My friends at Red Bull invited me to check out their Big Tune event going down tomorrow at Highline Ballroom here in NYC. Conceptualized by my homie Jonathan Moore in Seattle, Big Tune is a national beat making competition that started with 96 producers all vying for a shot at producing a beat for Common, Nas, Lupe Fiasco, or The Game. After regional competitions in Philadelphia, Oakland, Houston, Detroit, Chicago, Seattle, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, the final 16 will go head to head tomorrow for the crown. Alchemist, Digable Planets and Ghostface will also perform. I rolled through South Paw in BK for the Big Tune pre-party last Saturday and if that was any indication, Big Tune should be off the hook. See you there.

Last night the second annual Stoked Awards went down. Held at the Red Bull Space, which continues to outdo itself in terms of being able to reinvent for each event, the awards were a fundraiser for the super dope Stoked Mentoring organization. Co-founded in 2005 by Steve Larosiliere and Sal Masekela, Stoked Mentoring is a unique non-profit organization based in New York and Los Angeles that that exposes “at risk” youth and their mentors to surfing, skating and snowboarding and the action sports lifestyle. The heavy hitters in the NY action sports community came out strong to give Tony Hawk the award for overall achievement for all of his work with the Tony Hawk Foundation as well as to Mentoring Pair and Volunteers of the year. It was a good place to be. Peep the pics after the jump.