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What is defined by great album cover-art? What is good art? More specifically, what is great art that is made to compliment an album’s sound? One can manage to pull out a myriad of webpages and articles alike that highlight what some of the best and/or greatest album covers have been in recent music history. […]
June 6, 2013
“Enter” she said… What happens when a blunt and controversial “graffiti” artist and a conscious revolutionary-oriented emcee come together to record a full-length hiphop album? The result is a sheer idiosyncratically obscure and rugged boombap product in which spraycan artist, Regimental Oneton, and activist emcee, Mickey Boston Kovaks bring to the fore. In essence, the two emcees, from opposites […]
June 6, 2013
Rugged, blunt and paradoxically controversial are what adjectives that can be accurately used to describe the sound of the merge between “graffiti” artist emcee Regimental Oneton and conscious revolutionary-oriented emcee, Mickey Boston Kovaks. The two emcees equate for a rather obscure duo of solo emcees coming together to birth a cut-throat boombap product that is idiosyncratically uncanny to […]
June 6, 2013
With influences ranging from KRS-One to Pink Floyd, members of the underground Hip-Hop conglomerate, “Journeymen”, have rapidly made a name for themselves both in the US and Canada. 2013 will be an important milestone for the three boom bap fiends as they officially release their highly anticipated debut EP, Pledge of the Respirator. In the tradition […]
June 5, 2013
Boombap Fiends Choke without Strapping their Masks It remains undeniable that the rather uncanny gas mask carries with it an even more uncanny genesis. It is such that the breathing apparatus itself does carry roots dating as far back as thousands of years. Despite such givens, it’s popularization was the result of more frequent usage of […]
May 9, 2013
If some of you crossed big Mic-key Boston on McGill campus refrain from rubbing your eyes, indeed it is true. Big Brosky is back on campus throughout 2011 until 2013 knocking out a 2nd Master’s degree however, this time in an undisclosed faculty at the downtown campus. So how is McGill University, “Harvard North,” and […]
October 23, 2012
Mickey Boston and XEptional met in 2011, the rest is what you hear today. By age 15, the young prodigy was well on his way to crafting a gift for musicality and hiphop. By age 16 he was to produce “Tonka Truck Beat Down” which became the boombap success that it was in May 2012. […]
April 15, 2012
Do you remember Colin Farrell in 2002s “Phone Booth” as he frantically struggles at a Braodway payphone? That was a while ago. In fact even Bollywood came out with its own rendition of the same film. In any event, I always remembered the phone booth as Clark Kent‘s closet – I always found the concept […]
December 28, 2011
Cpl. Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was just fourteen years old when 9/11 happened. Residing in New Jersey, Khan waiting to be of age to finally serve the United States and head out to Iraq where he passed away in Baquba. This was the photograph that Mickey Boston crossed published in The New Yorker that prompted […]
December 19, 2011
“America” Cover-Art by Regimental Oneton “AMERICA” Cover-Art by Regimental Oneton http://regimentaloneton.blogspot.com/ I reached out to Montreal artist Regimental Oneton for a work of art that would capture the words and sense of “America”—the track written and performed by myself. In essence, I reached out to Regimental without hesitation, this was the exact artist I wanted […]
December 17, 2011
My boy Regimental Oneton does not like the term “Graffiti.” To this day it’s still a term that I do not use around the artist himself and as matter of fact never considered it until he pointed it out to me in our 2011 interview. Since then we’ve knocked out quite a few projects together […]
August 25, 2011
“They Say HipHop” is a track written and performed by Mickey Boston, Regimental Oneton and DJ Conn Shawnery. Recorded at studio Conn-Soul, Montreal, “They Say HipHop” was supported by CKUT‘s WEFUNK as DJ Static and Professor Groove played it on their rotation as well as shared the video clip. By consequence of WEFUNK Radio‘s support, […]
June 4, 2011
Anarchist hip-hop duo Test Their Logik and Mickey Boston touched base to record their single “Money” at DJ Conn-Shaenery’s crib-studio in Montreal’s Plateau district. Big Brosky crossed Test Their Logik while performing just before them at Montreal’s Beats Against the Beast show in March of March of 2011. “Money” is a track about money. Undeniably, […]
April 12, 2011
eL Seed and I met a while ago. We actually crossed over an upcoming Montreal show being done at Sino Shop on the East side of the city. I saw the flyer and immediately hit Seed up. We met a day later in which I brought my calligraphy sketches and shared them with him on […]
March 27, 2011
Big Regimental Oneton dropped a heavy piece a few weeks back. It is piece that speaks for itself. This one is natural, humane and wholesome. In essence, it drops a human touch to what is going on in another part of the world we all collectively may not be able to simply understand. How […]
March 17, 2011
Sunday March 13th, 2011 was the fifteenth edition of Tadamon‘s! Artists Against Apartheid concert series. In essence, fifteen is a fantastic number; it is not fourteen and it is not sixteen. Fifteen is a number that stands on its own and for those new to the series it is rather undeniable that they have missed […]
March 12, 2011
Africa…Africa: beautiful, motherland, exotic, lush, hungry, educated, walking, exploited, hurt, neglected, raped, diverse. Africa is a undeniably a continent with its very own history and each side of its landscape has a different account to relate. The cultures of this continent are breathtaking yet diverse from East Africa to North Africa…South Africa to West Africa. […]
February 20, 2011
Mic-Key Boston draws words from Life and Struggle of Kanafani. “I am someone who feels a very strong need for freedom and to not allow anyone to be backed into a corner” uttered late Montrealer Lhasa de sela, an artist who adamantly believed in the call for equality between all peoples. I (Mickey Boston) routinely perform a track […]
February 9, 2011
Written and directed by independent filmmaker, Jamie Zampini, “Black Tobacco” is a journey into a man’s lungs. Filmed on location in a Montreal apartment that had been gutted by flames a week prior, “Black Tobacco” delves into the psyche of a distraught male character played by underground hip-hop artist and photographer, Mickey Boston. While a […]
February 8, 2011
An article written by dear friend Stefan Christoff. Artists play a galvanizing role in shaping popular opinion on the defining issues of our time. Historic struggles for justice are often remembered at a grassroots level not by campaign slogans or political speeches but via artistic symbols. Art can capture both the human emotion and political energy […]
February 7, 2011
The homie Regimental Oneton sold the above two piece canvas the other week. Big Brosky would like to give love and congrats to the Oneton for keeping the art sincere while working hard at what he droppin on a canvas, or closet door. Be sure to look into Regimental Oneton’s works by heading over to […]
February 3, 2011
Imaging Apartheid – A Night of Jazz at Kaza Maza Big Brosky Bidallz headed down to Kaza Maza for Imaging Apartheid, an intimate Jazz benefit concert to build support and raise funds for the ‘Imaging Apartheid’ Poster Project for none other than Palestine. As Mickey Boston is part of Tadamon!, it was only natural for […]
January 30, 2011
Chess Video Shoot – That so-called “Behind the Scenes” Look To begin, Behind the Scenes itself was a 1908 film directed by D.W. Griffith…but…nah, we don’t really care about that right now…this is about that Mickey Boston, Big Brosky clip shot at the beginning of May 2010, right? You are Correct. I am actually pleased […]
January 12, 2011
by Mickey Boston “This is the first time the essentially bourgeois world of art has belonged to the people. We need to make it count.”-Banksy While a dark silhouetted hoodie-sported Zorro in Banksy speaks candidly towards a rather stable camera lens, the world of art may perhaps be rendered unstable once again by wack […]
June 19, 2013
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