Pictures, video and buzz to come tomorrow. In the meantime, I stopped at 7-11 on the way home from the show to get some juice since I’m really sick and I saw they had Wasabi and Soy Sauce Blue Diamond Almonds. My man Esaie put me on to these when Wale and I were in Oregon visiting Nike. These are amazing. It’s awesome that Blue Diamond has the savvy to make a product like this. True elitaste.
Go check him out online and make sure you cop his new album when it drops
Let Friday July 11th, 2008 (and the days following) go down in history as one of our most ridiculous days ever. We traveled 11 hour round trip to spend 12 hours in Los Angeles.
6:30AM: Wale picked up in SoHo and a few hundred miles away, I was picked up in Boston
8:30AM: We both boarded Jet Blue flights headed to Long Beach, CA; I was leaving from Logan, Wale from JFK
11:30AM: Land at Long Beach
12PM: Get stuck in traffic on the way to LA
1:45PM: Lunch at Cafe Midi on La Brea
Rest
6PM: Dinner with Interscope peeps at Mr. Chow’s
8PM: Arrive at Santa Monica Pier to a few thousand people waiting on Ronnie Renner to set the world record for highest motorcyle jump (see video below)
Redbull Experience at Santa Monica Pier
8:30PM: Wale takes the stage as the sun is setting on Santa Monica Beach and runs through his entire show repetoire:
Apache
Rising Up
Good Girls (Oohwee Remix)
Back In The Go Go
WALEDANCE
Uptown Roamers
Breakdown
Ice Cream Girl
Boyz
Dig Dug
Encore: 1 Thing About A Player
9:45PM: Head to hotel for check-in to use showers and charge phones
10PM: Pickup at hotel to head to LAX
11:30PM: Red eye from LAX to JFK
7:50AM: Land at JFK
8:15AM: Car to NYC
11AM: Photoshoot
Then we got a show tonight in DC, SOB’s tomorrow night in NYC (with an appearance on Hot97 before), then off to the UK Monday for a week.
Anyone who thinks this is easy…it’s not. But we’re loving every minute of it. This is what we signed up for right?
Photos and video courtesty of Paul Stewart over at Next Thing
No idea how to get tix but I’m sure if you show up it won’t be hard to get in. Free admission! Some dude is gonna set a world record for highest motorcycle jump
