urbanbionics…

• As you’ll probably all know by now Guru of Gangstarr suffered a cardiac arrest yesterday and is currently in a coma awaiting surgery in a New York area hospital - MissInfo
• Also peep Combat Jack‘s account on how he came to know Guru – iHipHop
• Kanye’s new blog is now up and live, having a more fashion & design theme but still providing us with pics of his muse which is well worth the daily visit – Kanye West Blog
• Whilst on the Kanye theme, peep this old skool (Pre-Accident) video interview with Whoo Kid, where Mr West talks about not getting any money for publishing off his work on ‘The Blueprint’ and also the story behind his canary diamond Rocafella chain – RadioPlanet
• Snoop Vs Jermaine Dupri, unfortunately it’s only on NBA 2010 - 2DopeBoyz
• Future (of Mesh Culture) gets the chance to sit down with the UK’s own Master Shortie where he discusses signing to the majors and his latest track with Polluted Mindz – Mesh
• XXL Magazine have upped their Freshman ’10 feature including quick freestyles from each inductee, what do you reckon to the line up??? – XXL

• Young Money continue their quest to stay on top, this month it’s YM’s first lady Nicki Minaj’s turn to grace the cover of Fader.. Also peep Justin Comb’s trying his best lines on Ms ‘Roger Dat’. – The Life Files
• Jay Z made his second appearance on Jonathan Ross, where touched on his relationship with Barack Obama & his 40th birthday and then went onto perform ‘On To The Next’ with a live band (Crazy) – MeshCulture
• Jay Z tickets for his Manchester (MEN) & Birmingham (LG Arena) concerts are now on sale, be quick as these will not be available for long considering the massive media push that BP3 has had. – TicketMaster
• The Maestro Knows website has been given the make over treatment, making it even easier to view Levi’s back catalogue of Vlogs – also check out his latest interview with FVF where he declares he doesn’t even like the internet (word?). FVF
• Dame Dash gets his Warhol on, with the grand opening of his DD172 Gallery from the look of things he’s definitely back on track to where belongs. – Creative Control (Vimeo)
• Hypebeast.tv have the opportunity to do a feature on the legendary graff artist Eric Haze, digging into his past projects and also his latest exhibition that took place last month. – Hypebeast.tv
• ImFlashy briefly talk to Drake regarding his upcoming debut album & also about certain Hip Hop legends he has bitten studied for the new project. – ImFlashy
• This isn’t how you should celebrate your birthday (no offence to our dwarf readers) Rihanna x Bridget the Midget AKA Cathouse (in the porn industry) TMZ
• Paul Morley of The Guardian interviews UK’s own Giggs (The rapper not the United legend) talking about Peckham, prison and his deal with XL – The Guardian

As for these last few days, ‘slow’ is an understatement, not much worth posting about over the last few days – nah I’m lying i’ve had other distractions… (nuff said) anyway back to regular posting from here on out.

• It’s official the Big Homie will be headlining this years Wireless Festival (Sunday 4th July Hyde Park London UK) along side a whole heap of other artists with the list growing by the day. - Wireless Festival 2010
• Rodney P gets some things off his chest regarding the ‘crooked’ UK music scene, in this no holds barred interview with Mr Montana. – Conspiracy Blog.
• Marcus Troy gets the opportunity to explore the Rob Dyrdek Fantasy Factory (of Fantasy Factory MTV fame) giving us an insiders view into the skaters Aladdin’s Cave (Literally). Marcus Troy
• Whilst on the skaters tip, DC have recently unveiled it’s latest skate boarders online project, after the huge success of skateboarding.tv comes DC 7Zine check it out – DC7ZINE
• If you don’t already know John Mayer is officially an Ediot (even more so after this) video blog genius Jay Smooth gives us his reaction to the whole saga. – Illdoctrine
• Goggle continues in its quest to take over the world; it’s latest invention makes stalkers life even easier wether you live on land or under the sea. Their latest Google Maps on steroids named Google Liquid Galaxy must infringe on some form of invasion of privacy. Lets just hope our crazed Ex’s don’t get their hands on this – Mashable
• The Times sit down with Britains most successful female artist Sade, to talk about her tomboy tree climbing activities and also her new album, which is apparently close to moving half a million copies in it’s first week – The Times Online
• Ski Beatz has released the tracklist for the  highly anticipated ’24 Hour Karate School’ mixtape, also some snippets and an eleven minute ‘visual mixtape’ including some karate film footage.. BUT the bad news is the mixtape has been pushed back to March 30th – Nah Right

