Jonathan Mannion in Berlin

Jonathan Mannion - Living Proof from matthias maercks on Vimeo.

Fraggle, the UK Hip-Storian

There's hope

b-boys and b-girls in India, Uganda, Yemen, Cambodia and Colombia give us 
an inspiring tribute to the uplifting power of music and movement

Fresh Dressed

This documentary about HipHop fashion premiered at Sundance on Jan. 24th.
Sacha Jenkins chronicles the evolution of "fresh" style and rappers' transition 
from Armani suits to B-Boy chic on stage.

Heritage

Burgers & Hip Hop

On Saturday, 3. May 2014, 3pm the Love affair continues...
Back again for all you beef lovers: Burgers & Hip Hop #4

Starting with Food  and an early eve rave from 3pm.
1 euro before 10pm (no re-entry)
8 euros after 10pm for the after party

Burgers: Mr SUSAN, j.kinski, Maria Maria, YAK CHEF, Transformer, 
Zwei Dicke Bären and #3`s winners District Mot

Sunday Goodie – From Mambo to HipHop

Stüssy x YO! MTV Raps

Shirt Kings Book

I've Blogged ybout Dapper Dan and The Mighty Shirt Kings before. 
Now a book is finally realeasing soon! A definite must have for me 

Artist: Edwin PHADE Sacasa
Photography: Alain KET Mariduena
Language: Engelska
Pages: 144
Size: 21,5 x 28x 3 cm
Cover: Hard cover
Release date: 2013-04-15
ISBN: 978-91-85639-57-1

Jamaica, Queens, New York in the mid 1980s. Rappers and hip hop fans
came from all over the city to get their own customized T-shirt by The
Mighty Shirt Kings. The style traveled all over the world through record
covers and music videos, and the Shirt Kings designs soon became
synony- mous with Hip Hop and the culture of making something out of
 nothing. Shirt Kings – Pioneers of Hip Hop Fashion looks at the early
 days of urban fashion through the lens of the pioneering group of artists
known as the Shirt Kings. By adapting the graffiti skills from the trains
and spray cans to shirts and airbrush they created a new look for a new
generation.
Edwin PHADE Sacasa is a founding artist of the group and it is through
his archives that we are transported to the 1980s in NYC where the
fashion was loud, colorful, and filled with cartoon im- agery; but not just
any cartoon imagery for the cartoons where urbanized. Mickey Mouse
with a Fila suit, Casper the Friendly Ghost with gold teeth and Pink
Panther with gold chains. People from across the city made their way to
Jamaica, Queens to a small shopping mall known as the Coliseum where
you could easily bump into the biggest names in Hip Hop of the day.
From DJ Red Alert to LL Cool J to Big Daddy Kane to Mike Tyson
– they all had to have their Shirt Kings designs.
Shirt Kings – Pioneers of Hip Hop Fashion chronicles the art, the styles,
and the people who where loyal supporters of the Shirt Kings, and takes
us on a trip down memory lane to when cus- tomization and art reigned
supreme in New York City.

Sunday Goodie – Looking 4 Galt

SOO GOOD!!


LOOKIN4GALT von Gasface

Rage is back

After 'Angry Black White Boy' in 2005, Adam Mansbach returns 
with his latest book 'Rage is Back'. 
This time it's not about Rap but Graffiti.Gary wrote an excellent 
post on the subect of fictional graffiti novels, for anyone 
intersted in some details or oppinions
 

New York graffiti artist Blake Lethem aka KEO did some 
illustrations for the book and is also selling prints (limited to 
25 prints per letter) of his work.

 More pictures after the jump  

The Game they got

Cold Crush vs Fantastic 5

a classic take-out from Wildstyle, you can get the Harlem World battle here

Rest in Peace

A writer, a legend... You will be missed! Rest in peace P-Nut

Remember good music?

Planet Rock

If you haven't seen it yet....

HipHop in Berlin 1992

Ein Film von Claudia Rhein aus der Medienwerkstatt Eyeland

Lost Tapes

Berlin Writing Legende Odem redet über sein Buch, Abstraktion und Kunst!
Ein echtes Fundstück! Danke Jacky

R.I.P.

Dwight Arrington Myers, better known to hip-hop fans as Heavy D,
died at a Los Angeles hospital earlier this afternoon. He was only 44
Years old!

When Rap Ruled The World:

A White Boy MC’s Photo Album, 1986-1991

Ed. note: Inside, you'll find some of Peter Nash's (formerly Prime Minister
Pete Nice) personal memory box from his early days as the cane-wielding
MC of hip-hop group 3rd Bass. It's full of gaudy jewelry, tough-guy posing,
unfortunate fades, and candid shots of some of the most famous hip-hop
stars from the '90s before they were legends. Oh, and Gilbert Gottfried.
Enjoy!

Freestylin' with EPMD and DMC at Elroy Cohen's 1988 wedding in the
Dominican Republic. I got some more flix of PE wearing yarmulkes at the
ceremony, but I'm having trouble finding them

Russell Simmons on the hunt with a 3rd Bass "Steppin' to the AM" t-shirt
on at Jack the Rapper in Atlanta.

A classic from LA circa 1989 with the lil' fella, the late Eazy-E. I think Dre
is in the background thinking, "I gotta find me a white-boy MC to produce
in the future." And that's MF Doom in there too, before the mask.

