I’ve been into graffiti ever since I discovered the book Subway Art. In the early eighties, kids were rushing out to buy the book, everybody was talking about graffiti, and soon enough people were painting graffiti in Birmingham, UK, the town where I was born and raised.
I came from a Muslim background. My parents migrated from Bangladesh to the UK in the 60’s. I knew nothing of Bangladesh, all I knew were the streets of England. However I was raised as a Muslim. My upbringing wasn’t particularly strict, but we were taught to be mindful of the faith and have respect for it. I got up to things most kids did and shared the same interest; painting graffiti, listening to Run DMC, wearing big sneakers… Throughout the eighties and nineties I was always …
Feds Name Suspect in 2002 Slaying of Jam Master Jay
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have alleged that a low-level career bandit May hold the key to one of the more high-profile mysteries of the hip-hop world: Who killed rap pioneer Jam Master Jay?
In court papers, the prosecutors identify Ronald “Tenad'' Washington as the armed accomplice of a second unidentified gunman who shot Jay, whose real name was Jason Mizell, inside his Queens recording studio in 2002. They say Washington also is a suspect in the fatal shooting in 1995 of Randy Walker, a close associate of …
As Rob Swift is putting out his autobiography in the form of a DVD called As the Tables Turn. The disc could be burning up your living room right now as it's got a different release date on just about every hip hop merchant's site, but it hits the big retailers tomorrow and The Ablist is on tour screening the film and showing his skills behind the decks.
Rob Swift on Tour Apr 13 – Chicago – Dark Room Apr 14 – Minneapolis – Foundation Room Apr 20 – …
What do Run-DMC and tennis legend Stan Smith have in common? Both have had their Adidas signature shoes updated. Following the DMC Cadillac re-issues, Adidas has commissioned graffiti artist-entrepreneurs to tag-up Smith’s all-white perennial favorites.
While everybody and their urban marketing consultants have used graffiti to give their products flavor, it makes sense that Adidas, whose shell-toe Superstar remains an icon from hip-hop’s early '80s transition into a global culture, would re-visit one of their shoes—the perennial favorite, Stan Smith, with a graffiti treatment. Efforts to contact the retired Mr. Smith in his Hilton Head, South Carolina home have been unsuccessful this Saturday afternoon, but we’ll post our conversation with him about his shoes being bombed, …
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