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Something like a Pimp
Something like a Pimp
How the pimp image has been commercialized & idealized.
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.Fox’s ACORN Pimp goes to jail
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Defining an Era or Error: Timbs
The utility boot that was originally designed for hiking and mountaineering, is probably more popular for its usage and wear in hip-hop culture. Since the mid 90′s, the Timberland boots have been a staple in hip-hop culture – from the young Mobb Deep due of Havoc & Prodigy walking Queens, NY in their Timbs in Shook Ones, to the current female video vixens that rock cute pink Timbs, Timberland boots help to define the hip-hop era. You can simply look at a Timb and know what year
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Nerban Holiday Gift Guide
Holiday gift guide for the urban nerds – the Nerbans
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Hipsters: Then and Now
most recent crop of MCs and DJs who flout conventional hip-hop fashions, eschewing baggy clothes and gold chains for tight jeans, big sunglasses, the occasional keffiyeh, and other trappings of the hipster lifestyle.”
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Back to School Fresh
Back to School Fresh
I must be having a mental writing block, or trying to fill the space between posts, or I must be busy – either or, that shouldn’t diminish the fly gear that is available out there for…
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The mean gangsta leans
Gangsta Leanin’
Whatever happened to the fine art of the ‘lean’? That gangsta lean that let mofo’s know that you are here; it also let them know that you are not to be messed with. It seems like in…
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Adidas Fly House Party
The full-length video of the Adidas House Party featuring everyone from Run DMC, Russell Simmons, Missy, David Beckham, Method Man, Redman, Kevin Garnett, Estelle, Young Jeezy, and of course classic and fresh Adidas shoes. This is the full-length commercial, not the 30-second chop up that you see on your regular TV channels. Only one thing, has anyone ever been to a fly house party like this? I recall all my house parties been barely full, and not having that much style, but I still had fun in the ‘bashment jams’ … my West Indian Caribbean people will not what I mean!
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Joe Budden says “F**k’ NY”
Joe Budden says “F**k’ NY”
Hometown love, where has it gone?Now, I get what Joe Budden is saying in this video – he has a qualm with cities not supporting homegrown talent. Apparently after a show that…
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From Ashy to Classy
Ashy to Classy
Jay-Z makes it into Vogue magazineThe August issue of Vogue magazine will feature black models and entertainers as the popular Italian magazine has came under fire in recent years for not representing black models…
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El ‘Nerbano’
El Nerbano
The Nerban (nerd + urban) … best of both worldsThe Nerban is the hybrid guy that has carefully meshed the two worlds of hip-hop/urban culture and nerd/geek isms. The
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VLot Case #120: "Leave my cologne alone, its a little too strong for you to be putting on"
“Leave my cologne alone, its a little too strong for you to be putting on”
From Lupe Fiasco ‘I Gotcha’ (2006)
a case study from www.vacantlot.org
Relates to ‘swagger jacking’. Swagger jacking can be described in adoring…
