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Naughty Boy Presents Wiley Featuring Emeli Sande – Never Be Your Woman [Shy FX Mix] - Official iTunes release Feb 28th.

Wiley’s 1st single for 2010 featuring Emeli Sande (Chipmunks – Diamond Rings). Produced by Naughty Boy.

Using that White Town sample from back in ’97

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A brief oral history into the Reebok brand, interesting to hear different sneaker fiends/authorities speak about their memories of such an influential brand – featuring Kish Kash, Anthony Gilbert (Sole Collector & Complex), Rich Medina and Bobbito Garcia.

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• 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

All Gone 2009 is now not only available in the limited 1000 print edition (If any are left), but  La MJC have also now released the street culture yearly review online, with all 3 previous back issues available too. However the online versions are not the complete books but they do include a detailed look into some of the year’s biggest stories in street wear and urban cultures.

To view ‘All Gone 2009′ online click here, also ‘06, ‘07 and 2008.

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Nike present ‘The Year of the Tiger Classic Cortez’.  As part of the celebration for the Chinese New Year .

For 2010 the year of the Tiger – the Nike designers have took a new approach to interpreting the tiger. Instead of using the popular yellow stripe print, they used the white tiger to reflect its image of power and prestige in Chinese traditional culture.

More Pics & Info after the cut.

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Jay Z finishing off the year decade with the release of the video to his latest single On to the Next – Ft Swizz Beatz off 2009′s Blueprint 3. Director Anthony Madler (same director for “We Run this town” & “Forever Young”) keeps up the Black & White theme along with some crazy imagery and of course the now notorious three lines of Blueprint 3. As always Jay keeps it real with the product placement (£££) – this time around the 2011 Jaguar XJ gets the treatment. Check out the video then move on to the next one…