REMEMBER, just because you don’t see it on the store page, doesn’t mean it’s not available for sale! hit us up, we take custom orders 24 hours a day and we are in the process of also moving store locations to the west side by 2014.

my cousin James has taken on a big load of duties and will be handling a lot of the deals from this point on. of course with the guidance of me and Steve, but his job is to be the captain of the ship when we’re not around. He’s been doing a great job and James will also be posting some pics and things on here under his own account name.

thank you so much for all the love throughout the years and god bless!

BB

p.s. I have zero affiliation with Danny Lee or Bo Bushnell so if any of my friends or business associates are reading, it’s not that I’m on bad terms with them, or they are sworn enemies, I just do NOT have any type of relationship to them. not even a friendship so if they come up to you and say they produce the show or blah blah, it pretty much means nothing. Danny did a great job putting things together for this, but is not trustworthy in my eyes and Bo has been pushing me for years, but just couldn’t close out what he thought he could and he also jeopardized some relationships that cost him people looking for his ass. in short, I could have done this show without them, they could not have done it without me. until they have a better or more successful show than this season 1 really? prove me wrong. when you see me talk about someone constantly and shout them out or embrace them, you will see how big they get as far as a following. my methods are certified. I could have helped them out a lot, but they did me so dirty I rather help the devil.

peace

should be a good time. weather might be sus, but that’s ok. it’s indoors!

I’ll be doing my in-store for my NEFF watch release and if you have tried to get my watch online, you’ll see it’s pretty much sold out everywhere. so we’re doing a re up at certain locations. again come down and kick it with your boy. you know I got mad love for the town and we got town business!

all the details are above on the flier!
maybe, I’ll connect with macklemore while I’m out there!

who’s gonna bring me something for 4/20?

so I will get to the korea blog, but I took over 500 pics and that needs to get down to around 100 at most. real talk, really would love to get it to 60 pics if possible, so it’s not an easy thing… also my feelings and emotions about going to the motherland are so strong. made some amazing connections while I was there. again, I have to thank my boy Harry Kim and G-Dragon and Mina Kwon so much for their hospitality. I will get that korea blog up soon!!!!

much love….

OH
and…. a couple weeks ago I made 3 hoop earrings(1 yellow gold only, 1 yellow gold with white diamonds and 1 black gold with white diamonds) for the baddest mofo in major league baseball right now and I got to deliver them to him yesterday. he wanted that Barry Bonds meets Lawrence Taylor swag and I took it a little passed that and modernized it a little and gave it what Balmain didn’t give it in their current campaign

Matt has always been super cool and on top of that, he plays for the Dodgers which is my only baseball team period. I grew up Dodger blue as a kid and always been about the DOYERS. and guess what else? another top A-List celeb under my resume. thanks to my boy Jerry Lorenzo for the assist

god bless.
see everyone I know in Seattle this saturday!
and everyone who knows me in the 206, come through!

peace

on the actual day of Nic’s bday we decided to spend it just as a family…. woke up early, headed out to Long Beach and had a nice breakfast…. then headed to the Aquarium of the Pacific and took London on his first field trip!

he got his fresh bucket hat on! he’s ready for whatever!

I need this 100,000 gallon tank in my house when I make it make it, not that few million, crib and 4 whips make it. I mean I lost a million on playing heads or tails with my friends and it’s nothing make it lol jk

crazy, we stayed there for a few hours… then headed to glendale to drop off my mother in law… she watched London for a few hours while I took Nic to get a full body massage… then we went and saw a movie and then had the best fucking sushi in LA at sugarfish! mannnn!!! their albacore is so soft and buttery that you could eat there even if you had no teeth! their toro hand rolls? my god….
it was a perfect day for real! got home and rented Killing Them Softly and we just couldn’t leave well enough alone. smh. that shit was so bad, I almost wrote amazon an email demanding my money back….

THURSDAY?
shit, I spent the whole say doing my 3rd shoot with Rumi, but I think I thought about it too hard and the pics came out good out of the 4 locations I chose, but I don’t know if they were fashiontoast type material…. hmmm… oh well. I got this shot off on my iphone

haha, naw, I’m sure there are some cool shots but I had to take this pic, reminds me of high school and going to century city to watch a movie, then shit became ghost town and they built CAA there. smh

OK
so let’s get some jewels out the way….

we made my boy a 10k gold gynecologist tool… the only part we didn’t make in gold was the screw because of the threading that kept fucking up…. but really? this guy Bush is an absolute donkey ass fool for this. top 3 weirdest wildest piece of jewelry I’ve ever made. shit might be # 1. smh

made the left rose gold 14k 1/2 kilo 15mm miami cuban link for my boy Susu and the right side I think might have to go to Macklemore… he randomly cold texted me this weekend and got my # from Schoolboy Q and was really cool… too bad I’m on a plane to Korea right now, but I love it when new cats know who I am and hit me up to get right… I wish I could handle it all now, but I’m tied up obviously. I didn’t know much about macklemore to be honest, I know he has a smash fucking hit on the radio right now, but when I saw the 206 area code, I assumed that he’s from the TOWN which is really cool.

