B-Boy Extravaganza, part II

Part II

The icing on the cake was that that Basquiat's exhibition came to town from New York too (yes, I saw it in March ;-) ). But this time MOCA and Reebok held a few opening parties, and nothing..nuthin was gonna keep me from seeing Grandmaster Flash throwdown in LA. Word! Me and Taymor hit downtown and crashed the line (which was 200 people long) and partied with the beautiful, cultured people of LA.

Click here to watch 'Grandmaster Flash tribute to Jean-Michel.'

I had to school the guy on the Reebok booth. He was saying there were limited editions of Basquiat and Reebok shoes in the store done by a Japanese designer. When I told him Maharishi is English he grunted some excuses. Lame ass! I wear Maharishi...everyone should wear Maharishi!

I was such a ligger I took along some photos of Grandmaster Flash I took in Miami at the Winter Music Conference 2002 where he was DJing at the adidas party I crashed. That night I left with my coveted adidas trefoil pillow under my jacket. Nice! Anyhow, I never did get Flash's autograph "he leaves straight after the show" I was told. Yea, but I knew he was staying at the Standard downtown...let's see if he leaves me something at the front desk?! Tenacious...me?

Basquiat celebrated

B-Boy Extravaganza, part I

Part I

When I heard that the Scion people were bringing the Rock Steady Crew to town as part of a nationwide competition I knew I had to be there. I signed up for the parties, but couldn't make all of them.

Rock Steady just blew the Rock Force crew out of the water...Thanks Scion! Amazing acrobatics!

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