Tuesday's Tracks

This week’s Tuesday’s track is an absolute banger. It’s been huge in the club and is blowing up the radio airwaves at the moment.

Flashback Fridays

I have to firstly apologise for slipping over the past two weeks were i haven't dropped any tunes on my friday flashback! Fear not, this week i bring to you 3 bangers you'll all remember!

This was our introduction to a female that would be crowned the Queen of R&B.

These guys are back...They've sorted out their differences and have reunited with tour dates to be confirmed...

No introductions needed...

Skywalker & Wretchroboys Clothing

Scorcher and Wretch 32 drop an advert for their clothing lines.

I think the ad works well and was a good idea. The pair go back to back on a regular basis and never disappoint!

What's the verdict?

Tuesday's Tracks

I’ve been talking about the UK garage/grime/urban/black whatever you wanna call it scene with a few of my friends recently. And personally I’m really feeling what Tinchy Stryder is doing right now. It’s a good blend of hip-hop/hip-pop/grime and pop, imagine that... I didn’t even think that was possible. In any case Stryder Man has come a long way since ‘Tings in boots’ and to me seems to be carving out his own place in the UK musical landscape, which is a testament to the guy as many “urban” acts have tried and failed in attempting to do so. This particular track has been getting loads of radio play and really has the potential to do things in the commercial charts.

Tinchy Stryder Ft. N-Dubz - Number 1

It's all in the frame

For a hot minute aviator rims have been the way to go and definitely the accessory of summers gone by. But this summer will see the re-birth of the Wayfarer Ray-Ban frames. Since 1952 Ray-Ban’s Wayfarers have been consolidating their position as an essential piece of kit for the modern man, however in recent years they have fallen off the spectrum somewhat, but now are slowly but surely coming back. These frames have the ability to completely transform an outfit, and the girls like them too, but a particular type of girl, the ones that appreciate a bit of the trendy or indie look.

This summer you can stand out from the frame wearing crowd with your own customised pair. The limited-edition kit contains a pair of white Wayfarers and coloured pens and paints to scrawl your own design on the frames. And for extra affect, Ray-Ban will donate £10 from every kit sold in Selfridges to Oxfam


Ray-Ban Colourize, £120, at Selfridges

A Lesson From Dad

The immediate family and I spent Mothers Day with my Grandmother and other family members in North West London. On the way we were listening to the radio and having our customary driving debate; I drive too fast, mum too slow and my dad is a better driver than the Stig!

After i had enough of arguing with my dad about who was the better driver we got onto the topic of me not going to see Erykah Badu last year or Musiq Soulchild who was playing at the Indigo2 later that night. With everyone knowing that both Erykah and Musiq are my favourite artists by a long stretch my Dad didnt know what was stopping me from going to see them both. I explained that I couldn't go as my partner in crime was out of the country. He looked at me and smiled while rubbing my back. A sort of understanding/heartfelt pat on the back...

Literally 10 minutes later my Mums mobile rang then Musiq's latest single So Beautiful played on the radio. Dad had heard the first verse and turned the volume down. He whispered 'Son, have you got this song at home' I looked at him confused at why this big old man is whispering to me and said 'Yeah'! He smiled and said 'Thats good son'. I had no idea what the old man was up too!

I had the tune on my Blackberry and had planned to send it to my partner in crime but the bloody thing wouldn't send...pissed!

Got to my Nan's and had dinner with the rest of the fam which was really nice. Relaxed, caught lots of joke and reminisced on years gone by with my cousins.

Fast forward to driving home & pulling up to my house, the old man pulls me aside and tells me to put the tune on a CD and give it to him. Although confused at why the old man was so eager i went upstairs and did as he requested. Back downstairs i gave my Dad the CD. He popped it in the CD player then pulled Mum into the front room and pressed play, walked over to her with his swagger intact, pulled her by the hand and thanked her for being a wonderful mother to his kids.

I'm not gonna lie, I was sick in the mouth for a hot minute until i saw how after 36 years of marriage they were definitely still in love!