we perfected the enamel jesus piece and this time we made a baby size one and with the red ruby tear drops….

we also made the very first 24k gold fully iced out micro jesus piece and this shit is tough! it’s very soft, so I suggest a 22k one if you want one, but we even have the 24k baht chain to go with it! shit is hard but very expensive. the total weight is over 30 grams too which is crazy

it actually was a very random out of the blue celebrity weekend for me, ASVP Rocky was in town for a minute and hit me up for a chain, as I mentioned above macklemore hit me up for a chain and then Wiz Khalifa lost his earrings in a club and I replaced them with some laser beam type diamonds and he bugged out

haha, out of any celeb I’ve worked with or met, Wiz is really the nicest guy period. it’s almost weird

so before we go on… gotta break down these man rules


found these through my boy Kenny Hamilton and thought I’d share them. they’re pretty on point haha

so let’s get into some kicks…

just copped these AJ XI DMP’s for the fuck of it
I think I should ice out the gold dog tag and make it real gold while I’m at it… crazy how much shit dropped in the 8 years I didn’t wear any Nike’s… but I like these more than the more recent retro XI concords… the fit is better too. of course I got these from RIF LA

ran into my boy Angel on friday and we chopped it up and I saw the prototype samples for the Supra skytop IV and damn, they’re pretty hard! but he gifted me with these and I’ve had some rare exclusives for sure when it comes to Supras, but these were really super hard to get and I wanted them bad because I love fucking bright ass colors!

they only made 100 pairs of these for the cast and crew of Spring Breakers which by the way was absolutely a fucking terrible horrible movie… but James Franco did his thing for sure. out of all the girls in the lead cast, they show the butt ugly chick topless??? smh

so I decided to have a contest to give a sample size 9 pair of these very rare Supra Donavyn spring breakers away and this kid Yung B won them

congrats kid! enjoy

oh quick…
my girl Karen Civil always holds me down!!!!

she always sends me the best beats to wear and I mostly use them for trips… but the PROS are too big sometimes for a long trip and hurt my ears because I have some big ass ears… but these MIXR guetta’s are sick! perfect too. thank you again KC! Live Civil!

and if you have a new iphone or got one in the last month, then you know you can no longer get gmail pushed to your phone via microsoft exchange anymore, I’ve tried every trick or whatever thing you could possibly do and it’s just not happening, so if you have an iphone now and gmail works and pushes direct real time messages to your phone? keep that bitch…. OR DOWNLOAD MAILBOX. this shit is pretty damn good and a friend put me up on game. I downloaded it and then it said I was # 489,102 position in line with nobody behind me wtf? it took about 3 weeks to get, but I think now it’s only about a 10 day wait to get it… shit works pretty money and I deleted my mail app and only use this now. it really truly syncs up to your iphone nicely

so let’s get to friday night aka Nic’s bday dinner….

we had it at Fig and Olive which is one of our go to spots… she had it joined with her old friend Casey who is my iphone imessage snapchat scumbag pic buddy lol

btw, dinner was fucking amazing! from the paella to the crostini’s to the Moroccan chicken! damn

in all of my lifetime, I have never got anyone a cake in my life. not for a holiday, not for anyone’s bday, not for anyone… so I had to get one this time because I felt under pressure lol

remember the guys who made my amazing rolex cake?
yeah…. I hit them up

they’re called Cake and Art and their in west hollywood on santa monica blvd… they’re way better than Hansen’s cakes and less expensive and the cake actually tasted great! they work fast too!

all of Nic’s closest friends came out… it was intimate and perfect. shout out to my fam Nick Diamond and his fiance’ Michelle for showing up too! I know you had a big HUF x Diamond event to go to… thanks for the sick varsity jacket and socks bro, I didn’t have time to pack them or take a pic…

after dinner, we shot down to the SLS and my boy Travis took real good care of us there…. popped a couple bottles, real lightweight and kept it fully grown and chilled til around 1:30am

Saturday, I had to handle biz at the store and get shit ready for this trip to Korea…. so I got some things to show my boy’s out there and also show G-Dragon…. and had some orders to finish. while i’m gone, please believe the store is open and business will be handled just as well as it would if I wasn’t around. so visit or cop something online… we plan to make some big changes and grow a lot this year!
my brother and his wife and kids came by and we spent the day around downtown doing chill family shit… again, I was in a different zone with Korea around the corner

Sunday was another family day…. went to the beach and chilled with my fam

and I went there with the coldest bucket hat in the game! haha. much love to my boys over at SSUR. thank you Russ and Jerry and Arnold for this fucking sick SSUR X FUTURA hoody! it drops on the 4th of July at a local SSUR retailer… the tantum bucket hat I got from a friend

