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Photo Kings was a crew in New York city the documented the last years of graffiti on the new york city subway system

Hip-Hop is dead, I’m turning this into a Graf blog.

Lemme stop. Via Mare 139’s blog over at 12oz Prophet.

I can’t even remember the last time I used the ‘Graf‘ category on this site, but I had to post this. I know the majority of rap fans nowadays could care less about anything related to grafitti, but this is the type of shit that floats my boat.

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DMX does not rock sandals with jeans or anything else for that matter.

The Little Homey confirms to AHH his November 7th release date. He might want to get a single popping, Jay is about to and he’s not even dropping an album *wink wink.*  

Fat Joe is signed to Fat Joe. Says the guy with a major label contract in his name.

I guess Pimp C is salty because more people bought ‘Free Pimp C’ t-shirts then they did copies of Pimpalation: "We all got grillz in our mouth, now they want grillz in they mouth on the east" Yeah, because it’s not like we didn’t do that 15 years ago.

Spike Lee will produce a post-Katrina drama for NBC. 

Banksy strikes again. This time he takes a Guantanamo detainee to Disneyland.  

Saddam channels the Kids in the Hall.

Rakim joined Marc Ecko and legendary grafitti artists T-Kid and Cope 2 at the Virgin Megastore in NY to sign copies of Ecko’s new game, Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. (More @ CL)

Saigon is joining the god at B.B. Kings on the 27th.

Papoose will be at S.O.B.’s on Tuesday night. I’ll probably try to go to this rather than the Brooklyn show on the 24th. (Props to Richard)

Read the transcript of Jay-Z’s recent chat session with fans over at Rocafella.com. See the entire MTV interview with Nas on Youtube.

Rocafella and G-Unit artists will team up for the "Keep Hope Alive" concert on March 3rd. 

Video of Ghostface dissing D4L at a recent show. Listening sessions have now been held for Fishscale and you can check out some reviews here and here. Download J-Love’s new Raekwon mixtape: Only Built for The Streets 2.

Sorry Fresh, but I didn’t hear anything you said after naked Beyonce pictures.  

I know the feeling. 

 
(Seen on Wooster Collective, one of the best graf/street art sites out there…via BoingBoing) 

• An article in this month’s issue of Rolling Stone takes another look at the Biggie murder and alleges an even deeper LAPD cover up, this time involving The Los Angeles Times. Read more here.
• Pimp C is soon to be free. That’s what’s up. -  If I wasn’t rappin baby, I would still be ridin Mercedes/Chromin shinin sippin daily, no rest ’til whitey pay me.
• It turns out Cuban is not going to G-Unit, but B.G. might be. Meanwhile, I continue not to care.
• In a bizzare case of life imitating art, a so called ‘Eminem impersonator’ has been charged with murdering a girl and stuffing her in a suitcase, just like Stan did in the video.
• Vince McMahon calls John Cena "My Nigga"?
• Jay Leno doesn’t want any part of 50’s Condoms. 
• Writers Convention: A Collaborative Study of Pigments with Sacha Jenkins. A little out of my price range, but I’m especially feeling (White) House Negro.
• New LL featuring Juelz Santana? I know, I didn’t see that coming either. It’s kinda hot though, with production by Just Blaze it’s hard to go wrong.
• Speaking of the Dips, check out their fearless leaders new chain. I understand it take 2 AAA’s and the globe spins around.
• Finally we have a video of the original God M.C., Rakim, speaking on Eminem and how he’s one of the nicest lyricists ever.

Infamy, a documentary about world famous graf writers Enem, Saber, Toomer, Claw, Earsnot, and Jase has been completed and is scheduled to be shown at the upcoming Refest in NY. As a retired graf addict I’m looking for this joint like Kennedy Junior. From the Infamy website:

Infamy is an intense journey into the lives, minds, and families of seven individuals who are obsessed with graffiti and follow that obsession into the most unexpected places. Cameras follow Los Angeles legend SABER by night as he dangles on the supports of a billboard hovering twenty stories up, and by day into the city’s Museum of Natural History, where he is featured in an exhibition about the L.A. River. New Yorkers EARSNOT and CLAW cover the City’s surfaces with their tags in the face of their graffiti minority status as openly gay and female, respectively, and then into their jobs as icons in the Downtown fashion scene. Philadelphia’s ENEM and Los Angeles’ TOOMER tour their intricate murals for murdered friends, as well as their rapidly styled tag signatures, which they frankly prefer. San Francisco’s JASE heads to paint freight trains that will take his art throughout North America, then to his day job in graffiti-specialized spray paint distribution. Finally, there’s JOE CONNOLLY “The Graffiti Guerrilla,” who makes the removal of Los Angeles graffiti his daily passion.

I can’t wear this shirt cuz I’m a champ, but you toys who used to be like "Yo throw me up" can probably rock with this.

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