Eat the Cake: XXL Party for Datwon Thomas

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I am a photographer, writer and social scientist...this is my forum for creative expression. I am using this blog to document my days and nights in the city that never sleeps...all the photographs, unless otherwise credited, have been shot by yours truly. If I offend you...good...I hope you begin to think more critically about the world in which we live. I am here to discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly...and there is a whole lotta ugly out there!!! If you have a problem with anything that I write or photograph, let me know. It will not change my opinion but I appreciate and welcome discourse. One little bit of advice...don't do stupid things and let me photograph you...it will turn up on my blog.

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Saturday, May 10, 2008

XXL Party for Datwon Thomas

Last Thursday we (my girlfriend and I) attended a party for Datwon Thomas in honor of his new position as Editor-in-Chief of XXl Magazine and to celebrate his birthday. The event was sponsored by Hennessy and was hosted in the Penthouse Suite of the Rivington Hotel. Free drinks, one of the dopest views of city imaginable, and did I mention free Hennessy?!!

Attendees ranged from broke freelance photographers to the likes of Video Vixens.
Hello Melissa Ford

Hello to you as well... Alesha Renee (host on BET).

Below, we have Datwon and Alesha Renee.

Steve (from Allhiphop.com) and Datwon.

Partygoers.

Alesha Renee, Jermaine Hall (the Editor-in-Chief of Rides Mag), and Valeisha Butterfield (who attended Clark Atlanta Univ. while I was at Morehouse). Atl in the party!!!!

Melissa Ford and Rocsi (106 & Park)

Steve and our wonderful sponsor.

The Homies Steve and Ken.

What a beautiful view of Manhattan...New York in the Spring time...take that haters!!

Gotta show love for the DJ.

This Hat says it all!!!

If any of you don't recognize the gentleman in the picture below...it is DJ Abstract...better know as Q-Tip - of A Tribe Called Quest fame. Later on in the evening he got on the tables.