I often imagine what 1994 on Lafayette Street in New York City must have been like: Teenagers in baggy jeans skate up the block, bobbing their heads to Biggie’s recently released Ready To Die album. Gimme the loot, gimme the loot! I’m a bad, bad boyis the anthem of the moment. The crew rolls up to #274 and hop off their scuffed decks in near unison. They enter a small store, which doubles as their new favorite hangout spot where a few friends work. They know they’re at the right place, the door marked with a simple red box carved out by an angular sans-serif font. A quick look around reveals the tees and hoodies here are more expensive than what they’re used to, but they’re obviously thicker and made better. That’s good — it means they’re better equipped to handle the rigors of a days-long session than the shit they’re used to skating in. Outside, sneakers hang over the lamppost across…
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Today we take a look at not 1 shoe but a collection of shoes that just DROPPED for the Spring/Summer season from California brand The Hundreds. The Hundreds is a personal favorite of mine in the clothing realm and their footwear is getting better and better with each season. The first DROP of their spring/summer collection features several well known lifestyle models such as the classic Johnson mid and lows, Riley low, and the Valenzuela low and high as well as two of their newer running shoe inspired models the Scully and Hoya. A couple of the standouts of the well known models for me are the Chambray Johnson mid and the Chambray Johnson low. Both shoes feature a chambray upper sitting atop an all white vulcanized midsole for a clean look. The mid version is a grey chambray and the low is a sweet baby blue. The shoes feature…
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Link Up Tv’s latest series ‘Making The Hits’ takes a look at how an artist gets down in the studio. In todays episode they sit down with Cashtastic where they speak on the first time he stepped in to the studio to record, working with his long time producer Steel Banglez, favourite studio session and more.
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