Art

FM–2007–02301 February 25, 2007
CAT: ART

Race Relations

Hip-hop was created off the heels of the Black Nationalist regime and the Civil Rights Movement as a lifestyle of self expression. It gave inner city…

FM–2007–02127 February 11, 2007
CAT: ART

Inspired Hip-Hop Album Covers

It doesn’t matter how many Casio beats Southern hip-hop throws at us, rap music is, and will always be about sampling. And since sampling is the…

FM–2007–02136
CAT: ART

Upper Playground Pillows

The invisible hand of capitalism works in mysterious ways, its methods and motivations are far beyond the average human’s comprehension. For example, not many people know…

FM–2007–02132
CAT: ART

Blek La Rat

What is it that compels someone to commit an act of art? And what plants the seed of art in the first place? For native Parisien…

FM–2007–01982 January 29, 2007
CAT: ART

Great Bates

Although Great and Bates are team writers, the individual styles that they throw up are what remind you that there are, in fact, two parts to…

FM–2007–01981
CAT: ART

Elemental

For those of you out there that think 50 Cent invented hip-hop, it’s time to recognize. Before “rap music,” the four main elements of hip-hop were…

FM–2007–01974
CAT: ART

NVC Crew

Better known in the urban art community as NVC, toy customizing team Spive and Dr. Bao have been pushing plastic for a hot minute now. With…

FM–2007–01814 January 14, 2007
CAT: ART

Comic Inspired

Every rapper fancies themself a super-hero, or in some cases, a villain. Ask Jean Grae, DJ Clark Kent, Tony Starks or MF Doom. They’ve got the…

FM–2007–01806
CAT: ART

All City Style

For the artist who has always aspired to paint on trains, but who has never made it to the train-yard, we present All City Trains. Perhaps…

FM–2007–01820
CAT: ART

Duro3

Starting out in Scarborough, Ontario, Jose A. Parada, better known in the graf community as Duro3, became familiar with the span of Canada’s train yards over…