Many people have been trying to figure out why Billy Lynch fell off the face of the earth. Various accounts have been made of his whereabouts – some provide plausible explanations of seeing him at Union Square with a small personal bottle of Hennessy, decked out in Dunks explaining to people why he has not been skateboarding, and others tend to exaggerate his circumstances, emphasizing how he fell off the beaten path and allowed acid and other morally objectionable substances to lead him into the woods where he leads a congregation runaway blonde girls from Long Island.

The big question behind Trife, better known as Flipmode 4: The Second Flipmode Video, was, “what in the world happened to William Lynch?” Sadly, much of our inquiries were left unanswered. Read the rest of this entry »

This came in the mail the other day from a Japanese dude who was visiting last summer. These things are always amusing, so this is a mandatory post. Read the rest of this entry »

These are a handful of scans from the east coast issue of Big Brother from 1998. The others are from the east coast based, short-lived, Strength magazine, from 1996, which was essentially a culmination of a bunch of people’s interests compiled into a publication. Seriously. There are sections in it where the writers unembarrassingly describe how they underwent freestyle and beatboxing sessions in their hotel rooms on tour. Thankfully, being born in the late-80s and coming of age during an era of southern and Jay-Z dominance allowed me to surpass an entire era that may have lead me to think beatboxing was actually cool.
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