the show goes on

enjoy pics.. should be having a count down now.. but Hey TIN

NS Loves u more.. Thanks for all the love.. we will def make u guys proud

what doesnt kill u.......

only makes u die younger in nigeria.

so i dare u to ask me how my day was? infact i tripple dare u to ask me how my day really played out.. shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit ( for those that watched the wire.. u should get that reference) my day was pretty rough. probably an understatement.. u know its like wearing a beautiful white suit and then having a big red wine stain on the jacket.. no matter how things fall ur way later u will know things aint just right.. tomorrow has to be a better day for real otherwise its back in the uuuuusaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. well maybe not but this is my last warning to all the morons in uniforms that think they have power or rights... u dont have ish.. and at the end of the day u will get what u deserve..

so how does my day play out.. i went to VI to link up with hakeem then stopped by smalls place.. not like u will know these guys anyway. but the wahala started on my way back to the shop..

so we made our final u turn and we see these group of men in white and black uniforms.. now they usually dont stop private cars .. so i thot.... but somehow the driver also has blame.. its like these guys stop u but dont really stop u.. if u r tooooooooooooooo gullible( not sure thats the right word.. but pretty much not all the cars they ask to stop .. stop and nothin happens after that)

anyway back to my lament. so we get pulled over .. i am thinkin fuck.. i dont want to deal with these ppl. in nigeria when u get pulled over it usually will cost u some money and some how they will always find something wrong to seize ur car.. i am sure there will be a day cars will be seized or fined for not havin a workin radio or maybe even a PEN.. back to my story again.. so we are pulled over.. the driver is confident all our papers are legit. this will be an in and out thing.. me i am thinkin.. na mehn.. this things aint just in and out.. they will run their mouth. then my dumbass will respond in my yoruba english and then the guys will be like mugu done land. this one we go chop better money...

anyway long story short. we had everything but MOT.. now apparently it means something to them. but most car owners rnt even aware of it.. plus they were mainly for commercial vehicles now its for all vehicles.. the fine was 5k which aint that bad if it was just straight forward fine but to make the matter more suitable to the jungle in nigeria..

what these guys thot of was. once they realize u dont have the paper work. whici is probably a wannabe vehicle inspection.. they in some cases seized ur car keys, in our case since i didnt give that up. they took the tags.. and one of there superman officers decided to sit in the car. now to resolve the issue.. u will have to go to accordin to them make payment at a specific bank branch in a heavy traffic area. pay the amount and come back and pick ur car up at the office on the other side of town pretty much. now with this option .. to pay the fine off. they will ask u for some tax info.. imagine that.. what the eff does this have to do with taxes.. its like before payin ur speedin ticket they ask u for ur tax returns.. now what was more a really bad set up was. this tax info they asked about i am sure its like askin u to provide proof on the sales taxes u paid at Burger King.. u know something very trivial or something hardly kept or even remembered. long story short.. more money out the ying yang...

well i got lucky or maybe unlucky somehow they were friendly enough .. choosin my words carefully.. to take my job well done gift to them.. and they let us go..

now gettin into my complex and sharin my story with some ppl.. i realized i got off easy. some ppl ended up payin 35k to 50k to get the car because of the tax info no one had or ever paid.


long story short. the ppl that are suppose to protect us in naija are part of the ppl raping us.. anywhere else a warning or a reasonable fine on the spot.. but in naija things have to be done differently. so what i dont understand now is what if i was visiting lagos from a different state.
why should i get penalized for rules that dont apply to me in my own state..

craziness.. beasts of no nation

ns still loves u more..

God save the Queen n NS

so today must have been a stoked day cuz i am feelin good and i def. have good ns swagger tonite.. so finally things are takin shape. a few days to the unofficial store opening.. first ever ns flag ship store in lagos.. not a bad feelin at all... its just the beginning of greater things to come...


so as u can tell by the title i am in a playful mood the first idea of a title was the world better not end.. thats the exact feelin i have now.. u know things are takin shape for ns.. the only thing that can stop us is that. so yall should pray with us :-).. great journey and we are blessed to have u share it with us.. dont worry ns has ur back for decades to come.. much love.. and remember ns loves u more


enjoy the pics.. and i had a little surprise today at the shop...

