GONZO IN PARIS

picture updates

2009-06-05T14:31:00.000-07:00

so i been slackin on the blog but its all good...got 3 more weeks out here ....im headed to germany to meet up with the chicago homies demon and hyder....then off to barcelona for some fun....then back to paris to "wrap it up B" and head back home...im homesick but dont want to leave if it makes sence...definetley looking forward to the pool and the barbecure and the girls in summer gear..looking forward to advancing in this art shit and making some moves ...looking forward to seeing all my people again and sharing the love....in the meantime heres some pic and vids with comentary :

Above u got scotty chillen with Yarah Bravo...shes a really cute bgirl we met her at the one self show...dj vadim rocked the house...i added her on facebook and the mutual friend came up ...haha she knows ayanna...wassup yanni!!

heres me with some treasures i found!:

heres how we get down with the bread and cheese status:

really cool building the pompidu museum:

sac le coeur in one corner PUSSYS club in the other:
new friends at a lil get together:

scotty coming off a bender:

urban rescue party crew :

me and the crazy girl pernilla vanilla

me cold chillen like i do:

me blowin out some smoke yall, like i do(as i should):

character to pass time:

notice the price?:

the tunnels were nice:

scotty got his lip slashed:

20 sacks of swag, locked out chillen at hotel de ville, jrocc on the ones and twos, yarah bravo mic controlla:

ITS GETTIN KINDA HECTIC

2009-05-21T03:59:00.000-07:00

the paris streets r hot.....a week ago scot got slashes in the face when he caught some guy tryna get into his pockets....we weere drunk and didnt get a chance to beat him down.....he got away.....

then we were at grandmaster flash wednesday night...and the crowd was pushuin up on me cuz i was in front...some girl starts hating on me and i end up getting kicked out....so im outside waiting for scotty......3 arab kids walk up...and i knew they were bout to jack me ....i didnt want my wallet or phone jacked...so i ask if they r graff writers one says he is......i pull my camera out and start to show them..i figured better my cam then my life or my notebook with all the numbers in it.......they jack the camera...sock me in the head to the ground...i pop right back up sock one of them squre in the face he goes down....they hit me in the head again and i pop right back up ...see the guy that i hit and sock him in the face a second time...he goes to the ground again and they ran hahaha.....like bitches...3 on one....well i guess the cops got them cuz they came around ask if i wanna press charges....nah i dont like to talk to cops if it aint that serious.....im kinda banged up but im alive...and i will be more carefull for the remainder of my trip

an a side note:

this is my theme song right now...i played i tthe other day to wake scotty up...then grandmasterflash played it....after i got kicked out tho hAhA....BUT IT RINGS TRUE CUZ IT IS GETTING HECTIC, I WILL ATTACK, AND YOU DONT WANT THAT.....AND I REALLY DO GOT THE POWER.....JAH BLESSS RASTAFARI

WATCH THIS VID PEEPS....IT WILL BRING MEMORIES FOR SOME...MY MUTHAFUCKIN THEME SONG RIGHT NOW:

GFK PARIS FRANCE

2009-05-15T07:01:00.000-07:00

So yea Sott got that hookup,free tickets at the will call.....saw ghostface killer at Elysee Montmarte where the show was maybe half sold out....i asked the guy sellin WU mixtapes if he had any wax....he didnt so i got me a t shirt...they asked where i was from..ontario the desert and i asked where he from.."staten island"..dumb question i thought of myself haha..anyways the place closes at 1130 and it was probably 945 ... "kool G" who was billed as the opening act wasnt even onstage and people were wondering if ghost was even gonna make his appearance....haa but he failed to dissapoint cuz he gave all his energy to the crowd and handled the mic control like ive never seen before....the guys sellin the shirts and cds ended up being the hypeman...check the video for a taste but on a sidenote he played the theme from "OUR GANG THE LITTLE RASCALS!!!!"...HAHA I FELT IT WAS JUST FOR ME....another time near the end of the show something was thrown from the crowd....ghost stopped the show hypeman pointed him out...me and scotty,under some kronenburgs: "stomp him out ghost!!stomp him the fuck out!!..haha ghost was on the mic... "they want me to stomp you out yo"- gfk

after he signed everyones shirt yer guess is good as mine as to what the initials are ...some crew i guess
ill nevero forget that show where ghostface put 110% into rocking a show that wasnt close to sold out and he did it for the wutang fans of paris france.....and to top it up he said to put it on the internets tell them whats crackin.....so thats whats up

MAVADO.!!!THE DANCEHALLS GO OFF.....

