FAME

This dude is pretty cool. has nice lyrics. I'm liking it. Was checking out Levi Maestro's blog over @ Hypebeast and I saw him post this song, I'm listening to right now, and I thought it was definitely iTunes material. So after I got that song called westside story, I Googled him. I didn't find much, so I went to my LAKER Fam, over @ 2dopedoyz. And found another song of his. was really cool. The name of his upcoming mixtape is called "Horns or Halos". I'm digging the name.
check out the songs over @ there site.
>> 2DopeBoyz
>> Maestro's Blog


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WEST CONF. CHAMPS!!! . . . MAMBA JUICE.

Let's keep this going, 4 MORE WINS. Now who do we play, Orlando or the King James Cavaliers? only time will tell. GO LAKERS. Sorry Melo, its nothing personal the mamba didn't mean to strike so bad,or did he. lol better luck next year maybe your team can learn some class over the summer.
"You can pay for school but you can't buy class..." HOV




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Walking on the Moon. . . LIGHT SPEED AHEAD

this video is sick. Reminds me a lot of start wars. love the songs, and def. Love the girls in the video. Now That's Baller, Kayne in the millennium falcon lol




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Mamba X Candy Man

on to game 6. I like how porky Pig is making is seem like the whistle gave us the win. Show some class and give it up to the team who beat you, a lot of other teams with class do that, should take some lessons. I know you haven't been here to many time to know how to act. but the all "philosophical" PHIL can teach you... FAG.







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"The Chaaaampions" 2-0

UEFA champions FC Barcelona Wins against Manchester United. It was a great game. Messi scored on an awesome pass by XAVI... GO SPAIN!!! gotta support spain. Great grandparents from spain. Spain has concord Europe and is on top of the futbol world. When in ROME...






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"Head Porter Wallet"

MERGE :










CROQUET:






Thanks Lupe. appreciate the heads up on there wallets, lol. I was looking @ wallets today. and these were some of my favorite one's. HP




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Nike SB June Releases. . . my fav.

Nike SB has been on there game, not as good as they were in 05 or in 04 imo. there was some dope one's the Huffs and the Tiffanys. But there Releasing some dope shoes. There not all limited edition sneakers like the the Tiffs but there still very dope. these two are my fav. from the 09 june Release because you can rock them with jeans and the others are more 100% skater style. not really me but there still dope...












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Ferdinand Lewis 'Lew' Alcindor. . . SKY Hook for one please

No clue why I posted this, its late Not very tired just can't sleep. went on youtube searched penny hardaway, then kemp, then some kobe stuff(how people hate on those comments), then on the related videos there was a video on kereem and I had to click it, it was horrible quality then I found these vids. A great look @ a Legendary basketball player. Shows how you can be a superstar with class. A lot of players are missing that in today's game, and more than half aren't even superstars. Just a dude with "swagg". I'd pick class over "swagg" any day, if that classy player had a mean sky hook. Wish I was alive to watch Kereem play as a buck & a laker. Born in 89 so I didn't see much of kereem or magic, shit I didn't even see Jordan or penny or any of those great players. I missed out on a lot, I got the 2000's nba which is dope but I'm an old school KID at heart. The 90's would be a great time for me to be a teen.
we'll enjoy the vids. ima try to knock out.. PEACE!!



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"two words for you 81 points....Ms. Lewis from down stairs called, she said you aint go no Defence

Man I sure love these commercials. Two of the best players to ever play, living together like College roommates. My fav. one's are the top two. It sucked that Lebron lost today, but damn you gotta hand it to Orlando, there playing good defense, let Bron get his and shut down the rest of the team. Can't wait for Game 4 tomorrow. GO LAKERS.
Oh btw WTF? is up with >>>>Dahntey!!<<<< Who names there kid that. lol smh
That guys a douche.




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Crazy Bus People. . .

