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Feature Friday: King David

Ever so often you meet someone that is a carbon copy of yourself.  You listen to the same music.  You watch the same movies and TV shows.  You have similar tastes in fashion.  When you meet these people the familiarity makes you feel like have known them for years.  I've known this cat for literally under a couple of months and it feels like we grew up together. Allow me to introduce you to King David a Communications Senior at Prairie View University.  If you live in Houston and have been to any party within the last few years, he's probably taken your picture.  Unless of course you're wack.  In which case you got what was coming to you (no picture, and a personal invitation to get out his face).  You've probably seen his facebook videos.  You've probably heard him singing around the city.  You've probably seen him dancing with his crew "Illovation".  If you're a model in the area you've probably shot with him.  Clearly, he's "sort of a big deal..."

The REAL Jeremy Biggers: So I'm here with my man King David. Creative genius on all fronts. Where did the name King David originate?

King David: Man, I was actually named after Kind David the goliath slayer lol.  My mother is very religous, and she said that was her favorite bible character.  Then in high school cats always said, "yo dude you're like the king of creating things!" Light bulb... history ever since.

TRJB: So, it seems that you were destined for this. Lets just hope you aren't killing any husbands to get a Bathsheba.

KD: Ha! Ill try my best.... we all know he was tempted
KD: "Please excuse my hands" - Plies
KD: Lol

TRJB: You do everything from photography, to draw, to paint, to dance, to sing... Which of these is your favorite form of expression?

KD: Hmmm... actually number one, that wasn't listed, is acting. Theater. I let it run my life, so that and being an only child, is my fuel to always have a passion to "be" someone/thing else... I dig being the potrayer

TRJB: I knew I missed something.  But that's not difficult when you're dealing with someone that does EVERYTHING.

KD: Its all good... writing too... I used to hate writing papers.. But now the words are too easy not to use
KD: So anything art. I'm down

TRJB: Who are your favorite artists? Who inspires you?

KD: I'm big on finding the origin of things.... so cats like George Seurat, da Vinci, Van Gogh, Ansel Adams and Andy Warhol is were I found inspiration. 
KD: I keep it (inspiration)... by admiring Spike Lee, Denzel, Dave la Chappelle, Tony Chu... and a host of friends that just push the artisty to the limits.
KD: So they all are my favorites, and they all inspire me as well

TRJB: You're into the fashion scene as well. In a word, how would you describe your style?

KD: Spontaneous - you just never know

TRJB: Who would win a fight between Will Smith (Chris Gardner) in Pursuit of Happyness and Will Smith (Ben Thomas) in Seven Pounds?

KD: Ben thomas... all day.. Cat swam the ocean daily, gave bone morrow wit no sedatice, and took the jelly fish head on!

TRJB: Yeah, Ben would stomp a mud hole in Chris, but Chris would get up dust him self off and crunch some numbers to figure out how much he was going to sue Ben for. Lets go back to photography. What do you primarily shoot?

KD: I shoot mostly events... nuthing like a good venue or sight to make u say "wth is that?"

TRJB: True. Anything you want to shamelessly plug before we go?

KD: Shout out to my artists, my fans, the people I am fans of and friends.
KD: Shout out to the entire www.com for making this world seem a lil smaller.

Didn't get enough of King David?  Check him out on his blog, or add him on facebook. (search "King David")

iPhone vs Blackberry

This video perfectly articulates how I feel about owning an iPhone. I refuse to believe anyone that's ever owned an iPhone would go back to anything else. It's from one of my favorite channels on youtube. Check out the folks over at RecklessTortuga.

Dime Piece x Unkommon Kolor

We here at Unkommon Kolor tend to like cool stuff. From art, to music, to personality. If it’s cool, we like it. Which means we like Laura and Ashley over at Dime Piece clothing. They are trendy and probably the most down to earth cool chicks we’ve ever met in the industry. We decided to do a Dime Piece x Unkommon Kolor hat. While this isn’t officially considered a collabo, we’re hoping that this might be a step in the right direction with those ladies. Only time will tell. Painted by The REAL Jeremy Biggers on a New Era 59/50 Philadelphia Phillies hat.


