LATE INAUGURATION (Wake up Mr. Turner?)

Hey hey my fellow children of the beat, H-Man somehow made it back into the building after yet another eave of absence...i promise to try to stop doing this, but sometimes i feel like my life gets a little out of hand, when left to my own devices and alcohol i seem to shirk away from my responisibiities a bit. In case y'all don't know, i do live in Washington D.C, and last weekend was a great weekend indeed (hence the no H-Man entries...) so i thought id give you the inauguration play by play from Sunday onwards...

SUNDAY

After a day of rest preparing for the festivities, Sona and I headed for the URB Magazine Pharoahe Monch Inauguration concert. After some venue location confusion (which did allow us to meet Chuck Brown, the godfather of go-go!) be finally made it to Bohemian Caverns. The first surprise was the Charles Hamilton was in the building, and he gave us a few track to open for the main event, looooooved hearing "Brooklyn Girls" live from about a foot away (you knooooow I was front row baby!). Pharoahe came onstage around 1 am, he ROCKED THAT SHIT. He played everything i wanted to hear, my favorite song "Desire", his chorus from his collaboration with Styles P ('The Life") and even his verse from "Oh No" featuring Mos and Nate Dogg. Of course he closed with "Simon Says", which sent the crowd into a complete frenzy. Ended up chatting with him a bit at the end and i have to say that the man is truly a hip-hop God (or perhaps a "poetical pastor"?) My partner in crime and fellow RIDAH Mike a.k.a MJ a.k.a Dragon made it to DC that night from NYC, so the night definitely ended up extremely drunkenly after some serious drinking at Marvin ,so much so that an impromptu dance party between Mike and I defintely happened in front of Rashizzle's apartment complex. By dance party i mean that we pumped the system in the car as loud as it would go and opened all the doors and danced outside it...woooo...


















MONDAY

After some well deserved sleep and home-cooked omelet, i headed to the city to attend the Stussy x Commonwealth inauguration party at the Stussy flagship store with special guests Wale and Bun-B. OPen bar, 9th Wonder ended up spinning for the whole event, and David Banner and Sonic the Hamilton made brief appearances. After 6 or 7 red bull vodkas, Sona and I and our new homie Bryan decided to head out drinkin, before meeting up with Mike and Rashizzle. We ended up bar hopping our way to the rendezvous and meeting up at this place called the Russia House, which lived up to its name cuz i got tanked on vodka. ended up back at Rashid's, recording a little surprise for y'all that will be dropping tomorrow night and drinking whiskey. Went to sleep facedown on the caret around 5:45...








TUESDAY

Wake up facedown on the carpet to people's alarms going off about the room at 6:15...grand totaly of MAYBE 30 minutes of alchol induced sleep. The first thing i did was try to pull myself off the floor to get going to inauguration, which i failed to do miserably, as my arms somehow failed me and i smashed my face on the coffee table in front of everyone. Then we headed out, me, still wasted wearing sunglasses even though it was dark. We tried to take the metro, but it was too full, so we WALKED 5 MILES to the national mall, separating ourselves from the group. We stayed throgh Obama's speech at which point the partying and drining and no sleeping finally caught up, so Mike and i hiked back to VA, where we went to sleep and ate Thai food, and wondered where everyone else was. Ridin has its toll my friends...big ups to Mike, who I will be going back to NYC to ride with in the very near future...