I’m so jealous right now of all my friends who make music! I may need to make a career change, but maybe I don’t want to embarrass myself. This video is so inspiring and heartfelt. Art is just as necessary as food and shelter.
INVITE: Q-TIP & VASHTIE – SANTOS PLAYHOUSE (4.13.12)
Party over herre.
WATCH: Grey Goose Cherry Noir Hotel Noir With A-Trak, VV Brown, Neon Hitch – Cameos By Dee & Ricky and Vashtie
I had the amazing opportunity of making a cameo in Grey Goose’s Cherry Noir – Hotel Noir Commercial directed by the amazing Phil Griffin. The commercial stars A-Trak, VV Brown and NeonHitch and has appearances by Myself and Dee & Ricky.
You can’t really see me, but I’m there…wearing something like a church wig on my head.
Behind The Scenes…
SPECIAL DELIVERY: B-Side By Wale – Cheetah Varsity Jacket
B-SIDE BY WALE
Special thanks to Craig Darryl Arthur for keeping me laced in some fresh threads, straight from London!
Check out their other pieces. B-SIDE BY WALE has some really fresh pieces. They need to just keep their American Sister laced 24/7!
*Wearing the Cheetah Varsity, B-Side by Wale and Supreme Snakeskin Bowling Shirt on VH1 “Big Morning Buzz Live”
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WATCH: Joey Bada$$ On MTV
What more can I say, I just love this kid!
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INTERVIEW VIA MTV.COM
‘I’m just stressing myself out trying to do something amazing,’ Joey BadA$$ tells Mixtape Daily of his upcoming debut mixtape 1999.
By Rob Markman (@RobMarkman)
Fire Starter: Joey BadA$$
As a youngster, Brooklyn MC Joey BadA$$ was baffled by Nas’ 1994 classic Illmatic. The iconic album cover featured a childhood photo of the then 20-year-old God’s Son. “I seen him as a kid and I thought he was a kid rapping, I was just confused,” Joey told Mixtape Daily. After all, how can a kid that young deliver such impactful and insightful records like “Life’s a Bitch” and “The World Is Yours”?
Somewhere along the way, Joey’s initial confusion must have led to some sort of inspiration, because at 17 years old, he has already delivered a single that seems to surpass the subject matter of other spitters in his age bracket. The militant-minded “Survival Tactics,” borrows its instrumental from the 1998 Styles of Beyond song of the same name. Joey impressively starts out spitting, “N—as don’t want war, I’ma Martian with an army of Spartans/ Sparring with a knife in a missile fight.”
The track’s gritty video shows Joey and his partner-in-rhyme Capital STEEZ marching from their grimey Brooklyn hood to Wall Street while wearing animal masks and army jackets. On March 21, MTV News featured Joey on the Get in the Game segment of “RapFix Live.” After previewing a portion of the “Survival Tactics” video, members of Odd Future agreed that Joey “can rap,” even if a disruptive Tyler, the Creator downplayed the quality of the visuals. Expecting some pushback from the renegade group, Joey came out of the gate hurling insults at OF producer Left Brain, and Left Brain fired back. The incident was billed as beef on media websites and message boards, but Joey writes it off merely as playful banter. “I felt like that was set up,” Joey told MTV News. “I felt like y’all tried to set us up for beef.”
Still, it has been all love for Joey, who is currently in his junior year at Edward R. Murrow High School in Brooklyn. Joey BadA$$ says that he’s been rapping since the womb and credits his parents’ affinity for hip-hop with shaping his musical tastes. “I was 2 years old and I knew the whole Biggie ‘Hypnotize’ song,” he boasted.
Influenced by the likes of the Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac, Joey began to take rapping seriously as he got older. Now he is the stand-out among his Progressive Era crew, a collective of 18 rappers, producers, graphic designers and studio engineers. The young man’s buzz even caught the attention of Mac Miller, who featured Joey on “America,” a track off of his recently released Macadelic mixtape.
All this and Joey hasn’t even dropped his first mixtape, though he estimates that 1999 will come shortly. The recent attention has him ready to step up. “Now I feel like I gotta give them something greater,” he said. “I’m just stressing myself out trying to do something amazing.”
CUTE: Bone Pugz Music Video
Another Josh Madden addition. You rule and so does this video.
