Saturday October 1st 2011, we’re debuting an event that we are extremely excited about… we call it TRIBUTE. Every first Saturday of the month we will be dedicating the night to two special artists… playing music from all of their albums, songs from they’ve guest starred on, or tracks they’ve produced.

Aside from dedicating the night to our favorite artists, we will def be bringing along the illest DJ’s from all over to help you pay TRIBUTE all night!!! TRIBUTE is designed to be a party’s party, so don’t come and not expect to hit the dance floor…

Our first TRIBUTE is dedicated to Jay-Z and Kanye West.

Along with DJ BANDCAMP, DJ SINCEER, and DJ MAGNIFICENT we are bringing the homie VIC LLOYD from the Chicago Leaders crew to turn the night on it’s head.

If you don’t know VIC, he runs one of the best streetwear shop’s in the world as leading the nightlife scene in the Chi… def check the kid’s resume.

The homie Joe “Freshgoods” will be in the building holding down the hosting duties, with Dope.Boy.Magic gear on deck!!!

**TRIBUTE**
#WTT Edition

@ Main Event
835 Main Street

Saturday 10.1.11
10pm

Usually hate to rehash content, but this is so good. I really can’t wait for this project to drop.

The illest part is that Beyonce is just chillin, letting her man be great lol.

In case you missed the dopest hip hop show ever, check it out here. All I can say about this show is the homie has hits for days

…and he pretty much brings out all top artists in music; Pharrell, Ye, Beyonce, Rihanna, John Mayer, Mary, Diddy, Cudi, Swizz etc… He even brought out Memphis Bleek lmao… I guess they answered the call.

Went slightly hamm over the past 4/5 weeks. Don’t really know what came over me lol

eggplant foamposite

Came up on the eggplants in March for retail… i wear em like everyday lol

spizike

Ninja Turtle Spizike to be exact lol… impulse ebay grab because the 1/2 cents didnt get to Cincinnati till mad late SMH @Nike

 

air yeezy (more…)

The South Park crew didn’t have to do the homie like that lol…

Peep how they got Kanye’s crew on the dock rockin their outfits from the infamous fashion week photos, Taz’s tights and all LMFAO!!!

As most know, I’m a sneakerhead, not a fanatic, but my collection is certified; I’ve been having trouble these past few years finding current Nikes that I actually liked. I wasn’t alone in that feeling as many sneakerheads expressed the same frustration, as exhibited when the homie Chuck Rich wrote (on my blog www.atypicalsole.com) about his disdain towards Nike and their incessant need to release shitty hybrid Air Jordan’s, and not give the people real sneakers…

…That was 2008 though; so far in 2009 Nike is coming with the heat for the real sneakerheads. Taking things back to exclusivity instead of the mass produced BS that they keep pumping out for FootLocker and Finishline. I think it’s safe to say that Nike is back on their $hit.

Nike is back to catering to the boutiques (shout out to Corporate and Motive807 they rep the mid markets to def), dropping limited edition joints that you actually have to look for… limited to the point that you don’t have to worry about seeing some lame cat that don’t even know what they got on, wearing the same kicks as you. Also at $200 a pop in a recession you get to squeeze out the pretenders lol or at least the ones with their priorities straight, haha because you have to be crazy to pay that for some shoes… I’M CRAZY THOUGH, LMAO

Enough chatter… I present you the Eggplant Foamposite, the Nike Air ½ Cent, and the Air Yeezy

The Eggplant Foams dropped last month and got snapped up within hours (I’m salty I slept on em… If you can find a pari between $200 and $275 holla at me).

The Air ½ Cent which has been on a staggered drop, starting last week through this week (cant wait till they drop in the Nati, I’m all over em) have been making waves since pics of Wale wearing them hit the net. For those that don’t know these are a hybrid of all the dopest Penny (Anfernee Hardaway) sneakers Nike made back in the 90’s.

Last but not least, we have the Air Yeezy, the Grey joints are rumored to start dropping next week RUMOR (the other 2 dropping each subsequent month). The Yeezys have been burning up the net since last year when pics of Kanye West (these are his signature shoe if you didn’t know) wearing them during the GITD Tour. These will get the most press because of t he artist attached so if you want a pair I suggest you get in touch with your local boutique owner… Word on the street is the shop owners don’t even know which shops will get them, because they are Nike Quickstrike… IE Nike will call the shop and make an offer then ship within 48 hours so that lets you know how tough it’ll be to cop. Better make some friends lol.

