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ANATOMY VII

RISE OF THE CRE-ATORS PART II

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SKRILLEX WINS A GRAMMY

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WHERE IS THE DUBSTEP RAP?

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OUR THOUGHTS ON MEGAUPLOAD

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WHO YOU CALLIN’ A HOE?

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EVERYBODY HATES LANA DEL REY

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THE ALL SEEING EYEPAGE 18

CERTIFIED DOPEPAGE 20

DINGUS X ANATOMYPAGE 24

THE COSIGNPAGE 28

THE ANATOMY GUIDE TO THEapocalypse

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FASHIONISINGPAGE 34

THE WELL-DRESSEDCYNIC

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KEEPING IT HOODPAGE 40

CAGED, BY PHAEDRA BRODY

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THE END OF THE WORLD ISSUE

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The month to follow in suit with Anatomy VI has been interesting, but especially in light of a piece that we wrote for the last issue,

appropriately dubbed Rise of the Creators. We thought it was compelling how hip-hop artist Kanye West was moving into a creative space that would quickly tran-scend his areas of expertise in producing and rapping.

Interestingly enough, the same day we came out with Anatomy VI, dude went on a three-hour-long tweeting-tangent about his entire creative career, projects, collaborations, internships and overall contributions to the creative sphere. Of course, all of these tweets later were deemed to have a purpose after the artist effectively made the first announcement of his new creative collective called Don-da, respectively named after his mother Donda West.

Looking to cross-pollinate a gradient of corners in the creative sphere, West

seeks to bring together everything from models and photographers, to artists, mu-sicians, and writers. Though people have not seen or heard much from Donda since its announcement, we are sure that we can expect something from the budding collective in the future.

In the mean tine, expect to see some-thing from Kanye West’s DW line come Paris fashion week. It is said that the artist is going to be showing his second women’s RTW collection at the esteemed event.

His last show, in October of 2011, was a star studded-affair, however, many critics were keen on pointing out that his line was still pretty rough around the edges. Whether or not this is true or false is up to the viewer, as we have met many who like it. With him being poised to present his work on Mar. 6, the public is wondering what is to be expected of the forthcoming line. We, however, are looking forward to seeing his growth as an artist.

RISE OF THE CREATORS, PART IIKANYE WEST HAS BEEN MAKING MAJOR WAVES IN THE BLOGOSPHERE AFTER HIS ANNOUNCEMENT OF DONDA.

I’m sure when hearing songs like it, many have thought to themselves “man, wouldn’t it suck to be the per-son on that voicemail?” But really though, this time around, that is far from the case. For Drake, at least,

the stream of bullshit hasn’t stopped throughout the course of 2011, and the one thing that has come to no-tice is that much of it has been avoidable. In the case of Ludacris, the best thing he could have done was not talked shit, in the manner of Common, maybe it was that he shouldn’t have shot back, but for Drizzy’s ex girlfriend, Erica Lee, who has since stepped forward claiming to be the woman on the Marvin’s Room voicemail, he simply should have paid her more money.

After getting a lawyer in November, the artist agreed to giving her 50,000 and a small percentage of the roy-alties, however, Lee wants more, arguing that she was a major contributing force in the creative process. Lee also states that she has text messages of Drizzy stating Lee’s contributions in the entire process stating things such as “you practically wrote the whole song.”

In a response sent to The Fader from Drake’s Lawyer, the artist’s camp is stating that Lee “consented to the use of her voice in the song ‘Marvin’s Room’ prior to its release. Lee asked only for the credit she received as ‘Syren Lyric Muse,’ and she did not ask for any compen-sation. It was only after she retained a lawyer that there was a demand for payment. Drake tried for months to resolve the matter amicably, and he now looks forward to being vindicated in court.”

It may look like a case of what have you done for me lately, but who knows? Either way, in the rap game es-pecially, it is always good to keep your business right.

DRAKE SUED BY EX FOR MARVIN’S ROOM VOICEMAIL SKIT

THE WORDWE THOUGHT ABOUT GETTING YOU RILED UP BEFORE ALL OF OUR JUICY ARTICLES, BUT THEN WE DECIDED TO JUST SAVE ALL OF THE RANTING, RAVING, AND HEARTFELT COMMENTARIES FOR LATER IN THE EDITION.

