it got me thinking…
okay the tshirts are already almost sold out and some have shipped, but the hoodies sold well but haven’t been shipped yet…. so I got this idea.

I’m going to give away via raffle; a micro jesus piece with diamond thorns and eyes with a 24″ bead chain or franco chain as shown below….


this above is exactly what you will get if you win! it will be a genuine diamond and gold micro jesus piece, our best selling jesus piece to date! the one that I personally wear almost every single day! it will be yellow gold with white diamonds (approx. 1ctw VS clarity micro pave’. over $1600 retail value) this is NOT the fully iced out version which costs a little bit more.

how do you win?
easy, purchase any BB x JUGRNAUT hoody here:
www.JUGRNAUT.BIGCARTEL.com
all you have to do is buy a hoody and hope your # gets called. EVERY SINGLE HOODY SOLD WHETHER IN-STORE OR SHIPPED WILL HAVE A RAFFLE TICKET INSIDE! So even if you live outside chicago and you win, I will personally ship it to you and it will be 100% official IFandCO swag. no pranks or jokes here. we will announce the winner on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at 3pm (chicago/central time) on twitter. the raffle ticket # will be announced so you can either cop online at the link above or you cop the day of the release. EVERYBODY WHO BUYS A HOODY HAS A CHANCE TO WIN!

ATTN: GENIUSES! JESUS H CHRIST LITERALLY!
pay attention!!!!
FOR THOSE WHO PURCHASED ONLINE AND DON’T LIVE IN CHICAGO. WE WILL OBVIOUSLY HAVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS AND THE TICKET WILL HAVE THAT ON THERE. SO WHEN WE ANNOUNCE THE WINNER ON SATURDAY, IF YOU WON AND PURCHASED ON THE PRE-SALE, THEN YOU WILL GET THE MICRO JESUS PIECE IN THE MAIL WITH YOUR HOODY! you DO NOT have to live in chicago to play. NOW, we are not putting up ALL the hoodies for sale online. we are saving some for the in-store appearance so I can sign some, etc… cool? cool.

there is no limit on how many hoodies you can buy, but the good news is? there were only a couple hundred hoodies made. so you have a GREAT chance of winning this. win a big prize for a small entry fee.

p.s. NOBODY AFFILIATED/EMPLOYED WITH JUGRNAUT CHICAGO CAN PARTICIPATE IN THIS RAFFLE NOR CAN THEY WIN

yep.

good luck and I’ll see you guys in Chicago this saturday!

of course it was crowded…. of course we popped bottles and of course the music was jumping! BUT the crowd is just waaay too young there for me

rewind a few hours earlier….
I had a cameo I needed to do in downtown LA at sunset (approx 4:55pm)
for the homey IZ



much love to him and my homies FM

so I got home kinda early (for club hours) did a few shots. but no champagne… still on my diet and when I woke up…. had to shoot a scene at the diamond store to wrap up an episode with my lil homey Sean Kingston. that’s 4 episodes in the can… 1.5 episodes left to close out the season!!!

after a bomb ass lunch at Cuvee’… back to shooting but this time some b-roll footage of the Reebok grammy gifting suite collaborated with the Jonathan Mannion “Classic” gallery showing at Milk Studios







Mannion started taking professional photos around 1996 and that’s kinda late in the game, but in our world now, that’s triple OG status…. I remember being in the same room with dude, but I had no idea who he was…. crazy how many memories some of these pics bring, especially the true golden era of hip hop.
we shot some footage there and I chopped it up with Mannion and wondered why is it that I have shot with every single major photog in hip hop culture or in his realm, except for him? haha, its coming soon though…. and later that night DJ Quik dj’d an ill set and a bunch of celeb’s showed up and Big Daddy Kane performed… but I was gone out of the city
much love to Hawaii Mike, Jonathan Mannion, Bee Nguyen and Kenny

