I interviewed the homie Mack Maine for AllHipHop.com. Read it in full below, via AHH!
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(Photos + Video) Lil Wayne’s I AM Music Tour [Washington, D.C. x Baltimore, MD x Memphis, TN]
Lil Wayne headed out on the road with Keyshia Cole, T-Pain and a few others for the I AM Music Tour in late 2008. I attended the D.C., Baltimore and Memphis stops. (I just so happened to be in Memphis at the time for the 2009 SEA Awards.)
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Review: Lil Wayne in Concert [Newark, NJ]
This was my first published article online! Back in 2007, I used to post a lot on AllHipHop.com‘s message boards, the “Ill Community.” I befriended one of the mods, Odiesel, and in February 2008, he gave me an opportunity to review the Lil Wayne concert I was attending in NJ.
From there, I interviewed a lot of dope artists for the site, and forged friendships with the owner, Chuck Creekmur, as well as my now-mentor, Kathy Iandoli. Thanks, OD!
Read the review in full below, via AHH.
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(Photos) Me Doing Misc. Cool Shit – 2008
Filming a segment with Lil Cease, interviewing Mack Maine and Jae Millz for Culture Shock Mag after Wayne‘s NJ show plus a few other Wayne shows, Salt N’ Pepa‘s book release, meeting Charli Baltimore at an AllHipHop.com event, hitting Shade 45, a Hanson meet-and-greet at my school and Tyga‘s show in NJ.
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(Photos) DJ Khaled “Out Here Grinding” Video Shoot [Brooklyn, NY]
While walking into Summer Jam 2008 with my friend Navarre, a man randomly stopped him and and asked him to play Lil Wayne’s stunt double in DJ Khaled’s “Out Here Grinding” shoot the next day in Brooklyn. I linked with Mack Maine later that day and told him about it, and he was confused because the YM camp had already made it clear to the production team and to Khaled that they wouldn’t be attending the shoot because of a prior commitment, so there was no reason to have a Wayne stunt double if they weren’t going to have any Wayne scenes period. He asked me to keep him updated and I said I would.
We went the next day as planned, and as promised, I hit Mack and told him we were definitely shooting. Wayne would end up hitting Khaled and getting into a rift that lasted some time over this, but obviously, they eventually cleared the air and mended any issues. In the meantime, Var did end up shooting a few scenes, and it looked like it WOULD have been pretty cool, had it actually made the video!
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