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Here Comes The Long Weekend

We showed you the 5 hottest Korean pop groups. [LINK]

The U.S.A basketball team took over NYC. [LINK]

The Wackness dropped a ‘90s Rap Purple tape. [LINK]

Hitting interns with the GTA IV bat was a good time. [LINK]

And From The Complex Network:

Nice Kicks:The WTAPS x Vans Syndicate collabo sold quick. [LINK]

Bastardly: Vanessa Hudgens hit NYC to pimp out her new album. [LINK]

Nah Right: Mickey Factz dropped the 28th edition of his leak. [LINK]

SlamXHype: Insa’s “Dirty Cash” exhibition looks dope. [LINK]

On Smash: Check out this new T.I off of Paper Trail. [LINK]

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Dirty Secrets Of The Founding Fathers

Unless you’re a complete idiot, you’ve probably figured out by now that America is all about hypocrisy. How else do we explain the fact that the same men who wrote things like “all men are created equal” went home and whipped the fuck out of their slaves? So in honor of our great country’s Independence Day, we thought it would be good to go beyond the myths and expose the side of our founding fathers that they don’t tell you in the history books.

Even aside from that whole “slavery” debacle, our country’s earliest leaders were no angels. A closer look at the lives of politicians like Benjamin Franklin, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton reveals that they all had a few unsavory incidents in their past. After the jump, read about five dirty secrets that the founding fathers wish we would forget.

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The Wackness Is Dope Enough

When Ayo! Scott wants to revisit his youth, he watches Kids. Other than the raving and raping, Larry Clark’s 1995 classic about aimless NYC teens skating, boozing, drugging, fucking, fighting, and slurping juice with tampons is like a day in the life of young Ayo!

The Wackness, set in 1994, taps into some of the same nostalgia. High school outsider Luke Shapiro (Josh Peck) spends the summer before college selling weed, getting put up on new hip-hop by his connect (Method Man), trading trees for psychiatric therapy, and crushing on his shrink’s stepdaughter (Ayo!’s boo-to-be, Olivia Thirlby). While Kids captured actual city teenagers doing how they once did, The Wackness attempts to transport young actors back in time, which proves tricky. The era references and slang spilling out of their mouths feel forced and untrue at times—though still infinitely more believable than a mesh-tank-top-rockin’ Meth’s embarrassing Jafakin’ accent.

If some details are off, the film still wins by focusing on the angst of first love, making it the coming-of-age story to Clark’s cumming-in-underage-girls story. After all, between skating, boozing, drugging, fucking, fighting, and slurping juice with tampons, we did occasionally fall in love with these hoes. See the trailer and watch scenes after the jump.

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Pushin’ The Remote Controlled Hummer

Aside from the bikini clad dimes, the other reason dudes watch James Bond movies is to see what crazy gadgets his team cooks up for him. And hands down, one of his hottest devices has to be the Sony Ericsson phone from Tomorrow Never Dies, which allowed him to remotely control his BMW 750iL. It was every grown ass kid’s dream toy, and now that dream has become a reality with the remote-controlled Hummer H3.

Built by Dr. James Brighton’s British team in about a month, the Hummer H3 can be driven by a handheld controller. The gas, break and steering are all controlled by hydraulic robotic systems, and the transmission has been modified to only have Drive, Reverse and Neutral. If you’re tired of pushin’ that Tyco around the ‘hood and wanna upgrade to an R/C Hummer, it’ll cost you no less than $70,000. After the jump, check out a video of Dr. Brighton showing off the whip.

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Megan Fox Reminds Brian Austin Green He’s A Loser

This just in: gossip rags are reporting that the industry’s current #1 hottie Megan Fox has broken off her inexplicable engagement to 90210 alum Brian Austin Green. It was bound to happen, but we still can’t help but feel a little bad for the former David Silver, who has a long history of taking L’s.