I took off with Nic out of town for a couple days just to do regular shit but in a different area to avoid the bullshit…. as soon as we landed, we ate something official and then watched “The Vow” smh…. the movie was ok, definitely not great and not super terrible… BUT the theater was filled with a gang of single ladies and a majority of them were very overweight and I had to sit next to 2 teens, I mean like 15 year olds who were crying at around 8 minutes into the movie until almost the whole movie. I wanted to kill myself. Nic couldn’t hear them, but she wasn’t sitting next to them. I really wanted to say please shut the fuck up and even under my breathe sorta loud. but I didn’t wanna ruin it for Nic. smh fml

while I was watching the movie…. my boy Scott Vener aka broke mogul was stacking on a million

yes that is $1,000,000 in chips legit
fuck you Scott

oh well…. I slept well
woke up early. waaaaay too early
mcdonalds breakfast in a rolls royce fuck you

had a video shoot with Nic out by a park and I’m anxious to see how the video came out…. as soon as we got back to the hotel, we found out via twitter about whitney houston passing. damn shame. RIP. there are few celebrities left on earth who are even considered super stars. she’s in the top 10 living maybe prior to saturday…. condolences to my boy Damon Elliot

anyways, swag dinner then we went to go see Safe House (back to back movies on a weekend and I’m not mad!) Safe House had a shit load of action and was very entertaining, but the story was bland and done before. I was disappointed with the ending. oh well.

sunday, back in town, better weather and we headed over to the beach to get some brunch and seriously after more and more time spent in the south bay. I rather own a home in Manhattan Beach than in Malibu… I know, may sound crazy. but fuck malibu. such a damn nightmare getting there now unless you’re on a motorcycle that it ruins the trip and honestly? even the private beaches suck. Nobu is the only decent spot to eat at and I couldn’t give a cats ass if there are tons of million/billionares there. I’m more about manhattan beach’s energy…. a lot of good food on Highland too…. ate and ran into an old high school friend of mine and then we walked the pier and chilled for a couple hours in the area




I want that dog!

drove back home and cleaned up the house…. organized some shit and took a long ass nap! woke up to go to my in laws crib and eat dinner with them…. chilled out and watched the grammy’s at their house until I just couldn’t take no more…. I mean respect to Whitney Houston, but damn, Chris Brown? fuck it, i’ll chill…..

this pic sums up how I felt about the Grammy’s
sad thing? as bad as that outfit is, that shit wasn’t even a fraction of how fucking terrible Nicki Minaj’s performance and song was. I mean I know she’s trying to be different, but gott dangmnnggmgng. in my over 30 years of watching the grammy’s (yes I was watching them since I was 6) I will say that was by far the worst performance and song ever. that was so bad that I really think that will be so hard to beat and so embarrassing to her and to hip hop. I mean it was so bad that I was actually in a fucked up mood for the last 34 hours or so. smh!!!!
I don’t even remember anything else, so bad that even if millions of people are talking about it, that does NOT mean she won, she absolutely fucking lost and lost her mind. it was not a success because people are talking about it. I mean… what balls do you have to actually think that anyone would like that? some kids or a lot of kids are impressionable and easily influenced, so from being force fed that crap on a huge show, they might think that is what’s cool. WELL THAT SHIT AIN’T COOL! that shit gotta be talked about and stopped before it ever happens or tries to happen again. whatever dumb ass yes men in her camp approved that? smh
DURING THE MEMORIAL OF ALL THE ARTISTS WHO PASSED AWAY…. HOW THE FUCK DO YOU FORGET ETTA JAMES?????

another thing that drives me nuts is that some of the decent spots I used to eat at here in LA during 2002-2008 like Bossa Nova are places I cannot eat at anymore because they have become total ratchet ass hood spots. sucks…. roscoes is a 2 hour wait minimum during these fuckery weekends and the Beverly Center becomes the Fox Hills mall. so I’m just glad I wasn’t near any of that.

so the sale is done and THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO COPPED ALL THE MICRO AND BABY AND FULL SIZE JESUS PIECES and all the other stuff too.
we had to re up on everything!

14k rose gold and yellow gold francos and micro bead chains

we have never ever made this much rose gold jewelry in a while!

here’s a couple small things

my boy Susu proves that you can be a billionaire and not need anything big. you already know I stay rocking smaller to medium sized jewels now…. that rich boy prong set jewelry excites me, fuck the feds

back to the swag smaller ice



I love those crosses. So much that I’m rocking the yellow gold version right now. micro pave and invisibly set in the center… pretty heavy and just over 2 carats total.

well we got those rocking now and we have some BIG big projects coming….

yesterday I finally got up with my Worldstar Fam at their telly and my boy Q is dropping so much cake at these 5 star hotels that they’re making WS deserts!!!!

that’s crazy though when a true world recognized 5 star hotel knows what worldstar is!!!!