I also got some nice new fish eye, wide and zoom lens iphone cases from my boy Indo and Steve Bitanga

they’re made by Izzi Gadgets and these are the first of this color (I got blue, they custom made nicolette a purple anodized one)

so I took them to the beach to try them out….



pretty cool! I’m gonna test it out in Korea

when I was a kid, the movie BIG with tom hanks was my shit… I loved that movie too much.

if you saw the movie, then you remember this… and I have nothing to wish for, my life is great, but when I was a kid, damn I wanted so much. now that I have it all, I dunno…. I’m thankful and blessed though

always wanted to put my kid on one of these things…. so I did.

for lunch we had soon tofu in west LA on Sawtelle and the shit was really good. better than BCD and so much cleaner… man I haven’t been down Sawtelle in a longgg time; there is so much good food there! furaibu and asahi ramen and curry house and manpuku and kiriko!

London just watched us eat! but he’s eating solids now! crazy that he’s still so damn big and still 99 percentile in height for kids his age!

okay, I won’t be able to blog til next weekend when I get back but damn I hope I have the time to update it quickly… I’ve been back on point with the updates, but I think there might be a LOT of shit to tell, maybe too much to write up quickly and this is a short trip out of 3 I will make this year to the motherland, so be patient and who knows…. maybe I do some quick inspirational blog entries… but you know where to find me, on twitter or IG.

peace!
for real though PEACE!

but anyways, this is one of the main reasons of why I’m going back to the motherland.

my boy Felix Da Housecat will be the main event DJ and my boy G-Dragon will be there at the table next to mine…. should be an amazing party!

I’ll be in the motherland in less than 48 hours!

crazy excited to build this network and build it strong!

peace everyone…

I will do the weekend update from the plane!

it’s crazy because this was the first time I ever shot anyone. and me and Rumi’s first time shooting together. so damn… this is 1 of about 3-4 sets that will go up on her site that is ranked super high on alexa traffic ranking data and just a heavy traffic site period. I have only used the DSLR to shoot jewelry and random shit fucking around… but we did some semi legit location scouting and we went all over areas of LA she hasn’t shot before.

I can’t wait to see the rest of them….

SO I MADE IT! lol… I will change professions maybe. NOT.

here’s a shot that she didn’t post that I liked as well….

ok, to most of my followers, you don’t give a shit. I’m hyped though. haha

if it wasn’t for my wife I wouldn’t even know who Rumi was, but since my wife loves fashion, Rumi has been a big fashion inspiration to her… pretty cool regardless.

peace

so today is my wife’s birthday and before I head out to take her and my son around town…. I wanted to let you all know that. SINCE IT’S BEEN SUCH A GREAT YEAR: I HAVE LOWERED ALL THE PRICES ON THE ONLINE STORE PAGE!
EVERYTHING IS LOWERED!

THE TIME TO BUY IS NOW. I MIGHT RAISE THE PRICES AROUND SUMMER OR I MIGHT NOT, BUT THERE WON’T BE ANOTHER SALE UNTIL XMAS AND THAT’S WHEN IT GETS CRAZY.

god bless. thank you for checking out the blog…. I’m back until I get into a storm again or writers block.

also, check out FashionToast.com later today for my semi-professional photography test.

peace!

before we get started, I’m a grown ass man if you didn’t already know. so with that said, I will be cashing a big check in an hour. I will not be talking about anything else in regards to that because it goes back to a situation I’m not proud of or happy with…. so thanks Bobby and Ben for the opportunity and with being a grown man, I do NOT fuck with April Fools jokes, I also wasn’t aware of the fact that the hundreds have done some april fools jokes, the only problem is that this didn’t fall on april fools.

702 CARATS TOTAL, 2106 TOTAL DIAMOND SOLITAIRES, 26 KILOS TOTAL (CHAIN IS 6 KILOS, PENDANT IS 20 KILOS) AND THE TOTAL PRICE TAG WAS $3,115,000
I delivered the chain to them on Friday and they couldn’t again write me a check until this morning and I am done with that part now.

so on to the weekend wrap.
thursday, my boy Scott Disick wanted to cop some Yeezy’s and some J’s so I took him down to RIF, he was really hyped on how cool everyone was and now he’s a fan of the shop….