• Lil Wayne is starting his bid was due to start his bid in Rikers Island but only after his ‘Going Away‘ party & farewell Ustream video – Nah Right.
• Bape officially opens it’s European Webstore, making Bape officially now available to the European masses – Eu.bape.com.
• GQ’s James Moore sits down with Gucci’s favourite in-house designer Tom Ford – GQ.
• Kanye lets us know his ‘New’ blog will be dropping this week and he’s really excited about it – KanyeBlog.
• The Real are back, and as always in good form bringing us ‘They Reminisce Over ‘Ye – All Black Everything’ – Its The Real.
• Burberry are to stream their upcoming Autumn Winter 2010/11 fashion shows in 3D allowing users to comment in realtime via their Twitter/Facebook accounts – Culture Shoq.
• After Combat Jack & Peter Rosenberg put there twitter differences aside, they came to together to discuss the great late Big Pun – iHipHop.
• 2Dopeboyz come through once again, this time Cookin Soul x Big Pun x J Dilla = Cookin Big Dilla (Mixtape) featuring the late Big Pun’s verses over the late J Dilla’s instrumentals. – 2Dopeboyz.
• Rap Radar give us some stills from the set of Rihanna’s ‘Rude Boy’ music video – RapRadar.
• Keith Haring’s 1985 Mural @ Deitch Projects NYC – Highsnobiety.
• Tola Ositelu reviews Sade’s new album ‘Soldier Of Love’ – SoulCulture

• The legendary New York Baseline Studio’s officially closes its doors, Justin Smith (Just Blaze) held a wake/viewing service where photographer Alexander Ritcher was on hand to capture the closing moments with some excellent photography – Alexander Ritcher
• Freshness get the chance to sit down with skateboarder turned videographer prodigy Levi Maestro – The ‘Maestro Knows‘ creator. Who’s video blogs have taken to the internet like wild fire, providing us with ‘Authentic Reality’ rather than the now ‘Created Reality’ media that plagues our channels. As ever Levi comes across professional and sincere – Freshness.
• German designers/hard core gamers Patrick Molnar and Phil Penninger put together an impressive collection of video game systems/early home computers spanning over 35 years complete with photos, original packaging and short biographies all for online viewing and as a coffee table book. – Consollection.
• Jak & Jil blog provide us with some stunning photos showcasing Louis Vuitton’s Fall/Winter 2010/11 accessories for men. – Jak & Jil
• Nike’s 6.0 Partners in Crime project – releases the first of it’s five video series starting with ‘WeThePeople’ starring Farren Downes & Jason Phelan – RideukBmx
• Issue 3 of Love Magazine is due out next week, this issue features eight different covers with eight of the worlds supermodels. All eight covers can be seen here – Love
• New York graf artist Eric Haze recently painted a mural for Stussy (Shinjuku, Tokyo) as part of his ongoing collaboration with Stussy. – Hypebeast
• The guys behind the ‘A Tribe Called Next’ blog have given their network a design overhaul check it out – ATCN
• Dazed Digital talk exclusively with Dame Dash, where he touches on Creative Control, BlakRoc, DD172 & his upcoming documentary with Mos Def about 70′s black punk group ‘Death’. – Dazed Digital

• Drake graces Complex Mag’s  Feb/March Cover & Talks on competition with J. Cole, his relationship with Wayne and details on his debut album ‘Thank Me Later’ – Complex.com
• Jordan Retro VI ‘Lakers’ Preview – (Feeling these in a big way) – Freshness Mag
• Hillarious Kid Cudi Video to ‘Cudderisback’ Directed by Jason Goldwatch/DECON – 2DopeBoyz
• What you looking at – Kanye’s Louboutin Rollerball Loafers or Amber Rose? – MissInfo.tv
• 8 People x 5 Instruments x 4 Continents x 3 Different Languages = 1 Song (Jam Session 2.0) – Cain Mosni
• W.O.W. – (What’s One Wearing) website has been relaunched. Make sure you check it out. – W.O.W.
• Skillz comes through with the Visuals to ’09 Rap Up’ – Okayplayer
• Street Shots, Tommy Ton captures Milan & Paris Fashion Weeks street style – GQ
• Village Voice crowns Jay-Z’s ‘Empire State of Mind’ #1 – Village Voice