaga
Kanye posted a video on his blog announcing his upcoming tour “Fame Kills” with Lady Gaga. With the tour kicking off on November 10th in Phoenix, Dallas has been privileged to house the very last show of the tour on January 24th, 2010 at the American Airlines Center. Tickets are going on sale this Friday, September 25th.
I had the leisure of going to Kanye’s Glow in the Dark Tour last year at the Superpages Center, and let me tell you, I was nothing less than fascinated. Everything from the decor with the spaceship and screens, and his performances of the storyline and stage acts, were absolutely outstanding. Whether you think Kanye is an egotistical maniac or an obnoxious jerk, you cannot take away from him his vision, talent, and devotion for delivering a magnificent show and ability to leave his fans in awe.
Last year, we got to witness Kanye in somewhat of a layered futuristic outfit completed with the highly anticipated unreleased colorway of the Nike Air Yeezy. Any guesses to what Kanye might be putting together for his outfit on this tour?
Source: Kanye’s Blog
2009
Mick Boogie x Peter Bjorn & John Mixtape
Peter Bjorn & John – Re-Living Thing is a remix album curated by Mick Boogie. It’s not your usual mixtape with someone rapping over instrumentals. They actually took masters direct from the record label and reworked each track with different artists to create something new and unique. The sounds range from indie to uptempo and southern hip hop. I’d even put the production above some recently released albums, but that’s just me. Check it out below and read more about the project at MTV.
2009
Kixpo x Centre
Our friends from Centre posted this dope ass video from the Kixpo event that was held in July…Mad props to Alex Govenar for creating this video…peep the vid!
Kixpo 2009 from Alex Govenar on Vimeo.
2009