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California bred emcee Trek Life is excited to announce the release of his lat­est album, Everything Changed Nothing. Produced entirely by Oddisee, the album will be released July 27th via Mello Music Group.

"So Supreme", the album's lead sin­gle has gen­er­ated a pow­er­ful buzz. The track was fea­tured on ESPN recently for the network's cov­er­age of the Stanley Cup and NBA Playoffs. The track was a per­fect fit for video clips that thrive on ideas of com­pe­ti­tion and per­se­ver­ance; with a hard-hitting beat and aggres­sive rhymes com­pli­ment­ing the action on screen. In regards to Trek's orig­i­nal intent of the track, he says, "This song is really just re-establishing my foot­ing as an emcee. Strictly raw rhymes." Certainly hav­ing the lead sin­gle of your new album catch the atten­tion of the world's pre­mier sports broad­cast­ing net­work is a good early indi­ca­tion of the album's merit.

Listen to "So Supreme" above and pur­chase here on iTunes.

Trek Life drops a dime for ESPN by lend­ing his forth­com­ing sin­gle "So Supreme" to the pop­u­lar sports net­work as the back­ground music for the Stanley Cup and NBA Finals. The track embod­ies the fight­ing spirit shared between the com­pet­ing teams; "This song is me re-establishing my ground as an emcee amongst so many other qual­ity rap­pers in the game right now," says Trek Life. "I feel great about the qual­ity of the music and rhymes I'm putting out and want to make sure that the lis­ten­ers under­stand that there will be no more slow mov­ing or set­backs." The California rap­per teams up with Oddisee for the sin­gle, hit­ting dig­i­tal retail­ers on July 13th, and expected to air on ESPN for the rest of the week, and poten­tially until the end of the NBA and NHL Finals.

Trek Life's Everything Changed Nothing, pro­duced entirely by Oddisee, drops July 27th via Mello Music group.

Streetball is a fast paced doc­u­men­tary that tells the sto­ries of South Africa’s 2008 Homeless World Cup team. The Homeless World Cup is an annual soc­cer tour­na­ment that draws teams from over 56 countries—comprised of home­less and the excluded.  The SA Squad con­sists of ex-convicts, for­mer gang­sters, orphans and recov­er­ing drug addicts that band together to rep­re­sent their coun­try, prov­ing that no one is beyond redemp­tion.   Streetball is a story of hope and of the resilience that dwells within the human spirit.   But while these mens’ dreams are sim­ply to have a home and to be rec­og­nized as peo­ple who need care, often times the real­iza­tion of those dreams is accom­pa­nied by a sober­ing reality.

NYC Screening Tuesday June 8th at 7pm at National Black Theatre in Harlem (2031 Fifth Avenue (b/w 125th and 126th)

NIKE 94x50 and Foot Locker House of Hoops Bay Area with GS Warriors Guard Stephen Curry and Chain Link Fundamentals Basketball camp.

From Brooklyn Bridge to Times Square, Baron Davis drib­bles through NYC mak­ing some stops along the way to the tunes of J. Dilla's "Make It Fast" feat. Diz Gibran.

What this kid can do on two wheels is pretty ridicu­lous. Bonus video after the jump.

Opening Track -
DJ Krush - {Intro} - {Strictly Turntablized}
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Ending Track -
Lalo Schifrin - {Bullitt (Main Title)} - {Bullitt Soundtrack}

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