CAT: ALBUMS
Stones Throw – The Other Side of L.A.
There is a finite limit placed on the ability of moving images to convey a notorious city’s underbelly, especially one as recognized as Los Angeles. Pairing…

A Record of Streetwear & Urban Art — 2006–2014
There is a finite limit placed on the ability of moving images to convey a notorious city’s underbelly, especially one as recognized as Los Angeles. Pairing…

Starting a business of any kind is difficult, especially if there are no guidelines helping aspiring entrepreneurs enter a market. Having only, in the last ten…

Over the past 40 years, graffiti has taken over trains, rooftops, mailboxes, phone booths and, most significantly according to the authors of Gates of Graffiti, doorways.…

Believe it or not, Wayne owns the streets right now. He has been flooding the market with himself whenever possible; through collaborations, remixes and mixtapes, he…

To typify Devin the Dude as an everyman would be criminal, however, his work ethic and demeanor in the booth would suggest he’s a lemming to…

The Beat of Urban Art (HarperCollins Publishers, March 2007) is an intimate look into Justin Bua’s youth, art process and paintings. Bua’s drawings and painting are…

Someone better sound the alarm because when Detroit’s Black Milk drops his 2007 debut Popular Demand, the industry is going to be lost like a fish…

Ricky Powell’s lens cap has more swagger than a dancing troupe of here today, gone tomorrow snow rappers. In fact, Powell’s swagger demands 128 pages, a…

In 2005, Martha Cooper, Nika Kramer and Ana “Rokafella†Garcia opened a new chapter in hip-hop with We B Girlz, a comprehensive, fact-based account (in many…

Bombshell: The Life and Times of Claw Money, leaps past visual brew-ha-ha by stepping into the personal life of Claudia, a woman, a graffiti writer and…