Sonny Moore, bet-ter known today as Skrillex, has been a compel-

ling figure in the Elec-tronic Dance Music and Dubstep Music circuits. Where many, including critical sources, proclaim his music as revolutionary, groundbreaking, and game changing, others may feel like, its, well, noise. Many at Anatomy hold the for-mer opinion. But whether you love him, hate him, or feel completely indifferent, Skrillex has done some-thing great for electronic music: He became a Gram-my award-winning artist. Taking home not just one, but three Grammy awards on February 12 at the 54th annual Grammy’s Pre-

Telecast (that means, not on TV guys), Skrillex marks some of the first artists in the independent music sphere that are beginning to experience representa-tion on Music’s big night.

Taking home an award in best dance recording for his song Scary Mon-sters and Nice Sprites, his EP titled under the same name also won as well, taking home an award for best dance album. All the while, his third award was won in best dance remixed recording for his work on Benny Benassi’s Cinema.

Skrillex seemed humbled by the festivities, stat-ing in his first acceptance speech of the night that there were “many EDM artists that… should have

won a Grammy.” Stating that artists like Deadmau5, Daft Punk as well as many contributors in the dub-step sphere should have won before him. However, in showing recognition of his accomplishment, Skril-lex also acknowledges that his victories represent a door that is beginning to be opened to artists that make waves outside of the mainstream music circle. Come the time of his third acceptance, he stated “I don’t even know if I feel like I deserve this.” Well, we don’t know about all that, but at least the kid knows how to stay humble. It says something.

SKRILLEX WINS THREE GRAMMYS!

REGARDLESS OF WHETHER YOU LOVE HIM OR HATE HIM, ONE THING IS NOW FOR CERTAIN: THE DUBSTEP PHENOM

WE KNOW AS SKRILLEX IS A GRAMMY WINNER.

Now having almost a year of Odd Future

upon us, there has been a lot of news surround-ing the group. Between

new releases to upcom-ing projects, the group has been talked about

heavily in the news, and for good reason. One

of the biggest, and still developing, stories is the return of group member

Earl Sweatshirt to his home in Los Angeles. Considered one of the

most intriguing as well as mysterious elements

of the odd future uni-verse, Earl Sweatshirt is considered by some critics to be one of the

most prolific emcees of our era. Though it is

unfortunate that the artist is not back in time

for the release of Odd Future’s new album,

Volume II, the internet has been buzzing over a track that was released

through what is alleg-edly Earl Sweatshirt’s

Twitter account. It’s called “Home,” and the kid goes in. Depending on what your palette is

for hip-hop and bullshit, this may not be that jam

for you, like, in all seri-ousness, dude goes in

kind of like a young MF doom. But that’s just our

opinion. Check it out in the link attached below.

EARL SWEAT-SHIRT BACK

HOME IN L.A.ODD FUTURE’S MOST TALKED

ABOUT RAPPER HAS RECENTLY COME HOME TO

L.A. AND HE IS BEARING GIFTS.

EARL SWEATSHIRT“HOME”

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A force in helping maintain hip-hop music’s competitive nature, beef has always been a major factor that could at times make, or break an artists career. But with a recent resurgence of visible hip-hop beef, especially be-tween Drake and various corners of the hip-hop sphere, it has gotten us wondering: Has beef got-ten weak?

Though no, we do not advocate any of the vio-lence that comes in suit with hip-hop beef, how-ever, the interaction be-tween hip-hop stars is beyond spectacle: its competition to see who really is the best. How-ever, with Drake who have recently been in the spotlight for beef-ing with not just Lud-acris, but also Common and The Clipse (which is old-school young money beef), the artist’s handling of the issue has largely been characterized by no response, or in Com-mon’s case, simply calling it quits.

In a culture where conflict and resolution are such enormous fac-tors in the equation of determining worth in stardom, what does it mean for hip-hop and do you even think that it is a good thing to begin with?

Where Jay-Z and Nas proved that even the most epic confrontations can meet resolution, is this model becoming anti-quated? With that being said, is there any value in backing down aside from trying to save face?

QUESTION:HAS BEEFINGGOTTEN WEAK?

