10 Days to Brooklyn Bodega Festival - Day 5 [Marco Polo & Torae]

More and more, Canada's hip-hop artists are aggressively imposing themselves on the American hip-hop scene. Marco Polo arms himself with not only an impressive selection of beats, but an extensive rolodex, recruiting many of rap's entrenched veterans for his projects. Teamed up with Torae, Brooklyn's own, the duo recently released "Double Barrel" on Duck Down Records. Below is the song "Hold Up," starring Masta Ace and Duck Down labelmate Sean Price. The duo's website is http://www.myspace.com/doublebarrel08.

10 Days to Brooklyn Bodega Festival - Day 4 [Tiye Phoenix]

Don't think that we forgot about the ladies. Among the ranks of the talented young emcees blessing the Second Stage is Tiye Phoenix. This woman is incredibly talented: a classically-trained pianist, producer, songwriter, and composer. Tiye was formerly signed to Rawkus Records, during which time she teamed up with DJ Spinna, Shabaam Sahdeeq, and Mr. Complex in the group Polyrhythmaddicts to release the album Break Glass in 2007. She recently released her album Half Woman Half Amazin' May 26th. Look down for her song "Killin' Everybody." The website is www.myspace.com/tiyephoenix.

10 Days to Brooklyn Bodega Festival - Day 3 [Nyle]

I fudged the entry today, got it in late. But the Pittsburgh Penguins are now the STANLEY CUP CHAMPION Pittsburgh Penguins. This lil' cat's excited.

Today's highlight is Nyle, a rookie out of Philadelphia that will be blessing the second stage at Brooklyn Bodega. Like the other two artists we have covered so far, Nyle is smart, and he has drive. A graduate of NYU's revolutionary BFA program in recorded music, Nyle already has two albums out and keeps working. The addition to Get Legs below is his video "Let the Beat Build." The website is www.nyleraps.com.

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