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party pics: THE OPEN PARTY at SANTOS with QTIP & VASHTIE: special guests GRANDMASTER FLASH, RASHAD, ESTELLE, THEOPHILUS LONDON, VINCENT CASSELL, LIL SHAWN and more!

vashtie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 03:12:50 +0000

*downstairs reggae with DJ IRON LYON and MICRO emceeing.

*LOIC and LUCIA.

*”THELMA” (ELLE’s niece MCKENZIE)…

*”LOUISE” (MY god-daughter AMAYA. they’ll be best bro’s when they meet!)

*THEOPHILUS LONDON & ESTELLE (two of my most favorite friends who are both super talented)

*LIL’ SHAWN.

*GRANDMASTER FLASH.

LOIC and me.

*LUCIA and crew…

*SPREE WILSON.

*TRINI PRIDE! THEOPHILUS LONDON and MACHEL MONTANO.

*ELLE & HASAAN INSANE.

*i love that color!

*JAY JACKSON & MALIK.

*MECCA.

*VINCENT CASSELL!!! wow. wow. wow. through the haze of the club ELLE spotted him like a groupie at all-star weekend. some of you may remember i made a VIOLETTE commercial from one of the movies he’s in – “LA HAINE”

*GREG, SANSHO and SCOTT WILLIAMS.

*FERRIES BUELLER rocking some VIOLETTE bands.

*rocking my CASETTE PLAYA and new RADCLIFFE DENIM (shout out to KHARI PARSON, i finally got them!)

*SCOTT WILLIAMS & HARRY MCNALLY (PEGLEG NYC)

party pics: 3/27 OPEN at SANTOS with Q TIP, ME and RICH MEDINA!!!

vashtie — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:53:51 +0000

the pre-party happened at PATRICKS sick loft in soho. ERIN invited us, and i was suprised to run into some familiar bros.

*the elevator up.

*naughty art.

*ERIN looked lovely as always.

OFF TO SANTOS!!! i heard JANET JACKSON was there, but i had no chance to see the icon myself.

*CURT@!N$ and ME.

*ELLE next to a stranger…when i originally took this i thought he was eating a hotdog. eh, it’s not a hotdog – i was just fantasizing about food again

*SABEL.

*THEOPHILUS LONDON…he’s trinidadian!!!

*SANTOS understands you!

*in the “batch-room”, thats how my mama pronounces bathroom with her accent

*DREA from CHICAGO (and HE SAY SHE SAY) was in the building, all the way from CHI-TOWN.

*AMANDA DIVA and DREA

*tee hee.

music: THEOPHILUS LONDON

vashtie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:36:17 +0000

so, i bumped into A-RON the DOWNTOWN DON and WEIRDO DAVE in my hood a few days ago. we had a brief conversation about the scene and what not. he asked me what NEW music i’ve been listening to.

it took me a minute to think because i’ve only been listening to old albums (THE SMITHS, DEEE-LITE, BIGGIE, NAS, DEPECHE MODE, etc) not because i’m “too cool”, but because i’m a dinosaur and haven’t accepted that it’s 2009. then i thought about “NEW” and it hit me…

yes.

THEOPHILUS LONDON.

he’s got this cool black MORRISSEY thing going on…with a mix of Brooklyn hood kid. anyone that finds inspiration outside of current pop trends is cool as a cucumber to me. i so love THE SMITHS too.

his mixtape, titled “THIS CHARMING MIXTAPE” is a cute take on THE SMITHS track “THIS CHARMING MAN”. One of the title tracks off the mixtape also took a cue from the same band with a song called “HUM DRUM” which channels MORRISSEY’S lyric…”hum drum town”.

anyways…i’m rambling with pointless nerdiness.
check the mixtape here

also, the cover reference was inspired by ELVIS COSTELLO! despite the fact that i’m normally a weary of excessive borrowing, this kid already has me excited. i love the sound! and he needs a video (eh em).