seen.´s non-hippie reggae and dancehall blog

I have to admit that I´m not a gamer at all. However, I rate great design and I love good music. GTA IV seems to have both. You´ve probably read in this blog that Mavado delivered the soundtrack to the trailer. Today, Dancehall Mobi reports that

The final release of Grand Auto Theft IV also includes music from Bob Marley and son, Damian Marley (a duet called “Stand Up Jamrock”), as well as Munga Honourable’s “No Fraid”.

Nice. However, what I find almost more interesting, is that the people from Rockers NYC

had the opportunity to style two characters in GTA4, Little Jacob and Real Badman – Jamaican gangsters and gunrunners for the main character, Niko Bellic. Little Jacob can be seen wearing our Evil Heat hoodie, and keep an eye out for a vintage Rockers NYC “No Surrender” tee in the GTA4 mission “Jamaican Heat”.

Check the picture above to see what a great job they´ve done.

WilliE from SoulForce, usually drinking, dancing and bubbling, just send me this picture. Thanks man! Keep on styling and profiling!

Quite a few people have are asking why we changed our blank shirts and are printing on the relatively thin American Apparel shirts now. Well, there are a few reasons for that:

- AA have by far the nicest colour palette out there,
- AA shirts have a decent length without being wide as hell,
- as AA shirts are quite light they make you sweat less in summer, esp. in the club/dancehall,
- AA shirts are made “sweatshop free”.

You can have a look at the BBC Thread (via Style Department) to get an impression about what the last point means in case you don´t know.

P. S. You better get that mad new Shadetek/Cauto EP now - and if it´s only for the

insanely effective ‘Girlfriend rmx’ (via Dutty Artz).

via The Fader

Kingdom
The Official Mixtape Vol. 2

Blogariddims 40
John Eden & Grievous Angel present grime in the dancehall

Alex from Such A Sound just hit me with that flyer. Looks like it´s really true: Diplo (Mad Decent) comes to Berlin. On Thursday, May 8th. The event - which is part 3 of the Ghetto Blaster series - will take place in the Tape club. It´s presented by Vice magazine and Best Works.

Btw: In the same venue, Santogold is supposed to perform on May 22nd.

On Thursday, BBC World Service´s programme “The Beat” had a report on the the noise abatement act and the recent police crackdown on late night sessions in Jamaica. Among others, Peter Dean Rickards, editor in chief of First Magazine, expresses his opinion. Follow the link above to listen to the show. (via FIRST Magazine)