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		<description><![CDATA[the final level of the game&#8230; and the best weekend wrap ever! now I will have all my professional photos in about 10 days or less which is stupid fast, so let me do this before I do anything. I need to send praise and thanks to the following people BIG TIME! SHOUT OUT AND [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the final level of the game&#8230; and the best weekend wrap ever!<br />
now I will have all my professional photos in about 10 days or less which is stupid fast, so let me do this before I do anything. I need to send praise and thanks to the following people BIG TIME!</p>
<p>SHOUT OUT AND CRAZY LOVE TO:<br />
MY PHOTOGRAPHERS: <a href="http://atorresphoto.com">ART TORRES</a> &amp; <a href="http://tonychu.com">TONY CHU</a><br />
WOW. JUST FUCKING WOW! amazing job you guys, I hope to get you much business as you are the best wedding photographers in the game right now!</p>
<p>MY VIDEOGRAPHERS: <a href="http://www.bluedawnstudios.com/">ANDREW HO &amp; JEFF KOU</a><br />
you completed my camera crew as the bad motherfuckers who came to clean house! I cannot wait to see the video! you guys are something else!<br />
seriously though, my camera crew from photos to videos were the dream team for real!</p>
<p>next:<br />
thank you to my man for 2 decades&#8230; <a href="http://www.djcoolwhip.com">DJ Coolwhip</a> aka the eye doctor!<br />
you came through like Kobe in the Clutch! wow! all the audio! the mixing board! the sound and equipment all by your damn self!!!!! I owe you crazy fam! thank you 100,000,000 times!</p>
<p>the others who were glue to this amazing and beautiful wedding! our wedding coordinator: <strong>Vic Perez</strong>(greenlight entertainment enterprise) without him expediting our wishes and demands and truly organizing all this together, this would have been a disaster! THANK YOU VIC!</p>
<p>much love to our co-host and main entertainment: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/AntoinetteTaus">Antoinette Taus</a> wow! angelic voice for real! your entrance serenade to our ceremony got me real emotional and that set the tone and energy for the entire evening! I owe you as well!</p>
<p>and to our MC: <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/tk_nguyen">TK Tony Nguyen</a>, bro, I had my doubts about you. I actually side-eyed you when you walked in because I didn&#8217;t think you could pull it off, but you proved me wrong and now I get to beat your head in. thank you so much and the way you handled those wedding crashers? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! wow! you escorted them out like they were some cockroaches! at a 5 star hotel!! smh! glad you won that premium LE XBOX 360 bro! much love and let&#8217;s get some Pho soon!</p>
<p>And lastly to our amazing Photo Booth vendor! <a href="http://www.facebook.com/wackyfacephotobooth">Wackyface Photobooth</a> wow times a billion!!!!! you guys broke the ice and lightened up the entire party! you were one of the highlights of the night! everyone loved you guys and you guys were a hit! thank you so much. I&#8217;ve had some amazing photobooth experiences from clients &amp; friends like Ice T and Coco&#8217;s wedding to Paris Hiltons halloween party and you guys killed their photobooths!!!! slayed them. not even competition! thank you!</p>
<p>so with the thank you&#8217;s, I will briefly break down that this wedding was seriously everything I could have wanted and it was more than I asked for. I obviously can&#8217;t tell you all enough how coveted and how sacred marriage is to me. But I want to share this with my readers because I never thought growing up that I could afford a fancy wedding. I have never been scared to marry, I just never met the right one&#8230;. but I waited a long time and for the right time, when it&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s right. and I was in no rush to get married, but you don&#8217;t pass up on something this wonderful so even after a postponed wedding in september due to my best friend/best man passing, we went with February 25th. Nic wasn&#8217;t having some vegas wedding or a walk to the courthouse&#8230; she&#8217;s dreamed of this day all her life since she was a little girl&#8230;. so I wanted to give her what she wanted. and this set date was before the NBA lockout was over and due to that NBA lockout ending, the all star game date was set the same day, leaving about 12 guests in my already very very small party not being able to attend due to the fact that a majority of their yearly income depends on all star weekend, so fuck it&#8230; I know we will celebrate another time. so with that, we had a very small intimate 87 person wedding and at a beautiful venue(CASA DEL MAR in Santa Monica Beach, CA)<br />
let me start by saying that this wedding was expensive. it stressed Nic and myself out big time and without Vic&#8217;s help, this might not have happened the way we wanted it to. We went all out with everything. held no bars, veuve and dom p rose champagne flowing stupid&#8230;. flowers on another level, lighting, tables, chairs, place settings &#8230;. I mean we went down to the special table cloth even for our wedding. and still I had doubts and anxiety about it being just right. I was nervous as shit the day before, not only because the time flew by so fast, but a majority reason why we were so stressed out was because the Hotel catering department that handled the logistics of our wedding at the Casa Del Mar should be fired for being the worst possible staff in professional and wedding history. I won&#8217;t get too deep in how disrespectful they were, but booking an event on the same day as ours with a 1 hour lead time to get ready? really? on the actual day of, we had extra workers and they worked super hard and super fast and this was a very small wedding and we didn&#8217;t even use the 2 extra spaces in the main ballroom and it still took over 2.5 hours to set up properly! unbelievable&#8230; thank god the &#8220;day of&#8221; staff and management canceled that event and thanks to the actual help who work there were on point and I thank them and MY team for coming together to give us the most amazing wedding a newlywed couple could hope for. Our beachfront suite was also incredible, wow. that amazing view! and the bathroom to the 1000+ thread count sheets and actual bed and everything in our room was heavenly. the room service was incredible and the hotels restaurant and bar are all top notch. but the most important parts being our event/catering host for the hotel: Elizabeth Mendel was just flat out awful, her back up Helena was terrible too. TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE! that is all I have to say that is bad about the wedding because the outcome was lovely and ONLY because we turned it up and around!</p>
<p>here are a few very choice early pictures from <a href="http://tonychu.com">Tony Chu</a>&#8230; there will be more to come and of course photos from the genius of <a href="http://atorresphoto.com">Art Torres</a> soon!</p>
<p>enjoy: (in chronological order)<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MASHA-GETTING-READY.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11540" title="MASHA GETTING READY" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MASHA-GETTING-READY-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MILA-GETTIN-READY.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11541" title="MILA GETTIN READY" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MILA-GETTIN-READY-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-GETTING-READY2.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11542" title="NIC GETTING READY2" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-GETTING-READY2-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LOUBOUTINS.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11543" title="LOUBOUTINS" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LOUBOUTINS-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-GETTING-READY.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11544" title="NIC GETTING READY" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-GETTING-READY-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/READY-TO-GO.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11592" title="READY TO GO" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/READY-TO-GO-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-AND-BRIDESMAIDS-READY.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11600" title="NIC AND BRIDESMAIDS READY" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-AND-BRIDESMAIDS-READY-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-BEACH.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11546" title="NIC BEACH" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-BEACH-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
the girls and Nic took a long time to get ready&#8230;. lol<br />
bridesmaids: Mila, Masha, Sara &amp; Bella(maid of honor)</p>
<p>I got ready quick!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DIAMOND-CUFFLINKS.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11593" title="DIAMOND CUFFLINKS" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/DIAMOND-CUFFLINKS-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SWAGGER-TIGHT.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11594" title="SWAGGER TIGHT" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SWAGGER-TIGHT-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/HURRY-UP-AND-BUY.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11547" title="HURRY UP AND BUY" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/HURRY-UP-AND-BUY-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BB-GROOMSMEN.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11548" title="BB GROOMSMEN" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BB-GROOMSMEN-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
I was antsy! and anxious!!!<br />
groomsmen: Johnny, Steve, Vince &amp; David(my brother &amp; best man)</p>
<p>and this is just one shot, one angle of the wedding rings&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/WEDDING-RINGS.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11597" title="WEDDING RINGS" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/WEDDING-RINGS-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
I love my wedding ring! damn; 27 diamonds, all bezel set flawlessly with 9 diamonds going around evenly in a full revolution eternity style and then a diamond on each end of the each side of the ring going down symmetrically. Definitely the classiest ring I&#8217;ve ever made for any man. I got the inspiration off a magazine I was reading while taking a deuce at our new years eve penthouse suite lol! of course 18k yellow gold and again&#8230; so damn classy! I will wait for more professional pics of the wedding rings, then post my own up-close joints for y&#8217;all to see! and of course Nic&#8217;s wedding band is the classic eternity style as well, but all VVS&#8217;s and all french pave&#8217;/prong set and set in platinum! and that could be the best picture of any ring I&#8217;ve ever seen that we made. shit looks straight out of a HW catalog. super clean!</p>
<p>the ceremony was beautiful&#8230; so elegant&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/PLACE-THE-RING.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11595" title="PLACE THE RING" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/PLACE-THE-RING-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/OFFICIAL.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11596" title="OFFICIAL" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/OFFICIAL-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/EMOTIONAL.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11549" title="EMOTIONAL" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/EMOTIONAL-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/KINGDOM-COME.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11550" title="KINGDOM COME" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/KINGDOM-COME-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
it was unforgettable</p>
<p>then it was party time&#8230;<br />
(so many pics that need to fill in the space, but here&#8217;s a few for now)<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIECES-FIST-PUMP.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11551" title="NIECES FIST PUMP" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIECES-FIST-PUMP-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
my little nieces were fist pumping! #partyrockin</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ROCKY-BALUT.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11552" title="ROCKY BALUT" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ROCKY-BALUT-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SARAH-LIMBO.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11553" title="SARAH LIMBO" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/SARAH-LIMBO-400x266.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="266" /></a><br />
we had a little limbo&#8230;. some busted their ass, some didn&#8217;t lol</p>
<p>we had a raffle and most importantly, we had a LOT of fun!<br />
here&#8217;s some of the key photobooth pics! courtesy of <a href="http://www.facebook.com/wackyfacephotobooth">Wacky Photobooth!</a> please like their FB page! I&#8217;m asking you!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ADAM-GENEVA-BB-SARA-GOOFIN.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11561" title="ADAM GENEVA BB SARA GOOFIN" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ADAM-GENEVA-BB-SARA-GOOFIN-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BB-AND-CAMERA-CREW.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11562" title="BB AND CAMERA CREW" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BB-AND-CAMERA-CREW-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BIANCA-NIC-NINA.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11563" title="BIANCA NIC NINA" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BIANCA-NIC-NINA-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BRIDESMAIDS.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11564" title="BRIDESMAIDS" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/BRIDESMAIDS-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GEORGE-PLATINUM.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11565" title="GEORGE PLATINUM" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GEORGE-PLATINUM-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MOMS-AND-GIRLS.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11567" title="MOMS AND GIRLS" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MOMS-AND-GIRLS-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MR-AND-MRS-YANG.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11568" title="MR AND MRS YANG" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/MR-AND-MRS-YANG-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NICK-DIAMOND-MICHELLE.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11569" title="NICK DIAMOND MICHELLE" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NICK-DIAMOND-MICHELLE-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ROCKY-CHUCKY.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11570" title="ROCKY CHUCKY" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/ROCKY-CHUCKY-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/STEVE-FAMILY.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11571" title="STEVE FAMILY" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/STEVE-FAMILY-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/THE-GANG.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11572" title="THE GANG" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/THE-GANG-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/THE-MEN.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11573" title="THE MEN" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/THE-MEN-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/US-AND-BRIDESMAIDS.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11574" title="US AND BRIDESMAIDS" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/US-AND-BRIDESMAIDS-400x285.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="285" /></a><br />
again, please like their facebook page! thank you Wackyface Photobooth!</p>
<p>there are so many pictures of the wedding on instagram, but I didn&#8217;t get to take any at all! I did keep a couple that I will post now, but it really is only a few and I want to wait to post the professional pictures only because it does my wedding true justice!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/35-MIN-COUNTDOWN.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11575" title="35 MIN COUNTDOWN" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/35-MIN-COUNTDOWN-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="300" /></a><br />
