City Laced Up Busted Up
posted by on October 30 at 16:16 PM
Laced Up, the hiphop clothing and art boutique at 705 East Pike Street, was vandalized two nights in a row. Rocks came through two front windows early Monday morning, and in the pre-dawn hours today the glass door and another window were shattered. Nothing was stolen.
The salesman I spoke to today was making drive-by-shooting jokes and having fun with it, but he admitted to being rattled. The store has an alarm; police were called both times and are now following up on leads. According to the clerk, the owner is pissed and hoping to prosecute the vandal or vandals.
was it fallout from a party they had there on saturday night?
There's a new one of these stores next to Anne Bonney (on Olive Way by I-5) called Winner's Circle. That makes a total of 4 in the neighborhood. I see people in the stores but they are more hanging out than shopping. How do all these stores stay in business?
(Supposedly the one on Pine and Summit is a front for drug dealing- according to many at a POWHAT meeting I once went to. Is that true? Or are they just NIMBY rumors? They talked about it in a way that didn't sound like NIMBY-ism; more like resigned disappointment.)
Hip Hop is nothing but trouble. We should extend those nightclub rules to Nip Hop stores too.
Hip-hop "music" and clothing stores and folks wonder why the hill is turning into shitty ghetto?
Oops, "a" shitty ghetto.
"I heard the Zebra Club was a front for human trafficking of Russian love slaves"
People should watch what they're speaking about and make sure that they quote each person accurately. "Shitty" could actually become reality!!!
People should watch what they're speaking about and make sure that they quote each person accurately. "Shitty" could actually become reality!!!
I'm disgusted that half of these responses have something negative to say. I personally know the owners of Laced Up, and none of those comments were true. I was here all day and that BITCH Amy Kate Horn lied about this whole situation. The owners are good guys that had a dream to open up a true hip- hop store for the Seattle area, and introduce something new to the community. For all the comments about all the following stores are alike such as: Winner's Circle, Zebra Club, and Goods proves that none of you idiots have ever been to any of these shops!!! As far as I'm concerned the majority of you people must be racist because of the comments about Hip Hop being trouble. Get it Right!!! Ignorance is trouble!!! People trying to hold others back from there dreams is trouble. There definitely needs to be a rebuttal from the Stranger because that article from Amy is CRAP!!!!
Pawn shop had a busted window today too. Busted piece of concrete sitting on the sill.
@ 9 No Nell I am sorry but YOU are the racist. Hip Hop IS trouble and is THE problem with the under 25 crowd. Who still thinks that Hip Hop is a "race" issue? In case you did not know this is 2007 not 1987. More whites listen to Hip Hop and subscribe to the gansta mentality than minorities which includes: mentally and physically abusing their girlfriends, “packing heat,” casually killing their classmates, not "ratting" on someone when their friends and relatives are killed, etc. This is a disgusting culture that has nothing to do race though you want to make it a racial issue. The situation has been made worse by this Justin Timberlake mother fucker indoctrinating children into a culture of violence. I know nothing about this “Laced Up” place but if Amy says it is actually a front for supplying gangsters with gang banging clothing I believe her.
I just asked a fucking question, sheesh. Is the Pine & Summit store a front? Some people seemed so sure about it.
Anyway, I happen to live between three of these stores. I walk by them a lot. I've been inside them. I like some of the wares. Goods seems like they actually sell stuff.
@9 - What aspect of Amy's post was untrue? Reporting smashed windows? Was your attack on Amy really necessary or are you just projecting your anger onto her? "Lied about this whole situation." Do you really think that? Really?
Yeah, WEIRD @9. I said nothing about gangsters or fronts or anything. I like Laced Up—the shop is a nice addition to Pike/Pine—and I have sympathy for any business owner who's targeted by vandalism. I just saw the broken windows, stopped in and got the scoop, and tossed it onto the blog. What's up with your accusations? What makes me a bitch again?
awesome.
every time there's some hiphop shit on the Slog my faith in my neighbors is renewed!
Cassius(Laced Up owner) is my dude, has been for the better part of a decade damn near. a decent, driven brother who dared move into your precious pike/pine corridor, to the suspicion and derision of many Cap Hill fucktypes.
his store gets vandalized and now he and his spot are suspect? really tho?
i love how the 'drug fronts' on snowbunny CAPITOL HILL are the fucking HIPHOP STORES...What a joke.
Fucking Kill Yourselves c. Bill Hicks
Laced Up is a quality store; it’s terrible this happened to them. What’s even more terrible is these comments being made. Leave it to fake “progressive” Seattleites to talk this kind of shit behind a keyboard. If any of you actually went to the store, you wouldn’t be saying any of this nonsense. And last bit – could everyone please stop critiquing hip-hop like you’re a guest on the Bill O’Reily show? Go back to your day jobs. Your moment to shine is over, you aren’t saying anything new and your statements are all invalid. If anything, you should be appreciating and supporting the people of Laced Up who are young entrepreneurs. Peace
the comments about hip hop and the stores that might be conceived as "hip hop stores" on capitol hill are completely rediculous.
i have been to laced up a number of times. the staff seemed very nice and nothing suspicious was going on during the various times i was in there. the newest store, winner's circle, is actually a bit different from laced up. they have a bigger store, with more of a 'boutique' feel. the people working were very friendly and nice. i have since returned a number of times and will continue to.
i find it quite odd how these stores are targeted by a few of these ignorant readers as being some sort of "downfall" to the pike/pine corridor. really? the old cha cha was nothing but a freakin' coke den. do we ever hear rants about babeland being too risqué? no, because that is what capitol hill is known for- DIVERSITY. so really, people, are the retail stores to blame for any of this? it could have been the honeyhole, but would people complain about how it brings in drunks? no, because it was just an act of vandalism. it's the city... this happens.
