Reason Number 138 to Love Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Approx. 9th grade African American boy walking to school… hightop sneakers, relatively skinny jeans, small beanie, navy peacoat and the kicker… an army surplus backpack with the names of classic rock bands written all over it with black and red Sharpies. Led Zeppelin. Rolling Stones. Jimi Hendrix. Too cool.

Q Da Kid – Dope Freestyle

I may be a bit biased, but the dude has got some lyrics.

Charles Hamilton – Brooklyn Girls

Videos of MCs walking through Brooklyn will never get old to me. The Brooklyn part of Charles Hamilton’s video below was shot all around where I live, which is kinda cool. Oh yeah, it is almost 2009 and I would love if Universal would get with the fucking program and let their videos be embedded. Maybe they would not have 3 million shitty DVR-ripped (or worse) versions of the video floating all over the blogs. YouTube even locked down Q’s video! Not worth the trouble… which is ironic on many levels. Fortunately, the Charles Hamilton video below fell through the cracks, so here it is!

Q Da Kid – Untouchable

With his first single just a couple of weeks away from dropping, a huge VMA kick-off party performance, an album in the works, an 11 city national tour, and all kinds of other shit… Q still finds time to drop some heat with DJ Envy.  Keep any eye out for an Envy produced mixtape in the coming weeks.

As this track alludes to…  Q is a pioneer in the world of new model record deals.   He has been on the scene for years now, waiting to bubble up.  With his vision, relentless work-ethic, keen industry-savvy and pure talent, there is no other emerging artist better suited to seize the opportunity that his new deal provides.

Check the new track below:

Q – NY State of Mind Freestyle

Q delivers:

Props to Todd1 for the hot video.

Fixed Gear Spoof – Fix-Push

“If I am going to ride 20 miles, I am going to push 20 miles.”

The Art of Tony Bones

I had a lot of questions come in response to my post of this year’s Valentine’s Day gift to the lady. Today when I was walking out of the apartment, I remembered that the painting above was her gift last year. Ronda and Robby as interpreted by Tony Bones.

Ironically, we found this painting at the end of our block here in Brooklyn. No doubt the work of Mr. Bones, during his time spent here in NYC.

The Wells Residence

Google finally added the rough streets of Oak Cliff in Dallas to the Street View feature of Google Maps.  Awww, the Wells Residence:

And Brooklyn (in Red), aka Sesame Street:

Citizen Cope @ B.A.M.

We went to see our neighbor and Ronda’s friend Cope play over at B.A.M. on Saturday.   The vibe at this show was so much better than the show we caught in Dallas about a year ago.  Brooklyn was definitely in the house.   Super chill Len Xiang opened up – admitting that he’d only been playing the guitar for 6 months.  Perhaps it was because it was a home game, but Cope’s performance was great and even included a special visit from Grammy nominated Brooklyn resident Alice Smith.  I was enlightened.   We snapped a few pics.  I will update the post later.