Stays in Vegas Will end up on the internet. I didn’t drop any posts on The Block yesterday, after over 12 hours of canceled flights, rebookings, layovers and a five hour flight, I’m in the Sin City for New Year’s. We almost didn’t make it but me and the Ozone crew finally touched down in Las Vegas last night. Ozone is presenting four parties in Vegas this weekend to kickoff the grand opening of Spin nightclub and last night Yung Joc jumped things off.
My dude Thaddeus came through and you can peep photos from Joc’s show on exclusiveaccess.net here. If you notice any pics of your boy R.E. looking unroyally, cut me some slack. First, my barber wasn’t around before I left ATL to get my weekly fresh cut. Then, Delta airlines still has our luggage only God knows where, so I was stuck wearing a random “flight outfit” to the club (one that I’m still wearing right now. Where the fux is my bag, Delta!). And then, since there’s a three hour time difference from ATL to Vegas, it may have only been 3 a.m. in the club here last night but back home it was 6 a.m., so I was tired as hell. But then again, I might have been looking crazy, but bitch, I’m in Vegas.
Anyways, I’ll try to recap my Vegas nights as much as possible while I’m here, but if for any reason I can’t update The Block, Happy New Year’s to all my Block readers and I’ll catch ya’ll nuccas in ’08.
I think it’s the time of the year to crank those end of the year awards, and I’m going to start by listing my fav rap albums. I’m gonna go ahead and crown Graduation as the best album of the year. You can disagree if you want but it’s my favorite and you can catch the rest of my Top 10 after the jump.
I have to tip my Santa hat to David Banner. While most of you bum azz rappers waste money making it rain for dirty azz strippers, Banner (and JB), spent his Christmas passing out toys and money to families in Jackson, MS. For all successful rappers that didn’t give back to the community in any shape, form or fashion this holiday season, I hope your next album goes double wood. Matter of fact, kill yo self.
You have to applaud Charlamagne Tha God for telling it like it is. Just the other week Charlamagne said, “fuck Lil Wayne” and yesterday on the Wendy Williams Experience, C Tha God roasted Chingy like a marshmallow. I had my laugh for today and you guys should too. And Charlamagne Tha God’s Concrete Jungle needs to be a nationally syndicated radio show (I just wanted to throw that out there. Or like Chingy and em would say, out thurr).
There’s a party going down in New York tonight and of course I can’t make it, but my dude Sickamore is turning 23 (Happy Birthday, Sic), and his born day party tonight could quite possibly be the best birthday party ever!
You see, people have parties all the time with celebrity guests but you always see the same people—Diddy, Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, Lil Wayne. But Sickamore isn’t having his party with none of those nuccas. No…Sickamore is having his party with Jesus! This makes perfect sense to me, Jesus’ bday is December 25th and we recognize the day by gathering with friends and family to exchange gifts or whatnot. But for the most part, everyone gets caught up in what they want for Christmas, or what gift they can give, and the true meaning of Christmas gets lost in the hustle and bustle of Christmas shopping. But has anyone ever stopped to say, “let me throw a party with Jesus this holiday season, to Thank God I’m Famous.” No…no one has ever done a party with Jesus.
Sic asked the question, do you know who gets all the props on Christmas? Santa. So I’m with Sic… fux Santa! Sickamore, I applaud you for giving Jesus the props he deserves. Of course, devout Christians will say “you’ll burn in hell” for the blasphemy and heathenism involved (and for the fact that you made Jesus look like Jay-Z on your flyer), but like Rocko says, you just do you. Ladies and ghettomen, don’t hate on Sickamore, he’s taking it upon himself to make Jesus famous in 2008.
Shouts out to my cuz, Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Roddy White, for his “Free Mike Vick” display after he scored a touchdown in the Falcons 34-14 lost to the Saints last Monday night. Roddy, along with Falcons Alge Crumlper, DeAngelo Hall, Chris Houston and Joe Horn were all fined by the NFL for their Michael Vick tribute. But hell, they got it. Way to go Roddy. Show them how Chucktown nuccas act a donkey.
I did a drop about SC models making more noise than SC rappers awhile back, and the same thing can be said about Carolina DJs getting more props than SC rappers (hey, don’t get mad at me, it’s true). With that being sad, my dude DJ Chuck T was named one of the Top 5 DJs in the MTV Mixtape Monday: Year End Report. When it comes to mixtapes, I don’t know of another DJ that drops tapes as fast as Chuck does. Every time you look the guy has a new mixtape with new exclusives and he’s not shy about telling you why he’s better than other mixtape DJs. I’m pretty sure he’s somewhere right now putting together an email blast to announce his MTV Mixtape Monday Award and telling other DJs to eat a d*ck.
But wait, there’s more…
I gotta shout out DJ Aaries (another DJ from SC), who’s the new face for Rocawear. Aaries won that “I will not lose” competition after his video was viewed nearly 50,000 times. And you can expect to see Rocawear advertisements with Aaries making crazy faces real soon.
Next time I’ll tell you all why SC bloggers > SC rappers, but I’ll save that for another day.
