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MILES BY BICYCLE

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Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he’s either naive or insane.

Leon Uris (via street-sense)

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Do yourself a favor and Download the new Kids These days record. It is easily one of the best albums of 2012 and it's free!! Do it.

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Sigh.... I'm in love

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Not every rapper is an MC, and not every MC is a lyricist. There are great songs with stupid lyrics, and lyricists who have never made great songs. It’s usually the beat that grabs you first. Sometimes it’s the hook. But for the true hip hop fan, it’s the verses that bring it home. A verse could...

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Yep

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2012 Reel from Dir Austin Vesely. Dude is the best new director out there right now.

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Happy National Coffee Day!

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On this day in 1991, legendary jazz musician Miles Davis died. Remember his life, career and music with this set of rare photographs

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Even though they have made some great Clash docs already, Imma check this ish out

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Rolling Stones Crossfire Hurricane

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“American Royalty” - Illustrations by Sam Spratt commissioned by Childish Gambino

Limited Edition Prints Available: royalty.samspratt.com

So, I’m pretty excited to finally share with you my full project with Actor/Writer/Rapper Donald Glover. What began as cover art for his last mixtape “Royalty” evolved into a series of Rockwell-esque vignettes on Americana meant to highlight the side of hip-hop that tends to take a back seat to “money, cars, and jewelry” – where you come from.

The collection of 10 illustrations cover a wide-spectrum of the little moments – the struggles, the simple pleasures, the risks, the irony, the humor, the hopes, and the realities of the American life that maybe isn’t quite so cookie cutter. For me, this was a rare privilege to both work with an insanely talented person as well as learn an IMMENSE amount in the process of creating scenes completely outside of my bubble. All of these are available as extremely limited edition, signed, numbered, archival art prints at royalty.samspratt.com and a video interview on the project with Complex/Masked Gorilla is here.  A huge thanks to Funfere Koroye, who assisted and modelled for me on “Summer” and “Royalty” 

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