They finally fixed the entrance.. after a lot of back and forth i wont get into.. but hey its done and i am feelin alright

Ns swagger is a must.. and this might be the best store in lagos and we did it all for the love.

pops came thru.. quite a surprise wasnt expecting it at all. and he is rockin the ns polo. not a bad look . much love for believing dad and i know moms would have come thru too so let me say dad and mom :) u know over here at ns we kiss both asses lololol

NS loves u more

another one bites the dust

swagger is a must

NS GoodTimes

well u cant call it robbery?

now tell me if it has no price tag on it doesnt that mean the price is the max the buyer is willing to forgo or the least the seller is willing to letgo of his goods.. MADNESS. infact i know i am always at the wrong end of the bargaining.. damn u western world for making me so stupid blah blah :) well maybe i am not stupid just charitable. :)

perfect scenario.. i go to price 20ft one inch metal pipe. now i had a crazy idea to make it into a rack, so this guy tells me the price is 4500 naira but his last price is 4300, he is like the pipes are imported plus dorable plus for what i needed to do .. this pipe will hold up .. i am like whuteva lets get on with it.. so i left the place after payin addtional 2k on some elbows and t's for the pipe at this point i am feelin quite sexy with myself thinking.. yeap i am gettin a deal and not only that i am going to have a banging store fixture..

"something was like call the plumbers number ur pops gave you" so i call and the dude was like his last price for the same pipe was 2200. now if u know what last price means.. it means u can bargain a little bit more lololol.. now this means the dude i just got the pipe from just charged me 2100 more .. now i really cant get mad eventho a part of me is saying wtf is up with these ppl.. whats the big deal in having a true costing structure plus a reasonable mark up amount. but nooo.. they are all lookin for mugus that they can pull a real fast one on


anyway that was that.. but the robbery continues.. but no wahala.. ns is just paying its dues and bleeding from the bank. but its all good.. and its all for the love we get from u..

Ok the pic sequence is backwards but u will forgive me this time again.. i am too lazy to fix it

NS aint goin no where.. we are carved in wood. we will aim for stone next. lol

we finally carpeted the little platform. this one is also another story.. not only did i get robbed i forgot my change of about 500 naira and God forbid the woman reminds me of my change oh yeah and Taiwo the interior guy delivered some store fixtures

isnt she pretty. Ns is def going to do it nice in lagos.. first of its kind and mark my words none will ever come close.. NS is def. the truth which ever way u want to lie about it. and we love u more

Mr. T bottom right. impressive work at a good price..

Uncle tokunbo top left at his factory in Ibadan. he def brought the SP out. impressive machine.

thats all folks..

much love and ns loves u more all day 24/7

almost random

it must have been last wk, i was walkin thru the shopping complex and look who i found. Tinu.. was i shocked. tinu i guess u can say is an old friend of NS.. she def put our name out there and gave us the opportunity to work for a handful of redeem churches in md.. well that was when we were still corporate whoring lolololol i am toooo funny. well that was back then when we were contract printing for businesses.. but i am not sure i am cut out for it anymore.. anyway so i me]et her and her friend funmi who has a boutique in the complex.. cool chic and a super clean store...

PSA.. ns is officially crossing over and its sweet.. u know how u think ur brand is for a specific target group.. well i have been proven wrong... mothers love ns too... and u know ns loves them toooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

ns loves u all.. thanks for making this pleasant as the day goes by....

More from the shrine

So the event was felabration ( tribute to fela kuti @ 70). yessir and ns was in the building.. pretty much all the vices u could think about was also in there. Sex… drugs… money and music of course ns remains pg for sure…
So the build up was Mr farooq who by the way is one of the reasons NS is in lagos.. maybe one day I will fill u in on that relationship.. anyway he calls me from his trip to london and says felabration is this wk and do I have tees that can be pushed.. I am like hell yeah u know still on the paper chase so he gives me dotun kutis number to call and try to organize it.. So I hit Mr Dotun up and we spoke now the plan for me was to go Friday saturday and Sunday.. u know me and my naïve self thinking the shrine is a place I can handle myself.. I am like ait cool no p.. I will be there on Friday.. so I called the little sounding boards I have here and everyone is like dude don’t go there by urself . by this time I am having doubts.. so I make other calls to some street smart ppl I have on my phone and they all said the same thing.. at this point I am like fuck it. It aint worth it.. ns gast to stay alive and it probably needs meJ
So that was Friday night busted.. Then farooq hits me up on sat. saying how far.. dotun said I never showed up , he said he was going there tonite.. and I am like super I will tag along.. u know at least I am not going to be there by myself and at least we will both be able to size up the situation if anything at all.

