XXL october 08 edition: WEEZY

Shouldn't they put him on MARS instead of the moon? But I digress...

Aaliyah on Fader Magazine Icon Issue Cover

Fader's Annual Icon Issue

They proceed to interview some of those close to her, or inspired by her, about some memories they have of her.

It sucks that she was JUST starting to get credit where it was due at the END of her life..I had been checkin for her for a MINUTE. Because my older sister had been a fan of hers ever since her VERY first song ever came out, I always had known about her..

R.I.P Baby Girl. You are STILL MISSED.

Morning Breath: OneOneNine Magazine

I love art. I love magazines. I love creative, intelligent, trendy bafoonery. OneOneNine is the reason why I can have all three of these at once. I'm copping my issue right now. It's just a magazine with different art and graphic design in it. Steve Green and Justin Kay, two curators for a label called upnorth, are the brains behind oneonenine. The picture above is the cover for issue three which just came out. The ones below are for Issue 2. Issue 3 is titled "there's no i in team." Just DOPE.






Scope oneonenine HERE.

GOOD MORNIN'!
=ToP ! FLiTE=

Q-Tip interview in Filter Magazine

Filter Magazine's newest issue just hit the stands. The cover man for ya'll DEDheads out there is none other than Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest. The interview wit the Abstract covers a few different bases. He talks about Tribe, and also the current state of music and Hip-Hop in particular..it's a REALLY good interview. Pick up a copy. GOOD READ. There's some commentary afterward too from some good friends of the Tribe.

Here's what Talib Kweli had to say:

"I loved hip-hop but I wasn't dressing or talking like the rest of the kids in my school. Q-Tip provided me with a template of how I could be myself. I was 14 and thought I was in Native Tongues. I had a VHS of Tribe live in Europe. It was incredible; these guys from Queens who I completely related to and were talking directly to me were touring the world.

The first time I saw them was Howard University Homecoming when I was 17......The mainstream media was dismissive of hip-hop; there was still the idea that it wasn't art. Tribe were our saviors for stopping that shit. The music was good, intelligent, clean. Tribe made it easy to defend. Someone says hip-hop is not musical, you say 'What? Listen to Low End Theory. It's got Ron Carter on in.'..."

Drop-Bomb got a Zone.
=ToP ! FLiTE=

Cool Kids on the cover of LACED

Issue #5

DREW
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