Ten Original works of art by Banksy are going up for auction on Wednesday. The pieces are expected to generate $600,000. I expect they will generate more.
This is a great opportunity as Banksy’s work is rarely up for sale. Back in April four were auctioned at Bonhams.
I have always have had much respect for Banksy in particular and street art in general. He deserves mad props for his artwork as much as he does for his anonymity. Especially in this world of weesh Celebrities.
“First of all I wanna thank my connect
the most important person with all due respect
thanks to the duffle bag the brown paper bag
the nike shoe box for holding all this cash”
“Thanks to the pastor rapping at your eulogy
to little kim and them you know the women friend who
carry the work cross state for a gentleman
yeah, thanks to all the hustlers, and most important to you, the customer”
“Let your hair down baby, I just hit a score
Pick any place on the planet, pick a shore”
“Pink rosay, think O.J. I get away with murder when I sling yay
Heron got less steps than britney that means it aint stepped on digg me”
Here is the new Jay-Z track Blue Magic. Pharrell Williams on the Beat. Chorus is an interpolation of En Vogue’s “Hold On”. Blue Magic was the blue packets of Heroin that Frank Lucas’ crew used to push.
Frank Lucas ruled supreme on One-sixteenth Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenue where he made more than a million dollars a day. There were many “brands” of Heroin in those days. Most were at about 5% purity. Blue Magic Heroin was at 10% purity and the dopest.
I have been getting tons of emails lately such as, “What is the Best Halloween Costume for a G to wear?” or something to the tune of “I am going to a sick Halloween gig this year, what is the best costume?” Decent questions, all in all. I am going to go out on a limb and assume that when people say “Best” they mean the “Best Halloween Costume to Pick up Girls in”. Fair enough?
Now, keep in mind, I don’t really go out on Halloween anymore and I have mentioned this before in: Halloween Parties and Vampire Naps. To be quite honest, I don’t really go out on Holidays at all. Too many cops, guys, snitches, informers, protective boyfriends, grasses and corporate fools. (In fact, I am having trouble even going out on weekends nowadays. Weekends are for working stiffs. Tues, Wed, and Thurs you can get your most solid work done. And when I say “solid work” I mean swooping the flyest girls. Mondays are bad, because of Thurs seafood deliveries. Unless, of course, you go to Le Bernardin in NYC).
First off, here are some definite “Don’ts” for Halloween Costumes:
No face paint. (The stuff will get in your eyes and end up running down your face at some point in the night. Plus, you should want to take advantage of your good looks. You are in your prime, right?)
No “shirt off” costumes. (unless your gay)
No spandex. (If I need to explain this, your problems don’t end there.)
Now, keep in mind, I haven’t “battle tested” many of these costumes. But, I have picked the brains of many trusted sources and G’s active on The International Playboy Circuit, to come up with this data sheet on The Best Halloween Costumes for Guys:
The Classics:
The Mummy: Bad Idea, dressing up in toilet paper isn’t going to get you any girls.
Spiderman: No. Spandex. This also goes for Superman, Batman or any of those other clowns. Aquaman? Do me a favor. This is real life, not HBO’s Entourage. For the record, I out-Gamed Marky Mark heads up back in the day for a fly girl in Hollywood. And she was from Boston! Come on Marky? Skip along and go find your Funky Bunch. Dancing around in your underwear? That guy is so weesh. But I digress. Back to The Best Halloween Costume…
Pirate: Good move, especially if you spin it like a Pirates of the Caribbean-Johnny Depp style costume. Fly girls buy into that Hollywood-Johnny Depp crap, if you haven’t noticed.
Dracula: Best choice of the classics by far. Real good for submissive girls. You get to slick back your hair, and dress in black. Can be pretty sinister. Pretty haunting like Hope Sandoval’s voice. It’s no secret that Fly Girls like Vampires.
50’s Greaser: I wouldn’t recommend it. But, could be good for swooping white trash girls.
60’s Hippy: Not bad if you spin it into some drugged out Jim Morrison type cat. Also, girls that like weed and pills will probably step to you. Which is never a bad thing.
70’s Disco Cat: Best bet. You can wear fly clothes and if you are carrying drugs, you can play it off as some kind of “prop”.
The Whispers – And The Beat Goes On
“Funny” Costumes:
Not really a fan of “funny” costumes. The guy dressed as a “Condom” never gets any girls. Keep in mind, however, that wearing Condoms with any girl you meet on Halloween dressed in some scandalous outfit is advisable.
Occupational Based Costumes:
Fireman: I have heard from some fairly reliable sources that the Fireman does get chicks on Halloween. I could see it working especially well on girls with Blue-Collar backgrounds. Hell, might even work on Sophito Girls too.
