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Which Alexa Look Do You Prefer: Mini or Maxi?

Alexa Chung has been playing with hemlines this New York Fashion Week, sporting some seriously short and long esnembles as she takes her front row perch. For the Mulberry party at Soho House, she chose some tailored black shorts mixed with a denim shirt and ankle boots, while at the 3.1 Phillip Lim show she settled on a pinafore-style maxi dress with white blouse, black heels and pale pink Chanel handbag. These two looks are worlds apart but both somehow sum up Alexa's cutesy style. I quite like the sailor-inspired red maxi dress but am also crushing on her frilled denim shirt. How about you?

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Sexy Hip Hop Charts

Hip hop music is new musical genres born at the beginning of 90′s: it is a music styles similar to rap music and based on rhythm and spoken melodies. The main music charts of all the world have many hip hop artists in the first positions. My favorite well known hip hop stars are Run DMC, Publich Enemy, Jay Z, Eminem, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne and many many others.

DAME DASH LOSES MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR MANHATTAN HOMES

Former Roc-A-Fella co-owner Damon "Dame" Dash has reportedly lost his multi-million dollar New York City duplex after it was auctioned off for over $5 million on Wednesday.
Details on the purchase were revealed late Wednesday night.
The auction in state Supreme Court was ordered after Dash was sued nearly two years ago for failing to pay the $78,504 monthly tab on a $7.3 million mortgage on the two Manhattanapartments he owned. Only one of the homes, at 25 N. Moore, fetched any interest yesterday, with the winning bid going to a California-based mortgage and finance firm called Platinum Capital Partners. Edward Farrell, a lawyer representing the buyer, plunked down a check for 10 percent of the sale price in court, but refused to answer any questions about his client. (New York Post)
One of Dash's foreclosed homes did not get auctioned off.
The first condo, in the Atalanta at 25 North Moore Street in TriBeCa, saw a brief bidding war before selling to a company called Platinum Capital for $5.5 million. The minimum bid the bank would accept was $5 million. The other apartment, at the Sugar Warehouse at 79 Laight Street, also in TriBeCa, did not meet its $3 million minimum bid, so it now belongs to the bank. (New York Times)
The rap mogul reportedly maintained ownership of the property dating back six years ago.
In 2004, he bought the duplex apartment for $3.875 million and paid $1.33 million for the smaller one. In 2006, near the peak of the real estate boom, he refinanced both properties for $7.3 million. But as he was failing to make his monthly mortgage payments, Dash twice tried to sell the duplex, first in 2008 -- right after the crash -- for $7.9 million and again in 2009 for $5.75 million. A broker familiar with the market in that neighborhood said the mortgage on his units is 30 percent above the current market value. (My Fox)
Last May, Dash discussed negative press being the cause of his financial troubles being severely exaggerated.
"I started to go through a lot of bad press all of a sudden," he explains of the period following the sale of his shares in Roc-A-Fella Records and Rocawear Clothing. "Like, the recession hit everybody, but me being a businessman and motherf*ckers getting caught up in the storm, all my issues were completely public. And completely exaggerated. So the recession sh*t happens, I don't give a f*ck." (YRB Magazine)


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Youth in Action: Greening Hip Hop

Twenty-year-old aspiring rapper Tre Pound was born in San Francisco’s Hunters Point, a predominantly low-income community of color with the dubious distinction of housing the two most toxic Superfund sites in the United States, as well as power and sewage treatment plants. Asthma, cancer, and diabetes rates in that area are all disproportionately higher than in other parts of the Bay Area. “I kinda knew where I was living wasn’t environmentally safe,” says Pound, but the public school he attended provided little information about industrial pollution or climate change.

Pound says he frequently incorporates socially-aware themes into his music, but he had never made an environmentally-aware rap song until he signed up to compete in Grind for the Green’s (G4G) Eco-Rap battle. He ended up winning the competition, earning a $1000 prize and studio time, by outpacing several other contestants with his eco-friendly flow during G4G’s second annual free concert at the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco.

Pound is just one voice in the growing number of youth voices engaged in community organizing for social change. Millions of young people around the world participate in social activism. According to Wiretap Magazine, there are more than 600 youth-led community organizations currently creating green jobs, removing toxic waste, combating corporate pollution, and fighting against violence in their communities.

The undeniable reality of climate change speaks to the need for greater awareness and eco-sustainability among inner-city residents and people of color. Green has become the new face of youth activism, and today’s urban eco-activists use hip-hop as their medium.

Powered entirely by solar panels, the G4G event attracted hundreds of youth, their parents, community members, hip-hop fans, and members of other environmental activism groups, like Green for All, Alliance for Climate Education, and BayLocalize.