2009-05-14T05:13:00.001-07:00

...like ive never seen!!! they go fuckin crazy ....dancehall massive from Martinique, Guadalupe, JAMAICA,FRANCE, Africa, and ontario california haha...

peep the vid!!! dope show!!!

3 bomb meals

2009-05-14T05:04:00.000-07:00

so we went to this south american joint....i cant remember the name but i used the few words of spanish i know: "tienes salsita muy, muy picante?" and she came out with escabeche!!!! WORD?? ....WORD!!!! we attacked the jar!

scotts son, scotty jr. got confirmed last saterday ...the bishop of notre dame gave the service...with his funny little hat...my 1st french mass...afterwords scotty jrs. grandmother cooked the best french meal ive ever had....no pics of it tho...fois gois to start, soem type of cream chicken for the main corse......a variety of cheeses after...and some pineapple desert ...oh my goodness it was bomb!

...then the other day were like fuck it...lets make ceviche... a mexican specialty in paris....that with the escabeche gave me a taste of home for realz!!!!

love yall

miss yall...im out

GRAFFITI AND STREET ART IN PARIS PART 2...

2009-05-13T07:55:00.000-07:00

THIS CITY IS FULLA ARTISTS!

drunken madness

2009-05-04T04:59:00.000-07:00

so i went crazy for a few days haha...but im alive...alot has been goin on i had soem atm issues, they froze my card i was broke for like a week in a foreign country, but im back...last week was kinda crazy ....mad drink...little smoke...reflecting on the future ...ready to get my life back in order.....well, ill let the vid tell it...i walk the line between heaven and hell!!!!!!

like i told a few special people in my life.....its time for me to REALLY grow the fuck up...time to be a father, a husband, a hard worker, to stay (semi) sober, off the drink anyways, to be a strong member of my crews, and to paint some masterpeices, on the wall and on canvas.....im ready to come home, but still so much i want to do here (barcelona!)...i still got at least a month and i cant wait to see you all soon...

BBQ MASTER

2009-04-25T03:54:00.000-07:00

so last night we were deciding what to do had a couple options....yasmine made the call so off to a house party in a suburb of paris....made it there with weed and drank in hand realy cool people all of scotts friends...djs, weed, pork, beef, danceflooor etc...california would be proud...anyways i peeped some comotion at the grilll...coals too hot...links were on fire....scottys made the call dave gotta take over so that i did.....hooked the muthafuckin shit up right cali style and made sure the party was fed....i heard quotes like "americans cant cook, except for barbecue" and " the french compliment your cooking and thats not easy to do"...so yea i had to do a bbq takeover....party went into the night many drinks many splifs many smiles i even had to show wassupon the dancefloor on some b boy shit.....so we took the taxi back home dropped yasmine off and decided to hit the afterhours but got buffed at the door...party over..FUKK..then i rememberwassup...BABYLON BIS....been hearing about this spot since i got here that its the best chicken in paris...well lets go try it...open all night ....people listen when i tell you...

THE BEST CHICKEN I HAD IN MY LIFE..!!!!!!!
THEEEEEEE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!

all in all a very fun night...but dam i forgot the battery to my camera.. hahha "your so bad with electronics"-cw ....indeed i am

killed the wall!!!

2009-04-24T03:32:00.000-07:00

with BROK, ALEX, and TAIKE...shit came out sick as fuck and i am proud...it was a beautiful day sun beaming down had a blunt and croissant ...took a train with alex somewhere south of paris...industrial area nice factories and abandoned spots...alot of graffiti to see...painting with dope writers allways advances skill level...once again i gotta thank HYDE,ZORE, and FEARO for helping me acheive the skills that i got when i get to the wall ...TAIKE is going to take better pics with the sun hitting the colors...till then peep these....what more can i say....

well of a little more to say...this morning i was officially HOMESICK!!! maybe its the warm weather and theyre saying its gona rain for a few days...that allways suck...maybe it was painting and missing the yards and crew back home i dunno...maybe(most likeley) its my heart actin up again..i dunno i miss my friends and loved ones terribly...i pray everyone is finding their way in the world....just remember im allways there for everyone of you all...peace: :

THE HOMIE ALEX!!!!

