Based Cats - a status update

Just posting for the hell of it. But I casually referenced what I figured might be a burgeoning trend last summer. Remember, Based Cats? Remember that? It turns out it's really taking off. Seriously if you don't have a Based Cat by now, wtf are you waiting for? This is the new wave, brah.

we've moved go to:

world of kooter

make sure you get the shot

shouts out to this fellow wearing a dope shirt at Olympia deli where I get my lunch

Based Cats, new 2010 trend, no biting (very hot)

This is a Kooter Brown Special Report:

Often we report on a lot of superficial, intellectually-void material here at KB hq. No really it's true, it happens. I'm not going to apologize for anything we post and I'm certain our readers are unconditionally grateful for each and every article we pen and learn plenty when they visit. But every so often, we make an effort to reach beyond the limits of petty blogging and provide them with real substance and meaning. This is one of those special posts. Feel free to hit our Like button at any time.

When you live in a world where rappers clamor for equal parts *bling bling and world peace,* the stock market's gone and squeezed into some torquoise, checkered, skinny jeans and started jerkin', and the oceans around the world are turning black, you start to feel like something big is going on. And it's easy to get weighed down by the magnitude of the issues we face but that's why we're here for you.

This is what you've gotta do.

Based cats. It's a new trend. If you're based, you have a cat. In other words if you wanna be a boss, if you wanna be ken or the black ken, if you want to dominate the internet, if you're looking for love and companionship, if you're looking for genuine connection in a cold, disconnected world, you should fuck with a based cat. Above is Lil' B with his based cat, there is also a picture of him with another cat, presumably his, who looks pretty Based.

midnight in bushwick

do some extreme shit, keep from being bored

How many scary girls are there out there, right? But scarcely a song's been made where a rapper admits to being scared of a female. Leave it to Quik to be honest about something so obvious, though unstated, as the existence of a really frightening lady.

I Don't Wanna Party With U (Screwed Up) - DJ Quik/Dj Screw by kooterbrown

mud season with archie lee

Another winter's in the bag. In the latter part of February Vermont saw over 5 feet of snow fall in some areas. But with this fast, real inconsiderate melt that's drained the mountains in the last few weeks it's kind of hard to believe that ever happened. It's time to just let go. As the winter takes its last breaths I'm gonna just ride around Brooklyn bangin this Archie Lee waiting to feel better about all this.
"NS 8 Flow 1" - Archie Lee by kooterbrown

St Patrick's Day Merely For Beezies?

I don't give one hell about St. Patricia's day. I cant really explain it, but this song gets me in the mood if you know what I mean...for St. Patrick's day. It kinda makes you wanna drive thru some murky green pond, in a bummy vehicle, flip it over and flee the scene. All while bumping this full blooded knoc and not spilling your drink. Happy St. Patrick's Day.

"U Beezy" - Mac Dre and Andre Nicktina by kooterbrown

It's almost spring and you know what that means...

...get yer grills out!

Since ours are welded into our jaw we don't take them out like patio furniture for the winter. No, over at KB, spring is just the month that is 3/4 of the way away from the next winter. Already.

3 years later, we still miss you

July 1st, 1988 - March 12th, 2007

Snow Goons

Yeah it's all about having fun, but not this much fun. Sometimes it's other riders that provide that much needed reminder - while you're knocking those Wu Tang mash-ups in your skull candys - you're still participating in a very white sport.

Keepin it 100

...even on a tuesday night. We'll be launching a new site any day now. Stay on the lookout for that.

KB Family

Two of my brother's (and my) close friends were featured on the inside-back cover of the most recent issue of Freeskier magazine. The page is an ad for Electric and it is shared by both Chris Logan and Parker White - KB family. This is pretty rare - that two riders share an ad. I kinda wondered which one of them would get an ad or a shot first considering they've ridden together for so many years. It turns out they both did. Congrats soldiers, now go get a dual cover.

Can you find the hidden message in this ad?

Now playing this month in the beautiful 23rd st. F train station in balmy (12am and 50 degrees) New York City. Notice the subtlety to the piece. This guy's not one of those big, fancy, showy street artists. He does have some integrity, you know.

This Week's Burning Question...

Q: Did Redman invent the tall hat?

A: Doubtful. But Redman did invent the 4 grown men in pajamas rapping in an oversized baby crib idea, the likes of which we've seen imitated but never again successfully executed. Keep trying suckers.

Bruning Questions come from you, reader. If you'd like to propose a question to this column write to: This Week's Burning Question. 666 Willyacalled Ave. Apt Suckdeez2 ManfuckyouVille, NJ 02010.

picture me rollin'

Do great accessories make the man?

Nope. But I took a trip to the local workwear store and now you can't see me on my accessory game. That red fleece cap ($5.99) I picked up is bad as hell and u can be sure I wont be leaving home without it this winter. are u mad?

How To Be A Player

Too Cold..

..to smile.

