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It was hot…! Not just because the venue was obviously feeling the credit crunch and decided to not just turn off the Radio but also the air conditioning and any possible fan they had. But that didn’t stop the vibes, but did create a ‘Turkish Bath’ of energy and music. Guest’s such as Ghostpoet, who i have never heard  before, was a breath of fresh air in a style of Hip Hop Ive not heard before…! You must check him out.

Maverick Sabre tore down the crowed with his soulful riffs and husky vocals that defy any Irish accent Ive ever known. Then our very own Random Impulse, in just setting up a band in two short weeks bought the house down! His hard vocals on intense Indie beats with a drop of blues, soul and a touch of something brand new that just captivated the whole venue. Along side Goldielocks and Grime superstar Dot Rotten this was one not to be missed. Even in the mist of the slightly dodgy sound system (that’s an understatement, but I’m trying to be nice so low me!). Here are the pics from the night taken by myself and you may see few of the Ego Thieves / Nuckin Fang family in there None of me of course, some say I’m a phantom of the photo.

Big up all that attended and the Turn The Radio Off crew alongside Box Fresh clothing. Good times. Whoop!

Hit out Facebook for the rest of the pics and tag yourself.

Unbelievable is the only word to even start to sum up this overwhelming piece of news. This will be a brief post, i will be doing a tribute mix tomoz with the team to celebrate exactly why this man is the legend he is. He carved modern music as we know it along side Quincy Jones and is the ultimate pop star of all time. For me and many other 80s babies we grew up on this man, he is a part of our heritage and our childhood. This is a very sad day and will affect the world in an immense way.

To all the people making jokes and doing the usual attention seeking behavior. It makes no diff to me what he did or didn’t do in his private life. When i grew up he was music defined and that’s how he will be remembered.

For now here is a wallpaper of him that i have, its amazing and captures everything about him in one pose in his hay day.

** Added By I Am Kane **

Friday was a crazy day its not often you remember where you were when someone dies. I remember when Princess Diana passed and for some reason President Nixon. But Jacko passing was so not expected but i suppose death never is right?

For me there was two Mikes, the music man and the controversial man caught up in loads court cases and extravagance! All that needs to be said is the guy was more famous than Jesus and Coca Cola put together and the following weeks will show this. One of my favorite performance from Mike was this Motown 25 Celebration where he performed with the Jackson 5 for the first time since his new album launched. Man he owned that stage that night. The look on his face befre he drops billie jean, he knows hes about to “bun the rave” so to speak lol enjoy and big up mike music would not have been the same without him….

Am sitting here with the misses (Reem Kanj) and my brother (Ty) and just in as much shock and bewilderment as everyone else. Is he dead? Because i dont trust TMZ for shit. Los Angeles Times are saying that he is in a coma and the BBC are saying they have no confirmations of anything. Hope its not true, if so its going to defiantly be one of those days you remember were you are when Michael Jackson died.

LA Times have now confirmed that he is dead! This is crazy and beyond words.

Big thanks to all that came down on Saturday! Just a quick one for my Urban Nerd attendees and fans. You can now check out the official pictures on the Urban Nerds Facebook group here. All pics taken by myself for Ego Thieves and Urban Nerds alike. If you would like any more info please visit our contact page or contact james@urban-nerds.com.

Heres a few sneaky peeks.

World renown graphic artist Takashi Murakmi releases an animation dedicated to his 6 years of collaborating with louis Vuitton. Breathtaking….!

Following previous news of Banksy’s show at his hometown Bristol Museum, BBC officially broke the silence with images and video footage of the show. Now we are able to present a video tour of the exhibit, which includes over 100 works, more than 70 of which are brand new, while many of the others, such as the painted toilets (or portaloos) have been reworked. With more of the amazing pseudo-political work we’ve come to love from the elusive, millionaire street artist Banksy, any visitors are sure to be pleased by his biggest show yet. The exhibition runs for 12 weeks and opened on Saturday June 13, 2009 at 10am.

Its that time again where i fill you in on whats new and whats to come on Ego Thieves ( and why everyone has been missing for like a week or more and lack of posts!).

Out&About

Manic is the only word to sum up the last few weeks. Sorry myself and the team have been missing. Along side some bad times and emergencies we have also been very busy working on some secret projects.

Now even though this is suppose to be our ‘Summer’, i guess in England this is as good as it gets. But while the Sun is here we are taking advantage. Big up those who attended the Ego Thieves Picnic. Lots of drink, lots of erm… Jamaican roll ups, plenty of food and those crazy little choc muffins were serious tings!

