Once again it’s on…

GDC Opening

GDC Japan

Inqmnd

Lyle Owerko

Mark Khaisman

Diggs

Rest In Power: Issac Hayes

It intrigued us how the 2008 Olympic medals were produced and all symbolically housed a jade stone. Check out a glimpse of the process to get these medals to completion.

DJ Platurn in the place to be on Danish MTV.

Butter B on the 1s and 2s

Always good to have fam around. Love love to all those August babies and we’ll miss ya DJ Rich Garcia. Come back home with that masters diploma homie!

Princess Roe and Kuya John do it up Leo steez.

Ate Jaydee x Miles Rockwell

Rick Ross I mean Dez (Strictly Business SF), Diggs, Marlo, Michelle @ Rich’s Going Away BBQ

To end this one off, it’s kinda great to know that everything nowadays is accessible at our finger tips. I’m writing this blog to you right now and hopefully you gained some type of substance from it. Perhaps though we need to be more in touch with some of the more classic formats, maybe even analog…just to remind us where we evolved from. With that said, check out the world’s largest record collection priced at $50 million that a lot of folks are saying isn’t really worth anything. You make your assessment. Bless up.

Bless up fam. We’ll keep it simple. This one’s dedicated to family, bboys/girls, Nasty NaS, and good clothes. We’ll let the photos speak for themselves. 

Bigup Sis Aimee for the flix. Be sure to check out Ralph & Aimee’s Body Movement for some real relaxation, Jabbawockeez do and it’s allowing them to continue to rock them moves. PLUUUUG!

Gritphilm caught this craziness while spending some time in Sunnyvale one evening. Wowsers!

Nasty Nas out today…well yesterday.

SRxMM doing it.

Stay tuned for more fam. One love.

-Tupac Shakur 

Greetings from the City of Love. Once again we’re late and once again, we’re bringing you some items that are keeping us afloat. Thank you to those who inspire us and many blessings to you for tuning in. RE-SPECT. Motivating on…

Music plays an important role to our day. Without it, we probably would cause mayhem at our day job. Here are a few talented folks that we’re feeling and want to give them daps by sharing their music with you. Don’t sleep.

Meiko 

Nate Krooks 

Melina Jones 

Africa Miranda  

Marlon C 

Stori James 

Also tune in to the local homies on KPFA at Apex Express 

The long weekend brought us to the final steps in completing Miles Rockwell’s fortress. Here is our journey and explanation on how to do-it-up Fortress style!

Gather fortress wood. 

Collect fortress parts and organize.

Build fortress frame.

Get help to complete from a very handy Uncle! (Thnx Uncle Willy!)

Test fortress look-out swing with the help of Princess Gianna.

Celebrate with a sparkler or two.

Bless up family. We’ll be sure to provide the knowledge even more-so in the following days. Stay focused.   

Reporting In: KMOS ONE

Rakim 

Bless up, Respect, Love Love and all that. Please accept our apologies for the few days in delay. It’s been a long week for most of us and well the weekend was dedicated to getting more items knocked off the agenda. Personally I was trying to get Miles Rockwell’s fortress up (a step-by-step tutorial on how to build a fortress to come!). Onward to our week full of inspirations that allowed us to get through it all. Enjoy!

Artforms: Bigup Sis. Meca for sending us her Barrelman pieces that will be featured at this upcoming show by AlfieNumeric. For those whom are not in the know on what exactly a Barrelman is, please peep game.

A Tribe Called Dunny by Defdiggs himself. You are defintely on a roll brotha.

Paying homage is always a beautiful thing. Blessings to the Alife crew who represent for their fellow comrade Elf One reppin’ the infamous MPC crew out in NYC. Real recognize real. Please check out their site for more information about picking up these commemorative pieces.

Jean Grae x 9th Wonder. Awesome head nod to the classic albums of Blacksheep, Public Enemy, Raekwon and Das EFX. You know this combination of great production and hard MCing will bring us something to move to.

Grandmaster Flash just dropped his book entitled The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats.

Scion x Riottt: Shoot From the Hip Photo Contest.

RIP George Carlin.

Mighty 4 10 Years & Still Runnin. Told you P that I’d blog this! Keep holding it down mang.

WWDC 08. Folks say “Great Job”. I say, “It was too long!”

Respect and best wishes to our big homie from that gangsta-ass land of Iowa! (haha Diggs I had to put it in there yo!) But many blessings to Dan and Sarah. See this kat came all the way out from the corn fields to the Bay on a dream and guess what? He’s making it come true. Look out for this kat as the new A.D for BKWLD.

