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.

Don't touch our "babiez"

I wanna clarify something. When KB talks about babiez we call em "babiez." This aint no old shit. But a problem has arisen. A new Brooklyn twerp band has emerged this summer called "The Babies." This is worrisome. We're riding 3 years strong on this baby thing over here. This is more than music. I'm just worried about this recent trend, this preoccupation with babies in indie music. If the shit goes down we're ready to fight for what we believe in. When Eli said "babiez are the new skulls" he god damn meant it. Now get on your tiny cruiser boards and stop fucking with us.

I said, get on your boards

It's 2009. Get on your boards

Gotta Eat

I'm Heeeeem - Lil' B

Kooter Brown? I'm Heem. Baby-Son? still Heeeem.

Ski Block's gettin this $$$$!

KB fam, Ski Block ambassadors Jack, Ian, Parker, amd Forest spent some time filming at Hood this summer. Look out for Jack to drop that Ski Block year end movie on you that'll fuck up your head real good in the way you want it to. If you're not feeling these videos i just cant really fuck with you. Ski Block!

HOOD from jack borland on Vimeo.

Forest Bailey Windells from jack borland on Vimeo.

New York indie bands, your album covers suck

it's because you have too much creative control. You have terrible eyes for what's aesthetically pleasing and your taste collectively is bad. Make more covers like this fuckboys (and girls). It's not perfect but it's better.

Catchin Air + We Gettin $$!

Peace L Train

Tweets Is Watchin

One of the most exciting prospects about joining twitter last winter was that I would be able to follow some of my favorite rappers. To me this was a pretty big deal and I figured I would enjoy a unique glimpse into the twisted thoughts and exaggerated lifestyles of some of my biggest heroes. I was prepared to have my mind blown or at least be wildly entertained. Almost a year later, I'm dismayed, disappointed, and disillusioned by what I've seen.

Remember when we said rap is the new punk rock? Well it's not new anymore (obviously) and I'm starting to wonder how punk it really is. It's supposed to be reckless and ridiculous. Like I need the following in the raps i listen to: murder, drugs, money, titties, cars, heists, parties, shake junts, and more. It's not like there's any shortage of this kind of content but if you say you're thug, be thug all the way. It's an everyday job that you can't half ass.

Rappers' content on twitter generally consists of the following softbody material: analysis of upcoming cable tv schedules, response to the weather, nonsensical statements related to trending topics, tweets @ other artists looking for beats, baby mama drama, long strings of one or two word tweets, and announcments of what they hope to eat for their next meal. Is that punk rock?

Twitter for the most part, is not a good look (NAGL) for rappers. Generally speaking they throw up way too many tweets, abusing their tweeting privileges, and theyre usually going for a Jay-z in Fade To Black type look; tweeting off the top with the some of the lamest shit they never wrote.

Here's a selection of some top picks:

Some even post Boris inspired tweets (confusing, gratuitous uses of NH or pause)













Weak



Mad soft
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Yfrog link with corresponding pic



And a personal favorite via famzuns


We're gonna explore this topic further. please link any tweets via ur fav. rappers that are particluarly lame or chi chi. KOOT.

stop bein soft

...and start writing on people's shit.

The Rock N Roll Animal's Website

Lou is practically the lifeblood here GTHQ when it comes to creative inspiration. I think his website's been slapping for a few years now but whatever it's new to me since I never took notice. The design uses his own photos which are fairly representative of his music with their focus on lifeless metropolitan landscapes. The best part about Lou is you really get an overwhelming sense, wherever you come across his work, and wherever you see/hear him express himself, that if you ever met him, he would hate you. Site.

Da Juiceman's MySpace Landing Page

My creative inspiration for the day. This is a very appealing landing page (im not sure if that's the correct terminology) design. It's dark and very expressive of the culture and climate of society at this point in history. Half man half negatively exposed rotting skull. Hold it together Juiceman.

Photos from the week of 7/20

Tees at the Harvey Milk show. One depicts a witch taking a dump. That's crack! (||)

Somehow this small, family-owned masonry business, based in the Brighton Beach area, has created the most killer logo in the history of modern business.

Maino billboard in the Clinton Hills area

via Famzuns, he spotted a young gentleman in a "Trap or Die Die Die My Darling!" tee.

Kueter Browne 2010 winter preview

Join the metrocard fan sensation thats been sweeping the city. Only 25,000 printed.

Over A Year Later, "Put On" has a legit contender

There’s no denying that “Put On” was a jam of monumental proportions. GTFOOH if you try to tell me otherwise. Like I would really not be feeling you if you disagreed with me.

It’s taken something like 65 weeks for any other song to resonate in such a powerful way with ya boy. But those 65 weeks (give or take) are up and a contender has finally emerged that is similarly phenomenal (if that's even possible). Jeezy promised to put his city on but c’mon, one man can only do so much. I be needin’ my bread too!

I Be Needin My Bread - Shawty Redd

Put on

"Wild Stallions" Go..Dare I Say...Zoo

Courtesy of Newschoolers.com

Im listening to The Crime Pays opening title track again. I bought the new Cam album on iTunes (seriously) on Memorial Day weekend and its been providing me with my most reliable dose of bang/knoc this summer. I often listen to just the intro on repeat . it's one of Killa's most satisfying tales about standard Cam material ( u already know) with a grandiose, royal sounding horn blaring on the beat. It's real lovely.

