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Chairman Fred Hampton & Chairman Fred Hampton Jr.

Last year I designed a key piece for the Prohibit Winter 2009 line. The garment was called the Prohibit Resistance Stadium Jacket. The Jacket was inspired by a vintage Military Varsity piece , that highlighted various cities of battle during WWII. Being as though we are inspired by resistance movements, I decided that our piece [...]

The Cool Kid

Aariona Chalom Johnson aka Chalom Infinite. The Coolest Kid Ever. Lower East Side. Manhattan. New York City. August 2010.

Sightings: Africa-David Banner & 9th Wonder

I recently had the pleasure of formally meeting a person I have a lot of respect for, David Banner. It’s crazy because Banner and I have a couple of mutual friends that have mentioned to me on ocassion “you need to meet Banner”. When I was working at Priority records, I began to work closely [...]

Words Can’t Express

For those of you who have children , you know exactly what I mean. Not many people who don’t have children, can truly understand the type of undying, unconditional, love you have for your seed. My daughter Aariona Chalom is here for the last month of Summer , she has only been here for 4 [...]

Think Twice

I spent a week working on new songs with Khalil and the family. I was feeling pretty good about my level of output for the first couple of days and decided to take a break for half a day and smoke with Strong Arm Steady. Khalil received a call from the Aftermath offices and had [...]

Lurking – L.E.S.

I spend a lot of time at the store (ProhibitNYC). The store happens to be in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The Lower East is the epicenter of the so-called hipsters and tastemakers that some many corporations fork over dollars to reach. This is the place that breeds its own trends in every aspect [...]

New York – Coney Island, Brooklyn

Coney Island has an interesting history , and is one of the most unique places in America. Being from the West Coast , growing up taking trips to the Venice boardwalk you tend to believe there is no place on earth like Venice. Let me correct myself , there is no place on earth like [...]

The Homie Set Free / Vans OTW Launch Philly

I went down to Philadelphia last week to have a meeting with my brother Set Free about some upcoming projects we may be involved with in the near future. A mutual friend of ours, with considerable influence has been toying with the idea of starting some very creative entities. I met Free years ago while [...]

Snoop Dogg – Africuzz

Chace Infinite X GoodWood NYC for Snoop Dogg -Blue Africa I have been holding on to Snoop’s piece for a long time now. I only made 2 blue pieces one for Snoop and the other for Nipsey Hussle, only Goodwood spelled Nipsey’s name wrong so I have yet to give him his. I haven’t really [...]

Timberland Abington

On my previous blog in 2007 I showed you an inside look at the Timberland offices in New Hampshire. I had been invited to review their Fall 2007 line-up and give some insight. At the time, they were suffering from trying to chase a growing sneaker market with some pretty horrible sneaker boot hybrids. They [...]