This Ender piece is from a Dayton graffiti jamm. The Black Lips and Pierced Arrows songs are from Scion Split 7 inch that will be out July 6th. The bands get the paper.

The Pack’s verison of “We Want Some Pussy” is not on their upcoming album Wolfpack Party, which is out 8-24.

MP3:KillahPriest: Psalm Of Satan FeatSabacRed&IllBillFromLaCokaNostra

Illegally fun jump-off. The Killah Priest Song is about Satan and it guesst Sabac Rec and Ill Bill. It’s on Killah Priests up coming album The Three Day Theory out 7-27.

Every week i get a bunch of MP3′s sent to me that I don’t know what to do with. I am gonna post them here with graff and make it my own little Life Sucks Die

L.e. for the Uncool brings it on this video and reps Columbus properly. Footie of Ender, Rilla and others from the WTC. The video has effects that remind me of Pharcyde’s “Drop” with L.E. riding his BMX backwards at times. The song itself is a banger. L.E. raps with urgency over a bassline that will get stuck in your brain immediatley. Shots to Milk N Syrup’s Ralph Rude on the cameo.

A few weeks ago we celebrated the 4th annual Daymon Day here in Columbus. We had a basketball tourney, tribute mural, emcee battle, parade and a rowdy dance party. We got our Rucker park on and then brought it into the streets.

For those that aren’t familar with Daymon Day but like things perhaps reading this article before or after viewing the following videos and pictures might give you some background info.

Click here to view the embedded video.

This video shot by A.J.(i think) shows the parade.

Watch it if you think marching 300 plus people in the middle of the road to Black Sabbath, Dilla, Cam’ron, M.O.P. , DJ Przm, Camu Tao, Jim Jones,Pharoah Monche and Racist Joe instrumentals to honor their fallen loved ones on an OSU gameday sounds interesting.

Photos taken by Danielle Kline that show a different detail after the jump.

I missed the basketball tourney that CJ Townsend organized because I was out in the burbs buying Montana’s for a couple doods’ outline colors for one of the graffiti murals.As for the basketball contest, I guess Central City Recordings brought in some ringers and won the game.

The other big story from the tourney, was Team Weedsteeler was narrowly defeated by the Grip 14-1. The other highlight was that Ron House played for Agit Reader(i think) and appeherently was a fierce competitor.

I got to the Park right before the rap battle between Zero Star and EC Vol. The battle was in front of the newly restored Tuttle Park handball court mural.

A. Kern and Ender did a wonderful job covering up the alterations made by tags, drawing of penises and the weather that had overtaken the iconic mural orginally meticulously painted by B. Jones, S.Zook, G. Sparano and D. Duncan that expressed both graffiti writer’s civic pride and their often underestimated abilties.

(A. Kern is the young muralist that painted the Blue Danube, every Daymon mural, and the bathrooms of Milkbar among other things. Two of his murals were included in the Dispatch’s recent Top Ten Murals in Columbus.)

Unlike the cityscape that A.Kern fixed, the bottom pieces of N.E.W.S. were dissed beyond repair, so Ender created a universal font that honored our cities fallen Hip Hop heros, Daymon Dodson, DJ Przm, and Camu Tao.

The mural, in its orginal form, had burners of the words, North, East, West, and South, directing the viewer to the idea that the kids that paint the city with letters could literally paint the city to the letter. The letters were on the original mural were intentionally painted in highly stylized graffiti form next to an amazing rendering of the cityscape of downtown Columbus.

The idea of those involved with the graffiti restoration process was that deviating from a graffiti font was ok. The point that letters can be as technical challenging as photorealistic scenery had be proven by the mural’s original artists.

The muralists were restoring the idea that graffiti writers love their city and interact with their community.

So maybe the actual mural wasnt exactly restored to exact original form.

But the remembrance of icons and their contributions to our city is important to our city’s culture and identity development. Graffiti was used to put this back in people’s minds.

A legible font conveyed this sentiment by being more viewer accessible.

(plus the back wall has 18+ burners on it, painted by BSA,PBJ, ESE,IOK, 3WA and TFC doods.)

This set the stage for a rap battle between Zero Star and EC Vol.

Click here to view the embedded video.

video of battle by Chase Manhattan(i think)

DIY MARCHING BAND:Tony “Envelope” Collinger and Mike “DJ Detox” Tormey set up a PA in the back of a pick-up truck so that Detox could dejay while people marched in the parade.

Danielle Kline made a dinosaur float so that the Daymon Dodson doll would have somewhere to sit during the parade.

Parade time.

This is Jacqueliene Arias, a journalist, artist and filmmaker in town from NYC because of the festival on Gay Street downtown. She contacted me via facebook because she is making a documentary and wanted to talk about Columbus art and culture. So I picked her up.

She was really impressed by what she saw at ID09 on Gay Street. She expressed a notion that it was shame the events were the same day. I told her a real city can support two festivals in the same day.( Which Columbus did easily)

I told her that organizers of ID09 did try to include us.

However our parade is greatly contingent on having mural space to paint tribute walls, and the spectacle of marching in front of OSU celebrating football fans on gameday on OSU campus.

Daymon loved absurdity so trumping OSU football is prolly the best thing we could ever do.

Picture being a freshman at OSU:

You are on a porch playing beerpong. So pumped that the Buckeyes just won and you have a case of Natty Light to toast these glorious times..

