High school South Korean kids in their school uniforms smoking cigarettes and rebelling against a conservative system. Public school in South Korea is comparable to military school in America, except they go six days a week. It’s not a game. For these kids, directly staring into that camera is their way of saying, “Fuck you.” Subtlety goes a long. South Korean photographer Park Sung Jin has been clicking for a minute. These photos (taken 2006-2009) are from his series Kid Nostalgia. …
Author: Tracy Jones
Schoolboy Q and Kendrick Lamar light up lines and fondle syllables on “Collard Greens,” the latest single off Q’s highly anticipated album Oxymoron. Produced by Top Dawg’s repeating collaborators THC, Gwen Bunn and mixed by Ali, the beat drifts towards “Sacrilegious” on Q’s previous album Habits & Contradictions. That’s not a bad thing. The progression is crazy. …
Here’s a story about record store owner Jeff Bubeck, an everyday cratedigger who bought a record collection out a storage unit. Assuming he’d find 99% junk and 1% salvageable junk, the last thing he thought was that he would find the record collection of the most influential hip-hop producers in the last 20 years. Producer Pat Mesiti-Miller talks to Jeff Bubeck and Jay Dilla’s mother, Maureen “Ma Dukes” Yancey. Brought to you by San Francisco’s Snap Judgment, an NPR radio …
Cinematographer Colin M. Day has been consistently putting out ill video spots on various artists around the world. Based in San Francisco, he’s always shooting something and has been doing his thing for minute. One of his latest installments is about Mexico City artist Saner. Saner was admittedly not great at graffiti, but his masked characters could cast mystic spells on the most zealous deniers of empowerment. In the video he takes you on a tour of Mexico City while …
Chester Watson hails from St. Louis. He’s an MC, producer, playwright and co-founder of Nu Age Syndicate. Young blood is 16 years old and he already has what sounds like a dope self-realized style, strictly unadulterated. The visual is for the title track off his latest and third mixtape, Phantom. Free download here. …
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