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Grammy Eve
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It’s enough to make one think that near five-hour plane ride was a figment of the imagination.
Everywhere you turned Saturday night in L.A., there was Atlanta.
Then again, the turning was happening at Atlanta music mogul Jermaine Dupri’s “Atlanta Invasion” party on the infamous Hollywood Boulevard.
So it really should come as no surprise that standing in the general populous line outside of the Pacific Theater was a member of Dupri’s first group - no not Chris Kelly or Chris Smith of Kris Kross - but one of the two in Silk Tymes Leather. At the entrance was southwest Atlanta’s own Oakland transplant, rapper Too Short, waving in his celebrity friends. And just inside where the free drinks and food were flowing were Hot-107.9’s DJ Nabs, V-103’s Tara Thomas and Lil Jon’s business partner Vince Phillips, of BME.
“I can’t believe they are not even charging when they get $600 to get in here,” Short remarked.”$4500 memberships.
“This is usually a private, members-only thing where the party really may not stop until six in the morning,” he added, referencing a line in Dupri and rapper-actor Ludacris’s single “Welcome to Atlanta.”
It was a late night as well over at the hip-hop band the Roots’ annual jam session at the Key Club on Sunset Boulevard.
But the party that was piquing V-103’s Laid Back Black’s interest was over at the House of Blues. Black got a message at Dupri’s party that the King of R&B (at least according to his estranged wife Whitney Houston), Bobby Brown, was performing.
So THAT’S what that rehearsing may have been about the other night…
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