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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 ...

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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...