that was 35 minutes prior to the actual walking down the aisle! some of my fam and Nic&#8217;s fam there early and wow again, the place was so beautiful!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-CUTTING-CAKE.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11576" title="NIC CUTTING CAKE" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/NIC-CUTTING-CAKE-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="300" /></a><br />
me and Nic cutting the cake! yes we had diamonds on our shit! mane! by this time we literally had no room left to eat&#8230; I had few bites and the cake was good, but I was drunk as hell and full from the delicious amazing food and damn I missed the cocktail hour! the hor dourves were incredible, but I only had a few bites! <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  haha&#8230;. and I didn&#8217;t know until after that most people only do a 1 hour open bar and then from there it&#8217;s a hosted bar or a pay on your own bar&#8230; I&#8217;m the asshole who has a 6 hour OPEN PREMIUM BAR! and Rose&#8217; flowing!!! haha, smh! oh well. everyone had a damn good time! we stayed til midnight and left when we got asked to leave! lol</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GOODFELLAS.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11577" title="GOODFELLAS" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/GOODFELLAS-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a><br />
I&#8217;m most proud of Cat Dicc Jr. this motherfucker might be giving me a job in a few years smh&#8230; fool walked in like he owned the place. smh and much love to George and Jack from Platinum having the front of the hotel stunted out crazy! the SLR/Aventador boys don&#8217;t play! and the hotel was stupid packed already due to the spirit awards party! saw seth rogan and kate beckinsale walking around and the upstairs bar was crazy!</p>
<p>again, the night ended so fast, I was spinning but I was high off of life. I never thought I would actually get married before I was 40, but my lifestyle has changed so much in the last 3 years&#8230; slowed down a LOT and got my grown man all the way on. late, but that&#8217;s ok though! and man, the party continued in our suite and I got to bed late and we still had 2 jeroboams left! shit was lightweight crackin! haha&#8230; I have never been happier in my life, I have never seen my mother happier in my entire life&#8230; my in laws are incredible! I love them to death. I always look forward to spending time with them and they know how to party! they also have great strong family values.</p>
<p>the highlight of the evening was me making my special announcement after the first dance&#8230;. yep, we&#8217;re having our first baby (due in august) a DRAGON! we find out the sex/gender very soon! I posted a pic on instagram of the ultrasound from over a month ago, but here&#8217;s one from just over a week ago:<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2ND-TRIMESTER.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11578" title="2ND TRIMESTER" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/2ND-TRIMESTER-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a><br />
we had to wait until we were well into our 2nd trimester before we let anyone know to make sure we were all healthy and green lit! crazy!</p>
<p>so after the wedding&#8230; woke up on the beach and thanked god that we had a beautiful day while it was gloomy the day before our wedding and the day after&#8230;. amazing! walked right next door to shutters to have brunch with Nic&#8217;s family and that was amazing too&#8230; then got my pig on! I lost 14lbs. to fit into that damn tux! smh&#8230; after that it was fried chicken and shakey&#8217;s pizza and mojos all day long! watched the all star game and kicked it at home and watched my sister kick ass at the oscars&#8230;.</p>
<p>I really couldn&#8217;t have asked for a better weekend in life. I was so damn nervous on saturday though, that I had to drink 16 cups of water and took some valerian root!</p>
<p>but yesterday I woke up and was back on my grind&#8230;. fuck that, I gotta get ready for this caribbean honeymoon, so I got orders to ship and jewelry to finish!</p>
<p>here&#8217;s some swag shit we recently finished!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CHANEL-FIF1.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11579" title="CHANEL FIF1" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CHANEL-FIF1-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="300" /></a><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CHANEL-FIF2.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11580" title="CHANEL FIF2" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/CHANEL-FIF2-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="300" /></a><br />
you already know if my boy Jefe is gonna ice out a black card, then he&#8217;s gonna go hard on every piece he does! this joint is huge! maybe 5&#8243; wide? and heavy as fuck! salute!</p>
<p>and you know I like smaller type jewels and big stones, so we made this 6 carat VS cross with 2 rows of prong set diamonds&#8230;. the stud chain has another 16 carats on it. don&#8217;t trip!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/6-CARAT-CROSS.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11581" title="6 CARAT CROSS" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/6-CARAT-CROSS-224x300.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="300" /></a><br />
POW! and that&#8217;s all 18k white gold!</p>
<p>so I guess the cats out of the bag&#8230;. my lil homey Justin Bieber called me as soon as he heard I was having a baby and sent me and Nic mad love&#8230;. he also invited me to his 18th birthday party which I guarantee will be the biggest party of the year! but I won&#8217;t be able to go due to my honeymoon so I&#8217;m a little bummed, but fuck it, I&#8217;ll see JB soon enough.</p>
<p>p.s. THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR THE WEDDING GIFTS! WOW!<br />
OUR KITCHEN GAME IS ON SUPER POINT! HAHAHA! I MEAN RIDICULOUS! we got the entire Breville catalog! and williams sonoma! damnnn!!!</p>
<p>and shout out to my boy Q from Worldstar!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LV-GIFT-FROM-Q.jpg" rel="lightbox[11539]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-11589" title="LV GIFT FROM Q" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/LV-GIFT-FROM-Q-300x300.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="300" /></a><br />
who else drops $9k on a Louis Travel Jewelry case???<br />
that&#8217;s just crazy! BOSS TO BOSS! thank you fam</p>
<p>btw, we didn&#8217;t spend insane money on our wedding&#8230;. but we coulda got a new S550 instead&#8230; the only thing is, there wouldn&#8217;t be the epic memories with the S550 that will last forever&#8230;. I don&#8217;t regret it. we make this money to spend it! I also think they should make it harder to get a divorce in this country. Make it harder than getting a loan. real spit.</p>
<p>anyways, gotta go and get ready&#8230; got a new house to get ready for and my vacation/honeymoon!</p>
<p>ciao bella!<br />
peace!</p>
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		<dc:creator>Ben Baller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[yep thursday night was date night and a very nice fancy romantic dinner at the Sunset Tower Hotel&#8230;. had an amazing meal&#8230;.. it was delectable and no carbs really for me after dinner was done, I walked over to the back restroom and walked passed Katie Holmes and I wanted to say hi since she&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p>thursday night was date night and a very nice fancy romantic dinner at the Sunset Tower Hotel&#8230;.<br />
had an amazing meal&#8230;..<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ST-PRAWNS.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ST-PRAWNS-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="ST PRAWNS" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9953" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ST-SEA-BASS.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ST-SEA-BASS-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="ST SEA BASS" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9954" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ST-VEGETABLES.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ST-VEGETABLES-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="ST VEGETABLES" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9955" /></a><br />
it was delectable and no carbs really for me <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
after dinner was done, I walked over to the back restroom and walked passed Katie Holmes and I wanted to say hi since she&#8217;s my sister&#8217;s close friend and business partner, but I just said F it, I&#8217;ll keep it pushing&#8230;. she was sitting at dinner with Mary J Blige and Julianna Hough which was weird&#8230;. so I walk to the Mens room and it&#8217;s 1 stall and 1 urinal&#8230;. who&#8217;s in there? Tom Cruise lol&#8230;. I can&#8217;t not say anything&#8230;. he finishes washing his hands and heads to the door&#8230; I say TOM! it&#8217;s Ben, Jeannes brother&#8230;. he stops and says NO WAY DUDE!! what are you doing? lol&#8230; he said after you&#8217;re done, please come by the table and say hi&#8230;. so we did, they&#8217;re such nice people. really good folks. For my fathers funeral, they showed a lotta love to my mom and family.</p>
<p>driving home we saw this&#8230;..<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FM-BILLBOARD.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/FM-BILLBOARD-400x298.jpg" alt="" title="FM BILLBOARD" width="400" height="298" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9971" /></a><br />
not only is it a billboard of my boys FM on the corner of Sunset Strip and La Cienega&#8230;. it&#8217;s them rocking my diamond G-Shocks <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I was supposed to do a cameo for their video shoot this weekend but I couldn&#8217;t get out of work and a prior engagement&#8230;. sorry fam, see y&#8217;all soon!</p>
<p>so Friday I wake up to the scale&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/UPDATED-WEIGHT.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/UPDATED-WEIGHT-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="UPDATED WEIGHT" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9970" /></a><br />
lost 14lbs in a week&#8230;.<br />
time to get up<br />
more grinding to do and&#8230;. a busy ass weekend!<br />
my boy in the ATL got his jewels safely&#8230;. so I had another delivery to make in the Hollywood Hills&#8230;..<br />
a client wanted 5 charms (1 in the works) for his band&#8230;.<br />
simple clean, affordable and suits the bands look (black diamonds)<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JMAC1.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JMAC1-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="JMAC1" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9956" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JMAC3.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JMAC3-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="JMAC3" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9957" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JMAC2.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JMAC2-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="JMAC2" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9958" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JMAC4.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/JMAC4-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="JMAC4" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9959" /></a><br />
mission accomplished&#8230;.</p>
<p>after that, ran over to Factory 413 to pick up some Supra SkyTop 3&#8242;s for the weekend&#8230;. and then meet up with my client from Houston who was in town for the VMA&#8217;s and our boy Andrew&#8217;s bday&#8230;..<br />
what he wanted made was something very special&#8230;.. a standing buddha by the name of &#8220;Quan Yin&#8221; the God of Mercy&#8230;. and my boy needs a lot of mercy shown on him! lol&#8230;.<br />
check this out&#8230;. it took 3 hand molds that took over a week to carve! but finally came out INCREDIBLE!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA1.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA1-223x300.jpg" alt="" title="D BUDDHA1" width="223" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9960" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA2.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA2-223x300.jpg" alt="" title="D BUDDHA2" width="223" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9961" /></a><br />
the wax&#8230;..<br />
and then</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD-FULL.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD-FULL-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="D BUDDHA GOLD FULL" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9962" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD1.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD1-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="D BUDDHA GOLD1" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9963" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD2.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD2-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="D BUDDHA GOLD2" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9964" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD3.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD3-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="D BUDDHA GOLD3" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9965" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD4.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD4-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="D BUDDHA GOLD4" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9966" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD5.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD5-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="D BUDDHA GOLD5" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9967" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD6.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/D-BUDDHA-GOLD6-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="D BUDDHA GOLD6" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9968" /></a><br />
and this thing is SOLID! as SOLID as solid gets&#8230; like 100 grams solid for a 2.5&#8243; tall piece! that is heavy and very expensive! enjoy D! was good hanging with you even for a couple hours lol</p>
<p>so finally after my crazy day! I get to chill out for a second before I shaved and cut my wig&#8230;. headed over to K-Town to hit Boiling Crab with some friends<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BOILING-CRAB.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BOILING-CRAB-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="BOILING CRAB" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9969" /></a><br />
that shit always hits the spot! (thanks Annie, thanks Andy for the love)</p>
<p>seen some dude pull up all super high post, crazy high signing&#8230;. in a 2010 LP560 Lamborghini&#8230;. top down and then he gets out, head the size of a lunch box and a nordstrom blazer&#8230;. some true religion jeans and some buster brown kicks&#8230; he was arguing with the valet about parking his car for $20 (normal valet is $3) and it&#8217;s really not that serious down there&#8230;. he wouldn&#8217;t let the valet touch his car&#8230;. then when he got in the elevator, dude had on a fossil watch. I said to myself&#8230; this shipsekki is driving his bosses car and couldn&#8217;t even get his watch right smh</p>
<p>anyways&#8230;. we all went to go see &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Afraid Of the Dark&#8221; and mannnnn<br />
I wish I woulda seen Fright Night&#8230;. that shit was terrible! awful! horrible! I swear after watching the previews and reading the synopsis, I was hyped, but then only to be super disappointed&#8230;. this was also the 1st movie in sooo long that I didn&#8217;t have any snacks. just lemonade</p>
<p>Saturday&#8230;..<br />
we finally finished a project that was almost a month in the making!<br />
only Ocho Cinco would make us go through hell for this!</p>
<p>we turned this&#8230;..<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BEATS-STOCK.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BEATS-STOCK-262x300.jpg" alt="" title="BEATS STOCK" width="262" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9972" /></a></p>