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Since her rise to hip-hop stardom, Nicki Minaj has always had a little fight in her. Last year, she target-

ed the Queen of Hip Hop, Lil’ Kim, and while it seemed a little pre-mature to swing at a rap legend after only a short time in the game, Minaj still held her own, and it makes sense why she did it (regardless of the fact that Kim is not-so-relevant anymore).

Hip-hop and rap have tradition-ally maintained a competitive men-tality reinforced by battles. Back in the days of Biggie Smalls and Tupac, rappers would face off to determine who was the best. Casually, this came in the form of free styling, but the mu-sic industry brought it to a whole new level - songs were created and recorded solely for the pur-pose of talking shit about fellow rappers.

Not only was it thorough-ly entertaining to listen to the Queen respond to Minaj with her song “Black Friday,” it gave Minaj even more reason to step it up a notch and prove to the world that she wasn’t just some copy cat fir-

ing shots at her most influential role models. And she has done a lot to prove it.

Her approach to rapping is un-like any of her peers, past and present, and dare I say it, I think Nicki Minaj is the best female rapper in the game right now. As

a Minaj fan, I am both inspired and intrigued by her. I’m inspired by her ability to go beyond the boundaries and standards set for female rappers. She has the talent to flow faster than many of her male contemporaries, she

manipulates her vocals to add uncanny emotion and emphasis to her lyrics, and, well, she’s got balls: She says what many wom-en wish they had the courage to, and I admire her for that.

Part of her intrigue, though, comes from the fact that she

does have the courage to say whatever the fuck she wants, re-gardless of what is expected of a lady. This is because, her alter ego, Roman Zolanski, is a man. As she takes the stage for each performance she embodies this

male side of her, who spits fire. Rap-ping about pulling out his dick to piss on a bunch of babies, it doesn’t get much less lady-like than that.

It’s this aspect of the performer that I, and many others included, find to be so interesting. That being said, her latest single “Stupid Hoe” marks her latest battle cry. But the thing about Nicki is,

no female can compete with her caliber of talent in the hip-hop world, so pop stars Katy Perry, Lady Gaga, and Shakira have be-come her latest targets.

The video for “Stupid Hoe” is vi-sually reminiscent of Katy Perry’s California dreamland of pastels

Opinion ///////////////////////////WHO YOU CALLIN a STUPID HOE? *by M4LON3

NOT ONLY WAS IT THOROUGHLY ENTERTAIN-ING TO LISTEN TO THE QUEEN RESPOND TO MINAJ WITH HER SONG “BLACK FRIDAY,” IT GAVE MINAJ EVEN MORE REASON TO STEP IT UP A NOTCH AND PROVE TO THE WORLD THAT SHE WASN’T JUST SOME COPY CAT FIRING SHOTS AT HER MOST INFLUENTIAL ROLE MODELS.

and lollipops, all the while pok-ing fun at “Shewolf” (or I guess in this case “She-cat”) with an erot-ic cage scene. If you were able to catch these references, then you can assuredly see the “Bad Ro-mance” reference with her big googly eyes at the end.

Her lyrics are combative and proclaim her female peers as stu-pid hoes while proclaiming her-self as the “female Weezy”, but it left her audience (well, maybe not all the Barbz) contemplating whether her effort to battle these superstars is a bit fruitless. Diss-ing pop stars as an Emcee comes with a major caveat: the chosen targets will never reciprocate. Pop as a genre has never found room for content about menial competition between artists. But because Minaj has little to no competition within her own genre, who else could she find as a threat?

My first thought would be for her to take a few swings at a male hip-hop artist, because, hell, she could probably take any of ‘em. But, in reality, if she were to do so, and if her target had the audacity to fully swing back in re-sponse, her Young Money label-mates would be so quick to have her back that whoever Minaj tar-gets would probably need a ca-reer change and a catheter. Not saying that she couldn’t possibly do that, but does she really want to end a fellow rapper’s career? Well, she did say so in “Monster” so maybe it’s not too far-fetched.

By targeting current pop icons in “Stupid Hoe”, Minaj sheds light on her own internal struggle with being compared to her female peers, even if she is the only one doing the comparisons. It is pret-ty obvious that at least a little bit of her stylistic inspiration is from Gaga, with her brightly colored wigs and kooky outfits, but it is also easy to see why she feels threatened by her, as well as Per-ry and Shakira in tandem - they are all strong women.

