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The Foreign Exchange feat. Muhsinah - "House Of Cards"

2009-08-26T01:23:00.001-07:00

Che Grand & Fresh Daily Album Release

2009-08-26T01:14:00.000-07:00

captured by Richard Louissaint

2009-08-20T14:44:00.000-07:00

see you next week

Walking Under Jacob's Ladder

2009-08-20T14:40:00.000-07:00

(c)Khal

BLACKsummer'snight

2009-08-11T12:00:00.000-07:00

click the pic to download

While putting the finishing touches on Summer Movie Season I downloaded Melo-X’s Maxwell remix project but only listened to the first two songs before I went out into the night to see Melo & Diz Gibran at SOB’s. While there I told Melo I was planning on rocking to Higher and then went and had a night that didn’t land me home until late the next afternoon. When I sat to write to Higher I listened to the whole tape and decided to rhyme on the entire project bout that one night while I was still experiencing it. Here it is.

RILLIS LIKE BRUCE WILLIS!

2009-08-03T10:33:00.001-07:00

AKIRA - produced by me

2009-07-15T14:31:00.000-07:00

Besouro

2009-07-14T02:49:00.001-07:00

Can't wait to see this

Donny Goines feat Che Grand & Izza Kizza - She Likes

2009-07-12T03:15:00.000-07:00

one of my favorite joints from Donny Goines' The Breakfast Clup LP that's available for free download here

Elucid - Automatic writing

2009-07-02T17:19:00.000-07:00

Message from Elucid.

“If I learned one thing from the ‘Automatic Writing’ video experience it would be that there are only two ingredients necessary to accomplish any goal; vision and determination. Somehow the universe throws you in the path of whatever else required for the rest of your journey. This project was a true labor of love and testament to our resourcefulness. What started as late night random idea tossing via instant message (oracles, drapetomania, solar eclipses?!?) quickly morphed into a 4 page video treatment. Shot intermittently during the early months of 2009, without a penny’s investment, Boombaye and I trooped through the streets and subways of New York City in true hip hop/guerrilla style shooting illegally on lo-fi equipment without a proper permit. Five months and a number of sleepless nights later, I’m ecstatic to present this piece to the world. Automatic Writing’s message of self reliance and empowerment resounds even more so with the accompanying imagery.

‘Close your eyes, it feels different here/ Sign of the times, almost in the clear/
I see spaceships on Flatbush, calling me back home/ Resetting the clock to begin again’

Cuing inspiration from my personal musical trinity of Sun Ra, George Clinton, and Afrika Bambaataa, ‘Automatic Writing’ serves as a statement to the building of a new world. A future world. A better world. The idea of midnight trains, chariots, and even spaceships carrying oppressed people away from their suffering are common themes in American Black music. As a people robbed of their past, now living in the present as aliens in a foreign land that constantly seeks to disparage their identity, we have no choice but to embrace the future and the promise it brings.”

thanks mike

2009-06-26T11:07:00.001-07:00

Ilys - Almighty PT.1

2009-06-15T18:54:00.000-07:00

my dogs are Red Giants like Clifford

2009-06-13T08:40:00.001-07:00

New Me - Enter the Dragon produced by Von Pea

2009-06-12T19:12:00.000-07:00

Von is Killing these beats. Funny thing is I put the Busta Rhymes (ROAW RAOW!) part in at the last second but didn't know how to lower or remove the Scenario beat and I couldn't find an acapella for it. I planned on removing it this morning once I got it to von (it was 4am) but to save time I used it to sync the video. after it was done I noticed that it actually fit. So yea, what seems like sound effects to Bruce Lee whippin ass in the hook is actually just the Scenario beat. Gotta love it.

SO.DAMN.DOWN.YES.SO.DAMN.DOWN.

