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A DATE WITH DESTINY…

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

solveig

Actually, her name was SOLVEIG…

A few years ago when I had finally broken into the Hip-Hop journalism game I got the chance to live out one of my fantasies by going out on a date with an adult film star. My homie DWIGHT was a manager of sorts to a few music acts that you may, or may not remember. ME’LISSA MORGAN and Colonel Abrams to be exact. In the mid-eighties DWIGHT was killing ’em softly. Not so much in 2003. But D still had a few connects that trusted his management and every now and again he would have to put together a deal or some arrangement for a D-list talent.

DWIGHT was that dude too, because he didn’t care if the talent was on their way up the ladder, or on their way down. He talked them up to the point where you thought you had to meet them. One weekend while DWIGHT was in Virginia, no doubt scouting more D-list talent he gave me a call and told me that he had a super surprise treat for me [ll]. An actress from the left coast was in town for a photo shoot and since he couldn’t be in the city to show her the sights he wanted to know if I would be down. Then he let me know that the “actress” was a specialist in booty body work. Physical comedy and such, but without the laugh track. I was still down although I thought homegirl was some kind of mime performance artist. I mean, this is the kind of shit that I wouldn’t be surprised that DWIGHT would take on to manage. He would promote any random off the wall shit that reached out to him.

So I take the midtown hotel address from DWIGHT and he tells me what time to show up. DWIGHT asks me to spin homegirl around the city and hit up a few spots of interest. D knows that I know ALL the spots since I have been in the clubs since 1985. While everyone else got high school diplomas and went off to Howard University I instead dropped out of high school and drove stolen whips to their Homecoming celebrations. True story. So I checked my Motorola Skypager and I saw I had a few invites to some end of summer cookouts. I thought I’d impress the actress with my own C-list connections.

I arrived at the midtown Manhattan hotel pretty swiftly considering I was driving into the city from my parents’ basement in Baldwin, Long Island. The hotel wasn’t too fancy, but it was in one of the best locations that you could want right off Times Square. Even though this was post 9-11 New York City I had no problem walking right through the door and into the elevator lobby. The key to my swagger is that I walk like I know where I’m going. Almost no one ever questions me or stops me. I walk to the room number on my pager and I knock on the door. I wasn’t ready for who would open the door.

A petite and athletic little powerpack of a cutie swings the door open. “Hey Dallas.” She says. I shouldn’t be stunned that she knows my name since I’m sure DWIGHT told her. D loved telling people my government name since that wasn’t the name that everyone in the ‘hood knew me by. I was surprised that I would be within five feet of a chick that I had watched on numerous pr0n tapes. Fuck a Hollywood actress, this chick was a real live movie star. The thing was I didn’t know her name. Most of my tapes were the joints that get passed around like that high school stunt and I certainly didn’t watch them long enough to make it to the credits, but I KNEW her. Her deep grey-green contacts and her big lips were signature.

SOLVEIG told me to pick up my mouth, and then she introduced herself. I laughed at myself that I could be so wide eyed open since I had certainly seen my share of sexy twat back in my cokehead clubhead days. She was different though. She was obviously a thoroughbred race horse. It’s one thing to see a chick who has a natural physique and then one who has all the natural attributes plus she goes to the gym for three hours a day. I could rub off just to the sight of her fixing the straps on her sandals. Instead of thinking about how I was going to get my thing on her I started thinking about where we were going out. This was going to be a HUGE look for me on the streets. No fat dude like myself is supposed to be within smelling distance of an official piece of poon on this level.

That’s why I stay winning because I don’t even know why. If I knew why I stay winning I might try too hard. I just keep my shit extra easy and that is why I attract extra breezalinos. Okay, maybe I don’t attract anything, but fuck it, I was winning that night you hear me? Our first stop was at a cookout in Queens that my homegirl who worked for BadBoy put together. Diddy didn’t show up to that joint, and in hindsight I suppose that was good for me because I would have had to fight his bodyguards that night this chick was so bad. We ate my homegirl’s food and we drank her drank. Not that drank, but you know what the fuck I’m saying.

