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Its that time of the year for another revating urban culture fanatic that is known as STR CRD-the leading urban youth culture event in fashion, music, sneakers, graffiti, skate and dance in Africa – returns to the revamped Maboneng Precinct in downtown Johannesburg. Street Cred was launched with an exciting blogging expose – so even those not living in Gauteng can be part of it. Follow the blogs of “Mzansi’s Most Popular” a first in South Africa, as 4 blogging crews (PE, CPT, DBN, JHB) simultaneously duel it out on the “interweb”, to see who can gain the most followers and be crowned the most prolific street bloggers. The event is taking place from 27-30 September 2012, STR.CRD will open on Thursday with the exclusive, invite-only HGH.STR – a gallery-style fashion presentation that focuses on bespoke and exclusive products. On Friday and throughout the weekend, partnering brands will launch their Spring Summer 2012\2013 campaigns, and will have pop-up shops with ...

Tumblr is a new micro blogging platform and social networking which is owned and operated by tumblr.INC. This social networking phenomenon was launched on the 27 th April 2007 by David Korp. Tumblr allows users to post multimedia and other content to short form blog, where users can follow other users, they can choose to either make their tumble page private or it can be public to everyone to see and access. Much of the websites features are accessed from the dashboard interface, where to post content and posts of followed blogs appear. In early June 2012 Tumblr featured its first major brand advertising campaign in conjunction with one of the largest sporting company Adidas. Adidas managed to launch an official soccer Tumblr blog and they managed to buy placement on the user dash board. This launch was only two months before Tumblr was moving towards paid advertising. The fact numbers: ·          As of july 2012 tumblr has over 64...

talib kweli on stage On the 1 st of September we made our way to OST in new town for the sprite uncontainable finals, after a national wide search for the next MC, graffiti artist and dancer, which saw the judges traveling from Nelspruit to Durban etc. though arriving their early 6:30 seeing on the flyers they said the event was going to start around 6, but the event started at 8. With the MC of the event being Mtv base Vj sizwe Dlomo, who really tried his best to keep us entertained, the only thing he managed to make me do was break my own record of how many times I can yawn during a speech. The main aim of the event was to announce the winner of the sprite uncontainable where the winner won a mentorship programme with non either than Mr Talib Kweli himself in New York. The event finally kicked with the two MCs who got on stage to do their thing, the two Mc was JHB based ABY FAB(cash time fame) and Durban rapper Hydrochloric, they both went on stage to perform their sprite unc...

So on Friday the 25 th august 2012 I attended the new puma store launch which was held at corner de kotze and melle street in Braamfontein, this marked the 2 nd official design of the PUMA International’s new Retail 2.0 store design launched in early 2011 in Berlin, with the new system now being rolled out in all major global markets, including the PUMA Canal Walk store which was the first store in Africa to undergo this latest facelift. The new PUMA Store in Braamfontein will also be equipped with the new store design, but it’s also going to have additional store elements such as a PUMA Social area and DJ mixing station, a peep show to surprise shoppers in the change-rooms, and an unSMARTphone. PUMA South Africa’s Marketing Director Brett Bellinger said “PUMA is very excited to open our first PUMA Store in the Johannesburg area. We have carefully selected Braamfontein for this venture as we believe the mix of students and hipsters perfectly fits the offering that we have ...

On  the 8august 2012 i attended 21 poets and a poem which was at the johannesburg theatre in Baamfontein. The play is about people’s potential. "Through poetry we encourage the audience to believe that they have the potential to meet the demands of life" I really didn't know what to expect because honestly I usually don't attend events like those. I got the perfect sitting, upon arrival I noticed how small the venue was a little small was expecting a bigger venue. The show started still didn't know what to expect hoestly the opening scene was a little dull, than the event started, when the first words were said when they were staging 21 poets and a poem, left me speechless, heart beating slowly and faster again thats how powerful it was. the lead actor obakeng Makhutle who played the lead role of Themba who was on the path of finding himeslf his destiny and persuing his life long goal of being a story teller. one line that striked me hard was "the pric...

