Pimpin ain't easy baby....

Although charismatic, eloquent and charming, Pimps are essentially manipulative sociopathic scumbags.

Daymmm, they be riding clean tho!!!

:)

Hughes Brothers, often discarded as mere Hip hop Film makers, are some of my favourites.

From Sleepy Hollow, (the shamefully underated) Dead Presidents, and this, a documentry about the pimps, ho's and the game!

It covers everything from the styles, getting started, the phycology involved and how the game works across the board.

A fascinating film.

We're 1

Its funny what can change in a year....

Myself & Merrick sat down and decided we were gonna start doing nights under M&M, Party N Bullshit was to be the first night with more coming under the M&M promotions name...



We didnt even write Party N Bullshit properly on the flyer in case we pissed off the club owner, Ive gotta laugh at that!

The blog to be totally honest wasnt even planned from the beginning, when we did the Reset afterparty last August with Trapstar & Tim N Barry we felt like we needed a site to stick on the flyer with theirs so i quickly set up a squarespace blog & its kind of just kept rolling from there, we moved it over to blogspot in November, I copped the Url in February & I wouldnt say the rest is history...but yeah you're reading this so we're doing suttum right I guess?

Over this past year, alot has changed within the team, its not longer Merrick with me on this (though i'm gonna be kidnapping him for the tees when its that time) I'm the bawse on my own now, the team's rebuilding (shout to Akin aka Crack Stevens for jumping on board!) we've got various nights in London popping off (Overproof, Stop Begging & Top Billin) that we do with a few friends (shouts to Tim & Barry, Cannon & Kish) & im in talks with a few peeps to morph us into a new collective site (more info on that as it happens).

Shouts to all the team, everyone who sends us stuff to blog, all the peeps who come to our events & check the blog...LOVE!

We're not doing a '1st year anniversary' party as whats the point? I dont even make a fuss over kids' 1st birthdays, there'll be plenty more innit!

The Return of Mr Pane..

Mikil Pane's new video for the title track off his EP, very slick in every sense.

Ratings!

GRIND x Mash Clothing

Our friends @ GRIND clothing & Mash have linked up for another Mash Sessions @ the Oxford St store!

Get down there this saturday & you can cop this GRIND 'Monster Mash' tee exclusive to the event!

Disney X Casio X Jam Home Made X SHIPS JET BLUE – Mickey Mouse G-Shock DW-5600

Kanye West - Power (artwork)

Love the single, love the artwork, Mr West may still yet have a fan in me....go cop Power now!

Chiddy Bang - Sooner or Later

I'm a fan of this video maybe I'm biased and because it's filmed in Nigeria and Chiddy Bang is Nigerian. But I say fuck it, it's a blog and I can post what I feel non?

This makes me feel thankful for real, I didn't expect Chiddy to come out on a semi-political tip and to be honest when M.I.A get's her on political pedestal it pisses me off, but this didn't irk me at all. I think its because it wasn't too preachy, but then again it could be because I'm Nigerian and the visuals and song focus on my beloved but troubled country.

I like this joint more than the first Chiddy Bang song I heard "Opposites of Adults," which I thought was mediocre at best, not saying this song is crack...but I am digging it.

Check out the Naija policeman at 2.31 , Chiddy asks 'bout his strap, but I don't think the officer has a clue what he's on about, I think he just knows that his gun works and it can kill a man.

In fact I'm not sure the brutha is even an officer he could just be a man, in a vest, with a gun.

"This is why I say I'm guilty of being privileged, because when I'm in the booth my cousins in the village."

Chiddy kicked knowledge with that line. word.

Lego for adults

So Lego makes its way back onto my Xmas list 20 odd years later!

This month's RWD mag

Not only is my mate Yasmin (she's dropped the DJ bit) on the cover! my dargs Jamie Howard & Professor Green are featured as well as the lovely Poppy Lafond + Trapstar & Trinotron in the fashion section!

Check it out here

Gassed off Glasto!

Im knacked & battered from the long weekend at Glasto, its taken me 3 days to even gather the strength to upload pics & blog...

Had the best weekend in a longtime (possibly one of the best ever!) Snoop & Stevie Wonder were amazing, but what made me happier was seeing UK music fuck up the place...

P Money held it down on the BBC introducing stage, saturday on the East Dance stage was like a takeover with Scorcher, Bashy, Donaeo, Roll Deep, Skepta, Tinie Tempa & of course Giggs all rocking the crowd!

YoYo's @ Block 9's London Underground was perhaps the highlight of my entire festival...all I can say is it was a mad teng...Redlight, Annie Mac, Marcus Nasty back to back with Seb Chew & L-Vis 1990 smashed it!

I was actually meant to DJ most nights @ The Mutate Britain Bar in The Unfair Ground, but only managed to do a set on the friday night (fail).

I also managed to catch Joy Orbison, Yasmin, Professor Green, Adam F, LCD Soundsystem, Chase & Status & a few others.

Gotta big up all of the Mutate Britain fam, Rosa & Delilah, Seb, Dom & all the Yoyo gang, Dj Jawa & Ross Allen, all of the djs & artists who repped down there, Henni, Iona, Blaise, Keleigh & of course my partners in crime Red & Alf!

Im resting my feet from all the walking so you shall not be seeing me out til the weekend!

Check out some more of my pics after the jump!