So today I woke up in desperate need of a hair cut I had a Dragon ball Z type hair just with out all the karate. So I left my house around 9:30 am (wanted to get an early start on the day)and walked down the street to the bus stop(yup I don't drive, sad isn't it, But I got drive on the inside =])got some change for the day pass because it's cheaper. ($1.50 per bus ticket, and $3.50 for the day pass. can't beat that). I'm ready to get on the bus but I haven't taken the bus in a long time so I ask the dude next to me if he knew which bus took me to this & that street. He didn't know right off the bat, so I assumed he was just gonna say naw, I'm sorry I don't know. We'll that's what I would of done, so he takes out the whole bus schedule thing to show me what bus routs go where. But the only thing was he couldn't see and he didn't know what he was talking about, so good thing I was paying attention and saw the correct rout to take. he was pointing in the total wrong Direction. I thanked him for helping me out, No biggie. Talked to much for my taste while I'm on the bus but was helpful in his own way. Then I get the Trans Center where I need to catch another bus. While waiting I came across a person who was talking to himself and was strangely looking at his watch and pointing like KG but in a crazy way not a douche way(Couldn't find that picture =[). It was very strange. I felt the urge to be a paparazzi and take a picture all stealth like the Ninja I am. See





lol... this was funny because of the way he was acting, wish I could of got a picture of him pointing @ his watch. After I was done with my hair cut(that took forever for me to get because of staff quitting/ getting tangled up in issues with the law, so they were under staffed. 3 barbers and like 20 something guys). When I left the Barber shop It got straight up awkward.
This Lady was bawling uncontrollable type crying. It was weird. I didn't want to get involved, I was gonna ask her If she was Okay but that idea came and went once I herd her crying all loud.
other than that crazy ass bus Experience it was a cool day. AND WOOOOOW THAT LEBRON SHOT!!!! wow.







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Kob vs Melo . . . Game 2

Garrett W. Ellwood/NBAE/Getty Images

wow watching Kobe and Melo Go @ each other is truly a treat for a fan of sports. Game 2 was another great game just the Lake show couldn't pull it out =[. Credit to the Nuggets. After I let my body temperature chill after we lost. I really got a chance to look back and actually enjoy the game, with out all the nail biting. I'm looking forward to watching game 3 and the other games to come. I just hope the Lakers are on top @ the end of the series. But this MELO vs. KOBE match up is pretty fun to watch.


there's a great article on ESPN about melo and Kob, pretty legit. Never though I'd say that cuz most of the time I can't stand there stupid writers except J.A. Adande


I'm trying to chill out my temper and not use my blog as a Rant machine, all the time. lol Just gonna let this game pass, why get to mad still a lot more basketball to play. I know we can play better D. Bring on GAME 3. Don't let the Picture Deceive you, Black mamba will kill you.





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Quote of the night/Morning. . .My intro to Hip-Hop

one of my fav. NAS Quote's

"The whole, city is mine, prettiest Don
I don't like the way P. Diddy did Shyne with different lawyers
Why it's mentioned in my rhymes? Fuck it, it's just an intro
Hate it or love it, like it bump it or dump it
Writing, across the stomach spell GOD son"
NaS-Purple

I agree I don't like the way P.diddy did Shyne. smh punk ass.
get your NaS on people.

NaS's ILLmatic itroduced me to my love for Hip-Hop. BEfore we found each other I was listening to nothing really. just random stuff and music my Dad listened to on our daily commute to school and work like JaZZ(which I love btw). But other than that wasn't listening to anything I was into. Remember it like it was yesturday. MY cousin was talking about NaS and I said who's that?? and I just stood there looking @ my cousin have a face of "I'm doing my duty to stear my cousin in the right hip-hop path" lol If you get the picture. So my cousin reaches in his backpack and gives me his walkman and gave me a Red Disc and tells me to listen to this album. And I kid you not I herd that album like 7 times straight and I instantly fell in love with NaS. And I found my self searching for more artist like Nas. aka Lyricist. That's the Hip-Hop I know and Love.

Fav. NaS songs

• one love
• memory lane
• we will survive
• Rewind
• Heaven
• I can (awesome message)
• Sly Fox
  
• made you look ( they shooting, remember scaring people up in arrowhead with that one. lol)
• the world is yours
• plus so many others....
  

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Nike SB is Europe

this video is pretty cool, I've always liked skating, just never got into the sport. Because I played football and baseball didn't wanna get hurt doing it and then couldn't play for my teams. Some were deep down inside I kinda wish I did try it. Seems so much fun. And then I could actually use my SB's for what there for, skating lol. enjoy the video (sorry for the auto-play)

Via: Nike SB

I'd Love to design a Skate Board
I would of picked different music but its still a cool video.



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U-N-I: LAND OF THE KINGS

DL here
Via: 2dopeboyz



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MK-E.9

Maestro Knows - Episode 9 (Terry Kennedy) from Maestro Knows on Vimeo.

I love these Videos man, Shows LA looking real dope.
Just another day Posting blogs, Working on Photoshop, staying cool in this hot ass weather, And Last but not Least keeping my shoes clean and looking fresh. Gotta rock them SB's. Don't care if I don't skate lol Still a dope shoe. PEEEACE.

