Sedgwick & Cedar

The Houston Street mural wall on the Lower East Side has a new resident: Barry McGee. With the help of Josh Lazcano (Amaze) and Chino, the team bombarded the wall with simple red tags of names and crews of graffiti writers past and present. In a bizarre evening that included female club-goers, the NYPD, and an accident with an SUV flipped on it’s side, the crew finished the entire wall at around 5am.

Check out The Art Collectors for the full scoop and for more photos.

• Posted on: Aug 31, 2010

Taschen, the minds behind Wooster Collective and Carlo McCormick have published a new book called Trespass that will be in stores this month!

An excerpt from Wooster’s post:

“…The book includes dozens of never seen before photographs of long-lost ephemeral works. In putting the book together with Carlo and Ethel, we held true to one fundamental rule: Every photograph in the book had to be of a work that was unauthorized and lacked permission. Commissioned work, even even if the photographs were absolutely spectacular, would not be included.”

Click here to view Tashen’s look through the spreads of the book!

• Posted on: Aug 31, 2010

Behind every Sedgwick & Cedar Planet Rock t-shirt, there is a story. The London tee honors UK Fresh ’86 and symbolizes the UK’s Hip-Hop scene, and a concert to remember. Rappers including the London Posse, Graffiti artists including Goldie, and pioneering DJ’s Tim Westwood and the late, great, English impresario, Malcolm McLaren did much for the UK’s early Hip Hop scene and for Hip-Hop in general.  The UK even had its fair share of huge Hip Hop events including the UK Fresh ‘86 concert.  The brainchild of UK legend Morgan Khan and his Street Sounds label, UK Fresh ’86 was MC’d by “The Boss in London,” Mike Allen.

Check out the t-shirt here at our online store.

• Posted on: Aug 30, 2010

The above video is a look into the history of a 6 second drum sample which has become one of the most sampled beats of all time.  Everything from 1980s hip hop to today’s commercials has used it. The drum sample is from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969 titled “Amen Brother” by The Winstons. Make sure to watch the entire clip!

• Posted on: Aug 27, 2010

New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. These five cities embraced the culture of Hip Hop as it spread across the world and inspired their own movements with the release of “Planet Rock.”

The top DJs from these respective cities have released mixes inspired by the Planet Rock collection.

Third one up: Just Dizle AKA Le Champion from Paris, click here to read his blog and get MORE AWESOME MUSIC.

Enjoy and spread the music!
SC73 presents a mix from Just Dizle AKA Le Champion inspired by Planet Rock Paris by sedgwickcedar

Click here to check the New York mix by DJ Wonder

And here for the London mix by Jaguar Skills & DJ @War

• Posted on: Aug 26, 2010

Forbes wrote an interesting article about a man known as Branson B. who is a friend of some big time Hip Hop guys as well as a well regarded champagne maker. A 91 rating from Wine Spectator is definitely something to be proud of!

To read the full story CLICK HERE TO GO TO FORBES.

• Posted on: Aug 25, 2010

Grandmaster Caz is an encyclopedia of everything Hip Hop. Continuing with S&C’s preservation of Hip Hop’s roots, we bring you Grandmaster Caz’s Hip Hop Fact of the Week. The answer after the jump!

Question: Name the first trinity of Hip Hop MC’s (Top 3 MC’s from first school of Hip Hop)

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• Posted on: Aug 25, 2010

KAWS has put his signature touches on the classic characters, Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket. KAWS even made them life sized, with Jiminy being as big as Pinocchio’s foot.

Pinocchio first appeared in Italy in 1883. It was remade by Disney in 1940 and was the second film Walt Disney made after the success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Available on August 28.

• Posted on: Aug 23, 2010

The story of Sha-Rock, the first female MC in history, has hit bookstores with Luminary Icon.

In 1977, she became the first female emcee to join an all male hip-hop group. Original Funky Four members included: Keith Keith, Sha-Rock, Rahiem and KK Rockwell (picture of Sha-Rock on the mic after the jump).

Also peep the video from Sha-Rock’s book signing hosted by New York’s John Starks.. after the jump!

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• Posted on: Aug 20, 2010

New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, and Los Angeles. These five cities embraced the culture of Hip Hop as it spread across the world and inspired their own movements with the release of “Planet Rock.”

The top DJs from these respective cities have released mixes inspired by the Planet Rock collection.

Second one up: Jaguar Skills and DJ @War from London

Enjoy and spread the music!

Click here to check the New York mix by DJ Wonder

SC73 presents a mix from Jaguar Skills and DJ @War inspired by Planet Rock London by sedgwick&cedar

• Posted on: Aug 19, 2010