“His music is completely current and bang-out hard.” Read more here.

Tone sez: “This piece is the first full resin figure by me, meaning I casted every piece of this figure myself; Arm, leg, leg, arm, torso… head? fist? Fisthead. Fist Hombre comes complete with real knucklehead action. 5.5″H. Limited to 100 pcs.” Get yours now at the Scumlife store.

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As we’ve mentioned, Tone Tank is in a movie called Newlyweeds that our friend Shaka King made. Scott Thorough did the score. Shark music will be featured on the soundtrack. Yup. From left to right, Tone Tank, Shaka King, Scott Thorough, actor Adrian Martinez, and editor Kristan Sprague, all being weird in what might? be a hotel room in Park City, Utah for the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

From left to right, actor Hassan Johnson, Tone Tank, producer Gbenga Akinnagbe, actor Isiah Whitlock Jr. AKA this is Tone with Wee-Bey, Chris Partlow, and Senator Clay Davis.

From Mr. Tank: “I created this piece while stuck in my house in Brooklyn during Superstorm Sandy. Head sculpted and casted by me, bodies painted by me, and the labels are hand-drawn by me. Resin head, Chinese vacuum plastic bootleg body. 6″ tall. Limited to 50 pieces.”

Editor’s note: this is fucking cool.

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Hey peoples. My year was so good. Hard moments were met with great ones. Made some good music, ate some good sandwiches. I love lists. Ego Trip’s book of rap lists is probably my second favorite book of all time. Here’s a list of my favorite rap songs of the year. Favorite does not mean best. This is personal taste, and I am not so full of it to assume that my subjective is objective- yeah right, but still these are songs I personally loved. Feel free to comment and email Baje your favorite songs. So here goes, in no particular order:

Kendrick Lamar – Sing About Me. Not gonna lie, I personally like Section 80 more, but as far as narrative rap goes, Kendrick created a beautiful, cohesive piece with GKMC. It is a fantastic record. I remember back in the day, hanging out with my weird high school friends in the projects by LaGuardia high school, cutting class, drinking forties and listening to rap tapes and talking about rap and girls. Not much has changed. I remember cats would be like “yo I love story raps”. I usually didn’t. They always seemed contrived. This joint isn’t. When that gunshot happens in the first verse, I had to stop and take a breath. It was visceral and shit. Amazing song.

Ab-Soul. Book of Soul/Terrorist Threats. One- the main sample is Bobby Mcferrin (his music is prozac to me), which was also used for MF DOOM’s “Burdock Root” beat. The song is sad and beautiful with out being overly sentimental. Dude breaks down the tragic loss of singer Alori Joh and his battle with Stevens-Johnson syndrome with restraint and it is dope. I like terrorist threats because Danny Brown is on it. Also, Ab seems like one of those kids you went to high school with that lent you “Behold a Pale Horse” but in a way that didn’t make you hate him or think he was a herb.

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Modern Shark art by Geremy Cites. Thanks for sending this Geremy! It actually looks like Tone Tank when he’s been working out a lot.