I’ve known Scott for 7 years now and this is the first time Ive seen him wear sneakers lol

while I was there, linked up with my boy Jerry Lorenzo of Fear Of God LA and he laced me with an early sample of this sick ass sleeveless hoody

I’ll be definitely bringing this to Korea and thank you Brother for linking me up with Matt Kemp… can’t wait to finish this custom piece for him. Go Dodgers!

and so I had to shake home real quick, cut my wig and shower and shave and head over to Beverly Hills for the Premiere of Eden the movie starring my friend Jamie Chung. the movie is about a teenage korean girl from new mexico who was kidnapped and forced into sex, slave prostitution and amongst minors. shit was really hard to watch and since it was based on a complete true story, the real life Eden was there and she said the movie had to be toned down on the gore and violence…. shitttt. about 10 minutes in I was ready to leave because now that I have a kid, fuck, it makes me so paranoid about how many scumbag piece of shits are out there in the world. anyways, the movie was good…. it felt so real at times, I thought I was watching a documentary. but go see it when it releases or watch it when you can… Jamie did a great job in the movie and I’m really proud of her. she doesn’t have to fall in that geisha girl role hollywood wants to put all asian women in and this was not an asian stereotype film. I know she may have came from the “real world” but I didn’t know her then…. the fact she’s korean and doing it, makes me want to support her even more… it’s hard to find those up and coming actors/actresses and support everyone, but once you at least got your foot in the door and I meet you, I’m all about doing whatever I can to help.


congrats Jamie, I wish you a long career….
and yes, I lost 9lbs. and yes those are real prescription HD lenses set in diamond supply co Cordova frames.

after that we left, couldn’t do the reception, I feel bad that my mother in law is watching London so much this weekend because I had events for each night of the weekend except sunday. But my in laws LOVE and are Obsessed with London. even though he is a beast and runs any home he is in!

on Friday I kept it light during the day and caught up on emails and pretty much got ready for the evening with my boy Ryan Leslie who was in town for a day and had a show at the Bellasco. My man has the most positive attitude about everything. when life throws him a curveball he smiles and usually hits that bitch out the park or gets a base hit at the least and I can’t think of too many folks who are that classy. for real. I feel like there have been so many obstacles trying to stop his path, but it was written and meant to be for my guy to do his thing with music… now he’s indy and promoting his new album “Black Mozart” and you already know he’s got some shit on there to slap in your car or ipod… His show was originally supposed to be at the key club, but they went out of business and shut their doors literally 3 weeks ago and fucked up things… it’s okay though, my boy got it in anyways and the fans came through regardless. not only that, when we got there, the keyboard was broken, some drums were broken and the club owners/promoters were trying to get mad at him about this shit when it was their fault…. so I went up on stage and broke it down for the fans… about 15 minutes later R Les was money and ready for the show… He gave a hell of a show and you can’t be the Black Mozart without a keyboard so thank god that got handled…. He did his thing with his band and no features…. oh wait, he had one cameo appearance by the bay area native Jasmine Villegas… I met her a while back through friends and she’s super talented… I don’t know why she hasn’t broke into stardom yet. I mean for real super duper stardom. she can sing for real. she’s cute and has a cool image. something ain’t right. but oh well, I’m not about to be a manager. am I? haha

anyways, the show was dope as fuck, he ended with an encore of How it’s supposed to be and I got a feeling he did that because he knows that my jam lol… the security got on stage and tried to shut down the show and he didn’t give not 1 single fuck….

well R, I appreciate the love as always and I’m glad you’re now about to kill shit musically in Korea… I know you and G-Dragon are about to make some legendary shit together!




it’s so much harder to do this all by yourself without a machine like Sony or Universal pushing you, so R Les…. god bless fam

after that, we weren’t about that club life, so we headed out to Yojie which was a block away and got down on some bomb ass shabu shabu

thank you Mendrick, your hospitality is always greatly appreciated. the food was excellent as always!

saturday, woke up to slanging a cross to my boy Nicky who is a korean cat who’s in Korea and in a korean rap group that just signed to Young Money. crazy, birdman signed them to a 5 album deal so much love and props….

after that, I made my professional photographer debut with my friend Rumi Neely who is top fashion blogger on the planet for real… we shot for about 4 hours around LA and I did some lightweight location scouting and I gave Rumi one of my women’s Diamond Supply x Cutty hoody and she loved it, so I shot her in it… I’m hyped to see those pics along with the pics for the content for her blog. I haven’t used an SLR is so long…
so we shot around hancock park, melrose, beverly hills and the miracle mile area…. but the shit came out amazing and if you know who she is, you already know she’s heavy in the fashion game and I was just as surprised as she was on the pics… they should come out today or real soon.

as soon as we wrapped up that, I had to shake home to get ready for a long overdue dinner with my bro mark sudack and his lovely wife laura. we went to a spot that has one of the highest ratings for any restaurant in the USA. seriously. I was like wtf? I can’t even describe it and say it’s mexican food because it’s so much deeper than that, but the spot is called Rivera and it is FUCKING AMAZING. the food was excellent. the portions are small and it’s expensive (could run over $400 easy without drinks for 2 couples) and we didn’t give a fuck. I will be going back often. we will be going back often. the pork? my god… and the deserts were really good too. but they’re actually known best for their drinks. anyways, great times, good company and I was stuffed…

I showed them our new place and then had to change again to get ready for my brother in law’s bday party at Infusion lounge in Studio City…. we headed up there and only hung out for an hour and the club scene is really not my thing and that’s mostly in LA, but overall I pretty much feel the same. I might go out if I’m in Miami or Hawaii maybe, but outside the country is where I would be more intrigued to be in a club; otherwise, I’m just over it. but I had to show face because my brother in law is a fucking solid guy and all his friends are solid good cool as fuck people…. happy birthday Vince!

