3 Melancholy Gypsys - Sunsprayed

What you know about that! oldschool 3MG '94 MURS, Eligh & Scarub

Don't Talk About it

Blazed and Confused

This weekend my friends Sean, Greg, Chariese and her roommate Melissa were at the Snoop Dogg/Slightly Stoopid Concert. I gotta say Damn Snoop killed it and he wasn't even a headliner, the whole Dogg Pound was there and even The Lady of Rage. Played some old school shit, most deffinitely would want to see him when he is a headliner or just on tour alone! Slightly Stoopid was alright I was kind of disappointed, by the time they were on one of the speakers was blown and all I could hear was bass. I could kind of hear and The songs they played were dope Closer To The Sun was awesome, but we didn't stay for their whole set we dipped early. We had closer seats but decided to sit on the lawn cause a lot of our homies were there and it's like a fat party too! Fat cloud of bud smoke just lingered in the air

5th Column--Preview/Release

Alright so most of you know Anwar has been giving us mad previews of the new 5th Column line and here is the final product. Big ups to Anwar and Jason who have been making the 5th Column bigger, tees are looking pretty dope fellas! Deffinately going to be grabbing one of these. Still not sure as to when and were these will be available but I'll keep you posted.

If you have any questions regarding 5th Column, email Anwar at anwar@thefivecolumns.com or info@thefivecolumns.com

"No bastard ever won war by dying for his country. You won it, by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country"

HELL A SERIES

HELL A SERIES: act I - SPAHN RANCH

By August 1968 Charles Manson and his “Family” had already been evicted from Dennis Wilson (of The Beach Boys) house and had established a base for the group at Spahn’s Movie Ranch, near Topanga Canyon. On March 23, 1969, Manson called, uninvited, on 10050 Cielo Drive, which he had known as the residence of record producer, Terry Melcher. By that time Melcher was no longer residing there; since that February, the tenants had been actress Sharon Tate and her husband, film director Roman Polanski.

HELL A SERIES: act II - NORTH HOLLYWOOD

February 28th 1997, North Hollywood. A series of bank robberies culminated in quite possibly the most violent shootout in modern American police history. The lives of 36 patrons and 12 employees were endangered when two heavily armed men, Larry Phillips Jr and Emil Matasareanu, wearing body armor decided to rob the Bank of America in North Hollywood. Seen entering the bank by Los Angeles police officers, the two men intimidated employees and patrons by firing shots inside while not realizing that Los Angeles police officers were surrounding the building. As they left the bank, the robbers became aware of their predicament and began shooting at police and civilians.

Three civilians and nine officers were shot within the first five minutes of the shootout, and a to

tal of 350 officers were called to the scene. As police bullets bounced off the suspects, it became evident that the two men were wearing body armor and had out-gunned the police with their armor piercing bullets and semiautomatic weapons. A total of seven civilians and eleven LAPD officers were injured. Despite the overwhelming odds, many heroic officers, while in grave danger, initiated officer and citizen rescues as the suspects continued to exchange shots with other officers. The suspects fired more than 1,100 rounds from their semiautomatic assault rifles. Eventually, members of the LAPD SWAT team shot and killed them both. This event in Los Angeles history, changed law enforcement rules of engagement throughout the country.

HELL A SERIES: act III - L.A. RIOTS

This was my television memory; now I was seeing first hand what was really happening.

I peered through my side-window as the copter continued to circle in a steep bank. I could see that traffic was moving through the intersection below us. I watched as various cars whipped in a U-turn around to avoid the ominous chaos ahead. There were clusters of people milling around. They were throwing rocks and bottles at the passing cars. There were no police officers around, just an unruly mob venting hate on innocent motorists who happened to find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Other figures on the street were darting in and out of a liquor store at the corner, taking what they wanted. The looting, the beating and the hysteria was going on right below me. My mind went back 27 years to when I covered the Watts riots in 1965. I tried to draw up similarities that might help my reports on what was going on below. I remember telling myself that the big difference was that in Watts, they had fires.

The Five Columns

Just a little background on the HelLA Series of shirts DTA is droppin for those of you who have no clue on what they stand for/represent. Just thought I'd share with you all