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I been sitting on this shit for about a month now, and god knows how long it’s been done for. I wasn’t about to leak it until Drizzy gave me the go ahead, when in all honesty he was waiting for me to finish the artwork for it. I gotta hand it to dude, he was adamant about giving his fans 2 separate looks for the leak. Mind you, this is a FREE download and homey was like, “Yo, be., let’s give ‘em some shit”. So we givin’ you some shit.

Here it is ya’ll, Drizzy feat. Lil Wayne - Ransom.

My dude said to me today that sometimes the dreams we have aren’t dreams at all. It’s all just foresight into the future. Shit’s about to get really crazy in a hot second.

Download the track HERE

After a ton of work, a lot of hustling, loot stacking, move making, and more than a few booze filled evenings resulting in late night runs to Garden out here in Toronto, the Summer is officially over, and the Fall/Winter Ideall Clothing line has finally been completed. Shouts out to my henchmen Los, and Andy. Better late than never. I had to figure out what I was finna wear.

Complimentary piece to the “Die Enormous” touques, going on sale this month at LiveStock Toronto.

Everyone claims to be the last of a dying breed. Well, good luck outlasting death. We’re the first of a surviving breed. Get familiar.

Triumph 08: “Behold The Bold Soldier. Control The Globe Slowly.” Fat shout out to everyone who showed support for the Obama’s Time tee. I’m fucking humbled, and I’m sure Barrack would be saying “Thank You” as much as he did before his speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Facebook is The Feds. The first in a series of truths we all know. Black on black - It should be a crime it’s so ill.

The inspiration behind much of this collection is growing up on the east coast where Nautica was heavily flossed in my high school days by the kids whose parents could afford it, or the cats who were ill enough to be able to boost it. Regardless of who was wearing it, I always loved the simplicity of their color selections. The teal, white and grey pieces - the mustard, white, and navy pieces - and the stock red, navy and white pieces always looked dope with baggy denim and Clarks, an Eddie Bauer button down and a denim cap. But I didn’t understand the culture that the clothes were actually geared towards. I’d never been on a boat, I had never been ‘up north’, which in Toronto is a regular thing for many families, I hated the water, I never knew what a cottage was until 4 years ago, (and I still have never been), and I was not welcomed into the circles of the many people in the position to enjoy these things coming up in the middle class neighbourhood I came up in because of my tendency to do wild shit, get drunk, and end up on some violent shit.

My relationship with those born into money, or remotely healthy relationships with their families, where things like enjoying nature and the lay of the land may be regular activities, was bad - bad to the point that robbing kids like that was a regular thing. Beating down guys who acted like they were on some ill shit but lived in prissy neighbourhoods where they could keep their doors unlocked and their parents were owners of this and that, the VPs of that and this, wasn’t uncommon. Because while my neighbourhood was all smiles, my household was all hell breaking loose, and I would spend more time with doctors and cops, in hospitals and centers, than I would enjoying the outdoors with my family in the summertime.

The B-Class Series represents those of us who recognize real, and can’t relate to their kind because they chose not to hold relationships with ours. It represents those of us who take what the world has left us without, and make what the world expects us to be envious of, not because we have to, but because we can. It’s a testament to self empowerment in the face of snickering finger pointers and daddy dearest types who expect the struggle to hold us down, but will never reach a hand out to help us up if we ever needed it.

I’ve seen it face on. And spat in it’s face back.

Here’s to holdin’ ‘em down and hangin’ ‘em dry, to robbing from the rich ’cause they care not for our kind, and for getting the motherfucking upper hand since 1981.

Much respect to those who been showing love from the early days, and the new cats holding my shit down. I got you.

“They Care Not For Our Kind”. The swords feature the skulls from the 2007 Ideall Clothing Love/Hate tee.

Anchor and Noose. It’s the new duct tape and cinderblock.

There are still a lot of Filipino pirates out in the waters robbing people on cruise ships. Don’t get got.

Do your homework.

All these pieces will be available at LiveStock Toronto this month. Ask the team for details, or contact be@thelegendsleague.com

More Fall/Winter Ideall to come.

DAY THIRTY RESULTS:

Face Shape: A little too round on the top and narrow along the sides, but it works with the illustration.

Eyes: The intensity with which I drew the eyes today really captures something about me when I’m in work mode. Even though the eyebrows look a little like the Dark Knight logo, they say a lot about how serious I get sometimes, and how involved in my work I get. The execution of the eyes isn’t the greatest. The details are few. But within the illustration, they do carry a likeness to my eyes in person.

Nose: It’s a pretty good nose, but it’s not totally my nose. The front is too circular, and the nostrils are too boxy and angled downward. The bridge looks far too narrow, and while the shading behind the nostrils is a nice touch, it doesn’t do much for making the nose look more like my own.

Mouth: It looks very illustrative, more like a caricature, but it’s pretty accurate. The lower lip could have used some texture, but as I said yesterday, this formula of drawing my mouth for the 5 Minute Me’s is almost embedded into my brain.

