Taji Ameen

For this week’s Mahal, I left my house on a Sunday night to meet up with Joel Meinholz at his raging party, Chocolate Sundays, a weekly event that happens simultaneously in Miami and Brooklyn.

For this week’s Mahal, I got to talk music with legendary Lower East Side photographer, Clayton Patterson. Over the decades, he has documented just about every memorable show in Lower East Side and today is still getting out there and seeing relevant...

For this week’s Mahal, I was invited to see Slick Eastwood perform his comedy act in Bushwick, Brooklyn. A few days later, Slick and I met up again in Downtown Manhattan to lurk the streets and discuss his creative process.

For this week’s Mahal, I got to chat New York City skate history with the Serra brothers. I first met Ivory and Shelter when I was 10 at Riverside skatepark. Soon, I discovered Ivory’s photographs of just about every New York Legend from A to Z and...

For this week’s Mahal, I headed over to St. Mark’s Bookshop, for the release of Clayton Patterson’s new book, ‘Jews: A People’s History of the Lower East Side.’ I got to catch up with the man himself to learn a bit about the historical culture of LES.

For this week’s Mahal, Clayton Patterson introduced us to the artist Anthony Dominguez, another Lower East Side legend, hero, and pioneer. Anthony has lived outside for 19 years.

This week, we met back up with Clayton Patterson to continue his grand tour of the Lower East Side and a lesson in gang history with his long time friend, Jose “Cochise” Quiles.

For this week’s Mahal, Jade and I decided to take a trip to King Spa to escape the many threats of global warming. We waited for a sketchy shuttle to bring us to way-the-fuck-out-there, New Jersey along with a few other storm-exhausted Asians.

Clayton Patterson is a legend. When everyone else was using giant shoulder cams and multiple sound guys to make documentaries, he was using a handheld video camera as a tool for activism. In 1988, he shot three hours and 33 minutes of police wrongdoing...

Skating and rap are both awesome things and things that Hip Young People like, but for whatever reason, they hardly ever mix well, like ice cream and steak. The exception that proves the rule here is Zoo York rider and New York City native Black Dave...

This week Taji visits Billy Rohan’s Illuminati Radio and takes a trip to the newly reopened McCarren Pool and doesn’t get beaten up.

This roll of film has been hibernating inside of my camera just like the lurkers on the streets did for the weird ass winter we just had. Here are some photos of my friends, the weirdos I see on the street and occasional groups of rappers with a...