But the thing is, so is Nicki! She doesn’t have to prove it by calling them out, she’s already proven it by just being in the hip-hop game. That is a feat few women have been able to accomplish.

Minaj has made her own attempt to blur the definition of her own music’s genre by creating songs like “Super Bass” where she shows her ability to sing. Her in-terest in singing and the songs she has created to showcase her voice does allow for her to cross into the pop realm, or at least a poppier side of the hip-

hop genre. This also lends some insight into as to why she feels that these pop icons are compe-tition for her. But what she is re-ally doing (whether she realizes it or not) is pioneering an entirely new genre, one that works for her, and that is something to be proud of. She defies constructs that society and the music in-

A Short HIstory ofYoung Money Beef

LIL’ WAYNE

NICKIMINAJ

DRAKE

CASES: JAY-Z & THE CLIPSE

why its stupid: aside from the fact that wayne, in both cases, turned friends into enemies, all of the artists involved are also arguably more talented. call us biased.

the clipsecirca 2007

JAY-ZCIRCA 2011-

PRESENT

CASE: LIL’ KIM

why its stupid: WELL, CON-SIDERING THE FACT THAT THEY WERE CONSIDERED MORESO ALLIES EARLIER ON, KIM COULD HAVE STAYED IN MINAJ’S CAMP AND BROUGHT HER CAREER BACK.

TAKES KIM’S

MANAGER JUN. 2010

TRAGEDY APR. 2011

CASES: LUDACRIS, COMMON

why its stupid: THOUGH DRAKE COULD HAVE AVOIDED BEEF WITH LUDA BY NOT MENTIONING HIM. COMMON’S INVOLVEMENT WITH DRAKE PRACTICALLY PROVED TO BE A PROMOTIONAL STUNT.

disses luda in interview

nov. 2011

ROMAN’S REVENGE OCT. 2010

KIM’SBLACK FRIDAY

NOV. 2010

luda releases

gigawattsnov. 2011

common fires

shotsdec. 2011

stay scheminjan. 2012 /

beef ends

IF THERE HAS BEEN ONE THING THAT WE HAVE NOTICED, IT IS THAT WHEN IT HAS COME TO BEEF IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, YOUNG MONEY’S STARS HAVE BEEN THE ONES WITH THE STEAKS.

BUT, IN REAL-ITY, IF SHE WERE TO DO SO, AND IF HER TARGET HAD THE AUDAC-ITY TO FULLY SWING BACK IN RESPONSE, HER YOUNG MONEY LABEL-MATES WOULD BE SO QUICK TO HAVE HER BACK THAT WHOEVER MINAJ TAR-GETS WOULD PROBABLY NEED A CA-REER CHANGE AND A CATH-ETER.

dustry pose upon her creativity. There’s no need for her to throw punches that will never land. I’m looking forward to the day when more strong women step up to the rap game. Then Nicki may have someone to fire legit shots at who is more likely to fire back. And one day, maybe they will get over their beef and make up, and then, hrll, maybe they’ll even COLLAB?? Honestly, that’s the day I’m looking forward to the most.

DID YOU KNOW?

Before Nicki Minaj was discov-ered by Lil’ Wayne after she had attempted to go to school for singing. However, she was denied at her audition and, thus, studied acting instead. Wayne discovered her as she was acting, playing the part of a rapper. He was so impressed by her raw talent that he asked her to join his label, Young Money, and the rest is history. It actually explains a lot about her use of Roman as her stage persona.

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RICK ROSSRICH FOREVER

WITH THE GAMUT OF MIXTAPE RELEASES POUR-ING IN FOR JANUARY, RICK ROSS’ RICH FOREVER STANDS A CUT ABOVE THE REST. DELIVERING ON A STUDIO-QUALITY EXPERIENCE, ROSS LAYS AN-OTHER STAKE FOR HIMSELF IN THE HIP HOP GAME: NOT AS A RAPPER, BUT INSTEAD AS THE LEADER OF A BURGEONING HIP-HOP LABEL, AS WELL AS A MUSIC CONNOISSEUR. CHECK OUT OUR REVIEW TO SEE WHY WE THOUGHT IT WAS SO GOOD!

powering. For proof, we suggest checking out the last song on his album, which is actually a short interview with Ross himself.

