Please Muska come back!

I am happy that Supra has been supporting equal opportunity when hiring designers for their shoes.  It’s great to have blind designers desigingn shoes!  Or maybe they are letting elementary student take a run at the sewing machine. NO, this is a colab right, everyone does colabs, check it: Leaping Lanny Poffo wrestling boot x Nike Raids x Vans x Velcro factory x Kramer Ankle brace x Supra!  Ohhhhh, i get it now it its FRESH to me.  Ninja Please.  This has to be a joke to see how many hypebeasts will scoop it up.  Please Muska, go back to rocking the sag, rappin’, beats, and boombox.  Ditch the nut huggers and miami mesh tank top, stunner shades and these wack ass shoes. Pau!

Fun in Traffic

Pimpers Paradise…

I been noticing a lot of pimping of Hawaii and Hawaiian culture going on, here in Hawaii.  Growing up in Hawaii is a experience only a handful of people around the world can say they did.  Growing up in Hawaii, and being of Hawaiian ancestry is even a smaller number. Kind of tired of seeing Hawaiian sayings, people, and historic events/icons being used to promote a some what false Hawaii.  I mean, damn, King Kamehameha the Great must be doing 1990’s in his mountain side secret cave grave seeing everyone and their aunty – maddas – sistahs – puka – dog, using his likeness, character, and silhouette. How many of these companies actually give back to the Native Hawaiian People?  “Give back”, meaning not only in dollars, but in education, awareness, and cultural.  I really believe that if you have some kind of Hawaiian word or likeness in your name that you have a responsibility to Hawaii – the people, the land, and the culture, in some way, shape, or form to give back.  Are we making stuff for tourists to wear or for everyone to be aware?  Also, when you make that design, statement, or shirt, do you even know your history?  Are you trully passionate about Hawaii and its History & Culture, or are you just using it cause its cool to use Kapu sticks with skulls?  I only write this and express my thoughts and feelings because i care about Hawaii especially because in the end its my and hundred thousands of Native Hawaiians blood.

Got a send a shouts to FITTED, although just mainly a hat company they probably educated more people (Hawaiian and non-Hawaii) about Hawaiian culture, events, people, history, and practices, then all of us combined.  For every Fitted and shirt, they break down the science on the design, getting into details.  We all can take a note and up the game when using Hawaii.

Have you ever tried..

Smoking ice?  WTF, this is the question i got from a co-worker.  She was asking everyone if they ever tried smoking rock?  It didn’t stop there she started to say that she wanted to try  to smoke ice once  just to see if it takes just one time to get hooked!  Now, i don’t want to say what this worker does but put it this way, the fact that she was serious or at least looked like she was serious, about smoking the baats is MESSED UP!  If her “clients” knew that it was definitely make anyone feel weird.  Just say NO, old but that saying is it!
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Sh*t is real…

I had fun this Halloween.  Got to hang out with family and friends.  Take my son treating.  Got to hand out popcorn instead of candy.

This song is going out to everyone messing with or capitalizing on the darkness, evil, and fear.  You mess with the bull, you will get the horns, and in this case it might not be the horn of a bull…Keep it clean and in the light, yall.

Nice AD!

I had to repost this one.  When i first seen it on the www.oldeivory.com page i was taken aback and instantly texted Race, “Yo ad is supa dope, my ad sucks” I love the simple and impactful photo, that it actually makes me wanna skate. Raw front feebles on a ledge, wtf! feebs on a ledge is soooo Mike Carroll that you get mucho props from me and frontside, OHHHHH!

On the skate tip, In4 has opened up a new shop in Pearlridge and relocating all the skate to this shop! Whoa! Whats crazy is that means Crooks & Castles is coming to P-ridge, all my rich filipinos stand up, no fo’ real stand up, ohh you are standing up..nah joke.  They also have a in-shop pro, Darin Lee, well not pro but top 10 ever from Hawaii.  What yall know about Headside? Thats right OG son!  Congrats guys good things to come & welcome back to the Westside.

Its been almost 3 years since i was apart of Protoype in P-ridge. I believed i put together one of the best up and coming skate teams; First person was Wes aka. P-rod, then Larry Upchurch aka the Prodigy, also the OG – Bronson Gregory, and rounding off with Killer Mike G aka Prince of Kaneohe.  The Graff section was BANGING, and the artshows & writers benches were real – Pamala Young status (big up Lofa). Promotion was so money cuz Trip the Lights, Beatroot, & INERiTA was in full effect.  Things changed and Life moves on.  Learned a lot about the retail, fashion, politics, ownership, and all that Jazz.  Props to P-type and all the Blessings to you, thank you for everything…Peace.

Learning curves.