I made sure i sent the tune to my partner in crime. The 22nd March wasn't just a special day for Mothers in the UK...

Ciara (Feat. Justin Timberlake) - Love Sex Magic

What do you think?

Rihanna Vs. Chris Brown

Now really we shouldnt be laughting at this kindda topic but.... This ish made me bus up!

Happy Mothers Day

Happy mothers day ladies!

“XO Man” One to watch

If you’ve never heard of XO-Man, you need to get to know! The 6ft 10 phenomenon (yes he really is 6ft 10) from Mitcham, South London has been doing his thing slowly but surely for a hot minute now, and in December 08 was crowned winner of HUGO BOSS URBAN RULES, and through winning it will go on to record a single with full backing from SONY BMG while playing a series of intimate live gigs.

Personally I’ve known about XO Man for a while now, from his humble beginnings as a garage/grime MC, XO has now diversified his sound and is a real breath of fresh air incorporating all sorts of musical genres within his sound. His live shows aren’t your run of the mill MC spitting bars on a backing track dropped by a dj, NO... These performances have character, including a live band and usually some off the cuff banter.

With a quirky swagger, an excellent live show, and great comedic lyrical content, I’m definitely shouting out XO Man as one to look out for, furthermore I’d recommend you go see him, and while you’re there you might as well cop some neat goodies. You can see him next at WIRED 6th April, @Shoreditch house, London.



XO Man
Microwave/ Lady Dog’
Double A-Side Debut Singles out April 13th
Available As Digital Download Package on iTunes and all the rest

http://www.myspace.com/xomanmusic

Tuesday's Tracks

Chin Chin are a band from Brooklyn, they’re not signed to a major label as yet and to be perfectly honest I don’t think they’ll be off the back of this. However, I am really liking this one and the video to match.

Chin Chin - Go There With You

Ghetts x Lil Silva = Came In The Game

Ghetts jumps on one of my favourite funky house tunes produced by Lil Silva called Seasons.

K.I.G. Family and Gracious K have shown that having little content on a funky house tune doesn't necessarily mean that you wont create a funky house banger. When it comes to Ghetts, content is something you always expect & Ghetts never disappoints!

Back In The Day

When D Double E was undoubtably the best Mic Man!

Good Few Days For Us Gooners

It's been an encouraging week for us Arsenal Fans! The season so far has seen a young Arsenal team show indifferent form with key players out injured for long periods of time and some will say losing experienced players and replacing them with 'Kids'. This week has seen us make the 4th round of the FA Cup, Quater Finals of the Champions League with a great penalty shoot out win against Roma and now placed 4th in the Premiership due to a good 4-0 victory over Blackburn yesterday along with some help today from our fierce north london rivals Tottenham with a 2-1 victory over Aston Villa (Sascha, thank your boys for me mate).

Something else that definitely made me happy was Liverpool winning away at Manchester United 4-1!

This next week could also be good with Hull in the FA Cup on Tuesday and a struggling Newcastle on Saturday. We could end the week 3 points clear of Aston Villa in the league as they travel to an inform Liverpool side.

Come on Arsenal!

Flappers and Fun: Cellar Door Vaudeville at The Last Days of Decadence.

So to hit off my first contribution I thought I would introduce you to a bawdy night of revelry I recently frequented. With live music galore this was a night not to be missed and for those who did there will be a repeat performance in the not to distant future. click here

I am not a wholesale supporter of fancy dress, but the 20’s vaudeville theme did lend the occasion a degree of class. The girls were elegant….



And the boys put on a good show too…
The night commenced with an avant-garde burlesque show. To what degree one could describe this as sexy depends on your personal leanings… “can I shit in your mouth” is not an offer I would typically find hot, or readily accept. But as they say horses for courses…



Continuing the theme there was a shoe buff boy,



which I made sure i utilised services… I fell over in the process, not so hot!



And a flower girl for all those lucky enough to have a not so cheap admirer….



The night was marked by the high standard of the numerous bands that played. Highlights for me were ‘the peeps’ with their fresh, ebullient style….





