After careful craftin' and craftin' and craftin' and craftin' some more, DJ slash producer and sound designer Narek Nikogosian a.k.a. BANA3000 a.k.a. Full Crate a.k.a. The Artist Formerly Known As DJ Double N finally unleashed his long-awaited 'Flirtwitu' track featuring singer Mar a.k.a. Jamiroquai Jr. ;-) and U.S. MC Versis. Crate asked me to add my touch to their song with some Elstak artwork. I remembered a small painting I did which fit perfectly with the track after I heard it. I mailed it to him and the rest is history. I'm very pleased with the total package. Be sure to download the track HERE. I also expect more Crate and Mar tracks hitting the web soon. Who knows... They might even hit you up with some vinyl projects in the near future. And I can't wait till you hear the duet Joya and Mar made on a Full Crate beat for the soon to be released 'Hard Melk' project. Exhilarating!

Superproducer FS Green made another amazing remix. This time he decided to take a stab at Drizzy Drake's hit single, 'Best I Ever Had'. Download this special Amsterdam FS Green Remix HERE at Nalden's or at FS' own tight new website iamfsgreen.net (designed and built by the kid IKSI). FS sent me the remix in advance and I reached out to him to do the artwork. The artwork was inspired by the KanYe West directed videoclip for the original version of 'Best I Ever Had'. If you haven't seen the video yet. Click HERE to see the director's cut. Word is Drake is now signed to Lil' Wayne's Young Money Entertainment. And he should currently be working on his debut album 'Thank Me Later'. If I was him, I'd reach out to Green for some Amsterdam magic for his debut. That would be a good look on his part. More FS Green? Swing by the Oosterpark in Amsterdam on August 2nd, for the legendary Appelsap festival. Young brother Green is spinning heat there.

Rotterdam rap colossus Winston Bergwijn - better known to most as MC Winne - and I made a bet on June 11th 2009. He had just massacred the crowd at the Amsterdam Paradiso venue with his Kazerne crew. He even brought out Jiggy Djé to do their remix of Jiggy's 'Superster' track (click HERE for the video). Highlight moment of the night hands down was when Akwasi (congrats met je propedeuse broeder!), Leeroy and HayZee of Zwart Licht rocked their set. They were by far the best act of the night. Best believe that! Watch the proof HERE. But back to the bet with Winne. The deal is that we both get in the best shape ever to face off for the Men's Health cover. Now we both know that they will most likely never ever EVER put one of us on the cover, but the bet is still on though! Root for the underdog, and yes! That would be me! Haha... The results will be in on the 11th of December 2009. Stay tuned! Stay toned!

Action hero Jean Claude van Damme did a lot of movies. Most of them kinda sucked. But as I was growing up, me and my boys digged a big bunch of his cinematic adventures. Like 'Kickboxer' (1989). The way Van Damme trained and fought his way towards the villain, Tong Po was just dope. Like in most movies of this magnitude, the hero had to avenge his brother, father, sister, cousin or cat. In this case his brother. While fighting his way to the End Boss, crowds start yelling: "Nak Su Kau! Nak Su Kau!" in a "Ali Bumayé!" type fashion. When Van Damme's character asked what it meant, the reply was: "white warrior" or something similar. Me and my brother Giuseppe du Crocq have been working on a Van Damme tribute shirt for a while now. Suddenly we finally had it! And so can you! Check our MC label at the 'brands' department, right HERE @ Freshcotton.com.

My paintings for Jiggy Djé's upcoming album are getting a lot of media love. Omar Kbiri interviewed me for his site. My Zwart Licht videos have been well received. With that said I'd like to thank the good folks at MC, Noah's Ark & TopNotch for all these great opportunities. Respect to Joey Elgersma & Daniel J. Ashes for getting me to look impeccable in issue 13 of JFK magazine. The item I'm in also features my brother Nasrdin Dchar, Faberyayo of Le Le and your girlfriend's best friend Jim Aasgier. The issue also has Victoria Koblenko looking steamy, plus a dope interview with one of my favourite actors, Vincent Cassel. Also cool was seeing me and Jiggy both receiving kudos separately in REVU this week. He got them for his album and I got them for my Bliksemschicht vid.

Big up Big up to Zwart Licht (Akwasi, Leeroy & HayZee). Big up Big up to FS Green a.k.a. Frank Tracklin'. Big up Big up to Full Crate a.k.a. Eric Bana a.k.a. Bana 3000 a.k.a. Private Dancer a.k.a. Ba-na-rek a.k.a. Miguel Crispy Lips Jr. Big up Big up to Guatamala Stacy Loupatty. Big up Big up to Ignjat "Iggy Pop" Miletic and Marcus&Heinz. Big up Big up to Senna a.k.a. Amina. Big up Big up to Linar. Big up big up to Maarten "Mad 10" van Hinte of .nuClarity and MC. Big up Big up to Wudstik a.k.a. Young Wud. Big up Big up to Mr. Fonc. Big up Big up to Jiggy Djé. Big up Big up to Farid, Valentine and Kees of The Notch. Big up Big up to the Noiz Boiz. Big up Big up to Nebulon. Big up Big up to Nebulon. Big up Big up to Nebulon! Check out the third Zwart Licht videoclip, Dubtrip (directed by me) HERE