I was getting all off topic and random on ya'll. Stay up
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Got the W. . .!

Now onto the Western Conference Finals, on to the play the Denver Thugs. lol


p.s. Ima try to Figure out a way to have a Parental LOCK on ESPN and stupid ass fan comments, Im gonna adopt a Phil Jackson Zen like attitude towards things. . HMMMMMMM
HMMMMM lol peace.


California getting HOT real quick, Nothing Like a CAlI summer day.



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HALL OF FAME ! ! !

Hall Of Fame from levi maestro on Vimeo.

Hall Of Fame V.2 from levi maestro on Vimeo.

* Hall Of Fame

*Levi Maestro on Vimeo







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Natasha Khan. . .[+_+]

Awesome Pictures. . .
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The Lost Tribes of New York

The Lost Tribes of New York City from Carolyn London on Vimeo.

This is a pretty cool video. Found it just looking around @ Vimeo, it was on there staff picks.
" the same place you come from I come from, Were that? your mother"



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Final Home x Casio G-Shock Mini

The watch comes in a pretty sick army green/ marines desert storm color. It's some were in the middle of those colors. the strap includes a brand message "If we lose our house because...................." Can't make it all out...




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Undefeated x Converse Weapon

The shoes officially release on Saturday, May 16th at all UNDFTD Chapter and webstores with a suggested retail price of $128 USD. I love converse Weapons, there a sick pair of shoes. I had like 2 pairs back in my middle school days. the kids didn't know what was up with those shoes. Even kicked a kid in the shin when he stepped on my Weapons. Can't let some punk mess up shoe history like that, come one Magic and Bird wore them. still remember my uncles Laker color weapons he had. those were ill. I need to get me a pair of Weapons. IDK about that tote bag though









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E.8 (Gourmet)

Maestro Knows - Episode 8 (Gourmet) from Maestro Knows on Vimeo.

lol Boston.. love there shoes though



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(Girl) skateboards

Girl Skateboards (RED) from We Love You So on Vimeo.

this is so dope!!! support a good cause..that board looked dope


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SMH!!!!!

No heart, No effort, No ring........why must the Lakers show no damn effort. IDK why the hell they do this shit. More fuel for the haters to talk. lol The worst thing on this earth besides the "classy" Celtic organization, is LAKER HATERS!!!! scum of the earth. lol Fuck it, what can you do. You can't play for them.



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Get Bent ESPN. . .

I hate reading espn Articles there so bias isn't annoying. They hate on everyone and I've been letting all that stupidity annoy me and keep me pissed and mad @ a great player like LeBron. Ima just ignore that stupidity and injoy him play. Including stupid fans saying that kobe sucks, thats one funny joke.. lol Talked to my agent. JL haha we were talking about it, he was telling me not to let other people fuck it up for you. So you know what take , lol Random but to the point.




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Reflection Eternal take 2. . .

“We got a whole song in auto-tune, but it’s a like Kweli and Hi-Tek kind of auto-tune song,” says Talib Kweli, one half of the musical duo known as Reflection Eternal. As this statement was muttered from the lips of an MC who has contributed to underground Hip-Hop’s rebirth in the late 90’s, one could only think, “Has it really come down to this?”

But before a follow up question seeking clarification could be asked, Reflection Eternal’s leading mouth piece burst into laughter, and remarked, “Nah I’m just f**king with you.” The warm feeling of relief that shot up my spine was almost as satisfying as when Fiddy (Curly) greeted Tia at JFK airport.

“There ain’t nothing wrong with auto-tune just like there’s nothing wrong with gangsta rap, underground rap, etc. But anything that is overdone becomes corny and everybody is doing it. All these underground Hip-Hop fans getting mad at auto-tune, stop it’s not auto-tune’s fault! I’m a fan of T-Pain’s music, and I think he gives a great lesson with what he did with his career. But if you ask me if auto-tune is played out? At this point, yes!,” says Kweli as he tries to explain and reiterate his previous comical statement.

Refection Eternal fans need not worry though, after keeping the masses waiting for nearly a decade, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek are on deck to release their sophomore LP and put some fun and true lyricism back in the scandal ridden and WWF-esque game known as Hip-Hop. “I don’t believe I’m the best rapper alive but I think I might out work and have more ambition than a lot of the dudes who came out with me,” talks Kweli from the Warner Music building. Fresh off the international “Rock The Bells” tour and after rocking two consecutive nights at NYC’s legendary Jazz club the Blue Note, Reflection Eternal took some time to give AllHipHop some insight on their new train of thought.