@ Touring, you do not understand what real hip hop is and what the store stands for. nell put it out there that his dream was to own a real hip hop store and said nothing about being gangster, and please dont connect the two ever again. educate yourself on the topic before you stereotype.
praise it, eddie, you know what's up.
some of these stereotypical generalizations of "hip hop" should not be applied to a store like Laced Up or its owners/workers/customers. step a foot in the store first, then make a better judgement. enough said.
No Nig Nogs 4 me!
Go to HELL IMADRGQ!!!! And Burn!!!!!
for all the people who do & sell coke on the Hill can we please shut the fuck up about clothing stores, could it be possible that Laced Up, Goods & Winners Circle stay in business cause the sell products that people buy, no becuase it's "hiphop" clothes & who buys that right??? while you're in the process of singling out blacks let's also kick out all the immigrant asian familys, Somalians & gays & turn the Hill back into a retirement community for old people & we can call it "Pill Hill" again...then get rid of the punk rock street kids & the druggie ravers then get out all the crooked ass cops, then move all the homeless people to Canada & plant flowers up & down Pike & walk dogs, fuck off
The store that was in the Laced Up location had their windows busted 3 times in one year. (and they sold furniture) I am a biz owner in the Pike/Pine corridor and am more worried about the crack heads on Pine then some young entrepreneurs running "hip hop stores". Not sure if that is a valid label for a store that sells t-shirts and hats. Does that mean that Atlas Clothing, Urban Outfitter, Levi's, Macy's are also "Hip Hop Stores". When there is a small girls clothing boutique on Pine in the Pine/Summit location does that mean they were a "Coke Shop" because they sold to indie rockers and indie rockers do a lot of Coke nowadays? Wow. Such generalizations are pretty dangerous huh?
@19 - I am pretty familar with it since my much younger relatives listen to Hip Hop cranked up so loud the whole neighborhood can hear it. To me, the violence of the whole "kill yer momma" Hip Hop music movement is far worse than the drugs. And when Meinert started singing the praises of Tim Burgess it was pretty much the nail in the coffin for me. But soon the Hill will be a place where thugs of all races can come to bust heads.
I heard the owner of Goods wears his underpants on the outside of his jeans.........
thats the problem when you have black people and wanna be black asian and white people have businesses
if you listen to rock, does that mean you listen to death metal? if you listen to dance music does that mean you listen to horrorcore?
just cause you listen to hiphop doesn't mean you listen to gangster(kill yo momma)rap, not all hiphop is violent, just like how not all rock n roll is violent, Johnny Cash, Guns N Roses Metallica, blah blah blah, check your ignorance
The "hiphop" label isn't my creation: Their MySpace says "Laced Up combines Hip-Hop, Fashion, and Art."
"da truf" sounds very ignorant. Race aside,what business owner on capitol hill has not had their business vandalized? It is just the cost of doing business period. My friend owns a spa on Mercer Island and her store was vandalized this weekend. This week alone Capitol Loans and the furniture store on the corner of boylston were vandalized as well.
Let's see...how do these stores work? Perhaps it because there is a considerable mark up on the goods that they carry and significant market demand (See the articles in the new york times, ws journal, etc. about streetwear) If all these low margin novelty stores work on the hill, I'm sure boutiques that sell $200 jeans and $40 T-shirts are doing just fine. Hip-Hop is a culture and within that culture there is the element of rap music. Rap can be positive and uplifting! You cannot put it all in one box. I have never heard any "gangster" rap played at Laced Up. In fact I've heard classic soul, carribean, or R&B and the only hip-hop I've heard played there is Little Brother, Common, Black Milk, and JayDee Instrumentals. Do your research on those artists and you will find that they do not talk about anything that a reasonable person would consider "gangster." Let's stop victim blaming and recognize that this senseless act of vandalism has nothing to do with race or hip-hop.
no but really, outside of his jeans...... What a weirdo! I"m totally disgusted and will never give them my business.
