The Great (Ohio) Adventure part 5 or Forget Pudding the Proof is in the Video ..(without the vids)

so as me and kev are getting ready for the concert i show the shirt i'm wearing (which is this shirt minus the pink). so i ask kev, i go "yo Kev wut do you think Jay would say if he saw me in this shirt?" . he was like " man he would like where is my money off that shirt". we were joking but i got a lil nervous. i have an over active imagination and i just saw mr. carter looking at the shirt and dispatching a legion of body guards who would surround me like ninjas and i would have to fight my way out like a samurai and right when i thought i was done i would have to fight sum sorta boss just to emerge with my shirt intact. so with that in fight sequence in mind i get dressed jus a lil nervous.


off the top lets get this out. JAY-Z DOES A GREAT SHOW!!!!!!!!!!! like there is really no need 4 spending a lot of time on it. plus i got a couple videos that can kinda attest to that. i mean it was good. j.cole made an appearance. pharrell came out too. those were the highs. there were lows i.e. memphis "weak". but fareal it was good. like realllllly good. but i am a self centered person and the highest point involves me personally. so i am not a true jay-z head. so i was not aware that he spends part of his show giving the crowd shout-outs from stage. so when he started pointing and calling randoms out i was rather confused. needless to say he gave me a shout-out for my shirt. the video proves it..... ..... " o thats fiya" he says @ 46 secs in ....thats for me. now i may have sum skeptics that may go " that statement wasn't directed at you Gee". to them i say nay nay. lets go back to december of 2007. jay-z "graces the cover of XXL with this pic. nuff said. and with all this happening on one night i can't tell you what the apex of the night was, but i can fashow say it was the greatest concert i have been to to date.

The Great (Ohio) Adventure part 4 or Forget Pudding the Proof is in the Picture

and booooy was i wrong about that. i have seen n.e.r.d. preform before... and they are good like farealsies. so i when they came to nashville last year, it was like in april and "everybody nose" had jus leaked. and at that show they revealed "spaz". but the thing that was cool was they came out to "anti-matter" like it wasn't a new cut. well this was no exception. they used the talking part from the intro from "seeing sound" but then cut into a joint i aint never heard b4. so pharrell comes out, followed by the rest of the group. o and i had totally forgot that they had added a chick to the group. i remembering thinking when i heard about this addition...."are they serious?!?!?!? pharrell fareally bout to go all black eye peas on me???? NNOOOOO!!!!!!! (cue the fur in the summer like will.i.am for Pharrell ( refer to "everything i am" from kanye's "late registration" if you are confused about that last part( and on a side side note ima steal a page from Brenton, arthor of t.g.i.f.t., and alienate my readers (all 7 of u (risky i know)) if u don't understand that part do the research or kick rocks)))but i was pleasantly surprised when she came out. she was cute 4 1, plus it she was preforming like she was just one of the guys. im steal another page from someone else (Seinfeld) and slick yadda yadda yadda the music portion of the story. check the vids. they had different people some out and rock out on stage. one dude got on stage and rapped the entire first verse off "soldier" which was leaked like 5 days b4. i was like woooooow. i constantly mess up the words to songs. if i was rapping an artist's song with that artist they would b lookin at me like "do u know any of the song". but pharrell was impressed. he likes it when fans rock out with him and know his words. when he was in nashville he called my home boy Reggie on stage cuz he knew the words from most of the songs at the show and he saw him. he got a pic with shay (i was hating). anyway i am taking in the show. rocking out wit my um...well you know. being 6'5, 350 plus pounds you stick out, i'm jus sayin. so the set is over and me and Kev are sitting down looking at the countdown for the final act and talking about the n.e.r.d. act. and i feel a tap on my shoulder. i turn around like wut did i do or break. she (the tapper) says something like" blah blah blah you were really rocking blah blah pharrell wants to meet you. you got a few minutes we gotta hurry." i am like "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!?!?!?" she is like" pharrell wants to meet you we gotta go right now if you wanna meet him" i turn to Kev like " come on guy". so she was a lovely young lady saying all manner of lovely things to me like "man you were really hype" and " i found you to be very hype". the truth is the next 5 minutes are kinda hazy to me. but i tell you i felt like i was a celeb. walking past the people backstage it was like i was on stage during the performance and every1 on stage was watching me. met the drummer he was like" o yea o yea i saw u man. u were getting it" i felt like i was popping my collar like " o yea u saw me,cuz i'm da man." we talked to who i thought was shay, even though in the back of my mind i knew it wasn't (it was actually Fam-Lay). so he next couple minutes have blurred the most. i recall being really happy to be back there. i remember talking to Pharrell and asking if we could take a pic. i remember being whitty. yea i was cracking a couple jokie jokes. Pharrell was mad cool though. but he was like a mad humble. it really caught me off guard. i have seen different interviews and videos of him and i always got a hey-i-may-be-a-lil-douche vibe. but i gotta say this meeting crushed all that.i could tell he was tired. he was moving non-stop his entire set. so i wasn't trying to keep him from being able to rest. i wanted to chop it up wit chad a lil bit but he was in the cut. so i slick saluted him. he duced back. so we are heading out and pharrell goes "i'll see ya later". i go" nah, probably not but i'll definitely see u though" they were cracking up off that( i was in the zone, what can i say). we came out and chopped it up wit Fam for a couple minutes (he was maaaad cool 2). then we headed back to our seats. sitting there basking in the afterglow (no nasties) i am thinking this night is amazing and we aint even seent Jay yet.