The Urban Nerds have been all over the place as usual, so visit the website to find out more. But make sure you all come and hit us up at Urban Nerds & DMC World this Sat at 93 Feet East. See info below this post. Lots of tunes, lots of Sun (we will make it Sunny with our new Sun Skank.. you ain’t ready!) a big ass BBQ and the full crew in effect. Big up Sally, James, Mark, Rompa and the whole family. Make sure you come also to catch Ego Thieving Professor Green doing his Upper Clapton Dance.

While our bleak excuse for a Summer is here, Semothy Jones is still havin it up in Oz land. Ive been told work on the Operator Please album is coming along nicely and he is due back in July when we will have more information on the new Nuckin Fang and Ego Thieves company merge love fest.

Make sure you also check out the lovely girls that are Binary Kids who have just come off tour with Lady Sovereign and Man Like Me. See there blog post here and have a read on the antics they got up to. Also remember to hit up Random Impulse who is busy doing 1001 things with top heads in the game and last but not least Mr Maverick Sabre who is just pure genius. Lots more to come… so cha to your face.

Downloading&NewFaces

I’m sure by now you all know about the merge of Nuckin Fang and Ego Thieves. What this merge means right now is that we have moved the blog side of Nuckin Fang to Ego Thieves and the new Nuckin Fang website will be here very soon giving you more information on whats poppin. Also if you haven’t seen them around here are The Flow Nerds, who cover anything from Fashion to Music videos. They will also be out and about doing interviews for us and bringing you even more exclusive content. We also have I Am Kane, top badaman Electro DJ who now produces our Electzilla series and also posts bits and bobs around this bitch. Last but not least is Score 5 from the biggest radio station pun ze airwaves Rinse FM. More info on that in the should be post above.

Last but not least is Neelam. She is an up and coming journalist who will also be covering interviews and bussing out those reviews on the latest releases. She knows her stuff and check out her review on the Donaeo album a few posts after this. You can also visit her blog here for a few of her archived bits.

Downloads have been off the shabalaheezy! Make sure you visit our Mixes page where you can easily access our exclusive podcasts in one convenient place. We have had over 50k downloads in total since end of March (and thats all we have been able to trace!). That is nuts since most of the promo is word by mouth and industry based. Big up all those blogs who re post the mixes, all the forums that show love and even those crazy brehs who re up our mixes onto Torrents (even though they are already free in the first place lol…). We plan to keep up the pace and up the levels but if you have any requests or ideas hit us up on our contact page. Also props to all the DJs and producers who email in biggin the mixes up, keep sending those riddems you get me doh!

TV&Tee’s

Vision Thief TV is still coming… i still cant say much yet but what i can tell you is we are taking it very seriously and its not going to be your average hood video compilation (well so our make up artist and stylist say lol) and will push Web TV to a whole new height. We are very busy working on other stuff and don’t want this to be a half ass project so hold tite. What i can tell you is i been speaking to SB:TV and we may hook up to bring you some exclusive interviews on the biggest Dubstep stars around. More info after Urban Nerds.

‘I Ego Thief‘ apparel is still coming and still in many shapes and forms. You won’t be able to buy these, very much like a Blue Peter badge these will be given to the honored, chosen by our panel of Thieves. But fear not, we have a whole new range of Tees and Polos that you will be able to purchase (or blag depending what side of the bed i get out of that morning and what your apprentice skills are saying) for those summer days. They will be limited and will be exclusive and quality is our quantity so expect nothing less that the finest. None of your Fruit Of The Loom here my friends. If you come to Urban Nerds expect to see some floating about. Also watch out for the DJ specials.

Big love to all the supporters and there seems to be allot of you and growing everyday. Also the Jenai fan club lol,  all 88 of you (that email was jokes… you know who you are!  init brederin n ting).

Jenai Done.

This is basically Microsoft’s answer to the Wii’s motion sensing. I know the trailer is over cheesy but watch it. It looks like theres some interesting things you can do with this thing…No idea how it works though and I doubt it will be this responsive, but we’ll see.

Kojima announced at the Microsoft E3 conference that a new Metal Gear title was “in development” for the 360! There’s no Snake in this game, only Raiden. There’s still an hour and 13 minutes left on Kojima’s site however…Hopefully this announcement will be something to do with the PS3!