<p>INTO THIS:<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS6.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS6-200x300.jpg" alt="" title="OCHO BEATS6" width="200" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9978" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS1.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS1-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="OCHO BEATS1" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9973" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS2.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS2-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="OCHO BEATS2" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9974" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS3.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS3-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="OCHO BEATS3" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9975" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS4.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS4-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="OCHO BEATS4" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9976" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS5.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS5-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="OCHO BEATS5" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9977" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS7.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS7-400x298.jpg" alt="" title="OCHO BEATS7" width="400" height="298" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9979" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS8.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS8-400x298.jpg" alt="" title="OCHO BEATS8" width="400" height="298" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9980" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS9.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OCHO-BEATS9-400x298.jpg" alt="" title="OCHO BEATS9" width="400" height="298" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9981" /></a><br />
yeah buddy&#8230;.. shittin!<br />
these things weigh over 500 grams!<br />
GOLD BEATS BY DRE? Chad you are a fool!<br />
but man, take a long 8 hour flight and need a neckbrace!<br />
these are crazy though! and the laser makes it right!<br />
it was such a bitch to disassemble these and then deal with soldering wires and making sure the sound is right&#8230;.  big thanks to my friend Karen Civil who made this actually happen and provided the beats to start with&#8230;. she also provided several sets for us to mess with and we needed every set! thanks again girl.</p>
<p>THANK YOU OCHO CINCO FOR THE BUSINESS TOO!</p>
<p>so after that, I had to head down to the KGB gallery where my boys were having their art show at and I wanted to see how my jewels were going to be displayed and I guess with some miscommunication and lack of security, last minute I couldn&#8217;t display my jewels there. I had to pull out last minute, but I didn&#8217;t want to ruin their show. I just had to protect myself and my business so I made a decision to not take a risk. I hope everyone who went had fun&#8230; it was hot as fuck outside and I was irritated by a few things&#8230;. so we walked over to Cuvee&#8217; and since their remodel, they&#8217;re now open for dinner<br />
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I didn&#8217;t eat the fries <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_neutral.gif' alt=':|' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/CUVEE-SALMON.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/CUVEE-SALMON-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="CUVEE SALMON" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9983" /></a><br />
the mushroom risotto was unreal!!!! I only tasted it smh&#8230;.</p>
<p>after that, by random chance walking back home, I ran into Just Blaze driving around lol. wtf??? random as hell and he&#8217;s still here shooting when he was supposed to be back home a longgg time ago.</p>
<p>so its time to get ready for event #2 which is the launch of my boy D&#8217;s new mixtape download website&#8230; and in collaboration with Crooks and Pangea, this event was hosted by Drake and OVO&#8230;..</p>
<p>so I got ready<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SAT-NIGHT-SETUP.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SAT-NIGHT-SETUP-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="SAT NIGHT SETUP" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9984" /></a><br />
my yellow gold set up&#8230;. cash for drinks</p>
<p>was waiting on Rob K to come through, but that night was his first night of training for Dancing with the Stars&#8230;.. he was exhausted and last minute canceled&#8230; so picked up one of Nic&#8217;s friends and we headed straight to supperclub&#8230;. kinda early too! like 11:15pm</p>
<p>by the time we got there, it was already beyond packed. nobody else was getting in and yes it was a commercial at the door&#8230;. I see the VIP host and say, I got a table, you already know, remove the ropes</p>
<p>we walk right in thru a sea of people&#8230;..<br />
go to the VIP area and I see my crooks fam, my htown fam, CD Jr and my boy Richard&#8230;. walk past amare stoudemire and kevin durants tables&#8230;.. finally to my table. the entire back area in the VIP was only for Young Money and OVO&#8230; my boy DJ Reflex was on the tables doing his thing early&#8230;. then my homey Future got on to DJ and mannnnn has he changed inside 2 years after touring etc lol&#8230;.. get your paper Future!<br />
only people sitting down in the VIP at this moment was my boy Chase and HitBoy from the Surf Club and my other boy Matt&#8230;.. and of course US <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/NIC-BB.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/NIC-BB-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="NIC BB" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9985" /></a><br />
Nic looked incredible&#8230;. stunning and hurting a lot of feelings. kept it classy&#8230;. at one point of the night Christian Millian came up to me to tell me how pretty she thought Nic was</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BB-CHASE.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BB-CHASE-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="BB CHASE" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9986" /></a><br />
mister Gumbeaux himself</p>
<p>and then all hell breaks loose when Future announces that Drake and Weezy have entered the building&#8230;.<br />
Rick Ross, Game and Sean Kingston were there chilling too&#8230;. as well as Baby/Birdman and kevin durant&#8230;. Jason of Beverly Hills came by my table to say what up and have a drink too</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BB-DRAKE.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/BB-DRAKE-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="BB DRAKE" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9987" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DRAKE-SUPPERCLUB.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DRAKE-SUPPERCLUB-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="DRAKE SUPPERCLUB" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9988" /></a><br />
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it was funny because Nic&#8217;s friend was like, I don&#8217;t get it&#8230; who the hell is walking in? Barack Obama? why so much security? lol&#8230;. it got so bad that the swat team was called in and hollywood blvd was blocked off for a while. not kidding</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SUPPERCLUB-TURNT-UP.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SUPPERCLUB-TURNT-UP-400x299.jpg" alt="" title="SUPPERCLUB TURNT UP" width="400" height="299" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9990" /></a><br />
supperclub was all the way turnt&#8217;d UP!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/IF-OVO.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/IF-OVO-400x298.jpg" alt="" title="IF OVO" width="400" height="298" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9991" /></a><br />
it&#8217;s always good to see my OVO fam, shouts go out to NIKOOOOOOO!</p>
<p>was chopping it up with Drake and I appreciated his yellow gold game&#8230;. he respected mines, everyone had on a rolex. wasn&#8217;t mad</p>
<p>got the fuck outta there before 1. I got an anxiety attack&#8230; 2. got into trouble and 3. kept drinking which would have led to a cab or a dui</p>
<p>while waiting for Valet, I was looking at instagram and seen this pic my boy Don Cannon posted of Pharell and Oprah getting it in at some party years ago&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OPRAH.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/OPRAH-291x300.jpg" alt="" title="OPRAH" width="291" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9992" /></a><br />
lol @ oprah</p>
<p>thank god we got out of there in time and got home safely!</p>
<p>woke up mad late on sunday!<br />
it was hot as hell again!<br />
but today was the lollime pool party and photoshoot at the thompson hotel in beverly hills which is like 3 minutes from our house</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-BANNER-THOMPSON.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-BANNER-THOMPSON-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME BANNER THOMPSON" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9994" /></a><br />
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the location was nice, but the staff there or should I say upper management sucked and I think were lightweight racist, but I&#8217;ll get into that later&#8230;.</p>
<p>now to the models and bikinis&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-STYLISTS-MODELS.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-STYLISTS-MODELS-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME STYLISTS MODELS" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9999" /></a><br />
after an hour of makeup &#038; prepping&#8230;. the girls are ready to shoot</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-SHOOT1.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-SHOOT1-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME SHOOT1" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10000" /></a><br />
so we&#8217;re set up in the cabana&#8230;. not bothering anyone, we had a few set ups planned for the day and after the 1st set up, the management comes up with some bullshit talking about, we don&#8217;t have insurance for the equipment or an SLR camera like that&#8230;. wtf???? first off, we got permission per the hotel months ago and weeks ago there was a flyer with the info clearly stating &#8220;PHOTO SHOOT&#8221; on there with the property&#8217;s name on the flyer! and then&#8230;. we decide to leave the cabana, when really, there were 5 private cabanas&#8230;. NOT 1 was sold! so I could understand if 4 were and they wanted to hold the last one, but we were paid to be there and we hired photographers, lighting, makeup artist, stylists and of course models&#8230;. so I have the photographer take them to the other side of the roof and use my S95 camera and they&#8217;re then like, ummm no you can&#8217;t even take pics with your iphone, the hotel wasn&#8217;t aware of this photoshoot and now the promoter is even like huh???? so we have models getting antsy (but they kept it super professional)</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-SHOOT2.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-SHOOT2-200x300.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME SHOOT2" width="200" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10001" /></a><br />
while this is going on&#8230;.. (just testing my cam)</p>
<p>this is going on in our dressing area&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-ZULEYKA.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-ZULEYKA-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME ZULEYKA" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10002" /></a></p>
<p>and then after being asked to stop the shoot completely or leave the hotel&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-CANDID.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-CANDID-200x300.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME CANDID" width="200" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10003" /></a><br />
Nic felt bad that we had a full staff and didn&#8217;t want to waste it, so we contacted our attorney and will let them handle it&#8230;. so we shot over to our house to finish the shoot so it wasn&#8217;t a complete waste&#8230;.</p>
<p>meanwhile&#8230;&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-POPULAR.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-POPULAR-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME POPULAR" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10004" /></a><br />
in just over an hour&#8230;. we made the popular page on instagram 3 times! and I broke 6,000 followers&#8230;..</p>
<p>so back to the crib&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-SHOOT-CRIB.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-SHOOT-CRIB-400x267.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME SHOOT CRIB" width="400" height="267" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10005" /></a><br />
we&#8217;re back to business!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/3-LOLLIME-MODELS.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/3-LOLLIME-MODELS-200x300.jpg" alt="" title="3 LOLLIME MODELS" width="200" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10006" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-DANIELLE2.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-DANIELLE2-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME DANIELLE2" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10008" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/3-LOLLIME-MODELS3.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/3-LOLLIME-MODELS3-200x300.jpg" alt="" title="3 LOLLIME MODELS3" width="200" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10009" /></a></p>
<p>and it worked out all good&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-MODELS-CANDID.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/LOLLIME-MODELS-CANDID-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="LOLLIME MODELS CANDID" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10010" /></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ZULEYKA-STAR.jpg" rel="lightbox[9952]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/ZULEYKA-STAR-257x300.jpg" alt="" title="ZULEYKA STAR" width="257" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-10011" /></a><br />
#POPULAR</p>
<p>thanks to Andrew Ho and the models and the stylists, but again no thanks to the dickhead in a suit at the Thompson Hotel.</p>
<p>we ordered pizzas and made drinks and watched Jersey Shore and the VMA&#8217;s and I gotta congratulate my young homey Tyler! the creator&#8230;.. who won best new artist video! CRRAZYYYYY MAD LOVE! to my whole wolf gang Odd Future fam. that was big! mad love to Clancy too!</p>
<p>the rest of the night was going over my work week and it&#8217;s much less hectic than last week&#8230;.. </p>
<p>I still got work to do, but I can breathe a little easier.</p>
<p>thank you to everyone who made my weekend wonderful.</p>
<p>peace!</p>
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		<title>This Weekend: ART show, POOL party!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 17:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Baller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2 separate flyers above (click right flyer for details) yep and I&#8217;m involved! not only will there be very ill photography and graffiti there, I will displaying some very unique gold and diamond jewelry! also a performance by my boy Rakaa from Dilated Peoples! check flyer for details! too many artists to list and I [...]]]></description>
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2 separate flyers above (click right flyer for details)</p>
<p>yep and I&#8217;m involved! not only will there be very ill photography and graffiti there, I will displaying some very unique gold and diamond jewelry! also a performance by my boy Rakaa from Dilated Peoples!</p>
<p>check flyer for details! too many artists to list and I grew up with a lot of these guys since I was a youngin!</p>
<p>and then Sunday&#8230;.</p>
<p>at the Thompson Hotel in Beverly Hills<br />
there will be a pool party on the rooftop and also a photoshoot with model search and of course, full bar, live DJ&#8217;s, playboy DJ Crystal Ellis, my boy DJ Cool Whip and cabanas are available, but space will be limited.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SPF8-28.jpg" rel="lightbox[9941]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/SPF8-28-114x300.jpg" alt="" title="SPF8-28" width="114" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9944" /></a><br />
