Staying Sharp

African-American community leader / Business Class CEO Matt Goias with the Reverend Al Sharpton at Brooklyn’s Habana Outpost.

Malibu Progress Report

As some of you know, our boy Sean Meenan in the process of expanding his Cafe Habana empire to include a location in Malibu.

Check out this LA Eater post!

This Party Sucks

Check out our new song This Party Sucks by Business Class featuring Ill-O & Swinton!

We wanted to make the ultimate theme song for sucky parties. Enjoy.

Download it now for free!!!

This Party Sucks (Street)

This Party Sucks (Clean)

Sunglass Nut

Famed graffiti legend, Fulbright Scholar, and New Yorker contributor Stephen “ESPO” Powers bugging out at Sunglass Hut using the Social Sun station. Nice moonwalk, Steve!

Federation Pon Tour

Come party with Federation Sound and friends… Free! (With RSVP). Boston, Cincinatti, Kansas City, Minneapolis and Portland link up.

Sean Meenan On CNBC

Check out our boy, Cafe Habana owner, Sean Meenan on CNBC talking about some of Habana Outpost’s awesome, green engineering features and his non-profit project, Urban Studio BK.

Watch the video here!

Jeremy’s Spoken

Check out this great interview with our boy, super-producer Jeremy Harding.

Toys “R” Dust

Last week, our Fool’s Gold Records bredren DJ A-Trak and artist Dust La Rock released their new toy at Kidrobot. Dust wore a Lacoste polo which made me (and my bosses) really happy.

Congratulations fellas. The toy looks dope. Lemme get one a those!

A-Trak / Dust La Rock / Kidrobot Grateful Bear release party on Nylon Magazine

A-Trak / Dust La Rock / Kidrobot Grateful Bear release party on A-Trak’s site

Entitled

Thursday July 2, 2009 – EXCLUSIVE!!! – Flippa Mafia speaks to DJ Kenny Meez of the Federation Sound and Matt Goias of Business Class on the controversy surrounding his song “Unfinished House” which many claim to be aimed at Bounty Killer. Also, In this exclusive exclusive video, Flippa debuts some vocals from his new song “Title” produced by Stephen “Di Genius” McGregor.

Dutty Hut

Last month, we had the extreme pleasure of working with Sunglass Hut to celebrate the launch of their new Social Sun stations.

An in-store, experimental and interactive “photo booth”, Social Sun enables customers to see themselves in several sunglass styles at the same time, making “finding your cool” effortless. It provides users with the ability to email these pictures to friends, share on Facebook, or post on in-store flat screens for immediate feedback and reactions to their selected sunglasses. They also have the option of adding fun tag lines and captions to their image.

In order to make some noise to celebrate the launch of Social Sun, we orchestrated a collaboration between Sunglass Hut and legendary artist, Claw Money. Claw made a super-limited edition run of 200 pairs of sunglasses to be distributed exclusively to attendees of a private launch party we hosted that featured a performance by multi-platinum selling, Grammy award-winning artist, Sean Paul.

We put together a stellar line-up of dj’s for the event including DJ Max Glazer of the Federation Sound, Nick Catchdubs of Fool’s Gold Records, The New Yorker contributor, artist Stephen “Espo” Powers, and NBA star, Fancy, of the Cleveland Cavaliers. Besides top-notch musical talent, we called internet sensations The Arab Parrot and Cory Kennedy to host the party and artist Dust La Rock to design the invites.

The event ended up turning into three days of awesome, Sunglass Hut-powered fun that featured hotel antics at the brand new Ace Hotel, a daytime video shoot at the Herald Square Sunglass Hut, a private luncheon at Blue Smoke, the Social Sun launch party that evening, and the after party at Santos Party House to celebrate the 10 Year Anniversary of the Federation Sound System and the completion of Sean Paul’s new album, Imperial Blaze.

For the festivities, we flew up the top, rising stars of the Jamaican dancehall music scene including Chino and Laden of the Big Ship Family, Leftside AKA Dr. Evil AKA Mr. Evil, Alric & Boyd, and Tifa, Timberlee, and Natalie Storm of T.N.T.

An amazing time was had by all.

Thanks Sunglass Hut!!!

Check some additional coverage of the events here…

Sunglass Hut Social Sun On Nitrolicious

Sunglass Hut Social Sun on Blogue

Sunglass Hut Social Sun on High Snobiety

More story and photos after the jump!!!