This week’s dose takes Tim Brodhagen deep into Brooklyn for a day with hip hop’s living dead: The Flatbush Zombies. Hear how they took the music world by storm in less than two years, their plans for a Zombie Revolution and get an exclusive 16 bars from Erick Arc Elliott. Brooklyn!
Electric has once again teamed up with Trouble Andrew for a customized frame dubbed the “Trouble Detroit XL”. To christen the release of the shades the Electric crew linked up with Trouble on the Californian leg of the SLUMERICAN Tour to give you a backstage look at what goes down on the road. Enjoy.
Supra brought Mike Miller to NYC for the second part of their three city tour with the photographer behind many of hip hop’s most iconic photos. While there he linked with Tim Brodhagen to talk about why he’s never pursued fame for himself, his favorite images, and what it was like working with the late, great Tupac Shakur.
Trouble Andrew and Yelawolf, who have been touring all fall, are releasing a new song and video on November 30 for “Cheated” and gave Radcollector an exclusive first look at the artwork. The animation for the video was done by Drew Toonz who also did Trouble’s recent joint with Riff Raff. Should be a good one!
Mighty Healthy has linked up with The Roots’ Okay Player for a t-shirt collabo. “The Mighty Love” tee brings these two east cost institutions together for a little love and goes on sale exclusively through Mighty Healthy tomorrow Wednesday October 10. See the burgundy color way and a shot of ?uestlove rocking the tee after the jump.
Vans worked super closely with Metallica for a series of releases, the first of which has just dropped. The “Kill Em All” Half Cab Pro comes appropriately in all black suede with blood accents and coincides with the 30th anniversary of the epic album of the same name. Does that officially make “Seek & Destroy” an oldie? Whoah. Get them now at Atlas. More looks after the jump.
Lil Wayne and Mtn Dew opened the DeWeezy aka Trukstop skate park at the Lower 9th Ward Village Community Center this Wednesday with an opening ceremony that included appearances from the Birdman and Juvenile and an epic skate session with Paul Rodriguez, Theotis Beasley, Keelan Dadd, Justin Schulte, Cody Davis, Boo Johnson and Carlos Zarazua. The facility, which was created from recycled materials and features the largest solar powered array in the Gulf, is a bright spot in a neighborhood that still hasn’t fully recovered from Hurricane Katrina. In fact, there are numerous abandoned buildings on the same block as the park. Despite all the skepticism of Wayne’s involvement in skateboarding, it seems clear from this interview with Tim Brodhagen and the fact that he charged the park for almost two hours that he is committed from the heart. You be the judge.
There are a million ways to go on this one – is this corporate hucksterism masquerading as hip hop, is The Game trying to look like Lebron James, are Chris Brown and Drake ever going to fight, why is Weezy talking about guns when he’s surrounded by skaters? But whether you are a hater or not, you know P-Rod, Nyjah Huston, Nugget, David Loy, Jereme Rogers and the rest of the crew had a fuckin blast on set that day. Let em live!
Trouble Andrew is ripping through the south right now as part of Yelawolf’s Slumerican tour. For those lucky enough to catch him, YES produced these limited edition “Fly So High” tees inspired by the Trouble song of the same name. Tour dates and tickets are here. In other Trouble news, TA, recently linked with Mad Decent’s hype machine Riff Raff for an animated video for “Can’t Fit In.” Check it out below.
Airwalk and Already Famous have been fucking shit up all summer with their collabo concert and skate sesh series “We Out Here.” The latest featuring Juicy J was the crunkest yet as this video clearly demonstrates. Get out there.