but, this shit kills me.

Steele in Recession Proof available August 15th online and in stores.   Photo Courtesy of Fubz.

Every Friday Steele (Smif-n-Wesson) and Fubz do a show on livestream.com/bucktownusa from 12pm-2pm discussing a variety of topics centered around true to life human issues.  In short its gritty and honest.

Peep more from Steele at bucktownusa.com/

Available in store (115 Oakland Ave.  Pgh, PA) and online now

Click the link below to go to the store.

http://www.blastclothingusa.com/gear/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=9&products_id=47

The last few days have been a whirlwind. Here is a brief recap.

Sunday night DJ Bonics, DJ McFly and DJ Nugget spun at Cheerleaders Strip Club Sunday night. We had an amazing time listening to the best music I have heard in a strip club in a long time all while the girls shook their money makers for us. (Sorry no pics but u know how strip clubs are)

Blast DJ, DJ Bonics was named to the Violator Family of DJ’s congratulations to him.

Today Blast and Ink Division printing are dropping our tribute to the greatest city in the world Pittsburgh with the “City of Champyinz” the shirts will be available for the modest price of $10 online and in our store. They are literally rolling off of the press as I speak. Look for pictures later today.

If you have ever met Brick Diggler from Timebomb you know one thing for sure.  This guy is a LEGEND.  He is instantaneously the most memorable and one of the most solid dudes you will ever meet.  He’ll remember twenty customers names while talking to a hip-hop legend on the phone like they have known each other for 20 years… because Brick has known the dude for 20 years.  He’s just that dude.

I got a phone call from KT who works for Brick about two weeks ago asking if we wanted to be a part of the Timebomb Summer Cook Out Series Launch.

She immediately followed with “I figure you be down so, I already put you on the flyer.”

“Cool.  What do you need?”

It looked like rain in the morning and the weather guy said it was gonna be bad.  Weathermen are only right half time. (its gotta be an easy job) It was gorgeous all day long.  All kinds of heads came through.  BZE shot a rap video.  The whole block was bumping and Brick well he did what he does best he was Brick.  He grilled he made his appearance in the video with his chef’s hat on.  Heads Just got down. Big Sean from Kanye’s Label came through.  Mac Miller,  My man Dos Noun,  Nuke Knocka and a grip of others.

I wish I photos but, I had a huge phone malfunction that put a stop to that.(Don’t buy HTC phones)

We wrapped everything up around 8 and everyone was off to see Pete Rock right down the street.

Sunday was Father’s Day.  It was also Go Skateboarding day and the day Blast brought a small army of white rappers (or whappers as Bobby likes to call them) to the HKAN.  Educated Consumers, Doom Fist, Joe Boots, Basick Sickness all got down.  We drank, they rapped, they drank, they rapped some more, we drank some more, my photos suck.  Keeping with the on running theme of the weekend we partied the whole time we were at the venue Dos Noun the only sober one to witness some of the debacle called me the next morning laughing and then hung up.  It was like that.  Joe Boots Remixed Rancid songs into hip-hop tracks reworking lyrics and everything as his punk rock alter-ego Maxwell Murder. Basick Sickness not only put most of this together but, killed his set and he had to work in the morning.  Dos Noun freestyled 75% of his set and laughed in embarrassment for his friends turned drunken savages.  Dez and the guys from Doom Fist played “Rachel Profiling”  the place went bonkers.

Not bad for a Sunday night.

Peep the Rachel Profiling Video…..

Timbomb presents:
The Summer Kickoff Cookout

Free Food and Giveaways From
Timebomb (G-Shock Giveaway Drawing)
BLAST

Meet and Greet 5pm-7pm with
BIG SEAN
(Kayne West’s G.O.O.D. Music)
Mac Miller
Yung Scolla

DJ Bi Phil 1-3pm
Dan Dabber 3-5pm
Hank D 5-7pm

200 S. Highland Ave

Pgh, Pa 15206

412 661 2233

BLASTFOME.COM Presents:

Dezmatic
(http://www.myspace.com/dezfukinmatic)

Dos Noun
(http://www.myspace.com/dosnoun

Dood Computer
(http://www.myspace.com/doodcomputer)

Basick Sickness
(http://www.basicksickness.com)

Max Murder
(http://josephboots.blogspot.com)

Poorly Drawn People
(http://www.myspace.com/poorlydrawnpeople)

Stillborn Identity
(http://www.myspace.com/stillbornidentity)

7 P.M.
Sunday June 21, 2009

HKAN
2210 East Carson St.
Pittsburgh, Pa
15203

http://www.blastfome.com
http://www.myspace.com/412hiphop

A few days ago we got propaganda from St. Mathew’s Churches in Tulsa, OK.  There was an envelope full of stuff, the coolest part of which was this prayer postcard.  From what I can gather you write down what you want to have people pray for and they pray for it.  We were especially intrigued by the “list of other needs” section so we Bobby and I decided to see just how generous God would be, so far he hasn’t came through on anything including the free cross.  I am hoping we get the seven mountain lions.

….. I am exhausted.  Check out some photos from this weekend.

DJKaraZmatiK & Ivory T.H.H from WPTS Hip-Hop Meltdown.  Listen to these cats 7-9 Friday nights on 92.1FM and wpts.org

Listening to myself talk photo by Bobby Buckets.

The Pens won the cup.  These people drank their faces-off (pun fully intended)

The Wailers played the Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Tent city at the Arts Festival. I bought a dope photo of an Octopus for the bathroom at my house.

A-ron, Funa, Jamie, Rach and DJ McFly at the Wailers.  You can smuggle a lot of vodka in those lemonade cups.

The Arst Festival lighting up.

The parade for the Pens.  This is what winning looks like in the City of Champions.

I have been racing cars for as long as I have had a driver license. To be completely honest I probably should have had a license for some period in my late teens and early twenties and somehow I still have one now. Either way the little beauty below is BLAST’s  Gymkhana Car. (Simply put gymkhana is derived from an India word that was used to describe a type of horse racing through barrels and obstacles but, with the emphasis on style first and time second.) Without getting into too many specs the car is a 1995 Nissan 200sx SE-R, Seam welded with an almost fully adjustable suspension.   We are still in the process of shaking it down and tuning it in so look for action photos and video this summer.

(editor note: We are well aware that gymkhana cars in general are rear wheel drive or all wheel drive cars but, saying we built this to terrorize hill billies and cheat death on country back roads doesn’t sound as good)