Q and the WSHH crew finally came down to slauson to check out my store and copped a bunch of stuff for valentines day and to check out what I was working with…

of course what you don’t see in the pic is 4 armed guards and a police officer escort
shit ain’t gonna be easy for anyone. if they woulda made it easy for us, we woulda made it easy for y’all….. but we got some more things coming. I’m bout to start working on some apparel for them too.

aite, boring shit. I’m just planting seeds and manicuring the flowers I planted a while ago. all this shit is finally coming to play

p.s. anyone want to buy my R8? 2009 model, 13k miles, every single possible option including the entire carbon package interior, side blades and full motor package. let me know. dead serious…. everything but the prius and panamera gotta go.

I gotta ship out some shit and I hope everyone has a great valentines day with their boo’s…. back to the grind because it never stops really

peace

yep, pusha x IF and Co. part III….

you seen the wax mold,
you seen the rose gold mold…..

okay, so let’s see what we had to work with

that’s Jack. the play cloths mascot and logo

a week and some change later….

this shit is no joke.
3-D
we used so many different precious genuine gem stones, it’s disgusting…
red rubies on the hat mixed with canary diamonds…. we were gonna make that propeller on his hat move around, but Pusha is smart and didn’t want it to be an issue later or have that part be weak and fall off….
we used intense deep blue sapphires word to Lorraine…. we used cognac diamonds on the pants and hands… VS diamonds on the face to give it some contrast and let you see the little bit of rose gold behind them diamonds…. red Rubies with some black rhodium on the eyes…. we used VVS diamonds on the socks to really bring out the extra whites and of course triple A black diamonds for his shoes. Jack is swagged the fuck out! piece is solid, heavy 14k pink gold and I haven’t even calculated the total carat weight. real shit. that 14k rose gold OG military bead chain is NON EXISTENT! no way will you find one that thick in 14k rose anywhere! real shit. everything right now Pusha is touching is on some sittin on a yacht with a slight ghetto chic swag to it. smh…. luxury is his middle name.

last night was the 3 year anniversary for Play Cloths and I woulda loved to have made it in time… but what was more important is the years to come….. congrats on the Tres anos
here’s some angled pics with the natural light hitting it and you will still have to see this in person and see we even lined the pockets and so much extra detail my S95 couldn’t capture for real.


them real cognac diamonds are lookin really more XO than chocolate

and hold up…. we’re not done yet… this is where we say FUCK YOU

no need to laser the back, we just decided to ICE out our “IF” logo on the back where the slider/loop goes…. didn’t want a bail attached to that pinwheel hat; it woulda ruined the flow of the piece, so we made it in the back and the shit is just a bittersweet symphony, this liiiifeeeee!

thank you Push! we got more projects I’m sure to come. that new mixtape is crazy…. I can’t wait to see your future with my boys at that G.O.O.D. music label
and speaking of mixtapes, I just downloaded Weeknd’s new joint “Echo’s of Silence”…. can’t even say how I feel about it yet…. but I’m definitely gonna slap it in the whip on the way to SF

OH YEAH, THE SALE IS DONE!
PRICES ARE BACK TO OUR NORMAL REGULAR LOW PRICES! WE STILL BEAT YOUR WORK!

I leave tomorrow to the Bay Area to cool out literally for a few days.
I’ll post a nice little blog on the whip I just got from the GM celebrity program and some gifts I got from my fam at UNDFTD and maybe a couple things, but I really couldn’t take a lot of pics of the things we made because they were xmas gifts and the readers would have spoiled their surprises

much love
play dirty…. with play cloths

p.s. I might just quit this jewelry game in all seriousness. we’re just guillotine-ing motherfuckers too much!

peace

anyways, we finished up a piece for an OG #NT family member
and he wanted a piece to represent his brand….

