Man…I’ve been dealing with a lot of bullshit and a handful of bologna ass individuals that have created quite a few obstacles over the weeks…but fortunately, things are gradually being squared away. I mean, shit was like a goddamn domino effect for a while.
What else can I say? I’m probably about a month behind schedule at this point, so I appreciate everybody’s patience, but I think everything has happened for the better. Plus, you learn a lot thru dealing with the bullshit. Which reminds me, the lil homie BEAR ROCK read me a quote the other day from a magazine article about an ex-con who became a real estate mogul…dude lives in a mansion and drives nothing but Bentleys and Phantoms now. Anyways, the quote is… “On any given Sunday, you can let it rain, sleet, or snow…I’ll take it, because it only marinates my game…” Pretty hot metaphor, isn’t it? I’m making a shirt out of it now…it’ll be part of THIS line up haha.
I actually had to drop and replace 3 of the new designs…one of em because the graphics were done so fucking shitty…but don’t get it twisted, it was NOT the work of my main man JOE (who has done ALL our other graphics). Long story short, we WERE on a time constraint, so we had to kick some of the work to somebody else…BAD MOVE. The two other designs had to be dropped because we’re having too much difficulty printing them. The colors just aren’t coming out right and I’m pretty adamant about details.
Anyways, here’s a sneak peak at two more…two more to go after this!
Whooooooo!!!! Shit is HARD!! This one is dedicated to all the go-getters that did what they had to do, and do what they gotta do. By no means am I supporting any illegal means of gettin’ that GUAC…it’s just a metaphor, ya feel? Besides, you saw how things went down in “Dead Presidents”…
Here’s the other one…
WHOOOOOOO!!! This shit is FIRE, too!! Hahaha…u know I’m bringing nothing but that CAVI! I’m sure different folks will interpret this image in different ways, but here’s my gist behind it… Basically, I think America is always glorified as this great and righteous country, but ultimately (globally speaking, that is), we are no different from these so-called “terrorist countries”…this is how they view us… And don’t get it twisted, I never take for granted the life I have as an American, but you can’t deny the fact that there is a unbelievable amount of hypocracy in our system and we have faulty representation as a nation to say the least.
Oh, almost forgot…there’s something I want to put out on the table and make clear, so to avoid any accusations of “biting”. When I was forced to drop that first design (due to the shitty graphics), I immediately came up with this Statue of Liberty and had it printed the very next day, which was July 2nd (my print shop will vouch for this). I even delivered a set to CL at Sessions Entertainment, for him and his recording artist, OPTIMUS, to wear in time for the 4th of July (thought it might be “appropriate” for the occasion haha).
Anyways, the issue is…on July 9th, I was doing my daily reading on my favorite hip hop blog (www.nahright.com), and saw one of my all time favorite artists, IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE, wearing a very similar shirt on a video interview . This one was a vectorized image of the statue and it was only holding the pistol in the air. I tried to search online to see who makes it, but couldn’t find anything. My shit is a 100x harder anyway haha. By the way, shout out to the big homie TECH…he speaks of revolution through his murderous rhymes in a rather “unorthodox” fashion, but the combination of his sharp tongue and charismatic voice make for very powerful delivery. His new record “The 3rd World” is out NOW!!
I’ll be back!!
Peace, “BK”