More concert pics----

The Great (Ohio) Adventure part 3 or Real Recognize Real

this is just a word of advice whenever going somewhere like saaaaaaaay a concert and u are out of town or even in town (but most definitely out of town) and you DON'T know where you are going google maps it or something. do not i repeat DO NOT call the venue and take directions form the lil girl who answered cuz that little girl will get you lost and cause you to miss the opening act (J.Cole) that may or may be one of the main reasons for even seeing the show to begin with. so at the risk of being redundant we got lost on the way to the Value City Arena, and missed J. Cole's set all together. but in all fairness he only did 2 songs. i mean it was a little upsetting while we are making our pit stop to "shake hands with the president" ( or urinating if you must) we are hearing" flyer than the rest of them"...but that is life you win some to loose some and i tell you that was the only L i took that night. as we make our seats listening to the music by WALE ((ATTENTION DEFICIT out 11/10) oh and happy birthday Dicky Poo lol what a lucky day to be born on...anyway) a couple of realizations came 2 me. 1st our seats were really great. 2nd when you have floor seats close to the stage the ushers are nice. i am use to getting the treatment that says please go to your seat and DIE....but not that night. i felt like v.i.p. (which i am case yaint heard). the where smiling at me like a tip was involved in ushering. they showed me to my seat like they were Vanna White and my seat was a consonant (a letter that is NOT a,e,i,o,u, and sometimes y). as we settled into our seats i remember the last time i was this close to wale.
~cue flashback~

April 19, 2009

its a saturady night. Vandy is having their Rites of Spring Music Festival . just the previous night i missed K'naan , Santigold , Q-Tip , and T.I. (yes folks nashville gets it in). so it would be safe to say that i wouldn't miss the acts preforming this night. the night The Flaming Lips and N.E.R.D. are preforming i would b out there. but just as fate would have it WALE was preforming at Barfly. now i love my city but i also know my city. yo gotti, lil "bad azz" boosie, webbie are just a couple of people who could pack out a club. artist "hipsters" and "sneakerheads" mess wit.....um...not so much. this is not to say the part of the club we were in was not packed and jumping (cuz it was) , the thing is the show was intimate. i was about 5-10 feet from him the whole performance....this picture clearly shows how close i was......

FAST FORWARD TO PRESENT DAY......

we arrive to our seats. they are great. 6 rows from the stage right in the middle. need less to say i'm geeked like band camp, pocket protectors, and wedgies. wale and ucb are doing their thizzle. on his last song he decides to do it in the crowd. so he is hoping off the stage people are making their way to him to get a dap or what not. he is making his way to my row shortly after i arrive to the end of it. he is bringing his arm up to dap me i perceive ,what i interpret as,a pause. he precedes to finish the dap. and i am left with a crazy thought. i said to myself "George, he looked at you like he knew u". so u know i gotta hate on ...um me ...and i say " nigga, you tripping dat dude don't know you". so i return to my chair just happy for the dap. just as i have put this "crazy" thought out of my head BJ says "dude wale was looking at you mad crazy. it was like dude i know u but where". i was like "yessssss i knew i wasn't crazy". and as we sit waiting for the next set (n.e.r.d.) i have a feeling like this night just can't get any better....

The Great (Ohio) Adventure part 2 or Hillbilly Heaven....

we convened on the morning of October the 28th at Kevin's apartment and embarked on our journey. the trip was pretty nice. not nearly as long as i thought it would be....THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID!!!!.......wait not to me...thats wut she said to some other guy....yea....~ahem~ ummm where was....o yea. one thing that became very apparent to us was there is a looooooot of roadkill between nashville and columbus. it started like north of Mammoth Cave. which was suprising cuz with all the Jethros and Billy Bobs in that area u would think whole deer on the side of the road would not last long....but Cincinnati has a nice view when you are entering it from the south side. but there were also nice views in Columbus...porn in real life......NSFW....lol.....

anyway.....