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Jay-Z: My President is Black Remix

My President is black, matter fact he’s half white/ so even in a racist’s mind he’s half right/ if you have a racist mind you’ll be iight/ the President is black, but his house is all white/ Rosa Parks sat, so Martin Luther could walk/ Martin Luther walked so Barack Obama could run/ Barack Obama ran so all the children could fly/ so I’mma spread my wings you can meet me in the sky/ I, already got my own clothes/ already got my own shoes/ I was high before Barack, imagine what I’m gon’ do/ hello Ms America, hey pretty lady/ red, white and blue flag, wave for me baby/ never thought I’d say this $#!+, baby I’m good/ you can keep your pus, I don’t want no more bush/ no more war, no more Iraq/ no more white lies, the President is black.

Jay-Z My President is black Remix LIVE 1-18-09 from pleasedontstare.com on Vimeo.

I hate Jeezy typically, but Jay KILLED this track thus making it barely tolerable!

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2 Dunks in under 6 hours

I'm sure there have been some incredible dunks this year in the NBA and College but admittedly I haven't gotten to watch many games (or highlights for that matter) this season. But as I was browsing the net today I ran across two of the best dunks I've ever seen, and it was all within a 6 hour period. First there was this...


THEN while doing a completely unrelated search, without warning...

Granted, there were people in the crowd cheering, why didn't this gym erupt upon completion of what looked like a clip from NBA Street? Have fans gone mad? Have I been away from the game THAT long? Basketball fans have been replaced by golf fans?

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President Barack Obama

Could the Inauguration be held on a more perfect day? Just 24 hours after the holiday celebrating Dr Martin Luther King’s legacy, today is a day that many of our ancestors as well as even some of us, NEVER thought could or would happen. We will swear in our nation’s first openly black President. 45 years ago Dr King delivered his “I have a Dream” speech on nearly the exact same steps that Obama will deliver his Inauguration speech. While the words were spoken 4 and a half decades ago, some of them still ring true today. In many ways the world was a different place then. In many ways it’s the exact same.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" -- one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, and every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight; "and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
This is our hope, and this is the faith that I go back to the South with.
With this faith, we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith, we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith, we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
And this will be the day -- this will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning:
My country 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride,
From every mountainside, let freedom ring!
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.
Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.
Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania.
Let freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado.
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California.
But not only that:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee.
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.
From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:
Free at last! Free at last!
Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!

Barack Hussein Obama is quite literally the manifestation of that dream. Everything from his ancestry to being the highest ranking official in the same nation that just one generation ago was drinking from different fountains. A nation that one generation ago was using different doors to serve patrons. A nation that one generation ago lived by Plessy vs Ferguson’s “separate but equal” creed. While we of course have scores of miles to go before we are even near ridding the world of hatred in its many forms, one can’t help but think Obama is a step in the right direction. As Lao Tzu once stated “a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step”.

(Its been a while since i've done some graphic design work, so here's something I threw together last week)
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Ronald Jenkees

What do you get when you combine Ryan Leslie, Kanye West, and that guy in high school that sat behind you in History class playing with Magic cards? Ronald Jenkees! I'm a fan of live music (or seeing instruments being played) and Ronald Jenkees is a savant! Watching Ryan Leslie build a beat is impressive. But watching Ronald play is downright unbelievable!!! And I don't mean that as a word that we toss around everyday. I seriously mean I can't wrap my mind around the stuff he is doing! I strongly recommend you head over to YouTube and subscribe to his channel. And if you're really feeling particularly great, purchase his album.

We're praying for you Shea!

One of my closest friends is going through the toughest time of her life right now and needs your prayers. I had originally planned to write something far more trivial today but its times like these when you realize just how insignificant somethings are in life and it takes some REAL isht happening for us to see what's important and what's not. So please, keep Shea and her family in your prayers. That NEED it!!!

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Freida Pinto

Slumdog Millionaire's starlet Freida Pinto is downright gorgeous.  I'm considering moving to India, and she's the reason.





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Feature Friday: Samantha Mattice-Lowery

Effective immediately there will be a new feature section here on the blog. I like cool stuff AND I like to be in the know before everyone else. Most everyone I know is the exact same way. There’s just something about saying “yeah, I knew about that years ago” once the mainstream gets a hold of it. And I am surrounded by talent in my real life so I’m going to use my blog as an avenue to help them shine a little. So, Fridays will now be known as “Feature Fridays”. Tell your friends, family, the crackhead that takes baths in the bathroom sink at the library downtown, the Arab guy at the kiosk at the mall selling jewelry cleaner, tell EVERYONE. And please don’t ask me to feature you. If I choose to feature you I’ll “have my people call your people”.

