When the money goes...

Great joint by HOV and Fab.

Nappy Boy

Everyday is my day

Don't know if this post and the previous are correlated but I've been listening some serious amounts of black music lately too. Just to mention a few: Birdman, Weezy, T-pain, Fabolous, The-Dream, Young Jeezy, Jim Jones...

Fabolous latest effort Loso's Way is a musical interpretation of Carlito's Way starring Al Pacino. Kinda like Jay Z did with American Gangster. Lots of smooth bangers. Good record if you ask me. Record is out on Def Jam and has featurings by fellow BK warrior HOV, rnb gorilla The-Dream, The Birdman Jr aka Lil Wayne and many more.

No corner left behind (The Wire Spoiler Alert)

Being ill and all gave me the opportunity to catch up with The Wire. This ain't a police show or a crime show. It's just real life drama, no good or bad. Just people with their own motives and problems. I tend to get a bit carried away when I really get into a show. For instance I cheered for Carcetti, got sad when String and Avon fell apart, enjoyed Carver growing as both police and man, had some laughs with the Bunk or Herc, I even felt sorry for the late Bodie Broadus and I surely respected Frank Sobotka. Yeah, I came to love and hate the characters in The Wire like the where real-life peeps. What I'm trying to say is, you ain't gotta watch The Wire but live it.

K.R.E.A.M.

Kicks rule everything around me.

Two noteable kicks I recently copped where the J III True Blue and the blue OG air max 87.

To wrap it up check out this scoop I stole from hypebeast:

With many rumors swirling around Kanye West’s latest product design venture including a capsule for GAP, add this one to the list as sources state that Yeezy’s in line to put the colors to his own Air Jordan. Few details are available but stay tuned for more information as it becomes available.
“According to a pretty well placed source, Kanye is negotiating to design a limited edition pair of Nike Air Jordan’s. The insider claims that negotiations are still early, but that both sides are excited about working out a deal.” – mediatakeout.com

LIFE

Last weeks life has been quite good to me. Lots of quality hang-outs, shows (some better than others), sushi, The Wire, mussels, Secrets of the World and Air Jordan III True Blue.

While I'm sick let me give you an update about what's been up:

Last thing I mentioned during my ramblings was that Crank movie. Earlier that week I catched The Mongloïds in Mol. Decent show, good location, nice hang-out. Copped a Mongloids tee. The one with the J's.

Next up was the Cold World weekend. Like I mentioned earlier Wilkes-barre's hardcore outfit Cold World came over to play three shows in Germany. I missed out on the first in Hamburg, but managed to tag along for the following two. Second was in Essen. Don't like the location that much, but the atmosphere was good that day (although it seemed right-wing skins where starting some ruckus outside). One of the highlights that day was the unnanounced Justice set right before Cold World. Other noteable bands playing where True Colors, Rhythm To The Madness & Dirty Money. Here's a vid shot at that show.

Last of the three shows was in Rosswein. Verry cool venue. Hard-ass show. Too bad there wasn't any Coca-Cola in the wide surroundings. Saw RTTM, True Colors, Dirty Money & Cold World kill it for the second night in a row. Shit was loud. Good hangouts too. Hands down one of the best weekends ever. Special thanks to my friends in RTTM, True Colors and Cold World and all other friends during this weekend for making this possible.

In the weekends after I headed out to Rock Herck & Moshvalley Fest(Maasmechelen). Both shows had kinda the same vibe. Like this festival vibe I don't wholely digg, but hey hangouts where good so I ain't gonna complain.

Rock Herck is this free two-day festival in Herck-De-Stad. I only went down the second day of the fest. Drove out with my boy Kevin and his girl Sanne. Lots of bands playing that day. Checked out Shipwreck, Rise&Fall and Have Heart (still on tour). Ate some decent lasagna in the town center. Lots of familiar faces. A good day, but kinda weird setting. All in all a good day.


Moshvalley the week after was kinda the same. Two-day hardcore fest, again in a forrest. Kinda bummed being an urban m*therf*cker myself. Again also lots of band playing. Checked out Rise&Fall and True Colors. This was one of the last shows of the Rise&Fall/Have Heart/Shipwreck-tour. It also turned out I'm not the best singer in the world.

In between these two shows, I also managed to catch NYHC legends Murphy's Law and Cro-mags. Saw Cro-mags I while back in TRIX, Antwerp too. The crowd was like really weird, but both bands put on a good show. Caught in the mayhem during Murphy's Law, I managed to get in a safe zone during Cro-mags, being able to enjoy the show without worrying about getting beer spilled on me.

That's whats up for now. Gonna rest a bit, hope I'm fully recovered on friday for DYS, True Colors and Soul Control and HEAT afterwards.

Peace!