Day Seven, Eight, and Nine: Team BLOODRAW Promo Tour
New Orleans, LA
All-Star Weekend

Although All-Star Weekend in New Orleans wasn’t as hype as All-Stars in the past, it was great to see New Orleans making some money. The city still needs help after Hurricane Katrina. A lot of help. The rents are sky high, and most regular income folks can’t afford housing. I met a real estate broker who drove a taxi at night 7 days a week in order to pay her $1600 a month rent for her 2 bed-room apartment. The cost of living is high, but the income level isn’t.
After promoting on Bourbon Street and in the Uptown area, we hit the clubs. The hardest part was choosing which event to attend. All of us have friends who were throwing different parties, so choosing where and when to go was a challenge.

Mike Fresh, our DJ, made the best use of his time while in New Orleans. He never slept. Fresh is originally from Bainbridge, GA—a small city. He relocated to Tallahassee after going to a teen club called The Garden. He loved it so much that he stayed. He has a great network of people because he’s so out going and friendly. He’s friends with James Butler (corner back) from the NY Giants, so he went to his party at ESPN Zone. He went to House of Blues (which was cracking!), 360, and really made great use of his time there.

We stayed in Metairie because the hotels were waaaaay cheaper. We bumped into TMI Boyz downtown at the Doubletree, and on Saturday, we all jumped into our vans and headed to Jackson, MS on Saturday morning to attend Kamikaze’s music seminar.

While in Jackson, we ate at Gloria’s which is a local soul food spot. Food was banging! We also visited Stax at Block Wear. He’s such a cool dude. We bought shirts, DVDs and magazines and then headed back to New Orleans for the night’s festivities. Blitzing the ‘hoods was extremely effective in Jackson. I guess a lot of folks don’t do that. It was also great rolling with TMI Boyz again, even if it was for such a short time.

Headed to and from Jackson, I never felt safer—rolling in a van of goons, with a TMI van of goons in front of us, and a van of TMI goons behind us.