AllHipHop.com: It’s been nine years since the last Reflection Eternal album, what’s different about your mentalities now opposed to when y’all recorded the first album?

Hi-Tek: Musically and business wise I’ve grown a lot, but when it comes to actually going back in the studio with Kweli, it just feels like going back to right where we left off. I realized our sound is one of [the] voids in Hip-Hop right now, and the game needs Reflection Eternal.

AllHipHop.com: Some fans have the perception that you guys haven’t been working together…

Hi-Tek: It’s a difference between “kicking it” with each and actually being in the studio together versus me just sending Kweli beats through email. It’s just not the same thing.

Talib Kweli: I agree, the process is totally different with the Reflection projects, and it’s going to reflect in the sound. I’ve done plenty of records with Hi-Tek from “Back Up Off Me,” “Work it Out,” and he did the title track on Beautiful Struggle. And I heard people saying that Beautiful Struggle was a departure from my original sound, but every one doesn’t [know] Hi-Tek did the title track to the album. But really this new album is about us as Reflection Eternal.

Allhiphop: With Hip-Hop in the state that it’s in right now, what’s the agenda you guys have with this album?

Talib Kweli: My agenda for the first Reflection Eternal album was to prove that I was worthy for the position I have. We were like underground Hip-Hop royalty at the time from Rawkus and Black Star. People just acknowledged us in a certain way because of our association with Mos Def and Rawkus as a powerhouse and not because of our talent. And I think we set out to prove that we had the talent with the first album.

But things are just different now, T.I. and Lil Wayne are at the top of the game, and that’s not to disrespect them. I’m just saying the game is changed a great deal since we came out with the Black Star album. Now I‘m only interested in making timeless music. I didn’t want that early in my career, I just wanted to make you think I was the best MC.

AllHipHop.com: I heard the album is going to be self titled, why did y’all chose to do that for your 2nd album?

Talib Kweli: Actually, I don’t know about that but it might be a good idea because actually the correct name of our group on paper is Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek like on iTunes or in stores. But our fans know Reflection Eternal as what we call ourselves as a group. So that might be a great idea to do actually…

Hi-Tek: I always felt like that’s something you do for your first album.

AllHipHop.com: Is there a particular underlying theme or concept you stuck to?

Talib Kweli: I think there’s a theme in the music and sound but there isn’t one concept that we stuck with.

Hi-Tek: To be completely honest, we just letting the music create itself, and I think that our chemistry makes everything just come out so naturally between us. Even with the first album I never thought that any of those songs would have the effect on people that they did. I mean, I always put everything I got into the records, but I always second guess myself because I’m a perfectionist.

AllHipHop.com: The first song released from the album is the Bootsy Colins assisted track “Internet Connection”, and honestly the sound kind of confused a lot of fans, how’d did that record happen?

Hi-Tek: Bootsy is from my hometown of Cincinnati, and every once in a while we’ll kick it in the studio, so we have a relationship. And I always just loved that sample, shout out to my man Dave who came up with the concept, but we just wanted to show people how to have fun again on records. “Internet Connection” shows our personalities.

Talib Kweli: The sound of that record is exactly what Hi-Tek said it was, it’s not, “Oh we going to go in and make our first single,” but it was just us having fun. And I enjoy the fact that some fans were thrown off by the record because there’s a lot of pressure of having to come up with an album as great as Train of Thought. For me I just wanted to alleviate some of that pressure (laughs). I just read a 50 comment argument online about the record, so I’m happy with the response it’s receiving. It creates a discourse, and wait until you hear the next record. Then you’ll really have something to say.

AllHipHop.com: Did you guys work with Mos Def at all? Any chance we’ll ever get another Black Star album?

Talib Kweli: I would like to work with Mos on the album, but we haven’t yet…the songs decide themselves, which artists should be on them. But we don’t have a Mos Def record yet on the album, but he would be a welcome addition, and there isn’t going to be a lot of guest features.

Hi-Tek: “Yo Mos, what’s up man?” It’s your boy Hi-Tek, let’s do this man!

Talib Kweli: How about that joint he just played for us last night; Mos Def, Just Blaze, Jay Electronica, T.I., and Jay-Z on a track together. Mos got some crazy joints about to come out man, I promise you.

AllHipHop.com: How do you guys feel about the climate of the game right now, is there room for Souljah Boy and Reflection Eternal on the same 106 & Park countdown?

