NEW DECADE NEW DYNASTY- Saturday 8/21/10 at XLarge – Los Angeles 7-10pm

The event @ XL is FREE to all and we expect you to be there.

Music By: MVMNT, DJ Miker
Performers: DeeGoodz, Madam Brown, LaVish, Mondoe, Name, Raymeo, The League LA(Phresco & Wax), Element(of Custom Made), Casey Veggies, The Treehouse Club(El Prez, DNEZ, CHRIS FOCUS), Mykestro (SSA)ft. DJ BattleCat, Black Hippies (Top Dawg Ent.)

They will also hosting a charity $1 raffle at the door for the Fernando Pullums Performing Arts HS. So enter to win (cause there will be some awesome TLFI gear in there). There will be 3 chances for people to win throughout the night. 1 winner will be chosen every hour at XL.

Address: 1738 N.Orange, Hollywood/90028 (west of Hollywood/Vine)

RSVP >> Here

X-Large Clothing >> www.xlarge.com

Here are some pics of legendary west coast MC RasKass rocking some TLFI. We are eagerly anticipating the release of his upcoming album HRSMN which features an allstar cast of microphone mechanics including Kurupt, Killah Priest, and Canibus. Prepare to get your face fucked off!

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Twitter.com/Raskass

Strong Hold Shop is a brand new streetwear, extreme sport, and urban men’s boutique situated right in the middle of Main Street in Boonton, NJ. Strong Hold Shop remains unique because of its diversity in men’s fashion. The goal of Strong Hold is to never be one dimensional and continue on satisfying it’s customers by having the newest and most unique brands they can find. Please welcome our Retailer of the Month for August.

Enjoy some fun Q&A with Strong Hold shop owner Michael Strong:

How’s the shop going? The shop is going really well you know.  My crew and I work really hard on the shop and were constantly adding to our inventory so each time a customer walks in there is something new that surprises them.  Every night I can’t sleep because I am thinking of ways to expand the Strong Hold Shop.

Typical Customer? I think because of our diversity in apparel we really have a lot of different customers.  Some of our customers are local skaters, some our up and coming rap artists,and because of my love for MMA, we get a lot of local and even nationally recognized fighters who come in to show support and pick up some gear.  Besides that we have a strong and loyal local base of customers already and then besides that I have a lot of friends and other shop owners who come in and shop.  In Jersey if you own a shop or a clothing line, it is an un-spoken law that you only shop at local shops, boutiques, or you show your support for the up and coming lines.  Support your local hustler!!

Events: So far I have had local dj’s come out and spin in front of the shop.  It always turns out really good.  Everyone comes to chill, listen to good music, and just hang out in a cool environment and the town is actually really cool about it. I am going to start doing more of that once summer is over because in the summer everyone hits the Jersey shore on weekends!!  As far as sponsored athletes so far we have some up and coming local fighters who represent us by wearing our in house fight shorts that are branded Strong Hold.  Other than that we plan on having athletes from all different types of sports, skate, surf, weight lifting, AMA Motor Cross, and hopefully some dope artists and dj’s.  We also have been doing some serious negotiations with some of the top contenders in thumb wrestling and our marketing team thinks we should pick up some of NJ’s best fist pumpers…YEA RIGHT!!!!!!!

Product- I would really love to see TLFI come out with some really dope and well made basketball Jerseys. I think they would sell out in a heart beat. I would keep three for myself alone. One I wear, one for back up, and then one that I would frame and hang in my store because it would be just a revolutionary piece for the street wear and TLFI community.

Location: 609 Main St. Boonton, NJ

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TLFI is proud to announce our Retail of the Month for July, LoserKids.com

LoserKids.com began as an online action sports and music influenced youth apparel retailer in May 1999. Since, they’ve been positioning Loserkids as one of the premier and unique youth retailing destinations on and offline. They offer products and brands and represent the lifestyle of their customers, which we respect.

Quick Q&A with our Loser friends:

How’s business? Boomin’

Who is your typical LoserKids customer? Our typical customer is someone who wants the best up and coming brands as well as the classics who are still killin it and keepin it interesting.

Do you have any interesting stories about people returning weird stuff? The oddest thing so far was a baby t-shirt with a graphic of an old man bowling from Las Vegas, super weird. They never gave us any contact info so we could tell them they returned it to us, so my kid has a sweet new tee.

Do you ever live-stream band performances on your website? We have in the past and plan to in the future, be sure to sign up for our email list so we can let you know.

Does the store ever do any special events with featured artists? Yes we do, we’ve done a few special edition tees with bands like Motion City Soundtrack, Blink 182 and The Matches. We are also presenting an art/toy show with a brand called Analog Playset this August featuring Brian Ewing, Crayola, Joe Ledbetter, Pete Wentz and a grip more.

Which TLFI products sell the best in your store? So far it’s been the Princess and Reggie tee’s. Cut-n-sew arrives soon I’m sure that’ll kill it too.

What product would you like to see TLFI come out with? You guys should do vinyl Reggie toys!

Quickfire Word Association:

Koala- Eucalyptus
UZI- NWA
Paris- Cheesy
Graffiti- Awesome
Back- To the Future
Hipster- Done

Check out LoserKids.com and show them some love.

Check out Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park giving a shout out to his Facebook Fans (while repping the Team Reggie tee). Big ups Mike.

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I don’t know what he does, or what he is doing for that matter, but what I do know is that he wears TLFI.

Cheapshot. Half man – Half Hefner.

And, no I’m not gonna say “Im on a boat, Bitch!” Shit. I said it

Behind the scenes of any TLFI photo shoot you’ll find koala hair, empty beer cans, beautiful women, and baby axes.

Have you guys seen our Herpes Rocks tee?! It’s an old school TLFI shirt that we’re thinking about bringing back into production.

What do you think? Give us your imput and you will be entered to win a free Reggie tee, UZI usb, and TLFI pocket comb (http://bit.ly/as0NwE). Just leave your comment here in our TLFI blog. Easy right?

>>Free shipping to U.S. residents only. Contest ends 6/18/10

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Welcome to the wonderful world of Twitter. If you haven’t joined yet, you might wanna do so just so you can be entered to win this gift pack: Reggie Tee, TLFI Pocket Comb, and an UZI usb drive filled with Get Busy Committee music and other bad ass stuff.

To be entered to win, re-tweet this TLFI Twitter message, “Win a Reggie Tee, UZI usb, & pocket comb http://bit.ly/as0NwE RT to enter. Ends next Hump Day 6/16/2010″

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