Thursday, April 9, 2009

TAKE IT BACK series: APRIL 2006 TAIWAN

Event poster

Team Nimbus Taiwan

Nimbus interviews Royal for The Community DVD

Gino, Ryan Andres & Kaya

Gino & Loon during soundcheck

Bad Boy/Manila Boy/Original Roc Boy ng Pinas

Loon for The Community TV

Jin makes them learn Chinese, uhmm wait -- they are

Liquid Lifestyle!

After this, Ryan got interviewed for some TV show in Taiwan.

Nimbusnine & Davey

The Ambassadors

DJ Marvelous, Psylent & Loon

First and foremost, shoutouts to Liquid Lifestyle! Who made all this possible. April 8 was the event but we flew in a day before. We were rockstars for a minute there, had a shuttle pick us up from the airport. The shuttle still had DJ Tiesto's sticker on it so people thought Tiesto was in it, hehehe. First day, we walked the streets and saw the festivities and even got to interview a Filipina DJ lounging in the beachside.

That night, we met up with Loon in his hotel room, and smoked up some blueberries via the hospitality of Taiwan's own Davey! Davey teaches some cats about hiphop and his pupils actually call him Sifu which is Chinese for teacher. The blueberries were bomb diggity, but even better, we interviewed Loon and actually got him to drink Red Horse. We went to eat out, then when we came back I fucking slept like a log! Mad high from the herb. Hehehe, Nimbus got to freestyle with Loon and Loon was very engaging to all our conversations, telling stories on why he joined Bad Boy in the first place and that he has a son thats half Filipina. Loon could smoke man and his freestyles are crazy! Hehehe. Loon also rolled with some cats, DJ Marvelous and Thomas -- who interviewed me for his documentary on Big L. I don't know how Loon does it, he would smoke and drink the fuck out and still remember all his lyrics!

The following day, we met Jin, did soundcheck with him and yo, I have 2 hours worth of footage from this trip! Watching Jin do his soundcheck was awesome, it made me realize the value of soundcheck and how you should always treat them seriously. After the show itself, we even have Jin and Loon singing "Let's Get It Started" in the bus ride back to the hotel. We gave them copies of B-Sides, and we spent that morning pestering the hotel, tried to sneak in a couple of after party spots and run to Ciara's hotel room as well! Loon actually was urging us to do a track with them unfortunately we had to catch our flight back. Good times! After this trip, Jin actually came out with the song "The Ambassador" and gave Manila, Philippines a shoutout!

On the trip home, me, my brother and Gino would just look at each other in disbelief of this trip and how fun it was. We were so much in a high that it carried over to our next undertaking, April 19 -- the first day of The Community.

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