2009-04-20T12:23:00.001-07:00

so yazmine introduced me to ALEXONE who invited me to his studio..THE MAN GOT SKILLS YO!!!!!..he gets down with tkid, cope2, fafi, tilt, brok, etc etc etc.....i busted a quik canvas there SEE BELOW:....checked out his art and his friends...and soon well paint a wall together.....www.brokalex.com check him out!!!..new friends kick ass!!!sorry no pics of his studio....yea i forgot my camera at home.....my badd!

alcohol, girls, spraycans and the maggot brain

2009-04-20T12:01:00.000-07:00

some vids for yall to peep:

Notre Dame

2009-04-20T11:45:00.000-07:00

i was raised catholic.....over time i denounced it as my religion...yes i am spiritual no i am not religious.....well people close to me and people close to my family have been passing away recently i spoke with my mom and she wanted me to light some candels at Notre Dame....well the power and glory of the chuch totally touches my heart and soul and i feel i really need to pray to god more regularly..i completeley broke down in there thinking of friends ive lost.....anyways without getting too deep check the flicks.....notre dame my friends:

Graffiti, and Street Art In Paris part 1

2009-04-16T09:10:00.000-07:00

well some is from amsterdam too....seeems liek the old graff vs street art shit is crackin here on some level...u can see trane mobbed up overABOVE, the cardboard arrow guy....this kid TRANE is up all over the city he All City easy...alot of peopel doin the sticker thing tooo...but i dunno alot of people out here into hiphop but i havent seen that real FUNK hiphop we all know and love... but graffiti is definetly crackin...just look:
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HOOKED ON A FEELING

2009-04-14T03:48:00.000-07:00

...i cant shake the thought of her...Shes like heroin..i get physical pain and emptyness without her..withdrawls like a mutherfucker....i wake up , half drunk, with the hole in my heart feeling like a SUCKER for love...and indeed thats what i am...i did the player thing cant noone tell me shit about getting some fine california women....im the best mayne i did that...in the end tho i never felt complete...i had them lined up...way too many....then i fell in love with her....it was great...ive never felt so alive before and maybe i never will again....mistakes were made tho and i did hide away and spent less time with alot of friends who i should have probably stayed around....but like i said i was in love....well thats all gone now and im hiding away again but this time in france...but i cant stop thinking about love....and not just how i love her but how i love my friends too..AYO..you mean the world to me brother...youve taught me so much its rediculous...about women, about bein a man, about friendship etc etc...and when i was going thru breakup and came back to kick it with you... you understood and that was a big help man.....Gary...stay healthy homeboy...we been thru so much and youve proven to me over and over that you got my back in rough situations, weather its people trying to harm me or just someone to talk to about these issues in life.....we lost our best friend together ...that shit wasnt easy and i think about jonny, and robbie all the time...i knwo u do tooo....Ralphie: i dont think reads my blog but if you are homie you allready know....were never gonna shake each other even if we tried...were too much alike except the beer vs weed argument.....If i could tell u anything is to stay positive cuz your a grumpy muthafucka....get out in the world more shit weill fall in place for you....most people r fake as fuck and your not so just make somethin happen man....u aint got no kids like me ...we can still make moves player...no reason to wait for something.....CHARLIE:...fuck homie i miss you too...u stay keeping me laughing...and eating haha...we discovered alot in cali together(mostly restraunts) and its allways good times with you my man....

theres so many people i want to thank.........i got love for all my peoples and theyre alot of you out there ...ZORE,FEAR,HYDE: my talented innovator real true homeboys lets get the ball really moving and make some money...we can paint walls forever...and we will....thats allways gonna be there....but if we find ways to stay live and eating off art then we must do it....the potential is within us i see it and you see it....we all know it aint easy but perhaps well find a way to make it worthwhile.....fame on the streets vs. commercial art...is there a balance??? i think thats another blog post alltogether.......

Danyell and Mekka:...become friends again...thats my wish anyways...your both really cool chicks and i love you both as friends and ill admit even more then friends but thats just me being a guy( yes a guy who likes black girls)....but it saddens me you dont get along anymore for whatever reason and if it saddens you on some level call each other....at least try it...plus if you both sucseed in fashion your gonna have to see each other again...it trips me out how all of a sudden im in the fashion industry too but i guess thats gods plan for me....ive been meeting the best contacts in fashion out here ....lets all be friends again and make soem serious money im not even joking......

