Just happened to get the heads up about this last night from the homies at Subconcious Threads. They told me that Raekwon The Chef one of the original 9 members of Wu-Tang is a big fan of the Y&I tee that I designed with them, and asked for the shirt in each color. Peep him rockin the Cranberry in this Youtube video where he talks about Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II

LINK: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTek50TELk

Hit the jump for some more screenshots:

Last Friday I had the privilege of goin to the NikeID studio to design a custom pair of Air Max 95′s. I been a kick fiend since I copped my first pair of Jordans in High School so the chance to design my own shoe was beyond dope. Thanks to Glenn and the rest of the good folks at Nike/NikeID for making it happen. Gotta shout the homie Will Perkins at Nike also. Wonder what next season is gonna look like…hahaha

Oh yea and look out for the ESSO x SubConcious Threads New Era coming Fall 09…it’ll make “The General” make a lot more sense to you…

Yep, I know a couple other people have touched the beat…ask me if I care. Obviously not. Shoutouts to Billy and Skeez from SubCon who were in the stu for the footage and also to Vinny who engineered the sesison. We definitely hittin up The Social Club way more often…Prosciutto & Mozzarella anybody? hahahaaa!!!

LINK: http://www.zshare.net/audio/6034367496857cf7/

ESSO – Lifestyles of the Young & Ignorant EP (Tracklist)

1. Change Your Life (Produced by Frequency)
2. Get It How You Live (Produced by Rena1ssance)
3. Young & Ignorant (Produced by Whurld Ent.)
4. Living Doll (Produced by Oh!)
5. Doin it Again feat. John Legend (Produced by Rena1ssance)
6. Nicotine feat. Lydia Caesar (Produced by The Stereotypes)

ARTWORK BY VDVL

ESSO Speaks on the EP after the jump:

It’s pretty amazing to me how this project came together, and how it’s grown to become something completely different than what I intended it to be. In a lot of ways, this project to me is the end of an era. I was definitely in a different state of mind when I was recording these records, and was thinking different musically than I’m thinking now. The beauty of this project though, is that I think it gives you a really good idea of who I am, the type of person I am, and the type of shit I go through and think about. You can also see on certain records the progression starting from where I was to where I’m going.

I’ve gotten a lot of flack in interviews for the “Young & Ignorant” movement from people that think I’m promoting stupidity or immaturity. I always seem to find a way to piss people off one way or another. First it was the Anti-Backpack (which is still somehow misunderstood to this day almost a year later), and then it was Young & Ignorant. So before I have to deal with being misunderstood again, let me explain to you what Young & Ignorant means to me.

Young & Ignorant represents a counterculture of people who want nothing more than to live their lives on their terms according to how they see the world. You got a Masters Degree in Psychology but all you want out of life is to be a Top Chef? That’s Young & Ignorant. You go to work everyday just so you can have money to pursue the dream that everyone tells you is unrealistic? That’s Young & Ignorant. You wear a tee to the club even when you know its Marquee and there’s no way you’re gettin in just so you can yell at the promoter and the doorman? That’s Young & Ignorant.

I’m ignorant to what other people expect of me, I’m ignorant to their rules, their morals and their standards. My only goal in life is to live my life on my terms and not have to answer to anybody but myself when it’s all said and done. Now if that makes me a horrible person, then so fucking be it. But if that’s all you want out of life also, then we already have something in common.

Welcome to the Lifestyles of the Young & Ignorant

-E

For everyone that’s been asking me about the Y&I tees, here they are via the Subconcious Threads website. Click on each colorway to go to the order page and rock out with Y&I!

Coming tomorrow, check out 2 new ESSO records on the Subconcious Threads x IllRoots.com mixtape “Spring Cleaning” I was out in Vegas with the homies from SubCon for the MAGIC convention so I already know this mixtape is gonna be a problem. Dara said 25 tracks, all original, I know I got 2 on there, one featuring Donny Goines produced by Folk, and the other one I got on there was produced by everybody’s favorite Sega fanatic Charles Hamilton (dot blogspot dot com)

August MAGIC is gonna be retarded…I’ma have to get in the gym for it. LMAO