2. HIS MUSIC IS ON POINT!!—

Any old shrivel-dicked dumbass with a half-baked opinion will try and credit even some of the fin-est beat curation on the end of the emcee to some bullshit like record label A&R. People have said this about artists from J. Cole all the way up to Jay-Z and the reality is that these assertions are base-less. The only times A&R ever se-riously comes into play (outside of R&B) is when rappers just rap and cannot pick a decent beat to go over to save their lives, or the label’s wallet.

Ross, by contrast, has always been known as an appreciator of fine music. If he wasn’t, then the Maybach Music Group which he sits at the helm of, would not be characterized by its usage of good

Releasing within the same span of time as Fuck Tha City Up, there is only one characterization of Rick

Ross’ new mixtape, Rich Forever: classic. It is apparent that this work, off the rip, is a five star AL-BUM. But before I digress into a wave of praise, worship and sy-cophancy, I want to touch on a couple of reasons why Ross’ al-bum is so good.

1. HE MAKES HIS MESSAGE CLEAR--

Though Rich forever could take

the cake as one of the most ob-noxious and ostentatious album titles of all time, Ross’ title is not one without purpose. It comes from a place of recognizing how the cross-space between mor-tality and personal wealth can be understood on a fundamental level through the eyes of the poor. Though one cannot live forever, it is certainly reasonable to want to be rich forever and not worry about the financial toils that many experience over the span of their lives. Considering the mind of a go-getter like Ross, the album is designed to be uplifting and em-

music.This is the one detail that

manages to shine through and through, especially when com-pared to T.I.’s work, which released at about the same time. Ross’ sound delivers on all fronts as nicer, fuller and more befitting of a grandiose orchestral performance on Broadway, at times. While the sound of T.I. is much like that of his contemporaries—simpler, less sophisticated, and hyper midi in nature, making his work at times sound flatter, less varied, and al-most cheaper.

3. THE SONG VARIATION IS WORLD CLASS—

Working off of strong production is the degree of song variation fea-tured on the mixtape. It is abso-lutely expected to find a couple of tracks with Ross ad-libbing, bark-ing, and screaming “Rosé!” But that is Ross making a short pass at appealing to what many would

CERTIFIED DOPEDON’T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT MUSIC RANKED BELOW 3/5? WE’VE GOT YOU. CERTIFIED DOPE IS A SECTION DEVOTED TO ONE THING: GOOD MUSIC. AFTER ALL, WHAT IS THE POINT IN WRITING A BAD REVIEW IF ALL YOU WANT TO DO IS LISTEN TO GOOD MUSIC?

call “ignant-ass-shit.” The gamut of his work, however, is finely-thought and heavily varied when measuring not just the variety of his sounds, but the breadth of his lyrical subject matter. This allows for each song to deliver a perspec-tive that provides for a more com-prehensive nature to the album. It is in this vein that a listener could not really ask for much more from Rich Forever. It is simply delivered well out of the box—from crunk riders to fun songs that are inspir-ing and at times, uplifting.

4. ROSS WAS SUCCESSFUL AT IN-SOURCING HIS FEATURES—

This isn’t to say that you will not find your stray track with Drake, Diddy or Nas, but this album is still a largely MMG affair with acts such as Meek Mill, Wale, Stally & French Montana holding down much of the creative energy. That is not to say that Rich For-ever lacks a viable roster of fea-tures beyond MMG, but it does go to say that the people Ross has on his tracks are the result of a heavily-discerning eye. Compara-tively, Fuck Da City up approach-es the feature game with an end result that is overkill—with so many acts on an album, there are moments when T.I. finds himself getting outshone on his own shit. Insourcing, however, provided a more showcase-feel to the broad roster of talent represented by Mayback Music Group.

5. IT VERY MUCH DELIVERS LIKE A COMPLETE WORK—

The juxtaposition between Fuck Tha City Up & Rich Forever really comes into play when comparing the listening experience. Ross’ work delivers well from end to end, giving every kind of listener some-thing to enjoy. Or maybe, it does the reverse, giving one listener a multitude of experiences. This di-versity gives Ross’ album an end to end appeal that is matched by few, but nevertheless, appreciated by many.

