My name is Virgilio Mendez and this is my column "Blaze Your Own Trail".
A driven individual with an uncanny desire to apply the pen to the pad. Committed to creating a vision with words.
"Between The Lines- The Anatomy of "The Plot Against Hip-Hop'"
As I’m sure, most of you have enjoyed picking up a book about your favorite artist or MC, hip hop itself as the topic of discussion is something fairly new to some of us avid readers. Recently, Nelson George has given us a gem in his most recent novel “The Plot Against Hip Hop” where he places hip hop as the center piece of the story and how hip hop is a fixture in people’s lives through different career paths. As bloggers, photographers, writers, performers and connoisseurs, we watch and document hip hop as it moves, as it grows older.
"How Strada Customs is paving their own proverbial bike lane in NYC"
There are so many bike lanes in the city of New York that perhaps sometimes they go unnoticed, just long-narrow paths of green and white paint that direct heavy bike traffic. One New York company, who has been leaving a mark on bike lanes while creating an artistic buzz around their product, is Strada Customs™.