We're in a war. It's a recession. Don't monkey around.

Flippa Mixtape Artwork

Apparently this was was the winning design from a fan contest flippa held to design this cover. It's another example of why mixtapes are simply more interesting and exciting that releases from labels.

What's dope? This:

From the LibTech site.

On next week's episode...What's Piff?

Groovy G

Groovy G is soulless. He doesn't care about you, or me. Doesn't give a shit. He's about his bread and out of his mind. But that doesn't mean he can't still whistle some hits by the Zombies and let down his hair a little bit, does it?

Today's sketch

This weather is ugly

08 Frozen Heart by Husalah
"Before the Dope" by Husalah
Listening to this hoping it gets cold so i can make turns this weekend. It's been in the 50s and 60s all month long which is at least 10 degrees above seasonable temperatures. I guess it's getting colder later this week but meanwhile I'm turning up the Hus and hoping his cold knoc will make winter get here fast

i want to thank you for loving me

James Blagden

Retro Shreds, Not Flying Demons

It's hard to put this music in any context other than its use as the twisted theme to The Exorcist. To the average man, these shapes slicing across the screen set to this soundtrack might look like some nuclear winter landscape infested by radioactive cannibals. But damn. I guess this song was originally just a little slap about shredding blower pow in scandanavia with a bunch of your homies, getting drunk on the hill, doin Chinese Downhill, and catching air all day. That's something I can get down with that.

Outside Halliburton, Inside Bone

Stop It!

Let's Get Lost In Candy

In 2003, Dipset was bigger than Halloween. Yeah I'm nostalgic but that's okay because I miss 'em and I'm not going to apologize for it. Thank god the Dips left a pretty substantial body of work so that I can continue to pour over it and reflect on a time when an exciting group defined music here in New York City. Wish I'd lived here then.

Kooter Goblins

It's Not Halloween

I hear a lot about messaging these days. What's the story, the big idea? Not a lot of debate regarding this message. We simply don't want to associate with none of yall. No thank you.

Be like us, it's easy

Silly Off The Pilly

Weight pushing, nihilistic, recession in the trap inspired logo.

It Was Just Kinda Easy For Mac Dre

Will Bateman TV - Dune Shredding For World Peace

KB team rider, Will Bateman shreds up dunes and films his bros shredding up dunes. Patrick Bateman shreds human beings. P. Bateman dismembers other people and makes artwork out of their blood and entrails. Will and his guys just ride down dunes for fun. It's way less depraved but it's practically as messy (watch the end. hella sand in the shoes).

This video makes me ponder though. What if the US developed a super-secretive,
intelligence-laced, counter-insurgency effort in Afghanistan based around the idea of introducing the remote region to skateboarding and dune shredding. They would just have to design and build some reliable skateparks and bring some old jib boards to carve down sand. Instead of trying to get with the "in-crowd" you know by adopting all the fundamentalist, homicidal/suicidal activity - the equivalent there to collecting Jordans and fitteds here - get young Afghans on a skateboard. Get obsessed with that. Learn a trick. Go dune shredding. Get some sand in your shoes. No big deal. Learn some more tricks. In 15 years, Taliban ousted.

catchin air and getting money

Found on the Crispy Whips website. Jackie stays catching air.

Alex Cohn in '94

Since he was little Alex had a lot of personality and expressed a sense of wit that was uncharacteristic in someone so young. He had a glint in his eyes and a big smile up until his last days alive. Something about someone small having a personality that was so big took people by surprise and disarmed them.

Art:

Frame it.

bases loaded

Visionary work plain and simple.

Dont be yourself. Be more like Gary Numan

auto goonz now endangered

The "death of auto-tune" message is a little bit confusing. An older gentleman like jay-z goes out and criticizes a popular trend in what was once supposedly his genre and then makes a record that's unabashedly trend-driven. BP3's got less autotune but conspicuously features some auto goonz (see mr hudson). And really this msg has nothing to do with Jay-z or his new album. It's directed strictly at the auto-goonz in today's society. We simply ain't feeling you.

It's Fashion Week!

who are you wearing?

Selma, Alabama September 2009

For labor day weekend I went to visit my grandparents in anytown USA, Selma ALABAMA. But holupmayn. Selma is NOT your typical slow moving, deep Southern town. Selma has a history mired in serious racial conflict. In the 60s MLK staged some marches there. They were a pretty big deal. Then, people basically forgot about Selma. Over the last half century or so, residents have left the town en masse. These days it seems like those who're left do a lot of sitting and reminiscing. the jobless rate is very high, stores are boarded up, and streets are pretty empty. There was not a Morissey Monday at the local "watering hole." My grandmother fed me pull pork sandwiches and fried chicken, I went swimming at the country club, and took a couple of flicks of dudes (pause, no boris) standing next to their (or their old lady's) big body vehicles.







Swangin' to the left. My hair is, i mean. Seymour's Pontiac was pretty reliable too though.