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Our next installment of RICE and PEAS we'll be celebrating Atlantic Recording artist / producer, Ricky Blaze's Birthday party. From producing Badman Forward, to Chelly's cross over hit, "Took The Night" and his current hits, Gyptian's "Hold Yuh" (which he produced) along with "You And I" on the same riddim.

Make sure you show up EARLY to this one!

Shouts to the lovely Jovi Rockwell, she recently hosted the "Re-Opened Party" 'longside me, Max Glazer & Micro Don. Now this is a real cool chick who knows how to have a good time! She danced in the DJ booth, stood on her seat wildin' out, Jovi, we love you bad!

This Friday we're joined by Hip Hop legend, DJ / Producer Clark Kent. Clark was Dana Dane's DJ in the 80s, produced "Player's Anthem" for Junior M.A.F.I.A., Loverboy by Mariah Carey and other hits by Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Lil Kim, Biggie, Slick Rick, Rakim, Sizzla, the list goes on, he also discovered Shyne, helped Jay-Z break into the game, dude is the truth!

Shouts to L.A. based street wear line, The Hundreds, they recently hit me up and sent me some promo gear...

Here's a shot taken (by Martei Korley for Largeup.com) of me rockin' The Hundreds Tee alongside Micro Don @ Santos a few weeks back

I recently suggested we get a new flier for Re-Open-ed Fridays at Santos while at a meeting dicussing the weekly event with Just Blaze, DJ Soul, the new hosts and the Santos people. I said, "let's get a celebrated artist within our circles that people will get excited about." I threw a few names around, but as soon as I mentioned Brent Rollins, it was a wrap!

Rollins is an undeniable force in the fields of graphic design, graffiti and illustration. As art director for Ego Trips (Magazines, Books, VH1 TV shows, etc) Brent has remained relevant while many have come and gone.

His first big break was with his college chum, John Singleton's Boyz N Da Hood (for which he did the super recognizable logo). From there he started to hear from Don Cornelius for whom he produced a "new" look for Soul Train as they attempted to update their format.

The list goes on, Mo Betta Blues, Poetic Justice... Streetwaer collabs with Stussy, Undftd and many more. Then the album covers, Black Star album (what?!), Blackalicious, Gangstarr's The Ownerz, Spankrock, dude has spanned several eras!

Check out a few of his gems...

Check the rest on http://www.Largeup.com

Chaka Khan's "I Feel For You"

Growing up in the NW Bronx, we called these types of songs, Skyview Music, as that was the name of the building complex we lived in. And there was a big pool (biggest private pool in the BX) where they'd play these types of joints, a lot of rappers and R&B cats from BX & Westchester would hang there (as it was like the pseudo Hamptons for them until rappers could actually afford the Hamptons!)