ATARA:..u say u dont read this but i think you do....youve been there for me the past few months even tho i felt unable to put my neck on the line , and was unfair with my heart, as i still have feelings for her....but i do realize that i got alot of love for you, and your so kind and down to earth and real about things and it keeps me and my thoughts grounded...so keep doing that for me please....i bring up the past alot and thats a n issue i have to work on...but your helping me work on that....i look forward to coming back to ontario and see where i stand with you

CHER:..... i wish it was diffrent....but it aint...just please be carefull out there......

those i didnt mention its not cuz i forgot...if i mentioned all my friends back home id be here forever....
anyways liek i said...woke up with that empty feeling i needed a nice walk and i ended up at the louvre which is the biggest art museum in the world....france ended up jacking alot of art from egypt so most of the pics are all that shit....they even had a painting, on the celing, which portrayed the jacking...im out for now.....peep the pics:

Bike Ride

2009-04-12T09:52:00.000-07:00

GRAN PALAIS, CEntre Pompidou

2009-04-09T12:01:00.000-07:00

yesterday it was stay high, seen ,taki 183, rammallzee, amaze, ghost, trane, giant, blade, etc etc...and warhol.....today was chagall, dali, picasso, earnst, duchamp, kadinsky, calder, etc etc..i hate to "etc" some famous people but ill just post some pictures up....

new friends

2009-04-04T18:03:00.000-07:00

me and the homie ibrahim:

the day started out me scott and scotts son, scott jr, playing ping pong in the park...nice park in the morning a little windy and had a good time...played a match with a kid named ahmed we met in the park..he schooled me haha

waiting for a ffriend yasmine i saw a REBEL SPIRIT sighting..peep the pics ..props to EDGAR MUNOS for takin his vision world wide...dudes name was henry he loves rebel spirit anyways:

... i mentioned YASMINE in an earlier blog...met up with her and her friends ayele, who is a beautiful model just back in town from hong kong... and Jabe, a talented makeup artist with a wonderfull vision for his career...anyways sat and had an oarngina with them for awhile then off to Gordon Cyrus' studio wheere he was exhibiting fashion by Xuly.BeT (http://www.xulybet.com)%20...awesome/...AWESOME WOMENS CLOTHING!!!...i mean i was blown away...he just had a fashion show in new york and landed GRACE JONES to model in the show...his presentation and clothing were amazing....gordon rentsa out a spot for peopel to showcase their work and thats what was going on....so upstairs rolled a few euros...talked politics and art and creativity with my new friends then gordon showed us his studio and soem work hes done...well talking to Gordon i found out he was from sweeden..and he had a t shirt "graffiti cant be stopped" which i completley agree with...about 2 years ago at the meeting of styles i met a sweedish writer names PUPPET...turns out PUPPET did GORDONS 1st logo!!! haha small world....THIS WAS ALL MENT TO BE....Gordon is a talented producer, director, furniture designer, architect in fact im trying to figure out what homie DOESNT do....anyways i urge everyone to check out "D-FE" an afro-punk band from paris that gordon produced...their fukin off the hook a breath of fresh air in music....anyways snapped a few pics but not many....scott met up with me and yasmine after that, had a wonderfull dinner and talked stories of Los Angeles: the pantry, versailles, roscoes etc...

anyways that was today tomorrow who knows....but i gotta say YASMINE yer an awesome friend allready....

PRotest from the other night...

2009-04-04T17:39:00.001-07:00

...when i got lost...after the westcoast show....i ended up in scottys hood but he was passed out..not answering phone..so i was gonna walk the hood till sunrise wait for phone taxi to open and give him a call...well near Hotel de Ville i saw some people walkin in a circle so i was like wtf?? well i figured better to kill time at a peacefull protest then walk the streets which everyone says is safe but u never know...anyways i ended up walkin in a circle for a couple hours talking to these students, mostly film students, about their protest....ill let Oliver explain it..peep the vid...and oh yea..they dont stop walking!!! they get replacements every 5 hours or so and keep the circle ongoing till they get what they want.....i promised to walk with them again later this week but hopefully i wont have to and the govt. meets their demands.....

