Tagged: brooklyn bound
Brooklyn Bound: GrandeMarshall Live at Converse Rubber Tracks
At only 19 years old, GrandeMarshall is one of Philidelphia’s youngest and brightest hopes for the next rapper to break nationally after Meek Mill. Most refreshing is how different the two sound when compared, Mill, … read more »
Brooklyn Bound: Interview with GrandeMarshall
GrandeMarshall is a Philadelphia rapper who’s Twitter account currently has a display name of “It’s Pull Up!” The phrase is a reference to “PMS,” a song from his Mugga Man mixtape, released in April, and … read more »
Brooklyn Bound: An Exclusive Download from GZA’s Rubber Tracks Performance
After GZA dedicated a recent afternoon to teaching us about chess, he strapped his Converse up tight to rock the Rubber Tracks stage. With a career spanning some 20-plus years, he had plenty of material … read more »
Brooklyn Bound: GZA Live at Converse Rubber Tracks
The video for the original “Crash Your Crew” from GZA’s 1999 album Beneath The Surface features skateboarders going ham in a skate park while GZA (and Hell Razah) warn of their wrath under the voice … read more »
Brooklyn Bound: Interview with GZA at Chess Forum
For the lastest edition of FADER and Converse’s Brooklyn Bound, we sat down with legendary Wu-Tang MC, the GZA, who chose Greenwich Village’s The Chess Forum to talk about his love for the game of … read more »
Brooklyn Bound: An Exclusive Download from Nina Sky’s Rubber Tracks Performance
During Nina Sky‘s Converse Rubber Tracks performance, Nicole volunteered, as she is known to do, that her sister Natalie is her very favorite singer in the world. One would assume that since they are identical … read more »
Brooklyn Bound: Nina Sky Live at Converse Rubber Tracks
When we spoke with Nina Sky at Brooklyn’s famed Saved Tattoo, they revealed that they were in the middle of a short show run, first bouncing around New England and then back to NY for … read more »
Brooklyn Bound: Interview with Nina Sky at Saved Tattoo
The beautiful twin sisters Nicole and Natalie of Nina Sky seem barely grazed by the tattoo needle in comparison with Tumblr’s unending stream of self-proclaimed tattoo models, but the girls have plenty of ink. It’s … read more »
Brooklyn Bound: Le1f Live at Converse Rubber Tracks
For his Rubber Tracks performance, Le1f left the chiseled models of his “Wut” and “Soda” videos at home. The dancers he did bring held him down famously, recreating, among other things, the “Soda” video’s baptism … read more »
Brooklyn Bound: Interview with Le1f
New York rapper Le1f, whose stage name (pronounced like “leaf”) is an abbreviated version of his actual first name Khalif, admitted to us that his screen name-style moniker is nearly impossible for most people to … read more »
