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Lemme see your war face!!! #babygang (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 15 May 2012 23:09:30 -0400

Lemme see your war face!!! #babygang (Taken with instagram)

Used to stay up & help my moms study for tests in nursing...

Sun, 13 May 2012 16:27:47 -0400

Used to stay up & help my moms study for tests in nursing school, and hers was the first graduation I ever went to. It may be a man’s world, but know that most men are inspired by great women. #happymothersday (Taken with instagram)

Stay grinding, like his daddy … (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 08 May 2012 12:36:34 -0400

Stay grinding, like his daddy … (Taken with instagram)

Spring training with the boy #babygang (Taken with instagram)

Wed, 02 May 2012 20:38:44 -0400

Spring training with the boy #babygang (Taken with instagram)

Banging with the Baby Gang (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:38:11 -0400

Banging with the Baby Gang (Taken with instagram)

Mr. Capuano held us down for 4 years. Kevin Costner speaking at...

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:30:28 -0400

Mr. Capuano held us down for 4 years. Kevin Costner speaking at Whitney’s funeral reminded me of Cap speaking at O’s #throwbackthursday (Taken with instagram)

Bill keeping it super real at the National Action Network keeper...

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:19:36 -0400

Bill keeping it super real at the National Action Network keeper of the dream awards dinner (Taken with instagram)

Looking like he’s auditioning for cats lol (Taken with...

Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:01:27 -0400

Looking like he’s auditioning for cats lol (Taken with instagram)

Friday Night Fight Face (Taken with instagram)

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 22:25:21 -0400

Friday Night Fight Face (Taken with instagram)

RIP Britannica

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:47:44 -0400

Before the Internet, when I was young, I’d read an encyclopedia when I couldn’t go to sleep, and that was damn near nightly. Glossy pages, good pics, lots of info. Makes me think I should get a set for the kid before they become vintage & the price goes up. Sure, he can do it on the iPad, but all that screen time can’t be good.

Geraldo Rivera would call me a bad dad if he saw this. What can...

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 16:16:13 -0400

Geraldo Rivera would call me a bad dad if he saw this. What can I say, it was chilly out!!! lol (Taken with instagram)

Spread love, it’s the Baby Gang way … (Taken with...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:33:42 -0400

Spread love, it’s the Baby Gang way … (Taken with instagram)

Lucky I Ran Into the Cops & Not a Zimmerman

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 01:32:34 -0400

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Last year I was doing interviews for a series on MTV’s Clutch website. It was the normal stuff. Drop on the scene with the suits, conduct the interview and make the talent and the check writers feel comfortable. Fairly normal, like I said.

But it wasn’t totally normal.

When I went to Orlando to shoot the above interview with Chris Johnson, I had what I think the white & Asian members of the MTV camera crew may have felt was a #tanningmoment of a different type. You see, Chris Johnson just so happens to live in a gated community in Orlando. Nothing too fancy, but a bit too paranoid for my taste.

We flew in to do the shoot and were out that day, so it was a total run and gun. When we rolled up on the scene the camera crew was sitting there in a van waiting for us. All white cats, production-looking types. A bit disheveled, but looked like they know what they’re doing when the equipment is in their hands. After we got the word from the agent, they started unloading the camera equipment from the van.

One of Johnson’s entourage opened the garage door and welcomed us in. Wasn’t too much back and forth, at all. It was hot as hell out and we all wanted to get inside the AC.

Interview went as planned, as you can see here. But while we were taping a few other NFL cats that shall remain nameless came by. They weren’t Patriots so I wouldn’t know who they were anyway! LOL. But they were all cool and just came by to support Johnson doing his thing.

So afterwards we were shooting the shit, talking specifics and packing up to roll out. I was in the kitchen with some other guys from MTV. The garage door was cracked and in view from where I was standing. The other guys had their backs to it. Suddenly, I saw something all too familiar, but totally unexpected at the moment: a plain clothes cop with a vest and his hand on the handle of his holstered pistol.

To keep it real, I don’t know Chris Johnson like that. He could’ve been getting his Sam Hurd on. What did I know?

Turns out, the neighbors called the cops. The other players apparently were riding in very nice cars. The neighbors thought they was some illegal activity going on. Illegal activity that we obviously had to get the cameras set up to record. GTFOH.

The entire incident was interesting. Normal for Johnson, his entourage and myself. A bit alien to our white and asian brothers, though.They seemed genuinely shocked.

When Johnson’s main guy confronted the officers, who took it upon themselves to enter through the cracked open garage door, they were cool — they just asked if they could search the place before leaving. Dude was about to resist, but they made it obvious that resistance was futile. You deny this unnecessary search and we’ll waste even more of your time, was the unspoken message. They didn’t have anything to hide so he let it ride.

I know dirty guys, and Johnson’s camp wasn’t riding like that. You’d think a well-trained officer could’ve realized that too. Not that he should’ve gotten a hint from the camera equipment being broken down and taken out. Nah, not at all.

This is a late night ramble, I know. But it’s just my 2 cents on how no one can let this Trayvon incident slide. When I saw how everything went down in Sanford I flashed back to that day and thanked God that it was just the police giving us a hard time. I could’ve stepped out out of Johnson’s house and walked straight into a Zimmerman “protecting” his hood.

Mobile artwork (Taken with instagram)

Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:06:43 -0400

Mobile artwork (Taken with instagram)

Please, please Baby Gang doesn’t do autographs …...

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:39:19 -0400

Please, please Baby Gang doesn’t do autographs … (Taken with instagram)

Baby Gang has taken over the house iPad. THIS is why I must have...

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 13:44:53 -0500

Baby Gang has taken over the house iPad. THIS is why I must have an iPad 3! (Taken with instagram)

Why I wake & why I don’t sleep … (Taken with...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 00:39:25 -0500

Why I wake & why I don’t sleep … (Taken with instagram)

“u wanna join the gang then u must see me …”...

Sat, 03 Mar 2012 16:43:37 -0500

“u wanna join the gang then u must see me …” (Taken with instagram)

Reggie Noble at Reggie Osse’s (Taken with instagram)

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 08:40:07 -0500

Reggie Noble at Reggie Osse’s (Taken with instagram)

Baby Gang in The Building!!! (Taken with instagram)

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:14:16 -0500

Baby Gang in The Building!!! (Taken with instagram)