Samantha Mattice-Lowery is a student at the University of Texas at Arlington. She’s an artist in every sense of the word. She paints. She draws. She writes. She models. She sings. She can walk and chew gum at the same time. In short, she’s the dream girl you have yet to dream about. But that will change after today…


The REAL Jeremy Biggers: So, Samantha, you're the first person to be featured, how does that feel?

Samantha Mattice-Lowery: freaking amazing!

TRJB: You call yourself the "Jane of all Trades". What would those trades be exactly?

SML: my talents and hobbies things I feel I’m good at, I’m a bit of an artist, singer, writer/poet, model, goofball and just moderately cool chick all rolled into one complete package lol

TRJB: oh, sounds like you're a renaissance woman. Would you say that any one of these was your strong suit?

SML: lol would the goofball part qualify? i wouldn’t really put one above the other, I think I’m pretty good at all of them. They are all a part of me, each piece crucial in the puzzle of Sam lol

TRJB: Ok. How long have you been painting?

SML: just started in December, I never had the patience or knowledge or desire really to do so. I pretty much stuck to drawing, you draw a line in pencil or pen and it stays exactly where you put it lol. The skate decks were the first thing I've ever really painted.

TRJB: WORD?!?!?! Just less than a month? Impressive.  I need to watch my back.  Those skatedecks were a good look. I hear that you were inspired to do those as well as the hats by Unkommon Kolor!!! (yes that was just a shameless plug)

SML: yes very much so. Unkommon Kolor played a big role in those projects. I got the idea of the decks after seeing the Obama one they did, and of course seeing the hats I couldn’t let them have all the fun I had to try my hand at it.

TRJB: Shout out to Unkommon Kolor!!! It's no secret that you're a babe. Our male readers want to know, are you single?

SML: yes I am

TRJB: If you were in a genetics lab and they bestowed upon you the daunting task of building the perfect man, who or what would you build?

SML: a cross between Travis McCoy and Robin Thicke. Both are ridiculously talented and handsome, Travis is a bit more out there and goofy while Robin is more chill

TRJB: So you like goofy, artsy, heavily tattooed, smooth guys

SML: the tattoos aren’t a must lol but yes that’s accurate

TRJB: no tattoos? *uses pinky and index finger to smooth his eyebrows. That means I have a chance.

SML: lol yes you meet the other requirements so you're good

TRJB: In an ideal world where making money to survive isn't an issue, what would you do with your time?

SML: definitely travel, I’m a Texas girl all the way but I want to see the world, experience new cultures and learn. I would love to do what that guy on No Reservations does, travel to other countries and eat lol maybe not some of the more extreme things but it'd would definitely be an experience

TRJB: Anthony Bourdain. He's a funny dude. He's 5th place on my favorite cable white guy list. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are tied for first place. Bear Grylls is 3rd. Mike Rowe is 4th.

SML: lol definately a great list

TRJB: you strike me as a bit of a tomboy. What girly things do you like to do?

SML: lol that’s because I am a bit of a tomboy, girl things...well I love WE and Oxygen I watch all those wedding shows that come on those channels lol and I’m a sucker for a good romance novel

TRJB: YUCK! I KNEW you had a flaw!

TRJB: :)

SML: LOL! be quiet you!

TRJB: So, is there anything you would like to leave us with?

SML: some say that first impressions mean a lot but I think its the impression you leave behind that means the most, so I hope I made a good one! Keep an eye out for my upcoming projects and thanks for allowing me the honor of the first to be featured!!

TRJB: Wow, on that note I guess we need to add philosopher to that list of skills.

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Curt@in$: The Dope Supremacy

DOPE!  Dude is two for two wrecking the beats that I've loved for the past couple of years...  Shout out to my girl Alexis Miranda in the video!