G4G Executive Director Zakiya Harris says she is utilizing hip-hop to focus young people’s attention on environmental issues. “We have to make it culturally relevant and engaging,” she explains. According to stic.man of dead prez, who headlined the concert, the green hip-hop movement is about empowerment, information, and economics—allowing people to “stop being just consumers and victims of corporations,” while “producing and providing those alternative resources that we need.”

During the concert, Oakland rapper Mistah F.A.B. showcased his community-minded side with material like “If ‘If’ Was a Fifth”—in which he muses, “What if poverty was gone and there was no more war and hunger?” At the conclusion of his performance, he announced that he was donating his $3,500 performance fee to the upcoming Green Youth Media Center, a joint project between G4G, Art in Action, Weapons of Mass Expression, and other progressive non-profit organizations.

The first of its kind in California, the Green Youth Media Center symbolizes the hope of green hip-hop activists like G4G’s Harris and Ambessa Cantave and Art in Action’s Galen Peterson, who envision similar centers opening up all over the United States.

The center, which opened its doors in October 2009, is a green building offering vocational, arts, and new media training; music production; youth leadership and violence prevention training; and green jobs education; as well as creating green revenue streams by selling art, music, and merchandise produced by its participants.

In order to teach urban youngsters about climate change, “We literally have to change their climate… their social climate,” Cantave explains. “We’ve related [climate change] to their health. It goes back to telling the story of something they already know; where they’re from.”

The emergence of green hip-hop activism represents the latest development in the ongoing movement to mobilize young people—a line connecting Mother Jones’ 1908 march of 100,000 child laborers from rural Pennsylvanian coal mines to Washington D.C., to the Student Nonviolence Coordinating Committee’s organizing around civil rights issues in the 1960s, to the Books Not Bars’ fight against the juvenile justice system in the early 2000s. These days, young people are organizing around community-sustainable platforms combining social justice with a burgeoning environmental awareness.

“You can’t start out talking about three million parts per billion of carbon,” Cantave says. “It’s not just something about polar bears.” Inner-city kids like Pound “have an innate sense of justice,” he says, “but haven’t yet connected that to the need for environmental justice.”

Eric K. Arnold is a writer and photographer based in Oakland, California who has been documenting emerging hip-hop and youth activist movements in the Bay Area since 1994.

From: http://urbanhabitat.org/

Footwear Spotlight: JUMP

Taiwan is invading the world with its dopeness. SoJones.com is honored to bring its readers closer to the brand that has been influencing footwear trends in over 30 countries. From Europe to USA, Jump is rocked by the most important names in fashion and entertainment industry. To know more about Jump, SoJones talked to Victor Hsu, Chief Propagandist for Jump USA, Inc.

Introduce yourself and describe how your brand was started?
I’m Victor Hsu, the Chief Propagandist for Jump USA, Inc. Originally in the early 70s, we were one of the first Taiwanese trading companies for big American brands. In 1975, after having successfully developed an unprecedented measure of production for several American brands, Jump and subsequently Travel Fox were formed as one of the first Taiwanese brands to make the move from manufacturer to brand. Jump quickly became one of the most well known sneaker brands in Asia and in the 80s and 90s began it’s expansion move to the rest of Asia, Europe and Latin America. Travel Fox actually had become quite popular in the US and England for its colorful kicks. In the early 2000s, Harry Chen, the owner of Jump was hired by Steve Madden to build a men’s division. In it’s second year, it had become a 50 million dollar business. By 2007, Harry decided it was time to bring Jump to the US which was when I was hired. Utilizing my background as a merchant at Lord and Taylor and product development at Express, we completely repositioned Jump to become relevant for the American consumer, opening a store in SoHo and growing our distribution to high end retailers like Saks and Bloomingdale’s. Jump has since entered into a variety of interesting collaborations, most notably with Black Eyed Peas’ singer, Taboo.

Describe this season’s theme for your line. Include any sources of inspiration (examples: 80’s punk, muses like Amber Rose, 70’s disco bands, Run DMC, etc)
For Fall ‘10, we’ve made a return to the great outdoors. When we relaunched Jump to become Jump Deluxe, we had been one of the first brands to go aggressive with patents. We now make a return to nature, with very clean and sober materials in neutrals and gum soles with gold accents on the eyelets and lacetaps. New for the brand are our Goodyear welted boot constructions taking a bold step to diversify our product offering.

