Artist: Jay Z Album: Magna Carta Holy Grail Released: July 4, 2013 The numbers are on the scoreboard. Ask Samsung. Even though Billboard cried foul, well fuck it. Money talks and you know Hova speaks that fluent. Whether he's managing ball players or just balling out in the Hamptons, you know to always expect ocean's 11 from the originator of the more...
Mixtape: Chipper Jones Vol 2 Artist: Joey Fatts Released: May 29, 2013 Joey Fatts, a Long Beach, CA native, finally released his highly anticipated new mixtape titled "Chipper Jones Vol 2" May 29, 2013. The wait was well worth it as Chipper Jones Vol 2 features other artists such as ASAP Rocky, Danny Brown, Freddie Gibbs and Vince Staples who all together along more...
SSUR jumps back on the scene with a splash for their latest Spring/Summer collection. The brainchild of Ruslan Karablin, SSUR is a street wear label that encompasses his artistic vision and subversive injustice. This season SSUR fuses New York-referencing prints with high-fashion parodies blended with classic Tiger And Frog camouflage print. Some of the standout more...
Single: Choppa Feat. A$AP Rocky & Danny Brown (prod. 808 Mafia) Artist: Joey Fatts Released: April 26, 2013 Long Beach local Joey Fatts teams up with east coast hip-hop artists A$AP Rocky and Danny Brown. The combination of these three unique styles come together on a new single called, “Choppa” produced by 808 Mafia dropped April 26th. It isn't more...
Last Friday I was in attendance for the debut split opening of New York Based Artist Daniel Arnold (When To Say Nothing) and Snorri Sturluson’s Laundromat. Sturluson's project is an in-depth character study on the topic of Laundromats. Each piece is a snapshot that documents multiple locations in different places in time exhibiting a second of daily life that more...
Single: Yay Yay Artist: ScHoolboy Q Released: March 22, 2013 Now that Kendrick showed, proved, and made way to the top of hip hop’s food chain, TDE keeps the momentum rolling as the game’s next powerful force out the crew, ScHoolboy Q releases the first single “Yay Yay”, off his upcoming major label debut OxyMoron. With a very successful year in more...
Ti$A. It got an actual eye for an i. That sounds so biblical right? A tooth for a tooth. That's the old testament right? "Fuck fly I am fa$hion." Riiight? Minus the man-dress, but still purple as Harlem World.. Ti$A celebrated Christmas in ways that only Floss Angeles could. The velvet ropes out front welcomed guests with the courtesy of the guest list and the more...
The Grand Star has gotta rep for being an establishment that pushes fresh hip hop. It plays host to the Beat Swap Meet a couple times a year, and every first Saturday of the month, Boombox crashes the gates in Chinatown at the Grand Star and lets the sound system thu-thump. Really though, it's a big thing, cuz Boombox has now been cracking for 6 years. Count 'em… 1, more...
