Posts Tagged ‘fm’

So I think any tues following a long holiday weekend makes me feel like damn, today is monday? wait, naw it’s a short week? regardless, it screws up my body clock ONLY because everyone else trips on it so much.

the most important thing is this: SUMMER NEVER CAME TO L.A.! IT’S 67 DEGREES OUTSIDE AND WILL BE COLD ALL WEEK LONG! I hate that Fall is coming, I used to look forward to it when I was a kid for the following reasons: School started so that meant flossing new gear, new girls and FOOTBALL SEASON….. now? not so much… but it’s nice to have a wonderful woman in my life

so I really did nothing but get rid of more shit and I’m down to my land strand of giveaways and extra unnecessary things from my place…. I’m thinking of getting a new turbo porsche and a prius instead of just having my 7 (HMMMM?)

friday night, I went to Best Buy and got there at 8:30 and stayed until they kicked me out…..
checked out 65″ LED tv’s and that’s what I’m getting….
realized that I don’t want to get another bluray player, so I’m going with a new PS3 with wifi so I can use the playstation store which I’m addicted to. damn I know I’m late and I know about a year ago I used to fuck with it because my homey Jordan used it so much, but I gotta do it…. also with updates the PS3 can be used as a 3D dvd player too! so I win…. speaking of the PS3 there is a jailbreak now? word? I care “0″ when they let me play xbox games and other shit then I MIGHT be excited, but I’m not much of a gamer these days…. which brings me to selling my 2 brand new in the box never opened limited edition XBOX 360 elite consoles with everything…. 1 is a super limited #’d GTA IV edition and the other is the Resident Evil all RED xbox… inquire via comment! or to info@ifandco.com

so saturday, same shit, nothing but trying to find the perfect rug for my living room…. going over jewelry designs, finishing Mayor’s invisible set mini cross…. finishing Apolo’s new olympic ring dog tags, finishing some rings and slanging more gucci’s!

Sat night, me and nic went to finally go see “Takers” and the movie was good. Def action packed from beginning to end, I feel like Chris Brown was a little tad bit too goofy for the role, but I guess it was borderline since he was supposed to the younger brother? I dunno…. Adris’s accent was NOT believable. was also unnecessary….. T.I. was a little too cocky and it didn’t work all the time. But everyone else was on point. Crazy to see my homey Gabriel Casseus’s name roll at the end as the Writer for this! damnnnn!!!! good shit Gabe!

Sunday, checked on pops condition and finally found the day bed I want from West Elm….
woke up to a few funny bbm pics…
1 of my homey Max Murder who was probably outside his mind

I love this crazy motherfucker!

and then… the new Banksy

clowning again…. the government again…
BP diss and the japanese dolphin hunters…

later in the day, before I headed out to the FM show, I was trying to find the perfect outfit….

nothing could be worse….
SOFTIES X CROCS COLLAB? smh…. (btw, Homicide stays rocking softies)

but speaking of kicks, I got some ill shit for sale…. Supra NS Skytop Red patents(prolly the hardest to find) worn only 2x for a photoshoot and then some other NDS kicks along with DS kicks and also a good amount of really rare Vans SK8 Hi’s x supreme x undftd kicks….. just holla

so I shoot over to ISA with Nic and it’s literally across the street from Catdicc Jr’s crib…. but his dumb ass is in Orlando, FL (I know, I know… why? why? WHY???) LOL

get inside with my backstage credentials and I get the feeling of when koreans used to try to put on shows with whoever or whatever was popular back in the day music or dancing wise….. I’ve never been to Kollaboration, but unless they recognize (I went to HS with the founder smh….) I’ll never show up to one.
but I missed last years ISA and FM offered to bring me out to SF, but I had so much drama last year, I couldn’t make it. BUT I’M GLAD I MADE IT THIS YEAR BECAUSE EVERYONE SAID IT WAS THE BIGGEST ISA SHOW TO DATE AND THE BEST ONE YET!

I see IZ as soon as I get to the backstage area…. comedian Danny Cho…. some dancers… k-pop sensation Jay Park and others…. I’m not trippin on nobody and they ain’t checkin for me, so it’s all good…. I just hang out in FM’s dressing room with my girl and FM

before I even got there… James aka Proh sent me this picture at around noon

I was like ohhhhh shitt! a couple thousand can fit in that spot! and it’s sold out? okayyyy it’s gonna be ON!