Details: The eyes and the dark contrast of them are what call out the most to me in this 5 Minute Me. Even though it’s not a fine detail to block in a lot of black, it does a lot for the mood of the illustration. If I had to choose an aspect of this 5 Minute Me to say I did the best in capturing detail, it’d be the nose once again. I think I just spend the most time on the nose, so that’s where much of the attention ends up.

Final Thoughts: I’m partially relieved, and partially upset. Knowing that this was going to be the last 5 Minute Me put me in a mode to try to execute something special and write something meaningful. You can see the circles used to map out the head and the nose and the line to map out the eyes. It’s funny how the pressure to draw something amazing got to me today. I was half careful half carefree. But it’s over. And I’m happy that I completed this project and was able to share it.

DAY TWENTY THIRTY PIECE:
Burning Ends To Meet Ends. (written in 4mins 34secs)

I don’t make the ends,
I just make them meet…
will fly for self richness
to enrich the fleet…

will die for no forgive ness but
I’ll live showing my sins.
Only makes sense to tell friends
where my story begins.

And I’m once upon a time,
but I move with it’s minutes,
gorrove to it’s vastness,
past it’s harsh limits.

Blast to break silence,
mast at high sails,
floating to the water
wishing well to the whales.

I do it for the honesty
that’s been in my chest,
and in the end
I’ll be waiting for some rest.

be.
08.18.08

DAY TWENTY NINE RESULTS:

Face Shape: Pretty good, although something about it seems juvenile. Maybe it’s the overall size of the illustration. It’s a little small I think.

Eyes: Not the best execution, but definitely alike to mine in the flesh. The little dent between my eyebrows is pretty characteristic of my ‘unimpressed’ look, and even though not all the details of the eyes were drawn out, the little things like that are keeping me from bashing the execution too much.

Nose: This is a pretty damn accurate depiction of my nose. the shape is good and the size in relation to my face is on point.

Mouth: As with the eyes, the execution isn’t the greatest, but the likeness is bang on in the context of the whole illustration. I’m finding it hard to sway away from this formula of drawing the mouth - shade the upper lip, define the lower, darken the outsides of the mouth, draw in mustache and labret piercing. It’s great for time, but not the greatest for execution.

Details: There’s not too much deep, fine detail in this 5 Minute Me, but overall the illustration works as a self portrait. The nose takes the cake for best in show as far as the details department goes.

Final Thoughts: After yesterdays embarrassing “hexagon face” 5 Minute Me, it’s nice to have been able to draw out something that actually resembles me more than it does guys I disliked as a teenager. My favorite part about today’s 5 Minute Me was writing something for Stace - simple, not wordy, to the fucking point, and honest. Just the way I like it. Sometimes.

DAY TWENTY NINE PIECE:
Giving Everything /Up. (written in 1min 19secs)

You’re worth giving everything up for.

or.

Maybe I need to realize that if I were to really make sense of this all..

You would be the only thing worth all of my efforts.

be.
08.17.08

DAY TWENTY EIGHT RESULTS:

Face Shape: A little pointy on the top. If I just made the sides shorter I would’ve made a perfect hexagon I think.

Eyes: Considering the size of the whole drawing, It’s funny that I drew the eyes as small as I did. The execution is poor - no detail under the eyes makes me look a little more oriental and awake than I do in person, and the lid of the right eye is completely botched.

Nose: Not the worst nose of drawn, not the best, but it’s possibly the most accurate aspect of this 5 Minute Me. There could be a little more detail on the bridge of the nose, but that’s the least of the problems with this illustration.

Mouth: Looks really rushed, as does the rest of the illustration, but it’s not that bad. I don’t generally try to draw in texture into the bottom lip, and I actually started to do that in this one, even though it just looks like scribbles. The size of the mouth could be a little bigger to look a bit more accurate.

Details: There’s not a lot of detail in this piece, and as we’ve seen with some of the rest of the 5 Minute Me’s, the nose gives the most once again in terms of finer execution.

Final Thoughts: It’s funny how much I’ve been over exaggerating some of my features. It’s a comment maybe on how I see myself, and is exactly what I was wanting out of the 5 Minute Me. I think my nose is small, so I draw it bigger. I think my eyes are bulgy and so I draw them smaller. I don’t know that this is something that would happen to someone after drawing a single self portrait, but having done this everyday for 4 weeks, I definitely feel it setting in pretty good and my vision going a little mental when I sit in front of that mirror.

DAY TWENTY EIGHT PIECE:
Where We Go. (written in 4mins 47secs)

Where we go we’ll meet glory for hand to hand shakes,
where (wo)man to (wo)man talks will turn to walks with greats,
and we’ll laugh to side sores about stocks and stakes -
how they don’t really matter.

We’ll dine fine style platters.

Where we go we’ll meet glory for an eye to eye glare,
fine sense of sight, we’ll foresee it to a stare.
We’ll laugh to side sores about the frauds and fakes,
and how all it took to get there was the thoughts we’d make.

be.
08.17.08 (day missed)