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Rest In Paradise Mr. Ayers. 2025 is not playing

Rest In Paradise Mr. Ayers.

2025 is not playing around… we’ve lost some icons already. This is enough, let’s take the rest of the year off.

#royayers #restinparadise #everybodylovesthesunshine

Akepele is pronounced: Ah • Kuh • Pel • Uh

Akepele is pronounced:
Ah • Kuh • Pel • Uh

It’s the phonetic spelling of acapella.

Akepele is Streetwear With Rhythm!!!

We put out high quality pieces with meaningful graphics.

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One of my new favorites, lots of love back on this

One of my new favorites, lots of love back on this one.

A modern twist to a throwback!!!

Some people are super and some people are fly, but only a few can be Supa Dupa Fly!!! Is this YOU?

An Akepele Original!!!

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Throwback Thursday #tbt About two years go I crea

Throwback Thursday #tbt

About two years go I created this video, it aged well.

Now that we are in the thick of winter, you need to be sure you are fashionably warm. This is where I come in.

These are just a few pieces of whats available on sale at Akepele.com.

Get it.

-Renzo

Music:
Artist - @official_edje
Track - Dis Goe
Album - Timeless

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Vegan waffles, Dope Art, and Tattoos! Foster Road

Vegan waffles, Dope Art, and Tattoos!

Foster Road, Portland, OR.

#PSA #portlandstreetart #akepeleapparel #hiphopelements #4elemementsofhiphop #streetart #embodytheculture

Here’s a quick look into how I created the two-t

Here’s a quick look into how I created the two-tone fat lace drawstrings for my On A Mission zip-up hoodie.

-Renzo

#akepeleapparel #streetwearwithrhythm #akepele #smallbusiness #behindthescenes #diy #customapparel #streetwear

Another throwback. This was about 25 years ago,

Another throwback.

This was about 25 years ago, back in 1999-ish, a collective of us dancers in Portland, OR were invited to a photo shoot for a new radio station’s ad campaign and outdoor media (billboards, bus stops, and busses). They didn’t even tell us the station name at the time.

I was pretty excited and this was a big deal for me, I was going to be on a billboard dancing. The shoot was 8+ hours long, didn’t pay much, and unfortunately the photographers weren’t experienced in capturing movement from dancers, not their fault. But because of this, they couldn’t anticipate our movements to snap the camera at the right moment for the perfect shot. Two of us were BBoys trying to give them gold, it just wasn’t happening. We ended up just doing jump shots where we’d jump up in a pose and they’d snap the shot. “ 1-2-3…Jump!” We did this multiple times giving all sorts of freezes and air poses.

After the shoot, we wouldn’t know the station name nor which images made the ads until they were up and live. Well, the station was my future employer Jammin 95.5 Portlands Party Station and as my luck would have it, they chose a single image where my hands were covering my face. Smh lol. Literally, unless I told you, you’d have no idea that was me on the ads.

I was bummed out but made the most of it. I told everyone, that is me… and event tried to duplicate the jump. Haha shameless.

There were a series of images that featured all 5 dancers from the shoot, two BBoys and 3 “hip hop” dancers! These ads were up and in play for close to a year or more I believe. Not long after, we were hired to dance at the stations street team events and give out these posters with us on them. The funny thing is that the station had no idea, at first, that we were the same dancers from the billboards when we were brought on to dance. It’s funny how things work out.

Thanks for rolling with me back down memory lane.

-Renzo

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Here’s a throwback from 20 years ago at the Mons

Here’s a throwback from 20 years ago at the Monsters Of Hip Hop choreography/dance conference in Seattle, WA in February 2004. Damn it hurts to think this was 20 years ago. Lol

I attended a few of these conferences and they were pretty dope. This one in particular had some heavy hitters in the industry at the time, check out the schedule on the next pic. We took from these OGs that are still killing it 20 years later, @theofficialdavescott, @mrkudelka, @nappytabs, and @mrwigglesrsc.

I really enjoyed THIS conference, because after one session we hung out and chopped it up with Napoleon of @nappytabs and @mrwigglesrsc. Both really cool people and they had stories for days.

It was extra dope because Wiggles used this platform as an opportunity to educate the dancers about hip hop history as he taught the class. It was cool to experience a legend preserving the culture on a commercial level even way back then.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a pic with any other choreographers. Things moved too fast after the sessions. Great memories all around.

I will say, I do miss dancing, however my knees and my back do not.

-Renzo.

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Reeeeeemix!!! The homie @vursatylthegreat, one of

Reeeeeemix!!!

The homie @vursatylthegreat, one of Portlands dopest MCs, has this song called “Hard On The Boulevard” that slaps. To add there is a dope azz remix by the legend @tallhomeyvita and on a collectors cassette too, not flexing but mine is signed.

You can get one too, just slide to the Vursatyls’ page and hit him up. You want this. Keep an eye out for the video that drops today 5p PST on YouTube. See Vursatyl’s page for link.

-Renzo

#vursatyl #hardontheboulevard #pruducervitamind #akepeleapparel #akepele #streetwearwithrhythm

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