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Shepard FaireyLil B’s NYU lecturePhotos from Coachella Black ScaleThe sexy Arabella Drummond

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CONTEXT Obey Brand pg 4 –––––––––––––––––––

Lil B’s lecture at NYU pg 6 ––––––––––

Black Scale “Blvck Asvp” pg 7 –––––––

A$AP ROCKY pg 8 ––––––––––––––––

Coachella 2012 pg 10 ––––––––––––––

Sexy Abrella Drummond pg 11– ––––––––

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Graphic works comprised of stenciling, collage and screen printing.Often de-scribed as a Street artist, Fairey’s name first began to appear in the news for wheat pasting (adorning public spaces with the art-ist’s own posters, affixed to walls, signs and other elements by way of a wa-ter + wheat mixture--as in wallpaper paste), sticker tagging, and the numerous accompanying arrests that now comprise his official criminal record.

Date and Place of Birth:

February 15, 1970, Charleston, South Caroli-na. The artist’s legal name is Frank Shepard Fairey. He goes by the latter two names in professional life.

Early Life and Training:

Son of a physician, Shepa-rd Fairey fell in love with making art at age 14. After graduating from the pres-tigious Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts in Idyll-wild, California in 1988, he was accepted at the Rhode Island School of Design. (If you’re not familiar with this fine institution, RISD is almost ridiculously hard to get into and enjoys a sterling reputation as a training ground for working artists.) Fairey graduated in 1992 with a B.F.A. in Il-lustration.

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Ending Up on the Street:

While attending RISD, Fairey had a part time job in a Providence skate-boarding shop. The mar-ginalized, “underground” culture there (where styles are out as soon as they’re in) synthesized with that rarified art school culture and Fairey’s ongoing inter-ests in (1) punk music and (2) stenciling his own punk

music t-shirts.

Everything meshed on the day a friend asked him how to create a stencil. Fairey demonstrated with a newspaper ad for a pro-fessional wrestling match featuring Andre the Giant which was the most ba-nal image he could have grabbed. Tantalizing “what if” possibilities began to

I think the Obey icon image finds a balance between goofy and creepy, humorous and monolithic. I consider the image the counter-culture Big Brother. I’d like to think of it as a sign or symbol that people are watching Big Brother as well. I’ve had people ranging from an-archists to the president of the National Reserve Bank embrace my work and I think the more diverse the audience is, the more potential for interesting dialogue there is

There are a lot of differ-ent people who’s work I like that aren’t neces-sarily aesthetic influ-ences, but conceptual

- and there are some that are aesthetic. I’m inspired by John Van-Hammersfeld who did a lot of psychedelic poster graphics and one of my earliest Obey Giant graphics was my knock of his iconic Hendrix graphic. My work is very much a melting pot of a lot of different influ-ences

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When you spend your days compulsively refresh-ing feeds that update you on each and every tiny music industry event, it’s easy to feel like certain news items are earth-shattering, no matter how inconsequential they might seem to a broader public. When New York University announced that they’d invited Bay Area rap revolutionary Lil B to give a lecture, the effect was triple-fold-- the heart rate of the collective internet (mine included) seemed to speed up with glee and befuddlement for the en-tire day.

True to Lil B’s vision, it felt like something positive and rare (#rare)-- and totally bizarre-- was happen-ing. “It’s gonna be a real

progressive talk and when everybody leaves, their lives will be changed”, Lil B explained. After the two-week swell of excitement-- which included an endless stream of inspirational NYU-related Tweets from Lil B and a new mixape (The Basedprint 2) with a lead track called “NYU”, the rapper took the podium tonight for his lecture.

Dressed in a neon green t-shirt with a matching neck scarf and sporting a bindi, Lil B did not disap-point. Here are some gems from the speech.

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After much anticipation and hype, Black Scale and A$AP Rocky are finally releasing their “Live Love Blvck” capsule collec-tion tomorrow, April 7. As seen in the photos, crew neck sweaters, T-shirts and hooded sweatshirts will be available. The collection

will be releasing on the Black Scale webstore as well as selected retailers. Check out the lookbook below.

