You already know I got to have a hand in Ricky Powell’s epic week of birthday parties last week, shit we even made Page 6 in the Post! Check out the rad lil edit that Larry Arace whipped up from the night including footage from Ricky’s solo show at Miss Lily’s Variety and the after party with Slick Rick at the Box. It still seems like a dream. Check out gallery 1 and gallery 2 of photos from the show by Mel D. Cole at Village Slum. Thanks to Heineken, PONY, Kangol, Frank151, and of course my family TheGoodLife!

I’m so blogged out these days that to be honest half the time I say I’ll check something out online, I won’t even do it. Lucky that wasn’t the case with my girl Maria Marquez and her epic Tumblr The Cryingame. I don’t even have enough vocabulary to describe how perfectly her no holds barred narrative and photo collection, “Show and Prove” captures the craze that was hip hop in the suburbs in the 90’s. In documenting her youth on the fringes of hip hop culture from beeper chains and Helly Hansen jackets to micro braids and underage video vixen shoots, Maria literally channels every questionable hip hop trend in existence and lives to tell about it, brilliantly. Read the entire piece here.

I should set this to auto post every March 9. It may only be Wednesday but it’s time for you to drop everything, spark somethin, and reminisce over the greatest that ever did it. Download the definitive Biggie collection here. RIP BIG.

This past Saturday was 9/11, a day that is many things to many different people. The NYC Bridgerollers decided to make it a century. Check out the photos from our epic 100 mile, 5 Boro roll at TheGoodLife! Thanks to Kyle from Nike Stadium and of course to Mike Saes for putting it all together. It was a day we will never forget.

From the tragedy of MC Speed’s murder in Rio last week came a moment of triumph as a piece of Brasilian hip hop history was made last Thursday night with the reunion of Planet Hemp MC’s Marcelo D2 and B Negão with Afrika Bambaataa on the decks in a tribute to the fallen MC. Meu grande irmao Brunno Torres of Favela Music Productions put the show together at Circo Voador in Lapa as part of a nationwide Bambaataa tour that also had Black Alien and Mr. Catra in the house. In his own words, “Marcelo D2 e BNegão não se falavam à muito tempo…se abraçaram no palco, junto ao Black Alien, Kimanzi e Bing-Man…além do mestre Afrika Bambaataa no Circo Voador fazendo o Tributo ao Speed! Foi um momento histórico, super significante pro Movimento Hip Hop Brasileiro e Mundial!” You know what he’s saying! He’s also putting together a mini doc of the whole tour, peep the trailer above and some show footage below. Parabens irmao! Tamujunto!

I know that I am lucky to be able to work in an industry that I love. This is something that I literally remind myself every day, especially when the stress of regular stuff starts to fuck with me. But every now and then, I get hit with a feeling that’s more than just feeling like I’m lucky, its a feeling far beyond. I guess you could called it feeling blessed as cheesy as that may sound. I was out in Vancouver for the Olympics and had one of those moments right here, as I stood with my brother from another mother Lasse Andersen and chopped it up with Terry Kidwell for a good half hour. Terry Kidwell man!! There is no snowboarding without this dude. If the universe was right, there would have been a Tony Hawk scrum of people just trying to get an autograph from him. But no, it was just me, him and Lasse talking like it was the most normal thing in the world. For more on Terry, please peep my Highsnobiety feature with interviews with Terry, Trevor Graves, and Michael Hernandez from Nike Snowboarding about the rad Nike Aries 2010 project of which Terry was one of the major participants. And please enjoy some classic Kidwell and Team Sims shred after the jump.

What a sad day. I was lucky enough to have met Andy Kessler a couple times and although he probably wouldn’t have remembered me, I was honored and inspired to have shaken the man’s hand. Shred in Peace Andy.