Author: Jay Marvalous

MBenjayi "JMarvel" Kusombi is a New York City bread artist & entrepreneur living in Montreal Quebec.
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Sift Saturday #2 Cover

Sift Saturday

Its Sift Saturday, our weekly selection of street art favs. Enjoy the pics, check out the links! Stay up!       “Overprotection” By Aryz          By Ella and Pitr     […]

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Sift Saturday

Saturday is Sift Saturday on The Urban Brigade when we present our favorite street art finds of the week. Hope you like! Have a Great Weekend!       By Smug | Image © Ziffy via @streetartglobal     […]

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Drugs On The Schoolyard Artwork

Drugs On The Schoolyard

Beatsmith and Brain Gang founder Blue, The Misfit links up with King Kendrick on the single off of his soon to drop debut effort “Child in the wild”.          

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Wu Tang – Keep Watch

Wu-Tang Clan sets the stage for “A Better Tomorrow” with the surprise release of the upcoming album’s first single (and DJ Mathematics produced) “Keep Watch”.          

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photo of a piece by @shortyfatz taken by powwow blog at Fresh Cafe.

Pow Wow Hawaii 2012

    The POW WOW art event is a gathering of an international roster of artists “that engages with the broader community in the process and creation of art.” The event which was originally held […]

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JazzUP!

This year, the Montreal Jazz Festival was treated to 10 days of live painting by Artists Astro, Carlos, Oliva, Monk-E, Peru and  Zek.   Astro       Carlos Oliva       Monk-E   […]

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A picture of Yasiin Bey

Croissant or Just sans?!

Yasiin Bey doing what he does best. Raising questions and promoting discussion. I have also added a video by Young Guru which, I believe, will help give an idea of how the hip hop community […]

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Claudio Ethos

                  Credits: Jared Levy, claudioethos.com, woostercollective.com, unurth.com, morac19 (Flickr), tubulidae (youtube)

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Cern Wonder: Charity Painting

Cern Wonder: Charity Painting – Shawn Carter Foundation   I met Cern while filming the Graffiti Fine Art Documentary in São Paulo. At the time it was great being around another New Yorker, someone who […]

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Classics

Reebok’s going hard lately and I’ve gotta say I’m feeling it. We R Classic and Rock The Bells are tugging at my heartstrings with this series of videos they call “Classic Albums by Classic Arstists”. Nas, […]

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Heart of my city

Montreal is a a great city with a strong hip hop scene. I’ve been following the graffiti subculture for over 8 years in this city and continue to flick the fresh paint on the streets […]

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Mess with the bull…

The Gordon Gecko-esque days of Wall St. are long gone, a few unlucky bastards have taken the fall for the lot and well…there just is no respect left. Luuuv it!