I was really over it and I hope I didn’t upset anyone… but I wanted to get home and get some sleep….

woke up sunday morning at like 7am and started to blog… got as much done as I could and started with the Vegas/Magic wrap up first and got that out of the way… then worked on as much of the catch up blog for a couple hours and then headed to the London Hotel so that my son London could celebrate not only his first easter, but his mom and uncles birthday (my wife’s birthday is this Tues)… the food at Gordon Ramsey’s restaurant is really hit and miss and for my meal, shit was a total miss. the only thing that was decent was the bread in the beginning of the meal and even that was only decent. eh… it was good being with family.

so my son’s first easter was special to me because I don’t want him to grow up to be a brat in public and things… and he got up to meet the easter bunny with zero fear!

I have never loved anyone or anything as much as I love my son. I knew it would be this way but didn’t know I could love anything this much.

I had a great productive weekend and now I must prepare for my trip to korea. I’m super geeked and I already have all my outfits ready to go…. gonna have a cool week and celebrate my wife’s bday and then it’s off to the motherland! I can’t wait to blog that!

OH JUST A HEADS UP!
I WILL BE IN SEATTLE FOR MY NEFF WATCH INSTORE SIGNING AT ZUMIEZ IN SEATTLE….
ALL THE DETAILS ARE BELOW ON THE FLIER

I’LL BE THERE ON SATURDAY THE 20TH OF THIS MONTH. SO CATCH ME UP THERE AND SAY WHAT UP. COP A WATCH OR WATCH A COP GET BEAT DOWN! LOL JK.

hope to see you northwest cats up there! much love and I AM BACK AND FULLY UPDATED ON THE BLOG!

peace!

there will be food, kicks and jewels and some stories, shit maybe a lot of stories…

here we fucking go though

when I got back from Magic, even though I felt like shit, I linked up with this Rock and Roll cat Ronnie Radke and he’s major in the rock game….
he copped another big ass cuban, this time a 450 gram joint!

I haven’t met a rock cat yet who got heavy real gold around his neck like this….
we both got something in common too, both heavily hated on lol

also got to finally meet Rumi’s best friend Bryan Boy. Bryan is also one of the biggest fashion bloggers in the world and is just an all around funny fucking guy… he’s also on Americas Top Model now as a judge I think?

well we got to eat a fab dinner at Asia De Cuba after a little shopping at Philip Lim. I’ll get more into Rumi Neely later… I actually spent the entire day saturday shooting her for her blog. fucking crazy right? She gets shot by real professionals and some of the best photographers in the world…. from Terry Richardson to Patrick Hoelck, but anyways… let’s see how the photos came out!

me and my wife’s 1 year wedding anniversary passed
I won’t get too deep into that, but we ate at one of the best steak houses in LA. the funny thing is she doesn’t eat meat and I cut out red meat a month ago. so we just went to enjoy the awesome fucking view


it’s crazy, I used to hit this spot up a lot, now that I live down the street, I barely have time to go once a year… but really I barely get time to do anything. what’s crazier is that it feels like it was just a month ago that I got married.

you wanna see something awesome though?

KAWS! the man himself sent me a belated birthday gift!
so fucking dope!!!!

now some ice…

we made a 26mm miami cuban link just for the fuck of it….
I forgot how heavy that shit was when you’re just walking around. one key word: advil

had to break out the lovelys

this might be a shitty quality pic, but the pieces are all the way amazing! made this for a client. I can’t believe we never made a pac man piece yet…. shit is ultra dope though

made my man FATS a new white gold FATS chain and a baby size rose gold buddha head and a baby rose gold angel… I’m making a few more rose gold pieces for him and gonna finally make a “micro angel piece”
click our store page for details

speaking of rose gold…
I got to link up with Nicki Minaj while I was in vegas and she was filming American Idol and she’s been wanting to cop and rock some of my jewels…. dope as fuck for me and so meanwhile, I connected with her man Scaff Beezy who ordered a big ass heavy rose gold cuban! super thick!



my man SB’s jewelry game is not a game at all.
gonna be doing a lot with them (SB & nicki minaj)

how you want your cuban? high polished gold? or iced the fuck out??

and lastly to take it back to the old school

we got fat ass gold herringbone chains in stock!
fuck with us

why?
because one of the biggest rappers in Korea does

Jay Park was just featured in last months Men’s Health mag in korea and now I’ll be in Seoul in 1 week!!! I’m connecting with the biggest star out there! not just music, but fucking star for real! his name is G-Dragon and he just started his world tour…. but we’ll be linking to discuss everything from gold and diamonds to bacchus-d lol

so onto some kicks and shit…
complex mag did a story on the top sneakerheads and what they thought were they’re favorite Air Jordan shoe of all time was…. I obviously said the Air Jordan III black/cement joints….

those are definitely my top 3 favorites above and if you ever need dope shoes, just go to RIF.LA to find the best of the best for the best prices.

