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“the niggas I ball with, I fall with”
“REAL SHIT, YOU KNOW YOU’RE FAM”
bbm convo with Drake and words that made me say fuck this, I’m rollin to San Diego to check out my bro’s show…..
I was a little up in the air about driving down, but lil Franchise aka Catdicc Jr wanted to go so bad because he knew we’d be real VIP for real and he missed out on the LA show.
I hate to ask my homey’s for favors… especially since again a lot of cats I fuck with I fucked with before they caught major fame or big dividends. But I knew San Diego wasn’t a major show like LA or NYC or TDot, etc…. boy was I fuckin all the way wrong…. smh…

So anyways, I always keep a 3 day bag packed in the trunk and had a few errands to run early, so around noon after I talked to Drizzy I was like fuck this, what telly you stayin at? okay, I’m on my way! I roll down to grab Franchise and only agreed to go if he drove my car down(had to stunt on daygo cats in the 7)…. filled up the gas tank and grabbed some bad fast food and shook to the 619….

who wouldn’t love to drive the best luxury sedan on earth? ME! it took us 2.5 hours to get to the whales vagina! smh

while Franchise is navigating his way through the worst traffic ever…. I get an email from a friend showing me his new car….

$275,000? smfh…. I’m disgusted!

so after all that damn traffic, we finally check into the hotel room and decided to walk down to the horton plaza mall….. did some very lightweight shopping and kept it pushing as I knew we didn’t have much time to eat and get ready for the night(I didn’t expect much again…man I was sooo wrong) we hit up Subway(yes the very mediocre sandwich shop…. told y’all i’m a regular guy lol) so I order a small sammich(last thing I needed was bubble guts during the show… I learned a LONG TIME ago to NEVER eat before I performed/dj’d or was gonna be in a nightclub, etc for a long amount of hours smh lol)

yes homo

all I know is that I see Corzo and Veuve…. so if all else fails, I’m goin in on the liqs and passing out….

THIS FOOL CAT DICC JR BROUGHT STACKS AND STACKS…. I think I created a monster…. smh

got back to the hotel, organized my shit, I don’t know how to use an iron so CD Jr helped me out…. got online and blogged about the night before and chatted with my girl then before I knew it, it was time to head out…. had the whip pulled up to the front of the telly and told CJ and Drizzy I’d meet them in the lobby of the telly…

PEEP GAME LOL… as we’re all walking out of the hotel and to the tour bus, these girls pull up out of nowhere literally and jump out of a car… I’m like okay, Drake fans already, dope! the girl gets stopped by Drake’s security and she says VERBATIM “drake, I have front row seats to your show, but can you please do me a favor and take a picture of me and Ben Baller?” LOLOLLOLOLOOLL. I think Franchise musta died inside.. now I know I got fans and followers of my blog or people I inspire, but honestly? I don’t think I’m famous or worthy of having what you would call “fans” so I just embrace any positive energy thrown my way… anyways. Drake takes the picture while busting up laughing and I’m still thinking Drake prolly thinks I paid this girl to do this, but she had said she reads my blog, etc…. (well mama, much love to you and I appreciate the support)

ok, so we’re finally off to UCSD for the concert and I had no idea what the hell the Sun God festival was or how big the arena was or anything… I just figured club nokia was 3,000 strong, so SD shoulda been the same, maybe a little more…. so we head out and I guess we got wrong directions, or better yet, we got the wrong address! So we get there and we chill out on the tour bus for a little while before heading in….. before all that, Future the Prince(Drizzy’s DJ & partner) walks into the bus and says, yo you ain’t bring a jacket? i’m like naw… for what? it was hot as hell in the club last night…. (i’m still thinking this is a basketball arena or indoor event center) and Future’s like hell naw, you’re gonna freeze! It’s OUTDOORS FAM! and it’s packed! I’m like wtf? cuz they’re from Toronto! so I’m buggin! I walk into Drizzy’s room and demand a jacket… he pulls out a Polo jacket(of course smh) and we start walking into the arena area… we stop at Drakes dressing room which he didn’t even use, maybe his band did…. we gather in a circle and say a prayer(love this type shit and the energy going into this show) and so I tell Drake, yo I brought a black gold pvd beaded necklace fam… should I throw it into the crowd? He says, word? naw…. I’mma figure it out, so just stay tuned and when you hear your name, come out and play it by ear….
once we hit the stage, I’m like HOLY FUCK! there’s over 20,000 people gathered around and I felt like I was at Coachella or Woodstock 2000…. it was packed like a motherfucker and Drake goes on and I forget about the skit thing…. He comes out banging with FOREVER and….. well… here’s some pics to show you what’s good…
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my all access is good!

