A Christmas Mixlist | 6 Days of Christmas
So we had this idea for the blog to give you guys a Christmas mixtape. We were coming up with ideas for album covers, what songs to put on, the pacing, etc. Instead of actually following through with it, we got kinda lazy and it didn’t come into fruition. I guess there’s always next year. But we figured that there’s still some Christmas cheer to go around and we decided to do the next thing, which is to play for you some of our favorite X-rated Xmas songs (they’re not really X-rated.) The radio stations are playing SOME Christmas music, but it’s not really the music we want to hear when we want to hear it.
We offer you A Christmas Mixlist, a series of Christmas songs that we’re currently feelin’. The 6 days of Christmas are for the remaining 6 days left until Jesus’ B-day and each day will have some loosely cohesive theme (or maybe no theme at all). Today’s theme is Hip Hop Christmas.
Some of my favorite Christmas are rap songs that I heard as a kid and they put me in the holiday spirit more than some Christmas “classics” could ever. These are my classics.
“Livin’ fast and ballin’ in Christmas time.”
This is an exception to songs that I heard during my childhood. I heard this song two years ago and Christmas has not been the same ever since.
The “Santa Baby All-Star Remix” still amazes me. The remix includes Rev Run, PUFF DADDY, Mase, Snoop Dogg, Salt-n-Pepa, Keith Murray, and more. There hasn’t been a collection of rap stars this good since. Even the “What’s Goin’ On” remake doesn’t compare.
Santa Baby – Rev Run & Xmas All Stars
Andre Benjamin: Launching a menswear label is the hardest thing he’s ever done
I saw this at Business of Fashion. I don’t think I could ever get tired of news about Benjamin Bixby. A lot is riding on his success. I feel like he’s the first rapper to legitimately break into the high-end fashion world. Sean John OR Rocawear do not count, not by a long shot. But will the high-end fashion world accept him? I hope so.
Andre says that he has learned that merchandising is, by far, the most important aspect to get right in a new fashion business. “It’s like medicine,” he quipped. “You need to wrap it up in peanut butter to make it appealing.”
He went on to talk about the importance of getting the collection assortment right — balancing the items that will bring people into the stores with the things that they will actually buy. For a newbie in the fashion business, he seems to have picked things up pretty quickly.
The Guardian Interviews Andre Benjamin for Benjamin Bixby
Andre Benjamin talks to Simon Mills about his favorite shopping spots in London, how his outfits have evolved, and his ambitions for his fashion line, Benjamin Bixby.
Hackett, the young Sloane’s outfitters, is his favourite stop-off. Benjamin spends a small fortune there and knows all the staff. “You might think that a rapper from the deep south of America might not be our typical customer,” admits Hackett’s co-founder Jeremy Hackett. “But the fact that Andre comes at our clothes from a different perspective, not burdened with any of the preconceptions about class and sartorial stereotypes that a British customer might have, means he looks at the clothes in a new and fresh way. He puts our stuff together in a way that we never imagined and he is totally fearless with colour combinations. He’s got a really good eye.”
Fast backward in time
