ILOVEKARIMO

ON MY RECENT TRIP TO AMSTERDAM I MET UP WITH MY FRIEND KARIMO WHO I COMPLETELY OVERLOOKED WAS THIS MADLY TALENTED AND ARTISTIC GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND BEAT PRODUCER.
I WANTED TO SHARE SOME OF HIS WORK WITH YOU, SO YOU CAN SEE THE LEVELS OF CREATIVITY AND DEPTH IN KARIMO’S DRAWINGS.

BELOW IS THE ARTWORK FROM HIS MIXTAPE: DEATH STARS 3: ATTACT OF THE BABYLON SLAYERS

DARK, INTRICATE DESIGNS, LAYERED WITH DETAIL, KARIMO’S DRAWINGS REALLY REMINDED ME OF ARTIST RICK GRIFFIN WHO WAS ONE OF THE LEADING DESIGNERS OF PSYCHEDELIC CONCERT POSTERS IN THE 1960S CALIFORNIA AND LIKE GRIFFIN; KARIMO DESIGNS CRAZY POSTERS EVENTS, VINYLS AND TEE’S.

RICK GRIFFIN:

KARIMO:

RICK GRIFFIN’S WORK WAS POPULAR WITHIN THE SURFING SUBCULTURE IN THE USA. HIS MOST RENOWN WORK INCLUDED HIS COMIC STRIP ABOUT A SURFER NAMED “MURPHY”. MOST KIDS TODAY WOULD ASSOCIATE “COWABUNGA” WITH BART SIMPSON, BUT IT WAS RICK GRIFFIN’S “MURPHY” THAT COINED THE TERM WAY BACK IN THE 1970S.

YOU MIGHT RECOGNISE MURPHYFEATURED ON OF COLLAB BETWEEN VANS X RICK GRIFFIN IN 2009

I THINK A TRAPSTAR X KARIMO COLLAB WOULD BE INTERESTING…THOUGHTS IN THE COMMENT BOX PEOPLE.

FOR MORE ON KARIMO CHECK OUT: WWW.ILOVEKARIMO.COM

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Taken from my post on : iamatrapstar.com

Beyonce: Move Your Body

What does patriotic America do when the crisis of obesity is taking over young people?

...They bring in Beyonce to get the heart racing in a lunchroom flashdance style work out video of course!

Check it out:

I'm defiently gunna start doing this every morning to get the blood flowing!

put that Cream filled Twinky down and WORK IT!!!!!

I'M GOING COACHELLA NEXT YEAR

As festivals go, I'm still very new to many of them as I only really started attended any big ones in the last 2 years. Coachella is supposedly one of the biggest out door music festivals in the world.

Coachella (ko-CHEL-a, ko-a-CHEL-a) is a city in Riverside County, California; it is the easternmost city in the region collectively known as the Coachella Valley (or the Palm Springs area). Known as the "City of Eternal Sunshine", Coachella is largely a rural, agricultural, family-oriented community in the desert and one of the state's fastest growing cities in the late 20th century.

...thanks Wikipedia

The Festival was held over the weekend and as the footage comes through my heart sinks cos I missed it....Here's Magnetic Man's performance, enough to make this elephants mouth water.

Shystie 'Pirates Mixtape'

I LOVE SHYSTIE!!!!!! (say something!?)

I am wetting myself in anticipation of this dropping. Shystie is quality over quantity when it comes to new material and a real hard grafting female in the music industry who in my opinion doesn't get enough love. I highly respect this girls game, she stays true to herself in a male dominated industry. The preview alone for the new 'Pirates Mixtape' is enough to turn anyone into a fan of this progressive female talent...check it out for yourself!

but seriously Shystie...it's April, where is Pirates Mixtape??? :(

support the movement and follow her here

http://www.iamshystie.co.uk/

URBAN DEVELOPMENT: INDUSTRY TAKEOVER, Sat 16TH APRIL 2011

Support Team UK the right way!

"Taking place on Saturday 16th April 2011, the All-Dayer is set to bring you 8 hours of edutainment, jam-packed with performances from the hottest names in urban music, a range of innovative seminars, open mic sessions, essential master classes, workshops and exclusive urban cinema screenings"

Providing a platform for the next generation and inviting them to learn, debate, experiment, question and hear about urban music. Guest panelists on the day include Kano, Wiley, Twin B, Yasmin, G Frsh, P Money, SBTV, RWD and many more....tickets are £10 in advance...don't miss out if you're a budding talent or you just curious to know more.

No Love

Skits, Shadez The Misfit, Nate & Ash Catch Em - No Love (clean) Produced by Footstepz by TrapstarLDN

Watch this space for the video coming soon, produced by Footstepz, No Love is taken from the highly anticipated Trapstar Mixtape Rise of The Underdogs.

Check out SBTV X Trapstar Cypher for more from these 4 talented guys...don't sleep on em!

Summer is here

Amsterdam

Me and my boobie Liz went to Amsterdam last weekend to see Chase and Status in concert.

After arriving in my home from home city, we took our virgin tram ride to decent 3 star Hotel, checked in and settled into our room and soon received a text from my local friend Karim “On Leidse Straat, I’m there at coffee company” ....this was the beginning of an epic and very LONG day

This is how it went...

• Met the lovely Karim @ Coffee Company and he takes us to party in Vondel Park;
• Vondel park is full – 100s and 100s of cool, funky, sexy, yummy mummies, dishy dads, cool kids, hot girls, sexy guys, punks, emos....You name it, they’re there dressed in fly kicks and shades.
• Half cut, sun kissed and learning some Dutch we take a long walk to go eat some seriously good home cooked Indonesian food
• Walk back to hotel the whole while Karim has been an amazing tour guide to us
• Get back to hotel for an outfit change and a sly disco nap only to realise the doors open at 9 not 10 and the concert is due to start at 10 not 11....despite this we get to Melkweg at 11 and the ticket guy tells us it’s about to start in 2mins – PERFECTO!
• CHASE AND STAUS ROCKED MY WORLD!!!!!
• Back to the hotel for a another outfit change and then hit the streets; bee line for Club Air where there is an MTV party happening and is also the after party for Chase and Status
• Club Air is the shit, after some translation/money/locker issues we are in the mix of the club doing shots and drinking doubles
• OH, WHATS THIS?! My spidey senses lock onto the beat which leads me to a second from where garage, dubstep, dirty beats and house is the flavour.
• I clear the dance floor with my skanks and get so sweaty betty that we take a break in the smoking area – there is not outside area here
• Chilling in stagnate smoke filled room as if from behind the smoke haze immerses a man requesting a cigarette.
• Liz is stuttering, why... it’s only MC Rage of chase and Status who is the nicest person in the world.
• We spent the next hour talking, sharing stories, finding out the world is too small and we know a lot of the same people and get invited to the iTunes festival to watch Chase and Status play.,....i cannot discuss this further for fear of jinxing myself. Shhhhhhhh.....
• Anyway it’s 3 am in Amsterdam I arrived at 12:30 and I still haven’t smoked anything green– on hearing this rage presents me with a bag of weed and says “enjoy” I heart MC Rage....I heart Chase and Status even more now!
• We party for a bit and even talk some business (WATCH THIS SPACE) before Rage disappears and never comes back but we swapped details (but of course) and I get a text to say they had to exit swiftly but look forward to meeting again soon - I thank him for the music and the show!
• I swear my life is like the best teen stoner movie ever!

The rest of the trip went something like this...