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Indeed it went down, and it was marvelous. We got net love from a couple of homies, but the official gallery is on it’s way. Heavy stunting. Stay tuned…

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If you missed the premier of egotrip’s Miss Rap Supreme last night, be mad at yourself. In typical egotrip fashion, the contestants are all characters and in a move of true genius, they allowed Khia on as a contestant! Check out the clip above where Khia and Ms. Cherry share their feelings about each other. Tune in every Monday night at 10 for the new episodes.

This Wednesday, the always charitable vixens of N1DIR have another soiree to nourish your party appetite and build up your philanthropic resume. LES fail-safe The Delancey will be opening up it’s roof for a mix of fashion and music with performances by Mickey Factz and Heavy. This one’s for the early birds with doors opening at 8. The damage is a 5-spot, but the proceeds go to charity.

With no shortage of grumblings regarding the still in-production Biggie movie, I welcome this unreleased Biggie footage with open arms.

For those of you who needed an actual reason not to kiss dogs…

In his “biggest” and “most audacious” work to date, that crafty little Banksy got up three stories high, remarkably, under the watchful eye of a CCTV surveillance camera. Street art enthusiasts are sure to proclaim this as the greatest thing since the invention of the aerosol can, but he can definitely get the props for eluding those cameras.

Alas, spring is upon us and that means warmer weather, more squirrels, and dope hip hop shows. Speaking of which, Network Edutainment Group has an especially ill line-up at the Knitting Factory this evening, headlined by Queens emcee, Loj. Don’t let the rave-like flier fool you. This is hip hop at it’s rawest.

The jury is still out on his music, but the kid Maino looks to have picked up some pretty serious ink recently. And while he’s known more for beating up Lil Cease, than any song he’s put out so far, Atlantic seems to have some pretty high hopes for him. Check out the trailer for his mixtape after the click through. (more »)

The Spizikes have been one of the few, new successful models from Jordan brand, but then again, they aren’t really new at all. They take some of the best parts of some of the best Jordan models of all time. The above colorway was released pretty exclusively sometime last summer, but the good news is that they’re re-releasing them. The bad news, is that it’ll be in Europe.

While it came as no surprise to many that the X-games killed the vert skating event following a meeting directly regarding it, a few people (most notably vert skaters) are not too happy about it…to the point of a proposed boycott.