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Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love, aka DJ Cucumber Slice has long been a New York City icon. From his early days of hosting the legendary alternative hip hop show “The Stretch Armstrong and Bobbito Show” throughout the 90s which aired unsigned artists, rarities and B-sides from commercial artists and played in-studio freestyles from then unsigned legends including Nas, The Notorious BIG, Jay Z, Wu-Tang Clan, Fugees and more, to his pioneering 2003 book on sneaker culture ‘Where’d You Get Those?’, Garcia hasn’t documented youth culture from afar, he was there. And there’s more. Over the past three decades he’s published magazines on streetball, hosted podcasts on NPR and brought sneaker culture to ESPN. He’s produced documentaries, worked with Nike, adidas and Puma on sneakers, and runs his own basketball tournament. A true gatekeeper of authority, and influence. And then some. In his New York residence we call him up.