2009, a year in retrospect

Whoa shit! did any one else reckon that that year went by really quickly? Well anyways that was 2009, what did everyone think of it? This post is kinda just to countdown the things that really made up the year in my mind, NOTE this is purely my perspective on the whole year and besides spot 1 and 3 some of these rankings are pretty interchangeable.

10. Artinesss/Pastiness
This was more of a mid year thing but was pretty big. It all kinda started i think when we discovered prez was down for arty chicks. From there it kinda just snowballed to the point of being included in teasings, the constant use of the word "Hipster", and the visit to the homeland of the arty Cofa. If Grey was the colour of the year then pastiness was the skin colour of the year with all celebrities sporting it such as Katy Perry (offt), Kristen Stewart (OFFT), and Robert Pattinson (faint)


9.New Rappers
We had alotta replay value with these guys this year, hopefully 2010 will continue the ball rolling. "the girl or the world?'"...LOL.


8. Chilled Adventures
Yea we had quite a few of these this year and they were all relatively sick, with a lot of cameos from peeps such as Ryuto, Kabir, Ant, Mikeys crew, very solid indeed. AND also me and Crez discovered Strathfield this year, so yea bigs up to that place!

7.LOL value
though this has been around for ages, it really was a huge factor in things we liked this year. From Addicted to Boyz, Big Momma, and Michael Cera it was all there.

6.John Mayer
Alright in all honesty we give this guy a lot of shit. He has now become such a go to guy when it comes to in-jokes that it has become ridiculous. If you don't understand check the cover we did which is near identical to that of the battle studies cover. I'm also pretty sure he reads the blog, if you're reading now John lets have a sesh?

5.In-jokes/ references
WAY too many to count, and I mean way too many. By far the most memeorable of the year was the use of the terms 'New Charles' and 'Old Charles', "so applaud him, fuckin awesome!"

4. Greening it
If you've read New Charles's post on the hitchhikers guide to Comehithis you would know that this has nothing really related to 'seshs' but more just about slepping in general or phasing out way too hard, and we've had our fair share of that this year...trust us.

3.Korea...lol
If any country kinda dominated this year it had to be Korea, not really in terms of wealth, miltary or anything like that...but more the important stuff in life like pop music, chat rap groups (mad ass gulity pleasure shit, don't look at meee!!), and chicks (GEE!.).


2.Cbf/ceebs lifestyle.
This has been prominent throughout the year and really was a driving factor in the majority of our decisions. "Hey wanna have a city day sesh?" "ceebs", "hey have you made your uni timetable?" "cbf". Yea you get an idea of how it works.

1. The Blog
Was this really a surprise? it's pretty unbelieveable that the five of us, all stars in some cbf circles actually put this thing together and did a decent amount of posts. So BIG UPS to us, and yea shiteeeeeee.

And that was indeed 2009, 2010...offt! you guys best COMEHITHIS in 2010!

WU-TANG!!

Lads, Eshays, Hipsters, Westys, Weed, Lil Jon, Indy, Ryuto, Jinman, Ant, Paul, Andy, Crez, Kayo and Cam. These are the mix of Sydney fans/fiends of the WU-TANG CLAN who came for their first gig at the enmore last Thursday, also a start to the events of last week's epic weekend.

Seemingly coming out of nowhere, word spread that they might do a gig after some ?melbourne skate/punk show? in the Syds and i was definitely skeptical to them hitting the shores at all. Lets face it, the clan hasn't been the same since ODB died with rumors of "creative control" (RZA making shitty beats) and some members getting more success than others and not returning to their roots and "keeping it real" (as if you wouldn't sell out if you had the chance! look at Sheckler!). Oh yeah and does anyone notice how Mef is like immune to all this, he had like a PG TV show with Red about being stoners without any evidence of weed or smoke at all, fuck the what?!

But back to the matter we bought the tickets and the show happened. I remember on the train there, we were making hypotheticals of who we would trade (U-GOD) for the ones that already announced were a no show (Mef, Ghostface, ODB dead) and how RZA can't flow over his own beats (Triumph). Well we got to the doors to meet up with Ant and sure enough there was a small piece of paper pinned up, some dudes flaked. "U-GOD & MASTA KILLA WILL NOT PERFORM TONIGHT" First reaction was a LOL, no real biggie. That left us with 4/9 - Raekwon, GZA, Inspecktah Deck and RZA (is Cappadonna counted as a member yet? was he there?) which is probably the best collection of like straight lyrical dudes in the crew (bar RZA). They all showed and killed it the only problem was times when it was like, oh shit yeh Gravel Pit! oh wait...none of these dudes have verses on this song....bummer.

Their set was kinda weird too as they did all of their classics straight from the beginning and kinda burnt out and dragged on to the end, to quote Ryuto: "It got kinda CBF". But still it was mad to see them do Wu-Tang Clan Aint Nothin' to Fuck With' and C.R.E.A.M Live and in the flesh for the first and maybe last time ever. It was also cool to see Raekwon and his stockiness aswell as them all yelling over eachother when trying to talk to the crowd. So the overall verdict......SICKKKK.

Oh yeah and also a special note to the beginning act Lil Jon who was okay and ultimate lols. Between songs he talked in his "mild-mannered citizen" voice just like in Chapelle. I think he caught alot of people off guard when he first came out, everyone ready to boo but he was actually pretty enegretic. Dont act like you dont know the songs! (I see ya Jinman!). Also i feel bad for Ryuto when that gay eshay pyramid collapsed on him. shotnot.

Oh yeah sorry for the lack of photos, we are useless without Prez's 3 megapixel machine.

ON another note altogether... has anyone seen the espionage collabos with reebok? Someone got fired over this shit lol.

A mixture of everything it kinda reminded me of this....


P.S.
Also props to Kayo for like showing up to the gig after spending 4 hours in jail that same day, I shit you not. Is Kayo realer than U-God? Some would say yes lol