Archive > April 2008

Summertime Chi… aaaahhhh

Finally, it feels like warm weather is here to stay.  No more quasi-blizzards going on when it should be 70 degrees outside.  We apparently traded April snowstorms for massive earthquakes and warm weather… but I’m cool with that.

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How Rocawear Was Founded

Jay-Z talks on the Tavis Smiley show about how Rocawear, a company that now has annual sales of $700 million, was started with 3 sewing machines and a credit card hook-up… this is great stuff.

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My Dollar and My Naira

My brother hipped me to Afrikan Boy recently. Besides the fact that he’s reppin’ hard for Nigerians everywhere, he’s a dope MC creating some pretty innovative & fresh music.
“I live everyday like it’s the first of October… all I want to do is make my dollar and my naira”
(October 1 is Nigeria’s Independence Day [...]

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Time’s Most Influential

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted and I have a couple things I want to put up here, but I want to start with an old Jay-Z freestyle he did on the Funkmaster Flex show. It’s pre-Kingdom Come so I hesitated posting it but it’s hot as hell so f it
Some highlights:
“The [...]

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