Gimme Half?

First of all, let me say with a resounding tone...that in no way, shape, or form do I condone anyone fuckin' with no Nike fusions!

I've been preaching this since day one!


But Got' Dammit...I think I'm gonna' bite the bullet & cop these babies.








Hell...If the man himself is endorsing these shoes, they OK by me.

M.I.A?!

I've been off the radar for some time now. Had quite a few peeps wondering what the hells goin'z on?

After taking a break to sort out some personals, my mind is back on track. I'm finally focused for 2009. So enough with the un-necessary lag...let's get this blog back to how shit was.


More after the jump? You Already!

Penny It Is...

Here's a few pics of my Penny rotation...a couple yet to be rocked. Oh well...






Orlando 1s, Chi-Town 1s, Orlando 2s, Penny Dopes & Eggplant Dopes. Need some 3s & 4s to complete my collection. Those will come.


BTW, Peep my OG pair of Orlando Penny 1s from 1995...purchased from Footlocker. Store bought not bought online, lil' kiddies.





This shoe brings back memories...

Purple Dopes...

It's a B'More thing...You know how we get's it in.










Eggplant Dope Dealers...Got Em!

Whattup Stacks?

After visiting honorary K.I.I.T.C. member Jonny Stacks the other day, I noticed my homie has a new addiction. His new is kinda' my old...but it's a addiction never the less.

NIKE SBs!

In the span of a couple weeks, Stacks has gotten the itch for shoes that come in "gold" boxes. And if it's Nike Dunk SB Mid, consider it copped. Spidermans, Beijings, Twin Peaks & others not even mentioned....All being scooped up but none being worn.

Asked why he waits so long to un-deadstock a shoe, his reply was "I got stacks, You figure it out."

Btw...You know you got a lot of shoes when you use a yet to be worn pair for a bottle holder. LMAO...

THIS JUST IN...NEW SHOES HAVE BEEN ADDED...MORE AFTER THE JUMP!!!

The Lowdown...Random Thoughts

Here's the LowDown...

With all the shit that is going on right now, I felt compelled to give my take on the various situations going on out there and let you know how I feel. You know me, just like "Colombian Coke" it is going to be pure and raw. So I hope you can handle it. This blog is not meant to offend anyone. But if it does, that's your fucking problem...deal with it.

"RANDOM THOUGHTS FROM ROMEO IGROMO..."

What the fuck was A-FRAUD thinking when he was taking steroids and getting jacked up like Triple H. If you listened to him yesterday during his sit down with Peter Gammons, you heard him mention the word pressure. He said he felt the pressure of having to live up to the 250 Million Dollar contract he signed and that the smoldering heat was wearing him down. You ever been in Baltimore on Westwood Ave. at 12:00 pm in July? It's so hot, motherfuckers don't want to eat or fuck and everybody just looks mad. That's heat for your ass. As far as pressure, ALEX RODRIGUEZ don't know the meaning of the word. Pressure is when your rent, gas & electric, water bill and car note are due at the same time and you have to decide which one you are going to pay. Pressure is when your job is laying off and you were the last one hired. Pressure is when you are with this bad ass chick for the first time and you don't want to bust that nut in two minutes. You think about Esther Rolle, B. Arthur, the Lakers game, what you did last night, your old ass aunt, you even look out the window if there is one. Then that fine girl looks at you strangely, because you have this dissatisfied look on your face and ask if your ok. You look down at her still thinking about Big Mamma from Soul Food and sweating your ass off, telling her it feels good. A-FRAUD that's pressure! Making guaranteed money is a fucking dream! Guarantee me 250 million and I don't give a fuck what anybody thinks. You couldn't tell me shit. "Romeo, your performance today wasn't real good". Yeah but I got 250 million dollars motherfucker! "Hey babe, the sex wasn't that good. Are you alright?" What?! Bitch I got 250 million dollars. Fuck out my house!

A-Fraud you took the roids, because your ego would not allow you to play second fiddle to anyone. You said you didn't know what you took. I honestly believe you. You knew you were taking performance enhancing drugs, but when Canseco was shooting it in the ass, it could have been anything. I don't do Coke, Meth, Ganja, or Crack, but I know motherfuckers that do. Unless you have a laboratory and a medical degree you don't know what you are smoking or snorting.

My take on performance enhancing drugs is this. If you truly want to get rid of this problem, then lock motherfuckers up or force them to go away and loose their contracts. Fines and suspensions don't do shit and guys even lie to grand juries now. Threaten them with jail time or a lifetime ban and this shit will stop real quick. Make millions playing a kid's game cleanly or shack up with Adabezy and start pole dancing for him and his boys every night! Ask Pete Rose if that lifetime ban was worth his career. That's how you get rid of the steroid problem, because right now the punishment does not fit the crime.

