I can’t help but think they didn’t listen to 100 MILES AND RUNNING, seeing they are from Maryland.

According to URB.com:
There’s another footwear line on the scene and it’s gonna be huge. So serious. 100 Styles and Running manages to combine comfort and quality using concepts/processes you won’t see with other lines, all without sacrificing an ounce of style.

The line currently offers three styles for Spring/Summer08: The Abbot, The Colston and The Dylon- all versatile to fit your lifestyle, whatever it may be. You can find 100 Styles and Running at boutiques such as Bodega, Ubiq, American Rag, PHLI, True, Sportie LA, and American Rag.

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Track Listing

1. 45 King vs. Wale – Roof 90 bpm
2. 45 King vs. Wale – Roof (DJ Ayres Remix) 111 bpm
3. 45 King vs. Wale – Strings 100 bpm
4. 45 King vs. Wale – Strings (In Flagranti Remix)-126 bpm
5. 45 King vs. Pase Rock –The 900 Number (2k8) 107-bpm
6. 45 King vs. Pase Rock – The 900 Number (2k8) (Eli Escobar Remix)-123 bpm
7. 45 King vs. 4th Pyramid – P-Y-R-A-M-I-D 115 bpm
8. 45 King vs. 4th Pyramid – P-Y-R-A-M-I-D (Sammy Bananas Remix) 123 bpm

Crafty veteran meets brash newcomer. It’s a timeless cinematic formula, but SCION AV has done it a little differently this time. 45 King, producer of “Hard Knock Life,” “Stan” and dozen other hip hop classics, plays the role of the old-school champ, dropping four jewels from his bottomless stash of beats. The youngsters are represented by man-of-the-moment Wale, crowd controller Pase Rock and 4th Pyramid, with In Flagranti, Eli Escobar, DJ Ayres and Sammy Bananas doing remix duty. Peep the plot:

DC native Wale, fresh off sessions with Ronson and Kanye, is a natural to bless a downtempo 45 King special. “Roof” lays a bossa guitar on a menacing bass and 90 BPM drums as Wale manages to fit both Manute Bol and Luc Longley into his sinuous street-level rap. The Rub’s DJ Ayres takes his 111 BPM remix of “Roof” straight to the party, disco style, with live bass, synth snares and plenty of cowbell.

“Strings” is really the only appropriate name for this cello-strewn 100 BPM beat, but don’t expect Beethoven. The trademark 45 King kick and snare are in effect, and Wale’s lovesick lyrics skate the rails and ledges effortlessly. The boys of In Flagranti aren’t having any of this love business, though. They like it dirty. At a blistering 126 BPM, their “Strings” remix spits metal guitar and hi-hat shreds over a sawtooth bass line.

Def Jux survivor and T-Dot repper 4th Pyramid takes a track that Grand Puba would’ve loved and turns it out on “P-Y-R-A-M-I-D.” 45 King’s horn-filled bouncy 115 BPM groove is a throwback, but it seems like Sammy Bananas didn’t get the memo. His “P-Y-R-A-M-I-D” remix slams the tempo to 123 BPM and burps rude bass and bits of pitched vocals for a thoroughly 2008 vibe.

You can put down the dictionary, the definition of “anthem” is 45 King’s “900 Number.” The ageless roof-raiser that cleared DJ Kool’s throat gets twin 2k8 reworks, with Pase Rock showing the party people how it’s done on the mic over the original 107 BPM beat (try to follow his head-spinning song references) and NYC veterano Eli Escobar coming with a jacking 123 BPM remix that slices the signature sax line over a crunchy electro bass.

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Wanna know who’s got next after Wale? These guys right here. The new Dungeon Family with a hint of Swisher House and Cash Money thrown in for good measure. This mixtape is going to be BANANAS. Remixes from Diplo, Benzi, Flosstradamus, Krames, DJ Sega and original production from Paper Route. Shouts to Good Bully for the cover art.

Do yourself a favor and peep the streaming mix and then download it

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Everyone needs to know about this.

I am not sure if this is available everywhere yet, but the Ralph’s near me has it and my goodness if this isn’t the best OJ I’ve ever had.

Please try this if you ever see it on the shelf somewhere. Seriously.

This OJ is so good, it inspired me to write to Tropicana.

I just tried Tropicana Pure Valencia Orange Juice for the first time and I gotta say, it’s the best orange juice I’ve ever had. I have never written to a food company before but this juice deserves a lot of attention and praise. I manage a hip hop artist signed to Interscope and we have a blog, check out our post on the OJ
http://elitaste.com/blog/2008/03/13/best-orange-juice-ever-tropicanapure-valencia-orange-juice/

Best,
Dan

Link To Article

The amount of online “chatter” about an upcoming album release
directly correlates to higher physical album sales, according to two
researchers with New York University’s Stern Business School.
Professor Vasant Dhar and former student Elaine Chang observed the
trends of 108 albums released during the first two months of 2007 to
see how different outside elements affected (or predicted) sales once
the albums became available, and found that all of them had some
effect or another. But certain elements of online chatter—namely blogs
and social networks—seemed to be fairly accurate predictors of future
success.

