Worst musical television show EVER: COP ROCK!!!
Be safe out there:
Mexican Cop Rock, this is so wrong
The show got canceled after 4 episodes, gosh I wonder why???
Lord save us!!
If only the NYPD walked around singing all the time, now that would be something.
-Miz
I came across this video for an assignment I had to do in my computers and culture class, searching for “Computer Love” online, and I came across this video. Zap and Roger- live talk box- consider it a continuation of Crosby’s blog on the talk box and snoop : P
the sims remix is pretty clever too:
-Miz
There was a party up in the Museum of Natural History’s Planetarium on Friday January 25th! It was one of the crazier events I’ve been to in a while. It was very surreal to have over a thousand kids in hoodies and bright colors walking around with beer bottles looking at moon rocks and enjoying the sounds of the Cool Kids, Kid Sister, A-Trak and as if the night wasn’t crazy enough: Kanye West popped up and did a few songs after Kid-Sister. I took some photo’s:
Cool Kids
A-Trak getting the crowd amped up for his Girlfriend Kid Sister
Her Mic wasn’t working the first two songs, but it didn’t matter- sister can shake it
then SURPRISE Kanye runs up on the stage, and the crowd went wild (peep the MJ pin)
charming ladies with his smile and dashing good looks
Maybe my jeans would fit on the moon
That’s all for now-stay tuned for the video that Crosby took of Kid Sister and the Cool kids from the Planetarium show,
Miz Metro Madness shall return!!
Much Luv,
MMMMMMMMMiz
The street of New York is the most massive art gallery in the world. We pass by expression scribbled, slopped, pasted, stuck, nailed and screwed upon street sign poles, construction sites, walls, sidewalks- you name it someone has altered it.
A few pictures from my recent documentation:
What is it??? Is what I asked when I walked by, it looks like a play on graffiti- but it’s pasted up there- I think it’s meant to confuse us, if you walk by you may not even notice it- but it got me scratching my head.
This was nailed into a street sign pole. It says on it, “that’s the girl im gonna marry”
This is more collaborative scribble then anything, but creates a depth and surface that I and many city dwellers have come to love. Names upon names, it just looks fly.
My own little stamp on the streets- peep the miz metro card sticker on the corner of the sign : )
This is nailed into the side of a construction site wall. IT’S PRETTY DAMN IMPRESSIVE.
The entire thing is carved out of wood. I can only imagine how much time it took- and the artist, Judith Supine is giving it to the public to enjoy, talk about being one with the streets. New York is so dark sometimes, it’s artists like this that help us get through the day.
And last but not least, the ass that has been terrorizing the lower east side. Not exactly “street art” but it’s on the street, and I’m sure plenty of guys would argue it’s art, as they ponder the possibility of jerking off while waiting for the light to change, “would anyone notice?” YES
that’s all for now.
Wadddupp! While visiting my crazy cousins in LA they showed me some of their favorite baby youtube videos, yes they have a lot of free time on their hands. But I thought these videos were quite cute- what can I say, we were bored, and if you are too- hopefully you will at least chuckle.
Monsters:
Blewd
Charlie Bit Me:
Charlie Bit Me, Remix:
: P
-Miz
I think we’ve all noticed that artists have been getting pushed out of NYC for a while now. As the music business is undergoing serious transformations many NYC music studio’s have been shutting down, paying the rent is getting harder and harder. In Red House’s case, they didn’t have much of a choice- they got kicked out of their space so a high rise luxury condo could be built, like we need more of those in lower Manhattan?
Red House was a very funky creative music studio, filled with professional producers who’ve worked with the likes of Wyclef Jean, Whitney Houston, Chaka Khan, the Beach Boys among many others. I was working on my album there for the past year and a half with producer Ray Cervenka, and am in LA right now at his new studio finishing up my album. I took some photo’s of the studio during my last session with Ray at Red House, Peep the pics.
THE LAST DAYZ @ RED HOUSE
photo’s by Miz Metro
Red house is the blue building, can’t fake the funk
Someone was always playing ping-pong in the main space, there was also a pool table and NYC taxi cab door 
there were so many boards laying around, it was crazy. The knobs look like soldiers ready 4 battle
It’s kind of Erie
never a dull moment
That’s all 4 now,
MUCH LOVE,
Wadddup! Be On the Look out:
BiJules
Pinky ring by BiJules -one of the most creative ideas I’ve seen in a while. If you haven’t heard of BiJules yet ( get with it : P )- you will hear of her soon enough, either way you’ve deff seen her jewelry ( in the Rihanna video Umbrella , Eve’s video- to name a few) BiJules is by far one of the hottest jewelry designers around, period. She also hosts a number of hot events and parties. Def check her out, her work isn’t cheap- but if your a fella trying to get a gift for your girl, a BiJules piece will surely make your lady happy : )
check her out at www.bijulesnyc.com
BLUPRINT
Julie Machado aka “The Shot Caller” founded BluPrint Clothing and designs some of my favorite dresses and accessories that this big city has to offer. Every piece is one of a kind, and super cute!!!! Not to mention that Julie is one of the nicest people I’ve ever met-mad love goes into this girls cloths. Check out her dope website at www.bluprintclothing.com
Santogold
One of my favorite women in music, this lady is the real deal, and her pen got some fire in it.
