can you dig it?

with the warriors being co-opted in hiphop as a classic (the most obvious being p.diddy saying "baaaaad booooy, come out and plaaaay" in craig mack's "flava in ya ear"), the recent release of the warriors video game, and the release of the retail mafia warriors inspired clothing line (which is terribly done i might add), i figured i should sit down and watch the movie to see what the fuss is about. so naturally i crossed the border to shenzhen and picked up the dvd-9 version for $1.25 and smuggled it back to hong kong (i do not condone the purchase of bootleg material... haha. but really, if it's dope buy the real thing).

released in 1979, it was before my time. i don't think i even heard about it in passing until high school. but in my travels i've seen the grandwizard roc raida and hong kong's mc goldmountain rockin' the warriors shirt, so i must be missing out. i finally sat down and watched it and it exceeded expectations. if you're unfamiliar- its a story based on an ancient greek nonfiction tale Anabasis set in a near-future new york that is overrun by gangs. the gang superleader, cyrus, holds a meeting in the bronx to unify all the gangs into a supergang that would run the entire city- during the meeting cyrus is shot and the murder is framed on the warriors hailing from coney island... so the story is their trip home with every gang out for their heads. watch it if you haven't. david patrick kelly, known to me as t-bird in the crow (a movie i was semi-obsessed with in middle school) is a great soft-spoken villian, which is probably why he was typecast into the t-bird role. but yes, watch it.

and shit. if you really like the movie don't buy the retail mafia clothes, get hooked up with one of these:


real heads will know what's up haha.