In the way of southern rap talent, everybody manages to maintain their own flavor of ignorance. Where Gucci Mane is rapping about cocaine as pure as the driven snow, Wacka Flocka just wants to party and Jeezy talks crime in so much detail that it is anything but a far cry from hyper-glamorization. T.I., contrary to the aforementioned few, has not really found himself in this category. I say this with pride, as a hip-hop fan and a T.I. listener since the days of Trap Muzik. This is to say that since day one I have always placed value on his music as it has been delivered.

To some, T.I.’s new release, Fuck Tha City Up, is exactly this—a valiant post-incarcera-tion attempt at providing some deliverables to a waiting and wanting fan base. To others, however, T.I.P’s new release is anything but reminiscent of “classic T.I.” with many fans stating that his latest release doesn’t in any capacity reflect the caliber of his recent work.

While the latter certainly comes across as a partial truism, our perspective is more reflec-tive of both sides of the aisle as opposed to one side exclusively.

T.I.’s album manages to be good, but in the fundamen-

tal sense as opposed to the abstract. He does have hard-hitting lines, he does deliver with a strong roster of features, and yeah, his beats are pretty solid. While these aspects of T.I.’s equation are appreciable when individualized, the macro product itself is uncomfortably under-whelming. Despite the different factors and contributors avail-able to TIP, all of his songs drop like pseudo radio hits and it is clear that certain risks were not made, at least when compared to his last studio album, No Mercy.

This is to say that where Fuck Tha City Up has flash, fancy A&R, a litany of features and a com-petitive release date, it lacks the heart, personality, and sense of perspective that listeners have grown to appreciate from T.I. In all, a lot of it is just shit talk.

Fuck Tha City Up is clearly an ambitious project, but given its close proximity (release-wise) to Rick Ross’ Rich Forever, T.I.’s work, by compare, reveals too many qualitative shortcom-ings that become pretty easy to notice.

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Raekwon’s Unexpected Victory is a work that took me a while to fully grasp, and for reasons that were at once unknown to me. Raekwon, out of the gate, deliv-ers on epic and cinematic beats, while at the same time painting entire pictures with his voice that carries a slight rasp mim-icked by none. In the same vein, however, off of the rip, it kind of feels as if something hige is missing from the piece. We can note that his Only Built 4 Cuban Linx collection of albums was a successful series that delivers more like a magnum opus on how to cooking up crack than an album... Which for hip-hop albums, very well could be inter-preted as a good thing.

Unexpected Victory, however, is different. it doesn’t take pages from the same book as OB4CL and OB4CL2. Though many would discern that copying the success of these albums is eas-ier said than done, I don’t agree. I think that where Raekwkon’s beats have an epic twang to them, it isn’t one that maintains a predominantly street appeal. While his lyrics hit hard, they hit hard in the places where it is ex-pected, and there isn’t anything sidelining about Rae’s work this time around. THat isn’t to say, however, that there are not enjoyable songs on Unexpected Victory, however, it is becoming clearer that Raekwon is getting on in his years.

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Generally, saving money would be saved for a seg-ment like life-

style, but Suit Supply is a business that is rivaled by only a few in terms of both price and quality. Posing as the answer to many a man’s sartorial issues, Suit Supply excels in one thing in particular: finding the perfect cross-space between aesthetics and price. Living in a world where a man’s sartorial options, even down to cut, are heavily determined by price, finding formal and business-wear that is not only appropriate,

but befitting of personal style is key. Traditionally, for the man with a tight budget, most would say that to find these things, you gotta have money, in which case, the man with a tight budget is shit out of luck. But what if you didn’t? What if you could focus on aesthetic prin-ciple, and an aesthetic that your innermost of hearts can hearken to? Enter Suit Supply—a new destination for all men who are looking for a little flair in their look, without the need for paying too much money. Interest-ingly enough, while this

may seem to have the same rub as farce, the business actually works. Where getting suits on-line used to be kind of a sketchy thing, Suit Supply excels in helping make ac-cessibility more common-place through the devices of the internet. With the average price point for a full suit ranging from 450-600 dollars, Suit Supply is the perfect option for rising professionals who may just be starting their career, but want to look fresh anyway.

