Montage Hotel Beverly Hills with Shae Haley of N*E*R*D, Toby, Noah Becker, and Maria.
Chad Hugo at Wyman Records in Los Angeles with Paper Diamond.
LA studio time with Mark Foster of Foster The People, DNA, and Zack.
Los Angeles! We are here to make you dance on Thursday, May 24 at The Beverly!
Making plans to take over the world with Christian Rich.
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At Wildcard Boxing Club with Freddie Roach
Korean barbecue with Tristan at Soowon Galbi.
In da stu with Kid Sister.
MSSL CMMND at Supperclub Los Angeles with DJ Adam12 (She Wants Revenge).
Grammy nominee Skylar Grey performs with Adam.
Supperclub goes off! And a trapeze artist descends from the ceiling.
Chad twists the knobs. And apparently I decided to roll my sleeves up. Kid Sis also performed “Luuk Out Gurl” with us live!
love from la weekly
Thanks to Roselle Chen from LA Weekly for the awesome writeup!
“Chad Hugo, better known as one half of The Neptunes, came on a little past 3 p.m. on the indoor stage. A crowd had barely amassed at this point, with some filtering in from Riot Gear’s set outside.
Hugo opened with Chris Brown’s “Look at Me Now,” while gesturing for the sound levels to be turned up — way up. A couple of people gathered around and bobbed their heads to the beat while Hugo inflected a drum and bass beat to Busta Rhymes’s part: ” You ain’t never gonna stop me/ Every time I come a nigga gotta set it / Then I gotta go, and then I gotta get it.” With his right arm propped on the corner of the DJ table, Hugo said, “Mr. Soundman, Mr. Soundman can we get some volume?” Then: “Make some noise if you want to be outside!” A few people cheered. “It’s all good, we’re here to have a good time,” he said. Interspersing hard house, electro, reggaeton, commercial hip hop and pop, he played songs like Lumidee’s “Never Leave You,” Clipse’s “When the Last Time,” and Gwen Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl.” The set felt like a throwback to the early 2000s, with new beats mixed in. As more folks filtered in, they came alive to N.E.R.D.’s “Everyone Nose.” Girls twirled with boys to the lyrics: “All the girls standing in the line for the bathroom.” People in shades danced with big smiles on their faces, and guys, not girls, shook their butts to “A hundred dollar bills look - Achoo! Achoo!” Groups swung towels around their heads as Hugo spun more electro/house/reggae into Baltimore Club Music’s “Tear the Fuckin’ Club Up,” Lil Jon & Eastside Boyz’s “Chris Rock In The Club,” and even Violent Femmes’ “Blister in the Sun.” A loose break dance circle formed as Chris Rock said “We never leave the muthafuckin’ club!…We go to church in da club!” The peak was Lil Wayne’s “A Milli,” with skinny guys in shorts doing lazy windmills, resting for a couple of seconds on the floor before getting back up to dance.”
the secret life of plants
I was fortunate to be invited out to Los Angeles this past week to spend some time at the Record Plant recording studio. It was pretty awesome to say the least. Like people were always bringing us stuff like fresh baked cookies and yogurt parfaits. Plus there were these really good mint chocolate candies in the bathroom, like when you go to a club and wanna take a piss and there’s a dude next to the sink with soap, cologne, and a tip jar. Except there was no dude there so I could have as many mints as I wanted and I didn’t have to tip anyone. The whole place was very similar to a nursing home except it’s for people who make songs instead of they are just old.
There were a lot of different people who make songs there. The above video is of Chris Brown, Omarion, and Kenna serving one another in a friendly manner. Chris and Omarion are seriously two of the best dancers in the entire world, no lie. I made no attempts to dance against either of them because I am not capable of setting it off in a similar capacity.
The fine folks at Capcom were nice enough to drop off two copies of Street Fighter IV for us to play. I’m not really sure why anyone would need two copies of the same video game, maybe they saw that there were two televisions and got confused.
That’s me spinning tunes. I’m probably moving very quickly, which is why there is a slight blur.
JoJo stopped by. Chad squeezed her face because she is so adorable, while JoJo pretended to choke him.
One night/morning it was like 2am and we decided to have a dance party, so I went into the adjacent live room and set up. Some of the people who showed up were Drake, Teyana Taylor, Kristinia DeBarge, Chris Brown, Omarion, and Kenna. Pitbull was there too except he was busy down the hall making songs that girls like to dance to. I kept playing Pitbull tracks in the hopes that he would venture over but it never happened. I think that night was possibly the strangest night of my life so far. Here’s a video of our dance circle, except this was before it really popped off:
I had to snap a pic of the platinum record above because it commemorates Michael Bolton selling over five million copies of “Time, Love, & Tenderness.” How one man was able to touch so many hearts I may never know.
My last night in LA Evan and Garrett had a BBQ.
My homey Eric a/k/a Comel a/k/a Biscuit from Time Machine was there as well. His outfit made me think he was about to tell me a fable or something.
I was really tired by that point so I took a nap and when I woke up everyone had left the BBQ. Then I headed to LAX early the next day. Hopin’ to get back out there again soon! Thanks to everyone who extended their hospitality to me during my stay!
