I’ve been busy and slouching on my blog duties, so here’s a few quick links. And a Def Jam Story.
Nice piece over at Complex about dead rap magazines...The image above is the one they used for ‘On The Go,’ one of the more feisty mags of the era, close to my heart because it was put on by a bunch of dudes I know (Espo, Max Glazer, Ari Foreman, etc). That ‘Cru’ issue took me back… I was working at Def Jam at the time and I was in charge of all the Cru graphics. I did that logo, I did the package for Tha Dirty 30, I did those signs for the cover photo shoot, and then… The record went nowhere. Despite being great, despite the guys being cool mutherfuckers, despite the best ingredients a street team could have - bold yellow/black/white graphics and an amazing graphic for face-painting - I mean, look at that kid just over Chad’s shoulder! But alas, you can’t force people to recognize good shit sometimes. The stars were aligned (or crossed, it seems) as even these Nike Air Humaras came out at the same time…
Violator’s David Lighty stopped me in the elevator to bug out on them and declare that he was going to make them the official Violator footwear during the promotion of the Cru’s album. Well, at least everyone looked good trying.
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I also got this link from my man Gerry V this week: The Tonetable app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. Sorta Dope! Use your iPhone as a Serato Scratch (or other programs, it appears) controller…
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Speaking of On The Go magazine, I live right around the corner from my man Ari, one of the guys behind the magazine, and the current torchbearer of the excellent On The Go marque, now a promotional agency. We cool out around SoHo sometimes, but he takes it to new levels here, lounging on the crosswalk-midpoint bench on Houston and Broadway! We sat for a while and it’s amazing how the human brain just tunes out redundancies like say, traffic noise. Not a bad place to chill and people spot.
Check out this video my friend Alex sent me the link to…
It’s like Busby Berkeley with iChat!
OK, have a good weekend, ya bums.
Posted by Bill McMullen on July 24, 2009 at 07:56 PM
