Re: (idm) Obscure Hip Hop question!!

From Sharon Maher
Sent Wed, Jun 30th 1999, 18:20

I live across the street from the hip hop store that you're talking about!
Unforunately it seems that they have closed down (i don't know if it is
remodeling or going out of business) but, sadly, the wall full of 8X10
glossies has been torn down!

--sharon

Ernesto Ikerd wrote:

> when I was in San Fran about 3 years ago, we tooled around Market for a
> while and there was one of those puffy jacket stores where the smallest
> size was XXL.  One wall of the store was covered in signed 8x10 glossies
> of various local hip hop artists who Im assuming were all patrons of the
> operation.  One of them was a guy called "FLY NATE, THE BANK$TA - NOTHIN
> BUT THE MONEY" and it was the cover of a 12" with Fly Nate coming out of
> a huge bank vault with two huge fistfulls of cash and sour look on his
> face.  The image of Fly Nate coming out of the vault was clipped out and
> matted over a pattern of various US currency notes, and it was nothing
> short of HILARIOUS.
>
> Has anyone heard of Fly Nate, The BANK$TA and more importantly - where
> can I get that poster or 12" (Nuthin' but the money!).  I can barely
> describe it to my friends without roaring into laughter and I dont even
> care how bad the music is, I must have that image!
>
> TIA
> ernie
>
> Ernesto Ikerd,  (817) 763-4795
> Company Graphics, Dept 17, MZ-1156
> Lockheed Martin Tactical Aircraft Systems
> Fort Worth, Texas