the founders of the i RUN JHB from left to right Z weli Simanamane, wandile king leeu and neo flame selemela Recently sat down with the designers and the founders of the clothing label I RUN JHB: Neo Flame selemela (retail business management), wandile king leeu (marketing management), and zweli simanamane (marketing management) who are determined by all means to make things happen and run JHB with their flashy and bright clothing line I RUN JHB 1.        Questions: how did you guys come together and when did you guys start designing? Answers: we were doing the same course at first and we all had a passion for fashion and designing, due to academic reasons, some of us had to change courses but now we back together and we start designing last year may. 2.        Q: what was the inspiration behind the brand the brand and also the name? A: what inspired the brand is people that want to make it big, that are posi...

so this week on BBM conversation, i got my home boy from Tzaneen, a nigga who's going to blow up soon, lets do this, you know i have a good eye for talent. He goes by the name Nyiko "Ashton" Nokeri , producer and founder of Niz E.N.T Gavinko : so when did you start rapping? Ashton : i got in the game in 2005 and became serious in 2007 G :what motivated you to get in the game? A : the love i developed in the process of fitting in, i use to rap to Eminems songs. i could write at that time but never tried it out, till i met a friend of mine(kgotso) who made beatsand encouraged me to give it a try, here i am today. G : what influences your music? A : i see myself as more than a rapper, i listen to all genre but mostly besides hiphop is the orgin of hip hop: soul music. I listen to the likes of J.cole, Ace hood, T.I, and Drake. to get a view of things, so they also have an influence on my music. G : so who would you like to work with in the near future? ...

  So you know your boy G is always got the hook up on each and everything thats happeneing in music and the latest events, so this week i had the pleasure of attending the SAMA(south african music awards) which happened on sunday 29 and monday 30 in Sun city. The SAMAS was celebrating its  18th year, it was finally legal and also the fact that it was bac where it began Sun City, unlike the previous one in Monte casino and the fact that there was a new MTNSAMA Ceo Randall Abrahams(RSA Idols judge), who had to take on a big responsibilty.  Zahara with her one of her 8 awards.  You've never seen the SAMAs unless you see them live, so many people don't know there two SAMA events one hosted on Sunday which they don't air on Tv and also the main event which is aired live on Tv which took place on monday. The Sunday awards were on point i think even better than the main event ones, with the host being comedian Tumi Moroka(lLOL on mzan...

 The official poster and flyer  It’s that time of the year again, where we take it back to the city, where it all began, that time where New town comes alive and the rest of the Johannesburg just shuts down for the day. Where music, art,flim and fashion come together under one roof. If you still asking yourself what back to the city is all about and staying under some rock, don’t worry ill fill you in. Back to the city is one of the biggest hip hop festival here in Africa that happens every year on the 27 of April (freedom day) that aims to celebrate Hip hop and all the different elements that make up hip hop and the urban culture. The event started back in 2007, now on its 6 th year and it started with just 3500 and grew to over 11 500 people in the last year , with the target for this year 14 000 . The event takes place Outside Ritual Stores, Cnr. Bree and Henry Nxumalo Streets, Newtown, Johannesburg, the show starts at 10:00 am until 23:00 that’s 13 hours o...

During this holidays I had the pleasure of visiting one of my Venda friends place, they had a wedding at his place and he invited me and how can you say no, the black person in me couldn’t just turn down a free experience, where I got the chance to dine and fest to their Venda delicacy’s and get to experience their culture and also got a chance to taste some home brewed beer. They started playing some Venda music, here I was expecting them to play some English orientated sound seeing that it was wedding, they kept to their roots and played Venda music, and the way they danced to that music is almost the same way I dance to my favorite hip hop music. It triggered this question in mind when last did I listen to my own cultural music, I won’t lie the first thing  I do when I get to a music shop I go to the hip hop side and take for granted my own music and here I am telling people how proud I am about my Tsonga heritage but still don’t even know any famous Tsonga musicians.   ...