Cat Dicc Jr main stage credentials are good!

Jackie Long says fuck all access credentials! I’m bout to fuck this snickers bar up

PLACE IS PACKED AND THIS IS JUST 1 VIEW OF THE CROWD!

Drizzy’s like fuck this… I WANT THIS SHIT FOREVER MANE….EVER MANE!!! last name yang, first name benjamin lol

DRIZZY SAYS…. WELCOME HOME GUCCI!

THEY GOT MONEY TO BLOW…

STILL FLY

LOL

MY LIL GUY IS HAVING THE TIME OF HIS LIFE!!!

maybe you should get a closer look of how fucking packed this place was!

how can you hate on that????

okay, so now this is where it gets tricky… because I’m sorta people watching and I don’t know wtf the fuck it going on…. but this is also the part of the show where Drake picks out a special girl/lady from the audience and Jaz Prince brings her up onto the stage and Drizzy Woo’s her….. and then Drake calls my name out, 2 times and Franchise and even Bubbs(drakes security) are like yo BEN, he’s calling you… so I walk out on stage and play with the skit he got going on….. I give the girl a $3,000 black gold beaded(rosary style) necklace (fuck it right?) and Drake shouts me out and I walk off…..
a few people caught this(I have some ill footage from Derick G coming soon!)
but meanwhile… someone on youtube caught the footage… peep game
right at 1:19 is where it begins…. lol

and then Franchise caught the footage from on stage when I walked out

back to the real show…

mack maine came out to do his part and he’s obviously a natural with it!

he just wants to be successful… mission accomplished

and while Drizzy was performing “Best I Ever Had”

he ran into the crowd and created bedlam….

so we all shook from UCSD and headed back to the gaslamp district to this club called On Broadway which is where the official after party was being held…. I swear to god, Drakes team is so official, I’ve ran with the best in every field, from rock to alternative to hip hop, etc…. I’m just saying, Drizzy’s squad is AAAA and never slippin (MUCH LOVE AGAIN TO CJ, JAMIL, TEZ, THE WHOLE SECURITY STAFF AND OF COURSE DRAKE FOR SHOWING ME AND MY PARTNER LOVE)
we walk up to the entrance… ummm actually through the kitchen like on some Swingers meets Good Fellas type shit… and as soon as the people see Drake it was crazier than I’ve seen with any rapper (except lil wayne and maybe ye’)
we sit down at our table and immediately 10 bottles of Ace of Spades is waiting for the team…. rose’ + gold bottles and the big Gran Patron…. grey goose, cmon…. that shit is in his rider agreement! (hand claps)
so I get up on stage with Drizzy to act a fool as this is NOT SOMETHING foreign at all lol…. pink bottle in my hand? I’m happy

play no games!

fyi, cat dicc jr is the worst photog ever

Drake performed 2 songs to a packed ass club!

jackie couldn’t do no stanky leg cuz he tore his ACL lol

YOUNG ANGEL…. OLD ASIAN…. AWWWREADDY

I couldn’t resist! #champagnehooligans (photo credit: Allen Rhodes ARphotography.net )

here’s some more pics of the weekends events from Allen Rhodes aka AR Photography
he captures all the major events to nightlife to all the above in San Diego and he’s breaking into the video world… much love AR!!!!

we stayed inside that club until it ended…. it was crazy outside… I heard a dude shout out “yo Drake, can you tell this bitch I know you so I can get some pussy” LOLOLOL…. man… street was packed and I was all the way turnt up!
I don’t know what happened next besides barfing in the hotel room…. but I woke up to the WORST NEWS EVER!

got a call from my brother Double R and was told my Cocky Ridaz Bro Bro GENO CAP (Eugene Jackson) was killed in a car accident just hours before the call…. that shit ruined my day… trip and weekend… I didn’t know what to do or where to begin….. all I know is that I wasn’t going to continue this tour to Santa Barbara….

I paid my respects to most of Geno’s fam and made some calls and took 4 advils and a lot of water…. stopped to get some gas and even though there wasn’t any traffic, my head was so fucked off from hearing my boy Geno was killed…. I had Franchise drive us up….
I promised I’d stop by the L-R-G Sample Sale to check out the stuff and say what up and by the time we got there it was already crazy….
I got some SUPER SUPER ILL L-R-G X OAKLEY SKI GOGGLES THOUGH! and some grass roots sweats that fit me! (I used to rock shit way too big!)
peep the googles! shits are fresh!