Hi-Tek: Well, our music is going to speak for itself, the marketing just has to be right. First and foremost, we on a major label now. Like with the last album Rawkus had major label budgets, but they still were considered an independent label and presented themselves that way.

Talib Kweli: We just need the balance with artists out now like Maino and T.I., they at the top of their game. They both have huge records with T-Pain and Rihanna, and really those records are pop records with somebody rapping on them. And more power to them, not to say I wouldn’t do it either, but I just can’t with the Reflection Eternal album because we are creating a particular sound that makes us who we are. If we are thinking like, “In order for us to compete with Souljah Boy, we got to make a record with a dance to go with it…” If we did that, that means we lost our cause and integrity as artists.

AllHipHop.com: Is Mr. Chapelle making any appearances this time around?

Talib Kweli: Dave’s going to be on the album definitely. And the reason why he was all over the first Reflection album was because Dave was in the studio sessions with us every single day. He was living in New York at the time, doing little comedy clubs in the village, and before he would go do his sets, he’d come to Electric Lady [Studios] and just sit in all our sessions. Dave is a part of that album, for real.

I remember I met Dave through this girl that I was going out with and she had just broken up with him. He used to come over to the house every once in a while, and they used to get into arguments, so I used to not like him. And then one day she left me and got back with him, then I really didn’t like this muthaf**ka! (laughs)

AllHipHop.com: What year was this?

Talib Kweli: Right after like Nutty Professor came out [1996]. But after all that I went to a De La Soul Concert in Ohio in the same town that Dave lives in. And he’s a huge De La fan and, we run into each other at the show, so we start chopping it up, and I’m like, “Me and you have history.” He didn’t even know what I meant, it ending up being a conversation like, “Oh you know her too? How?” (laughs) That goes back to making the first album, two years after meeting in Ohio, I see Dave again walking down the street in New York. I just told him to come and kick it with us, and Dave loved it he said he always wanted to see how an album was made. He ended up coming every day after that, so when you hear Nelson Mandela, Rick James; that’s Dave Chapelle.

Hi-Tek: I remember that, he was half baking us too! (laughs)

AllHipHop.com: After traveling the world, and working with an array of different artists, Kweli you’ve worked with artists who are so different than you like Fabolous and Justin Timberlake. Hi-Tek, you produced joints for Estelle, and remixed artists like Gym Class Heroes. Do you still feel the urge to half to satisfy the backpackers and your core fan base?

Hi-Tek: That’s what this album is about, in my opinion. We also want to teach through our music too though. I always been a hater of the word “backpacker” because you got people who think they are so called Hip-Hop purists that try to teach you what they think a record should sound like. With this album we are just giving you Hi-Tek and Kweli, and nothing else.

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1-1. . .

The game was physical from the start. A lot of high intensity plays. ejections, flagrant fouls, Technical fouls, etc. This game was great, and emotional one. And I wasn't even playing. Touch hard fought Playoff basketball. Here's my beef. Houston prides themselves with playing hard D. There a good Defensive team. But come on, it seems to me that there just complaining that were being physical right back(I LOVE IT). Artest bitching about kobe slapping his hand, that elbow to the neck should of been a foul. He was just getting inside position. they were both fighting for position. I don't think he should of been ejected, but they had to take control of the game. Kobe doesn't get calls either, and he's KOBE. The only difference is that KOBE doesn't act like a fool and aggressively walk up to someone and talk in there face. He didn't do it on purpose. The funny thing is they did the same thing but the lakers weren't bitching about the calls. that right there is a bitch move. It's the playoffs and that's how its played. touch and with a sense of urgency because whats at stake. I truly think they got mad that we didn't just shut up and let them punk us. FISH Loved the foul. Probably gonna get a suspension. So that's gonna happen. Playing hard is whats the playoffs are about, it makes it exciting. LA got the W, its gonna be a battle. Good luck lakers. And Houston were not gonna stand there and let you guys Push us around. Push someone enough times they eventually Bite back. GO LAKERS
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Watermelons on the feet. . .

Nike SB - Blazer Premium - Green Spark
This is a new Nike SB Blazer Premium in Green Spark and Pimento that is scheduled to be released in the Fall 2009 Season from Nike SB. The shoe features a soft suede and nubuck upper in Green Spark, a new color from the Nike SB design team. Pimento, a cherry pepper, is another new color that is used for the shoelaces, part of the outsole, and heeltab. These shoes will be released at Nike SB retailers in a few months. via mentalkicks


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