Phillip Mlynar

Be honest, Kanye looks undeniably good as a cat. (From Kanye...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:16:52 -0400

Be honest, Kanye looks undeniably good as a cat. (From Kanye West and His Weird World of Cats.)

Cats! (Bushwick, Brooklyn.)

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:57:44 -0400

Cats! (Bushwick, Brooklyn.)

C.R.E.A.M.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:56:56 -0400

C.R.E.A.M.

"I remember the Wu-Tang Clan used to pay me with quarters!"

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:55:00 -0400

“I remember the Wu-Tang Clan used to pay me with quarters!””

- Interview: Yoram Vazan of The Firehouse

Wood grain. (Maspeth, Queens.)

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:53:49 -0400

Wood grain. (Maspeth, Queens.)

Freddie Gibbs On The CTE Aftermath

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:52:49 -0400

“I’d say probably about half way through it. I was going on tour with Young Jeezy and I was opening the tour up and I was with CTE but it was like I was doing all my shows for the tour by myself and then Jeezy would come out two hours later. I didn’t feel like I was a part of what’s going on. I don’t know whether it was ’cause maybe they’re from Atlanta or whatever but I wasn’t in their circle like that. It felt like I had my own thing going on and me and Jeezy would bump heads and we didn’t agree. So like I said, I decided to take things in my own hands ’cause I was doing it on my own with no support for them anyway. It was like why am I pushing someone else’s brand for free? I rocked with them at first out of love and respect, but that’s gone. Now I got to move on.”

“We, citizens of Kitty City, have come together to begin a...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:25:06 -0400

“We, citizens of Kitty City, have come together to begin a radical empathy experiment: to build a humane and just city for cats.”

No Malice on Hear Ye Him

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 13:40:00 -0400

“The Clipse has always given you truth; our music is genuine and it definitely comes from a real place. This is another one of the many facets of Clipse, if you wanna see the continuation of the saga and what it has lead up to in far as what No Malice is about, it’s an extension and you get to see the entire growth of Clipse.”

(More No Malice over at MTV Hive.)

All the best rappers play #Ruzzle. #kismet #mrmuthafuckinexquire

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 10:09:00 -0400

All the best rappers play #Ruzzle.
#kismet #mrmuthafuckinexquire

Dance to the Spanish guitar. #bushwick #rocmarci #guitar #akai

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 08:53:45 -0400

Dance to the Spanish guitar.
#bushwick #rocmarci #guitar #akai

"Skrillex gets in there and just starts making things happen, I get in there and start drinking."

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 16:25:26 -0400

““Skrillex gets in there and just starts making things happen, I get in there and start drinking.””

- Riff Raff’s Sessions With Skrillex Fueled by Barefoot Bubbly Champagne

#fivepointz #queens #lic #staycool

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 09:01:54 -0400

#fivepointz #queens #lic #staycool

#sillyrabbit #fivepointz #queens #lic

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:00:59 -0400

#sillyrabbit #fivepointz #queens #lic

Water towers. (Bushwick, Brooklyn.)

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 09:32:35 -0400

Water towers. (Bushwick, Brooklyn.)

Roc Marciano feat. Cormega, "Ruff Town"

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:28:18 -0400

5,000 boomin’ watts. (Greenpoint, Brooklyn.)

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:21:39 -0400

5,000 boomin’ watts. (Greenpoint, Brooklyn.)

From The Action Bronson Workout: A 9-Step Guide.

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:02:15 -0400

From The Action Bronson Workout: A 9-Step Guide.

In Search of Crooklyn Dodgers Sweaters

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:28:00 -0400

Bonus beats from the Crooklyn Dodgers oral history, wherein I ask who is still in possession of their original Crooklyn Dodgers sweater…

Buckshot: “You know what? I don’t know where that is at, ha ha! I don’t know where a lot of things I’ve had is at and that sweater is definitely one of them.”

Masta Ace: “Yes I do.”

Special Ed: “Yes, I still have it. No, you can’t have it. I think I donated it to a museum.”

Q-Tip: “Ha ha, no, I don’t. I wish. I’m sure I can find one on eBay for like a gazillion dollars.”

Fat Tony and Crowd-Surfing Cats

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:19:17 -0400

“I just played a show with Antwon a couple of months ago in a little town outside of Dallas and that was the craziest crowd I’ve played to in a while. Fist of all, a guy got a stray cat from off the street, brought the cat inside and started crowd-surfing the cat. Kids were passing the cat around. Then people were excited but also pissed, like it was animal cruelty. This girl grabbed the cat from him and took it outside to like rescue the cat. That was a cool audience ‘cause it was like spring break time and I could tell that the kids were in that spring break forever partying mode ‘cause on the last song one girl came up and started dancing on me, then another girl started dancing with Tom Cruz, then another five came up, then suddenly it was like 30 girls on stage. Our set ended so we just deejayed a load of club anthems and just partied.”

What did you think when you saw the cat crowd-surfing?
“I was busy, man! I was in the middle of a song, I couldn’t do shit! All I did was pet the cat and tried to let the cat know that it had love.”

What song were you performing while the cat crowd-surfed?
“I don’t even remember! It was a really really slow song, like one of my chill songs, so the cat was like bouncing along with it. I was trying to make sure the cat didn’t run off or anything. Then the next night we played this show in Houston and a kid brought a dog on stage. [Pauses] I don’t know what’s going on. Animals love us.”

(More non-cat Fat Tony talk over at Impose.)

Dev Hynes on Janet Jackson's janet. album

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:46:00 -0400

“I first heard that record from MTV. I remember being struck by the videos, especially around that time as MTV and video were kinda like in full force so the songs and the videos to me at that point are one and the same. My sister had the album the week of release and I guess I was like eight years old. I looked up to my sister so everything that she would listen to religiously, I would also listen to religiously. We’d sit and listen and dance and pretend to make up dance routines and things like that — the routines were definitely Jackson influenced! But that album reminds me of so much; there’s so many things around that time and it was like a soundtrack. I really associated it with the 1994 World Cup in the USA and my mum letting me stay up to watch some of the games. It was definitely the first Janet album that I can recall hearing and begin aware that it was happening at the time. Then it was later on that I got into the earlier records. It’s funny ’cause it’s almost my love for the album is almost detached from my Janet Jackson love in a weird way just because of how young I was when I first heard that music.”

(Check more janet. reminisces from Dev, Alice Russell, How To Dress Well, Scoop DeVille, Bilal, Raheem DeVaughn, plus Jesse Boykins III over at MTV Hive.)