2009-06-05T12:22:00.000-07:00

first vide from the fam's new album

New Me - Produced by Von Pea

2009-06-01T15:12:00.000-07:00

New L.E.G.A.C.Y. mixtape

2009-06-01T08:57:00.000-07:00

L.E.G.A.C.Y drops this mixtape as a prelude to his album “Suicide Music” dropping JUNE 16th. It's heat rocks all the way through it and I'm featured on it so you know it's the truth.

Click here to download: L.E.G.A.C.Y – Suicide Watch Mixtape (FL Edition) (mixed by DJ Maniac Magee)

My Mayor Is A Billionaire - Elucid

2009-06-01T02:03:00.000-07:00

Elucid is the most avant-garde and therefore most slept on member of the lessondary crew.
this is off his new project Sub Bass Diet, coming soon

My Mayor Is A Billionaire - Elucid

Artist Profile with Zephyr on Walrus TV

2009-05-25T14:59:00.000-07:00

jacked from hypebeast

New Me Produced By Von Pea!

2009-05-19T10:07:00.000-07:00

The latest of the Summer Movie Season

I've Moved to Brooklynati

2009-05-12T12:18:00.001-07:00

Today my brothers in arms Tanya Morgan released their 2nd album and it's a straight banger. My crew gets busy!

click here to buy it

Jay Speaks

2009-05-08T09:52:00.000-07:00

you listen

new me! - The Warriors

2009-05-06T09:55:00.000-07:00

Spec Boogie - Warriors from spec boogie on Vimeo.

The first (or third if you count the superfly and bed stuy videos from last year) installment of my upcoming Summer Movie Season mixtape, where I rap over the scores to my favorite movies. I'll be releasing a new video mashup each week until july when I'll make the whole project available for download. enjoy!

Walking Under Ladders - Che Grand feat Elucid and me

2009-04-24T11:27:00.000-07:00

Walking Under Ladders ft Elucid and Spec Boogie (prod by Illmind) (1st Mix) MP3 - Che Grand

Che Grand - Girl's Talk

2009-04-16T18:04:00.000-07:00

Featuring Darren from Sankofa
produced by Aeon

WE! GETS! BUSAAAAAAAY!

2009-04-13T18:48:00.001-07:00

Che Grand's 2nd Annual 99 cent jammy from Boombaye' on Vimeo.

Bill Withers

2009-03-30T15:50:00.000-07:00

Bill Withers is one of my all time favorite songwriters and a huge influence on my music. Apparently he's been working on new music and is the subject of an upcoming documentary. awesome

Slooooow

2009-03-30T13:17:00.000-07:00

vote for the homies on mtvu and add them to rotation

can't wait!

2009-03-26T04:32:00.000-07:00

Sweet Cheeba!

2009-03-23T14:58:00.000-07:00

Sweet Cheeba X Spec Boogie @ Sole Food from 5846productions on Vimeo.

Sweet Cheeba x Lessondary @ Sole Food from 5846productions on Vimeo.

www.sweetcheeba.com

You know how I know god is real?

2009-03-18T23:36:00.001-07:00

because someone somewhere got paid to make this

Lessondary show up drunk

2009-03-16T12:23:00.001-07:00

then we get drunk

JERM!

2009-03-16T12:21:00.001-07:00

click the image to check out new music by the lessondary's own

grizzy!

2009-03-13T10:49:00.001-07:00

Laura's Song

2009-03-12T13:56:00.000-07:00

Patrick?

2009-03-12T11:13:00.000-07:00

this my shit right here

2009-03-11T20:54:00.001-07:00

ifeel - Blu & Jack Davey

niggas be sleepin on shorty pen game.

photo by mel cole

and obviously weeeeeeeelllllllll

2009-02-19T07:39:00.001-08:00

Jay & Che

2009-01-21T19:19:00.000-08:00

Donuts Are Forever 3

2009-01-21T12:02:00.000-08:00

on Feb 7th, I'm gonna be here

doing this

holla at me

Lomo Gallery Opening Jan 27th

2009-01-21T10:16:00.001-08:00

On January 27th, 2009 The Lomographic Society is opening a Lomography Gallery Store in New York City. The location will feature the biggest and most exciting international destination for all your Lomographic needs. The new location will also serve as the New York Lomography Embassy, as well as destination point for weekly workshops about cameras, analog photographic techniques, guest speakers, and neighborhood LomoJourneys where guests can check out loaner cameras to experience the fun of Lomography first hand. Aside from the retail front, the Lomography Gallery Store will serve as a gallery and meeting point featuring events, parties, and exhibitions, including a stop by the Diana World Tour in November 2009 where hundreds of classic Diana cameras from the 60s & 70s will be on display in the USA for the first time ever.

