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Prince ran things in NYC this weekend. To celebrate his fiftieth birthday there were several tributes and parties in his honor. All the nightclubs and speakeasies in Brooklyn were playing his classics. The best moment of the weekend was when DJ SPINNA bust everybody’s asses at the Brooklyn Museum of Art with the extended ‘Let’s Go Crazy’ dance remix.

On Friday CHOCOLATE SNOWFLAKE took me out on a date to see the Black Rock Coalition at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The BRC is an ensemble of lifelong professional musicians whose aim is to emancipate the African American within the genre of rock music. The Prince covers the BRC played were aiight, but they lacked something in order to make them everlasting.

Later that evening C.S. and I went to see the Brown Girls Burlesque Prince tribute. Brown Girls Burlesque is a dope little movement of ladies who take off their clothes with dignity and swagger. I need y’all to show these ladies some love so that they keep their movement moving. If the Black Rock Coalition were the backing band for Brown Girls Burlesque that would be an incredible show. What both these events were lacking was each other’s energies and talents.

I had forty million things to do on Saturday so I ended up just staying bunkered down in Freeport with the A.C. running. No Puerto Rican Festival on 110th Street, no Helen Marshall sponsored ‘Family Day’ in Elmhurst, no Rooftop Films screening of ‘Checkmate’ on the lower east side.

I left Freeport at 6pm when shit had cooled down a bit. First stop was a rooftop barbeque in Carroll Gardens with GABEROCKKA and crew. GABE and IAN gave me the idea for the Futuristic Breakfast one morning we ended up in a diner after pulling an all-nighter. These dudes go in when it comes to knowing females with the sick pads. I ate some shrimp that had too much Old Bay spice on them, some seedless watermelon and I had a few good beers. GABE always keeps a bottle of that green tea too. Nah’Mean?

Next stop was the Brooklyn Museum of Art. I had been waiting for this First Saturday for weeks. It was one of the biggest and best events the museum has ever thrown. So many people came out. I didn’t bring my camera because I didn’t want to have to work. I just wanted to chill and dance. That’s pretty much what I did too. I have to say peace to everyone that I saw…

SW was in town with his wife and his newborn baby son
GAME REBELLION was in the building
GABEROCKKA
ANITA BRYANT(Sista Factory)
OMAR ELLIS
RYAN(ThinkTank Mktg)
CARL(XXL)
CHAD MILLER(eriffs)
DAOUD(Coup D’etat)
TANYA MORGAN(is a rap band)
FARO-Z

And so many other beautiful people filled the museum. If you weren’t in the place to be kill yourself by climbing inside an old school steel refrigerator and shutting the door. I don’t know when the museum is going to pop like that again. Here’s the extended dance mix for ‘Let’s Go Crazy’

DON’T PLAY YOURSELF!

WONDER FULL – MANHATTAN CENTER – JUNE 14th