come out and have fun<br />
but even though it&#8217;s sunday, you still need class to get in!</p>
<p>it&#8217;s gonna be a HOT weekend, I never say that. I never go out. But I feel it. lots to do&#8230;.<br />
OH YEAH! WAIT!!!!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DRAKE-PANGEA-FLYER.jpg" rel="lightbox[9941]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/DRAKE-PANGEA-FLYER-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="DRAKE PANGEA FLYER" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-9948" /></a><br />
late Saturday Night my fam Drake, D Crooks and my Pangea x Crooks fam are throwing a crazy event at Supperclub, so if you can get it, get right</p>
<p>everyone have a great one and I&#8217;ll see y&#8217;all on the flip</p>
<p>peace</p>
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		<title>on my grown man&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 20:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Baller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[took some engagement pics a week ago&#8230; this is one of the shots&#8230; thank you Arturo Torres for the amazing pics! this is just one of the many&#8230;. that day is coming soon! wow peace, just wanted to share 1 love]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>took some engagement pics a week ago&#8230;<br />
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<p>this is one of the shots&#8230; thank you <a href="http://atorresphoto.com">Arturo Torres</a> for the amazing pics!<br />
this is just one of the many&#8230;.</p>
<p>that day is coming soon! wow</p>
<p>peace, just wanted to share 1</p>
<p>love</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 18:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Baller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[yep, that&#8217;s the name of Homicide&#8217;s next mix coming out this summer&#8230; the last one was fire and this one will be the same, his album artwork is dope&#8230;. but we shot a majority of the video yesterday (he has footage from Miami, Vegas and mad Hollywood shit) but we captured LA, the contrast from [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yep, that&#8217;s the name of Homicide&#8217;s next mix coming out this summer&#8230;<br />
the last one was fire and this one will be the same, his album artwork is dope&#8230;.<br />
but we shot a majority of the video yesterday (he has footage from Miami, Vegas and mad Hollywood shit) but we captured LA, the contrast from rags to riches, beverly hills to skid row&#8230;. this cinematographer is dope as fuck!</p>
<p>he shot this viral video for LMFAO that actually shoulda been the real video for &#8220;party rock anthem&#8221;<br />
check out his work&#8230;..<br />
<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/19161041?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0" width="521" height="293" frameborder="0"></iframe><br />
this shit is a dope ass video and it really sums up my party rock fam&#8230;.</p>
<p>so you can imagine how sick this video is gonna be for Homicide&#8217;s shit and then Homicide is coming out with his Album&#8230;. smh, been a long time since he had an album out&#8230;. now my dude is the black david guetta&#8230;. the homies joke around and call him DarkMau5 lmao!!!!!!</p>
<p>before we get into the video shoot&#8230;<br />
wednesday night Nic had a fashion show for LolliMe bikini&#8217;s and since my iphone can&#8217;t really catch action shots and also since I had to MC it, I&#8217;m gonna show some pics I forgot to show you of the shoot from sat <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  I know&#8230;<br />
but I have a few shots from the show/club, but only of Nic and her friends&#8230;.<br />
here&#8217;s 3 shots from saturdays shoot&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LM1.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LM1-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="LM1" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8750" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LM3.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LM3-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="LM3" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8751" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LM2.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LM2-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="LM2" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8752" /></a><br />
to all my girl readers out there, there is obviously nothing like a custom made high quality bikini&#8230;. and also one that costs less than D&#038;G or Gucci but better made and changes with each season and stays on top of fashion&#8230;. LolliMe got that and again with better quality check out <a href="http://lollime.com">www.LOLLIME.com</a></p>
<p>so wednesday night, we had a bikini fashion show at Colony and there was also a party for Playboy going on there&#8230;. so it was very crowded and a good look for everyone&#8230; shout out to Cherie and my SBE fam, Dean May, Dave Osokow, etc etc&#8230;.  shout out to my homey Reggie Bush who creeped up on me at the end of the night&#8230; smh.</p>
<p>the show went well, but my Mic wasn&#8217;t working so great, so I had to kinda fall back by the DJ booth and the runway was in the front part of the club&#8230;.. all the models were hired by Uppercut Models (thanks Erica)<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/NICS-GIRLS.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/NICS-GIRLS-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="NICS GIRLS" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8754" /></a><br />
Nic and her friends&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LM-COLONY-SICKFACE.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/LM-COLONY-SICKFACE-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="LM COLONY SICKFACE" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8755" /></a><br />
and she HATES IT when I ruin her pics by making a fucked up face lol&#8230;. I love it</p>
<p>okay so let&#8217;s get to the video shoot!<br />
this fucking pain in the ass music video has been pushed back almost 4 times! we finally got it locked in yesterday and we started late!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CUT-MY-WIG.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/CUT-MY-WIG-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="CUT MY WIG" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8763" /></a><br />
had to cut my wig&#8230;. #instagram</p>
<p>it was hot as fuck yesterday, so I changed from slim jeans to shorts&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TYBG.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TYBG-243x300.jpg" alt="" title="TYBG" width="243" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8753" /></a><br />
no way, I&#8217;m waiting for Homicide to show up in the parking lot at 10? and its 11am? smh<br />
he was busy getting new kicks at Supra while I was waiting around like a dick and then we had to wait some more at the dealership FOR 2 HOURS!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/PJ-METHASALEH-DOLLY.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/PJ-METHASALEH-DOLLY-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="PJ METHASALEH DOLLY" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8767" /></a><br />
who has a champagne dolly?<br />
WE DO MOTHERFUCKERS! and you need to when you&#8217;re trailering a 6L of Perrier Jouet around lol&#8230;. the shit is the size of a toddler, but weighs more and we put a seatbelt on that hoe!</p>
<p><em>*off to the dealership down the street&#8230;.</em></p>
<p>I think those who know me know I&#8217;ve been eyeballing the 458 italia new body/model Ferrari for a while now and it&#8217;s been like 3 years since I had something stupid in the garage&#8230;. so I test drove one the other day and then Homicide rolled it for the first time yesterday and we decided to go half on it&#8230; I haven&#8217;t been able to sleep because of that shit and it&#8217;s been a while since I felt this way! (lol, he&#8217;s always out of town, so I win kinda)<br />
before we got rolling, I hated lightweight on homicide and put the whip in Automatic mode and set the limit at 125mph max lol&#8230;. now Homicide&#8217;s had a couple lambos and is used to nice cars, but I still didn&#8217;t want any extra foolishness happening until we got our shots off&#8230; because the Beverly Hills Police HATE MY GUTS AND REMEMBER WHEN I HAD MY 2003 360 SPYDER WITH THE ILLEGAL PIPES&#8230;. and ever since late 2004, they have known me and never forgot me.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR1.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR1-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="458 INTERIOR1" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8756" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR2.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR2-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="458 INTERIOR2" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8757" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR3.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR3-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="458 INTERIOR3" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8758" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR4.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR4-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="458 INTERIOR4" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8759" /></a></p>
<p>and now you know I had to take one for instagram&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR-INSTAGRAM.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-INTERIOR-INSTAGRAM-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="458 INTERIOR INSTAGRAM" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8760" /></a></p>
<p>so let me say this before I get any further&#8230; I&#8217;ve driven every single ill whip there is, I mean like 94% of them, my boy has a reventon, but I&#8217;ve never asked to push it&#8230;. I&#8217;ve driven a veyron and it was pretty damn amazing, but I think the experience and the sound of it moving around like a hovercraft made it more crazy then anything, but I cannot tell you how fucking unbelievable this 458 drives! I mean it is so damn smooth! I forgot I was in a Rari for a sec&#8230;. it felt as smooth as my R8, but waaaaay faster, waaay cooler, and still super stable, but not the super hard drive I&#8217;m used to with exotics. wow! I opened that hoe up on the way back home from the Beverly Hills hotel! ugggghhhhh!</p>
<p>so we got some ill shots of Homicide driving all through the key areas in Beverly Hills thanks to Anthony and Dante from the Black Eyed Peas who drove around and followed us while 2 camera men got different angles and shots</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-ITALIA.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-ITALIA-400x299.jpg" alt="" title="458 ITALIA" width="400" height="299" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8761" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-ITALIA-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/458-ITALIA-2-400x299.jpg" alt="" title="458 ITALIA 2" width="400" height="299" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8780" /></a><br />
we got it used, but who cares&#8230; kinda high miles for a 2011, but then again, for $270,000 that&#8217;s a steal! put a 100 racks each on it and financed $70k so the note isn&#8217;t bad at all and Homicide got A+ credit</p>
<p>we got some lunch and for the 3rd time ever in 20 + years, Homicide actually paid for the meal lol&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BEEF-RAMEN.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BEEF-RAMEN-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="BEEF RAMEN" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8764" /></a></p>
<p>and don&#8217;t ask why&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BY-ACCIDENT.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BY-ACCIDENT-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="BY ACCIDENT" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8768" /></a><br />
I accidentally took a pic of my belt while I was in the bathroom smh</p>
<p>while we&#8217;re on the instagram tip, I swear to god this next pic was by accident too<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/INSTAGRAM-SWAG.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/INSTAGRAM-SWAG-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="INSTAGRAM SWAG" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8772" /></a><br />
I don&#8217;t know why or how the camera went off on my phone, but it did and it looked cool so&#8230;. #instagram</p>
<p>so after lunch we headed up to the Roxy and cruised down Sunset Blvd&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DJ-HOMICIDE-ROXY-MARQUEE.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DJ-HOMICIDE-ROXY-MARQUEE-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="DJ HOMICIDE ROXY MARQUEE" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8765" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DJ-HOMICIDE-ROXY-MARQUEE-2.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/DJ-HOMICIDE-ROXY-MARQUEE-2-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="DJ HOMICIDE ROXY MARQUEE 2" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8766" /></a><br />
MUCH LOVE TO OUR TRIPLE OG HOMEY NIC ADLER FOR SHOWING SO MUCH LOVE!!!<br />
rolling down sunset and seeing Homicide&#8217;s name on the Marquee at the world famous Roxy Theater was key! and we also filmed a little bit inside&#8230;. then headed down to skid row to meet up with our big homey Mister Cartoon</p>
<p>the shots we got on the way pushing through the outskirts of k-town and all that doesn&#8217;t glisten in LA and the really seedy poor parts was necessary too&#8230; it showed the true contrast of our town and when we got to skid row, it got really real.</p>
<p>when we got there, we shot all the low riders, all the art and just all the fucking culture that pours out of Soul Assassins Studios&#8230;. what else can I say about Cartoon that I haven&#8217;t said on here already 1000x? I mean he is a living legend and he&#8217;s always about 3 things, his family, his art and his business! dude laid down a blueprint for me and I&#8217;m still using that shit for life!</p>
<p>we got into an old school whip discussion, not the classics like the chevy&#8217;s, but the 80&#8242;s gangster whip and I had to show Homicide Cartoon&#8217;s Nissan Truck with the new bed/shell<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/NISSAN-OG-CELLULAR.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/NISSAN-OG-CELLULAR-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="NISSAN OG CELLULAR" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8769" /></a><br />
once he seen the Cellular phone, he just couldn&#8217;t even speak anymore&#8230;. let alone just seeing a 1958, 1959, 1969, 1961 and 1962 impala all retardedly fully done, fully dressed and fully sick! that just showed another angle of how much of an animal toons is with this classic car game.</p>
<p>toons was tattooing a G from Toronto while we shot some scenes&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/RICH-TATTOO.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/RICH-TATTOO-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="RICH TATTOO" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8770" /></a><br />
my boy Mr C Toons GETS DOWN!<br />
and shout out to Rich, small world homey</p>
<p>I can&#8217;t believe we got all those shots done and wrapped up the entire shoot in 1 day pretty much&#8230;. there are a few more shots needed and those will take place on cinco de Mayo<br />
shout out to Dante and Anthony (cinematographer/co-director)</p>
<p>you know what happens when you get too much Corzo in Homicide?<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/HOMICIDE-BURGER.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/HOMICIDE-BURGER-300x300.jpg" alt="" title="HOMICIDE BURGER" width="300" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8771" /></a><br />
he puts a burger on top of his head&#8230; smh</p>
<p>like I said&#8230;. while that italian horse was asleep in my garage&#8230;. I was upstairs wide the fuck awake&#8230;. and so I decided to watch the Royal Wedding and I was lightweight watching it&#8230; I mean Nic wanted to see what Princess Kate was wearing as every fashion oriented and even non fashion oriented girl wanted to know&#8230; I could give a shit what she was wearing&#8230;. it&#8217;s just crazy how much hype they threw on this wedding when I think Princess Diana was a bigger deal, but they didn&#8217;t have the internet then and social media etc&#8230; what&#8217;s crazy is I was in London during the royal wedding in 1981!!! I drove past the buckingham palace and all that and it was bedlam and shit, but they didn&#8217;t shut down the whole city like they did today smh&#8230;.<br />
