TheLegendsLeague

Many ‘followers’ and readers of TheLegendsLeague aren’t actually familiar with where this whole concept came from. They look at it as a clothing line, an invisible movement, a group of friends with ‘fake gangster names’, one dude doing too many things to keep control of any of them. On many levels, they are terribly wrong.

The truth is that this all started with my motivation to show some love and respect for my influences and inspirations - the ‘legends’ in my life who have built me into the person I am today through guidance, example, hardship, experience, love, hatred, and being alive. These influences and inspirations are not solely people. They are books, they are poems, they are songs, life experiences, places of confinement, places of pain, relationships, and all other ships that I have boarded and since docked to find myself a little closer to some sort of contentment with my life and the things I do with it by choice and by calculated chance.

Those who were consistent readers of The (*LL) myspace grew to expect 3 updates a month. New articles and write ups on my life experiences, new artwork relating to each new topic of discussion, new features from Che Kothari, Bjoern Arthurs, Tim Okura, Arowbe x3, and many other brilliant artists/writers who contributed their work to the page gave TheLegendsLeague myspace page a feel that totally separated users from their general experience on the social networking site that has more recently been eclipsed (in Toronto) by Facebook. Above the “Top Friends” section on our MySpace was a long series of individuals who were “Welcomed” to TheLegendsLeague by me personally for any number of reasons - most of the time just for being good citizens of the world, and great friends. Next to the photos and write ups of these individuals was a long list of readers’ contributions to their own personal Legends Leagues. Followers would write me and tell me stories about people who inspired them, things that have turned them into the people they are today, and ask that they be “Welcomed” to their own individual Legends Leagues. It was a time that couldn’t be replicated, and I would never choose to do it any different. But I do feel that it is necessary to bring this shit back.

A few months ago, Drizzy wrote on the Octobers Very Own blog that he would be sharing with their readers his Superior 12. 12 individuals who have contributed something to his life and turned him into the person he is today through influence and inspiration of many sorts. Seeing this jogged my memory. It made me feel happy to see someone in his position be bold enough to share his circle of inspirers, but it also made me feel as if I had abandoned in large part, the essence of what I was doing with the concept side of TheLegendsLeague. Yes, there are business opportunities that come flying (pause) from the artwork and the clothing, and I take them in stride. But much of these successes are due in large part to the whats and whys of how this company and concept all came together.

From here on out I will be posting my personal Legends League, and hope that you can get a bit of a glimpse into where my concepts, my motivations, my faults, my vices, and my love for the life I have now comes from.

To the newbies, Welcome To The Legends League. To everyone else, you’ve been in this since they day you were born.

Love&Respect.
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“And the visual is stunnin’. I hope they document what I’m becomin’. Congratulations.”

Quote courtesy of my man Drizzy. Artwork courtesy of yours truly.
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