A few weeks ago, I was hipped to the fact that Big K.R.I.T. was booed out of the building when he performed in New York. I chalked it up to sour grapes from a city of people angry that, no matter what, it can’t generate a buzz or reclaim a throne that it vacated years ago. Read the rest of this entry »

For those that care, the Air Yeezy’s came out this weekend and people were camped out in select cities across the nation for God knows how long. Dallas Penn went out on Saturday and chopped it up with the sneakerheads standing in line. After watching these guys stand in line, I’ll never let anyone call me a sneaker fiend. These dudes are on a different level. Talking about camping out up to a week for a pair of kicks and using vacation time (what part of the game is that?) for the last Countdown Pack. Read the rest of this entry »

Intro By Jesse H.

The TSS crew is proud of our national and international presence. This place stays moving with fresh and lively comment boards no matter what time zone you’re in (we’re looking at you in particular, Greumsy.) Not only is the TSS nation comprised of an eclectic mix of readers from all over the globe, we’re also blessed enough to have a similar hometown diversity on our writing staff. While we might show our respective regional biases from time to time in our posts, we decided to really tilt our hands and give you all a behind-the-scenes look at what we listen to when we’re in transit to the places we call home. From coast to coast, our crew of writers put on for our cities, in a little piece we like to call…

Entrance Music

Matt Mundy

New York City

I just recently moved to NYC, and whenever I visited here in the past I would always bump the same song on my iPod coming in – “Where I’m From.” Read the rest of this entry »