and this is what he sent me to go off of


and that’s all I needed to turn that into this inside 9 days…

yellow gold, with that rare style 14k OG bead chain!
them bright VS stones!
much love to DJ BATTLEMONKEY and pittsburgh!
thanks again for your business! enjoy

so we made a cool gold Rosary for xmas for a buddy…. it’s 14k yellow gold with a diamond center piece of the Virgin Mary and a 2 sided diamond cross! (so if it flips, you’re still all G)




this joint is heavy, that’s why I love it… looks like you could be lightweight fooled, but it’s solid and classy

remember those diamond supply co pillows?

had to show you the other 2 colors!
I love these shits!

aite!
NOW IT IS THE WEEKEND!
I wanted to leave town real bad, but I gotta look at some houses….

p.s. just signed a deal for my show with a tv network on one of those Google channels…..
gonna be real interesting!

PEACE!

but in the meanwhile, I made a custom piece for him that’s significant in his life “the Tree of Lebanon” in gold and a solid heavy piece with the best, closest design to the pic he gave me. I think I succeeded on making it laser dot right and the gold matches his gold Rolex Yacht Master…. a clean classy piece, around 50 grams and perfect size, not hood at all…. a nice 14k 40 gram matching solid bead chain and cut perfect length for my boy….



man, Jimmy is no joke with it, he’s cold as ice when it comes to cutting a mold and he can cut wax too fast! we’re very fortunate to have him on our team


this joint is very clean…. when I showed 40 the pic, he was like damn “it was better than I imagined it to be, it’s beautiful” well thanks 40 for finally gettin something official made by Icee Fresh. I appreciate your business and After talking to Drake the other day, he said “YANG, THIS IS THE ALBUM” so damn…. I just think of those days inside the Beverly Wilshire hotel making “So Far Gone” and to think of how far the OVO crew has gone now? crazy….
enjoy your “Tree Of Lebanon” …. you are the Lebanon Don in this bitch!

you know what? let’s take a old stroll down memory lane with Drake, 40 and OVO!




damn that shit seems so long ago and also like it was just last year….
all up in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel finishing “So Far Gone”….
bringing Kush to 40, taking Drake to spots… Drizzy rocking my watch, etc… crazy

aite… now back to the Jewels again….
we made a nice 2 finger ring, OG classic style 2 finger ring (we been doing these rings for like 20+ years….. it’s funny how they come into style within the last year in high end fashion and shit)

wax on…. wax off! only thing is… we don’t do gold “plated” or costume type shit! this is all the way gold…. 14k gold and solid

and then here’s a hybrid type buddha bracelet that we made with some diamond cut white gold shiny beads and prong set white gold white diamond beads….



it looks real nice in our display case…. I want to make a rosary this style maybe… now that I have a little free time, I’m going to design a few things

and lastly…. after checking out my blog the other day…. one of my clients and also long time homey, made a pick up and was like I see the champ got toys, so I had to cop me a RR big boy…. “the Ghost” smh

I knew once I opened up the pic off the plane and seen the price tag on the side of the window in his drive way…. he copped this shit… but he’d been telling me he wanted to cop a ghost asap…. he left the sticker on the window like how Baby and the Cash Money crew used to do back in the early early days lol. bastard


“picture me rollin” was the obvious text he sent after the MMS message showed up smh

this is that old school money cat who copped the diamond tennis chain in yellow gold with the big body Bentley Arnage from the CHI…. much love, congrats on the whip… hope you saved money on gas…. that v12 ain’t no joke!

aite, gotta get it in at work today…. yesterday was crazy…. almost lost a $30,000 diamond that flew off into the trash can into a used bowl of spicy ramen(spicy soup made it hard to see because of the red…. whew!)
man I was sick for about 30 minutes… frantic! smh

alright

much love again,

shout out the Vik from EMVY cases for the SICK SICK IPHONE4 BATTERY CASES!
so ill… I’ll be blogging them tomorrow…. also, shout out to Junior who’s coming by today to tint my prius

and we out
peace

What random and boring weekend, but it was just what I needed….
Friday
me and my girl hit up our usual 2x a week hike at Runyon Canyon…. ate a healthy breakfast then got my day started and didn’t have to vomit from all the exercise…. YEEEEAAAYUHHHHH!

later in the day, I got to link with a homey of mine who I met off Niketalk and benballer.com back in the day who’s also down with the G.O.O.D. folks (ye, ibn, don c) and we haven’t talked in a long ass time! he copped a lot of OG 1 of 1 methamphibians back in the day and my guy Ian always dressed fresh, kept it consistent with the grown man steez and always pushed something less obvious… lol. He was in a new body Arnage this time smh lol…
We sat down at the Polo Lounge and I didn’t know what to expect, but he tried on a bunch of different things I brought and loved the quality, but decided to keep it G and went with a tight prong set diamond stud chain…

this is what Ian works with lol… not the typical gucci or LV type cat… I fux with you Ian!