ATTN: FOR THOSE WHO MISSED OUT ON THE SALE! THERE IS STILL A LOT OF GOOD CLOTHES AVAILABLE NEXT WEEKEND! THE INFORMATION IS A FEW ENTRIES BELOW THIS ONE! CHECK IT OUT! GET LIFTED!

but I headed back up to Franchise’s crib to try to clear my head a little bit then I shot to the trap…. my girl was there for me and I turned my phone off and just stayed in…..
After about 8 hours of sleep which was much needed, I still had a fucked up feeling inside me…. so I went to spend some time with my family and they made me feel a lot better….

all in all, I can’t express again how much appreciation I got for my lil homey Drake and I got to meet a very talented photographer Derick G who is Cash Money’s official photog and I really had an amazing time in SD this weekend…. prolly the best time I’ve ever had in Daygo… but now it’s time to focus, continue grinding and prepare for a funeral I wish I didn’t have to go to… smh

EVERYONE HAVE A BLESSED WEEK! MUCH LOVE!

So last week I blogged random things as normal, but when I took off out of town wednesday morning, I brought my macbook without fear of losing it this time… only thing was I didn’t have that much time to blog really because I was tied up working and entertaining and by the time I got back to my room each day/night I was exhausted….

so I fly to Las Vegas on wednesday morning to check into my new favorite hotel(3rd times a charm huh? YES IT IS ^_^ )
Upgraded to a “view” suite and on the 50th floor, shit was doooppe! Not to sound like a snob because I can be a prick at times , but I’m used to staying at nice hotels and this is when I love to take advantage of the economy when it comes to luxury shit (i.e. my bmw, my 1st class flights are cheaper, etc)
so I check into my room and you know I got pics lol
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I’m not mad at her murakami bag…

the bedroom or really the bed is the business!

the view from the bed looks like so…. we’re so high up, I had to sit up on the bed to see something

the living room…. chilling room

awwwready…. who the fuck is gonna cook in vegas though?

but this was the best part for real….

this view was shitting!

had some jewelry business to handle at the wynn, so I figured I’d catch a quick lunch there too…

actin like I’m on an important call! btw, weather was cold as hell! and it was windy as hell too! smh

after I finished some work, shopped a little bit at the wynn, saw shit at GRAFF that I’ll never be able to afford, hit fashion show mall, came out empty, hit Forum Shops and copped a few things… there’s a new store I found(me, not new to everyone) called Scoop nyc and they carried everything from my favorite APC line to even my shades I rock all the time now and fresh ass other shit… it’s sort of like a fred segal/ron herman for men… what I think Barney’s co-op should be like…. then walked over to marc jacobs and copped some small shit and needed to take a nap back at the room….

on the way back to the telly…. I seen one of those vans everyone see’s that pulls advertisements, usually strip clubs and escort services…. and I’m like hold up, I KNOW THAT GIRL???!!!!! lol
it’s jessica burciaga and this was the best shot I could get with my phone…. so I had to BBM her the pic and she was heated but said it’s been going on for 4 years and she can’t stop them. smh

so I watch some peoples court, then pass out…
when I awoke, this is what I saw

sorry, but this shit will never get old to me… I’ve been a sucker for the Bellagio Fountain show for over a decade! and this view along with the players high roller suite at Aladdin/Planet Hollywood, this reigns supreme!

So I got up, got semi-fresh to hit up Koi for some dinner….
After dinner… there isn’t much poppin on a wed night in Vegas… there’s Eve at Crystals and Lavo I guess, but I wasn’t in the mood…. so I walked over to Caramel inside the bellagio to cool out for a minute…. after a few patron and sprites, I thought it’d be funny if me and my friend play an april fools prank and act like we got married… ok, so it’s 12:09am and I’m thinking everyone on twitter or facebook has to know this shit is a joke…. NOT EVERYONE…. I got calls from important people in my life, we both got mad texts etc… it was just a joke! one of our mutual friends was like YOOOOO WTF? OMFUCCCCCCCKEN GATTTTTTT, I CAN’T BELIEVE IT? WHEN? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? YOU GUYS ARE CRAZZZZY….. BUT FUCK IT I’M SO HAPPY FOR YOU AND LET’S CELEBRATE WHEN YOU COME HOME!!!!
lol, jesus I almost didn’t wanna tell my homey because he was so damn happy, but when he found out it was april fools, he was fucking pissed!

