“We have stole so much shit in a lifetime. Ralph Lauren! This if for Ralph Lauren! I took about five million dollars in clothes from you. Polo, son.” Founde in 1980s Brooklyn, Lo-Lifes have spread their love, for wearing and racking Polo wardrobes, internationally. Here is a trailer for a Lo-Life documentary by Thirstin Howl the Third and another story about their crew.

Video For Wu-Tang Clan “The Heart Gently Weeps Featuring Erykah Badu, Dhani Harrison and John Frusciante” from this past winter’s “8 Diagrams”.

Hip hop was born in the Bronx, at 1520 Sedgwick Ave, when DJ Kool Herc started throwing parties and playing the breaks, something nobody had done before. But for the last year, the future of 1520 Sedgwick Ave, or Sedgwick and Cedar, has been in question as the landlord tried to remove the 100 unit apartment complex the Mitchel-Lama housing program, which gives landlords tax breaks for renting below market rate. Fortunately for fans of hip hop and affordable housing, the city has made an unprecedented move to block the sale because it “was not viable under current rent restrictions,” protecting the building from being bought and turned into luxury hip hop condos.

Here’s a piece of documentary with a British narrator and DJ Kool Herc explaining how hip hop was born. It also features Grandwizard Theodore, more recently caught performing the little known blindfolded-record-on-the-head scratch.

This music video for RJD2’s “Work It Out” features “Crutchmaster” Bill Shannon dancing around Brooklyn’s Borough Hall.

Captured is a film focused on documentarian Clayton Patterson and the Lower East Side he has been videotaping and photographing for nearly 30 years.

Since 1979 Clayton Patterson has dedicated his life to documenting the final era of raw creativity and lawlessness in New York City’s Lower East Side, a neighborhood famed for art, music and revolutionary minds. Traversing the outside edge he’s recorded a dark and colorful society, from drag to hardcore, heroin, homelessness, political chaos and ultimately gentrification. His odyssey from voyeur to provocateur reveals that it can take losing everything you love to find your own significance.

This has no relevance to anything, except that it’s Friday and we encourage you to get down and have some fun, however that may be.

Continuing our coverage of streetwear brands with sports teams, we present: 10 Deep Skateboarding.

Steve Powers has a newish book out called Studio Gangster.

Heron Preston recently spoke with Aaron Bondaroff about life post-aNYthing and his plans for Off Bowery Productions which include a “private, little secret spot hangout, invitation only” venue in Soho and launching 15 new brands “like the Wu-Tang of streetwear.” Inexplicably, they’re also “fighting the gentrification, us vs them.”

We hate bearing bad news, but “fighting the gentrification” with another exclusive boutique/club/whatever, the type characterizing Soho’s hyper-gentrification, is a lost cause. Best of luck though!