The researchers followed the Amazon sales ranks for each of the 108
albums over a period of eight weeks (they said that Nielsen SoundScan
stats would have been ideal, but they are costly and proprietary), as
well as articles, blog postings, and MySpace friend counts about them.
The blogosphere appeared to be most strongly correlated to better
album sales—if 40 or more legitimate (written by normal people and not
by marketers) blog posts were made before an album’s release, sales
ended up being three times the average.

That trend doesn’t just apply to music from the Big Four, either.
Albums from independent labels enjoyed the same level of success. But
if an album was from a Big Four record label, sales increased five-
fold after 40 legit blog posts. If blog posts crossed 250, album sales
turned out to be six times the average, regardless of label.

The number of MySpace friends a particular band has also correlates to
better album sales. “The number of friends a band has is displayed on
its MySpace page is like a public badge of popularity,” wrote Dhar and
Chang, while observing the change in the number of MySpace friends
from week to week. The bigger the increase in MySpace friends, the
better an album’s sales turned out to be. The change, however, was not
as big as that related to blog posts, which the researchers believe is
because adding someone as a friend on MySpace is a relatively passive
process compared to putting the effort into composing a blog post.

Despite all of this new data, a good review in Rolling Stone still
can’t be beat. “Although we found that user-generated content is a
good predictor of music album sales, our analysis showed that
traditional factors cannot be ignored,” the researchers wrote. Music
from major labels traditionally sold 12 times as much as that from
independent labels, and the more mainstream media reviews an album
got, the higher the sales.

As to whether all this online chatter actually causes or merely
predicts online sales, the researchers can’t say. “It is not possible
to make such a conclusion based on this study,” they wrote, nothing
that it was probably a mixture of both. The quality of the artist and
expectations about the album causes people to talk about the album
more before release, but new buyers could be swayed as a result of the
increased chatter. But Dhar and Chang warn that if there is any
causality involved, it has to be totally organic in order for the
effect to work. “[I]f blog posts start becoming manipulated because
people think they have an impact on sales, that the predictive power
might disappear because the underlying reasons for it disappear,” they
wrote.

So on Friday the 15th, Wale called me and was like “let’s go to New Orleans…Kevin Durant is giving us his tickets, Bun B is gonna be there, Jay’s gonna be there…we gotta go.” So we booked our flights the day before and it was surprisingly not that expensive. However, I must warn you, do not fly Continental Airlines under any circumstances. I had a 5:45AM flight out of LAX, I got there at 4AM. Somehow my reservation had disappeared even though I had a confirmation number and money had changed hands. I had to deal with people at the counter and on the phone for an hour. I almost missed my flight and had to rebook my flight at the counter. It was ridiculous. Luckily I was compensated with a sweet Continental Airlines duffle bag on my return flight since I got too much swag in New Orleans and my bag was too heavy. See bag below. And that’s Brady, my dog, he’s a Katrina rescue. Call him Little Duffle Bag Boy.

So we got into New Orleans on Saturday afternoon
Bun B had an extra hotel room for us at the Crowne Plaza where the boss Ricky Ross was staying. He had a wrapped bus and Escalade parked outside. We headed over to the LRG x Casio x EA gifting suite a few blocks away where Kevin from LRG and Melissa from Casio were hanging out. Got some cool watches, LRG gear, video games.

Such an intense game of NBA 08



We then headed to lunch with Bun B at world famous Mother’s. Bourbon Street was popping off before it even got dark.

There was a line at Mother’s which we had no problem waiting in except that everyone recognized Bun B and the employees refused to let him wait in line. Wale had a hard time ordering since everything in New Orleans is made with pork, but he and I ended up with some good fried chicken and french fries and fried Apple Juice (you gotta try fried Apple Juice…wow). Passed this Nike pop up Be True store. Nothing good, just a lot of dunks.

We then headed to the skills challenge, 3-point challenge and dunk contest.

This guy standing outside was pretty amazing. He’s like Small Wonder, except taller and a black dude.

They didn’t show it on TV but Wale won the shooting stars award

And me and Hornet go way back…to like Charlotte…with Larry Johnson and his Converse Reacts

After the dunk contest, we headed to Jay Z and Lebron James’ 2 Kings event

Traffic was ridiculous. Streets were closed. But we were rolling with Bun B whose name carries more weight than the President down in Nawlins. We were just driving up to cops saying “We have Bun B in the car” and they would open streets just for us. It was pretty remarkable.

L’Chaim!!!

DC’s finest were truly in the house house house

Wale and Mick Boogie…he did Kanye’s last mixtape. Might wanna check for him.

I went to All Star Saturday in New Orleans and all I got was this lousy pack of gum…and G-Shock…and gold bottle…and Zune player…and LRG hat…lol

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Nip slips can only last a hungry man so long. I’ve been waiting for this day since I saw Mean Girls. I mean, this is great. This is better than when Christina Model finally took her top off