There are very few things in life that brings together people from different races and upbringings like sports does. It's an escape from reality and it allows us to feel apart of something and share our emotions through it. If sports aren't sacred there really isn't anything left that allows you to escape from the daily grinds of every day living. Clean up baseball and change the economic structure and fans like myself may actually return to the sport.


On to a lighter but stranger topic. Kanye West aka Kanye Tuda aka The Louis Vuitton Don now wants to be known as Martin Louis King Jr. He wants to comment on other people's assault charges & stuff like he's perfect. Has this bastard lost his mind?! Hey Kanye, Stop the preaching, modelling and fake ass singing. Gimme my hip-hop back, Bitch!


"Romeo, How do you feel about the Ray Lewis situation?" If it was my money I would have signed Sugar Ray last year when it would have been cheaper. I told my boy Brad Piff that Ray has been the common denominator on the Ravens defense that last 10 years. Coordinators (Marvin Lewis, Jack Del Rio, Mike Nolan) have left. Players (Peter Boulware, Adelius Thomas, Ed Hartwell, Tony Saragusa, Michael McCrary, Rod Woodson,Duane Starks, Jamie Sharper) have left. Yet only one other defense has rivaled the Ravens D over the last ten years, that's Pittsburgh. He is your leader on and off the field and you are questioning if you should pay him or not. Baltimore would you rather have Ray or T.O.? Ed Reed and Terell Suggs are outstanding players, but they are not leaders. Do you want Bart Scott's emotional ass leading your defense. Remember his behavior in the Patriots game a year ago (throwing flags at refs and cursing so bad that Kevin Garnett e-mailed him and told him "Man I got kids, you gotta watch your fucking language Bitch!" Ravens fans want the organization to sign a receiver like Fitzgerald. From where motherfuckers? You not getting no Fitzgerald, but let me ask you this. Why create a hole on your team that was one stupid ass penalty and drive away from the Superbowl? Ozzie make the right decision before you regret it.
Quote of the week: I DON'T PLAY LESS SO I WON'T PLAY FOR LESS. Won't be no hometown discount!

Chris Brown and Rihanna?! Smh. I have heard a lot of talk, but nobody is saying shit. There are rumors of a broken jaw, facial contusions, bite marks and signs of a struggle. A struggle is when you have a hard time doing something. From what I heard, this seems one sided and far from a struggle. Broken jaw?! That's a sign of an ass whipping. I have girls of my own and I don't condone violence towards women at all. That being said, if the reports are true & some have said she gave him a STD, then Chris should be granted one backhand to that bitch's dome. But even then, biting and scratching is chick-like and he deserves an ass whipping for that shit. I guess Chris Brown don't got milk.


Miguel Tejada should have used Sammy Sosa's defense and told congress, "Me know speak English." Sammy conveniently forgot how to speak English and that shit worked. He even forgot his own name. He had to confer with his counsel to remember his fucking name and the team he played for. That was brilliant! After a while they stopped asking him questions. Instead Tejada just lied like he was an American and now they are going to ship his ass back to Cuba in a paddle boat. Morale of the story to all foreign players...Play the language card. When people have to keep repeating themselves, after a while they just stop asking.

I'm out like Jameer Nelson and the Orlando Magic title hopes.

The Low Down...61 Shots Heard Around The World

Here's the LowDown...

I'd like to talk about my trip to New York a couple weeks back. I was in Madison Square Garden witnessing history. Luckily I had my 2 mega pixel camera with me and I was able to take these photos and share them with my readers.
Before I caught my flight up to New York, I was talking to Brad Piff, The Great One S., and Curtis Blow about how the Lakers were going to do without Bynum. I told them they would be fine, because they got to the finals last year without him and I believe they are on a mission. Number 24 will not allow them to think otherwise. Last year they were devastated and it took them sometime to recover before they started playing good ball. This time around they are battle tested and Trevor Ariza is healthy, so they have a different mind set. I know my boys think otherwise, but I just felt like something positive was going to come from this set back.
Kobe Bryant is a student of the game and he knows it's history. We exchanged texts through out the day and he was very short with his responses, so I knew what time it was. Kobe realized that the rest of the team was down and this was type of game that they could easily lose if they were not focused. Plus this is the "GAWDEN". That's how they say it in New York and Kobe much like Mike respects the Mecca and their fans. I knew they would win and he would lead them, but what followed was purely theatrical.
I arrived just in time for tip off and I said "Whattup" to Jay Z, Spike and Woody Allen and I took my seat beside Phil Jackson. Thanks for the tickets Kobe. Al Harrington tried to joke with Kobe right before tip off and Kobe just brushed him off and later Al said he knew they were in trouble. From the beginning it was all Kobe and Gasol as they scored 30 of the Lakers first 31 points. With Lamar scoring the other point. Something that I noticed just before the quarter was over was Chandler from the Knicks gloating about a lay up attempt that he block of Kobe's. Wrong thing to do as Kobe made it a point to hit his next five shots on him and close out the half with 34 points. It was a Garden Party in Kobe's honor and the Knicks were his special guests. He danced with those bitches all night long and even kissed them to show his appreciation.