CUTE: Newborn Baby Spoons Puppy
I think my brain just imploded by this overload of cute-ness. Could anything be cuter?! I want to put them both in a headlock until they stop breathing…they’re that cute! Wait, did that sound weird? Some of you may get what I mean.
(via BUZZFEED)
LIFE: Easter With My God-Daughter Amaya – Filipino Brunch At Maharlika & Playtime At Thompkins (4.8.12)
Vashtie & Amaya (Easter 2012)
It’s that time again when my amazing god-daughter, AMAYA, comes to visit for Easter. Last year, she came right in time for my birthday and I had a special day just hanging with her and very close friends…including her amazing Mama (and one of my bestest friends) LUZ. Here are some photos from our special day!
*She’s a photographer already, snapping self-portraits…
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Later that day, we ventured off to Maharlika for some Filipino Brunch. Amaya drew pictures of us as we waited for our food…
*LUZ, AMAYA & VASHTIE (2012)
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Gabe, Maggie, Vini, Young Scoozle, Vashtie & Amaya, Erik, Luz, Karl, Valentina
LIFE: Fear And Self-Loathing In Los Angeles – DJ’ing Jason Richardson’s Birthday & Hanging With Friends
I touched down in Los Angeles on Monday around midnight. I would have some time to chill the next day before I would DJ that evening for Hurdler Jason Richardson’s Birthday Party, then I would head back to New York first thing in the morning. It was clear it would be another in and out business trip that would leave me exhausted. I was fine with that, considering I’ve never really had any prolific experiences in LA…BUT, lately I’ve been really eager to explore this mysterious place. I don’t know why, but I’ve always had a hard time connecting with the city that so many of my great friends love or live in. Maybe my time is always too short or maybe all the 80′s/90′s movies I watched as a kid ruined my perception of it. This trip, I actually got to spend some time with New York Local Josh Madden and LA residents Joel Madden and Peter James Lee – it was a lot of fun!
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Photos by iPhone 4 (Camera & Instagram). Mercury is just now over being in retrograde so I can replace my broken Canon G11. Holler.
*Ran into the homie J.Scott of Imnotatoy.Com at the airport.
He hit me on Twitter after he heard I was in LA asking if I had any vegan cookies on me and I reluctantly had to admit that I was, indeed, a fat kid smuggling cookies.
They were RAW this time around.
This Hotel was cool. There was a scent flowing throughout that reminded me of a beautiful older black woman who attends church regularly.
Charles Wade actually hit the nail on the head and made sense of my weird analogy when he said it smelled like there was a salon on the premises.
I met up with Jonny Shipes to go over some work stuff and got some work dates for the Summer in place.
Any of my Danish/German/Norwegian supporters got a couch for me to crash on?! I’ll settle for the floor.
Mothers Milk.
All the rooms in the Redbury were beautiful and massive. I had a living room, kitchen and washer/dryer. When it came time for lights out I was really freaked out. I blame it on my entire lifetime spent in cramped quarters. Being alone in a big space frightens me.
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The next morning I awoke super tired, but super stoked to start the day…
Went to hit the gym. I was told it was across the street, but it ended up being 4 blocks away. I was lost for a minute and felt like Vivian from Pretty Woman, walking the block.
When I finally arrived at the address I was told to go to, I was confronted with a Parking Garage.
It took me about 20 minutes to realize that I had to walk into it to get to the gym.
*JOSH MADDEN came to show me a great LA time…
He and PETER JAMES LEE took me to M CAFE for some delicious vegetarian food! I also got a bomb KALE LEMONADE! Boom. Then, JOEL MADDEN stopped by.
*PETER JAMES LEE, JOSH MADDEN & JOEL MADDEN.
*ALMOND MILK ICED CAPPUCCINO from URTH CAFE. Perfection.
*Me and JOSH MADDEN climbing ish at MAX FIELDS.
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*ASHY LARRY after Jason Richardson’s Birthday Party at My Studio. Special thanks to Jason and Charles Wade for everything!!!
Photo By Jonny Shipes.
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Nostalgia/Ultra.
Early Wednesday morning on the way to the airport. Just one number short of 1992 (which is having a re-launch this year).
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THE END.
INVITE: Q-Tip & Vashtie at Santos Party House (4.6.12)
If you know what’s up, then you know where to be this Friday. If you don’t, you must come and experience it for yourself (or something like that).