Check out their myspace page for upcoming gigs.
Click here

LaCie USB Keys

LaCie have produced really cool USB flash drives in the form of keys! The flash drives are available in three different forms; itsaKey, iamaKey both with 4GB or 8GB versions and PassKey, which is a microSD USB Card Reader with the ability to be expanded to 16GB!

Available to buy here

The Warrant

Information on the Rihanna & Chris Brown Incident.

Click pictures to view larger images.

Disturbing stuff!

Opinions...

Khan V Barrera...

Im a big Amir Khan fan, who in all honesty expected an upset when he fought Breidis Prescott back in September. I think that was largely due to the way the heavy hitting, unknown columbian was written off from a very early stage. Although not shocked at the defeat, i was shocked at the way Prescott made Khan look like bambi on ice!

Just a little reminder...

3 months then passed when Khan convincingly stopping Oisin Fagen in the 2nd round in December. My old man then told me that Team Khan were targeting Marco Antonio Barrera as his next opponent. I couldn't believe that they would be so stupid to even consider it...

This Saturday Amir Khan does indeed go toe to toe with an aging Mr Berrera. For me, this is a huge gamble to go against a boxer that boasts 43 KO's from 63 wins. Berrera is not the fighter he once was so Khans rapid hand speed and movement will be the key to victory but something tells me he faces a tough task ahead.

With Khan being only 22, what kind of effect will a loss to an aging star have on him? Some have said that he'll need to look for a new hobby...a bit harsh id say!

Has Khan got a chance?

SOULTROPIC----------------->>>>>>PHOTOGRAPHER

Let me introduce you to my friend and photographer; Olivier Fonteau.

Fonteau goes by the artistic name of SOULTROPIC, and is based in the French West Indies, Martinique.

Below are a series of photographs he took documenting the general strike in Martinique. During this historical movement, everything comes to a halt for the duration of the strike; that has been ongoing for the past four weeks, and he thinks, may end today.

Well, when I saw these shots, I thought they were marvellous in my opinion. The action, the emotion, the portrait shots are strikingly beautiful, the colours.....

I just had to share them with you guys------------------>SEE SEE xxx

Nike iD Design Tournament

Nike iD have set a challenge to find the best shoe designs from the East & West Coast of America. Entrants had to travel to either the Mercer or Montalbán stores to register and submit their designs with 32 entrants going through to the elimination stages. All participants receive goodies dependent on when they are eliminated, receiving gifts from vouchers, $300 worth of Nike Sportswear Clothing to having shoes designed for themselves and 4 friends! The winner receives $1000 shopping spree and designed kicks.

The most popular designs are shown below.

Why on earth cant they do something like this in the UK?

THIS ARTIST...THAT AMAR STEWART---->>>

24 year old Artist Amar Stewart, hails from Leamington, in the West Midlands; round my way. After finding that The Midlands isnt exactly stimulation central, he packed up and left. He moved to London 5 years ago, and when I saw his work, I wished I had known him there, because we would have collaborated by now.....

Anyway, returning from the tangent. Stewart mainly came into his own, artistically, when he arrived in London Town, 'Surrounded by such creative people and heavily driven by the energy from the city', he began to gain inspiration that is the impetus behind the majority of his work.

Now, he started off with graffiti art, creating pieces influenced by people, which he then developed into larger scale, and also incorporated various different mediums, such as, chalk, pencil and acrylic paint.

Mr Stewart is a bloody hard worker too, he has such drive, enthusiasm and vivacity that only adds to the personality of his creations. Check out all these blogs he contributes and runs simultaneously whilst doing his day thing, and working on his collection for various exhibitions due to run through 2009/10---->

www.eastmeetswest84.blogspot.com

www.reignart.blogspot.com

http://www.anotherrubbishartblog.blogspot.com/

www.demostores.co.uk

www.myspace.com/thedemostore

www.myspace.com/reignsworld01


HE IS FAB! TAKEOVER! xxx

BLU ART...GO ON, STIMULATE THOSE EYEBALLS..................