Something happened in the second half that I have never seen before in all of my years of watching ball. The NEW YORK KNICKERBOCKER FANS WERE CHANTING FOR KOBE AND YELLING MVP! MVP! MVP! Spike leaned over and said Picasso couldn't have painted a prettier picture than this. He also said Mike has gotten standing ovations at the end of a great performance, but he was never cheered actually while the game was going on. Kobe dunked, hit fadeaways, reverse layups, up and unders and a 360 move that had Spike on his feet leading the crowd in a rendition of NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH NAH HEY HEY HEY GOODBYE. This performance was ridiculous. Bernard King had the record for points in the "GAWDEN" with 60 and Jordan had the record for points for a visitng player with 55. Kobe knew his history and did Jordan and Bernard better with 61. As the game was winding down Phil took Kobe out to a standing ovation and he hi-fived Kobe. Phil doing a hi-five with a player?! If you don't believe me check out the photos that accompanies this blog. Phil even said this was special and he has seen it all...the double nickel game and 81.







Afterwards Kobe, Spike and myself met up at Spike's place and talked about this documentary Spike is doing on Kobe for ESPN. D Wade texted Kobe and said "awesome game". Lebron called and said "save some of that shit for the Celtics". Jordan texted Kobe and said "fuck you I still have 6 to your 3" and they shared some laughs over it.
To all of you Kobe haters out there, appreciate what you are seeing because when it is gone you are going to miss it. This man does things that only Mike could do. Even though it was the Knicks, last night Kobe put the rest of the basketball world on notice. THE LAKERS WILL NOT LAY DOWN FOR ANYBODY. IF YOU DON'T THINK THEY CAN WIN IT ALL, DON'T SING IT...BRING IT.



I'M OUT LIKE THE KNICKS PRIDE AFTER GIVING UP 61 LAST NIGHT TO THE GREATEST PLAYER ON THE PLANET.

Proud Of The Purple...

Congratulations goes out to the hometown team, the Baltimore Ravens, for a very successful season. This was supposed to be a re-building year with a rookie head coach and quarterback. Instead, we were 3 minutes away from going to the SuperBowl. Props to a football team that gives effort week in and week out. The other hometown team needs to take some lessons from the Ravens organization on how to be successful, they obviously have no clue.

Kudos again Baltimore Ravens. Now lock up Ray Ray with that new deal, he needs to retire a Raven!!!

Sooo Evil...

During my down time, came across a pair of Vans I forgot I owned. These are one of my favorites & I really need to wear them more often. Vans x Supreme Sk8 Hi (Evil Empire) Knicks colorway, truly one of the most sought after Vans collaborations.



Special thanx to my homie Brian (Phinsfan) for helping obtain these jewels a while back. I'm still on the lookout for the Black/yellow colorway...size 10 or 10.5

U Already!!!

:)

Sorry about the lag. I've been under the weather lately. Gave me some time to sit home & do nothing. Nothing includes browsing thru some old pics on my computer. I stumbled across these...some favorites of mines from my days of just lurking on NikeTalk.




I don't care how old I get, I luv chicks with Jays. lol

AFC Championship...

For another week, congrats goes out to the Baltimore Ravens. Matt Stover's game winning field goal lifted them over the Tennessee Titans 13-10.



Now on to Pittsburgh, where if you listen to ESPN & the masses, the Ravens shouldn't even show up to play the game. The Steelers are overwhelming favorites with analysist claiming Baltimore's banged up defense will be no match for Willie Parker and the Steelers potent offense.

Well, that's why they play the game. Good luck Ravens.

Hush 2...

Here's another custom job by the homie Hush of Hush Fabrications. These are the Carbon Fiber Half Cabs, done so well...you woulf think Vans produced them. Carbon Fiber were permanently stitched together on the rear of the shoe & contrasted well by a bright orange toe box area.






Pics courtesy of Off The Wall Site

No lie...If these were a Vans Syndicate or Vault release, they would sell like "hot cakes". Good job