She’s on the cover of the January issue of Fader, so if you don’t know who she is yet-u’ll certainly be hearing about her soon enough. Check her out at www.myspace.com/santogold
Creator
By Santi White
Got no need for the fancy things
All the attention that it brings
Tell me no, I say yes, I was chosen
And I will deliver the explosion
Can’t say it’s gonna get me far
Do no good to say what you are
I run the streets and I break up houses
River runs deep and the flame devours it
Me, I’m a Creator
Thrill is to make it up
The rules I break got me a place
Up on the radar
Me, I’m a Taker
Know what the stakes are
Can’t roll it back, it’s understood
Got to play our cards
Sit tight I know what you are
mad bright but you aint no star
polish up til you make it gleam
your M.O, I know what you mean
Tail ridin’ and I know it’s true
while they screamin’ I love you
Down deep you know there aint no flow
a soul decay, was D.O.A
I know what you here for now
Words out you’re an idea whore though,
now don’t you crush on me
I’ll see you in your pipe dreams
whether or not you know it’s true
You’re who they dictate to
That shit must hurt real bad
fakin’ what you wish you had
Here all the folks come ask about me
Band wagon, know they used to doubt me
Blind side tend to hit real hard
you should heed the warning, get a body guard
Steady friction in this bitch
Creepin’ in just like an itch
so far I got the last laugh
still the rich rise up, still I live fast
wouldn’t know it face to face
Got no soul and got no taste
Moving in speed up the pace
I got it locked though, what a waste
All the talk is standard fare
Walk the walk if it gets you there
on the grind til the gig is up
Im ‘a smash ‘em down
put a muzzle on them like “what!”
DOWTOWN 81
Downtown 81 is one of my new favorite movies, if you haven’t seen it you must watch it. I hadn’t seen it until recently, and it blew my mind. It’s a important part of NYC and film history.
you can cop it at: www.downtown81.com
MUGWUMP
MUGITYMWUMP!! My favorite funk soul band in NYC, maybe I’m partial because I’m in it, but this 10 piece band brings the house down. Come check us out this thursday at R BAR all info on flier above.
much love,
Bonjour! Hope the holidayz are treating everyone well, I’m really full-need to go hit the gym. Wanted to share this interview I got to do with Fab 5 Freddy about the piece that my friend Matt Namer found in his Dad’s building 151 Wooster. This whole thing was kindof a crazy experience, Matt and I used to throw Urban Gypsy Circus loft parties on the 6th floor of the building, and there were rumors that there was a hidden Basquiat on the 8th floor, when the building was undergoing renovations Matt went in search of it with a sledge hammer and ended up finding this piece below. The Futura 2000 tag was the first think that was found.
Check out the interview below.
The 151 Wooster Mural
Excerpts from Miz Metro’s interview with Fab 5 Freddy
151 Wooster Street SoHo NY, November 2007
MM: How did you come to write on this wall? When did you first visit 151 Wooster?
F5F: This woman Edit DeAK who’s house this was, a really noted art critic told me “come and paint on the walls” – she just let it happen – when right outside people were like, “Ugh, that’s horrible. Get those guys out of here.” She was able to see things that now many people see and understand. Now they use this style of painting to represent hip, young, cool – the music does the same thing, you know about that. It was something I definitely saw was a lot bigger then it was, but I had no idea 25 years later I’d be standing here in-front of this wall dropping this history like we uncovered some secret tomb.
MM: Looking at all of this, how does it make you feel?
F5F: It feels great, when I saw all this and got wind of it, it just made me think about what point I was at, and all the other things that I was about to do. So now 20-plus years later it’s like the preverbal mark on the wall… The thing I like about seeing it is a lot of people would look at this and try to say “I like when you do the big colorful things, but I don’t like it when it’s all the scribbles” – but I like that too. On the more artistic side, I was the urban nerdy kid who hung out in the museums, I was on the street corners doing my thing but I knew about Jackson Pollack, I knew about Franz Kline, so I was seeing how abstract painters are inspired by the calligraphic history of it all… The interconnected craziness turns it into a whole thing like what you have here [pointing to The 151 Wooster Mural], which really represents the wild energy of it all from that period.
MM: Is it significant that “Wild Style” is actually written on the wall?
F5F: Yeah, well there was a crew named wild style, wild style was actually a style of graffiti – of the really interconnected pieces… Charlie and I named our movie “Wild Style” – the first film on Hip Hop culture to really speak so broadly to specifically that style of work.