SUIT SUPPLY: GIVING MEN REAL STYLE OPTIONS AT AN ECONO-MY-FRIENDLY PRICETHE WORLD OF MENS FASHION IS A BATTLE WHEN IT COMES TO FINDING BUSINESS CLOTHING THAT IS NOT JUST STYlish, but affordable. suit supply is here to help.

It isn’t the first time we have been exposed to Vans’ complete line of shoes, however, for some

reason, as of late we have been completely ob-sessed with Vans Half Cabs. Most likely, however,

we would guess that our sheer obsession has been due to Vans celebrating the 20th anniversary of

the shoe. But even with this taken into consider-ation, the Vans Half Cab has always been a winning

piece, and if anything else, for its looks. While the Vans Authentic and Era traditionally take the show

in the company’s line up, the Half Cab sustains a look of its own that can be heavily apprecaited. The look maintains the traditional bulkiness that helps deliver its skating appeal, however, what wins with the shoe are its diverse array of fabric styles--ap-pealing to many, from those who look for the com-

pletely fucked up and destroyed fanfare to the shoe enthusiasts looking for a solid collaborative piece.

For the forthcoming spring season, if you who are on top of your skinny game, consider pairing a set of clean Half Cabs with a nice pair of selvedge

denim with a tapered fit. Can you see the beauty in the application? And what we’re talking about isn’t

even incredibly expensive! Ready, set, cop.

FOR SOME REASON, WE JUST LOVE VANS HALF CABS RIGHT NOW

Time has taught myriad lessons, but one that it has stuck to has been this much: Never under-estimate Nixon. Though the brand has cultivated a strong heritage as a timepiece provider to just about every extreme sport in the world, they have also cultivated a slightly lesser-known, but equally as important reputation: for producing excellent fashion watch-es. This extends not only to their oncepts, but also to their collaborations, and it is in these veins that Nixon continuously pushes the envelope of

creativity and acceptabil-ity.

The Nixon Mellor watch is very different from the Nixon Supertide, featured in Anatomy VI. Contrary to the Supertide’s primary function of measuring the oncoming surf, the Mel-lor Watch’s functionality is clear—it strives for class, quality, elegance, and wearability, and with its inspiration stemming from the vintage feel of time pieces in the golden age, the Nixon Mellor achieves exactly just that. This watch is available at dealers worldwide, and online at Oki-Ni.

THE NIXON MELLOR

SUPREMELY EFFING NUTS:

In a collaboration considered ostensibly “worship worthy” by Vans heads comes a preview of a forthcoming collaboration be-tween the legendary shoe brand, and the legendary skate brand, Supreme. Delivering on an aesthetic that remains classic, but with a fun and unique sartorial twist, these shoes are more than expected to turn their own fair share of heads. Currently, there is no official release date for the Supreme x Vans shoe col-laboration, however, they do have a Campbells soup-themed Vans authentic… Which quite honestly, deserves its own section. Take that last statement however you want.

THE SWISS ARMY ORIGINAL CHRONOGRAPH IS O.G. AND BADASS WORTHY

Featuring an aesthetic substantively different from the Olivier’s diving watch, Victorinox delivers on a more, combat-inspired piece. Swiss Army’s Original Chronograph features a 40mm case, with an alumi-num face and dial that produce a sexy and rugged appeal. Compared to the first piece, one that you may very well find on a nice boat, Victorinox is going purely for function here. So expect these pieces on adventur-ers, common badasses, and Seal Team 666 while they are raising hell for dictators and terrorists.

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ARE PRINTS MAKING AN APPEARANCE FOR THESPRING SEASON?The string of releases to characterize the spring season have been very interest-ing to say the least. Between collabs both successful and stu-pid, as well as the unveiling of brilliant collections, Spring of 2012 is proving to be a great season for fashion. but one of the appearances that we are beginning to take notice of have been the usage of prints in mens gar-ments.

From the shirts of McQueen to the loaf-ers of both YSL (pic-tured above) as well as Jimmy Choo, and finally, the Giraffe-themed Half Cab by Vans x Supreme, experimentation in this area is becoming much heavier than in years past. That is not to say that every-thing has been a hit. However, on the fron-tier of shoes, we are seeing an interesting rise in animal prints.

For such a seldom-touched area of fashion, thus far we have found ourselves pretty pleased with what the results have been as of late, and we look forward to see what is coming around the corner.

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