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Walker Texas Ranger Fitted

Walker Texas Ranger on a Texas Ranger fitted, Unkommon Kolor's most redundant hat to date. Painted by the REAL Jeremy Biggers. This hat could literally kick your hat's @$$. This is our tribute to the only man in history that can kill two stones with one bird. Legend has it he's also the only person fast enough to run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head. The one. The only. Chuck Norris.

Top 21 Women over 40 that could Get It

“…one thing you ain’t considered/ I heard you when you told your girl “ooo he can get it, admit it/ you did it”…” Clearly, this is one of the most memorable lines in Andre 3000’s verse on John Legend’s “Green Light”. The phrase “he/she could get it” has been around for quite some time. We were saying it in high school, and I’m about to go to my 10 year reunion in March so that should give you a pretty decent gauge of how long its been around. And in one of the more awkward segues, that leads me to my next point. Old women that could get “it”. And by “it” I of course mean “the business” and of course by “the business” I mean … “some other euphemism for sex”. It’s times like this when I am reminded of the great philosopher Brian Fantana’s quote, “I know what you’re asking yourself, and yes, I have a nickname for my penis, its called the “Octagon”, but I also nicknamed my testes, my left one is James Westphal and my right one is Dr Kenneth Noisewater. If these ladies play their cards right, they just might get to meet the whole gang.” Brian Fantana, Sex Panther, sex WITH cougars, you see the correlation. Here’s the “Top 21 Women over 40 that could Get It”. I couldn’t determine an appropriate order so I chose seniority starting with the youngest.

21. Salli Richardson. 41. Her ethnic ambiguity is why I fell in love with her in Low Down Dirty Shame. She has the best of all races. I’m convinced she’s a science experiment. She’s the result of genetic engineering trying to manufacture the PERFECT woman.

20. Daisy Fuentes. 41. There are few things sexier than a woman that can laugh at herself. Her years of hosting AFV proved that she had a bit of a sense of humor… and an accent. Who doesn’t love an accent?

19. Selma Hayek. 41. Again with the accent… Selma Hayek is hotter than your grandmother’s house on the sun. She’s a vampire I would NEVER run from. Who else do you know that can rock a unibrow?

18. Wendy Raquel Robinson. 41.  What can I say, I have a thing for women with a sense of humor.  For a couple of seasons she held her comedic own on a set with Steve Harvey and Cedric the Entertainer, that qualifies her as hilarious in my book, and yes again I am writing a book.

17. Tracey Edmonds. 41. I am not one to care about the details of other people’s relationships so I’m not sure why Tracey and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds decided to end their relationship, but I’m blaming Babyface. I don’t care if this woman shot at me every morning, we’re NOT getting a divorce.

16. Halle Berry. 42. Speaking of crazy chicks and me never divorcing them, we have Halle Berry. Since Boomerang, who hasn’t held Halle Berry as the baddest chick EVER?!?!?! And now that she’s a MILF… She’s got niggas in tall tees making songs about her. That’s not exactly something that strengthens her resume but you get my point.

15. Stacy Dash. 42. Ms. Dash was still playing 18 year olds when she was well into her 30s. She too is a product of genetic engineering. How else would you explain her being related to Dame Dash? There is no way they were spat from the same va-gene without some sort of scientific alterations. I rest my case.

14. Elizabeth Hurley. 43. Admittedly I don’t know much about Ms Hurley outside of her Austin Powers roles. She’s from England… and that’s where my list ends. I guess this is another case of good looks + accent = boinkable.

13. Teri Hatcher. 44. Lois and Clark was probably my favorite non cartoon show from the 90s and Ms. Hatcher had EVERYTHING to do with that. She made my wee-wee tingle in my pre-masturbation days and I had NO clue how to handle that issue at the time.

12. Rosie Perez. 44. Her voice is like a cat in heat playing the clarinet with a chipped reed. But her voice alone is not enough to keep her from making this list. Anyone that’s ever seen White Men Can’t Jump knows EXACTLY what I mean. I’m beginning to see a trend here, women with accents don’t age…

11. Holly Robinson Peete. 44.  21 Jump Street was before my time so I remember first falling in lust with her on Hangin with Mr Cooper.  The only thing productive Rodney Peete did in his NFL career was retire with a hot wife.

10. Sandra Bullock. 44. I’ve had a crush on her since I first saw her in Speed. I think her nose is the culprit. Followed closely by her smile. She has a woman next door / “soccer mom” look about her, and who doesn’t like soccer moms?

