IF MY FAMILY WOULD HAVE HAD A CAMCORDER BACK IN THE DAY, I COULD HAVE SONNED THIS KID.

PERFECT FOR YOUR HOLIDAY VACATION OR FOR KEEPING ON ICE UNTIL MEMORIAL DAY. MATCHING SUIT?

ONE OF THE GREATEST BANDS OF ALL TIME PERFORMS THEIR CLASSIC NEW YEARS SONG LIVE FROM DEVORE IN 1983. THE LEAD SINGLE FROM THEIR 1983 ALBUM “WAR,” “NEW YEARS DAY” WAS THE BAND’S FIRST SINGLE TO CHART ON BILLBOARD’S HOT 100. TWENTY-SIX YEARS LATER, THE SONG DOESN’T SOUND THE LEAST BIT DATED AND ITS MUSICAL INFLUENCES CAN BE BLATANTLY HEARD IN MANY OF TODAY’S ROCK BANDS’ SOUND.

IF YOU ARE IN NEW YORK, SPEND NEW YEARS EVE WITH DUB-L AND HIS FELLOW GOD LORDS OF MAYHEM AND DEBAUCHERY.

SEVEN YEARS AGO ON NEW YEARS EVE 2002, I PLAYED FAT BOY SLIM’S “PRAISE YOU” AT MIDNIGHT. HERE IS AN AMAZING CLIP OF FATBLY SLIM PERFORMING HIS 1999 HIT LIVE IN BRAZIL.

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AS PART OF THE SUMMER/FALL 2008 ROCKPORT CAMPAIGN I APPEARED IN, ROCKPORT AND I RELEASED 1000 COPIES OF “LA MUSIQUE DE BATEAU.” WHETHER YOU ARE SAILING AROUND ST. BARTHS, LYING ON SOUTH BEACH, OR DRINKING HOT CHOCOLATE IN THE SNOW, THIS COMPILATION IS SURE TO BRING JOY AND SOUL TO YOUR HOLIDAY. CLICK THE LINK ABOVE TO DOWNLOAD.

MARV HAS BEEN MY RIGHT-HAND-MAN FOR ALMOST SIX YEARS. FROM EIGHT CRATES TO TWO LAPTOPS, FROM NEW YORK TO LOS ANGELES, FROM THE U.S. TO THE U.K., MARV IS BY MY SIDE. TONIGHT WE CELEBRATE HIS BIRTHDAY.

ON NEW YEARS EVE 2007, I DEEJAYED FOR OPRAH WINFREY IN SOUTH AFRICA TO CELEBRATE THE OPENING OF HER LEADERSHIP ACADEMY FOR GIRLS. THE GUEST LIST INCLUDED NELSON MANDELA, SIDNEY POITIER, CISELY TYSON, TINA TURNER, ASHFORD AND SIMPSON, PATTI LABELLE, MARY J. BLIGE, MARIAH CAREY, SPIKE LEE, CHRIS ROCK, L.A. REID, BABYFACE, AND MANY MORE. NEEDLESS TO SAY, IT WAS TRULY SURREAL TO DEEJAY FOR A ROOM FULL OF SUCH LEGENDS. MAKING PEOPLE DANCE TO “IT SEEMS TO HANG ON” IS FUN BUT MAKING NICK ASHFORD AND VALERIE SIMPSON DANCE TO “IT SEEMS TO HANG ON” IS MOVING. THE NIGHT WAS SIMPLY AWE INSPIRING.

BELOW ARE A FEW PICTURES OF ME AND MY MANAGER, DAMON, ON SAFARI AT TAU GAME LODGE. NO, I WAS NOT USING A ZOOM LENS. IN FACT, THOSE TWO LIONS HAD JUST FINISHED EATING A WILDEBEEST THEY HAD JUST KILLED.

BELOW THOSE IS A PICTURE OF ME ON CAPE TOWN’S ROBBEN ISLAND IN THE CELL THAT NELSON MADELA SERVED EIGHTEEN OF HIS TWENTY-SEVEN YEAR SENTENCE FOR FIGHTING APARTHEID. ON FEBRUARY 2, 1990, THE HEROIC POLITICAL PRISONER WAS FINALLY RELEASED.

SO YOUNG, SO FLY.

ON SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2008, I DEEJAYED JERMAINE DUPRI’S BIRTHDAY PARTY AT TENJUNE. AFTER ICE T. TOASTED JD, I THREW ON HIS CLASSIC TUNE “6 ‘N THE MORNING” AND THE LEGEND GAVE US ALL AN IMPROMTU PERFORMANCE. THERE ARE SOME ARTISTS WHO ALWAYS GET ON THE MIC AT PARTIES; ICE T. IS NOT ONE OF THEM. I’VE NEVER SEEN HIM PERFORM IN A CLUB LIKE THIS AND BY THE LOOK OF HIS REACTION, JERMAINE HADN’T EITHER. CLASSIC HIP HOP MOMENT.