anyways, fuck all the small talk&#8230;. when they showed Queen Elizabeth pull up in that 1 of 1 bespoke Bentley, I lost my shit! I mean WOWOWOOWOWOWOOWWWWW! even my homey JD was like DAMMNN!<br />
I can&#8217;t even explain it, from the super extra tall glass! how long it was and the fact that it was custom made 1 of 1 by Bentley and made only for the queen of England, that just shits on any $8,000,000 maybach or whatever peasant shit you got&#8230;. man, I stared at that shit the entire time thinking, I wonder if my homey G Platinum is checking this shit out????? DAMN<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN1.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN1-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BENTLEY QUEEN1" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8773" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN4.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN4-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BENTLEY QUEEN4" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8774" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN5.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN5-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BENTLEY QUEEN5" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8775" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN6.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN6-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BENTLEY QUEEN6" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8776" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN8.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN8-400x260.jpg" alt="" title="BENTLEY QUEEN8" width="400" height="260" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8777" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN3.jpg" rel="lightbox[8748]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/BENTLEY-QUEEN3-400x255.jpg" alt="" title="BENTLEY QUEEN3" width="400" height="255" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-8778" /></a><br />
that last pic doesn&#8217;t even do the whip justice because it has the covered back window which is obviously removable and that&#8217;s what sets it off! that big ass glass? no tints? thats what the fuck I&#8217;m talking about, fuck tints&#8230; that&#8217;s boss shit! 90% of the entire roof is glass too, no tint! when they were panning around the top of it from the helicopter footage, I was like deeeeaaammmmmm!<br />
I mean these pics I put up don&#8217;t do it justice either&#8230;. just seeing that shit drive slow on my super clear HD screen made me &#8220;mannnnnnnnnnn&#8221;, that and spending $55 million on security was just insane. jesus&#8230;. I went downstairs and got sad again&#8230;.. like that rari ain&#8217;t shit lol</p>
<p>aite y&#8217;all</p>
<p>HAVE A SAFE WEEKEND!<br />
MUCH LOVE<br />
PEACE!</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Baller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[taking my life to the next level, the right way&#8230;. I never been in a rush before really to actually get married&#8230; I&#8217;ve liked the idea, but not when I was being pressured or blackmailed&#8230;. I&#8217;ve never tripped on my age ever. I just love that I got a lot of experience and knowledge under [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>taking my life to the next level, the right way&#8230;.<br />
I never been in a rush before really to actually get married&#8230; I&#8217;ve liked the idea, but not when I was being pressured or blackmailed&#8230;. I&#8217;ve never tripped on my age ever. I just love that I got a lot of experience and knowledge under my belt&#8230;.</p>
<p>since I really haven&#8217;t broken down stats here&#8230;. let&#8217;s do that now<br />
I guess dating a crazy bitch who lied, lost in court many times, had severe drug problems, lost many other things&#8230; but wait. really how do you lose when you don&#8217;t have shit? I mean, that could be the 1st time I dated anyone who went truly negative notches down in life&#8230;. like they didn&#8217;t come up, they came down smh. lol</p>
<p>so now.</p>
<p>met a girl through a friend&#8230;.. I wasn&#8217;t looking.<br />
was single for around 5-6 months before I even went on a date&#8230;<br />
1st date I was sorta apprehensive and had a little ruffle on my shoulder&#8230;. understandable after what I put myself in&#8230;.<br />
2nd and 3rd to many more&#8230;. just got better and better, in fact, ever since I met Nicolette, my business even went up and increased each month continuously! Also; in over a year, I have gone less than 10 days without my seeing my girlfriend. and I knew quick this girl was the best I&#8217;ve ever met, a great one, one you don&#8217;t let slip away. THE ONE YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR!</p>
<p>last serious relationship I was in was in 2002 to 2005 to a girl and it didn&#8217;t work out and there is no bad blood at all and since then I haven&#8217;t had a &#8220;girlfriend&#8221; and then in 2009, I made the big mistake of letting someone pull an okie doke on me, so I obviously tried to make the best of it&#8230;. all that drama I went through 2 years ago and all that bullshit brought me into truly better things. hence the best year of my life to date&#8230;..</p>
<p>now? I have done a 3 year relationship inside 14 months(where as others sidestep and bullshit and like wallowing in the meyer, when you reach 30, you cut the bullshit out and get to know another person a lot faster and understand things clearer obviously) and this time I held nothing back once I knew she was that special to me&#8230;.. so after 1 year as my girlfriend&#8230; I put a ring on it.</p>
<p>so peeps think there are obvious reasons&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NIC-SB1.jpg" rel="lightbox[7947]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NIC-SB1-199x300.jpg" alt="" title="NIC SB1" width="199" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7948" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NIC-KINGS.jpg" rel="lightbox[7947]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NIC-KINGS-200x300.jpg" alt="" title="NIC KINGS" width="200" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7953" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/SB2.jpg" rel="lightbox[7947]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/SB2-199x300.jpg" alt="" title="SB2" width="199" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7949" /></a><br />
believe it or not&#8230; on my dead pops, those 3 pics have absolutely NO photoshopping on the body, the 1st 2 have  photoshopping on the background only, but those are still raw images&#8230;. (since your salty dusty super bird ass wants to keep crying smh, naw, no fake extra cake face, get over it and move on with your miserable dead beat mom self please)<br />
anyways&#8230;.<br />
those pics lead to a cover of a magazine. that was 2007<br />
now let&#8217;s get some facts straight&#8230;. my girlfriend has signed pictures at 4 car shows in her life. She&#8217;s been on 8 magazine COVERS internationally and technically is NOT an import model. she has never ever go-go danced in her life&#8230;.. she&#8217;s a FIDM graduate and she owns her own bikini line and best of yet, her parents are together and her family is from a very prominent family in the philippines&#8230;. who reside in Forbes park which is in Makati. If you are from the PI, then you will know her family&#8217;s name holds up very high in government and the society there.  those are facts! no fabrication&#8230;. she has never ever had any plastic surgery done ever and she never cakes on any makeup&#8230;.. and I passed judgement early because when I met her&#8230; I assumed a lotta crazy shit and thought she was a typical OC girl. funny thing is she&#8217;s never lived in the OC or frequents there. she was actually my neighbor in beverly hills and I never knew it&#8230;. she&#8217;s been a vegetarian since 2002 (pescatarian to be specific)&#8230;. another thing I love is that she&#8217;s so worldly and not close minded&#8230;. she lived back and forth from LA to London for 2 years, so she&#8217;s international <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>so some other pics&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NIC-GREECE.jpg" rel="lightbox[7947]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NIC-GREECE-400x266.jpg" alt="" title="NIC GREECE" width="400" height="266" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7950" /></a><br />
absolutely no make up&#8230;. Nic in Mykonos, Greece&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NIC-CECCONIS.jpg" rel="lightbox[7947]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/NIC-CECCONIS-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="NIC CECCONIS" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7951" /></a><br />
me and Nic at her bday at Cecconi&#8217;s last April</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ROSE-DEUX.jpg" rel="lightbox[7947]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ROSE-DEUX-224x300.jpg" alt="" title="ROSE DEUX" width="224" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7952" /></a><br />
me and Nic at her bikini fashion show last April in Hollywood&#8230;.</p>
<p>so for obvious reasons or superficial shit? yeah, I can see some saying it&#8217;s eye candy or whatever&#8230; SLAP! that&#8217;s a negative</p>
<p>she&#8217;s a gold digger? eh&#8230;. she been in new european whips way before I met her and always had her own cool shit&#8230;. i.e. she&#8217;s bought all her Louboutins&#8230;. fact is she bought the Murakami for our place and many other things&#8230;.. so SLAP! eh eh, NOPE! you&#8217;re wrong there</p>
<p>what else then?<br />
brains &#8211; check<br />
college degree &#8211; check<br />
good family &#8211; check<br />
job -check (owns her own business)<br />
cooks &#8211; check<br />
cleans &#8211; check</p>
<p>lastly, my family loves her to death and my mom has met so few women in my lifetime and she is the only one she has ever approved of&#8230;.. I&#8217;m very excited and very amped for this tentatively set date of mid/late Sept of this year.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/POW.jpg" rel="lightbox[7947]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/POW-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="POW" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7954" /></a><br />
I went classy and respectful and that is all&#8230;.<br />
3 carat Princess Cut center stone, VVS1, E color and inside a 1 of 1 bezel setting with all micro-pave! all melee diamonds are IF(Internally Flawless) D color&#8230;18k white gold&#8230;. yeah <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
it took a long time for me to design the ring and I feel it&#8217;s perfect for her.</p>
<p>what else can I say?<br />
why even break all this down? because why not? fuck it&#8230; but I definitely did NOT write this to shit on others and also didn&#8217;t do it to break hearts? If that happens and those in my past are salty, that&#8217;s sad. I&#8217;m sorry if I never truly gave a fuck, or was a bad boyfriend&#8230;. but I paid my dues&#8230;. I&#8217;m pushing along as anyone should&#8230;. I&#8217;m cool with most of my ex&#8217;s. but they&#8217;re in the past for a reason as I am to them&#8230;. I may not have been the right guy for them and I agree with that&#8230;. I just know what I want and that I&#8217;m happy now.<br />
my future is flawless. the only thing in my way is me or my ego. It&#8217;s only got better and better</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve kept a lot of my real personal life private, but I think you can tell that I&#8217;ve been less bitter and more peaceful <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' />  lol&#8230;. I hope you respect my privacy and know that my personal facebook is where I share most of the things with my family and close friends&#8230;. you can&#8217;t add me on there because I have a few thousand requests on purpose so that I don&#8217;t have lurkers or whatever prying into my business. I share a lot here, but not everything is for everyone.</p>
<p>much love.<br />
your boy KT is on clouds&#8230;. FUCK WITH ME FENDI!!!!!!! </p>
<p>I feel sorry,<br />
I really do for those who want other peoples lives or can&#8217;t accept who they are. remember nobody is perfect, no human is divine&#8230;. just live your life. Don&#8217;t make yourself miserable.</p>
<p>I got a lotta updates to blog about later.<br />
lotta crazy shit!</p>
<p>I&#8217;m hyped!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/HI-HATERS.jpg" rel="lightbox[7947]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/HI-HATERS-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="HI HATERS" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7958" /></a><br />
PEACE!<br />
BYE, BYE! BYE! BYE! (DIEGO VOICE TO GEORGE JUNG ON THE ISLAND AFTER DICKING HIM IN THE MOVIE BLOW)<br />
p.s. funny and sad thing is that this post really wasn&#8217;t for anyone&#8230;.. I waited to post it on here, but I thought why not the dagger to your weak posts. I don&#8217;t even bring up personal love life things on here, but I didn&#8217;t want Nic to feel like she wasn&#8217;t being shown any shine on my blog. but the wedding won&#8217;t be on here.</p>
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		<dc:creator>Ben Baller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIRST OFF, BTW, IF YOU DIDN&#8217;T KNOW, WE ARE CLOSED TODAY (WE&#8217;RE CLOSED THE LAST TUESDAY OF EACH AND EVERY MONTH, EXCEPT FOR DECEMBER) now back to the buddha/chakra bracelets&#8230;. yep&#8230;. we&#8217;ve got so many requests for these&#8230;. I mean, we made these a few years ago, even stringed this way, but recently in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FIRST OFF, BTW, IF YOU DIDN&#8217;T KNOW, WE ARE CLOSED TODAY (WE&#8217;RE CLOSED THE LAST TUESDAY OF EACH AND EVERY MONTH, EXCEPT FOR DECEMBER)<br />
now back to the buddha/chakra bracelets&#8230;.<br />
yep&#8230;.<br />
we&#8217;ve got so many requests for these&#8230;. I mean, we made these a few years ago, even stringed this way, but recently in the last few months, these have been going crazy!<br />
I&#8217;m even seeing them on real housewives of beverly hills! haha<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MICHAEL1.jpg" rel="lightbox[7543]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MICHAEL1-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="MICHAEL1" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7544" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MICHAEL3.jpg" rel="lightbox[7543]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MICHAEL3-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="MICHAEL3" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7545" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MICHAEL4.jpg" rel="lightbox[7543]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MICHAEL4-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="MICHAEL4" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7546" /></a><br />
WE USED THICKER STRING ON THIS BRACELET AND WE ALSO ICED OUT EVERY BEAD, NOT LEAVING ANY OFF&#8230;. ON THE TASSELS, WE DID 2 THIS TIME, SO WE COULD LASER OUR &#8220;IF&#8221; ON EACH END&#8230;..</p>
<p>we&#8217;re going to make some more bracelets and mix and match the colors&#8230;.<br />
we&#8217;re also going to do them where only 1 bead is iced out fully which will make them more affordable to everyone who always wants our jewelry.</p>
<p>thanks again Michael from the land down under&#8230;.. good-day mate!<br />
&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..</p>
<p>and last week the homey <a href="http://atorresphoto.com/">Arturo Torres</a> came by to shoot some amazing pics for Nic&#8217;s <a href="http://lollime.com">bikini line</a><br />
the new shots are crazy! and then did a few glamour pics for her&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/NIC-MAGSHOOT.jpg" rel="lightbox[7543]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/NIC-MAGSHOOT-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="NIC MAGSHOOT" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7548" /></a><br />
and a new model Nic used for her line&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/AMY.jpg" rel="lightbox[7543]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/AMY-187x300.jpg" alt="" title="AMY" width="187" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7551" /></a><br />
no photoshopping because I don&#8217;t know how to&#8230;. smh, maybe it doesn&#8217;t need any?</p>
<p> <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