So its 11.30pm and I am sitting cross legged on the floor, looking at the screen, in the same way I have done, all bloody day long. Been working on concepts, and a theme for my installation for an up and coming exhibition.

After a coffee, and numerous arty chats with my boy Amar Stewart, he sent me this to watch, and although I've seen something like this before, (possibly this actual one) I cant recall it, and therefore am overwhelmed to have to post it.

I love this...just going to forget the text, and just press publish. And then re-watch it. WATCH IT! IT IS GOOD...

Christian Bale & Johnny Depp in 'Public Enemies'

See what you think, this looks quite good to me!

Soulja Boy...Hmmm...

I don't know whether to love or hate this dude! Really, I don't!

He confuses me...
I've put a video below of Soulja Boy showing how he produces with the Fruity Loops production software.

This is what I like about Soulja Boy:
He's trying to do more than just be a novelty one-hit wonder by homing in on his other crafts...and I appreciate this even more since I'm currently saving for my own studio! Its also impressive that he actually bought the free demo version of Fruity Loops to make 'Crank Dat', his debut number one single, which probably made him truckloads of cash monee! So I recognise the hustle, and the fact that he invested his money into furthering himself...in fact, I commend him on that. I also quite like his Gucci trainers, they're a bit sick actually.

But here's what I don't like about Soulja Boy:
He has no humility! There's no need to show off all the money you have, keep that ish to yourself. Secondly, after listening to some of his beats, I realised that they're not very good. This in itself is a shame...I wish he was a wicked producer so I could let him off for the arrogance.

See what you think about the video - and the Gucci trainers!

Christina be a Hot Blonde Mess - The Conclusion

I told you I'd post any new information on the Christina Milian massacre to you guys...well here it is!

There was a lot of fuss regarding the hilarious blog that got released with Usher, Bryan Michael Cox, Jermaine Dupri and Johnta making fun of Christina's new blonde look and 'slutty' swagger (by the way, she's now signed to Radio Killa Records, The Dream's label...just like I predicted). Here's the response from The Dream regarding the issue during an interview with Rap Radar:

"Recently, your girlfriend Christina Milian has caught a lot of heat over the pictures she took at the Atlanta Hawks game".
Oh yeah, they hate her. [But] I love it. Cause evidently, we controlling the airwaves right now. People that can’t hate on me are going to hate on her.

"It seems much of criticism comes from the blonde dye job".
That sh*t look good to me. She is an artist. She changed her hair color cause she wanted to change it. I aint have sh*t to do with it. Why I look like walking around making someone change their hair color.

"Did you feel some sort of way about Johntá Austin, Jermaine Dupri, and Usher were clowning her"?
Hmm mmm, of course I did. I called all of them. First person I called was Johntá Austin.
Did you speak to Usher?He called me and told me he was sorry and or whatever. But she on Radio Killa. She feel a certain way about it, then I’m good on you. We can’t even work. And to clear this up, “Oh, she f*ckin’ for tracks” and this sh*t, I be like these muthaf*ckas must be stupid. It’s a recession ain’t nobody got to f*ck for tracks. We basically giving them away. There’s a clearance!

Anyhoo...I've found this story hilarious from start to finish...just goes to show how a bad makeover and slightly skanky attitude can get you a record deal!

Tuesday's Tracks

Jazmine Sullivan's fourth single. Directed by Syndrome, who also directed her last video “Lions, Tiger, & Bears”. “Dream Big” was produced by Missy Elliott and is Jazmine’s first single in the UK from her debut self-titled album so you should have heard it already. We’re loving what your doing Jazmin.

Jazmine Sullivan - Dream Big


I liked this one as soon as i heard it. The video is a bit outlandish though...
Calvin Harris - I'm Not Alone


I said to look out for this one last week, so I thought I’d bring you the remix nice and early.

Flashback Fridays

What you know about Debbie Harry???

Digi Cam Cleansing

Loads of pics on my camera that i forgot all about...

Fun times!