Lomography Gallery Store
41 W. 8th Street
Manhattan, New York 10003

Yes Yes Yes

2009-01-21T08:04:00.001-08:00

The last word is the Hebrew word for “Yes,” and is read “Ken.” This ad is a play on the phonetics of the 3 languages word for Yes and if you read them aloud the would read “Yes We Ken.”

Advertising Agency: Grey, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Executive Creative Director: Yonatan Stirin
Creative Director: Moti Rubinstein
Copywriter: Uri Shoham
Art Director: Karin Gross
Account Manager: Dani Brande
Account Supervisor: Noa Heinemann
Account Executive: Mor Gluska

Swiped from ibelieveinadv

Jay Smooth speaks the truth

2009-01-20T11:15:00.001-08:00

always

Next Gen Polaroid

2009-01-16T09:19:00.000-08:00

The Polaroid Pogo is a full-featured digital camera that polaroid is hoping will save it's ass and it probably will. The 3.0" bright color LCD screen lets you preview the image before you print and the camera is SD compatible for additional internal memory for saving photos and downloading them later. With red-eye removal, anti-shake image stabilization, face tracking, and smile and blink detection.a

Lessondary 101: Study the Greats

2009-01-13T07:50:00.000-08:00

Jeff Staple is one of my favorite people, he pretty much started the retro sneaker craze, the concept of the urban brand collaboration and my rap career. He doesn't follow trends, he leads them. That's why he'll be around forever.

Aeon Got Beats!

2009-01-09T23:49:00.000-08:00

check the Flyers Inspired logo I laced for the homie Aeon out of Philly

Lessondary 101: study the greats

2009-01-07T20:31:00.000-08:00

Apparently there are parts of the world where DJ Clark Kent is more known as an Air Force 1 guru than a classic hip hop producer, while most heads where I'm from don't even know that the man behind their favorite rapper's favorite song has a mean kick game. Read up on both sides of one of Brooklyn's favorite sons in this extensive interview at Inquiringmind

I'm not a BLAWGUUH! (c) jim jones

2009-01-07T16:16:00.000-08:00

but seeing as blogging could fall under the wide umbrella of my new years resolution to work harder. I guess I can pay more attention to my little corner of the innernets. so yeah I think I'll redesign this peice as weel. I'm actually working on a whole campaign design for my 09 projects but I won't go too much into those until they are closer to completion.

I forgot this was here

2008-07-01T10:36:00.000-07:00

maybe I should blog it up

R.I.P. Rasheed

2008-01-24T14:55:00.000-08:00

one of the funniest comedians outta NYC. His material was SO brooklyn based, there's no way not to laugh at dude if you know NY, he reminds me of every nigga I know from out the hood. He passed away of a heart attack on November 27, 2007, but I'm just found out. He never reached the full potential of his talent and he will be missed.

Ramellzee, Toxic C1, and Basquiat @ the Rhythm Lounge 1983

2008-01-24T14:25:00.001-08:00

Word to Zamunda

2008-01-22T15:44:00.000-08:00

Future Sole

2008-01-11T13:53:00.001-08:00

the folks at Nike have decided to hold a sneaker design competition for High School Students (14-19 yo). I think there are 10 or so 1st prizes which is a lot for any competition and the prizes themselves are amazing. Not only could they win over 10g's worth of merch but they also win CONTINUAL MENTORING from Tinker Hatfield and other top Nike designers. that's like winning a songwriting contest and getting Stevie Wonder & Lalo Schifrin's advice for the rest of your career. Man I wish they had something like this back when I was in H.S. all I drew back then was Kicks, my own name and cartoon versions of myself.