9. Sarah Palin. 44. If Sandra Bullock has a woman next door feel Sarah Palin is the PTA/ Booster Club mom. Again, she has a sense of humor as evidenced by her response to the SNL clips. She has a great smile too, and an accent.

8. Demi Moore. 46. After seeing the scene in Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle when she comes out of the water after surfing do I really need to justify why she’s on my list?

7. Angela Bassett. 50. I love Angela Bassett, and it’s a good thing too. She’s one of the only women on this list that I’d actually be scared of. She’d in all honesty beat me up if I hadn’t placed her on the list.

6. Lynn Whitfield. 55. I’ve haven’t seen much of Lynn Whitfield since the Thin Line Between Love and Hate days, but her character was so convincing that I still can’t help but think she is a little psycho. It’s the same way I feel about Tony Shalhoub really being OCD. There is no way you are that good in your role and NOT be that way in real life.

5. Beverly Johnson. 56. The first black super model. Granted she’s looking a bit like some corduroy slacks in the face these days. But for a woman that’s half a dozen years over 50, she’s entitled to more lines on her face than college ruled notebook paper.

4. Judge Hatchett. 57. Despite her name being “Glenda” she’s the other woman on the list that scares me. I don’t know why exactly. Maybe its her extreme knowledge of the law. Maybe its her disapproving gaze. Whatever it is, it frightens me.

3. Pam Grier. 59. She’s Foxy Brown. Every time I think of her I think of the episode of Fresh Prince when she tries to seduce Will. I’ll just say he’s a stronger man than I.

2. Debbie Allen. 59. Debbie in her prime was a babe. She was arguably the more attractive of the Allen sisters. But that leads me to the final lady… None other than Debbie’s big sister…

1. Phylicia Rashad. 60. Claire Huxtable was the Michelle Obama before Michelle Obama. She was supportive. She was witty. She kept Cliff in line. She’s everything you could EVER want in a wife. She’s the elder statesman on this list and that by default makes her #1 and rightfully so. She’s deserves that number one spot.

Who is on YOUR list. Males and females chime in, in the comments section.

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Jaz feat. Jay-Z: The Originators

"The name is mine, I'll take blame for that/ The pressure's on, but guess who ain't gon' crack/ Pardon me I had to laugh at that/ How could you falter when you're the Rock of Gibraltar/ I had to get of the boat so I could walk on water/ This ain't no tall order, this is nothin to me/ Difficult takes a day, impossible takes a week/ I do this in my sleep/ I sell Kilos of coke, so I'm guessin' I can sell CD's/ I'm not a buisnessman, I'm a buisness, man/ Let me handle my buisness, d@mn!" Who would have thought when seeing this video that Jay-Z would go on to be the mogul he is today?



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Unkommon Kolor!!! NEW FITTEDS!!!

As you can see we've been SUPER busy bringing in the new year.

Feathered Indians.
Feathered Indians. Hand painted on a Cleveland Indians Cooperstown Collection fitted by Blue the Great


I Jack. I Rob. I Sin.
I jack I rob I sin. All of professional sports owes a debt of gratitude to Jackie Robinson. Had it not been for him breaking the color barrier in Major League Baseball, there would be no Kobe, Lebron, or even Michael Jordan today. This is our tribute to Jackie Robinson. Hand painted on a Brooklyn Dodgers Cooperstown Collection fitted by The REAL Jeremy Biggers aka The Dude with the Beard


Hook and Tink
Hook and Tinkerbell on a Pirates hat... what can I say I'm a witty cat. Hand painted on a Pittsburgh Pirates fitted by The REAL Jeremy Biggers aka The Dude with the Beard


Freakazoid
Freakazoid was one of my favorite cartoons growing up. HAD to put it on one of my favorite hats (there's a J on it... how could I NOT like it). Hand painted on a Toronto BlueJays fitted by The REAL Jeremy Biggers aka The Dude with the Beard


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Colin Munroe: Piano Lessons

DOPE!!!


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Crackheads + commercials = WEEKEND LAUGHS!

"... if you ain't getting it from ACE, you just ain't getting it..."

NYE 2008: The W Hotel / Victory Park / Dallas

Enjoy!


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