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My trip to New York (This has been shortened a bit, or else it would take days to read). I figured I would move this post from my old blog to this one.

Friday:

I left Copenhagen, from Kastrup Airport at 7 in the morning. The flight was alright. Arrived @ Newark aiport, New Jersey at about 1 AM. All I had was an address in Long Island and a phone number. So I went to grab a cab, and I get in and there is this huge guy from Somalia sitting there. I asked him to take me to the designated spot on the map and he says ok. About 30 mins into the trip, he turns around and tells me he has no clue where we are going. So he picks up his phone and calls up all of his african friends, and finally he has an idea of where we are going. Anywho, 1½ hour later we arrive at my destination in Long Island. This fucked up cab ride just cost me 220 bucks, what a way to start a vacation, huh?

I meet up with Little Vic, who’s house I am going to be staying at for the entire week, I am there. I get all my stuff into the house and get settled in, meet some of his friends. I find out that Vic’s throwing a huge house party later on (which was really cool by the way), with a million people. This evening ends with me getting hella drunk and wasted (mostly because of the jetlag).

Saturday:

Woke up late, got some stuff to eat and I bought a million rice krispie treats (I love that shit yo), chilled and went to another “smash your house” kinda party at some friends house. Beer Pong seems to be the game that they play over there. Basically (TM), the objective is to throw ping pong balls into the pyramid shaped lineup of glasses. If you hit one of them, the other team (each team consists of 2 players) have to drink the glasses, which are all filled with beer. Very entertaining to play and watch (I sucked ASS at it though). So we socialized with some drunk people, and I heard alot of funny stories - good stuff.

Sunday:

Woke up late, a bit hungover. The doorbell rang, and Vic got a visit from Big KO (who has produced alot of tracks for Little Vic). Another guy, called Joey “fucking” P, also joined us and the day turned into one long jamsession with Vic on the keys, Big KO on the bass, Joey P on the guitar and me on the camera! Very entertaining..

Monday:

Spent the entire day in the studio, just playing beats and listening to new stuff. After that we watched “House” and “Heroes”, and I tried to lure the others into watching some NBA (mostly ’cause we cant get that stuff over here in Denmark).

Tuesday:

Did some work in the studio. Me and Little Vic did a track together over a beat from Velotz (Flood Industries), sounded pretty good if I may say so. Waiting to finish it one of the following days. Vic also got his new car today.. Cadillac, need I say more. Damn..

Wednesday:

Woke up late (again), Didnt really know what to do, so I decided to spend the day with one of Vic’s friends, named Lusty (producer for Flood Industries). We went to one of his friends house and chilled there for a sec, watching the ever classic “Home Alone”. and as if that wasnt disturbing enough in its own sense, then suddenly the friend comes into the living room with a loaded AK47 with a lasersight and tells me to hold it. Pretending to be impressed, I grab the AK and tell him, that its a nice rifle. After that he tells me to follow him to his room, where I admire all his Vida Guerra posters on the wall - followed by another showcasing of a loaded shotgun, waved right in front of my face. Now, I might be overreacting.. but I’m just not used to having rifles waved in my face, guess I’m too Danish for that.

Anyways, after that we go for a ride into the rich neighbourhood of the town, where the guys smoke alot of pot - imagine the Luniz video “I got 5 on it”, where the guy crawls outta the car with smoke pouring out - then you get the idea.

Then we go the the movie theatre, to watch the new Mel Gibson movie, “Apocalypto”. I was really excited, cause it was supposed to be really good. But but.. I was disappointed like a mofo, I cant really say why, cause then I’ll spoil the plot and everything for all you guys that havent seen it yet. But safe to say, there are some missing SERIOUS plot holes..

Thursday:

Woke up late (again again). Vic’s cousin, DJ JohnJohn came by the house with his MPC and Motif, to play some new beats he did. He had some very dope beats and just produced a track for Raekwon for a movie soundtrack. I bet he will be producing some big names soon, cause he’s got some bangers. I also played him some of my tracks of my album, and the response was very positive. So after that I got picked up at the house by Dutch (another guy, who lives at the house and another producer in the Flood crew) and his 2 sisters (who would fit very well into a reality show kinda like the Osbournes). We went to New York city to see Times Square (which was AMAZING), ate some food at a Irish Pub (I had the Sheperds Pie) and walked around the streets to see Madison Square Garden, Empire State Building and all the shops. I got a good laugh from a store called “Charming”, which was basically a bunch of well cleaned toilettes, and people was standing in a longass line, almost as if it was Disneyland - the music playing was awesome too (I guess you had to be there).

This day I actually didnt have anything to eat all day before 8 o clock in the evening. Safe to say, I felt a bit sick.

Friday:

Got outta bed (well, actually the couch), got a call from DJ Typhoon, who had arranged for me to hook up with a friend of his named Vaughn, who had promised to take me sneakershopping in Brooklyn. So I went there by train, very fascinating to take the train over there and see all the different neighbourhoods. When I arrived, we agreed that there was too much traffic and too crowded, where we wanted to go, because of the holiday season. So we decided to go to Manhattan, to a “secret” shop called “Alife”. I was supposed to get a pair of Jordan 5 Olive/Orange for Typhoon, but unfortunately they didnt have any. So I got myself a pair of limited sneakers (or so I thought, cause when I came home, homeboy Jummer told me that they had those shoes for sale in Wallace - a streetshop in Copenhagen), DAMN.

After sneakershopping, I went to Broadway and walked the entire street looking for shops. I ended up at Ground Zero, where the World Trade Center used to be - basically it was just one big construction site, but still very scary if you allowed your thoughts to drift.

After that, I tried to walk back to Penn Station, but gave up and grabbed a cab. The trainride took me 40 mins and I was mad tired plus my back was hurting from walking around all day. So I got back to the house and no one was home and no one picked up the phone, so I was kinda stuck. I decided to chill outside the house for 30 mins, but it got too cold and I started to walk around the streets - trying not to get mugged by the local Spanish hoodlums. I finally got a hold of one of the guys, who told me that the door hadnt been locked at all - GRAVY. So I finally got home, and Vic was preparing a gourmet dinner for me and his friends. We all ate a really good meal in the dining room (which I taped and got some classic moments, especially from master of comedy - Ari). We then went to this Spanish place called Don Juan and got wasted, went back to the crib and was supposed to do another track. But we kinda fell asleep while writing..

Saturday:

Got up too late, was supposed to go shopping and get all my christmas gifts for the family, but didnt get any shopping done at all. That sucked ass!! So Vic and Dutch drove me to Newark and I got on my plane and made it back home safe..

Thanks for a CRAZY trip - peace to Little Vic, Sly Vest, Lusty, Dutch, Velotz, Ari, Joey fucking P (Basically), JohnJohn, Charles, Frankie Bones.. See ya’ll soon..

Tags: Flood Industries, Little Vic, New York, Orena Records

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