The talented rapper and late Pro Era member Capital STEEZ died a year ago, December 24, 2012. To commemorate the one year anniversary of his death, Pro Era released a video for his “47 Piiirates” joint featuring Joey Bada$$ and Dirty Sanchez. The track is off STEEZ’s first mixtape AmeriKKKan Korruption Reloaded. According to Fader, the video was put together in collaboration with Karmaloop TV and L-R-G. The video features “lost footage” and “nearly 20 musicians, graffiti artists, videographers and fans” worked to put it …
Month: December 2013
We mentioned “L’Avenir” opening at White Walls earlier this month. Here’s some of the work, along with opening night photos. Definitely an exhibit worth checking out. It’ll be open through January 4th. Images via Graffuturism …
Images from the book Chinese prints 1950-2006 in the Ashmolean Museum were recently posted on 50 Watts. The site featured a collection of these ill prints ranging from otherworldly to everyday life. According to the site, these were “hard-to-find” but East Art Online will make all images in the publication searchable and zoomable online. …
If you haven’t caught Prince Paul and his son DJ Pforreal’s web series, Paul vs. Paul, it’s a brilliant display of an old school head debating a young blood about everything under the sun: Facebook, prom, winter coats, drums, mixing, etc. In one video, they debate deodorant. While his son is pushing “Axe,” Paul pulls out every old black man’s brand of choice, “Old Spice.” There’s a winner declared at the end of each debate. Embedded in the humor are …
Run The Jewels gave their self-titled opus album out via free download, but they saved the super extra fresh joints (bonus tracks) for Europe. You too can have “Pew Pew Pew” for a sick penny, featuring the untouchable DMC champion several times over, to the point where he just got bored and quit competing, legendary cutting heads off by vinyl and former Invisibl Skratch Piklz member, Q-Bert. El-P double times it while Killer Mike spits in contrast over El’s ill beat. …
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