Friday's "Fitted of the Week"

Summer's here and the time is right for wearing the appropriate fits. HUF of San Francisco brings the table-cloth inspired set of gingham fitted hats. These come in red, black, and light blue with a black HUF ball logo on the front. They go on sale today, but so far it looks like only in their physical store fronts.

Suckers.
HUF's website is http://www.hufsf.com/

10 Days to Brooklyn Bodega Festival - Day 2 [Donny Goines]

Another second stage act, Donny Goines is young, and a recent newcomer. While other rappers are bragging about the fact that they have been rhyming since they first started to walk, Goines admits that he did not start emceeing until 2006, inspired by the movie "Fade to Black," autobiography of Jay-Z. Despite the late start, he has put out a lot of material (and check how nice the album covers and videos are designed and shot). Donny Goines is unsigned, you can check out his myspace here http://www.myspace.com/donnygoines and the video is below.

"What Happened" Directed by John Colombo from Donny Goines on Vimeo.

10 Days to Brooklyn Bodega Festival - Day 1 [Homeboy Sandman]

So, on the 20th of June, an organization that promotes the hip-hop movement will be putting on a very, very exquisite showing of some of real hip-hop's up-and-coming talent, established emcees, and veterans of the game in a show called the Brooklyn Bodega Festival. The festival runs from Thursday the 18th in various venues across Brooklyn, coming together for the main show at Empire Fulton Ferry State Park on Saturday the 20th. There will be some big names there, so the Get Legs team and friends will be getting down to BK to see it. As a lead up to the show, I'll be slapping up a preview of one of the artists each day til the night before.

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Today, it's Homeboy Sandman from Elmhurst, Queens. Both in and out of the AOK Collective, Homeboy Sandman (not to be confused with Sandman, formerly of Re-Up Gang) has ripped the mic on three full lengths and loads of mixtapes. Here's a warning, guy is completely out of left field and comes across corny at times, though mostly in a good way. In addition to being a class rapper, guy does some excellent work hosting and documenting some really great shows in the New York area. The website is http://www.myspace.com/homeboysandman and the video, from his series "Live From..." is below.

There were a lot of nice styles that surfaced this week, including a very fresh piece from FITTED HAWAII and two throwback joints to commemorate the "Battle of the Bay" (As a note, though your man hails from Oakland, I will never cosign the Athletics' color scheme. That just looks ugly). My choice for fitted of the week is Stall & Dean's Washington Federals cap. Stall & Dean's whole shtick is designing clothing for defunct teams from defunct leagues, the Federals being a member of the United States Football League back in the 80s. It's like fake history.
Stall & Dean's website is https://www.stallanddean.com/index.asp

Friday's "Fitted of the Week"

Rolled out recently from urban hat/clothing makers Elm is a new line of 59Fiftys. The first model is the Homerun Fitted, which comes in Braves, Dodgers, Giants, and Yankees colors, featuring the Elm "E." The other model produced was the Dead Rabbits (shown below), which comes with "The Dead Rabbits" written in script with the dead rabbits logo underneath. My favorite piece of the whole line is the fire-engine red with only the rabbits as the logo. It's morbidly fly, like the space shuttle Challenger. Go to the site and check them all.


Elm's website is http://www.elmcompany.com/store/

Friday's "Fitted of the Week"

We will resume reviewing albums (and shows) soon.

This week, we have a sharp looking style from Boston's own Bodega. Maybe you've heard of this store from your hipster friends. The store is getting popular enough that it is getting its name into the public's earshot, recently having had a huge sale on sneaks. Rolling out their limited addition fitteds, Bodega has two new designs, available in 100 piece runs for each colorway. My preference is for the navy blue with the white pinstripes. shown below, but they are out of 7 1/2s. Dag.

Bodega's website is http://www.bdgastore.com/.

Ayo the Wu is comin through!

So this could be the second or third resurgence of one of hip-hop's sharpest sets. People really began counting them out after the tension surrounding 8 Diagrams and its lukewarm reception.

It has to be said that the RZA must have some thick skin considering that a few months ago Ghostface and Raekwon were calling him out for his questionable production choices on the latest Wu-Tang and now he is back producing the bulk of Rae's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II and held the boards for the latest leak from Blackout 2, "4 Minutes to Lockdown" featuring Rae & Ghost. At the end of the day, these boys are family.

'Nuff talk. Shut up and rap.

New Wu



This joint is set to be on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II, dropping (according to Rae) on August 11, 2009. The song features Method Man and Ghostface Killah. The RZA and the GZA, along with some other Clan members and various associated acts, have guest spots in the video.

4 Minutes to Lockdown




Featuring Ghostface and Raekwon. Off of Red and Mef's Blackout! 2. Confirmed for May 19.


Other Wu-Tang Projects in the works:

U-God - Dopium (Rumored Summer 2009)
Ghostface with DOOM - Swift and Changeable (Shelved for the time being due to financial troubles)
Method Man - The Crystal Method (No announced date of release)
Redman - Unnamed album (Winter 2009)


Also, GZA, RZA and Raekwon are set to be performing at Rock the Bells this summer. Tickets on sale tomorrow. Get Legs will be there in full effect.

SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!