Now traffic as usual can be a problem so it took maybe like an extra hour to get there .. my first impression was like ohhhh shit… lololol… this is def not a place to set up shop.. too many rough heads . area boyz and awon amu ibo ppl.. unfortunately I didn’t take any pics of the outside.. but imagine it like after a football game and everyone going to the food court in a mall. It was roudy outside and it stayed like this the whole night.. plus u could pretty much get anything outside for real..

Now let the pics speak themselves..

the afternoon before the show.. we both got our sp's on. ns is indeed the truth lol Those who know know.. Farooq is def one of the lives of ns. If u imagine ns has nine lives. Farooq probably has every shirt we have made for the past 2/3 yrs and I mean everything.. both male and female. And In probably more sizes and colors that wont make sense to regular folks.. so shout out to him for showin us unprecedented love.

not sure if one can have a VIP section in a place like the shrine.. but yea we were somewhat removed from the general population. Farooqs boy Jafar came thru rocking his Ns ringer legend tees. all classic in there own right and I got my shaft look on so becareful ns swagger on overload

oh by the way i have a crappy camera :( but it does the job. a bunch or artist performed. femi came on stage some rappers or atleast they thot they could rap.. all in all it was a great show.. sometimes prolonged but great show none the less. we got there like 9pm and we left at 5am. imagine that. and yeah shout out to the femi dancer that got all the guys attention.. great job u get 2 thumbs up from me

That man has energy he was pretty much up the entire time soakin in the vibe.. while i was dead as tired actin like the older man.. he put me to shame def

other pics from the night

one of the dumbest things i have ever seen.. so a few mins to 5 they called it a wrap.. u should have seen how ppl ran towards the exit like u had gun shots.. and to make it even worse the entrance has those merrygoround type things(lololol abi) well it has pretty much a trap system that only lets one person in at a time.. but noooo my fellow naijas didnt care they all rushed it and packed itlike sardines.. hilarious scene. a few fights almost broke out but i am sure some fools got jacked

father of the yr. bringin his little son to the shrine where everyone got high.

now what amazed me was how weed was like buyin water.. everyone smoked.. the workers the security the cleaners..literally weed was everywhere and it wasnt like u had to find dealers or sneak out to get it.. it was everywhere.. well it aint my thing but i never thot i'd see so much weed smokers in one place lololol girls guys boys men women. they all lit one.

well not sure i know what is to get high but i damn sure came close to it.. the air was probably more weed smoke that O2 lolol well maybe not but u get my drift..

much love and ns loves u more

Pics coming soon.. NS was at the shrine.. and there was weeeeeeed everywhere...fela definitely lives on.

Thats Good Business

things are moving along in the shop... we have gotten some good compliments on the color choices which is def a good start. the past few days i have been sitting at the shop pretty much the entire day from when the workers get there till when they leave. I not only enjoy the process of watching them create something i have become so passionate about, but also TIA/TIN u have to be there to monitor things otherwise u will get screwed..


enjoy the pics









Ns loves u more

dedication.. the prelude..

[Intro: snippets of Eddie in "Super Fly"]

You know, you've got this.. fantasy in your head about
getting outta the life and, setting the corporate world on its ear
What the FUCK you gonna do except hustle?
Besides pimpin... you really ain't got the stomach for that