after all that, I had him take a really quick shot of my wall with his canon g9<br />
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<p>PEACE!</p>
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		<dc:creator>Ben Baller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So while I&#8217;m hungover and got nothing else to do&#8230;. why not kill the time by getting this blog up&#8230; FINALLY! started out thursday the 23rd, me and Nic packed up the 7 and headed out to the Bay Area to her family&#8217;s home&#8230;. she has a VERY big family&#8230;.. they do this every single [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So while I&#8217;m hungover and got nothing else to do&#8230;.<br />
why not kill the time by getting this blog up&#8230; FINALLY!</p>
<p>started out <strong>thursday the 23rd</strong>, me and Nic packed up the 7 and headed out to the Bay Area to her family&#8217;s home&#8230;. she has a VERY big family&#8230;.. they do this every single year and well me? I haven&#8217;t had a big family x-mas with a tree and all that in over 20 years easily, maybe 25 years at least.</p>
<p>you know what else has been a long time coming? me driving in a car actually myself (not a tourbus) for longer than 2 hours&#8230;. it&#8217;s been close to 10 years on that; 1. because I hate being in a car for long periods of time now 2. I got into a really bad car wreck with my escalade in 2000 and flipped my truck 8x on hwy 15&#8230;.. 3. in 2001 on the way to napa valley, I got a flat tire with no spare(most porsches don&#8217;t have spares) and was stuck in the middle of Cali near Harris Ranch for hours with no water, so that leads to 4. ANXIETY OF BEING IN A CAR NOW!</p>
<p>so not only was this new again, I had nic&#8217;s dog with me&#8230;.. she has 4 dogs btw</p>
<p>so we hit the 5 and it&#8217;s not so bad after a long massage<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/HWY5-OTW.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7175" title="HWY5 OTW" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/HWY5-OTW-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>so after about 150 miles, I need to take a piss, the dogs need to take a piss (we convoy&#8217;d with her parents in a car ahead of us) and they were hungry&#8230;.. now I can&#8217;t eat when I&#8217;m in a car for a long time because my metabolism is very fast&#8230;. so eating would mean I would have to go 2x or so before we hit our destination and I just really want to get there!</p>
<p>I take a nap and wake up near Tracy, CA and I know we&#8217;re like only 20 minutes away!<br />
I&#8217;M FUCKING HYPED!</p>
<p>we get to the Sheraton in Dublin (only 3.5 star hotel or better in the area) and I&#8217;m maxxin literally&#8230;. the 7 is one of the best cars to be in during a long drive&#8230; thank god Nic drove the remaining way.  I take off to get a car wash (since we&#8217;re on stocks, it&#8217;s all good!) no more rain either for the moment&#8230;.</p>
<p>we head out after a short 2nd nap to her family&#8217;s house to meet up and say Hi real quick<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/NIC-AND-NIECE.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7176" title="NIC AND NIECE" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/NIC-AND-NIECE-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a><br />
Nic&#8217;s newborn niece&#8230;. she&#8217;s maybe the most behaved baby ever! in 4 days, I didn&#8217;t hear her cry NOT 1 SINGLE TIME! and she&#8217;s just precious&#8230;..</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/KEITH-OG-DIAMOND-TEE.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7177" title="KEITH OG DIAMOND TEE" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/KEITH-OG-DIAMOND-TEE-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a><br />
Nic&#8217;s uncle Keith is an OG&#8230;. he&#8217;s rocking literally the 1st season Diamond Tee from I can&#8217;t think of how many years ago&#8230;.. His best friend and best man was the co-founder/owner of Diamond Supply Co&#8230;. Greg Carol&#8230; I also like Keith, straight up, no filter, but a kind man</p>
<p>so for an early x-mas gift, Nic&#8217;s dad got her mom a kinect for their X-Box!<br />
nic&#8217;s mom loves to zumba and dance and stuff&#8230;. so this was the perfect gift.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DREA-KINECT.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7178" title="DREA KINECT" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/DREA-KINECT-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a><br />
Nic&#8217;s cousin gettin her jerk on with the Dance Central game&#8230;.<br />
this kinect shit was a hit with the fam and thank god because it took away from the magic mic!</p>
<p>so me and Nic had to head out because we were hosting an event for Anthony aka Mr. Tonic in SF&#8230;. at NV&#8230;. it was another toy drive and also a few bucks for us<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/NV-XMAS.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7179" title="NV XMAS" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/NV-XMAS-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>it was cold as shit in SF! but still a good crowd came out to party&#8230;.<br />
we got our bottles and drank a little bit and walked around and mingled with the good folks of the yay.<br />
andrew ho was flicking shots like it was the prom on some &#8220;make it last forever&#8221; type steez lol.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/BRANDY-BB-NIC.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7180" title="BRANDY BB NIC" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/BRANDY-BB-NIC-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a><br />
one of Nic&#8217;s friends, Brandy who is also a lollime model was in town, so she showed up</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/TONIC.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7181" title="TONIC" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/TONIC-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><br />
now even though he has not come out of the closet yet, I have to show love to anthony because at the end of the day, he&#8217;s serious about his business and he makes his bread and doesn&#8217;t fuck it off. I like his motivation to be successful and he definitely has the best 18+ clubs in the bay and also a very good 21+ asian club buzz goin for the past 5 years or so.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/BB-NIC-NV.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7182" title="BB NIC NV" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/BB-NIC-NV-225x300.jpg" alt="" width="225" height="300" /></a><br />
it was definitely TEEE SHIRT TIMEEEEE!</p>
<p>so we shook around 1:50am&#8230;..<br />
headed back to the east bay and<br />
I heard the *ding* sound which doesn&#8217;t come on in a BMW until you get around 37 degree weather or less!<br />
I pulled over later and it said 38, then 39&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/37-DEGREES.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7183" title="37 DEGREES" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/37-DEGREES-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a><br />
bottom line shit was cold!</p>
<p>got back to the hotel and I was OUT!</p>
<p><strong>Friday &#8211; Christmas Eve</strong></p>
<p>wake up feelin pretty good.<br />
I was surprised the bed was actually comfy and I have no work on my mind after a real hectic ass week/month, shit past 2 months have been pretty crazy busy and now my cousins are at the store dealing with hell while I&#8217;m bout to get it in with some filipino food and a lotta chillin! lol</p>
<p>there were only 16 guests staying in our hotel so the place was empty!<br />
but we were right directly across the street from the Stoneridge Mall.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/SHERATON-POOL.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7185" title="SHERATON POOL" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/SHERATON-POOL-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a><br />
too bad I didn&#8217;t bring any swim trunks&#8230;. shit, the pool was pretty nice and clean and heated!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/STONERIDGE-MALL.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7184" title="STONERIDGE MALL" src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/STONERIDGE-MALL-400x300.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a><br />
the only car in the parking lot of the hotel was mine as you can see, but right across the hotel parking lot you can see the mall parking lot was crazy fucking packed. and it was 9:41am; it was also the last day for shopping for the last minute peeps&#8230;. so we decided to also kill some time and hit the mall because her family was having a christmas game called &#8220;White Elephant&#8221; which is sorta like a secret santa where you buy a gift of $25 &#8211; $40.</p>
<p>the mall wasn&#8217;t so bad&#8230; what was funny was that I was waiting to hear back from Gabrielle about what Dwyane Wade thought of his gift and then I remembered&#8230; HOLY SHIT! this exact mall and area is Gabby&#8217;s old stomping grounds! damn&#8230; like 20 years ago and it was like 2 blocks long! that&#8217;s it! haha&#8230;. a lot has changed and developed since then&#8230;. I bbm&#8217;d Gabby that I was at the Stoneridge mall&#8230;. she said &#8220;scary lol&#8221;</p>
<p>tried to get these ill ass shoes that i&#8217;d never seen before and I won&#8217;t say where until I actually get them! but they were sold out! anyways&#8230;. we got a gift basket for the fam&#8230;. I got some mrs. fields cookies and that was my dessert to our Cheesecake Factory lunch</p>
<p>so we head back to our hotel and as I park, I see this on top of my car I see this&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/GREEN-LADYBUG.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/GREEN-LADYBUG-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="GREEN LADYBUG" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7212" /></a><br />
wtf? a green ladybug?</p>
<p>does that mean extra good luck? or was the lady bug dressed up for the holidays?<br />
anyways, got on my decent man outfit&#8230;. (kr3w K-Slim grey denim&#8230;.. burberry cashmere sweater, red crooks kicks&#8230;. BOOYAH!) and headed over to Nic&#8217;s family for the x-mas festivities!</p>
<p>we get there and her brother is taking pics of the 12 dogs in attendance! YES 12 DOGS! crazy&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/XMAS-DOGS.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/XMAS-DOGS-400x266.jpg" alt="" title="XMAS DOGS" width="400" height="266" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7213" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/XMAS-DOGS2.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/XMAS-DOGS2-400x266.jpg" alt="" title="XMAS DOGS2" width="400" height="266" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7214" /></a><br />
that wasn&#8217;t even all of them, because Nic&#8217;s bro couldn&#8217;t get them hyper asses to all stay in one place!</p>
<p>anyways&#8230;. everyone is doing something in the crib and the energy is warm and festive&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/XMAS-TREE.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/XMAS-TREE-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="XMAS TREE" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7215" /></a><br />
I haven&#8217;t had a tree in my crib or my past crib&#8230; been like 10 years at least since I had one&#8230;. they def get hyped up on christmas eve and at midnight it&#8217;s on!</p>
<p>while dinner and desserts were being made&#8230;<br />
Nic&#8217;s mom had to show these youngins how to dance! haha<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/BABY-KINECT.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/BABY-KINECT-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BABY KINECT" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7216" /></a><br />
thank god, because I didn&#8217;t want them to break out the magic mic!</p>
<p>like I said&#8230;. for dinner even though I didn&#8217;t take pics because it would probably be rude and they would think I was crazy&#8230;. but more importantly; I got it IN&#8230;. so I didn&#8217;t have time to take pics&#8230;</p>
<p>here&#8217;s what I did take<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MAC-N-CHEESE.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/MAC-N-CHEESE-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="MAC N CHEESE" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7217" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/BANANA-CREAM-PIE.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/BANANA-CREAM-PIE-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BANANA CREAM PIE" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7218" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/EMPANADAS.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/EMPANADAS-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="EMPANADAS" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7219" /></a><br />
we ate filipino baked chicken, prime rib, white cheese and macaroni&#8230; and a ton of other shit&#8230;. Nic has 2 aunts who are certified chefs&#8230; but nic&#8217;s mom is a boss in the kitchen with the cooking&#8230;. and her cousins can bake, so it was on on ON&#8230; her aunt&#8217;s home who hosted the family event owns an Edible Arrangements so it was just get right everyday type steez at their home!</p>
<p>anyways&#8230;. after we ate, we kicked it<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HARLEY-NIC-BB.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HARLEY-NIC-BB-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="HARLEY NIC BB" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7220" /></a><br />
me and Nic chillin with Harley</p>
<p>and then midnight came around and that game they play White Elephant started&#8230;. older folks gettin jacked by the younger adults and some of the gifts were dope! some were not so cool lool<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/WHITE-ELEPHANT.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/WHITE-ELEPHANT-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="WHITE ELEPHANT" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7221" /></a><br />
we got a candle set, so I wasn&#8217;t so mad&#8230; but someone got a salt shaker or something like that lol. man!</p>
<p>and then after every couple, the kids and loved ones all gathered with each other and opened up their gifts&#8230;. I told nic to get me NOTHING as I told everyone else&#8230; but she got me a AirPort Extreme and a very cool tshirt that I love lol&#8230;. I&#8217;ll post pics later (but it&#8217;s the Monopoly character and he&#8217;s got his pockets like rabbit ears and it says in Monopoly font underneath him &#8220;BROKE&#8221; lol-awesome)</p>
<p>She told me to get her nothing as I got her a Roley for her wrist a while ago&#8230;.. and so she thought she was getting something from south coast plaza lol&#8230;. NOT<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/NIC-XMAS-BOX.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/NIC-XMAS-BOX-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="NIC XMAS BOX" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7222" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/NIC-GOYARD.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/NIC-GOYARD-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="NIC GOYARD" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7223" /></a><br />
BINGOOOOOOO!<br />
she got all the ill bags from Balenciaga to obviously Chanel, hermes and rare collab LV bags&#8230; but she didn&#8217;t have the OG KING of Luxury Travel Bags&#8230;. Goyard <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
everytime I walk into their store in SF, I feel broke and I don&#8217;t feel that way in a Lambo Dealership EVER</p>
<p>she flipped and was happy and more importantly, I had a great Nov-Dec&#8230;. so it&#8217;s all good!</p>
<p>oh! just before all of this was happening&#8230; Dwyane Wade tweeted me and shouted me out on his twitter (I showed y&#8217;all this on his blog entry)</p>
<p>we chilled at the crib til like 2 or almost 3am and then headed back to the hotel and passed out</p>
<p><strong>SATURDAY &#8211; CHRISTMAS DAY</strong></p>
<p>woke up and it was cold as ice outside<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/XMAS-DAY-DEAD.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/XMAS-DAY-DEAD-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="XMAS DAY DEAD" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7224" /></a><br />
as you can see&#8230; the mall was deader than dead and yep&#8230;. my car was still the only one in the parking lot</p>