The Treat (Ohio) Adventure part 1 or the Preface..

well folks i'm going to say that the following is an account of one of the greatest events of my life. its broken up in to several part, just to be....you know ...dramatic. this fine gentleman pictured is my homie, brother from another mother, the reason this whole trip was taking place. good sir BoJang i salute thee.

Friday.... November 13, 2009

this date is important to a lot of people in Nashville. Jay-Z will be performing here in Nashville @ Vandy. i was blown when i heard this, because it was on a friday nightr so i couldn't go. i mean just cuz i wanna see Hov (or the Antichrist if you must) doesn't mean i will throw out all of my upbringing (especially cuz its friday the 13th (some things you just don't play wit)). so with that in mind i stuff the idea of me being able to see mr. carter (jay not not Baby's boo ( i shouldn't have said that)). but as fate would have it i received a call from this good man (sorry ladies he's taken) saying that J. Cole (up and comer do your research), Wale (mr. nike boots), N.E.R.D., and Jay-Z will be preforming in Columbus @ Ohio State . so faster than kanye can snatch a mic from lil white girls (which is pretty flipping fast....i never saw him on the stage b4 he had the mic #imjustsaying( opps my bad to much twitter)) we birthed out 1st "Grown Man Trip" or the G(O)A.

normally i wouldn't do this but.....

(Official Video) Beyonce - Ego (HD)

yes, the link above is labeled correctly, however it is not 100% accurate. really folks would i post a video a beyonce video (that she would want posted( you know what i'm trying to say))? i am not gonna front the video of her falling during her concert then begging everyone not to put it on youtube IS postable(yep it it aint a word). i would normally leave this type of post to the moe-moes (closet/uncloset/not sure). and for the record there is a max on the girlish video any self respecting man can post on facebook and or blogs. if every other week you find yourself posting a new beyonce/cher/lady gaga/ britney spears...(you get the picture)...video you juuuuuuust might need to check yourself. i will add an addendum to this TBD (That Big Dude) ruling you can post 3 times the amount of jazmine sullivan, chrisette michele, and janelle monae, cuz the 1st 2 can jus flat out sang and j.m. is jus sooooooooo cool, but this a limit to even those. and thats the TBD RULING. but i think i have strayed from the orginal reason 4 this post. as i was perusing 1 of my favorite blogs getting new music i came across this song. its a remix of ego by some frenchies named the twins. its dope...its hot. if i was gonna do a remix this is how i would want to do it. the video is cool too. i mean if u like see cats play ball workout and break dance... i suggest it more for the ladies though. anyway give it a try....or don't...if ur lame.

ON MY GRIZZZZZZZZY!!!!!!!

OK folks. After talking to my main man (Kev) and mi amiga ((D. Law) lol) I decided to get back on my grizzy. So I am on here blogging bout wut i know and love ......ME. Ok its not about me (exactly) buuuuut more of the things that make me happy or go hmmmmmmm. Like for starters the Mighty Mos aka Black Dante aka Flacco Bey aka Dante Smith bka Mos Def. He is one half of Black Star ( classic hiphop) an actor, rapper, .......blah blah blah all this leanding to u relizing that he is THE MAN!!!! Real talk. The brother is bad!!!! If u look u can see him everywhere form House ( which is crack) to Real Time with Bill Mahr. He was kicking it with Cornell West last year and this year he wwas on there asking use to just simply think about things, i mean even if he feels that Osama bin Laden is as believeable as the Boogie Man ( side note: add the most beautiful Boogie Man to the list of akas and I don't mean pink and green). Ok when it comes to his movies one can debate how sick he is all can agree though that when it come to the category of rapper/actor he is mos def ( get it mos def) not the worse. i mean he definately was better then Beyonce in that hiphop version of Carmen. Whether u think he was a good extraterestrial in The Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy has more to do with if liked the movie all together. He got some acclaim in his role in the indieish movie The Woodsman with Kevin Bacon. And Tony Award noms in for his role in play Top Dog/ Underdog. But let's put that all aside cuz if he didn't do ANY of that he would still be sick off of his music. Look I am not gonna keep tooting his horn. Do your research and get familiar like Clinton Sparks. I would suggest starting with his biggies from his 1st solo album Black on Both Sides....Ms. Fat Booty and My Umi. Also look up New World Water. Also listen to The One on Tru3 Magic....then halla at the dude and i will set up with the New Danger. Buuuuuut if u think you are nice wit it go head and cop them all cuz they all r FIIIIIYYYYYAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!