HUSTLE DON'T STOP!!!!

(*Last disclaimer...I swear I'ma Blog more)....So I'm fresh off a trip "abroad", Europe n Africa to be exact, and thanks to BBC & CNN World News, Al Jazeera and the many other satellite broadcasted international points of view...I was able to keep abreast with the downward spiral of the AMERICAN DREAM. Thanks to Obama.....a sobering spark of "HOPE" has been injected into the main vain of Lady Liberty...or at least a whole bunch of foreign backed legal tender...sounds like hope......but the majority of us residing in the "Land of the Free" find ourselves at pivotal crossroad.

Without gettin into allllll thaaaat...we know shitz bad...n prolly gettin worse...from financials to real estate to environmental to moral...it's hell in a Hermes Handbag...unless!...Now I'm not tryna sell emotional Amway, but "only we can save we"...and since when have the "PEOPLE" really looked for the GOVERN U MEN(t) to save our asses???...whenever there's a drought, that's when the HUSTLE comes out...get it how you live...but most of all...spread the LOVE.

One of the most important jewels I picked up from the Ethiopian portion of my trip (besides a piss yellow African gold link) was the genuine sense of mutual respect and struggle. Don't get me wrong, the same demons haunt their society as the U.S....and in many cases...a lot worse,
but the overall sense of....Yo...it is what it is...let's make it happen...if we ain't got shit...let's get it...eat off the same plate...I gotcha back...my home is yours and so on...that permeates their everyday lives....either never TRULY existed in AMERICA or must be manifest if this new "HOPE" is to save thangs.

Perhaps most of all was the sense of HUSTLE...erthang from clothes to cosmetics to water to tissue to goats to grain and whatever you need in between. In the U.S...when someone talks about HUSTLIN'...9 times outta 10 they're talkin bout sellin
drugs. Let's be clear...drugs sell themselves...people wanna get high....you just gotta "have" drugs and accept money for trade...oh and don't get caught. But I'm talkin bout that real live hand to hand...take it to the streets...HUSTLE...I seen a cat take a roll of toilet paper, make a carton of neatly packed bundles n get money from passers by...or a man with a scale stand there n get people to pay for weigh ins...besides countless other clean, legal HUSTLES...it don't and won't stop....the streets is watchin and waitin...make your stimulus plan......YES U CAN.

A VIEW TO A KILL...PT.2

RUGGED LIFE STYLE PT.1

.....So we find ourselves at the beginning of a fresh new year (I'm truly workin on keepin up wit this blog thang..). Though Time, Knowledge, Space etc...is Infinite...I always like to take this point in time to reflect on past, present and future movements. Lookin at this picture (above) I zoned out on how we got into the "Rag" business....being Artist...Style Generals...Social Scientist etc...and I couldn't help but long for "those days". I know every generation says "back in my day" or "when I was young..." you know the phrases...but (yo hold up I'm buildin GOD!!) those we're the days of "our" days. Late eighties, early to mid nineties was that shit! without giong into some MTV or VH1 like synopsis of "Hip-Hop" or "Black Culture"...I'm jus sayin...the energy harvested during those times...synthesized by years or slavery, oppression, struggle, re-education, music, traditions, hustle, style & fashion, business savvy n so on....are what gave birth to our concept of "RUGGED LIFE STYLE".....to be continued...

THE TRANSITION IS COMPLETE...

the Lab Loft...Hubcap...
Sunsets...

the BAT.

....Ok so we're back...it took a sec but the transition is complete. You never know how much "stuff" you got til it's time to move it...thank de lawd foe the freight elevator.
I definitely slept on the "blog" potential of the move...cause I didn't take any pics...but it went something like...

November ? til November 15th we had a blowout sale...people came out the wood works to get cheap KULTJAH dead stock and erthing else...we packed up as people shopped...my man
Marko came thought wit the box truck...we recruited a rag tag bunch of semi-pro movers...moved the studio and lab in two and a half trips...I went to war with a BAT n won (god bless the dead)...unpacked, which seemed much more stressfull than packin...ran into a cat named hubcap (who I think pisses in the hallways)...realized the spot has dope sunsets...finally got the wireless connect...continued unpackin...cleaned over 4 thousand square feet of 100 year old wood floor...burned mad frankincense...stepped outside the lab, turned around n said (think Beat Street) "It's Sooo Clean, Ramo we gotta hit it (talkin bout the walls outside the lab), So I started the first in a series of "Lab Burners"...It's Like havin your own A train to bomb, whenever...So we're in, and it's back to work...perfect timing...

DESTROY and BUILD / THE KULTJAH LAB LOFT

THE MASTER BUILDER...THE KULTJAH LAB LOFT....PT 1

KULTJAH HAS LEFT THE BUILDING...

...Due to circumstances beyond our control (gentrification, property development, an ailing economy...etc) KULTJAH DEZIGNS, the KULTJAH LAB, BLDG 14 and all entities have decided to go ..........GLOBAL!!! (not postal). We are restructuring our enterprise to establish a greater World Wide Web and Wholesale presence. Yet fear not...with every curse comes a blessing...and we plan to capitalize on this blessing without the trials and tribulations of maintaining a retail outlet...of which we've done at four separate locations (3 in Norwalk CT and 1 in ATL) at different times since 1997. The transition has already begun with the build out of our DOPE new lab/loft...located in a secret "spot" (see next post). So hold tight...when the going gets ruff, or they knock down your building...the ruff get RUGGED...

FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS HIT NYC...

I know it's crazy late...but bad brains...yes HR included..rocked out at Irving Plaza round the 7th of Nov. Sold out shows...we gamed our way in...this pic is wack, and though HR was in a rather...zoned out...zone...the rest of the band kept it raw..sounded crisp...and reminded us why bad brains will always be hard core/ras/punk gods!!!