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!
Recently I discovered the Kinshasa “sapeurs”(La Societé des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes or SAPE), a group of fashion-devoted Congolese youth (the one pictured being particularly young) whose religious idols are the likes of Issey Miyake and Versace. They apparently risk their lives and any available funds to look fresh to death for a day. The photo below courtesy of COLORS magazine. I also met with the talented South African photographer Chris Saunders last night, who is in town shooting the Benetton MyTime campaign. Here’s a video of the casting while in Johannesburg last month; it features those dope Soweto designers and street-style gurus the SMARTEEZ!
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 [...]
My girl Leah Taylor owns New York style, at least according to Time Out this week . . . and she was generous enough to give a shoutout to Straw vs Gold! Read below for more on her epic fashion sense, and click here for the complete Time Out slideshow of her outfits . . [...]
This Saturday the insanely talented outfit Cubic Zirconia will be playing to celebrate their record release party (Josephine drops February 2) at the Music Hall of Williamsburg.
Fittingly, it will also be a full moon! CZ’s ravishing frontwoman is Tiombe Lockhart, whose preacher’s daughter-cum-dirty-popstar antics you will sorely regret missing.
This is the kind of dance party [...]
