So on Friday the 15th, Wale called me and was like “let’s go to New Orleans…Kevin Durant is giving us his tickets, Bun B is gonna be there, Jay’s gonna be there…we gotta go.” So we booked our flights the day before and it was surprisingly not that expensive. However, I must warn you, do not fly Continental Airlines under any circumstances. I had a 5:45AM flight out of LAX, I got there at 4AM. Somehow my reservation had disappeared even though I had a confirmation number and money had changed hands. I had to deal with people at the counter and on the phone for an hour. I almost missed my flight and had to rebook my flight at the counter. It was ridiculous. Luckily I was compensated with a sweet Continental Airlines duffle bag on my return flight since I got too much swag in New Orleans and my bag was too heavy. See bag below. And that’s Brady, my dog, he’s a Katrina rescue. Call him Little Duffle Bag Boy.
So we got into New Orleans on Saturday afternoon
Bun B had an extra hotel room for us at the Crowne Plaza where the boss Ricky Ross was staying. He had a wrapped bus and Escalade parked outside. We headed over to the LRG x Casio x EA gifting suite a few blocks away where Kevin from LRG and Melissa from Casio were hanging out. Got some cool watches, LRG gear, video games.
Such an intense game of NBA 08
We then headed to lunch with Bun B at world famous Mother’s. Bourbon Street was popping off before it even got dark.
There was a line at Mother’s which we had no problem waiting in except that everyone recognized Bun B and the employees refused to let him wait in line. Wale had a hard time ordering since everything in New Orleans is made with pork, but he and I ended up with some good fried chicken and french fries and fried Apple Juice (you gotta try fried Apple Juice…wow). Passed this Nike pop up Be True store. Nothing good, just a lot of dunks.
We then headed to the skills challenge, 3-point challenge and dunk contest.
This guy standing outside was pretty amazing. He’s like Small Wonder, except taller and a black dude.
They didn’t show it on TV but Wale won the shooting stars award
And me and Hornet go way back…to like Charlotte…with Larry Johnson and his Converse Reacts
After the dunk contest, we headed to Jay Z and Lebron James’ 2 Kings event
Traffic was ridiculous. Streets were closed. But we were rolling with Bun B whose name carries more weight than the President down in Nawlins. We were just driving up to cops saying “We have Bun B in the car” and they would open streets just for us. It was pretty remarkable.
L’Chaim!!!
DC’s finest were truly in the house house house
Wale and Mick Boogie…he did Kanye’s last mixtape. Might wanna check for him.
I went to All Star Saturday in New Orleans and all I got was this lousy pack of gum…and G-Shock…and gold bottle…and Zune player…and LRG hat…lol
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Nip slips can only last a hungry man so long. I’ve been waiting for this day since I saw Mean Girls. I mean, this is great. This is better than when Christina Model finally took her top off
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Went to the Nike’s Room 72, designed by Lynch / Eisinger
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Got way too sick, picked up a lot of heat
I read something about these
Side bar: How sick is it that my manager (A) has these shoes, (B) has a display case in his living room to house them?
I could totally see Omar having one of these
from Uber Review
Yeah, it’s no Spice Weasel, but we’re pretty sure this product concept would feel right at home in an episode of Futurama. That’s right kids, it’s the spice gun — a handy device which would allow you to gun down your food in cold-blooded flavor. To use this killer, you’d lock and load the barrel with a selection of your deadliest spices, then simply spin it — Dirty Harry style — to switch up ammo. We could go on all day with clever turns of phrase describing how much “kick” this thing has, suggestions that you load it up with radish-piercing bullets, and cautionary messages like, “Never point the spice gun at a steak unless you intend to season it,” but we’ll spare you the pain. Oh, whoops.
From endgadget
Let’s break it down TV junkie. Sony’s new ¥38,000 (about $355) XDV-D500 features a 3-inch, 432 x 240 pixel resolution display with 160-degree viewing angle, 500:1 contrast, and a battery capable of about 8-hours of TV reception. It can even record up to 10 hours of scheduled programming to 2GB of internal memory. The itty bittier XDV-G200 brings a 2-inch LCD to the show, AM/FM radio too, then ditches the EPG and recording function. This is Japan mind you, so these sets receive digital 1Seg TV — in other words you can kiss your import fantasies goodbye.
Irreplacable-Beyonce
Umbrella-Rihanna with Jay-z
The Sweet Escape-Gwen Stefani with Akon
Big Girls Don’t Cry-Fergie
Buy U A Drink-T-Pain With Young Joc
Before He Cheats-Carrie Underwood
Hey There Delilah-Plain White T’s
I Wanna Love You-Akon with Snoop Dogg
Say It Right-Nelly Furtado
Glamorus-Fergie with Ludacris
Don’t Matter-Akon
Girlfriend-Avril Lavigne
Makes Me Wonder-Maroon 5
Party Like A Rockstar-Shop Boyz
Smack That Akon With Eminem
This Is Why I’m Hot-Mims
It’s Not Over Daughtry
The Way I Are-Timbaland with Keri Hilson
Fergalicious-Fergie
Crank Dat Soulja Boy-Soulja Boy Tell Em
Give It To Me-Timbaland with Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado
What Goes Around Comes Around-Justin Timberlake
Cupid’s Chokehold-Gym Class Heroes
With Patrick Stump
How To Save A Life The Fray
Home Daughtry
I am not one for mashups but this is pretty ridiculous. Never heard of DJ Earworm but he is a DJ out of San Fran
This mashup of Paul Simon and Django Reinhardt is pretty on point (right click and save as)
