Articles by Wilbert L. Cooper
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May Streetwear Keep You Forever Young
Mishka’s Mikhail Bortnik Deals with Success and Getting Older
One of Mikhail Bortnik's passions turned into something more than another collection piled high in his apartment, and that was streetwear. Why streetwear? Maybe because to Mikhail, as he later told me, it represented “being 16 forever, a permanent adolescence.” Full story
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Getting Fresh with Wilbert
Live Stream the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Fall 2013 Collections on VICE
VICE knows it's hard to get your fashion fix if you're not in NYC this week, so we've hooked up with the fine folks at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week to provide you with a live stream of some of the most exciting and prestigious shows happening during NYFW. Full story
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Getting Fresh with Wilbert
I Talked to Jeremy Scott and Rochambeau on Video Chat
Yay, it's New York Fashion Week again! It just started and I've already gotten to talk to fashion heroes through the magic of the internet. Please click on this link and watch our conversation about creativity, inspiration, Action Bronson, smoking blunts, clothes, and other stuff… Full story
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Never Party with the Brick Squad
Or You Might End Up Drinking an Entire Bottle of Hennessy and Almost Dying
I’ve been smoking blunts since I was 11 years old. And I grew up in the suburbs, so I’m no stranger to bongs, bowls, and weird white-people shit like vaporizers. But nothing prepared me for how high I was about to become after hitting Gucci’s burner. Full story
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Noisey
Noisey Raps - The Long Live A$AP Tour
For the first episode of 'Noisey Raps,' host Wilbert L. Cooper got unreal access to the LONGLIVEA$AP Tour, featuring performances by A$AP Rocky, Schoolboy Q, and Danny Brown, and interviews with DJ A-Trak, Action Bronson, the Flatbush Zombies, and the Underachievers. Full story
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Getting Fresh with Wilbert
My Favorite Sneaker Campaigns
There was a time in my life when I lusted after obscure sneakers like a dog in heat. A big part of my appetite for sneakers was a result of the brilliant campaigns. Here are a few of my favorites. Full story
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VICE Premiere: Lil Reese's "Traffic [Remix]" Featuring Twista and Young Jeezy
Now that Lil Reese has upped the ante on "Traffic" by tapping Young Jeezy and Chicago legend Twista for the remix, I'm considering hijacking a gypsy cab just so I can hear the banger properly. Full story
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My Dad Told Me a Black Man Would Never Be President
My dad stood up in the middle of the kitchen, in his boxers with a plastic bag over his jerry curl, and howled at me at the top of his lungs that a black president could never exist in this country. As he said that, my heart welled up with hate for all of his history that was hol… Full story
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Gunplay Doesn't Fear the Pine Box or Prison
Gunplay has an intensity that is unmatched in hip-hop, and an appetite for drugs and trouble to go with it. I talked with him while he was on house arrest about whether that same fire that has brought him to prominence as an artist could eventually destroy him. Full story
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What Gifts Did Obama Give His America-Hating Voters?
"I love my president, but I have to be honest, if Romney had come with a delicious thigh that was fried in golden succulent batter, I'd be a Republican. What can I say? I love the bird." Full story
The Mare
A New Story by Mary Gaitskill
Toppling a Delicate World
Being Gay and South Asian In America
There's No Sex in Prison Showers
We Usually Wore Our Underwear
Try Not to Destroy Your Life
The First Time I Took Molly
A Teacher and Her Student
Marilynne Robinson on Staying Out of Trouble
"Whitey" Isn't Very Popular in Boston
Interviews with Some of His Old Friends