IZ always cracks me up, I got to talk to JSpliff and Kev a little bit…. Proh was pretty much co-MCing the show with others…. to be honest, other than Qwest Crew, i’d never ever heard of the other people on the bill.

you already know if there’s an event with FM and I’m jumping on stage? I need to have ice or ice cold ROSE’….

but since the show sponsors were disney and JC Penny and the crowd was PG-13 to 18….. we agreed they might trip if I come up on stage with some liquor… I ain’t tryin to mess up their paper either… so we kept that bitch on ice…

the guys threw out a shoe signed by everyone on the bill and included party crashers IZ and moi…

IZ clowning….. shout out to my boy Onxx

the FM cats got some disneyland mickey hats made with their names on it… so I decided to fuck with them…
koreans got big ass melon heads, so I knew JSpliff’s hat would fit me lol

retarDEAD Mau5

so anyways….
closer to show time…. the guys got their mini rehearsal on

they’re show hasn’t come a super long way inside the past 2 years…. it’s just got more polished each time and more energized as they continue to rock mic’s. REAL TALK. E-Man jumped on the drums for this show….

so after they got it in….
we all walked downstairs to see parts of the show

MUCH LOVE TO DIANA AND THE ISA CREW! these VIP seats were something else! best seats for sure…

place was packed….

AJ Raphael playing to a sold out crowd….

kevnish… catdicc and proh backstage

Jay Park and Dumbfoundead had the crowd crazy…. I MEAN CRAZY!

between the both of these cats, they got 200,000 followers on twitter…. was nice to meet them and see their repping that K!

so after they got off…. there was a short 2 minute break to bring up the main event….

these korean girls were screaming like Rain was on stage! haha

are you ready???

and then

E-Man brought out the homey Nick Cannon and then Nick Cannon shouted out the FAM and introduced FM…. was a dope moment since it was a complete surprise….

Nick said upstairs in the room… “I’ll never be icier than Ben Baller” lol

before FM stepped on stage…. they always huddle into a prayer and the stereotypes led it off that night with a blessing

Far East Movement about to Blast off in T minus 10 seconds…. 9, 8, 7

vir man is always ready!

these motherfuckers are all the way turnt up!

man these sons of bitches are bonafied true ROCK STARS NOW!

then the Poreotics crew came up to rep with FM on Girls on the Dancefloor


hard to get a good pic on the side of the stage… but just imagine the energy off the images….

and so….
it’s almost about that time lol (old man that I am, I had to stretch just in case smh)


I grabbed that mic and said AWWWW YEAHHHHHHHH!

Qwest jumped up there too…. I was adlibbing on the mic with 1 hand and fist pumpin with the other

walked off to the back side of the stage because it was too hot, too crazy and my ass is too old!

yep…. was jumping back and forth from a real camera to my blackberry camera

virman and stereotypes jumped in like it was a gang bang lol

PROH saying #1….. (haircut looking like a university of michigan wolverine helmet! lol)
PEACE MOTHERSUCKERS! PEACE!

so we all walked back up to the dressing room….

and then you awwwwreadddy know!

made sure NO GLASSES! you got 5 people who share a drink here in America and someone or everyone gets sick…. but in Korea, you got 5 people sharing some jigae and NOBODY GETS SICK!
so we killed that shit inside 10 minutes and I shook….

FAMILY FIRST…..

so then me and Nic shook off to HYDE to meet up with her friends and it was fucking packed in there too!

hung out there til 1am and I was fucking exhausted from running around and drinking….

went to Del Taco and then I passed out like a grizzly bear….
did somone say be@r???

smh, nic woke up because I was snoring so loud so she videotaped it… when she finally woke me up, I could hear myself snoring…. I was so fucking tired from everything!

but I went back to sleep and slept WELL!

woke up monday and it was nice and quiet…..
got some food with Nic’s Fam from the bay and ordered a movie on demand…

meanwhile, my Kaws 4 foot companions are spoiled…. along with my alarm system, they hold down the fort, so I hooked up 1 of them with an official Jesus Piece

man, I’m getting so close to having my crib to a decent level that I’m amped!

aite, so much to do, so little time….

back to jewels, back to grinding

PEACE!

so yesterday was 1 of the longest days in a long time!
woke up at 5am to cut my wig and get decent for my cameo in the new Far East Movement video.
I check my phone and check twitter to see Homicide’s dumb ass is still tweeting like 20 minutes prior! I’m like fool didn’t we get an early dinner so you can rest? (fyi, Homicide’s had a sleeping disorder for as long as I’ve known him. doesn’t matter if he’s played 2 shows that night, he just won’t sleep for longer than 4 hours EVER)

so I say fuck it, I get fresh….
meanwhile, I send over directions to Homicide because our cameo/scene is together (thanks KevNish and FM) and he’s like man…. I’m sleepy! NO SHIT? YOU GOT ABOUT 1 HOUR AND 15 MIN SLEEP! and what makes it worse is that, I had to leave the set by 9:30am IMMEDIATELY to run and grab my twin nieces and take them to Universal Studios which was already inked in their schedule over a month ago…. then run back and head over to Capital City for the world premiere of my show “The Clinic” smh….

so I get rollin down 6th street and not that I don’t wake up early because I do… but damn it’s 6:30am and I’m passing through my old hood! reminiscing over all kinds of shit…. pass by the Fantasy Factory and then release the set/loft is the same place we shot the David Banner/Lil’ Wayne video “shorty say”…..