From the PE/3rd Bass European Tour: Flav knocked on our hotel room
doors at like 7 a.m. in Glasgow, Scotland, and wanted me and Serch to
go feed some pigeons with him. Not kidding.
We ended up feeding pigeons, took 20 kids to Mickey D's for breakfast
(on Flav), and, finally, went to a magic store where Flav bought platform
shoes, fake shit, and a stockpile of fake blood capsules. He's got that
stuff in the bag. By the time we got to Germany the next day Flav put the
fake blood to use: he dropped to the floor in an airport, fake convulsions
and spat up mad blood. He stood up and pointed and laughed at me and
Serch saying "Yeah Boooooyee...its the fake blood from the magic
store, G!"


The Golden Age of Rap...How'd Hammer get in there?
Like Rap Masters said, "Living the American Dream."



On stage performing "Steppin to the AM" for "It's Showtime at the Apollo
Theatre" in 1989. We pretty much ripped it for the Apollo crowd, but I
remember Serch punched a hole in the wall backstage thinking we didn't
rip it enough.

Ticket from 3rd Bass at the Apollo Theatre August 31, 1989.

Ad for 3rd Bass Jungle Bros, and Tribe show at the Ritz in NYC March 2,
1990. I remember Africa was rocking some sort of amazing technicolor
dream coat and I think Kool Herc was in the house that night.
It was a "who's who" of Old School.

LL showed up to our album release party in LA and I guess he was upset
with the response to his "Walking With A Panther" album, so he proceeded
to jump on stage and unveiled some "Mama said Knock You Out" shit.
He pretty much stole the show and we took this flick afterwards.

With Gilbert Gottfried in the Def Jam offices on Broadway and Great
Jones. Gilbert showed up for the "Gas Face" video scenes at the office
in some clothes he probably had from the '70s. By the end of the video
shoot he was shouting out, "I gotta get me some up-and-coming porno
bitches."

I found this polaroid in a stack of stuff the other day. It was taken by
Charlie Ahearn, of Wild Style fame, for an Interview magazine article
in the winter of 1990.

With Professor Prince Paul, the super-producer of De La Soul on the set
of the "Gas Face" video in 1989. First time I met Paul was backstage at
the Latin Quarters for a Stetsasonic show. We all got there in an Aerostar
with Walter and our-then manager, Lumumba Carson.

Winter, '88: This is probably the earliest photo of me and Serch together
on the M-I-C at Hotel Amazon on Rivington Street. Def Jam's late-great
Dave Funkenklein took the photo which was recently given to me by
Chris LaSalle of Hellcat Records.

Spring, '85: A Pre-3rd Bass shot of the "Servin' Generalz": Lord Scotch
(the 1st white MC); Shameek aka Cool Papa Sha; and the Prime Minister
at K&I Jewelers in the Albee Square Mall on Fulton Street in Brooklyn.
You could see Bizmarkie, Kane or Clark Kent at K & I on the regular.
Scotch (aka. Kid Benneton) went to Music and Art with Serch, Dana Dane
and Slick Rick and introduced me to Serch at the Latin Quarters in '86.
His bro, Jonathan Lethem, wrote about him in his book, Fortress of
Solitude.

We got one of our breaks at the OMNI in Atlanta opening up for Big
Daddy Kane on the LL tour in '89. All the talk was that Kane and Slick
Rick had some beef and couldn't be in the same room together.
I remember they accidentally ended up in an elevator together.
I remember drinkin' 40oz's with King Sun on the bus after the show.

Honest Abe Lincoln would've been proud to see Too Short and 3rd "Base"
rock the Prairie Conv. Center in Springfield IL...

The Good Old Days..."Rap rules the 90s"...Word Up!

It wasn't too often the musician you sampled was down with the program.
But jazz great Grover Washington, Jr. (hand on my shoulder) was down
with us sampling his horn line from the song "Mr. Magic "on the Cactus
album's "Monte Hall" (AJ Daulerio's favorite).

Opening up for De la Soul at the Ritz NYC, 1989. Note the precise
and tight "3rd Bass" shape-up Serch is sporting, compliments of the
late-great DJ Subroc from KMD

From the archives: A Flyer with a piece by SAKE-One from the first
hip hop radio show at Columbia Univ: The Prime Minister Peter Nice
and DJ Clark Kent's "We Could Do This Show" 1985-6.


Via

August 11th, 1973

"Hip-Hop started when my father brought a PA system and didn't know how
to hook it up. I was messing around with the music and I started out by
buying a few records to play at my house. When I was doing that I saw a lot
of kids playing outside in the backyard. My sister asked me to give a party
one day. Actually, she wanted me to play at a party [1520 Segdwick Ave] and
I went out and got around twenty records that I felt was good enough and
we gave a party and charged about twenty five cents to come in and made
300 dollars."


"At the time I was into graffiti so there was a lot of curiosity was about who
I was. And so when they came there they saw who I was and what I did, I
fulfilled their expectations on me. Herc could talk and play good music and
people didn't mess around in his party. The ‘babes’ were there and he might
call your name on the mic. In those days ain't no body know about calling
your name on the mic or hearing records back to back..."
Kool Herc