Friday Fashion Feature: Intermezzo Trade Show Highlights

Kiki accompanied DJPremium.com buyer, Jamila, to the Intermezzo Trade Show in NYC yesterday. Together, we scoped out spring/summer 2010 trends in the contemporary women’s market .   All chained up with Erickson Beamon Current Elliot gold studded denim Siwy will be launching on DJPremium.com in the near future – stay tuned! Siwy BLANK, a hit […]

Wednesday Fashion Feature: Is There Too Much Celebrity In Today’s Fashion?

Celebrated stylist Nicola Formichetti may be a driving force behind Lady Gaga‘s fashion takeover, but he’s hardly a fan of the growing influence celebrities wield over the fashion industry.       “There’s way too much celebrity in fashion,” Formichetti recently told T magazine. “I don’t really like working with celebrities, so I try to […]

Jay Electronica’s Exhibit C: The End of “Genetically-Modified” Hip-Hop?

 The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees.   “Up in them five-star tellies, saying two-mic rhymes/ Be them average MC’s of the times/ Unlike them/ We craft gems/” —De La Soul ft. MF Doom, “Rock Co. Kane Flow,” The Grind Date, 2004. Call him Jay Electronica or […]

Hip-Hop: We Bid One Decade Adieu & Welcome Another

  The views expressed inside this editorial aren’t necessarily the views of AllHipHop.com or its employees. Rebellion Hip-Hop: We Bid One Decade Adieu & Welcome Another (Spoiler Alert)!  “… And we are alive in amazing times/ Delicate hearts, diabolical minds/” —Mos Def, “Life in Marvelous Times,” The Ecstatic, 2009 We can take a stroll down […]

No Agreement: The Hypocritical Commercialization of Fela’s Legacy

No Agreement: The Hypocritical Commercialization of Fela’s Legacy   “No agreement today/ No agreement tomorrow/” —Fela Anikulapo Kuti (With Africa 70), “No Agreement,” No Agreement, 1977. I’m sorry: It’s not enough to simply watch “Music is the Weapon,” or pour through Michael Veal’s impressive biography, Fela: The Life And Times Of An African Musical Icon, […]