As I walk over to the set, I check my twitter and see this…..

my fellow fam/high school alumnus got jokes huh? ha!

I get into makeup to cover up a pimple in my forehead and I see the Stereotypes in the house! go downstairs and get myself a breakfast burrito and some tums to try to avoid the BG’s early…. and then Homicide shows up and where does he go?
straight to the food and OJ (like I didn’t go there first too? well I didn’t hahaaaa)

the set…. well 1 of them, but homebase…

awww YEAH! (90% of the peeps out there saying that because of AM, don’t know that AM got it from Homicide)

you see the tapatio, it’s time to watch out!

so me and Homicide and Russ and DJ Quik head over to the street scene where me and Homicide got our scene at….. was in and out in about 1 hour, so it worked out beautifully…. if you are an artist and have been in a video before, you know it’s 80% waiting around all day!

I won’t talk about our scene because I want you to see it and I don’t want to spoil the theme for FM just in case they are keeping this video treatment/idea a secret (because they are secret agents! #ISA)

during one of our waiting periods…. a homeless guy keeps it extra real sleeping on the streets of LA

a few of the cats who were in the video… including my homey, pro skater Greg Lutzka!

time for our close up shot!

and right before we shook, I had to get a pic with the Stereotypes and DJ Quik….
(stereotypes produced FM’s album and been producing a ton of hits including Travie McCoy’s next single “it’s gonna be alright” which he just shot a video for #smallworld)

so I shoot off to woodland hills in the most trife LA traffic to get my nieces and my girl…..
we get to Universal Studios at 10am and it’s not very crowded. THANK GOD!
we immediately go into Shrek and then some other theme rides… then get on the TRAM….
it’s been maybe 12 years or so since I’ve been on this TRAM and I remember it totally different….
this time they got KING KONG 3-D which was the best part of the TRAM and the whole park (next to the simpsons ride) and it was just awesome, but waayyyy too short.
went to almost every ride except jurassic park since my nieces are only 8, I’m not gonna force them onto anything scary….. got their portraits drawn in a cartoon caricature and we ate like pigs all day #duh

finally left the park to get them back into the worse 101 fwy LA Traffic and by the time I got to my sisters house, I feel asleep and they love that EVERY TIME I GO TO THEIR HOUSE, I FALL ASLEEP! haha
I was beyond dead, batteries were drained and all that…. Nic passed out too and she woke up at 6:30am

I woke up mad late and missed my premiere party! smh….

sorry Danny and crew, much love though

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*NEW JEWELS*

some new diamond digital gucci watches . . . . this time fully flooded in Blue diamonds and another in Champagne colored diamonds…

and then the homiez from Royalty Entertainment and Success Entertainment who’ve been very successful in the adult entertainment biz and now messing with Music with their artist PINKY came by the shop monday afternoon to pick up their new piece….. smh it ain’t a game with them!

this shit is just plain ridiculous! especially in 2010! nobody can say shit! this piece is fully flooded from rooter to tooter…. silly ice everywhere! HEAVY AS SHIT, YES REAL GOLD, THIS ISN’T THE SOUTH WHERE THEY USE SILVER ON BIG PIECES. much love to the homiez and sorry I couldn’t do y’alls music video shoot yesterday, but I had a full plate and dessert! I hope you love this piece as much as me and Jeff love it…. shit is so ignorant! you did it right!, we made it right!

so now onto a whole other extreme….
back to the small stuff we’ve been making.
everyone’s been wanting and ordering smaller pieces, classy clean small crosses and such, so here’s some of them (nothing shown is over 2″ including the bails!)




fyi, the black cross is double sided and when you flip it over it is the mirror image of what you see above, so you get 2 crosses for the price of 1.5 lol….. and of course they can be made with any color gold or any color diamond scheme you want!

of course we stamp even the small stuff! got to! too many fakers

fully invisible set cross…. 2″ tall with bail included

remember that small yellow gold pave’/prong/invisible set cross from the other day? well here’s the 14k white gold version!

anyways… we just finished icing out a limited edition Breitling Skyland Avenger (official PVD super avenger) and I’m gonna take some pics….. working on some new pieces of course and got a lot ahead this week…. need to get up and hit this meeting then go downtown to pick up a new 1000% be@rbrick also gotta take pics of my spongebob 1000% be@rbrick too…. add them to the wall along with my CDG Happy Ribbon 1000% and my Pirates of the Caribbean 1000%