I rocked these and to be honest, I’m just not a big fan of the VII’s, but I’m trying to be a little versatile.

I was rocking these Lakers AJ VI’s and my team started to get on a mean win streak and then I stopped and Kobe got hurt smh…..

Kobe Grinch Greens…. lightwork. do you have these?

AJ VI Golden Moments Pack… eh

I fuck with the infrared VI’s though…

I used to think these were cool

AJ V blackout… swagged out!

had to get my son fresh! thank you again Ed and Jeff at RIF LA for hooking up my son with the dopest Adidas Jeremy Scott kicks out!

finally got some deadstock space jams… I’m gonna get the soles restored

I’m so futuristic…. what’s them shoes? #Margiela

and with all the shoes… you know my sock game is on point and now with some custom socks!

I copped these for my wife… shit if they made a size 12 in these joints!!! I would be all over them! fuck…. they’re only $2,000 too

ok, that’s it for shoes!!!!

let’s get back to february and march!

we’re still dialing in our new home…. and we finally got some new couches


to give you an idea of how stupid long these couches are, they could fit 5 adults on each couch and they’re deeper than some love seats are wide! man… my wife hated the leather joints we had, so I finally gave in… just need a few side accents and our new dining table to come so we can have some awesome dinner parties here. and my new slim imac so I can blog easier

London likes the couches!

oh speaking of my son…. his girlfriend Simone Tershay had her first birthday a couple weeks ago!









Nick and Michelle went all out…. He made diamond supply quickstrike tees from toddler sizes to adult… had tacos catered(wonder where he got that idea from???) and he got a putting green installed in his crib for the adults and just a bunch of fresh shit for kids to have fun. this is the type of shit that I will be doing for the next 10 + years with my kid(s). lol. it was good to see everyone too

and staying on diamond…
my tee/hoody did really well on the pre-orders but I know for sure this shit is gonna sell out quick!!!
it’s crazy and my boy Yousef just did the ordering for fairfax and I forgot we made a tiffany blue cutty hoody!

I have to get my tiffany blue sample hoody soon! shit is hard!
wait til you see the other 3 designs of my diamond supply x BB capsule collab coming!!! so sick!

now this is the part where I show off some gear lol…
diamond is my team and one of my biggest endorsements, but there is fam outside of this and it’s all love…

much love to Pharell, Phil and Mike at BBC for showing me love… love the fit and quality of all this shit!

the polo fits perfect!

much love to Keith and Garcia for the re-up on socks and for the super dope socks for my son!!!!

and


much love to Eddie Cruz, James Jebbia and Jeff Kutter over at supreme for showing love for 20 years now!!!!

earlier this month, I was invited to secret society type dinner and shit was really really really dope… I didn’t know the location of the party and they wouldn’t tell any of us… they invited 19 key tastemakers from across the country and we all sat down for a beautiful dinner hosted by James Bond and cooked by master chef, Chef Ludo…. all sponsored by Heineken and shout out to Team Epiphany for putting this whole shit together! shit was crazy…



from the editors of hypebeast to high snobiety to photos, actors, store and brand owners… it was a very fly event! I didn’t take many pics because I just tried to enjoy the moment and company… I think if you google it you might find something? don’t know…

but what I do know is…
THE FOOD WAS FUCKING FANTASTIC!




man, the food was amazing… I destroyed the ceviche so fast before I realized that I should take a pic of the damn food.

pretty cool invite huh? Arrive BIG!

a couple weeks prior to that James Bond also invited me to a private dinner downtown at Gram and Papas….
he had a bomb ass fried chicken theme going!

shit was sooo good! I had some friend catfish medallions too!

OH!
I also got a new tattoo… and I should hopefully have my chest completely done by summer or at least have a BIG chunk done by summer and then definitely the whole chest before the holidays…. I don’t wanna get tatted during the summer

my man Chuey is a beast…

I got another session with Toons and Chuey next month! can’t wait…
while I was getting tattoo’d, Chuey’s apprentice showed me some of the work he got done by Chuey and I thought I’d show some of it….


Chuey is a cold motherfucker mang….
I got a few more big pieces getting done on my chest and then I’ll have Toons or him dial in the fill ins and details to complete that bish!

COLD!

so last weekend was the Sneakerpimps Battle Royale NBA 2K13 tournament for a $2,000 grand prize and the turn out was good, but I thought it was going to be more sneaker related, when it really was more gamer oriented… still all good though. the event was at the Avalon nightclub in Hollywood.