I SHOP AT LACED. CASSIUS AND JC ARE MY PERSONAL FRIENDS. ALL I KNOW ABOUT THEM IS THAT THEY'RE HARD WORKING FATHERS WHO HANDLE THEIR BUSINESS LEGALLY AND WANT NOTHING BUT A POSITIVE PLACE FOR KIDS TO GO AND BE OFF THE STREET. WITH ALL THIS TALK OF HIPHOP CULTURE BEING SO VIOLENT.. HOW MANY TIMES HAS A YOUNG BLACK KID KILLED 20 STUDENTS IN HIS SCHOOL BECAUSE OF A RECORD HE LISTENED TO? BET YOU CANT NAME ANY.. BUT HOW MANY TIME HAS A MARILYN MANSON FAN RAN UP IN A SCHOOL AND NOT ONLY MURDERED STUDENTS.. AND TEACHERS... BUT KILLED THEMSELVES TOO. HIPHOP IF ANYTHING IS THE ONLY POSITIVE FORCE THAT STILL BRINGS TOGETHER THE BLACK AND WHITE COMMUNITY IN SEATTLE. SO BEFORE U TALK. HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THE 200 WHITE KIDS PACKED INTO CHOP SUEY LISTENING TO DEVIN THE DUDE. OR LITTLE BROTHER THIS WEEKEND. HAVE A TALK WITH THE OWNERS OF GOODS AND WINNERS CIRCLE WHO JUS SO HAPPEN TO OWN "HIPHOP" CLOTHING SHOPS AND HAPPEN TO BE WHITE. NEXT TIME BEFORE U TALK.. AND THIS GOES OUT TO THAT "TOURING" DUDE. TAKE THE COKE STRAW OUT YA NOSE. AND OPEN YOUR EYES TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND U. THIS AINT THE 60'S. AND HIP HOP IS NO LONGER RAMBUMCTIOUS TEENS. ITS 40 YEAR OLD WHITE C.E.O.'S WHO GREW UP ON WHODINI, BEASTIE BOYS, AND RUN DMC.
SHOUT OUT TO ALL THOSE WHO SUPPORTED LACED UP. DONT BE STRESSED BY THESE FACELESS COWARDS... U CAN SEE ME ON MYSPACE WWW.MYSPACE.COM/IM_SO_SINSEER
PUT A FACE TO YOUR NAMES COWARDS
@jimjones - go you.
@touring - certainly there is some hip-hop that promotes violence, but most of it, particularly the local names who are big in seattle, do NOT. stop generalizing. not all hip-hop is evil or violent, just like not all rockers adhere to a life of drugs, sex, booze, or satanic worship.
"Real" drug dealers don't read message boards from the free local hipster newspapers.And Hip hop has sucked for over a decade I work in one of these stores and I hate you all let that be known.You would have a bullet in your heads for dry snitching if they were "real gangsta's".For all you upset parents that can't control your own kids ask them what the culture is all about.
Maybe not so much racism in what is going on but a ton of prejudice. People are making assumtions about these businesses without knowing the owners, employees or even the people who shop there. If you have a problem with rap music and hip hop that is fine, but dont lump everyone who likes a nicely designed t-shirt and shoes into the same catagory as gangbangers, just because they like the same music.
Seems like people are missing the fact that these stores are victims of vandalism.
I do not go to any of these stores, I do not listen to hip hop, wear cool shoes or know cool people. I only listen to John Denver, I only hang out with well read individuals who like to play video games at my place and order pizza. I am not ignorant, violent, or a wanna be.
I want to kill all you whining dick smoking shit heads. All the name calling and accusations on here are funny. Tonight I will go to the Strangers offices above the bike shop and take a huge steaming shit for all to see, come photograph me and make me the drunk of the week.
Worthless rag, worthless whining assholes, and all I can say is John Denver kicks your ass.
p.s. Fame 1 (a really cool guy)
Wow looks like some people on cap hill need to get a life and stop worrying about a few "hip hop" stores.
what a bunch of dick punchers.
wow, for the first time Im truly embarassed to live in this city. Thanks for all your thought provoking comments!
don't rob a bank, rob a stash house
Doug from sureel does coke,and lots of it.
-Anyone want to comment on where Cassius got his money? Oh wait he might sue you for racial discrimination.
P.S. I hope no glass got on the gross hoodies that no one wants any more.
You mad is a clown,you must be mad cuz you don't got shit! You would never bring it to Cassius or the fam!Laced up represent all the have nots in the hood,that are trying do something .Don't hate best of luck to you and what you wanna do! We move silence! Big up to Hip Hop and all the Street Wear spots doin it besides those swagger jackas Sureel!Support black buisness!
Word up!
P.S.
Art show on the 17th and it's safe!You mad you come and check out the gross hoodies!
You mad is a clown,you must be mad cuz you don't got shit! You would never bring it to Cassius or the fam!Laced up represent all the have nots in the hood,that are trying do something .Don't hate best of luck to you and what you wanna do! We move silence! Big up to Hip Hop and all the Street Wear spots doin it besides those swagger jackas Sureel!Support black buisness!
Word up!
P.S.
Art show on the 17th and it's safe!You mad you come and check out the gross hoodies!
You mad is a clown,you must be mad cuz you don't got shit! You would never bring it to Cassius or the fam!Laced up represent all the have nots in the hood,that are trying do something .Don't hate best of luck to you and what you wanna do! We move silence! Big up to Hip Hop and all the Street Wear spots doin it besides those swagger jackas Sureel!Support black buisness!
Word up!
P.S.
Art show on the 17th and it's safe!You mad you come and check out the gross hoodies!
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