Mister 33 himself. If you’ve never heard of him, Ian Connor is a fashion designer/model/stylist, prolific sexual predator, notorious online troll and for a time, likely the most hated person in rap and fashion. As a person, I personally think he’s a corny loser who at best intentionally starts drama and at worst is a serial rapist, but his artistic impact is undoubtedly immense. If you look at modern fashion and rap culture today, many roads lead back to him; Tyler the Creator, Virgil Abloh, Bloody Osiris, Luka Sabbat, Lil Yachty, Playboi Carti, A$AP Rocky, Kerwin Frost, all of these people are relevant today and owe some part of their success today due to Ian. From modeling for Kanye in 2015 to fighting Theophilus London in Paris, to being Kylie Jenner’s personal stylist, this man has a LOT of lore about him. This video (outdated at 4 years old) goes into a bit more detail about his life and impact. Incredibly shitty person but undeniably a genius marketer and artist.
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the ORIGINAL unsigned legend. this man spent years dogwalking labels who wanted him and remains maybe the greatest “what if” in the history of music. any fan of the mixtape era must study his entire catalog (lovingly and extensively preserved by his family and friends) but specifically THIS TAPE. there has never been a rapper like him before, or since, bridging the 90s obsession with lavish luxury into the 2000s braggadocious era and creating the GORGEOUS GANGSTA.
this man roomed with lupe fiasco and got on kanye beats in 2002, knew lil wayne was going to be the greatest in 2007, and bolstered some of the greatest deep cuts in the Dipset catalogue. his music sounds like two years in the future - always.
rest in peace STACK BUNDLES.
Jan 24, 2024
i'm glad he got healthy and sorted his life out but i truly do appreciate who he was and how he presented himself in the earlier stages of his career. dude seemed a real life super villain to me and that juxtaposed with how fun and playful his music is has always fascinated me. ive spent the whole day listening to his tapes from 2008-2012 and jesus christ he was unstoppable
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i truly believe this man is extremely influential in hip hop. So much so that artist that have nothing to do with the genre cite him as an influence. He has multiple different flows and unique song structures that no one will ever repeat. Im happy that he’s constantly being given his flowers. True young legend.
Mar 18, 2024
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Everything in your life does not have to be subscription based, and subscription does not equate a service being good. If I’m paying $24.99 a month to watch Netflix in 4K UHD, I should expect to see what I pay for, not subpar playback latency, low bitrate streams, many app crashes, and overall looking terrible on anything that isn’t a 4K display.
Remember when you could buy things and own them, like, forever?
There is a better world out there past Netflix, Hulu, Spotify and Amazon Prime.
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You don’t have to tell everyone everything in/about your life, especially online, in today’s online yet frequently data-breached world. Like the great Christopher Wallace once said: Keep your family and business completely separated
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I have a near-Biblical dislike of Allbirds shoes and every other Tim Cook Jeff Bezos Middle-aged Balding Pickleball coach ass shoe out there for convincing the public that these were in any way cool. No dude, you look like a loser with these. They look bland and lifeless, like they were concocted in the same boardroom that made the flat graphic design trend that Meta and Google love so much. Hell, even notorious ip-infringer Skechers makes better looking shoes than these. They don’t even feel good to wear. They have no soul or personality and yet some people swear by them. Who are these shoes for?
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