I seen a kid whooping everyone’s ass by 10 points at least and even cats who were talking big game… then I met a dude who whooped that little boys ass by 15 points! so I said awww shit, it’s about to be on! but then his end came in the final four when he played this cat from up north who ended up winning it all. He played with OKC, but he said if needed to really beat someone, he will use Miami…. interesting that most of the winners either used the Lakers or OKC or Miami
well dude won $2,000 for just being nice with some sticks…

shout out to my friends who dropped by from khleo thomas to lucky I am to Karrueche and Bee Nguyen and Woo Crooks etc…. and of course one of the main sponsors RIF.

at the end of the night, my boy SchoolBoy Q went up and did a small 4 song set/show and he got it turnt up!

Q was rocking some Yeezy II’s that he copped at RIF of course

after that, me and the boys from RIF went and ate at this spot called Flying Pig in Little Tokyo and you know when I was a kid, I used to look forward to going there and watching the cherry blossom parade or the Nissei festival etc… this was in the very early 80′s…. then around the late 80′s to the 90′s that popular area just died… I don’t know why either… a few very few staple japanese restaurants and a grocery store survived but many businesses closed down…. around the mid 2000′s to 2007 the area was like a ghost town. it was really dead and depressing…. so to see it flourish now and be very popping again brings a smile to my face… it’s so dope to see businesses doing well there and not only because RIF is there, but just all the restaurants and my boy Linn even owns a really cool boutique called Aristocrats and they sell cool shit like Deadline LTD, crooks, black scale, etc… so make sure you check out the area…. I have a few everyday go to spots to eat there too… like TOT or Koraku and of course Shabu Shabu house but I hate waiting in lines and they don’t take $20-$100 bill bribes….

SO ANYWAYS….!
this spot Flying Pig is a really small cool foodie joint and they have mad random shit from koread fried chicken to even Banh Mi and we tried a bit of everything and of course everything is pretty much pork related… but their Lobster Mac & Cheese is MONEY!

damn, we killed that shit! and I lost almost 10lbs in the last week or so and this definitely fucked things up… but I’ll drop another 4lbs before I hit the motherland

the next day it was a beautiful day, so we decided to head to the beach… one of my favorite spots that isn’t pretentious or a fucking nightmare to get to like Malibu… that would be Manhattan Beach

our first family trip to the beach though!

I wish I wasn’t on this diet because Manhattan Beach Pizza is probably one of the best in LA…. Nic did get some ice cream though lol…. walked down the pier, London really enjoyed the view and we checked out the mini aquarium and stuff…

he got his Gucci Cardigan on and his baby size Ray Ban wayfarers on! haha

we also took him on his first carousel ride!

he was so beat down after a real long day…

so after a little milk, my son was OUT!

London got his first two teeth and the teething has been having him cry a whole lot and he’s really fussy… he was a colic baby which was very tough on Nicolette and myself, but we got through it, but now he went right into teething…. damn

don’t let that cute face with the chubby cheeks fool you! my son is a beast!

so when I need some alone time or some meditation… I light up some candles… and thanks to my friend Rumi for putting me onto Diptyque candles and shit, these may be expensive, but this is my favorite home scent in the world… shit maybe top 2 scent period of my lifetime….

and don’t trip, that jumbo sized one is a few hundred bucks, but worth it….

lately I’ve had a storm going through my mind and I have so much going on that I really might take a short break from work, but maybe that will give me more time to explore the earth and also blog about it in real time…. when I really get tense, I take a drive to my old neighborhood and also to a place where my auntie lived because it brings me back to my childhood as a toddler and growing up with all my family and times were good. money wasn’t on my mind, but just having a solid crew of friends and bike was the world to me…..

I have stress, but life is good, I don’t ever worry about haters, I don’t worry about anything really except how my son is going to grow up and that our family just stays healthy.

thank you for being so patient with me and I’m feeling a little more at ease…. so maybe I can get these blogs up a lot quicker…

I never ever blog on a sunday, but this should keep you busy…
tomorrow I will post the weekend wrap and then I will be fully caught up to date with y’all!

peace

so let’s begin
let’s just get Vegas and Magic out of the way….

Delta First Class ain’t what it used to be smh

got there and as soon as I landed it was on…

pre-game…

I’m the king of room service! no lie

photobomb my wife’s pic….

so I walk downstairs to meet up with my team and head to my NEFF X BB event at XS


the homies Q Worldstar and Pusha T joined me in the celebration
it was the first party of the week and or the first GOOD and BIG party of the week…. everyone showed up and shit was crazy… kinda weird to be at a different table then my Diamond Life fam, but this is something I gotta do obviously… I got to link up with the BBC/Ice Cream cats which was cool and my En Noir fam was there…

along with Chad from the Neptunes

diplo was the DJ and if you don’t really know who diplo is, then do some research, not only is he a real official DJ, his production and list of hits and grammy’s are NO joke




he really held shit down and the place was stupid packed….

the homey Machine Gun Kelly showed up to rep

special made watch box/sleeves!