I guess it was meant to be huh? BB I mean…. haha

Anyways, woke up thursday morning to a beautiful breakfast, in all of the hotels in Vegas, the Vdara def shits on anyone else’s room service. 1. the food is spectacular! 2. the service is fast and amazing! so I kept on with the joke for those idiots who haven’t caught on yet…. said MR. and Mrs. Yang’s 1st breakfast together….

not shown is the toaster oven they bring up to toast up the bread and the bagels lol….

so after breakfast, I thought I’d utilize the Spa facilities and had no expectations…. I figured it’d have to be the shit because it is a 5 star telly…. BUT WOW! now I’ve stayed at every single top hotel in vegas, from the Trump to Wynn to Four Seasons and the shitty ass Aria, but DEEEZAAAMMMMMNN! The Vdara’s spa is hands down the illest spa I’ve been to, not only in vegas, but period. They just had it on lock down and covered every which way possible! I sat in the steam room for a good 20 minutes to let out all the bullshit and toxins and tried to be calm for 1nce in my lifetime…. got in a hot rock/swedish massage and shit relaxed me soo much, that I fell asleep in that bitch! true story… I was told I was even snoring lightweight lol…. so after that, hit the dry sauna to take advantage of the oils that were used on my skin and also relax a little bit more… I used up everything I could in that spa and felt like a million bux for real! ordered some snacks and went back up to the room to blog a little and catch up on some emails….

after getting ready and shit, I was truly fresh to death and completely feeling myself

got on my prada and skinny suit and was ready for dinner and Cirque Du Soleil

I had dinner at Yellowtail at the Bellagio and they recently acquired the chef from Nobu in Denver who is an Iron Chef…. (THANK YOU JOSH D AND THE LIGHT GROUP FOR ALL THE VIP SERVICES) So I’m greeted at the door, window seat right in front of the fountain show!

shit was wet, pun intended….

I had some sushi the night before, but it was sort of weak…. might not hit Koi again… so this night, I wanted to go IN… got a few orders of Toro and this Miso Black Cod and mad other shit that was delicious….
As soon as dinner ended, I headed over to see “O” with a friend who has never seen the show before…. I even had a special surprise in hand for her, but no camera’s or such are allowed inside the theater…. so I’ll just tell you lol…. during the middle of the show, I had the conductor (thank you T & H) in the middle of a sold out audience, have one of the characters of the show bring out a flower to my friend…. (f.y.i. we were sitting row A aka Front Row) and she looked at me like wtf? I was like, hurry up and go up there and grab it…. funny thing is I only had a facebook picture to use at the time I tried to arrange this… and she was sitting in my seat, so you could see the 2 guys on stage literally count out the seats in our section…. so the show was amazing (my 8th time watching it) and I wanted to head out to party just a little bit….

btw, nobody else was pulled off stage that wasn’t IN the actual show… nobody else got a flower or anything, so I think she felt special lol

so we headed to Haze to meet up with my boy Josh D who runs shit in Las Vegas…. we walk up and I see my homey Roccett, say what up and head into the club ultra VIP status….
now for a recession, I don’t know where the money is coming from, BUT EVERY SINGLE TABLE AND VIP TABLE IS BOOKED WITH MAD BOTTLES OF GOOSE AND CRISTAL/ACES, ETC! I’m like whoa???? remember, this club is BIG, holds over 2,000 people… so I was like good shit… the DJ was not bad, crowd was cool… the dancers were in way classier outfits than what you see go-go type dancers in LA wearing…. got a few pineapple/patron’s and then shook…

As I was walking back to my hotel which is across the driveway of Aria inside the city center… I took a picture with my phone

when I woke up Friday morning… I was hyped to get back home to LA…. I didn’t even go hard in Vegas, but a couple days is the most I could do there…. it drives me crazy after about 4+ days…
so I let anyone/everyone who still may think I was married that I wasn’t….
put up a pic on my facebook saying “hey, the annulment was successful and at least I’m flying home 1st class!”

