PICS: Akon Album Release Party @ Velvet Room, 11/27

Sandra Rose December 1, 2008

Akon (right) with Velvet Room promoter Alex Gidewon. The club was so packed that Akon bypassed the tight VIP box and opted to mingle with the crowd on the dance floor instead. Akon’s third studio album Freedom is in stores tomorrow!

I hear Mr. Shad Moss is asking his homeboys to call him “Daddy”. I also hear he left the club with a LSLH hottie ducking and hiding in the passenger seat of his ride. The Dime piece wasn’t Karrine Steffans. But you didn’t hear that from me.

Obama’s favorite rapper Young Jeezy was in the house

Photos by Freddy O

Kymystry

who cares .. who cares .. who cares .. and oh yeah ..WHO CARES !!

akon got a new album ? ? ? hmph
prynsexxx

When was this party? Is that Rick Ross? He was here on Saturday. Maybe not – IDK. Are those suppose to be “Decatur “Sour Patch Kids” Flavors? Who is dude behind Shad? He was WHET!
mizzdallas

I see Parole Officer Rick Ross was patrolling the club grounds. And Akon have an album coming out nope the only album I’m picking up this month is Brandy’s “Human” album in stores Dec. 9th
kwallace577

why rick ross look like an out of work late 60’s/early 70’s artist? what HAPPENED?

shad please sit down. i would add you to the club roster…but something tell me if you knocked up supahead your momma got something proper for your lil undergrown azz.
intensemocha

At what age are you officially too old to be clubbing?

I am so tired of seeing people well into their 30’s in somebody’s club looking and acting high/or half-drunk
iscream

I’m sorry but this party looks as if it had a you have to be this ugly to get in rule.
http://myspace.com/ckarinwhite ckarinwhite

I see know one goes to the club “dress to impress” anymore…
prynsexxx

#5 said:

I am so tired of seeing people well into their 30’s in somebody’s club
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Girl you know EVERYBODY in “the industry” UNDER 25.
http://myspace.com/diva_mama2 DivaMama

ckarin, the sad part is, they think that they are impressing!
kwallace577

@ckarin that is why i stopped going! i was always overdressed. went to this one club in charlotte and a heffa had on a TRACK SUIT. in the club. with matching nike’s. i was confused? on why she was out there looking like she came from the gym and also confused on if the owners were THAT hard up for warm bodies to let her in looking like that.
http://myspace.com/ckarinwhite ckarinwhite

DivaMama…Sweats and a pullover…SMH…
prynsexxx

Thats why when AND IF I go out, its to a Final Friday and they enforce a strict dress code. The men can’t have on du-rags, Tims, white T’s or fitted baseball caps……I WISH there was a restriction on the ladies as well. Starting with their hair……………..

The last final Friday’s I went to, a broad was walking around in some all summer-long dirty red Old Navy flip flop-house shoes. I damn near walked out…..
Toi

Thank you for that comment about “well into their 30’s” – just don’t make any sense.

Hope everybody had a great, safe thanksgiving holiday weekend.

Can I just type one more thing? There is a phrase that I kept hearing over and over and over again this weekend from my Damn family (well into their late 30’s – early 40’s). Please let us not take this phrase into the 09!

If I hear “At the end of the day . . . . . . ” – I’m going to kill myself. At the end of the day – WHAT? At the end of the day, take a shower and take you a$$ to bed!
iscream

Did anybody see Britney’s attempt at appearing normal lastnight?
http://www.myspace.com/lorettadivine DivineBrown

I thought the V room was sposed to be the spot.

People don’t dress for the club anymore. I hate that. I still do. I might rock some jeans but that’s just to bring it down a little.

I refuse to lose my swag because of what other folks are doing.
shunda

@Toi
I thought I was the only one that couldn’t stand at the end of the day.
@iscream
That Brit special reminded me of the one Michael Jackson did. That broad is whacked.
bloggergirlz

akon sure does clean up well…dude to the left of bow look retarded (maybe just a bad pic) and dude to the right (in the back) need a smaller cap…the other guy to the right reminds me of my older uncles wearing that damn denim jacket (w/ the matching jeans)…i hate guys feel a “white tee” is an acceptable part of their outfit…akon’s brother bu is actually darker than him…go figure…poor ricky ross looks a bit lost…he looks like someones grandfather…i won’t even start of the unflavored decatur chicks…
kwallace577

yall all right. folks just don’t put on their ish no more to go out. i thought it was a country azz “raleigh thing” but then when i started noticing it in other locales i was like wtf happened to putting on your GOOD ish? and i travel ALOT.

now i must say the wauk (milwaukee) chi, st. louis, and cleveland still got their formal dressers. them cats and ladies too be “cleaner dan a mub” when they step out. yes sir. the midwest is still branging it.
BLACKBARBIE404

IM NOT SURPRISED……
shunda

@kwall
You are right because I surely had on my real leather fake fur coat on saturday lol and a cleavage showing party dress. However, there was this chick in the place with a sweatshirt and some jeans on by the end of the night she was so drunk she didn’t have on socks or shoes so it happens in Cleveland also.
bloggergirlz

chicago does clean up well, however most of the tired a$$ hip hop/rap clubs looks a bit like the unflavored decatur chicks…

intense posed a good question about age/clubbing…it’s kind of hard to answer though, unless you focus exclusively on hip hop/rap clubs…i say that because we have stepper sets, house/deep house parties, hip hop parties (old school hip hop), etc…those parties typically bring out an older mature crowd
http://myspace.com/erikamagaly Hermosa

Well, I definately NEVER go to the club without impressing. And these chicks wonder why all the dudes are always all up on me and my crew. . .