You look over, and OMG, in the middle of the street are 300 people of every background possible except your own, marching to the instrumental Dipset’s “What’s Really Good” while chanting Racist Joe.

Might make you spit out your shitty beer, and create a memory

(and at least we had a painting of downtown’s skyline)

rofl

The parade concluded on 5th and High where the crowd sung Daymon’s hit song, “Bitch, You Don’t Know Shit”.

I was terrified because Daymon’s family were there and the song is explicit.

To my suprise/relief Daymon’s mom knew the words. She giggled during and did not sing the “bitch” or “shit” parts. It was laughshh you don’t laughshh. It was beautiful that she had discovered and enjoyed that aspect of her son.

Detox finally gets to get out of the truck after dejaying a parade.

Eventually we left Milk Bar and headed to the Summit for this afterparty:

http://s877.photobucket.com/albums/ab339/itspos/daymon%20day/daymon%20day%20summit%20st%20jam/?action=view&current=100_0544.flv

video courtesy of pos 2.

I used think I was funny and say that Chicago rappers The Cool Kids are the new Jurassic 5. That was meant to be completely an insult towards the idea of throwback rap.

But shit, doods persona are a lot, ahem cooler, than Charlie Tuna and all those cornball jamband nerds. They don’t sing song over Dave Mathews percussion. Plus I can fuck with the miminal post-Neptunes production and a general feeling of superiority from the reality of how Allah made some of us .

Anyway, here is a video of the Cool Kids telling you how they want to be the reason you cop a system.

They also want you to download their new mixtape Gone Fishin which involves Don Cannon somehow. You don’t get the feeling Don Cannon got involved one of those pay to play scams that mixtape dejays use to get extra money off fanbase lacking rappers that are trying to work their angles. Shit bangs. Download it here:

MP3: The Cool Kids x Don Cannon-Gone Fishin

They are standing behind the Newport in front of an Ender tag.

Bay Bay posted this on omnimix.
Three Way Action in Third World America.

Photos By Danielle Kline

Cleveland often gets a rep for being a location of pure misery. But things may be looking up. About 4 Years ago it quietly the Land started standing out as the best city for graffiti in Ohio due to the efforts of the Droids, BHS, and TKO. William “Upski” Wimsatt predicted this would happen in his book, Bomb the Suburbs. More recently, Mick Boogie, Chemical Kickdrums, Chipper the Ripper, and Fat Al, have started an upswing in Cleveland Hip Hop. So when I heard Diplo was coming to Cleveland to redeem himself for the worse show experience in his life, I was mad curious. Do people actually have fun in Cleveland these days?

Detox, the roadtrip only homie William,myself and Dkline hopped in the whip, and headed up to see how C-Town Rides in 0-infinity.

When we got to venue, B-Side Lounge (which is NE Ohio for basement of the Grogg Shop) I was tapped on my shoulder. It was the infamous Endrokone grinning. He was in Cleveland to paint over a writer that he has been fueding with for a little while now. After doing like 15 spots, Ender had resigned to sweat out the paint toxins to Diplo’s mixes and blends.

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Graffiti photos not by Danielle Kline.

After talking to Ender about his days efforts, he bounced out cause he “was looking for some girls to dance with”. This consisted of him circling the room repeatedly and jumping over random couches. While observing this mating process I ran into Ridl from the DROIDS. He told me Ender was in town, and had been painting non-stop.

Fly Union photo taken off of random girl’s myspace account.

When I came in, I was delighted to be greated with more Columbus. Bustown’s Fly Union was on stage. Fly dot U killed it. They rapped over their own music, and then occasionally had DJ Kratedigga mix in Justice and Kid Sister instrumentals. This was kinda bugged cause these kids are straight up Hip Hop cats that are adjusting to the lane they are in. Crowd was all hands up, and cheers. They did my favorite song, “Big Trucks” in which Fly Union rapper L-to-tha says, “Can’t I hang with my lady, without calling her the B-word, and see her amazing.” While I don’t know what to make of a rapper who doesn’t want to call his girlfriend a bitch, there is something refreshing about his stance against hate speech.

Rest of photo take by Danielle Kline

Mad Decent recording artist DJ Blaqstarr was next. Dood killed it. He is not stuck on Lynn Collins, and cusswords by any means. Naw man, Blaqstarr spends grown and sexy Club music. Blaqstarr even sings over it. Me and Detox argued if dood used to be in R+B group Dru Hill. Detox claims yes. I claim I don’t know. Detox is also the guy that tried to convince me that Mathew Santos of Lupe Fiasco collab fame is actually a front for Bono trying to sing on rap songs.

No one else in the club was speculating if Blaqstarr used to be in Dru Hill.

They were too busy dancing. Diplo was next.

Diplo went Bmore then into Baille Funk. Diplo always keeps a familar melody overtop of fast break. Like Rocky horns, and what not to keep your attention.

At some point he played “You Can Call Me Al” by Paul Simon and Chevy Chase. I had hoped this happened because is Diplo is in tune and subliminal at the same time. The internets across the world had been debating Vampire Weekend’s Afro-Julian Casablanca sound. So that made me laugh.

Diplo brought the rap in. He would play some g-shit then follow it up with Beastie Boys.

They love it.

Diplo brought Blaqstarr out at the end to croon seductively. Blaqstarr is a lot less creepy than T-Pain.

We left because the show was over. Yes. People in Cleveland actually have fun these days.