"You don't wear an Adidas tracksuit to go run track" ah lie?

We pulled this episode out of the special corner of the closet. This is for the ones that had to be extra fresh in school or in the mall. We cover the deep connection between hiphop and fashion. Then we reminisce over what brands we used to rock and our current fashion style (Thank you Winners). We also cover our style icons and who we would want to make a brand. At the end we have fun and try to describe each part of Tdots look. Geek out about shoes with @blessthisbeast on twitter, show love to everyone else at @FreshYongeP

adidas & Run DMC My Adidas 25th anniversary, released November 2011 -

https://www.solecollector.com/news/2011/10/adidas-originals-superstar-80s-run-dmc-my-adidas-25th-anniversary1

Nelly - Air Force Ones https://youtu.be/BfzsMQGqrt0

Levi's receive a patent for what would eventually become the 501 in 1873 http://www.levistrauss.com/our-story/heritage-timeline/heritage-timeline-2/

Fresh Dressed film -

*Airhorn, bomb explosions, lasers* NEW BLENDS FOR THAT AZZ from the Triplex. We touch another unique cornerstone in hiphop, the mixtape. We bring up memorable DJ cries, the progression of the mixtape. The shift from physical DJ set you can take with you(mixtape) to the digital playlist (ie. Spotify/Apple Music). Of course we tackle Chance The Rapper and where he stands as an "independent" artist

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7669073/history-dj-drama-mixtape-evolution

DJ Drama article about the history of mixtapes

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/9908-the-50-best-rap-mixtapes-of-the-millennium/

Scroll through for some memorable mixtapes

https://soundcloud.com/saintlaurent420/the-weeknd-i-feel-it-coming-ft-daft-punk-80s-remix-by-saint-laurent

^ Speaking of blendz for the azz, BUMP THIS

We touch on the Ravyn Lenae x Smino x SZA concert at Rebel (peep our Instagram for videos), then we touch on the fire fall concert line up. It's time to get political: so we break down our thoughts on Charlottesville, VA and it's ripple effect on the rest of North America. Tackling the arguement of "stay in your lane", the criticism made against Black people using their platform. Then we highlight the structural racisim within the school system in the "most diverse city".

- Shoutout to Jay (@JP_ofliveagl) one half of the @ExtraGravyShow crew

- Shoutout to Livestock @livestockcanada

- The day Beyonce turned Black SNL skit https://vimeo.com/155287084

- https://genius.com/J-cole-kenny-lofton-lyrics

- http://schoolweb.tdsb.on.ca/africentricschool/

- http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/soul-city/

Indie Hip-hop artist Mark Brathwaite joins the Triplex to speak about his debut album 'Phoenix' (shoutout to @xitmuse one time) and opening for Machine Gun Kelly. He lets us know what his experience is being in the trenches of Toronto's music scene and his process when it comes to making music. We also have your favourite bedroom producer Yohso in the mix to cover artist transparency, venue closures and z103's FundMeFest.

HWK:

1)@markbrathwaite's MyTime mixtape is dropping at the end of next month. In the meantime stream/listen/download to 'Phoenix' on all music platforms

2)Visit @Yohso once he blows the dust off of his soundcloud

3)https://twitter.com/FACTORCanada - Shoutout FactorCanada for blessing the up and coming artist with grants

The squad soaked in the greatness that dropped June 30th 2017 and was wri- I mean vented over a microphone one night at 4:44am. We broke down our favourite tracks, videos, beats and reviews related Jigga's 13th album. We got into how we first heard of Hova and struggled to rank our top 5 Jay-Z albums.

- Mark's album release party (COME THROUGH)

http://www.blogto.com/events/mark-brathwaite-phoenix-album-release-gladstone-hotel-aug-4th-8-10pm/

- We have tickets for SZA's concert at the new venue (Rebel) which QUEEN_MYDAS called.

- http://lifeandtimes.com/the-scoreboard how Sean Carter ranks his own albums.

- http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/70132/man-murdered-outside-jay-z50-cent-show the day Lastm1nuteking became a man.

This episode is a love letter to one of the foundations of hip-hop: sampling. We touch on the good (doing a sample justice, mixing the the unexpected for novel effect), the bad (lazy samples, artist not getting their cut) and the ugly. Prepare to hear us dig deep through more layers than the samples used for 'Hoe Cakes'.

HWK:

Shoutout Whosampled.com!

Black Hystori Project - Cyhi The Prynce

Duality - Captain Murphy

Mm...Food - MF DOOM

This week the "Triplex"(don't go stealing that) breaks down one of the key aspects of the concert experience - merchandise. We go over some of our favourites as well as some we wished existed. We pick at freestyles vs writtens as well as the love of D.R.U.G.S.

HWK: 1) Harass @QUEEN_MYDAS on twitter about that Isaiah Rashad poster

2)http://www.gunit-family.com/g-unit-radio-series go through the glory that was the G-Unit Radio mixtape series.

The squad goes over all of the feels related to Chicago's own Noname concert in Toronto. We try to figure out why everyone from the windy city has the juice and why even though our city is bubblin' it's still rough if your name isn't Aubrey.

PS. D.R.A.M. is from VA not Chicago

theremixproject.com is def worth lookin' into

HWK: https://soundcloud.com/jazzcartier/sets/hotel-paranoia

https://soundcloud.com/afrowasiu/toronto