P.S. yesterday: pops surgery wasn’t excellent but they got as much of the tumor out as possible, it was a battle for sure….. he’ll be out asleep and in ICU for the next week. He needs rest and then they can start chemo. #pray

peace everyone!

so the homey Proh from Far East Movement hooked me and my girl up with tickets to see La Roux last weekend in downtown LA…. FM is on the same label as La Roux, so he hooked it up VIP styles…
the show was dope, short and sweet but ole girl got the hipster shuffle down crazy! it was also the 1st time I’ve seen an artist bring a cup of tea onto stage and drink it in the middle of a show smh lol…

thank Proh!
had a good time, then headed over to BCD for some spicy soon tofu








MAD LOVE TO PROH, FAR EAST MOVEMENT…. CHERRYTREE RECORDS + INTERSCOPE RECORDS

so we saw papparazzi chasing after that girl from Eclipse…. I gave about less than finger fuck…
walked to Valet…..


after as said… headed west to k-town to get some grub

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had some friends from out of town come visit and where do they wanna go? the grove/farmers market (NO WAY? smh) it was stupid hot!

I complained about the weekend… but I think Apolo’s complaining more lol

anyways….
had a photoshoot yesterday in the outskirts of koreatown… at MacArthur Park; yes the home of notorious gang MS13 and my running grounds as a child/teen…. I haven’t physically been in that park for almost 23 years or so.
I miss the days of the Mean Streaks, uni and ultra wides…. RTD, real hip hop and of course the Radio Tron which was right across the street!


this is such a dope monument of what really this area means to a lot of people…. shit it’s been a long time since 1982 when they shot Breakin’ here and stuff.

After bumping Rakaa’s Crown of Thorns track “Mean Streak” where he shouts me out with all the OG old school hip hop shit, It put me in a rude mood…. reminiscing of the good old golden days (RIP SINE ONE, RIP ROB ONE, RIP GEO)

after the photoshoot was done…. had the photog from Norway shoot a quick pic with his fancy camera

so anyways…. my girls family had family come into town too, so we hit some sight seeing shit; hit the americana and Venice Beach…. It’s been a while since I walked down Venice Beach… Venice Beach has meant so many different things to me, from body builders to hard core street basketball (white men can’t jump) to pit bulls and of course my days of working with NIKE and the nike blue house (thanks Bee, fuck the swoosh though)

right before we all linked up…
I stopped by my old barber who I haven’t seen in over 25 years in koreatown

so we strolled down the boardwalk for a lil bit (pics are on my personal facebook, but here’s a few joints)


man…. when I was a freshman in high school, me and my cousin went to see an early screening of Child’s Play and shit was no joke and scared the hell out of us…. Actually Nic’s cousin is lightweight traumatized from Chucky and when I called homey over, she got shook…. and I felt bad, but she later took a pic with him too lol

I was supposed to go to the OC Fair today, but my fat ass has gained a nice belly, so I need to chill the fuck out and the last thing I need to do is see Deep Fried Twinkies and Oreos and a long list of other shit I can’t eat.

two fingers!
(I hate motherfuckers who say Deuces if it ain’t related to drive by shootings or gangster shit!… Oh I also can’t stand people who use the term “whatevs” THROAT CHOP TO YOU MONKEY MOUTHS!)

so we had a sit down last night at this korean bbq spot in koreatown called Star BBQ and it was on some Ajushi…. Gangpeh styles shit! was so good to spend 3 hours catching up… hearing all the great stories and sharing old music stories…. these cats are in a great place right now and if I have anything to do with helping them in any even small way again, it would be an honor as I back FM to the motherfucking fullest! these cats got features on their new Interscope Records debut album with MAJOR MAJOR PLAYERS! I won’t say anything because I don’t know if I can yet…. but cats who’ve sold over 10 million records easy each…. I’m so fucking proud I get emotional to see my dudes do their thing! Not to take away from my man IZ who’s making moves now with this 454 entertainment deal….
anyways, we shot the shit, we do this every so often, but my boys are big time now lol…. they just got off tour with Lady Gaga and opened up for her on every show on this past tour of hers…. the only difference on this ktown meet up was none of us drank! NO SOJU, NO OB, NO HITE! no alcohol! we just ate some good as kogi and ban chan and chopped it up and caught up on everything we could.

(click on images to enlarge)

and the best shot of the night….

CHINGOOS! THE KOREATOWN COME UP CREW! (MINUS IZ… HE’S REPPIN GARDEN GROVE LOL…. BUT LIVES IN KTOWN NOW!)

If these guys sell 20 million records they won’t change. they don’t front, they just keep it 100 always. It’s so hard to find genuine folks like this.
MUCH LOVE, GOD BLESS!
3 FINGERS!