It's a wRAP!!!

It has come to my attention that a Portland staple is coming to an unfortunate end. Over the last what 12+ years we (Portland) have grown to despise a piece of culture that exists in all cities across the country -- The urban music radio station. I was a huge proponent of this station in its glory days when none other than Rasheed Wallace would deejay his own show.

I can't quite pinpoint what went wrong with the station but I have a gut feeling it wasn't all their own doing. At this time though I would like to invite any JAMMIN worker to come on our blog and get a chance to air out anything and everything they have to say about the station's demise. Just email us, it's right on the side of the page and of course we respect anonymity.

So as I was saying I don't think it's all their fault, I believe a lot of it has to do with the see through nature of Rap Music. What I mean is, Rap is very translucent to the Music Elitist down to your average schmo. Everybody sees through the lies and BS that is engulfing the urban radio airwaves. I for one have watched this classic downfall of a giant take place over the last several several years (the music elitist in me). Rap is fickle, caused by its lack of creativity, truthfulness and desire of those "artists" to only make money. Only when people stop looking at Rap as a monetary venture will it regain its credibility. I could go on forever but I don't want to make the rest of the BOP salty.

In summation I believe that the erosion of Rap Music and its culture have caused this backlash against our poor little 95.5 but one day soon we will gain another station that will forcibly beat no talent ass-clowns against our ear drums too. I do have another theory though, I understand PK and the Playhouse have done well for themselves, will they move on? I'm sure somebody will pick them up. But, maybe they spent too much of the station's money buying things like this......


I'll especially miss this truck...




-Keith

East Coast-West Coast Beef!!

One is left and one is right. This describes our coastal territories and the pair of shoes on our feet. While more often than not they're screwing up opportunities in the sneaker world, Adidas are risk takers and world renowned innovators of marketing the exact same shoe over and over for the last 35+ years. Today I present another attempt at it and I actually think it's pretty cool. Of course Im'a bit biased being that I customize (do art) on shoes. Anyway, so Adidas commissioned 3 artists in NY and 3 artists in L.A., all of which you will know if you look at HypeBeast daily. Each group got their coastal representation (left/right) of a pair of 15 foot Adidas Superstars and were unleashed for 3 days only to square off at Venice Beach. The result is this video. What are Adidas' plans now that this has been released -- who knows! They'll probably just let it end here which is probably a good idea.

-Keith