WAR 42

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We live in a very dynamic time, and constantly rushing somewhere, and we are afraid to miss, but if you stay at least for a moment, it becomes clear that vanity is meaningless. Global political, economic and personal problems, only aimed at the possession of wealth – all this is temporary and does not deserve our attention, now all our attention we pay to these daily detail, as close to us die eternal phenomena, such as art. It is suffocating in this vain world, but is looking for ways to escape from the busy crowded cities. The first project «Freedom» is able to make the art of graffiti.

It would seem, which may escape from the city of graffiti, because it was originally kind of street art? The project «Freedom» display art to a new level: the nature and the endless expanses of Russian beauty!

We live in a very dynamic time, and constantly rushing somewhere, and we are afraid to miss, but if you stay at least for a moment, it becomes clear that vanity is meaningless. Global political, economic and personal problems, only aimed at the possession of wealth – all this is temporary and does not deserve our attention, now all our attention we pay to these daily detail, as close to us die eternal phenomena, such as art. It is suffocating in this vain world, but is looking for ways to escape from the busy crowded cities. The first project «Freedom» is able to make the art of graffiti.

It would seem, which may escape from the city of graffiti, because it was originally kind of street art? The project «Freedom» display art to a new level: the nature and the endless expanses of Russian beauty!

Russian art is always stretched to nature, and Russian graffiti is no exception. It is difficult to provide urban type of art outside the gray urban landscape? Believe me, graffiti feels more than comfortable in the surrounding forests, fields, lakes, rivers, mountains and vast plains. A proof of this is the project «Freedom».

The project «Freedom» will consist of four phases, each of which sold during the year. Stages of the project will comply with the four seasons. At the conclusion of each site will be updated photographic record of the work undertaken and the project shows. The site and forum you can find detailed information about the life of the project and the people to participate and support, as well as learn how to participate in the project at any stage.

Check out the whole galleries at there site artsvoboda.ru

New UGK Album coming out at the end of the month. Here the tracklisting and a new Bun B interview by WordofSouth.com.

1 Intro
2 Still On The Grind
3 Everybody Wanna Ball
4 Feelin’ You
5 The Pimp & The Bun
6 She Luv It
7 7th Street Interlude
8 Swishas & Erb
9 Purse Come First
10 Harry Asshole
11 Used To Be
12 Steal Your Mind
13 Texas Ave. Interlude
14 Hard As Hell
15 Da Game Been Good To Me
16 Outro

UGK: The Trill OG’z
Sunday, March 15, 2009

WordofSouth.Com: “UGK 4 Life” March 31st, marks the end of an era. Will this album give UGK the proper send off the fans expect? How important is it to you that the fans are satisfied with this project?

Bun B: This album will absolutely give them what they expect. The fact is if I didn’t give them what I felt they deserve…not so much what they expect but also what they deserve because for 17 years of unconditional support – I wasn’t going to do it. The “Underground Kingz”double album debuted number one on the billboard two-hundred charts, had a Grammy nominated single, number one. If that had to be the send off, it would have been an excellent way for UGK to go out. I felt like I had the opportunity to give us one last shot, one last go and it wasn’t just a matter of taking a couple of songs and putting out an album, but actually having enough structure and theme to make a cohesive project and I thought I had that; we moved forward and made that happen.

WordofSouth.Com: 17 years, UGK had an unbelievable run. It’s the final UGK album. Did you ever think that day would come?

Bun B: I never thought we were going to have the first one (laughs). We signed with Jive; it was a five album deal. I never assumed people would want to hear five albums from us to be honest. My entire career has been icing on the cake. I had a great run as a member of UGK and the UGK legacy will still live on, longer then you and I. For me, it’s definitely been rewarding at the end of the day. I’m content; I’ll be very content with UGK’s placing in history at this point.

WordofSouth.Com: Absolutely. “Da Game Been Good To Me” is the first single, and it’s the epitome of what UGK music should sound like. Was that song cut off the last album and if so, why? Is a music video coming to accompany the song anytime soon?

Bun B: No it was not cut off the last album but it was produced by the same people that helped co-produce the last UGK album. The production from the last double album and this album is extremely cohesive because it’s the same production team. The last double album, if you notice the credits, a lot of them was co-produced by several people and those same people are the co-producers or lead producers on this album.

There is a video that is going to accompany this song. I’m not going to perform in it. It’s more-so of a retrospective look back at the career of UGK from pictures, photo shoots and videos from the first album all the way up until today.

WordofSouth.Com: That plays perfectly into my next question. With it being the final UGK project, I imagine you carefully picked out which guests and producers you wanted to appear on the album. Tell us about that process of finding the right names.