SOLVEIG was funny and snarky and we cracked jokes on all the people that were ridiculously dressed at the cookout. This was the height of niggas wearing 8X Avirex jackets and white tee nightgowns. Before too long we blew out of that party and jetted to my homey’s crib in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. This joint was a lot looser and it had more dudes too so it was interesting to see SOLVEIG move through the crowd. We walked through the party and she held onto my arm and stayed close by. True story is that a fly bitch on your arm is like wearing a motherfucking cape with the letter ‘S’ on it. My swagger was fucking IMPERIAL. Bullets might could’ve prah’lee bounced off my chest right then. –(c)Dallas C. Penn

The Clinton Hill brownstone is where my homey IAN REID lived and he always threw the bomb ass end of summer jumpoff, but me and SOLVEIG had another joint to flash through in Manhattan. These cats called Black Diamonds were the premiere Black lifestyle party promoters at the time and I was down with them from the beginning. A.J. CALLOWAY from B.E.T. was part of their collective before he took the escalator up to the down elevator. Black Diamonds is where my dude COSI from Freedom Fridays used to get his deejay on. Yo, I go back more than twenty years of partying in New York City. Every button I pushed on this night was lighting up too. Me and SOLVEIG got our dance on to Prince’s ‘Kiss’. I might’a done the Cabbage Patch and the Fresh Prince Carlton. I was a straight fool. I pwned NYC and I didn’t give a fuck.

We left that spot and drove back to her hotel just laughing and talking shit all the way to the driveway. I won’t even lie on my manhood and tell y’all that I beat flames out her backside that night. I dropped her off without even getting a goodbye kiss. Corny as it sounds, but we were closer friends than anyone that you could ever fuck after meeting for the first time. It turned out that SOLVEIG’s birthday was a few weeks after my own. Libra’s stand up! That’s why we clicked so righteously off the bat. Plus, I didn’t want to ruin my entire night with any one minute twenty second wild baboon monkey love. Pr0n poon ain’t no joke party people. It’s like the Sun. You go blind if you look directly into it.

In honor of my adult film BFF SOLVEIG, whose 21st?!? birthday was last Friday, here are a few joints from your boy Prince to ride out the afternoon with.

solveig


EFF YOU BAHHHHHSTAHN!!!

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

starbury

Yes, I admit that it is reckless optimism to be exultant after a pre-season victory in any sport, especially the NBA, but the Knicks got a victory tonight over our mortal rivals, the Boston Celtics.

For a lifelong Knick fan, word to the KING, there isn’t anything that I can think of that would be better.

Okay, maybe ONE thing…

one piece with a biscuit

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Friday, October 19th, 2007

gladiators

Now that’s what I’m talking about! No sooner had I created the challenge then the first blows have been struck. It is about to go down up in this piece as we get all hype williams[ll] for the grand opening of the NIKE iD Design Studio inside of NIKETOWN NYC.

NIKETOWN
6 East 57th Street, NYC

Saturday 10-20-2007
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Doors crack @ 10:00am

NIKE iD has been the move for me ever since I visited their installation in lower Manhattan. It’s all about creating a shoe for yourself that is as fresh and unique as you are. You would be a maniac to have as many sneakers as I do, but if you are going to have only one pair it should be the pair that represents your steez to the fullest.

My main nigga on the trigger (no T.I.) 40 DIESEL is going in hard with these designs he sends us. From the top to the bottom, 40 DIESEL keeps it realer than most. So when you see a six foot seven offensive lineman rocking a Mighty Healthy fitted and sporting a pair of NIKE iD Air Force 1’s holler at your bulldog.