As we were having our lunch, it was pretty open inside which was nice, but I heard some girl screaming loud talking like she was me but prettier(not so much anymore smh) and that girl was Kimora Lee…. I remember when she was a seat filler for award shows and then when her and Russell hooked up and I was hoping she didn’t see me because she is 1 of very few people who could out talk me smh…. I’ll end this part of the story right here, because fucking just because haha.

Anyways, I shake out of the meeting late and decide not to head back to “IF”, but instead I decide to head home and watch as many episodes of True Blood as I can possibly watch…. I can’t believe I’m so late on this shit! I once channel surfed and thought this show was based during the 1800′s because of a scene I saw and some of the ads looked really gothic and old, but DAMN! they do bad on this show and get their major fuck on! other than that, the story is really good and I’m NOT into vampire shit…. I made some Tofurkey sandwiches for dinner which is my new addiction…. vegans/vegetarians have come a very very long way since garden burgers, etc… this really tastes like meat, so I’m substituting this for turkey or whatever meat I was eating in sandwiches indefinitely.

oh yeah… I finished making the matching diamond buckles for my boy Rex’s 16 carat (now 17 carat diamond g-shock 6900′s)

Saturday….
woke up to a tofurkey egg white sammich and some granola and yogurt (I’m really trying to lose 8lbs) and because I went to bed so early… I woke up at 8am WTF? man… for those who don’t know, I’ve been waking up around 7am to 8am for the last 3 months and getting a lot of shit done…. but never on the weekend am I up and about at 8am… I was kinda confused… but my girl wakes up this early every day, so she’s used to it. We head to go say Hi to moms in ktown…. grab some treats then head down to IF…. I check my mail and see my boy Ryan Loco has given me the illest gift someone could give me in the year 2009 (no joke)

illest wallet I’ve ever owned, already putting it to use! THANK YOU RYAN!
Ryan hosts Tap Out radio and has been heavily involved in MMA activities from sportswear to management for the last 5 years.

while I’m out working/chillin…. my boy Johnny is over at the L-R-G sample sale with his kids copping some clothes… his son JC is 16 years old now (I remember when he was 3!) and I would like to thank everyone who showed up to the sale and used my blog coupon! Appreciate it!
Johnny sent me some pics that are too cute to not post


my god daughter getting lost in the big clothes…. L-R-G does make toddlers/kids clothes now

So we head over to the Grove to check out Shrek and I’m like eh, looks good, I’m kinda hyped, but whatever, I’m sort of over 3-D as it makes me dizzy sometimes… BUT after watching Shrek Forever, the final chapter, it was one of the best movies I’ve prolly seen this year, no joke… during the movie I’m texting back and forth to a friend negotiating some deals on Kaws 4 foot companions…. shit ain’t no childs play like the 1000% be@rbrick’s…. these shits hit $10,000 + per companion….. smh… so I got 1, but I want all 6, so I bought a few and added to my collection…. and I’ll be picking them up later this evening with the help of my homey Alex because Homicide is being a hater and won’t let me use his truck haha.

Head back to the crib and decide to stay indoors because I’m too disgusted with myself at this point to be outside in public after spending that kind of paper on toys(could have bought that Nissan Cube fully loaded and some rims!)…. but I gotta tell myself the shit IS art and these are true art sculptures and are worth a lot of money and Kaws is done making anymore 4 foot companions for Medicom corp.