<p>we got up lightweight early considering we went to bed so late&#8230; but Nic&#8217;s family has a traditional christmas day breakfast at the house and all of her family(well the men) are big time Lakers fans&#8230; so we headed over there to get it in&#8230;.</p>
<p>now I&#8217;ve had good breakfasts before&#8230; the eggs, toast, omelets, bacon, blah blah&#8230;. but never had a filipino breakfast before!<br />
GOTTT DAMNGGGNGGG!<br />
HAHA<br />
we had Longanisa (filipino/spanish sausage) and fried egg and garlic rice and I ATE LIKE 13 OF THEM THANGS! jesus&#8230;. I was burping all day long too&#8230;. shit put me into a severe food coma</p>
<p>I was getting texts from my goddaughters and nieces fam&#8230; showing me how much they liked their gifts!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/AMARA1.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/AMARA1-168x300.jpg" alt="" title="AMARA1" width="168" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7230" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/AMARA2.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/AMARA2-168x300.jpg" alt="" title="AMARA2" width="168" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7231" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ABBIE-GIFT1.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/ABBIE-GIFT1-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="ABBIE GIFT1" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7232" /></a><br />
I got my niece Abbie&#8230;. a 3 foot tall Hello Kitty&#8230; it was maybe the biggest hello kitty made for sale on earth lol&#8230; she can have that thing until she&#8217;s well into her teens&#8230;<br />
shout out to my cousin Steve&#8230; just had his son born. CONGRATS FAM! I LOVE YOU AND GOT YOU FOREVER!</p>
<p>meanwhile most of the family were in the living room watching the Orlando/Boston game and then the Knicks game and then when the Lake Show came on it was ON! We went to the store to get some snacks and beer and wine and all the above&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SCOOTER-24.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SCOOTER-24-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="SCOOTER 24" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7225" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SCOOTER-JERSEY.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SCOOTER-JERSEY-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="SCOOTER JERSEY" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7226" /></a><br />
even Nic&#8217;s dog has a Kobe jersey #LAKESHOW BABY!</p>
<p>and then it got kinda quiet in the house because the punk ass lakers couldn&#8217;t score a point smh&#8230;.<br />
I was so disgusted I passed out for like 2-3 hours</p>
<p>woke up and I smelled something great&#8230;<br />
it was Salpicao (another delicious filipino dish&#8230;. man&#8230; and MORE GARLIC RICE!)<br />
I fucked around and went to sleep again for like 45min! smh</p>
<p>then all Nic&#8217;s cousins who were still around and myself went down to the Hacienda Regal theaters to go see Little Fockers&#8230;.<br />
man this movie theater reminded me of 1987 and mixed with a 2010 Orange County theater</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HACIENDA-REGAL1.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/HACIENDA-REGAL1-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="HACIENDA REGAL1" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7227" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/REGAL-ARCADE1.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/REGAL-ARCADE1-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="REGAL ARCADE1" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7228" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/REGAL-ARCADE2.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/REGAL-ARCADE2-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="REGAL ARCADE2" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7229" /></a><br />
who still has arcade games in their movie theaters? I mean like this many? shitttt my kinda theater.<br />
so we saw the movie, Little Fockers was good, not great; exact same formula&#8230;. but it was good to hang with Nic&#8217;s fam&#8230;.</p>
<p>we cut out and got back to the telly and ordered some room service&#8230; ICE CREAM SUNDAE! YEEEE!!!</p>
<p><strong>SUNDAY &#8211; LAST DAY</strong></p>
<p>woke up and prayed for nice weather!<br />
the whole week we saw that it was gonna only rain on Sunday and I had a lotta work to do on Monday so I wanted to really head out on monday and my hotel reservations were only until Sunday&#8230;..<br />
looked outside the window and it was money! BANG!</p>
<p>we checked out the hotel and headed over to San Mateo to her Uncles house for MORE FOOD! and to chill out before we shook back to LA&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SAN-MATEO-BRIDGE1.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SAN-MATEO-BRIDGE1-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="SAN MATEO BRIDGE1" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7233" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SAN-MATEO-BRIDGE2.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SAN-MATEO-BRIDGE2-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="SAN MATEO BRIDGE2" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7234" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SAN-MATEO-BRIDGE3.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/SAN-MATEO-BRIDGE3-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="SAN MATEO BRIDGE3" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7235" /></a><br />
it&#8217;s been at least 15 years since I drove over this bridge&#8230;. man&#8230; thats just another thing I miss about the Bay&#8230; the bridges! I used to get silly on the hayward and san mateo bridge back in the 90&#8242;s on my bike&#8230;. bay bridge not so much, but I remember doin some lightweight racing over the bay bridge back in 91 or so&#8230;.</p>
<p>we get to her uncles house and watched some football&#8230; more filipino food, more bonding and kickin it with fam&#8230; but we didn&#8217;t stay long&#8230; headed to the nearest gas station to fill up and check the tire pressure and was OUT! we got home in like 5 hours, wasn&#8217;t so bad&#8230;. </p>
<p>Nic drove 1/2 way and I was so glad to be home and a lotta good happened this week&#8230;. so I&#8217;m blessed and I thank everyone I love and loves me for such an amazing year.<br />
early this week&#8230; I finally got the 3D tv&#8217;s put up on the wall and honestly, it&#8217;s such an under-rated experience&#8230; man&#8230; I mean Nic hates TV and she loves watching TV now in the bedroom&#8230;. I also put up the older plasma on the wall in the guest bedroom and installed a cable tv card into the flat screen so the homey&#8217;s can chill out in their own room and watch whatever they want!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/3D-LED2.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/3D-LED2-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="3D LED2" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7237" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/GUEST-BEDROOM.jpg" rel="lightbox[7174]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/GUEST-BEDROOM-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="GUEST BEDROOM" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-7238" /></a></p>
<p>got some dope ass fresh designer table lamps yesterday and I got a new SICK designer coffee table coming this week and I just need to remix my kitchen and then the guest bathroom and then I&#8217;ll be sane in my crib for another year or 2&#8230; maybe lol<br />
Don&#8217;t ask me how the hell I remembered all of this a week later, but damn! I&#8217;m sure there are more pics too, but you know the drill&#8230;. some things need to be kept private out of respect!</p>
<p>much love</p>
<p>PEACE! LOVE!<br />
LOVE ALWAYS WINS!</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[yup&#8230;. the weekend wrap up is here again and I was all over the place this weekend! I got it in at the shop&#8230;.. ran around getting ready for the evening and also had to put out some fires&#8230;.. then my man Felix the Housecat got in town for a special party he had to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>yup&#8230;.<br />
the weekend wrap up is here again and I was all over the place this weekend!<br />
I got it in at the shop&#8230;.. ran around getting ready for the evening and also had to put out some fires&#8230;..</p>
<p>then my man Felix the Housecat got in town for a special party he had to DJ and to get his new watch! Felix tours like 300+ days out of the year, no joke&#8230;. only person who I know that travels more is Steve Aoki and they both need to slow they asses down!</p>
<p>Felix is truly a real OG in the music game and is a helluva DJ! well his birthday passed last week, so it&#8217;s only right that he got a nice Black Diamond casio G-Shock! Once that heavy black gold piece hit his wrist, he was sprung!<br />
(CLICK ON ALL IMAGES IN THIS BLOG TO ENLARGE!)<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/FELIX-THE-HOUSECAT-BLACK-DIAMOND-G.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/FELIX-THE-HOUSECAT-BLACK-DIAMOND-G-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="FELIX THE HOUSECAT BLACK DIAMOND G" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4015" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BB-FELIX.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BB-FELIX-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BB FELIX" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4016" /></a></p>
<p>thank you Felix, enjoy! much love to you and your beautiful family!</p>
<p>got home and tried to take a quick 45 minute nap before I had to shake with Nic and Apolo and Ally to get to La Vida for Nic&#8217;s LolliMe bikini fashion show!</p>
<p>We shot over there early&#8230;. like 10:30ish and there was a line outside&#8230; good to see some familiar faces at the door, security guard wise and doorman wise&#8230;. I don&#8217;t get out much no matter what anyone thinks.</p>
<p>Nic got her show organized early and I chopped it up with some homey&#8217;s including my boy DJ 5 Star.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BB-APOLO-VINCE-NIC.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BB-APOLO-VINCE-NIC-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BB APOLO VINCE NIC" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4018" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/NIC-BEN.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/NIC-BEN-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="NIC BEN" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4019" /></a></p>
<p>La Vida actually holds up to 1,000 people, but in 3 parts&#8230;. the place got very packed around 11:15 and the fashion show didn&#8217;t start until around 11:45 and they cleared out the VIP patio area and put up a runway for the show&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/VIP-STAGE-AREA.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/VIP-STAGE-AREA-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="VIP STAGE AREA" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4023" /></a><br />
thank god this area wasn&#8217;t crazy packed like the front of the stage area&#8230; this was Nic&#8217;s table.</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MYSTERIOUS-STARE.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MYSTERIOUS-STARE-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="MYSTERIOUS STARE" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4024" /></a><br />
I think I was staring at Nic <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BRANDI1.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BRANDI1-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="BRANDI1" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4020" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BRANDI2.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BRANDI2-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BRANDI2" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4021" /></a><br />
the only asian girl in the show&#8230; why? I don&#8217;t know lol</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ZULEYKA.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ZULEYKA-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="ZULEYKA" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4022" /></a><br />
look at Apolo&#8217;s face! haha</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that I couldn&#8217;t take pics because I HAD TO MC THE SHOW! smh haha&#8230;. I did okay I guess, so I asked Nic&#8217;s brother to take pics if he could, he is Nic&#8217;s partner in the company!<br />
I was surprised to see so many cameras, no not cell phone cams or point and shoots but SLR&#8217;s and shit&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/GIRLS.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/GIRLS-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="GIRLS" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4025" /></a><br />
some of the girls from the show with Nic&#8230;.</p>
<p><a href="http://grooveent.com/2008/mediapop.php?event_id=1738&#038;koa="><strong>IF YOU WANT TO SEE SOME MUCH BETTER PICS OF THE SHOW AND THE BIKINIS/GIRLS THEN PLEASE CLICK HERE!</strong></a></p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LA-VIDA-CROWDED-AS-FUCK.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LA-VIDA-CROWDED-AS-FUCK-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="LA VIDA CROWDED AS FUCK" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4026" /></a><br />
La Vida was packed and the dance floor was packed&#8230; funny how the table next to us was a customer of mine and the other table was a few Clippers bench players table&#8230;..</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BB-APOLO-OMEGA.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BB-APOLO-OMEGA-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BB APOLO OMEGA" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4061" /></a><br />
me making fun of Apolo for wearing his Omega&#8230;. but really he&#8217;s making fun of me because he&#8217;s endorsed and getting paid for wearing a fine timepiece <img src='http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  lol</p>
<p>Jade Ashley was in the house, Capo was in the house, crooks were in house&#8230;.. even my fam fam Baron Davis(ACTUAL NBA CLIPPERS STAR, not bench warmer) was in the place&#8230;. it was a good time<br />
they comped us a bottle for the show and then I copped another bottle, but didn&#8217;t OD!</p>
<p>shook to the house around 1:45am and made a stop at jack in the box for finger foods! haha</p>
<p>we got home safe!</p>
<p><strong>SAT</strong><br />
__________________________________________________________________________</p>
<p>woke up to a text from my lil homey Travie McCoy who was in town to perform the Sunset Strip Music Festival with Smashing Pumpkins and Kid Cudi&#8230;.</p>
<p>I got tickets, but thought the show was at night time, it was during the day and way too crazy packed and I&#8217;m not fond of places that have Port a Pottys. #NO</p>
<p>so I rolled by Travie&#8217;s hotel to chop it up and talk shit early on&#8230;.. met up with my homey Truth too for a second&#8230;</p>
<p>then went back to the trap to grab Nic for some lunch at the grove<br />
I haven&#8217;t had an actual steak in almost 8 months! so I ordered one&#8230;.<br />
got our favorite vanilla latte&#8217;s and then shopped around for a day bed for my 2nd bedroom&#8230;.<br />
(BTW, MY DINING TABLE IS FOR SALE! BARELY USED! DIRT CHEAP!)</p>
<p>Saturday Afternoon was also a get together for my brother DJ AM at Travis Barker&#8217;s shop &#8220;The Fast Life&#8221;<br />
I just paid my respects by talking to his fam and Homicide about it, neither me or homicide showed up and It&#8217;s hard enough to still believe that our bro is gone&#8230;&#8230; I drove by and seen the homey Kev E Kev outside and hit him via text to let him know it&#8217;s all love always&#8230;.</p>
<p>went back home to watch a couple bad DVD&#8217;s&#8230;.. </p>
<p>Nic made me some dinner&#8230;. then I shot over to Travie&#8217;s hotel to get it in at Colony for the after party to the SSMF&#8230;.<br />
while Trav was getting ready, I went up to Dejesus and Mano&#8217;s room and Mano is the human roledex/catalog for vintage Louis Vuitton and vintage shades&#8230;.. me and mano got a lot of mutual friends and talked shit about Cazals to everything for a good 20 minutes&#8230;. he hurt my feelings with some vintage Chanel shades&#8230;.<br />
I hurt his with other shit lol</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CAZAL-X-SWAGGER.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CAZAL-X-SWAGGER-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="CAZAL X SWAGGER" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4027" /></a><br />
