Chico, a 19 year old from Pasadena, has spent the past few years hunting down incredibly rare vintage merch pieces attached to early Kanye West music.
From nearly-extinct parking lot bootlegs, to tees that only the staff who worked on an album received, to one-of-one pieces from the brands Kanye designed but never released, Chico tells the story of why he started this quest and why he’s now selling the collection to his fellow Ye superfans.
"Timbalan’d Up is the only song on my album with a rap feature. I called on my brother Royce Da 5’9 to do what he does best. The title is self explanatory. Don’t get stomped on. We give beatings on or off beat." - Joell Ortiz
Actionism is a Los Angeles based coalition, founded to defend and advance progressive humane causes. We unite within our local community and organize direct actions that utilize our collective artistic ability.
This Actionism project was conceived by Anacron, Nathan, Forrest, and Erik.
Inspired by Gil Scott-Heron's "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"
VICE meets members of the Miami Style Gods (MSG), a graffiti crew based in Miami, and follows them on a night of “bombing” — leaving their tags on highway signs, walls, garage doors, bridges, and more.
Crews like MSG are prolific, and go out of their way to tag as many locations, as many times as possible, no matter what the cost. But with the rise of social media and the gentrification of now art districts like Wynwood, where graffiti is essentially permitted, we are now seeing corporate appropriation of this underground subculture that corporate America once looked down upon that is now changing the graffiti world for good or bad.
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Waynesboro, PA does not come to mind when you think of contributions to hip-hop, but Kimetrius “Lil Skies” Foose hopes to be that boundless rose to spring forth from the concrete.