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Who is A$AP Rocky ?

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Earlier this year, ASAP Rocky blew our minds with the Internet smash “Purple Swag” and its undeni-ably charming video which featured weed smoke, gold fronts, and an adorable white girl mouthing the n-word. We were immedi-ately sold on the 23-year-old rapper: He was ef-fortlessly technical on the mic, had his own Houston-influenced sound, and the kind of swag that could only come from a young Harlem dude. Just as soon as people were starting to catch on, ASAP followed up “Purple Swag” with a bigger smash, ‘Peso”. The song was not only a vi-ral hit but also managed to get radio play on Hot 97. Since then, ASAP has scored a $3 million deal with RCA, gotten co-signs from everyone from Jim Jones to Drake, and was tapped by Drizzy to join the Club Paradise Tour. Who Is ASAP Rocky? We got down with ASAP to discuss his thoughts on his influences, fashion, and why he considers himself “the flyest motherfucker on Earth.”

InfluencesASAP Rocky: “I grew up listening to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, DMX, UGK, Three 6 Mafia, Wu-Tang Clan, everybody. My mom and dad, they came to an agreement and they both named me after Rakim.

Honestly, I can’t even meet that guy, man. That would be so crazy. I was thinking about naming my child Kanye. [Laughs.]

My mom and dad, they came to an agreement and they both named me after Rakim... I was thinking about nam-ing my child Kanye. [Laughs.]

FashionASAP Rocky: “When you’re wearing skinny jeans in 2005, somebody is going to say something about it. You’re not just going to get away with that shit. We were wearing skinny jeans when you had to go get them done at a tai-lor because they weren’t even sold like that. I used to have to get shit from Europe just to have it fit right.

When you’re wearing skinny jeans in 2005, somebody is going to say something about it. We were wearing skinny jeans when you had to go get them done at a tailor because they weren’t even sold like that. The FutureASAP Rocky: “I’m get-ting back into the studio. I’m directing more videos. I’m having fun. I’m stay-

ing away from bitches. I’m staying away from negativ-ity. I’m just really trying to have fun and enjoy this shit. When you start notic-ing that everyone around you is having more fun than you, something is wrong with that picture. You’ve got to enjoy this shit.

I’m not really concerned about being the guy who proclaimed to bring hip-hop back. Fuck all that shit. I just want to have fun.

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Coachella essen-tially cloned itself this year-- two weekends, identical lineups-- and still sold out in about an hour. Maybe it’s that projection of audacity that made a lot of the Thursday talk be-fore weekend one center around divine intervention.

The weather called for rain on Friday and, failing that, lows in the 50s-- positively arctic conditions in a Cali-fornia desert populated by tank tops and cut-offs. And then there were rumors

of holographic projec-tions allowing Nate Dogg and 2Pac to perform from beyond the grave during Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre’s closing set on Sunday. (Pac “showed”; Nate did not.)

With those things in mind, it would be easy to con-sider Coachella yet another too-big-to-fail institution that needed some kind of supernatural chin check. But, for a festival that can appear to be focused solely on making money (be-cause it’s incredibly good at it), Coachella is way more progressive than it needs to be. It’s basically in a transition period that appears to be endless: As the event consistently ex-pands, it has to play more loosely with its definition of how popularity can truly be measured. So the lineup can’t help but seem mis-leadingly underwhelming on first glance. Whether we’re talking Pulp, Jeff Mangum, or Mazzy Star,

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The amaz-ing Arabella Drummond is, as far as we know, the only FRONT cover girl to share her name with a pi-rate. She’s also one of the acest people in the world – disgracefully fit, awesome-ly tattooed and so cool it sometimes hurts us inside our trousers. She’s clearly brilliant, and anyone who disagrees has sewage in their head instead of a brain. Arabella Drummond revealed to us that she is a decent skater. Meanwhile, we’re not sure whether these skills can be trans-ferred to a naked bum-on-board scenario, but we’re enjoying watching her try…

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