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Friday, April 18, 2014
VladTV's Vixen of the Week: The Thickness of Bad Girl Ms. Cat (@mscat215)
Catya "Cat" Washington, aka Ms. Cat is no doubt one of the baddest chicks in the game. She's been featured in countless videos, magazine spreads and TV screens over the years, and shows no signs of slowing down.
The Philly native is best known for starring in Oxygen's hit series "Bad Girls Club" and for dating YMCMB rapper Drake, and in fact was the muse behind countless rhymes. She gets a name drop on Take Care's "Shot For Me" as well as a few bars from his verse on Game's "Good Girls Go Bad," where he spits:
"This song reminds me of Cat from Philly/A girl I use to love till she started acting silly/ Her heart is a 'lil chilly. She a 'lil too carefree/In 10 years whose payin' for all that therapy .....n***a not me."
Whether or not Drizzy was the one for her, she clearly could get just about whomever she wants with a body like that, making her a clear choice for VladTV's Vixen of the Week. Be sure to follow her on Twitter and Instagram, and check out some of her sexiest flicks above.
Vanessa Simmons Shows Off Newborn Daughter, Ava Marie (@nessasimmons, @angelasimmons)
The eldest of the Simmons kids, Vanessa, gave birth to her daughter Ava Marie Jean Wayans with boyfriend Mike Wayans 2 months ago, and yesterday she took to Instagram to show off her bundle of joy.
Aunt Angela reposted the adorable pic with the caption, "My beautiful niece ... Missing her... @nesssimmons I need to see her !!!
Check out the adorable pics above.
This or That? 100s vs. 100X
Years before Dame Dash recruited State Property from the East Coast’s most maligned state, 100X was putting on for Philadelphia. It began in 1988, when a North Philly group called The Untouchables, made up of rappers Magnificent Mar, Round Mound and Dangerous Darryl along with producer L.E. Square, released a 12″ single, ‘MC Killin / Death Wish,’ on the Solid Ground label. They were apprentices to Poison Ladd S.L.R. and Extortionist B, who had released their own 12″ ‘Rock the 8 (808) / I Need Juanita’ one year prior. The Untouchables saw little success, and Dangerous Darryl soon left the group while the remaining members quarreled over the lack of samples in their production.
L.E. Square and Round Mound (a.k.a. Are Em) were brothers, so living in the same household at the time had an influence on older brother Square, who decided to embrace the inclusion of samples in his beats after increased pressure from his sibling. With the newfound production sound, the duo decided to start a loose collective of artists called 100X, short for their neighborhood of 10th and Oxford. They brought MCs like Bad Newz, Lex Ruger, Mal Black, and Mustafo on board and began shopping a demo to labels. None of them bit.
One interesting bit about the group’s early career involves Greg Osby, a young saxophone player from New Jersey who had a contract with Blue Note in the early ’90s. 100X would often perform at Philly’s Club Rhythm and the venue’s owner Tony introduced the group to Greg, who cited hip-hop as an influence in his work. Tony recorded with the group in 1992 and together they wound up with ’3D Lifestyles,’ an album that was in line with the jazzy rap styles of Gang Starr and Tribe Called Quest. The sound of 1993′s ’3D Lifestyles’ would later come to full fruition with The Roots, but at the time Blue Note wasn’t sure how to market the album and the opportunity to push the sound was bungled.
All of this predates 100X’s first official single, ‘Beyond The Door,’ in 1994. A year before they’d recorded a track called ‘Horrorcore’ which again was in line with a style that would come to popularity in ’94 with Gravediggaz and Flatlinerz. ‘Beyond The Door’ was popular within North Philly, but fans were left hanging for two years until the ‘Fast Loot Tactics EP’ dropped in ’96. The EP was proper but the group had waited too long to capitalize on what little popularity they had and as members drifted away, the group soon disbanded. Later on, they would release two compilations of material worth excavating: ‘Rare & Unreleased 1992-1996′ and ‘Whom Shall I Fear? 1993-1995.’
In 2012, on the other side of the country, a brighter story was coming to light. Berkeley rapper 100s and his right hand man Joe Wax released ‘Ice Cold Perm,’ an out-of-the-blue project that is easily one of the best rap releases in recent years. The cohesion of pimp raps and sizzling synths made the duo a drop-dead combo, and this year’s ‘IVRY EP,’ even with the inclusion of outside producers, elevated their blunted sound to a psychedelic realm. The music is purely hedonistic, but if you let the groove sink in, 100s will have you coming back for more. One need only test the back-to-back magic of ‘Different Type Of Love’ and ‘Slide On Ya’ to be sure.
Comparing 100X and 100s is like deciding between blunts and beers — ideally, you want both as part of your daily diet. The Philly rappers give you a dark, gritty foundation with certain rappers even sounding like Freeway and Ghostface (see ‘Fast Loot Tactics’ for proof), while 100s is that fresh off of work, slide across the floor s–t to bop to. In other words, they highlight each other’s specific contexts as a way to appreciate the differences in their music – you probably won’t find many lowriders blasting ‘Death 2 The Radio’ in Cali.
So we’ll take the easy route this week – they both win. Smoke mid-grade out of an apple to 100X or finesse an expensive bong to the glossy sounds of 100s. Whichever you choose, you’ll be better for it.
Converse Chuck Taylor Premium Collection
When the weather warms the woven’s come out to play and the next brand to make use of breathable fabric is Converse who is placing the textile atop two Converse Chuck Taylor silhouettes.
The Converse Chuck Taylor Premium Collection is available in two colorways and be it it red or navy both looks have hits of white strewn into the mix and are trimmed in tonal leather. A tanned leather tongue tag his stamped on the low top and a white leather outsole crowns both looks to create a very fresh feeling set of silhouettes.
Either look should carry you through the summer successfully and they are both available now at Boston’s Concepts. Feel free to pick them up today and sit on them until next week when this cold front stops frontin’.
Via Concepts
Drake's 'Draft Day' Gets Unofficial NSFW Video
Filmmaker Ashley Smith (aka Ash Innovator) is back with another head-scratching video that is completely NSFW. The director shot a clip for Drake’s song ‘Draft Day,’ a song in which he throws a couple of shots at Jay Z.
If you’re not familiar with Ash Innovator’s work, he’s the guy that directed the comical unofficial video for Rick Ross’ ‘The Devil Is a Lie.’ The visual features two priests reciting Rozay’s and Hov’s decadent rhymes.
In his new explicit clip for Drake’s ‘Draft Day,’ a naked blonde woman is spitting Drizzy’s acerbic rhymes in a blood-drenched room surrounded by dead bodies and a hanging football player.
The visual gets even more bizarre as a masked man devours spaghetti out of a pork belly. There’s also some simulated necrophilia and booty twerking as well.
So yeah, there’s a lot going on with this bizarre video.
Overall, it’s an interesting visual from Ash Innovator, who also shot a video for YG’s song ‘Who Do You Love.’
Again, we stress that this ‘Draft Day’ video is NSFW. So if you value your job don’t play this when the boss is around.
Watch Ash Innovator’s NFSW Unofficial Video for Drake’s ‘Draft Day’
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