Last week I did a workshop in New York for the Make Something!! School in association with Nike. They’ve been getting people like Todd James, Carri Munden from Cassette Playa, Todd Selby and more to come in and work with teenagers from the City. They’re all preparing a big blowout ceremony that will be taking place next weekend at the World Basketball Festival. In my case, I was asked to help the kids come up with a 1 minute musical performance. Check the video from Nike above, and more info on the Make Something!! blog.

Trizzy luh the kids.

I’ll be posting my year-end lists tomorrow… but in the meantime here’s a link to Sneaker Freaker’s feature on 2009’s best sneakers, including my pick.

In the months before his untimely passing, DJ AM was preparing the launch of his very own Nike Dunk sneaker. In fact I remember at the memorial service in LA they had just received the sample. Well, it’s been announced that Nike’s about to release the shoe and the images are out. Notice the turntable platter-inspired dots around the heel, and of course his logo on the tongue.

I don’t think a release date has been set, but in the meantime make sure to check out the DJ AM memorial fund Ebay auction of his notorious sneaker collection.

We miss you homie.

source: Freshness

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The Swagger team gave me these when I did the photo shoot for them. I figured they were probably pretty exclooosive. And yes you get 1 shoe in each color like this.

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I remember when a looong time ago there was pictures of Kanye in Complex wearing these red prototypes of the Yeezy and I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone what they were! Haha… Like “yo what’s those kick’s he’s wearing?” “I can’t tell you.” Now they’re finally set to drop in April. Hypebeast got the scoop. 

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As you may know, Serato is from New Zealand. I just played in New Zealand last night for New Year’s Eve (midnight timeslot, holler). Well the guys told me they’d come out and bring me surprise. Ho ho ho, I didn’t expect this though! Sure I knew we were making a picture disk for Say Whoa to celebrate the release of my Running Man record (thank you Nike) but I didn’t know it was ready! And I also didn’t realize that it’s the first official Serato picture disk on their Whitelabel.net label. I’m not big on claiming credit but I guess I was the first DJ on Serato — I used to test out their beta version way before it was available commercially — so now it all came full circle.

I haven’t even tried it out yet but I believe the picture side plays Say Whoa and the other side is a Serato control tone. So the idea is, you use it as a control record and when you need to play regular vinyl to switch over with another DJ, you play my track! 

Doesn’t Dust La Rock’s artwork look spiffy on that baby? The character’s name is Mr A and he likes to run.

Mike Epps and AM… Peep it!

Nike Zoom Kobe IV iD - Mike Epps + DJ AM from Freshnessmag.com on Vimeo.

This dude Mache made these custom Air Force 1’s based on Kanye’s 808s & Heartbreak album art, including the Kaws stuff. (Sidebar: I personally preferred the album art pre-Kaws… no disrespect to the god.) 

Via High Snobiety

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Last week when I launched this blog I started a contest to give away 5 pairs of the ultra-rare Fool’s Gold Air Max 90’s. The contest is officially over! Here are the winners (we also emailed them, duh!) :

Ian Kanik from Australia
Jessica Buono from Poughkeepsie
Danny Hom from LA
Jasmine Williams from Houston
Joe Ochoa from Rialto

You can stop emailing the Fool’s Gold gmail now!! Happy holidays everyone…

Lately, even my mom’s been asking me where she should go to read my blogs. It seems like I’ve been posting anywhere and everywhere, but the last on the list has been djatrak.com. Well, all that’s about to change, starting today!

(clearing my throat)

People of the internet. In an effort to centralize my tentacular forays into Web 2.0, I decided to launch a new, simplified blog to replace my website and make this the great integrator of all my online activity. Maybe down the line I’ll add more sections and turn this into a full website. But for now there is only one priority. It starts with a “B” and it rhymes with “log”. Get it? Blog. 

Here’s the fun part: I kept all my old posts going all the way back to my first tour with Kanye and Usher in 2004. There’s pages upon pages in here, and I strongly urge you to procrastinate at work and go dig into the archives. Like…. I met OJ. Need I say more?

And finally, to celebrate this launch I’m giving away 5 pairs of the super duper limited, never seen before Fool’s Gold Air Max’s!! These are the only pairs that will ever be made. To participate in the contest just email your name, address (no P.O. boxes!), shoe size and phone number to foolsgoldrecs@gmail.com CONTEST IS NOW OVER! We’ll pick 5 winners at random next week and hopefully you’ll receive these babies in time for Christmawanzannukah! 

I’m going to be posting more than ever now. On top of the usual travel diaries, hotel reviews, mindsprays and announcements, expect some fashion and music content too. Maybe a horoscope here and there.

Big shout out to Dust La Rock on the design tip (as always) and Greg P with the programming magic.