Olde Gold Air Max ’97

olde gold

Taking the 97 shoe and shaving 10 years off of it with the colorway. A homage to my favorite hood elixir. Deep Red pearlized panels with gold 3M and metallic gold accents interplays as the beer and the label of the Old English. The dark cinder lining represents for the brown
bag which provides the buffer between the beer and your hand. Now it’s been flipped to the inside to represent the buffer between your feet and the shoe. Topped off with white laces, swoosh and personalization for the white font of the label and the foamy head[ll] of this fine malt beverage.

olde gold

Remy Martin VSOP Air Max ’97

remy ma

Decked out in snake skin appointments this model was inspired by the satin finished Remy Martin VSOP bottle considered the entry point for fine cognac. Once again using the Gold 3M highlights and in the airbag lends itself to the gold leaf of the Remy label. Using the appropriately titled cognac colorway I have filled out the rest of the shoe, playing the contents of the bottle against the actual vessel itself.

And lastly, the shoes were ID’ed with the VSOP designation and the year 1724 in accordance with the foundation and standards of The House of Remy Martin.

remy vsop 97

Gay Priests And The Price Of Real Estate…

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

popekiss

The Vatican was just socked with another scandal of a fruitbag priest trying to put his healing hands on another man. These dudes are gonna give Jesus a bad name before too long. I’m almost sure that the man who could turn water into wine wasn’t a freak that way despite spending an inordinate amount of time with the fellas [ll]. The bigger story that these scandals uncover is the diminishing prestige of the Catholic church. People used to really fucks with the Catholic movement, but not so much anymore. Even the popularity of the ‘DaVinci Code’ storyline hasn’t brought in enough followers to stem the tide of defectors.

Could it be a disbelief of religion in general, or a direct indication of the mistrust in how the priesthood has been getting down since like forever?

Who knows, and more importantly, who the fuck cares!? The thing I have noticed is that the Catholic church is no longer the largest real estate owner here in New York City. Columbia University has that distinction. The Archdiocese has been literally uprooted from the settlements of numerous scandals involving deception and faggotry. Mostly faggotry. So in turn they have not just been cutting off the outreach programs like soup kitchens and bingo nights, but they are selling off their land assets one at a time. I’m talking about some of New York City’s most valuable land in the central midtown area of Manhattan island. Pretty soon they are going to have to come up off some of that Egyptian shit they stole thousands of years ago.

After that the Vatican is going to have to rent out the Pope to attend state fairs to sit in the dunk tank and kiss peoples’ bunions for a fee.

popekiss

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

the archives

Let’s be perfectly honest. I need another pair of sneakers like I need a whole in my head. But with the grand opening gala of the new NIKE iD Design Studio inside the NIKETOWN store on 57th Street this Saturday I might just have to celebrate this shit the only way I know how. Please believe the joint is official when your mans-n-them COMBAT JACK is in the building. I’m sure there will be other sneaker fiend celebs that fall through as well. It’s a celebration bitches!

NIKETOWN
6 East 57th Street, NYC

Saturday 10-20-2007
12:00pm – 1:00pm
Doors crack @ 10:00am

I’m thinking about going in for Brazil…

brasilia

brasilia

brasilia

So now you ask me what the big effing deal is about since you can simply individually design and personalize your shoes at NIKEiD.com, and I tell you that the experience is what makes the difference. The NIKEiD Design Studio offers materials and styles that aren’t available online. By installing the design studio inside of their centralized retail outlet they have now democratized the ultimate form of sneaker customization. Anyone can literally walk in off the street and make an appointment to get their kick game right that very same day.

You hear that BYRON CRAWFORD? Even you can become fresh to def. Well, prah’lee not, but if you wanted to be fresh, living in the city of Chingy and Nelson is no longer holding you down.

To sweeten the event, as if, NIKE is also running a sexy little promo over at their FaceBook page.

If you are coming to the event on Saturday make sure to holler at a sneaker fiend when you see him in the streets. I will be checking for all my peoples still living the lifestyle. Nah’mean!?!

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