Bun B: Well it was more-so about making sure that it made sense to listen to UGK and these are people Pimp C would have done these songs with. For me to have a song about women dancing and shaking in clubs and to have Lil’ Boosie and Webbie featured on it – people know that number one, they’re apart of the UGK family and two, they’re direct Pimp C protégé’s and three, they’re known for making songs about women in clubs – it was a perfect fit.

It’s the same thing with 8Ball, MJG, E. 40 and B. Legit on a song called “Used to be” on this album. The song is basically talking about the circumstances that we started with in our careers and how far we’ve been able to go, where we’ve arrived to and what we’ve achieved. I thought 8Ball & MJG, E. 40 and as well as B. Legit coming from the same era and to still be viable artists in this day and time, I thought it was an excellent fit on the record. And with them all being friends of UGK and had previously recorded with us, it makes sense to the UGK fans.

WordofSouth.Com: We like that explanation. Were Pimp C’s vocals for this album recorded specifically for the next UGK album or was he working on a solo project?

Bun B: He was working on both. A lot of these songs are songs as I said, that came from recording sessions for the last “Underground Kingz”album where we got to the point were we knew all the songs weren’t going to make it onto that album and some of them would make it onto this album. An example of this would be “Here We Go Again” produced by Mannie Fresh and features Ron Isley. It was actually the first full song I and Pimp C completed after his release from prison. It was something that was just so special, we could never get the right mix on it and we didn’t want to just put it out because it meant so much to us because it was our first time back.

That’s in the instance and also in the instance is the song “Hard as Hell” which is featuring and produced by Akon. It was originally recorded for the last album and meant to be the follow-up single to “International Players Anthem” but it ended up becoming too costly a song for the budget on that album and got pushed over to this album.

WordofSouth.Com: We appreciate the in-sight delivered to some of those songs right there. How often during the post-production of this album did you see yourself saying “What would Pimp C do?” since you normally took a back-seat role in the rest of the UGK projects.

Bun B: Well I was very lucky to have people around that were involved in the project in terms of the mixing and mastering of the last projects as well, with the exception of N.O. Joe who I couldn’t reach out to be apart of this album simply due to time constraints. Everyone else has already been apart of the process; especially a person like Mike Dean who was a long time friend and recording partner of Pimp C. He has a very, very good understanding of the kinds of elements that Pimp C would want brought forward in the music as for making drums, key boards, bass guitars and different things stand out more than others, and making sure certain things were very clear and the sound was grand enough and the mix was warm; you know what I’m saying?
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Here’s a gallery of Kerse’s original work along with memorial pieces done in remembrance of the homie
Please pay your condolences and leave pictures if you got em!

Check out Augor in the new issue of Juxtapoz Magazine, or get a preview here courtesy of The Known Gallery.

Chaos at the War 4 world premiere last night in NYC. The bitches went crazy when Kenr hit the red carpet.

Show in GENEVA

Opening Hours: Wednesday – saturday from 1 to 6 pm and by appointement.

The Geneva gallery will show Swiss born artist from Basel “Smash 137″ for the very first time. He is one of the most active writers worldwide today. Karambolage “Contemporary typography”, a show not to be missed for all those in appreciation of the art of “Writing”.

“When i used to study typography at art school i understood pretty fast that all the letters of our alphabet are constructed from the beginning to the end. A font designer has to follow plenty of rules and there is just very small space for his own interpretation. on the other side there is handwriting which also has to follow certain rules but at the same time allows a wider interpretation to show your own personal character. Now the art work i will exhibit at the show is exactly a collision of this two worlds.”

“i have started to work on canvas in 2004. I used to struggle quite often with this topic because i never have asked my self what i am doing here and why, i just did what from my point of view felt right and all of a sudden people started to ask me questions i had no answers ready. I mean i never have heard any good explanation why people do write theirs names on things. it just must be a human urge or at least it is to me. When i write, the world stops turning”

“Smash137 is the name i have given to my self. I have choose the name Smash in 1996 and since then stick to it because my plan was to hit the walls and track-sides of my city with a huge amount of fresh styles and so the name was just made for my mission.”

Smash Bio
Smash was born in Basel, Switzerland in 1979, where he still lives and works today. In 1990 he starts painting Graffiti on trains and walls, in 2000 he starts studying graphic design in Zurich, Switzerland.

The style of Smash 137 has strongly influenced the international Writers’ scene for years. The artist is obsessed with letters and it’s many ways of writing them. Driven by his obsession for Western calligraphy, he is today one of the most active writers worldwide.

Smash 137 has been participating in many Graffiti Jam’s and battles (graffiti competition on walls), and due to his very original graffiti style, he’s is since 2002 one of the members of the prestigious “Montana Writer Team”. For over 5 years he has being showing his work “In Situ” in galleries and public art spaces worldwide.

via: speerstra.net