A few closing words for those going through it on a daily: Even when things get bad, know that it could be worse. Stay up.

Reporting in: KMOS ONE 

Poor Righteous Teachers (Conscious Style)

Bless up family. It’s been a crazy week and yet we may be here presenting this to you, but we’re still unable to cover all the ground that we’ve trek’d over the last two weeks. It’s been a hard journey, but we’re all still surviving and that’s all that matters. Here are some notations that we’ve jotted down to keep us inspired. Many thanks for tuning in and we sure hope to bless you with some upcoming items in the following weeks. Reeeee-spect.

Yameen (not Yaddamean) is representing from Philly to SF with his latest release titled NEVER KNOWS BEST brought to us by the fine folks at RopeADope. Please check him out here and download the 18 minute album sampler here. For a full feature on Yameen by Wake Your Daughter Up, peep game here. Many thanks to Sis. Meca for the knowledge.

DJ Platurn has also blessed us up with Spazz VS It’s Going Down. Enjoy! BTW, your package of goodies are on their way brotha!

A few new toys that have been helping us get back to productivity. God willing we’ll be able to utilize these tools to their full capability. Fingers crossed.

Our new shop.

Our brethren from Northstar Universal Zulu Nation brought out the Godfather of Hip Hop himself - King Afrika Bambaataa. We miss the chapter being all the way out here, nonetheless we represent for all of ya’ll. Shouts to Gateway Chapter, All Tribes, War Party and chapters across the universe. Keep holding it down.

Giant Step artist Alice Russell has got some sultry soulful skills on the mic. If you’re NYC on Sat Jun 21st, please check her out with Jose James at HIRO BALLROOM (371 West 16th Street).

Big Big Big Big shout to our hometown homie Eddie House who took part with his comrades of the Boston Celtics in winning the NBA Championship this year. Wow man, you’ve come a long ways from playing ball in the St. Anne’s league! Pounds all around.

We’ll try our best in keeping you updated more often. In the meantime, stay cool during these blazing heat-waves or else Super Miles will have to come thru and rescue you.

Please come out and support Team BioRad as they host a special fundraising event for Aids Walk SF 2008. Bigup sistah Marlo for incorporating us in the program. Bless.

Reporting in: Defdiggy

what I felt, to the voice that speaks, soothing but abrupt, silently erupts, stable to withstand but built to spill the cup. My demeanor hinders behind the shadow, where destiny seeks and hides, closed eyes, now direction is disguised, the path has been obstructed and my plans are compromised. Exposed, vulnerable as my soul, I’m jaded by sweet words, so close, at arms length to now withhold, held, so tight that I can’t tell, until, the weakness to break the will, or bitter pill, rise my head above the clouds and snap me from that spell.

Dizziness as the range of focus slows down, to comprehend, that vision, blurred but complete, raised up from beneath, frozen like proposal, moved like from a speech. Head nod with directive, hands grasp a firmer grip, destiny is about to drop, weighing down like the definition of commit. Like an instance, react, like your futures under attack, well within your personal space, closer than contact. My remedy to my enemy, rummaging through my memories, from how to calm myself to even the unsettling.

Myriad of chances, all past due bounced checks, neglected for so long, that they fell straight off the list. So the reminder, let it sink and register, and confidence can coexist, your goals before they die, can honestly be accomplished…you got this. 

Reporting in: KMOS ONE

Blessings Family. We thought that we should just keep it coming since we’ve been disappointing ya’ll with the lag in posts. Onward to our rant. Enjoy.

It was a great weekend. We’ve got family moving on to bigger and better things in their lives (Adrian & Christina. The best of luck to you down under mates!) and we had the crew hosting the Asian Family Heritage Celebration at Great America. Bigup to the Expressions 1985 / Elle Ent. crew.

The latest Munny ventures by Mr. Diggs himself. Looking crazy ill brotha.

Alife x Asics. Simple, clean and to-the-point.

Morgan Heritage. Some music that keeps the spirits up. Soulful.

One of the many items that keeps us away from the blog. This one is just for sharing sake. Not one to show off but perhaps to inspire. So at the office we often experience a degree of exposure to some well-known tech brands. For this round, we were tasked to develop a new look for this “company’s” iconography and interface design. Just wanted to showcase the process and the end result. Maybe you’ll see this on your desktop’s dock soon. :}

Until next time: Stay safe, stay peace, keep love in the heart. One.