Million Millions in the ceiling!!!

I actually did pretty good that night, I think we got back to the room around 3am which wasn’t shit…
thank you Tal and Shaun and of course Jesse Waits (owner of XS who always holds me down)

Day 1 magic show

day 1 fit: Diamond x IBN crewneck, Diamond x IBN pocket tee(never for sale), DOPE couture socks, Hermes Large Constance belt, KR3W k-skinny chinos, Crooks & Castles x Mosley Tribes Costelano shades and Nike Air Yeezy II’s.

before I got to magic, it was essential that I order breakfast via room service.

the first day of magic was more like a shit show…
so I guess my popularity has grown, obviously with social media too… I think I took at least 400 pictures with fans and stuff and that is by far the most I have ever taken ever in any place, not just magic… jesus, makes me think though, what if Jonas was still around? fuck
the show is back light weight though… seriously, a little better organized and the economy is back and people are spending money so it wasn’t as dead as it’s been in the last 3 years.

yup… 1 of the main reasons why I was there

doin some press for Complex Mag with Mr Springbreaker Riff Raff

linked up with a lotta cats that day… seen my boy Big Sean and chopped it up for a min about chains and money, what else is new?
oh yeah, some low life piece of shit stole my iphone from the diamond supply booth while I was taking pics with a fan. smh… I just had a drop from Big Sean on there and a few other things…. thank god for icloud because it updated the pics via photostream real quick!

I offered a $2,000 reward and then a $5,000 reward to anyone who brought back the phone to the booth no questions asked, but nobody showed up, obviously. someone was in for the beat down of their life for sure… we had a crew of ugly’s waiting for the idiot…

fuck the actual phone, it was just the hassle and things and losing some other stuff I couldn’t have backed up that fast… so I shot to the mall and apple store and copped a new 64gb oh well fuck it.

got to the room and guess what? you already know, Room Service again

I took a 2 hour nap because I knew it was gonna be stupid at Hyde Bellagio for the Crooks party with Pusha T performing

it was live as fuck in there too… it’s just so much of a smaller club

my boy Nick Diamond got it in. his foolish ass ordered a $20,000 boat at 2am lol. smh

linked up with my fam Bun B and my homey Karrueche

we stayed until they kicked us out at 4am. smh
I was so fucking tired again…. got back to my room and ordered room service like a beast

magic day 2, vegas day 3
now I’m raggedy as fuck and waking up at like 10am when I haven’t woke up past 6am in many months due to London… I missed him so much and Nic had to head back to LA…. my head was hurtin and body was aching like fuck! so you know what I had to do… order room service to get my day started right lol

got to the show to do a few interviews…

that’s one for Karmaloop TV I did at the Neff Booth

did another interview for the Source

caught up with my boy Juelz….
crazy 10 minutes after I ran into Jim Jones as I was leaving and had to chop it up real quick…. I missed Camron’s show at the L-R-G party the night before and linking up with all 3 of DIPSET would have been legendary

some cat papparazzi’d us while we were talking…. shout out to my little homey Tyga who I’ve known since way before he was mr rack city….

shout out to my boy Gerry who is actually a very heavy sneakerhead and also the newest member of Worldstar, but definitely not a lightweight to the game…

left the show though…. was beat up

you know I’m a lover of the arts… and my telly had a $35,000,000 Jeff Koons Tulips displayed there

got back to the telly and my ass passed out for real.
I was gonna do room service, but Q was like naw fuck that… let’s eat something good, so I went to one of my regular joints that I always do: RED 8 in the wynn which is seriously my go to spot. fucking love that salt and pepper chilean sea bass!

after that, we headed to go see the show, Jersey Boys which was really fucking good and then we headed back over to Hyde Bellagio. 1. I had zero desire to go out so my mood was real rude. I was in a shitty mood actually…. there was people trying to talk to me and I just wasn’t for the small talk, in fact, I hate small talk when I’m in a good mood. I got into real bad with some waitress who was fan bumming me out heavy and even tried to have Q tell the bird to leave me alone… finally the manager came by to talk to her and she lied to him and told him that we proposed oral sex for money. lol. he looked at her and said, if they disrespected you like that, why would you stay at their table? exactly bitch. you were drunk as fuck and wouldn’t shut the fuck up!!!!!

I smoked a fat joint and passed out kinda early and woke up feeling sick as shit… stayed in my room and didn’t even think about the last day of magic.
it was Las Vegas 4 and Ben Baller 0
they got the best of me for sure….

I used to do Magic and look forward to it… it was like a 8 hour red carpet event for me and Jonas and it was just a lot of fun… it’ll never be that again, but it was pretty good this time. thank god for car service too! and that first class flight back home. shit I was so sick I was pretty much laid out in the second bedroom so I didn’t get my son or wife sick for a week