I try to keep an eye on Starks Laces because they’re always doing something extra, adding a splash to the game. Their latest creation is all the way hip-hop.
Their creativity & attention to detail is second to none – from the color placement & inspiration behind this lace, all the way down to how they drop the “Starks” script on the metal aglets. In these days where nothing is completely exclusive, rocking your sneakers with a slight twist like a lace gives a nod to a chick as if to say “Yeah sugarlump, I pays attention to it all. Guurrrl, I’ll house you.”
Okay, maybe that’s too much. You can buy your laces. You can’t buy this type game though so you’ll have to make up your own.
To see their other creations and purchase, visit www.starkslaces.com
Here’s Some more Tribe 12″ goodies for you folks…
A_Tribe_Called_Quest_-__1993__-_Award_Tour__Vinyl 12″
A_Tribe_Called_Quest_-__1993__-_Award_Tour__Vinyl__12″
A_Tribe_Called_Quest_-__1990__-_Bonita_Applebum__Vinyl__12″
A_Tribe_Called_Quest_-__1996__-_Stressed_Out__Vinyl__12″
A_Tribe_Called_Quest_-__1991__-_Check_The_Rhime__Vinyl__12″
A_Tribe_Called_Quest_-__1990__-_Can_I_Kick_It__Vinyl__12″
Previously Posted – “Relapsation…The Remix”
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transcript of Eli Porter’s instant classic verse from his infamous Iron Mic freestyle battle
*Courtesy of Ya Boy Petey (mad props for his pain-staking attention to detail and incredible accuracy)*
I got one question mayne
Tell me who next?
This nÑ–gga soft like a nÑ–gga
who did give em da bess
see I’m da bess mayne…I diid it
(in silence “Ohh sh….)
*zones out
*catches the holy ghost
*Envy looks confused as hell
*Eli does awkward dance
*tries to play envy and pass him the mic
*Eli does strange faces
Hi!
film cuts to the famous stare
Ah!
*Zones out again…
*mind is probably in another time
*stares some more
*eyes in the back of the head
*mind comes back to Eli’s body at 2:40
*Eli grunts “ummphhh”
*eyes bug out again
*he’s back
*beats plays
Yeah! Ugh!
Yeah!
Yeah!
Yeah, see I’ma let you know
who the best
by the hour
You like Rosie O’Donnell at a bisexual bridal shower
it ain’t nothing to me mayne…
I keep it for real
Look at this dental mayne…with
Dental tha grill…see
I’m da bess
I told you that
this dude like that, he running from the cat
NAW! I messed up, but I’ma stay on top
They told me, man, but you know
I’m NEVER Gonna Flop!
Look at this dude, he need to stay in the shade
Ain’t no wonder why he came out, he already in the gay parade (ETHER!)
I Told you mayne!
I GOT YOU!
roasted like Eva
You don’t know, but my rhymes…they straight up clever!
so you step down off the pedestule
I’m da bess mayne
you need to go, to the fuÑking dental!
*heart shaped TV angle
*eli smiling
These are some “Low End Theory” laces.
“Yeah sugarlump, I pays attention to it all. Guurrrl, I’ll house you.”
LOL. right.
Starks laces are flavor
I got the cement (or is it elephant?) print laces on my AJ II’s
and the Gucci laces on my Creative Rec’s with the same Gucci accents
I don’t know what I’d hook up those Tribe laces with tho
HIP HOP ALBUM SALES WEEK ENDING 4/13/08
07. Ray J – All I Feel – 38816 (Week) – 39179 (Total)
A New sextape ! A New sextape ! A New sextape !
08. Rick Ross – Trilla – 34239 (Week) – 416379 (Total) So he is certified gold i think. or soon with the third single-videoclip, here i am with nelly.
10. Danity Kane – Welcome To The… – 27662 (Week) – 399370 (Total) Diddy’s angels or bitches
18. Day 26 – Day 26 – 23881 (Week) – 265020 (Total) making a band
22. Flo Rida – Mail On Sunday – 20997 (Week) – 168720 (Total) he is millionnaire with that !
27. Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple – 18311 (Week) – 101372 (Total) No A Success… maybe for the third !
28. Trina – Still Da Baddest – 18231 (Week) – 65034 (Total) Still Da Lessest
30. Snoop Dogg – Ego Trippin – 18077 (Week) – 263933 (Total) Smooth snoop dislike, will came with banger and platinum(s)
—_-Living Legends – Gathering – 2674(Week) – 2711 (Total) i don’t know
Day 26 & Ray J are…hip-hop?
@ Gotty, it translates differently.
LOL @ Trina “Still Da Lessest”
Yo, strange request this one but does anyone have the shelved Cuban Link album ’24K’ and if so can they up it?
Peace
Peace to the Jungle Brothers.