Anywho, should Bow Wow’s jumpoff be SuperHead? I mean just bc she’s having his baby don’t make them official! Or does it?
Charles

Hermosa Says:

Well, I definately NEVER go to the club without impressing. And these chicks wonder why all the dudes are always all up on me and my crew. . .

Anywho, should Bow Wow’s jumpoff be SuperHead? I mean just bc she’s having his baby don’t make them official! Or does it?

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Why are they up on you and your crew?
intensemocha

Well you know what-now after reading all the posts I think that everyone touched on the exact point I was trying to make

People don’t dress like “grown folks” no more-jeans & sneaks are not the business for the club or any function that I would be interested in attending if it’s not a basketball game

I like going to happy hour with friends after work on a friday, or a classy event, such as a church function ball/fundraiser (you know there is one every year), a fraternity/sorority function such as an annual clam bake-you know they come out in their best.

When I go out I want to rub elbows with employed folks, people who actually get up and have to deal with the day to day stresses of being employed-people who have way to much to lose if they get into a fight, or the possibility of going to jail or even worst ending up in the hospital-LOL

I enjoy a mature crowd, well-dressed, people who actually dance, and people who understand that it’s just a dance and nothing more, and who aint to damn bourgeouis to dance, and if you make a mistake and bump into them or step on their toe an “excuse me” or an apology is met with a “don’t worry about it” response

Everybody is there to have a good time-not posted on the wall looking at everybody else while pretending to have a good time
http://myspace.com/erikamagaly Hermosa

Because we got swag, Charles!
shunda

@intensemocha
I have to say that I agree with you. I tell my friends unless the place is 25 and older I will not go. I will be 29 in March and I think my girls finally convinced the dude at the 30 and over club to let me in lol. They were like he said he will let you in for your B’day.
Kymystry

I don’t even LIKE to go out (to clubs) anymore .. no one dances .. since I don’t drink thats the only reason I choose to go .. to dance… they have Old School Saturday’s here in Atl .. i would go to those .. no one dressed to impress .. and there was a WHOLE buncha decatur flava’s of love there .. no one dances .. just stands around .. so thats why I just stay home … folk don’t even “dress” for concerts .. i’m showin my age .. lol
Toi

My friends and I (the 30 and above crowd) chill at each other’s homes. (Get it, homes – not apartments) The last time I went to a club was when a friend rented one out for a birthday party.

The club scene is so old. And no, we don’t sit around playing cards all the time either.
prynsexxx

#24 said:

When I go out I want to rub elbows with employed folks, people who actually get up and have to deal with the day to day stresses of being employed-people
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I feel the SAME way! Folks who got time to go to the clubs, have been at home ALL day getting ready. I don’t mind being in bed by 10. LOL
kwallace577

we have a club here called “club 30+” and that is one of the ONLY places i say enforces the hail outta the dress code. another club over in durham don’t play either.

i can’t even do 25 and up no more. but i am LOL b/c i was like 23-24 trying my HARDEST to get into the 30 and over club. only time they let me in until i was really 30 i went with my momma (momma still brangs it…at dayum near 60) and with my sister who BEGGED on my behalf.
intensemocha

@ prynsexxx

I can’t even front-if I am at home I can stay up late watching t.v. or pitter pattering around the house cleaning something

but if I am out past 11 and it aint church or some form of entertainment I enjoy I turn into a gremlin-LOL, like a toddler having a temper tantrum because they are hungry/tired/or just irritable-I’m usually home at 10 also.

@ toi-

my girlfriends and I had a “girls night in” everybody brought something to compliment the main dish-lasagna, marguerita mix, alcohol, chips, salad etc. and we sat around ate, talked, laughed, and just hung out-it was really nice and definitely more enjoyable than any club.

Home is the best place to be or someone elses home that you know…..
kwallace577

i cosign with intensemocha. we have what we call “daiquiri parties.”

everybody bring their blender and a diff. flavor and the alcohol to go in. and a cd. the host provides ice and food.

by the end of the night everybody is full and tipsy. once we had like 4-5 diff. flavors (we have duplications but that time we had a big variety). i think we all crashed at my sister house. like 8 of us! LMAO.
shunda

@kwall
That sounds like fun. I am going to have to throw one of those. Of course all of my girls can be the drunk ones because after two drinks I am done.
Toi

2 ideas for those who like to party with like-minded friends

1)Listening Party – where someone purchases the newest cds and we all listen, burn our own copies and have drinks. Last one I went too was Kym’s Kym II cd. By the end of the night – we had pulled out some old Will Downing, Anita Baker and Jill Scott.

2)ROUND THE WORLD PARTY (great for the holidays) – each host (no more than 4) chooses a country (or color). We travel to the first house, have hor’dervs (sp?) from the country (or color), then we all go to the second house together, have hor’dervs (sp?) from that host’s country (or color) , etc, etc. . . . until we’re at the last house. We don’t do anything without food and alcohol. For example, earlier this year, I chose the color green. I served apple martinis and spinach pizza. (it was green and better than brocoli)
ChokLitFactory

I like Akon’s song, “I’m paid”
Jeezy lookin real good about now…
And Sandra, nobody round these parts gives two shyts about Lil Bow Wow and who he has impregnated. lol

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