These will def get bootlegged so be prepared LMAO

I’m super psyched; I haven’t been excited about a 3 month span of Nike releases since high school so things are def looking good. For all the people out there that really buy sneakers (not just talk about it) and have been doing so for years (not just when u graduated college) the good old days are back lol.

 

 

This is a pretty funny instant message exchange that I recently had lmao…

(side bar… not about the music, and i know the pics aint new so save that in your rebuttles)

[12:11] james: u seen all them pics of Kanye’s crew when they was over in Europe hittin up the shows?

[12:12] Angela: lookin extra fruity

[12:12] james: they lettin me down lol

[12:12] james: exactly!

[12:12] Angela: it wouldent surprise me if he was gay

[12:12] james: they goin overboard

[12:12] james: that dude taz is the worst

[12:13] Angela: anytime u let yo ni&&a go out like that, you just as responsible

[12:13] james: yup

[12:13] Angela: before they left the house, kanye was like, man we bout to kill em… and they did

[12:13] Angela: i’m dead

[12:13] james: haha

[12:14] james: i might have to make a post out of this convo lmao

[12:14] Angela: haha

I don’t care what all the people that are taking up for them are sayin, they look like gay clowns… They aint “on some grown man,” as I’ve been reading, they are being too extra, Karl Lagerfeld and Ralph Lauren dont dress like that, and they are the best designers on the planet, so save the creative/outside the box talk.

Kanye is  fresh, but his homies… And if you rollin with a team a questionable characters, what does that say about you???

If OB Dubs came to the crib lookin like Taz Arnold (dude in tights and pocohantas blanket), it’ll be smoke in the city HAHA

More BS after the jump… (more…)

I’d be lying if  I said I wasn’t feeling 808’s & HB… when I first heard Love Lockdown I couldn’t mess with it (I still can’t), but songs like Robocop (its alot of Robocop chicks out here, def be weary haha), Street Lights, Coldest Winter, Heartless, Anyway, Amazin, and Tell Everybody that you Know are very good songs in my opinion… Of course they way he is presenting the music (i.e. singing vs. rapping) is a different, the content is strong. Had a f#@ked up relationship and he decided to sing about it lol… to each his own I guess.

I actually got off on a tangent my real intention was to talk about the alternate album cover for 808’s. There is gonna be an iTunes only version of the cover art (see below) with every Hypebeast’s favorite artist; Kaws…

Perhaps its just me but isnt that pointless? Cover art is better appretiated in the physical form as opposed to just a simple digital image on your iPod/iPhone? Why are they acting like there is some sort of advantage in buying the album from iTunes and getting a different album cover when all you have to do is copy the images off of the 10 million postings of the artwork online and add it to the file, perhaps I’m missing something… I just hope they decide to make the art available with some sort of LE disc and I’ll cop that.

I included a couple joints after the jump for your listening pleasure lol.

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If you’ve been up on your kicks this past year I’m sure you’ve been hearing about the Air Yeezy’s… several pics have been floating around the net for the past few months, I just wanted to pull em into one post, because I think they’re all dope. Some better than others but I still like em all.

I haven’t bought every colorway in one particular sneaker since the AJ XI’s, but its looking like I’ll be buying every color of the Air Yeezy’s

YA DIGGGG.

-NUDY-

UPDATE!!!

Lupe Fiasco, N.E.R.D, and Kanye West Killed.

The show started promptly at 7:00 (a feat I’ve never witnessed before).

Lupe did a great job covering the fan favs, but he could’ve hit some of the pre-Food & Liquor joints like And He Gets the Girl all in all he tore sh!t up though. Homie even sang Jill Scott’s part from Daydreaming, lmao

I for real came to this show just to see N.E.R.D. and they didn’t dissapoint, ripping through Spazz, LapDance, She Wants to Move, and Anti-Matter among other classics… I do wish they would’ve played Sooner or Later, Maybe, Wonderful Place, or Charriots of Fire.

Now on to Kanye.

I wanted to see his show, but not as much as I wanted to see N.E.R.D. however after seening his show, I will say that it was the best perfomace that I’ve seen since the Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em’ tour when i was in second or third grade LMAO. Yeezy’s show was themed out and the stage… FORGETTABOUTIT.

It was retarded!!! When i used to read him blog about the stage and complain about how hard he worked on it and all that I would think he was trippin, but now I see.

Dude don’t sleep, I really believe that.

As far as the show, he hit all the classics and rocked out dolo on the stage…. did I mention the stage??? It looked like the desert but it reflected images and it was synced to a digital backdrop… man I can’t really explain it… just go see the damn show. (more…)