WESTSIDE WORLDMUTHAFUCKIN WIDE

2009-04-02T21:31:00.001-07:00

woke up like awwww shit why did i piss off one of my friends in a drunken stupor....well thankfully my apology was accepted ...madd love for you jourdan..... decided to myself i need to cut alcohol out of my life......

anyways with that said today some of my personal hiphop heros were in town...dogg pound...daz kurupt ,kurupt and daz...too muthafuckin $hort....X to the Z......and Ice cube...oh cant forget dj muggs....anyways the concert was great...my "W" never left the air...people could tell i was from cali and alot of people game me maddd love...at times i felt like PAC..all eyez on me...haha....awesome show!!!!!.anyways i got separated from my friend scott but luckily i met soem really cool people who helped me look for him (WASSUP IBRIHAM !!!! WASSUP CHRISTIAN!!!!WASSUP SOPHIE!!!!!!)...well they helped me but i still couldn't find him so i went outside...christian asked around for a phone to use as his was dead ....cuz i was so lost how do i get home??????...my friend scott was pretty incapacitated and im staying at his house which i dont even really know where it was as i left the address at home(like a dumbshit)... well a beauty by the name of YAZMINE let me use her phone...but no answer....turns out YAZ is a fashion stylist and she used to live in los angeles and she knows DJ MUGGS and the soul assassin crew.....well she was tired but pointed me in the direction of the after party....so i was like fuck it...go to the party, kill some time...wait for scotty to wake up and go home....but then i was like no...find the bar in Bastille where they know scotts number or adress or something!.so i found the PUB COCHRAN'S(sp?) and met his friends there figuring out what to do.....and out of nowhere IBRIHAM shows up!!! hes a true homie allready...i guess yazmine called him let him know i was in a little trouble...well he was going to drive me to scotts neighborhood and i was just gonna walk around or something till i could get a hold of scott...but then i was like u know what fuck this...take me to the muthafuckin after party hahaha.....so that i did....dope party on a boat...short dog preformed...muggs killt it on the turntables....couple fine chicas there but they were all looken to suck some rappers dick or soemthin haha.....anyways i met some other cool cats..theyre names elude me right now but they were willing to drive me to scotts hood after the show.....so that they did...well scott stillll didnt answer so i walked the streets...and ran into a student protest and met OLIVER AND FRANCOIS 2 students protesting....i protested with them to kill some time but more on that later...in the end im back home ...theres alot more to the story but im very tired and cant find the data card reader for my camera...but when i do more video! i promise!...greatest day so far out here....

i miss chipmunk face and i miss midnite and i miss all my homies...and family.more tomorrow!!!!!

RIP SANTOS!!!!!!!!!!

Daz kurupt, kurupt and daz:

some kid in france c walkin..

$hort dog in the muthafuckkin house

xzibit: papparazzi

CUBE AND WC

AFTERPARTY MUGGS TEARIN UP THE ONES AND TWOS

soooo drunk....

2009-04-02T05:42:00.001-07:00

last nite so drunk...beautifull girls...lots of music and stupid feelings....gotta stop the madnesss.....but im alive.....and i wish u were here....and scott loves everybody especially hot bitches hahahahahahhaha

they're truffles, not mushrooms

2009-04-01T05:45:00.000-07:00

amsterdam

2009-04-01T05:26:00.000-07:00

we left spontaneously...got a couple tickets and bounced....stopped in Antwerp for a beer then continued our journey...we walked into the middle of a party, Scotland was playing Netherlands in a world cup qualify match and the place was packed with fans from both sides. i mean there is not much to say ill let the pics and videos tell the story. trust me you don't want to hear the whole thing haha. and no it doesn't involve hookers.

as far as cultural experiences go: we saw the Heineken museum which was real cool....if you end up there the bartender Lauren is really cool, and sexy haha. and of course i had to hit up the van gough museum....seeing the sunflowers, and starry night up close was an awesome experience...hes always been my favorite European artist and now its 100 % confirmed in my mind... a true genius....BUT my battery had died so no pics of that ..just google him haha

intro

2009-04-01T05:09:00.000-07:00

so Ive been here about a week and just starting this blog to let people back home know what I've been up to. Well at least the parts I'm willing to share ha ha...if your reading this just know that i miss you all...actually a friend of mine died while i was out here...i saw him about 4 days before he passed so i thank god for that opportunity to see him and his band practice in Oakland. almost cut my trip short but i think he would want me to stay. SO YEA REST IN PEACE JON SANTOS YOUR IN MY THOUGHTS.

Anyways the 1st few nights were spent in Paris we did a lot of walking and drinking and just basic sight seeing. People here drink A LOT....ridiculous amounts. jagermeister is big. beer of course . everywhere serves stella out the draught so that's cool...

There is street art everywhere...i been putting stickers up here and there but have yet to do something big...all in due time...

Oh and the women are gorgeous but that's everywhere really....just that certain types of beauties here you don't see them in the states...I've met people from all over Europe here and even elsewhere...

anyways peep the pictures :