Who would of thought i would be making woven labels? Crazy? Through the years i have learned thru trial and error what and how to run my own clothing/music label, and i say that very loosely.  After going thru the two batches of 1000 labels, i knew the next step was to bring attention to detail.  In a over saturated market, it takes a lot – not quantity, but qualitiy.  I always thought printing on the inside of a shirt was, eh, eazy way to do things.  And yes look for LS in a quality store near you. Mahalo

Slick Rick

I don’t remember where i first saw this, but whoever thought it up…bravo.   Heres some randomness from the mind…Myspace is blowing it. Facebook and Twitter are killing them. Why?  The interface and look is so cluttered and outlandish that Facebooks clean and simple-ablity is what people need.  Didn’t Tom sell it to Rupert Murdoch, those rich fools don’t care about users, they just sell advertising space, fill it with pop ups, and spam. done!

Lets Dance! Ricky D give it too em!

When in Waikele don’t go to Waipahu!

….So i was done with Beatroot and decided to get the wifee some ice cream from Baskin Robins Waikele.  As i pulled into the parking lot i noticed a haole guy pushing a PT Cruzer with 2 females in the car.  I figure i park quick and give the brother a hand.  As i jet out of my car, i noticed that there are at least 3 mokes just watching little haole guy push this car.  Those punk a** mokes can get the fat one for not helping this guy.  Anyway.  I ask, “do you need help?” Homie says, “i can only speak a little English, i am from Spain, i ran out of gas…” So help push the car into a stall and told the guy to call the security number on the wall.

He says Thank You and i go back into Baskin’s.  As i was waiting in line, i got that feeling, and that calm audible voice in my head said “Go back” at the same time, i could feel it in my Gut to go help the guy a little more…

So i bounce out of the Bask and ask the guy did he call the security, of course not he has no phone.  So i called security and they never came.  So i told him i can call his rental car company, because they have 24 road side.  I call and Dollar rental, said that it would be 3 x what they would pay if they just found a way to get gas.  I figure my time was done, but as i tried to make my exit, i still had that GUT feeling to stay and help.

Sucked it up and told the guy, i would take him to Lowes, where they will buy a gas container and i will then take him to Waipahu to get gas.  He insisted that he would walk, i was like YOU CRAZY, a small white dude walking pass Hans La-range Park!  I told him, Waipahu is a chill place but at any time it can pop off.

…we get to the Shell across the park they have Summer baseball, and his credit card didn’t work. So i turned on my MOKE-ISM and walked homie into the cashier booth, “Eh brah, i say dis guy bugga was stranded on da side of da road.  He ran outta gas, so i figga i kokua.  try run da credit caadd again, right on tanks badda, Mahalos.”

Back at the PT, homie fills it up and now he looks like Dose One from Anticon!

How many Europeans does it take to fill a gas tank?  Three from Spain?  I joke.

Before they left, i finally got to ask the name of the lost Spaniards.  Dose One look a like was Raul.  The girl next to him was Claudia…Here is the clincher!  The girl on the right her name was KARMA! Are you serious.  As i shook her hand i was like, “You are kidding right?”.  Then she said, “You are like a Angel for us in Hawaii”  That’s more like it.  Kavet the Angel.  Hah! They also let me know if i ever go to Barcelona, that they will take care of everything. Say Word!

Three happy Spaniards off to their hotel in Makaha.  Ciao!  I hope those Mokes watching us push the car get a taste of what goes around come back around and bites you in the arse!

O’reily?

Yes, check this out…this is a sample of an interview of Kid Cudi in the newest Complex Mag…are you serious?

People love to point out similarities between you and Drake—do you view him as competition?
Kid Cudi: I think it’s just that Drake and me are the most creative out of the new up-and-coming MCs. Me and Drake are here not because of anything other than two niggas that have their own flavor. I’m doing my shit, nobody else can do my shit. Nobody else can do Wale’s shit or Charles Hamilton’s shit. It’s like a bunch of Kool-Aid stands. It just matters whose flavor you like the most.

Yo Fam, Drake, Wale, Charles Ham, and Kid Kudi, yo Fam, its the jump off Fam,  Let’s add in Kids in the Hall, Cool Kids, Lupe, and Kanye.  Ninja please. Majority of their music is mediocere by far.  Lyrically blatant and carbon copy.  Seriously, they need to become “street wear” models and stop rapping.  I know this is the era we are in, where OK rap is the hotness, but with the new Qwel, Matre, Joe Dub, Ab Rude, Khule, Nocando, Ceschi, Braille, Surreal, and can’t forget Dose and Jel back together as Themselves. Hearing these cats make me sterile and bored, doesn’t challenge the mind. Well, theres my vent. Fools should check these cats and put em in GT or the Jungle.

Here is some new Qwel & Maker, yes they are from Chicago, Maker murders Kanye on the beats and Qwel drowns him as well.  Heads need to know that Chicago is more than ‘Good Music’-Galapagos 4 & Rubberroom!