Shea Serrano is a Twitter friend. Well, not really. I follow him and he ignores my witty and sincere replies to his Tweets about his family life and job. Serrano is like a straight Mexican Mario Cantone on downers. Some of the things he says about his kids could be interpreted as child neglect but once child custody officials see his Bun B’s Rap Coloring And Activity Book, out today on Amazon, they might forgive him.
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Atlanta based artist, educator and mother Carla Aaron-Lopez‘ Long Live The Dirty South show opened last week after months of planning and a successful Indiegogo campaign. Curious about her practice, we asked our Twitter friend and the ATL native to document her thoughts leading up to her second solo show opening at City of Ink., a tattoo parlor. Buckle up!
Twitter was abuzz last night when it discovered new music by rap genius and Philly native Bahamadia. Titled “Dialed Up”, “The Three The Hard Way” spitter and Gang Starr Foundation affiliate, whom I first discovered and fell in love with in the 1990s after she appeared on the soundtrack of Girls Town (“Biggest Part Of Me”, 1996); Sweetback’s self titled debut, (“Au Natural”, 1996) and on Roni Size and Reprazent’s (“New Forms”, 1997), to list three, Bahamadia’s new song was made entirely on a mobile phone. Kollage, her debut album, with production by Guru and DJ Premier of Gang Starr, and BB Queen, its EP follow up, sealed my love of the artist and her music. “Dialed Up”‘ with its polished production and smooth, truthful lyrics, reinforces that love.
Seems like Harlem rapper ASAP Rocky lands a magazine cover every week. This time its Interview magazine, and he lets it be known that he’s not in this life for homophobia in hip-hop. Designer Alexander Wang conducted the revealing interview.
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“Pass Out” British rapper Tinie Tempah lands on the cover of British GQ this October, capping an incredible year of style and success.
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Pusha T is a great storyteller and character, and these images were made one night in Spring 2011 at the listening party for his Fear of God album, one of the best album of that year.
Rapper Azealia Banks’ Dazed & Confused cover is out after being banned by 7 countries.
Scientists at CERN have revealed they’ve found shadows and footprints of the elusive God particle, an element that adds mass to the matter that holds you, me, your Jordans’ and the rest of the universe together.
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British GQ caught up with Big Boi after a performance at Britton Academy recently and the ATL rapper and Crown Royal supporter dished on a variety of subjects including designing socks and detoxing from benzene. Below, find some of what they talked about.
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GZA, Neil deGrasse Tyson? Together? Team-ups are awesome so imagine how spectacular we felt after we heard that GZA and physicist and cool guy extraordinaire Neal deGrasse Tyson are working on an album about science. Read the rest of this entry »
RockSteady Reunion 1999 at Union Square’s Mark Ballroom was the place to be, and I was in there like swimwear for defunct Italian Hip–Hop magazine A/L. They’d hired me (a photographer who was living in the Bronx, trying to make ends meet) to document the annual reunion and I did so with cameras blazing, traveling around the city with legions of hip-hop fans from around the world. Read the rest of this entry »
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