J. Cole has recently announced that him and Wale will be hitting the road this September to support respectively their album “Born Sinner” and “The Gifted” which are in stores now.
Month: July 2013
New music : Big Sean – Fire
New music : A$AP Ferg – Hood Pope
Trap Lord is now available for Pre-Order and by doing so you can unlock “Hood Pope” from the forthcoming debut album. Hood Pop which is the latest single from the highly anticipated LP will be hitting the stores August 19th in the UK and August 20th elsewhere, Have a listen below and tell us what you think.
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New music : TheWeeknd – Belong To The World
Here is the excellent new music video from London-born rapper Wretch 32 featuring the very talented Jacob Banks on an inspired African instrumental and vocals. An inspiring video with A Man Woke up by a Beautiful young girl helping him to gets his life back on track. Wretch is a talented storyteller and with punch lines such as “Imagine that, never gave a shit, now I’m giving back,” or “I remember coming home to my bags, the door wasn’t on the latch, and mum I’ll always love you for that, only real women make a man” will touch many of his Fans that can relate to his music. Press play below for the music video by Wretch 32 featuring Jacobs Banks performing “Doing OK”
Discover the music video “Meurtre par strangulation (Murder by strangulation)” by French rapper Maitre Gims a.k.a Mugiwarano. The excellent track is taken from his first solo album “Subliminal” and this a Hit from the Lyrics to the beat Maître Gims send here a Gomu Gomu no Jet Gatling, Press play below
“COPE2 is one of the most notorious bombers in New York City and the five boroughs. I first stumbled upon his work in the early 90’s. From the Bronx to downtown to Brooklyn he had pieces everywhere. The two color, very stylish bubble letter throw ups reading COPE, were just everywhere. The guy was definitely one of the most prolific bombers I’ve ever seen, and I’ve spent a lot of time in New York City. Especially in the 90’s, COPE was everywhere. I found out later on that he had actually been out bombing since the early 80’s, starting very young. Some of the stuff I saw in the early 90’s had maybe been around three, five, eight, even ten years, who knows… but he just stayed at it. He was incredibly tenacious and had built up a huge amount of work around the city. Of course graffiti is ephemeral, but back then New York wasn’t cleaned as fast, so his stuff was accumulating. I didn’t meet him, I just knew him through his work, and I just thought for traditional graffiti this guy has one of the best styles. Of course, success in graffiti is measured by volume and he was one of the most , if not the most, up of anyone in New York City.
I first got in touch with COPE2 because he had painted on a skateboard that ended up in a show in our gallery. I said, “Wow, COPE2….that guy’s work is everywhere but I’ve never met him, I don’t even know anyone who knows him. Do you have his email?” The guy that organized the skateboard show had the contact info, so I emailed him. COPE was super cool and said he knew my work well. He said he would love to link up sometime when I was in New York, so yeah it somehow happened.. by modern technology. We ended up becoming friends and collaborating on a couple of walls. He took me up to the Bronx and we worked on a wall there on a production he’s maintained for many years. He also took me out to do some bombing and hit some freeway spots. I simultaneously was doing a wall down in Manhattan that I had permission for, a really high-profile wall and told COPE2 he should get up on either end of this wall too. We showed a little uptown/downtown love, and mutual appreciation. We liked the way the production in the Bronx came out so much that we decided on a poster collaboration. Martha Cooper, who is one of the all-time great graffiti photographers, shot the photo. So between me, COPE2, and Martha, it was a pretty epic collaboration. We talked about doing something with the Obey clothing line with COPE2. His work is great and he can pretty much do tags on top of anything, so we decided to let him do his thing on top of the OBEY icon, to also create a shirt of our Bronx collaboration. We have some great stuff coming out, and I’m always about putting the spotlight on people that I think have really put a lot of work in the culture and have earned the respect that they deserve. COPE2 is one of those people.
-Shepard Fairey”
OBEY x COPE2 Collaboration from OBEY CLOTHING on Vimeo.
Here is Pharrell Williams speaking on how he see and feel about one of the most successful street-wear Billionaire Boys Club and the new Bee Line, the creation of himself and Mark McNairy which is a bright, vibrant collection. Have a look at video Directed by Rollo Jackson and London Usuals suspect DJ’s Seb Chew and Leo Greenslade (YOYO).
Billionaire Boys Club EU launch of Spring Summer 14 at SEEK Berlin featuring interview with Pharrell Williams from a number of names* on Vimeo.