This is a youth organization that gives young bloods a creative outlet. They started in Oakland, California in 2005 and spread from there; finally getting traction. Facebook …
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This October the Tokyo International Film Festival will be poppin’ in Roppongi Hills. If the films aren’t in English, there should be English subtitles and vice versa. Geeked! via TIFF …
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. …
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 …
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