Pimp: Pretty standard choice. Works pretty well on girls that have ever thought of a career in “The Life”. Which, these days, as much as we don’t want to face it, most girls have. Just, don’t be a rest haven for girls.
Doctor: Best bet. Later in the night, when everyone is out of their mind, you will seem more “trustworthy”. “Prescription pad” can be used for getting girls digits. “Pill bottle” you can use to hold Beans.
Celebrities (Personally, I hate Celebrities, except for heisting their cribs or their girlfriends, but if you must):
Pro Athletes: Bad move. You will only have guys coming up to you and high-fiving you all night. (Although, wearing a vintage Allen Iverson G-Town Jersey could be dope.)
Hugh Hefner: Best Bet. Unoriginal, but who cares? Best to be a young Hef vs and old Hef. Plus, it’s an easy costume to put together; just grab the custom red velvet smoking jacket and Italian silk purple pajamas from your closet and you are ready to go. Added bonus: The young Hef used to smoke cigarettes, so you can chain-smoke all night. If some girl you are with complains of your constant smoking you can say you just want to stay “In character”. Smooth.
Baseball Furies: Face paint, don’t do it. However, you do get to carry a baseball bat though, in case things get dicey.
Run-D.M.C.: Pretty dope. Just make sure you grab the Mic at some point in the night and have some skills:
“I met this little girlie, her hair was kinda curly,
Went to her house and bust her out, I had to leave real early
These girls are really sleazy, all they just say is please me,
Or spend some time and rock a rhyme, I said “It’s not that easy”.
Run-D.M.C. – It’s Tricky (listen for the GO-GO beat at the begining)
Alex and the Droogs (A Clockwork Orange): Not bad, especially from a young G’s perspective. The problem is you will end up in a fight and/or destroying property that night. Just, make sure you are Alex. Dim gets no chicks.
Movie Costumes:
Star Wars: No. I don’t care if your Puke Skysnotter, Barf Vader, Ham Salad or Chewbacon.
Zorro: Not a bad choice. Girls like Zorro. Plus, you get to wear a mask, if you want to do a Heist.
Patrick Bateman (American Psycho): Great choice. You can dress sharp, carry a gun, tons of cash and drugs. Sounds like a regular Tuesday night. Make sure you have a reservation at Dorsia.
Don Juan (Demarco): Real Good choice. You have the Johnny Depp factor in your favor and centuries of playboy lore working for you. If you can’t swoop fly girls dressed as Don Juan, then you really need to do some re-evaluation on your Game.
Tony Montana: Second best Choice of all. You are sharply dressed, full of swagger, smoking fine Cigars and cigarettes, Latin, Tooled up and suited down. You are dressed as men are supposed to dress and you don’t have to sacrifice personal style. Plus, you can have tons of Beeks on you and everyone will just think it is part of your costume. But then again, you should be like this every night, not just Halloween.
Manolo (from Scarface in case you have been living under a rock for the last 20 years): Best Choice of All. You get all the advantages of Tony but you get more girls. (You can skip the double-breasted suit if you like.) Tony was always about “In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women.” Manny was down with that also but he changed the order to Women – Power – Money. I like it in that order also. The G Manifesto Way.
In closing, The G makes the Halloween Costume; the Halloween Costume doesn’t make the G.
I don’t typically endorse products. Actually, scratch that, I do endorse products; ETRO, Ozwald Boateng, Zippo, Dunhill, Dupont, Ruger, Beretta etc. When it comes to clothing, I do not typically endorse T-shirt companies, I usually endorse High-end Italian suitmakers. But I have recently become aware of a dope urban streetwear line called SKEEEM.
I mentioned them in The South Beach War Report Part I: The Basics when I noticed Pitbull was wearing a dope T-shirt with a ski mask logo in the DJ Khaled, Trick Daddy, Pitbull, Rick Ross video “Born N Raised”.
SKEEEM clothing was born by the fact that individual privacy is not easy to maintain in the 21st Century, in fact nowadays almost every urban street corner has camera surveillance.
There is a unique SKEEEMask hidden in every hoodie en vest. Also this mask is delivered separately with the t-shirts. The mask shows that the wearer of SKEEEM rebels against that part of society that is trying to put a label on age groups or ethnic groups. With a SKEEEMask on, people are forced to judge the inside instead of the outside. Big Brother may be watching, but what does he see? Perfect for a heist.
SKEEEM Clothing is not available yet it the United States. So, if you are a dope Retailer in America, and you are looking for something much, much sicker than your average, feel free to contact them here: http://www.skeeem.com/contact.html or info@skeeem.com .