I threw on the Cazal 858&#8242;s but these are the retro version with the collab with Swagger&#8230;.</p>
<p>but peep game on these ridiculously ill Versace shades&#8230;<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/VERSACE-BIGGIES.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/VERSACE-BIGGIES-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="VERSACE BIGGIES" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4028" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/VERSACE-BIG.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/VERSACE-BIG-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="VERSACE BIG" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4029" /></a></p>
<p>anyways&#8230;.<br />
we&#8217;re late to the club/show (no way?)<br />
and so we tell the driver that he needs to put the pedal to the metal!<br />
bad move rap dudes&#8230;.. THIS DRIVER SPAZZED OUT AND WENT APE SHIT! He drove the limo like a getaway driver on a heist or like the limo in True Lies was being driven&#8230;. this was a stretch limo too! smh&#8230;.<br />
no joke, we were on the opposite side of traffic and everything! jesus. even deJESUS lol</p>
<p>we got there safe though&#8230;<br />
ran in there deep too!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/COLONY-BLURRY.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/COLONY-BLURRY-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="COLONY BLURRY" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4030" /></a><br />
as soon as we walked inside it was packed waaaaa worse than La Vida was, but I mean like DAMN!<br />
and I tried to take a pic of the crowd, but I couldn&#8217;t keep my hand straight!</p>
<p>but once we got to our roped off area, we were straight for a sec!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/GOOSES.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/GOOSES-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="GOOSES" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4034" /></a><br />
2 bottles of Goose and some brews for only an hour appearance? I&#8217;m not fucking mad at you TRAV!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/EK-VS-718.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/EK-VS-718-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="EK VS 718" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4031" /></a><br />
speaking of fresh vintage sunglasses&#8230;. WOW! OG snakeskin Emmanuel Khan joints!<br />
if you had these in the late 80&#8242;s you were doing too much! actually three much!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TRAVIE-EK.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TRAVIE-EK-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="TRAVIE EK" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4032" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BB-TRAVIE.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/BB-TRAVIE-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="BB TRAVIE" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4033" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DEJESUS-VERSACE.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DEJESUS-VERSACE-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="DEJESUS VERSACE" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4035" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DEJESUS-BLAKE.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DEJESUS-BLAKE-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="DEJESUS BLAKE" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4036" /></a><br />
the homey Blake! (used to be with karmaloop) showed up and partied with us!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/QUANG.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/QUANG-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="QUANG" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4037" /></a><br />
fellow #teamscumbag member and one of the illest professional photographers I know (dead ass serious) <a href="http://photosalaquang">QUANG!</a></p>
<p>so after kickin it for 20 minutes&#8230; IT WAS SHOWTIME!<br />
Travie owned the audience from jump!<br />
he did a couple songs off his nappy boy mixtape and album&#8230;.<br />
then went into a dope ass intro!<br />
he said, if you got $20 in your pocket, wave your hands up in the air, if you got $100 in your pocket, wave your hands up in the air! then he said if you got $500 in your hands, put your motherfuckin hands up!!!</p>
<p>then DJ MANO threw on the classic by Barrett Strong &#8220;Money&#8221; (that&#8217;s what I want)<br />
you know it goes like&#8230;. &#8220;the best things in life are free&#8230;..&#8221;</p>
<p>and then went right into his smash hit Billionaire and the place went ape shit!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DJ-MANO.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/DJ-MANO-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="DJ MANO" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4038" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TRAVIE-CROWD.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TRAVIE-CROWD-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="TRAVIE CROWD" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4039" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TRAVIE1.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TRAVIE1-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="TRAVIE1" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4040" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TRAVIE2.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/TRAVIE2-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="TRAVIE2" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4041" /></a></p>
<p>at the end of Billionaire, Trav had Mano run the hook back again&#8230;.<br />
then let the audience sing it in acapella&#8230;.</p>
<p>here&#8217;s video snippets of Travie performing Billionaire and then the crowds acapella&#8230;.</p>
<p>PART 1 OF BILLIONAIRE&#8230;<br />
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<p>PART 2 THE CROWD ACAPELLA<br />
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<p>so then after Trav finished his set, we kicked it a lil bit more&#8230; the club promoters brought out 2 bottles of champagne and we sipped bubbly and shook&#8230;.<br />
the crazy limo driver was outside and we told him WE&#8217;RE IN NO RUSH TO GET BACK TO THE HOTEL! lol&#8230;.<br />
before we ALL got in to the limo, Dejesus made sure he grabbed 4 of the ugliest women he could find possible&#8230;. smh&#8230;. and to make things worse, he copped 1 of those hot dogs wrapped in bacon made out of Teradactyl meat! but real talk, I think the Hot Dog looked better than the swiss bust downs he scooped smh</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LIMO-DEJESUS-MANO.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LIMO-DEJESUS-MANO-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="LIMO DEJESUS MANO" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4042" /></a><br />
this fool trying to hide the hot dog (no homo, but I rather it be yes homo)</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LIMO-ACID-TRIP.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LIMO-ACID-TRIP-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="LIMO ACID TRIP" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4043" /></a><br />
too much goose? too much champagne? or time for a new camera?</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LIMO-HOME2.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LIMO-HOME2-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="LIMO HOME2" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4044" /></a><br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LIMO-HOME.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/LIMO-HOME-225x300.jpg" alt="" title="LIMO HOME" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4045" /></a><br />
don&#8217;t let that smile fool you! Quang got tricks up his sleeve! haha</p>
<p>so we got back to the telly safely&#8230;<br />
I had a great time, but wanted to head home because I missed Nic&#8230;</p>
<p>so we snapped a group shot of the homey&#8217;s!<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/QUANG-MANO-TRAVIE-BB-DEJESUS.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/QUANG-MANO-TRAVIE-BB-DEJESUS-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="QUANG MANO TRAVIE BB DEJESUS" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4046" /></a></p>
<p><strong>SUN</strong><br />
__________________________________________________________________________</p>
<p>woke up early and chopped it up with my mom and fam and caught up to speed on things&#8230;.</p>
<p>SAD DAY! DJ AM&#8217;s cat who was with him during his toughest times from during the addiction to drugs to his sobriety to his final resting&#8230;. well Mugsy died recently&#8230;. so at 11am where Adam is buried is right where they were burying Mugsy.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MUGSY.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MUGSY-346x300.jpg" alt="" title="MUGSY" width="346" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4056" /></a><br />
RIP MUGSY GOLDSTEIN</p>
<p>again, I just don&#8217;t know what it is, but I couldn&#8217;t show and see anymore of it&#8230;. just fucks me up so crazy. I just want my boy to rest&#8230;.. flame and say whatever the fuck you want(for the idiots who ain&#8217;t been there early on) but selling t-shirts with surrender on the side of it? shits is disgusting&#8230;. heard they made over a quarter mill that night in vegas hmmm? rumors&#8230;.</p>
<p>then waited for Apolo and his friend to pick me and Nic up for a beautiful brunch at the Mondrian&#8230;. Asia De Cuba</p>
<p>we got there and it was nice outside&#8230;..<br />
the food is always delicious there, I suggest anytime of the day!<br />
we ordered 6 entree&#8217;s for 2 guys and 2 small girls!<br />
and 2 very large appetizers and a fruit platter&#8230;..</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CALIMARI-SALAD.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/CALIMARI-SALAD-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="CALIMARI SALAD" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4047" /></a><br />
their world famous Calamari Salad (the dressing the bananas make this joint!)</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ASIA-DE-CUBA-FRUIT-PLATTER.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ASIA-DE-CUBA-FRUIT-PLATTER-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="ASIA DE CUBA FRUIT PLATTER" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4048" /></a><br />
the mango&#8217;s were insanely ripe! soooo good&#8230;..</p>
<p>(cue Nate dogg from &#8220;Next Episode&#8221; song &#8220;HOLD UP! WAAAAAIITTTTTT!!!)<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/APOLO-FUNKY-WORM.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/APOLO-FUNKY-WORM-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="APOLO FUNKY WORM" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4049" /></a><br />
now this worm was break dancing on the piece of mango! I mean, smh&#8230;. good thing we&#8217;re cool because this was just fucked up! while walking inside, people left and right were like hey you&#8217;re apolo ohno! you&#8217;re an awesome ice skater! you&#8217;re great! hey great smile! hey you wanna bang my wife?(joking)<br />
and they treat us like this? damn&#8230;.<br />
at a 5 star restaurant? </p>
<p>anyways&#8230;. the manager came over, comped the dish and brought out another&#8230;. by this time we&#8217;re all almost full except for Apolo&#8230;.</p>
<p>the main courses of our brunch come and man&#8230;.<br />
the girls each got smoked salmon with bagels and cream cheese platters which were amazing&#8230;.</p>
<p>I got a three egg white omelette with gouda cheese and mushrooms&#8230;. and potatoes and english muffin&#8230; (not shown)</p>
<p>Apolo got the Huevo&#8217;s Ranchero&#8217;s (not shown lol) which was outstanding!<br />
and the special breakfast enchiladas&#8230;.<br />
<a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ENCHILADAS.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/ENCHILADAS-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="ENCHILADAS" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4050" /></a></p>
<p>the food was excellent, but the girls were freaked out over the worm dancing with the stars(literally)</p>
<p>so we headed out and shook in the maserati to magnolia!<br />
YES AS IF WE WEREN&#8217;T FOOD COMA&#8217;D ENOUGH!<br />
OUR FAT ASSES WENT TO MAGNOLIA AND GOT IT IN!!!!!</p>
<p>smh&#8230;.<br />
shit was soo good&#8230; we got a dozen cup cakes, a couple cookies and some brownies&#8230;. smh&#8230;.<br />
from coconut to red velvet to double chocolate to vanila to banana, to just gluten extra fuckery!</p>
<p><a href="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MAGNOLIA.jpg" rel="lightbox[4014]"><img src="http://cdn.ifandco.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/MAGNOLIA-400x300.jpg" alt="" title="MAGNOLIA" width="400" height="300" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-4051" /></a><br />
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<p>so we went back to my house and murked the desserts&#8230;<br />
we finished all of them except for 4! (brought home Nic&#8217;s parents a few and my mom 1 red velvet)</p>
<p>Apolo had to shake and we had to go visit my pops as he&#8217;s finally having surgery tomorrow to get that bumba clot tumor out of him! (THANK GOD! I pray for it to be a successful surgery!)</p>
<p>as we got to his hospital room, my step brother was giving him a manicure, which is good! but I don&#8217;t see why my female cousin or mom wasn&#8217;t doing it? lol&#8230;. all good&#8230;. gave my mom the red velvet cake and hung out for a little bit&#8230; she was in a very good mood, so that made me very happy since she hasn&#8217;t been eating really and both of them have lost a lot of weight! NOT ME because I&#8217;m a fat pig!</p>
<p>we left the hospital to let pops rest and shook over to glendale&#8230;. it&#8217;s been a few weeks since I&#8217;ve visited Nic&#8217;s family&#8230;. so I was hyped because Nic&#8217;s mom always cooks me the best food!</p>
<p>we hit up the glendale galleria for a quick second to grab some shit from bath and body works&#8230;. some nice scent refills for our diffuser&#8230;</p>
<p>then it was kill myself with pop my belly time with the chicken adobo!</p>
<p>chopped it up with Nic&#8217;s fam for a couple hours&#8230;.</p>
<p>then headed back home for some TRUE BLOOD!!!<br />
damn last nights episode was gooooooddddd!<br />
DAMN SO SAD THE LAST EPISODE IN COMING UP! ONLY 1 EPISODE LEFT! SUCKS!<br />
well we got NFL! #RAIDERS!</p>
<p>watched Entourage and it sucked! surprise! it&#8217;s really been bad, but last season was worse&#8230; </p>
<p>so anyways&#8230;<br />
I got a lot of work to do and a watch to deliver!<br />
tomorrow we are CLOSED! and I&#8217;m taking my twin nieces to an amusement park and also shooting a special cameo for Far East Movement&#8217;s new music video for their 2nd single&#8230;. AT 7AM IN THE MORNING! </p>
<p>fuck my life!</p>
<p>and then after the entire day at an amusement park, I have to shoot back over to Hollywood for the premiere of my TV show &#8220;The Clinic&#8221; which I&#8217;m co-starring in a couple episodes&#8230;..</p>
<p>back on the grind!<br />
much love!</p>
<p>ALWAYS PEACE!</p>
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		<title>LOLLIME BIKINI SHOW! this Friday 8/27 @ La Vida</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ben Baller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[shit&#8217;s always fun&#8230;. it&#8217;s gonna be fine women and even that much MORE fun since La Vida on Friday nights is crazy! there&#8217;s usually 8 to 12 models in bikini&#8217;s walking a runway or stage&#8230;. not an import type scene gonna drag out my lil brother Apolo too&#8230;. maybe Homicide Nicolette makes the best bikini&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>shit&#8217;s always fun&#8230;. it&#8217;s gonna be fine women and even that much MORE fun since La Vida on Friday nights is crazy! there&#8217;s usually 8 to 12 models in bikini&#8217;s walking a runway or stage&#8230;. not an import type scene</p>
<p>gonna drag out my lil brother Apolo too&#8230;. maybe Homicide<br />
Nicolette makes the best bikini&#8217;s out there! no joke<br />
they&#8217;re classy, but sooooo sassy!</p>
<p>my boy Five Star is gonna be on the wheels playin dipset to deadmau5<br />
come through!</p>
<p>(CLICK ON FLIER TO ENLARGE FOR DETAILS)<br />
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<p>see y&#8217;all there!</p>
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