James Top, a controversial and legendary Graffiti Artist from New York City, will host his first solo show of the New Year, “Afrology” at the new Essex Street Gallery on Friday February 22nd, 2008, 6pm-Midnight. Afrology debuts as seventeen artistic variations of the 1970’s hairstyle, the “Afro”, and depicts controversial, nostalgic and historical messages of the African-American experience via mixed media and graffiti art. As a special note, famed street photographer and artist Jamel Shabazz will collaborate with Top on one exclusive piece at this exciting exhibit debut.

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Back in November we featured artist Lichiban. If you’d like to learn more about her, check out this new interview by Garrett Heaney at Wishtank.

100proofTRUTH, issue number 4, is out now (pdf).

Bembe Segue and Mark de Clive-Lowe present The Politik Remix Album + Artwork Competition.

This competition is open to anyone and everyone who’d like to have a go at remixing one (or more) songs from The Politik’s debut album. The winning remixes will be compiled into the official remix album The Politik Remixed to be released on both physical and digital formats. The second part of the competition is an artwork remix competition for the cover art of the official release.

More information, download links for all the files, and submission information are available here.

Nike is making a documentary celebrating 30 years of Nike Basketball history. Familiar faces in the basketball and sneaker cultures such as Pee Wee Kirkland, Benny Gold, Dave Ortiz of DQM, and Bobbito Garcia were interviewed to talk about the different aspects of basketball and sneaker communities. The film goes in depth with street ball, sneaker art, fashion, and more.

You’ve probably heard about Laced by now, but did you know the soundtrack is by Khrysis?

Continuing his ascension up the Hip hop production ladder, Khrysis (whose previous production credits include Jean Grae, Big Pooh, Masta Ace, Sean Price, Smif N Wesson and Little Brother) teams up with Nike to provide the soundtrack for Nike’s newest documentary, “LACED”.

More info here and here.

Lichiban (aka Licsi) is a talented visual artist with a passion for art, music, and humanitarian work. Check the interview below…

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So Beanie Sigel wants to play Notorious B.I.G. in the new biopic. The look isn’t quite there but at least he has some acting experience. Still, what’s up with Guerilla Black? Seems like it would be the perfect start to his acting career…

You have got to check this right now: Issue 3 of 100ProofTruth.

Featured Photographers are: Witold Krassowksi, Kent Baker, The Face Hunter, Faith 47, Paul Hartnett in China, Darrell Berry…

100proofTRUTH Issue 3 is all about the power of the photograph, with a few other talents thrown in for good measure, (like Sfaustina from San Francisco, Sun7 from Paris, Karan Rashad from Iran, Dzyla and Fani1 from Australia, and Laser 3.14 from Amsterdam.)

We told you about the new 80s inspired collection from Juicy Jazz a while back.  Well it’s finally out and you can order now.