Corpse Wheeled to Check-Cashing Store Leads to 2 Arrests

2008-01-11T08:37:00.001-08:00

From the NYTimes

By BRUCE LAMBERT and CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: January 9, 2008

Even for the once-notorious Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood, it may have been a first: Two men were arrested on Tuesday after pushing a corpse, seated in an office chair, along the sidewalk to a check-cashing store to cash the dead man’s Social Security check, the police said.

When Virgilio Cintron, 66, died at his apartment at 436 West 52nd Street recently, his roommate and a friend saw an opportunity to cash his $355 check, the police said.

They did not go about it the easy way, the police said, choosing a ruse that resembled the plot of “Weekend at Bernie’s,” a film about two young men who prop up their dead employer to pretend that he is alive.

“Hell’s Kitchen has a rich history,” said Paul J. Browne, a police spokesman, “but this is one for the books.”

There was no sign of foul play in Mr. Cintron’s death, he added.

The roommate, James P. O’Hare, and his friend, David J. Dalaia, both 65 and unemployed, placed Mr. Cintron’s body in the chair and wheeled it around the corner, south along Ninth Avenue on Tuesday afternoon, the police said. The men parked the chair with the corpse in front of Pay-O-Matic at 763 Ninth Avenue, a check-cashing business that Mr. Cintron had patronized.

They went inside to present the check, but a clerk said Mr. Cintron would have to cash it himself, and asked where he was, the police said.

“He is outside,” Mr. O’Hare said, indicating the body in the chair, according to Mr. Browne.

The two men started to bring the chair inside, but it was too late.

Their sidewalk procession had already attracted the stares of passers-by who were startled by the sight of the body flopping from side to side as the two men tried to prop it up, the police said. The late Mr. Cintron was dressed in a faded black T-shirt and blue-and-white sneakers. His pants were pulled up part of the way, and his midsection was covered by a jacket, the police said. While the two men were inside the check-cashing office, a small crowd had gathered around the chair. A detective, Travis Rapp, eating a late lunch at a nearby Empanada Mama saw the crowd and notified the Midtown North station house.

Police officers and an ambulance arrived as the two men were trying to maneuver the corpse and chair into the check-cashing office.

The two men were taken into custody and questioned. The police said they were considering charging them with check-cashing fraud.

Mr. Cintron’s body was taken to a hospital morgue. The medical examiner’s office said its preliminary assessment was that he had died of natural causes within the past 24 hours.

Al Baker contributed reporting.

"he's outside"

2007-08-15T08:17:00.000-07:00

R A W !

as a continuation of the Yo! MTV Raps clydes fom last year, puma is releasing a sneaker/t-shirt/jacket series inspired by old shool legends, Doug E Fresh, MC Shan, ED Lover & Doctor Dre & Big Daddy Kane who has the illest looking pack out of the bunch. Shan's is pretty ill too.

Walk my way

2007-07-03T12:48:00.000-07:00

cuz that's the way

Ian Reid

2007-07-03T12:05:00.000-07:00

grew up in the same hood as dude, same schools and all that shit. anyways I've always seen him skateboarding all around the hood not knowing that it's taken him around the world. Cop it and support a hood dude making good moves.

2007-05-07T11:55:00.000-07:00

baa baa black sheep

2007-05-07T11:26:00.001-07:00

why boogie? why?

1. all my cool rapper friends have them.
2. I'm usually up on the new cool shit at least a year before most folks (it's true, ask my cool rapper friends) and maybe a timestamped blog is more valid than screaming about how I brought back dookie rope chains 4 years ago.
3. this might force me to go out and find shit to write about
4. since I've actually seen EVERYTHING on the internet, I don't have anything else to do at work other than work.
5. my grammar might improve.
6. I'm a follower

let's see where this goes