Any product placements on celebs to keep an eye out for (examples: publicity photos, magazines, movies, music videos etc)
With our store in SoHo, we are in constant contact with celebs and sometimes develop intimate relationships on collaborations as was done so with Taboo. Keep an eye out for Jay Sean, Jason Derulo and Kevin Rudolf. Tom Cruise has recently become the owner of a pair of Jump Deluxe boots.

Taboo shows off Taboo X Jump collaboration box

Greg Gunberg of "Heroes"

Jay Sean rockin' Jump Shoes

Peter Facinelli of Twilight rockin Jump shoes

What has been a surprise fashion hit for you over the last year?
While the Vanquish high top, an adaptation of one of our 80s Travel Fox hits, had been traditionally our key silhouette, its low top , the Ventus have become increasingly strong for us.

What apparel trends are you really feeling this year?
I’m an accessories guy so I keep an eye out for interesting necklaces, bracelets and rings. I like wood and ethnic/spiritual things.

What fashion trend would you like to see thrown overboard?
I think I’d be a bit pretentious to answer this one – it’s all subjective and someone might want to throw me overboard for some of the things I wear!

What is/was one of your own most prized fashion pieces, past or present?
I have a navy linen shirt from Sisley with double breasted pockets and sleeves that roll up and button that I’ve worn since college and it’s become so worn that the collar curls up and the linen is so thin. I absolutely love it.

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Publishers scouting another dimension

That's what the publishers of Hip Hop Weekly Magazine are hoping when its first 3-D swimsuit calendar hits 30,000 retail locations nationwide Tuesday.

``Print has sort of taken a beating in the business world. We want to bring excitement back to the print genre. We want to show that with some innovation, you can succeed.'' said Dave Mays, a Hip Hop Weekly co-publisher with Ray ``Benzino'' Scott.

Hoping to capitalize on the buzz of 3-D movies and television, the three-year-old Miami-based bi-weekly hip hop pop culture news and gossip magazine is experimenting with the 3-D swimsuit calendar. It's also adding ``peek-a-boo'' cover flaps -- flashy stunts that other magazines are also starting to add.

Playboy jumped on the trend in June with its first 3-D centerfold. And Rolling Stone sold a ``peek-a-boo'' cover edition in June, where the cover peeled away to reveal a smiling rapper Jay-Z.

``We're seeing a lot of this taking place now, where we're using technology to enhance the value of print,'' said Samir Husni, a University of Mississippi professor, better known in the industry as Mr. Magazine. ``Technology made it possible for the costs to have dropped dramatically.''

Husni said magazines with extra effects tend to be heavily sponsored, making production costs affordable.

That was the case with Hip Hop Weekly's 3-D calendar as well. The 12-month ``Flawless Beauties'' calendar, sponsored by swimsuit line FB Legacy and Sobieski Vodka, comes with red and blue paper glasses, packaged with a special swimsuit edition of Hip Hop Weekly for $9.99. It will remain on stands several weeks longer than the regular issue that comes every 14 days for $3.99.

Hip Hop Weekly Design Director Wor Whosane said he taught himself to use the software that turns ordinary photos into an image that can be seen in 3-D with red and blue glasses.

PEEK-A-BOO

Tuesday's issue will also be the magazine's first peek-a-boo cover, where an extra paper flap image of a door peels away to reveal model Tahiry in a swimsuit.

The magazine will also use a peek-a-boo cover for Aug. 3 when it launches it's first issue of Skyboxx, a monthly magazine for sports lifestyle and entertainment featuring Miami Heat's newest superstar, LeBron James. Readers can peel away James' former Cavalier's jersey to reveal a Heat jersey underneath. Scott said he plans to have peek-a-boo covers for most, if not all, of future Skyboxx issues.

Though this is the Hip Hop Weekly's first swimsuit calendar, but it's not the first for publishers Mays and Scott, who helped start hip hop-culture magazine The Source.

At The Source, which Mays founded while attending Harvard in 1988 and has since grown to be called ``The Bible of Hip-Hop,'' the calendars were ``a great seller for us, and we wanted to take it a step further with 3-D,'' Scott said.

Mays said he and Scott left The Source after conflicts over the magazine's direction. ``When we met, we figured that the monthly format is really a dying breed, at least in the way it has been done over the past 10, 15, 20 years.''

So the two moved to Miami -- a city where they hosted The Source Awards and where they ran a nightclub for a year before it closed in 2004.

``We had a vision for Miami a long time ago that it was going to emerge as the next entertainment capital,'' Mays said. ``We also realized we don't need to be in New York anymore, with the way technology has evolved. Our overhead is like a fraction of a fraction of what we used to produce The Source.''

From: http://www.miamiherald.com