Culture Kings In June

Zoe Taylor · Jun 30, 2018

This month was an enormous month for streetwear drops, music and sport. Let's recap the best of the best!

Music

This month in music, Rick Ross and Culture Kings announced a killer NZ and Aus tour, Migos dropped their MV for 'Narcos', Chance the Rapper teased a possible Kanye-produced project, Drake's old notebook full of lyrics is being auctioned off, YG dropped the MV for 'Big Bank'.

Drake releasing the MV for 'I'm Upset' and featuring the cast of Degrassi. Kanye debuted all of 'Ye' in the top 40 and we reviewed his album with Kid Cudi - 'Kids See Ghosts'. Diplo and Zedd beefed on Twitter, UnoTheActivist dropped fresh tracks and Nicki Minaj released a new song and the release date for 'Queen'.

We reviewed the final Kanye project by Teyana Taylor, had a look at Drake's 'Scorpion' tracklist and watched XXX's spooky new MV.

J.Cole's home was vandalised, A$AP Rocky & Skepta released the MV for 'Praise The Lord (Da Shine)', J.Prince said Drake would have ended Kanye and Pusha T's careers with his shelved diss track, it was revealed that Drake wrote a hook for Kanye's album, Pusha T had Governor's Ball screaming "Fuck Drake!" and we reviewed Kanye's album 'Ye'.

JAY-Z & Beyonce surprised us all with a new joint album, 'Nasir' dropped and we reviewed it, Ty $ign dropped the MV for 'Pineapple', BROCKHAMPTON announced their Aus/NZ tour, Jay Rock & J.Cole dropped their MV for 'OSOM', and we got new music from Playboi Carti, Trippie Redd, Wiz Khalifa and Rick Ross.

Of course this month we tragically lost XXXTentacion in a shooting. The day after, he broke the record for Spotify streaming in one day.

We got to interview the gorgeous Australian singer Maribelle!

Childish Gambino was announced as the headliner of Spilt Milk and he is doing a series of Australian sideshows!

Sport

In FIFA news, Mexico rejoiced as South Korea knocked Germany out of the World Cup, Australia (unsurprisingly) bombed out too. We're giving out some killer FIFA prizes in our Holy Grail machines!

In basketball, Golden State took home the gold, LeBron didn't win MVP but Ben Simmons won Rookie of the Year. With free agency approaching, Lakers fans are campaigning hard for LeBron. Carmelo Anthony is staying with Oklahoma.

In baseball, the Detroit Tigers fired their pitching coach, Atlanta Braves pitcher had his room broken into during a game.

QLD went down to NSW in the first State of Origin and then lost the whole thing :(

This month we had our annual CK Streetball competition at Pacific Fair which was killer! If you love basketball, you'll love reading about this awesome day.

News

This month Ty Dolla $ign requested a seeing eye dog be moved on his flight, Terry Crews won't be in 'Expendables 4' after being told to drop his sexual assault case, we recapped the best and worst dressed BET awards guests, Cardi B and Offset announced they had already been married in secret, Kanye & Tidal are getting sued.

We scored an exclusive interview with Adam Le Simmons, LA based MUA. Over the weekend, Tyson Beckford visited CK!

Stephen James shut down Culture Kings Melbourne with a meet & greet, Kanye and Virgil Abloh had a lovely moment at the LV fashion show, Akon announced his own cryptocurrency 'Akoin' and Kanye was accused of copying work... again.

Lil Scrappy got into a horrific car accident, Lil Uzi Vert and Rich The Kid fought in Starbucks and The Weeknd and Bella Hadid are potentially back together.

Kanye was the centre of a new Mario-style game 'Lil Ye Land', Jamie Foxx denied claims he slapped a woman in Vegas with his penis, Pusha T and Drake's beef is finally over, Kanye West celebrated his 41st birthday, and you can cop four Well Made tees for just $70.

Drops

Women's Puma Thunder Electrics

Puma

Dead Studios Exclusive Capsule

Dead Studios

G-Shock Full Metal 5600 Silver

G-Shock

White & Stone Women's 940 A-Frames

A-Frame

Wheat & Navy Youth 940 A-Frame

Youth

Dead Studios Women's Exclusive Capsule

Crooks & Castles Exclusive Styles

Carré Victor World Cup Capsule

Mitchell & Ness 110 Pinch Snapbacks

New Era Embossed Black & Wheat 940 A-Frames

New Era Red & Black Women's 940 A-Frames

Team Script A-Frames Youth & Team Script 940 A-Frames

Scarlet & Black Womens 940 A-Frames

Wheat & Maroon Womens 940 A-Frames

Like what you see? Head to Culture Kings in stores or online right now to cop your new fave fits.

Music, sport and streetwear are the names of the game here at Culture Kings, so let's recap what went down in the last week of June! Don't forget to check out our June recap if you want an in-depth recap of this whole month.

Don't forget that this Saturday is the CK MODEL SEARCH in our Brisbane store! In other CK News, our VIP Style Session's are live for you to book one of our stylists in-store for a VIP, 30minute session.