Shock horror… the countdown has expired with yet another countdown. But has Hideo has revealed that yes, it is Metal Gear Solid 5? Check the pictures below which include a new letter P along with a familiar face… Solid Snake or Big Boss? Hummmm. The countdown continues and i will pretend i wont check back in four days when i know i will. Motherfucka! 

** Just in as above, some tasty new leaked magazine pics of Raiden in the countdown. Hmmmm it goes on…

Hideo you bastard  

Here are the first photos of the upcoming Vans and Eric Elms collaboration. Eric Elms is a world renown designer who has already collaborated with quite a few sneaker makes. The Vans Eric Elms collabo shoe should be released in new york in the next two months.

These are just preview models, watch out for more coming soon:

Just a quick update of the antics fellow Ego Thief and Nuckin Fang chief Semothy Jones on his mission in the land of Oz. Also been told he is away another 5 weeks to finish off the album which is good but bad lol. But watch out for lots of exciting news for when he is back as well as updates on the Nuckin Fang Management and lots of ting and tings…! Jenai

”Hello All,

Ben (engineer), Amandah, Myself

 

The Farm

 

Album update soon…

Sydney

 

P.S. Oh and if that wasn’t enough Sem has also been kind enough to share with us how the Hoe’s in Oz get down!  

We miss Sem and this BFF is jealous but happy and excited about the world take over plans which quite obviously has already started. And all those wanting to know about Nuckin Fang / Ego Thieves company love fest… news coming soon. 

Jenai 

Just a quick one to say sorry for the outage last night. Its not because we have poor hosting (quite the opposite!), not even because we were hacked. But because the surge in traffic in the last few months has been crazy and we went over our bandwidth limit. With over 30k unique visits since March and well over 300k page views things are on the rise. Big shout out to all that love how fast the site is and loving the brand new direct downloads! Lots more to come from us dont you worry…. watch out for the update post this week and more to come tomorrow.

Im an avid art fanatic, especially Japanese/Anime/Pop art. So to find out that the genius known as Kanji Kohanda and renound Evisu paint writer will be making an at Selfridges in Oxford Street to customize your pair of Evisu Jeans (purchased on the day of course!) on May 30th from 12-6pm on Floor 1 in mensware, Evisu Section is uber exciting. We will be sending a few goons to grab a few pics.

Thats right, though most who know me know i cannot stand Myspace for its poor software, poor layout, poor coding, spam galore and the rest.  But one thing it is for, and quite essentially  is the music scene of all genres. It seems the best way to stay and get in contact with lots of the niche producers, bands and artists we love so i decided to create one. Now being Ego Thieves i couldn’t just do this the bog standard way and have created the official Myspace page which you can see a preview of below, click the pic to link to the page and befriend us! Also added our sexy drink collection a MS bevy. 

** Oh people asking me about design work and that. Its not my day to day and something i do on the side and am very picky about what i do to build my private portfolio so get at me you never know. Apart from ET site i just did my girls blog which you can visit over at http://reemkanj.com  

I love how only Hideo Kojima can get away with posting nothing except more time to look at and a few more letters. This aint cyrstal maze mother fucker! You better pull it out the bag or we coming for you. 

Oh i just got an email from him with pic below attached… what a cheeky bastard! 

Not sure if its days or hours as the sites frozen but its either 199 hours (hopefully not days lol) which means around 8 days to another announcement? Who knows but we will keep a close eye. 

5 days ago I posted an announcment on Kojima teasing a new game with this website. The site’s now changed (well it changed on Monday, I know I’m a bit late, but exams are a killer), the site now displays a timer which reads 31hours. There’s also a 5 which flashes when thunder strikes (In MGS text). Now it could be a teaser for Metal Gear 5, but isn’t that a bit too obvious? Especially considering Kojima is notorious for misleading fans (thinking of the Metal Gear iPhone game, when the logo clearly looked like a 360 port. click here to see ). Anyway guess we have to wait for 30 hours to see what it is! Hopefully he actually reveals something…Sneaky bitch.

Y3 for along time now, have not been releasing the most attractive sneakers. When i heard about the Hayworth mids i was expecting another pair of ‘football boot’ looking trainers that frankly i wouldnt be caught dead in. But to my amaze i was proven wrong. The  Hayworth Mid II high-top are very impressive. The shoe’s clean, seamless toebox features embossed stripes with neat and closely spaced lacing. With an ankle strap and a chunky ribbed paneling on the heel to finish things off. They are available in blue, red and black. Not too sure on the price at the moment but knowing Y3 they will probably be around 150 – 200 pounds. The hayworth Mid II definitely get the thumbs up from us here at Flow Nerds.