MM: Looking back on all this I’m curious to know how you feel about hip hop and the culture it is today. On MTV, you hosted the first international show that really brought hip hop around the world. Now it’s a phenomenon in all these other countries. How do you feel about that?
F5F: I feel great about it, I’m very much so still apart of it. Today I produce a show for VH1 called “Hip Hop Honors”… As a producer of the show I was honored along with Charlie Ahearn for producing and being a part of the film “Wild Style”. I’m really happy to see the culture go beyond my wildest dreams, or imaginations of where it could go. It’s a great thing to see people in different countries, from different places and different spaces being a part of this interesting culture. It’s really great.
MM: It seems like everything that you were a part of putting out there into the mainstream was very positive. How do you feel about the different directions that Hip Hop has taken?
F5F: In general the good parts of Hip Hop are still probably the most important, and I’m not just being biased. I think it’s probably the most important cultural force that’s emerged without question in the last 100 years, because it continues to thrive and grow in every aspect… In America there’s so much of a commercial, watered down, “lets just get the money” vibe, but when you go to every other country around the world – all over Europe, all over Asia, all over Africa – people take up this culture to give themselves a voice. They don’t have outlets to media that we have, the outlet to galleries, so people have picked up these forms to express themselves in ways that are really beyond comprehension. There’s nothing really that you can compare to what goes on with people picking up spray paint, and grabbing the microphone, scratching some records to kind of make a sound, and giving people a vibe that they mean something. That’s the important thing about [Hip Hop] to me.
MM: You mentioned that one of the main things that asked by the press was: “How long is this going to last?” Were you aware that this movement was something that was going to go beyond what was happening in the Bronx, Harlem, and Brooklyn?
F5F: To a certain extent I did… I knew the amount of kids throughout the city that were avidly into this but [in 1980] it was still a big secret to the rest of the country and the rest of the world… I knew that once people got a sense of it, got to see it, got to understand it – they would at least be able to appreciate it. [In 1980’s] if you were black or Puerto Rican and you were wearing street cloths, when ever you would see [graffiti] images in the press it was negative, it was crime – like “these are the bad guys”…. I wanted to help make a film to see images of people that look like me that were doing something. That’s why, as a painter, my “Swan Song” on the subway system was an homage to Andy Warhol; I did a whole subway car painted with Campbell soup cans to let people know – “wow some of those kids that are doing those trains must know about art.” Warhol was somebody that I really admired as an artist… He redefined what an artist could be in this pop culture and I was very fascinated – myself, Jean-Michel, and Keith Haring were all thinking about that aggressively, talking about it, then doing our own thing based on that history.
Yours Truly,
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Fly shit, is defiantly fly (literally)- the insects Miguel Diaz created are certainly a commentary on the capitalist world we live in, where the real American Gangsta’s are sitting in the white house. The work speaks for it’s self-
check it:
I thought the trash can in the middle of the room fit the general theme nicely. The opening was catered by McDonalds-but all the food vanished before we got there, oh well- I still enjoyed the 8 prints anywayz- keep a look out for Miguel Diaz, he’s more then just a talented visual artist, he’s also a very creative M.C, who infuses his visual art and his political lyrics into one. Check his music out at: http://www.myspace.com/noflags
much love,
Wadddup- Mizzity Metro reporting on one crazy ass art opening. The 151 Wooster Wild Style Exhibit opened this past Thursday Dec 13, Fab 5 Freddy was the guest of honor and the attendees were a mix of stars, street artists, Soho elite, and all the crazy kids I could invite who actually appreciate Graffiti. Some pictures below,
Exclusive Miz Metro Fab 5 Freddy interview coming soon- stay posted! Also I got to interview some cool cats on film at the opening- will be posting that soon as well.
Peep the pics: (Photo’s by Tone)
Miss Nelch on the decks, holdin it down ( my stickers on her mixer : )
Fab 5 Freddy and I (infront of his painting), He’s a big dude
Patty Dukes, Reph Star and Miz- they did a dope interview with me, was great to hear how kids who still live in the Bronx ( the birthplace of what the exhibition was about ) felt about the 151 Wooster Mural.
My manager Myles Grosovsky , he’s sayin don’t mess with Miz, or else
Texas and I , this chick is DOPE and is a sick photographer, New POP!
New Pop Fam, Trevz , Texas and Miz ( Tone behind the Camera, doing his magic)
The open bar was starting to hit me here.
Much thanks to New Pop Media, and Tone w/the sick photos. For all my fam that showed up, and made the night fabulously filled w/love. Much thanks to the Namers for making it possible, Fred- for letting me interview you 10 times, Miss Nelch you da bomb, To my hunni Crosby for always being understanding while I run around like a mad woman at these events (I love you), to Rob for filming me with the wireless Metro mic, to Myles for keeping order, to Charlie for making Wild Style the movie and to all the people out there actually living hip hop because they love it- not just because it’s fashionable- because it’s a necessity.
stay tuned-
much love-
p.s go to www.myspace.com/mizmetro : P