Granted, BAG deserves props for bedding Tiffani Amber Theiessen and having a kid with sexy actress Vanessa Marcil, but all that has been overshadowed by his career as a serial failure in the entertainment biz. Despite the hot women, Green has been unable to find success in the worlds of film, TV and music since 90210’s cancellation. We hate to kick the guy while he’s down, but we felt like it was our duty to recount the rest of Brian’s biggest failures below. You know, just in case anymore impressionable young actresses think dating him might be a good idea…

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See Jeremy Fish’s Story In ‘Once Upon A Time’

The Fourth of July weekend is supposed to be about cookouts, fireworks, and sharking, but if you’ve had enough outdoor fun and want to post up at the crib with a good book, you could do worse than Jeremy Fish’s latest, Once Upon A Time…

The SF-based artist/skate mogul/Aesop Rock pal has compiled some of his favorite drawings, photographs, and paintings in a leather-bound tome that retails for $50. Highlights include a foreword by the aforementioned Def Juxer and a section devoted to photos of people who’ve gotten tatted up with Fish’s work. Pick it up at Upper Playground stores or online and check a few pages from the book after the jump.

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There’s A New Bad Lieutenant In Town

Variety is reporting that Val Kilmer and Xzibit are the latest to sign on to Werner Herzog’s update of Abel Ferrara’s 1992 crooked-cop classic Bad Lieutenant. The new version—which Herzog is claiming is not a remake, but a continuation—stars Nic Cage, though we doubt Ol’ Melty Face can hold a candle to Harvey Keitel’s original performance.

Keitel’s drugged-out, alcoholic, minor-raping, compulsively gambling scumbag paved the way for Denzel’s Training Day tour de force and reinforced what quite a few of us already thought about the boys in blue (word to Spider Loc). After the jump, check out a few famous moments from the original flick, as well as the Schoolly D banger “Signifying Rapper,” which was featured prominently in the movie (and was ultimately cut from the VHS version after Jimmy Page’s bitch ass complained about the same “Kashmir” sample that he later gave to Puffy).

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Retail Spotlight: Azalea Boutique

Don’t be put off by the flowery name—San Francisco’s Azalea Boutique is the go-to to cop premium men’s labels. If you’re a longtime A.P.C. denim fan or just looking to step-up to your first pair of quality jeans, this chic-shop should be your first stop. Along with A.P.C., the boutique carries Cheap Monday, Creative Recreation, Acne, Spring Court shoes, and the hard-to-come-by Swedish denim line, Nudie Jeans.

Azalea was started in July 2003 by Cornell homies Cathy and Corina, who instantly bonded over a shared love of well-made clothes. They wanted to not only bring cult labels to San Fran but also provide a pleasant shopping experience and excellent customer service—without the skate shop owner douchebaggery that’s often seen at cool-guy spots. In addition to the well-stocked men’s section, there’s also a women’s department that offers a gang of brands, and an in-store nail salon that’ll make it easy to scoop up well-manicured hotties. Leaving with new clothes and a new chick? Sounds like the best of both worlds to us. Check some of our gear picks after the jump that you can cop at the store right now.

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Lil Wayne Saves His Money On ‘A Milli’

It’s gotten to the point where people are so entertained by Lil Wayne that all he has to do is videotape himself walking around and people are entertained. And that’s exactly what he did for the video to Tha Carter III’s “A Milli.”

The Bangladesh-produced track wasn’t intended to be a single, but given the fact that everyone from Jay-Z to Chris Brown has put their stamp on the beat, how could Weezy not put a visual out there for it? The video is as low budget as it gets, following Weezy from his trailer to the set of his next video, “Got Money” with T-Pain. Watch “A Milli” below.

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Creative Recreation Kaplan

We’re banking on these white-on-white Creative Recreation Kaplans’ to lead us to the 4th of July ass-getting promise land this weekend. Sure they’re basic, but simple is still “in”. Spit some G and chill poolside with your new dime. Drinks are on the house.
$130, Creativerecreation.com

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