[Jay-Z]The game's fucked up
Nigga's beats is banging, nigga your hooks did it
Your lyrics didn't and your gangster look did it
So I would write it if y'all could get it
Being intricate'll get you wood, critic
On the Internet, they like you should spit it
I'm like you should buy it, nigga that's good business
Hehe, forget this rap shit I need a new hustle
A little bit of everything, the new improved Russell
I say that reluctantly cause I do struggle
As you see I can't leave so I do love you
But I'm just a hustler disguised as a rapper
In fact you can't fit this hustle inside of a wrapper
Back when crack was
What these pills are, I was a real star
Complete with real, cars, no video ones
You can come and set up a camera, let the video run
And my real life, complete with real, ice
VVS boulders oh they're visibly set
Head and shoulders, my invisible neck
You see Hova, wasn't digital yet
Befo' Steve Jobs, made the iPod
Was getting head, jobs, we call that intimate
Back when rappers wouldn't dare play lyrical roulette
With a automatic weapon I was rapping with a tec
(Fresh) like (Mannie) be, chain like anti-freeze
Shoebox full of cash, dealer man hand me ki's
Pantries full of Arm & Hammer, don't take Nancy Drew to seewhat it do,
I'm a damn G
Just sent a million dollars through a hands free
That's big money talk, can you answer me?
Before the answer was a 3
I was down in Georgetown with a Hoya chick, lawyer chick
Sure he's rich now cause he saw the shit, all this shit
That's why they call him Hov', cause he came before all this shit
Bought a 6, quarter seven, skipped on them quarter eights
Bought a 9 for non-stop glock work all the timeWoo!
Guess who's back?Since this is a new era, got a fresh new hat
Ten year veteran, I've been set
I've been through with this bullshit game but I never quit
I used to think rapping at 38 was ill
But last year alone I grossed 38 mill'
I know I ain't quite 38 but still
The flow so (Special) got a (38) feelThe real is back, hehehehe


the power of the internet.. my ipod has this on repeat.. just thot i'd share it wit u...

contemplating!!!

yeap.. so its one of those days.. not sure i should be blogging or better not sure i should tell u how suckky my day has been.... or how i have a short fuse and i am waitin for someone to just push me so i can take out my frustration out on them..muhahahah thats my evil laugh..

anyway the lesson of today is never chase money.. lesson 2 is never force it and lesson 3 is follow ur gut feeling.. well today i broke all my own rules.. its not like i forgot them... i was just on the paper chase and i got slapped played and even pimped :( .. its MIAMI.. for me now.. u know the bank is low... the shop is movin along.. the pressure is building.. ppl are taking... ppl are scheming... u know i keep thinkin i am more like a fish out on ice.. its not even water anymore.. but i am a soldier.. difficulty increases the nearer we reach our goals.. atleast thats what i am hoping..

and i will like to give a big shout out to everyone that gave me inflated prices on everything... great job guys.. well the least is continuing.. TIA/TIN... baby.

ns loves u more...

crackberry and the times

so i decided to share with u some pics on my phone.. well maybe the ones i can share .. wink wink... well its not even like that.. i am always pg.. cuz u know over here at NS we consider ourselves family friendly.. u know dudes u can take home to mommy and daddy and ur parents will say hmmmm (put ur name in here.. assuming u r a girl actually hoping u r a girl.. cuz in the words of fb.. no homo lolol) good catch..

anyway enjoy the pics.. crackberry times

well this was my lunch today.. i found a new spot in the shopping complex called mama put.. and the price aint bad.. i just hope my stomach can take it ...ate pounded yam and vegetable stew. yippie

Mr. Korede of Fusion. rocking the unknown tee.. good look..

Fusion Boutique on awolowo road. Korede runs a very clean shop.. real good look...

Ns.. confirmed

oh yeah.. i balled yesterday.. not sure i can keep it up.. my body is gettin too old for me. pretty sad.. and i think i lost my game infront of the internet :0

Beauitful scene. one thing about the court was it was huge.. crazy big.. a bunch of guys came out.. some really good ballers.. so it wasnt that bad..

well the story about this is.. the store was actaully 2 stores broken into one.. the back walls were broken but the finishing was very poor.. so we cleaned that up.. now these 2 dudes who cleaned it up were def characters that should have their own comic strip.. plus they worked very very drunk

no business like t-shirt business... a little something something from the good ppl of NS -bmore

TIA. its crazy how on the lagos/Ibadan express way u will always see some toppled trucks and some burnt up cars

this was one of the nights i went out in the states.. chuka. abdul and bassey. chillin at adams morgen.. i think the night was a flop.. but we ate some really big pizzas... lol
u should know this face by now. Jay z boyfriend lolol

As u can see the pics were not in order.. i am sure u will forgive me..

Ns loves u more