And peace to John Starks.
starks laces are always fresh, i just dont like the metal tips.
i died at the transcribed lyrics…the video gets funnier too every time i watch it
forgive the repost of this comment from the quest post before, but i had to make sure yall read it..since it’s like the most i’ve EVER written since joining TSS 2 years ago. i got classic stories to share…
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let me weigh in crew. every fucking album that i have bought, dubbed, stolen, or borrowed has changed my life. even them shits i returned. they’ve all affected me in some way.
however, there are a few albums that always come to mind when i think of how hip hop has affected my life…and keep in mind that i’ve been steadily listening to this music since 1984 when i was 6:
(my brother is 7 years older than me, so i was listening/sneaking his music because of my lil brother complex…but it’s the best gift son has ever given me to this day)
these albums serve as milestones in my life for various reasons:
1. eric b & rakim – paid in full
>(the best hip hop album ever…fuck what you heard. i have had this album in lp, tape, and cd form over the years. i think maybe at least 8 times. i fucking love this album. rakim was so ahead of his time with his flow and lyrics..and eric was a beast on the cuts. i get misty eyed thinking about how dope this album is. at my funeral, they will play “i ain’t no joke” as that is/will forever me by theme song)
2. outkast – atliens
> (it came out my frosh year at morehouse. u have no idea how dope it was to hear that album being played out of EVERY single dorm room, classroom, and whip as you take in the new sites and sounds of a new beginning in your life. everyone played that album…west coast heads, east coast heads, trinidadians, etc. we were in ATL after all…to deny that album is like denying the body water. u just can’t do it)
3. ice cube – amerikka’s most wanted
> (i wanted to join the black panther party after i heard this album and this was years after i heard about my father’s stint in the party before/after the vietnam war. his words moved me to be militant, but not as much as this album. “i heard paybacks’ a motherfucking nigger…” that’s the hardest 1st line that you will EVER hear on an album. this album along is why i reluctantly keep listening to cube today…even though his flow has turned to mush)
4. ll cool j – b.a.d. (bigger and deffer)
> a funny story around this album. our next door neighbor (down the street like 7 houses) had borrowed some money from my brother and neglected to pay the shit back. my brother is a mild mannered guy and had approached him about it and he gave some lame ass execuse why he didn’t have it. my brother was heated and told me that he would get that money no matter what. fast forward a few weeks and “bad” comes out. everyone on the block is jamming to the neighbor’s copy since he was the only with it. this cat has bought a boombox that dubbed tapes too so he made like 10 copies and was like giving them out to the cuties on the block who could dance the best, let him feel them up, etc. now, keep in mind, i’m about 9 years old..and my brother approaches ME to help set our neighbor up for the “heist of the summer”. not his friends, cause he figured they’d snitch him out…but his lil brother. my job was to create a distraction with some a slew of stale jokes or a discussion about how i wanna gangbang or whatever to keep my neighbor and the surrounding posse on his steps at bay, while my brother not only stole the dubs of the album…but the original as well! man, that shit worked so well, my brother gave me the ORIGINAL tape when we met up later to check the goods. i earned his respect that day…as well as a hiphop collectible for the ages. fuck my lame ass neighbor. he shoulda paid my brother his money.
5. run dmc – raising hell
> the album came out the summer i turned 8 and went to summer camp by myself with no brother and no parents. man, kids was fucking, smoking, drinking and grooving all to this album for one month while we were in wisconsin. while i didn’t smoke, drink, or fuck at that young age…i did get corrupted by the stories of the crew from hollis. even today when a stupid chick says something odd, i immediately want to sing the chorus of “dumb girl” and do the vocals and background chants like we did at camp. so classic.
yo, i forgot to comment on the laces gotty posted. starks has some dope shit. i’ve never purchased anything from there, but i’ve been hunting for bright yellow laces to go with my grey/yellow dunks and i’ve been amazed how few sneak stores carry quality lace-itry.
^ good read, ‘specially the last two. haha
back at that ?uest post…..
I remember walkin all the way home from school when I shoulda been in lesson’s to record Public Enemy live on Dave Rodigan’s morning show on Kiss 100 (london).
Chuck & Flav were goin back to back in a soundclash firing tunes at each other, it was wicked! I have the tape somwhere.
starks rapes on S&H charges also…
i just dont like the metal tips.
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The tips are what woo’ed me lol. that plus the wild array of colors & designs they offer.
Metal tips is what makes a good lace…it’s what made your Jordans so flyyy. I just wish that the tips were solid colored or 24kt gold like Randall Cunningham would rock back in the day!
@ tres
Put songs into a file with tracklist file, label
Upload to zshare
And post link
I thought still the baddest was her last album title? but then again i don’t follow video girls that believe they’re rappers.
Yo Bomber, whats the password for the Cuban Link?