I got home to some be@rbricks waiting on me…. I already blogged about 1 of them…
had to ship out some jewels and then traffic was so bad, I started to get in a mood…. stopped at the 1st McDonalds I saw and copped my 1st Fillet of Fish ever! shit wasn’t that bad! haha…. finally got home and took a nap for a little bit.
Friday night was 2 things, my friends birthday and my friend Nicolette’s Bikini show for her line Lollime so I had to go there and support and say what up to some of my friends…
I had some homiez meet up at my place before we shot off to the club to get pre game warm up…. and they were pounding Henny and Apple juice hard…. I mean for a girl, I was like damn, for a little dude, I was like ok mobster… go head!!!!! they was drinking like it was their birthdays. So we hit the club around 11:30 and we didn’t plan on staying for a long time, but hey… you know they had Rose’ there! my favorite Nectar Imperial!

had to say what up to my friends…

I took some pics of the bikini show, but my point and shoot is not made for quick shots… so if you want to see more pics, go to www.usualsuspectsla.com
I forgot to mention that someone walked up to me and handed me 2 FAT spliffs of kush and I was like wtf? I didn’t smoke anything but DAMNN… good lookin out holmes.

now my other homiez who I rolled up with were drinking all night and even had some Rose’ with me…. but by around 1:45am, they couldn’t hang and the club was open til 3am, so we left and headed to get some food after having an argument with maybe the dumbest and oldest doorman/security guard ever. I mean, some people just start shit to start it. for no reason but their own issues and this guy was close to 50 years old… smh

anyways, we head to get some Food at Mel’s and the homey Eric says, damn I don’t feel so good, had work and school today and I’m like huh? my guy, I’m almost 40, I ain’t tryna hear that shit, let’s order some food and MAN UP! his girl was saying the same, but I had no idea she was sorta faded too….

they walk out to the bathroom and are gone for a long ass time, long enough for me to finish my food and so I walk outside and these fools are out in my friends whip with the door open! they forgot to even lock the door, let alone close it! CAUGHT SLIPPIN!!!!!!! hahahahahahaha


NO MAS! LOL

Saturday night…. I was almost hyped to see Roy Jones Jr. fight, but I kept it lightweight all day long… had my friends bday dinner to hit up…
headed over to Cecconi’s and I got to shout out the manager Chris for showing mad love again…. ran into the homey Regis there to…. Regis is the true definition of a boss! I will NOT ever go to St. Tropez or the south of France without my guy….
so anyways, had a delicious dinner there and popped a few bottles of Ace early!




dinner was excellent…

my crazy no filter partner in crime Bella!

the homey Russ… a future boss in the making… he’s gonna give me a job soon

dessert was lightweight off the hook!

we all left Cecconi’s mad late…. and headed over to Voyeur and copped a couple bottles to continue a little celebration….


yes, thats my trout mouth self actin up on the right hand side…. smh

me doin my impression of Eric who couldn’t hold his liquor from 24hrs prior lol

I’ve been rocking a lotta suits lately…. but for the last 2 years or less I’ve cleaned up my style with a slimmer fit everything and definitely less jewels… I guess it’s time to look grown up… don’t mean I have to act growns up though! haha…. BUT you couldn’t tell me shit that night! I was in my Christian Dior Homme suit! YOU COULDN’T TELL ME I WASN’T FRESHHHH! uggghhhhhhh! lool (okay I’m done) no ice but my watch and earrings…. no grills, just my straight teeth (yes I had braces as a child)

Sunday was a lazy day…. my fam doesn’t celebrate easter… some of my family celebrate Passover and that’s about it, so I stayed in and ordered in and slept all day to catch up on a long but fun week… later that night went to friend for some BBQ and then came back and passed out!

btw, that earthquake was long as fuck! DAMN! it went forever and ever!

AND P.S. DON’T SLEEP MARK FATLACE! I’M STILL PRACTICING MY STREET FIGHTER SKILLS!
I’M COMING TO GET YOU HOMEY! NO THIS AIN’T APRIL FOOLS! BLANKA GONNA TAP THAT ASS!!!!!!

GOD BLESS YOU ALL!

So my man Nick Diamond had an episode of Fantasy Factory being shot at his store (LOCATION) and it was to also celebrate the collab between Diamond Supply and Drama(from fantasy factory’s) new clothing brand Young and Reckless. Nick had a very decent bar, invite only because of the shooting of the show…. had Ciroc sponsors and Coronas on deck… the kush was provided by everyone…. of course my dumbass brought a chilled bottle of vintage Dom Perignon!
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Ocho Cinco showed up and showed mad respect for my jewelry game… to see more, make sure to click the link below
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