So we head back home and watch some True Blood and a movie I tivo’d called My Sister’s Keeper which is based on a true story about a family who has a daughter who has leukemia and decides to have another child specifically as a donor child to prolong or save the life of their daughter with cancer…. the donor child daughter gets keen to this and sues her family for medical emancipation and all kinds of shit breaks loose in the movie…. shit was emotional and I was like damn! 2 good movies in 1 day? lol

while I’m feeling like a complete dickhead for spending a lot of money earlier in the day…. My boy Jordan texts me and tells me about his recent dickfuck purchase…. He bought a prop from one of the original Batman movies…. he bought a Penguin from the Batman movie with Danny DeVito in it. lol

after I saw this pic via MMS, I felt a lot better about my purchase. lol….. Jordan you crazy fuck!

As I’m about to lay down and sleep…. I get a frantic call from my friends from Do More Media…. Dustin and Cody…. I don’t know if their girls read my blog, but all I can say is I saved the day! thanks for the Veuve rose’ guys!

Sunday
wake up early again, but got in 8 hours of un-interrupted sleep…. I see my boy Alchemist is on ustream from his airplane seat, so I decided to talk some shit….. he’s like YANGGG! YOU 1/2 JEWISH PIECE OF SHIT lol…. I retort and that’s how I speak to all my loved ones…
then me and my girl head over for some family time at my Mom’s shop….

killer Cam

As I have a flashback to my childhood when I used to be forced to go to Church every single sunday (fyi I hated church) I have a conversation with one of my old korean chingoo’s from k-town and he tells me a fucked up story…. typical Korean religious bullshit that could only happen to a religious korean family smh…. So his parents are getting a divorce because his mom over the last year has been giving this con man at their church (I believe he is the pastor too smh) who promised his mom that Jesus would come to their house and change their lives! My boy’s mom gave the guy almost 2 million dollars of their family’s life savings! 2 MILLION DOLLAR$$$$!!!!! Once his dad found out, he went bezerk and big time spazzed out! She said Jesus is really coming! what is wrong with you! So the dad said “If Jesus comes to our house on May 20th, I’ll forgive you” …. well Jesus never showed up smh…. I asked my boy this….. “real talk though, BUT WHAT IS JESUS REALLY CAME?” lol

anyways, we spend time with my entire family and I missed out on my boy Kai’s new store opening at Kingsbury on 3rd street…. “SHOP LIKE KINGS” sorry fam, I will definitely stop by today or tomorrow.

finally head over to my girls house and her mom cooked Chicken Adobo for me! man…

chicken adobo with potatoes and rice and a dr pepper while watching my lake show? are you kidding me? I’m in heaven!

watched my depressing Lakers lose to the punk ass Suns, but I’m like you know what? we’re still 10-3 in the playoffs which is tied for best with the Celtics… we play like shit and still barely lose…. Bynum you big waste of space! you’re softer than soup! 4 fouls and 2 points? smfh…. anyways, we’ll see Boston in the finals… it was written.

headed over to Yogurt Land to get right and end my night on a brighter note…. then headed back to the trap to clean up…. got restless and didn’t go to bed til 3:15am which is the latest I’ve been up in a few months…. but was up bright and early this morning at 8am!

btw, took only 1 hour to write this blog today!

SO ARE YOU FINALLY READY FOR SOME PVD JEWELRY? AWWW YEAHHHHH
okay, peep game…. great deals and REMEMBER THIS! SHIT SELLS VERY FAST! so act fast!

this is PVD on black GOLD fully flooded pave bead chain with black diamonds…. weighs like 60 grams and has over 35 carats of black diamonds on it

these set ups are:
Smaller Rosary Bead chain(33″ long) with 4.5 carat black diamond cross
Medium Rosary Bead chain (31″ long) with 7 carat black diamond cross

for serious inquires, hit up INFO@IFandCO.com and me or my cousin will reply asap.

thanks and have a great week!

and since you all loved the beaded rosary style necklaces/chains that we made in PVD black, we had to obviously make some in solid white gold…. CLEAN!

AND you know I can’t have a G Things post without some Geezus pieces….

and since we’re talking about G things… we’re making 2 new 16 carat diamond G-Shocks…. 1 black and 1 white and when they are finished they will have interracial sex together and maybe make a mixed baby G?

thanks for looking… we have been busy, we’re always open (except for the last tues of each month – december)… 10am to 7pm holla