Last week Nike held the first World Basketball Festival at Radio City Music Hall. Team USA played onstage, and so did a surprise performer - none other than Jay-Z himself. NYC Renaissance lady Vashtie snuck a camera in and put together a nice little recap for those of us who missed it. Play, watch, repeat.
New Roots album How I Got Over out now for 7.99 on Amazon! Feelin’ this track and vid “Dear God 2.0″ more than some of the others (even though evasive talent Blu is on “The Day”), but overall the album doesn’t disappoint. Who’s going to the Roots Jam tonight or the Prospect Park show on the 11th?
Second, just want to echo Fader’s statement about this new single from (Diddy), Ricky ROSS! and Nicki Minaj. Though Diddy doesn’t impress on the mic, props to the arrangement of this remix collaboration. Been missing Ross, whose flow is always braggadociously funny, and as for Minaj, the rainbow bright space-bot steez suits her theatrical rap-attacks perfectly. Enjoy!
Damn I was actually going to buy tickets for this joint! Though Doom was probably never planning on showing up, the thought of Mos getting onstage with a would-be idol of his . . . the nerd in me was looking forward to it. Since it’s been on my mind, I’ll do like my Height [...]
A couple months ago, SvG designs were featured in an LES pop-up boutique alongside the fashion-forward wares of Dee and Ricky. The pair of Staten Island twins (of triplets, they have a sister) dropped out of high school to start designing innovative toy-based accessories, suddenly the toast of the town when Marc Jacobs commissioned a [...]
Yeah, yeah everyone said that the Colts were gonna smash the Saints in tonight’s Superbowl game, but if you’ve ever been to New Orleans you know how much heart that city has - and the Saints are the pride and joy of the N.O. Final score was 31-17 suckas! Pour out a little for Peyton [...]
Doom just released a compilation of sorts - pretty much his hand-picked collection of unreleased material, with features including Ghostface, Sean Price, Vast Aire and Mastah Killah to name a few. You’ve heard a lot of the beats and some of the rhymes before but fuck it, I could listen to DOOM all day [...]
One more from the freshest boys out west. . . glad to see Blu and Exile are still creating new things together. Cant’ wait til Blu starts his tour with Ghostface in November, it’s going to be bananas!
Ghostface is back! Not only on Raekwon’s new banger sequel Only Built For Cuban Linx 2 (one of my top albums of the year dead ass), but also on his own solo and self-described “ghetto love” album.
Titled hilariously Ghostdini: Wizard of Poetry in Emerald City, the entire release is treaming for free now online, so [...]
For those who are nerd-core (MF) Doom fans like me, eat your heart out: the metal-faced villain made a classy appearance in The New Yorker last week. Ta-Nehisi Coates - my fave journalist, Atlantic blogger and hip-hop head - nails Doom’s crotchety (no’homo) comedian caricature, his absurdly genius rhymes and his desire to be the [...]