I'm not sure whether this song or the colorful, Harlem street legend who performs it have anything to do with Meathead's new ski flick, "Wild Stallions." Right now I'm about as far away from sliding a rail or hitting a kicker as you could be, sitting in my hot room in Williamsburg in the middle of July. But that's what's cool about this trailer. It captures what's special, unique, real tight, knock, whatever, about shredding the beautiful baby mountains on the east coast. AND You don't have to be a rider to appreciate this. You can be a skateboarder, a snowboarder, surfer whatever other action sport (theres gotta be a better term for this) you wanna get all wrapped up in. Unlike other ski moovie trailers this shit is accessible and it's fitting in briliantly between my rotation of repeated Crime Pays Intro plays. The Meatheads are POTEs (Products Of Their Environment). They have to get creative and they do. Theyre even boosting off some "backcountry" kickers that make me wonder if trappin really aint dead (these jumps are built in such remote locations that there must be communities of fur trappers nearby who trade mink skins and Ushankas). This flick looks like it's gonna be punk rock, it's sponsored by Madhouse Munchies (!) and I think Ian Compton's going to be in it. Luv it mane.

What happens when a good blog goes bad

Hello faithful reader. You may have noticed that the Koot blog - the place where all discussion of Goblin news, politics and gossip converges, the capital of doing things quite large while others stubbornly continue in their extra small ways, the site that might as well be re-defined as a King jaffe Joe news feed or an innovative ideation hub which spotlights new ideas and trends in consumer and business culture (jk) - has been altered to an almost unrecognizable degree. I fahked up. In these uncertain times...wait let me start over. We have NEW SUMMER '09 PRODUCT UP. That's kind've where I was headed with this whole announcement and I'm gonna get this digital doohickey jumpoff taken care of in no time. Thanks for bearing with me, faithful reader, you ugly goblin motherfucker, you. Please listen to some "the Click" while you wait. KOOT!'
Scandalous - The Click

Kooter Brown Summer 2009 Product Available Now

Put on your blue mask here

shmo goin bear

CANT BAN THE SHMO-MAN

the Kooter Brown Effect

our influence is clearly seen in today's "Trending Topics" on the popular web site Twitter:

Also, follow your boy Kooter Brown, his tweets got slaps in 'em.

Kooter Goblinz: Born In A Bloodbath

This is the tragic story of the birth of Swamp baby. What shouldve been a healthy, bouncing infant, the One From the Swamp was born the child of sludge and puss in the midst of a virulent storm of burning blood. With flying and falling baby nuts and guts piling up around his chubby baby body, Swampy B developed an insatiable thirst for blood and mutant entrails. Beware his shuddering, howls and baby moans. This fool's hungry, so shut ya windows and close yer doors u bitchmade marks!

IN 'N OUT OF LANES THROWIN UP THE TURF

East side Oakley is still goin dumb. It takes guys like Beeda Weeda to remind you what having fun and stunting like your Liberace on candy flips sounds like. Sure, Pill just came out with a very real, almost eye-opening but ultimately kinda of forgettable video filmed in Atlanta's 4th Ward, but nothing has reminded me of the giddy excess of the good old days when videos had hundreds of crazies going wild in every shot and album covers weren't afraid to depict ludicrously unrealistic shit like this one. This is like a fever dream Cash Money Pen n Pixel job meets post-Mac Dre flamboyance with enough hood starz to scare the shit out of your parents. Also, Lil Jon and E-40 make really really brief cameos, I think, which is kind of sick.

RIP Michael, Welcome to the age of Obama

young

I used to think Billy Clint was a real heavyweight, swaggering politico but then i started working and learned the significance of the phrase "covering his own ass" and realized that it characterizes his 2 terms in office. Obama's way tighter of a speaker, diplomat, arbiter, strategist, friend of rappers and whatever else all around guy. What if every consumer brand in the country collectively started using Obama's face on their ad creative and package design? You know what would happen, a complete economic u-turn that's what. 60% approval rating = a 60% increase in spending. This era may not have a figure as idolized globally as MJ but we have Obama and he's pretty tight. He's a man who's beloved by both old and young, and is it even unrealistic for me to keep half expecting him to record a drop on the next Jeezy tape? With this guy anything seems possible. it's time to embrace this as the age of Obama. He's currently in the midst of instituting a worldwide takeover that ultimately will feature more hit speeches than Michael's singles catalogue and will last longer than Thriller on Billboard charts. Oh and if Obama doesn't work out Weezy might end up being the most famous man in the world. So we got some options.

This is better than touching small boys, right?

Emerging Graph artist "Chipotle"

Graph heads is going nuts over this new elaborate piece that went up along 7th ave. Theres much debate and speculation converging on all the graffiti gossip blogs as to who this mysterious artist "Chipotle" could be. Who remembers the 80s?

#Ih8allmyfriends, #Ithinkijusthammedmyself

I wrote a well written detailed post describing my newfound affinity for the homie Alchemist and then found out that famzuns had already done a post of almost identical nature. i need some new friends. here are some good recent Alan the Chemist jammys. sad koot.