So, on Tuesday night, I made a fat ironman trip to L.A. to check out the advanced screening of the new VH1 Rock Doc, "NWA: The World's Most Dangerous Group."

Point blank: The documentary and the whole event was bad ass.

Here's how it went down.

I got invited to check out the advanced screening of the film (before they premiere it on VH1 on Friday, October 3rd) at a theater in L.A.

After I checked in at the VH1 booth, they gave me a nice lil wristband so I could hang out in the lounge area before they showed the movie.

Then, everyone who was invited made their way into the theater. Before the film started, one the head honchos from VH1 did a quick intro and introduced some of the cats responsible for putting together the Rock Doc.

The dude who directed "Boyz N The Hood", John Singleton, was sitting a in the front of the theater. Eazy-E's son, Lil Eazy-E, was in the row in front of me. And down the aisle was a true legend in the game. DJ Yella from NWA was in the house! Dope.

They showed us the unedited version of the film, so it was cool to hear all the cussin'. (I mean, c'mon, it's about NWA! You gotta have cussin' right?)

When it was over, everyone applauded and for good reason. It was really one of the most well-produced and honest portrayals of NWA that I've ever seen. Two big ass thumbs up, fa real.

Afterwords, Hip Hop journalist Cheo Coker hosted a short question and answer session with Lil Eazy and Yella at the front of the theater.

They even took some questions from the audience. Yup, you know I had to raise my hand, right?

Later, I got a chance to talk with DJ Yella a lot more about the group, his thoughts about the documentary, and especially his memories of Eazy-E.

It was pretty sad to hear Yella say that he just lost the love for making music the day Eazy passed. But you could tell he still loved telling stories about him.

Bottom line: you gotta catch the film when it premieres on VH1 this Friday (and the replays all month). It's called "NWA: The World's Most Dangerous Group."

**You can watch the video of me interviewing DJ Yella about the film right now! Just go to the front page on
B95forlife.com**

Here's a shot of me with DJ Yella and Lil Eazy-E.

You probably heard by now, Kanye was arrested for battery and assault after he got into a lil scuffle with paparazzi and smashed his camera.

I'm not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I'd really like to see Kanye get slapped in the face. Hard. Repeatedly.

Kanye Attack Caught on Tape

In past years, I've never been too much into the Olympics games.
Summer, Winter, they've just never captured my attention.

But in 2008, that changed.

I don't know what it is about this year's Olympic Games.
Maybe it was the cool video vignettes NBC aired about individual competitors.
Could have been the potential to see history-making performances.
Honestly, it was probably just that fact that watching the games in High Def was too
bad ass to miss.

But whatever the reason, I was totally and thoroughly entertained for two weeks.

There were way too many cool moments and athletes to specifically name off here, so I'll just mention a few from my dome.

Usain Bolt: The sprinter from Jamaica who can run faster than I can drive. He looked a little cocky when he won a gold and broke a world record. But he's young and just won a Gold Freakin' Medal! He deserved to celebrate and was fun to watch. And how dope is that last name for a runner?

Nastia Luikin and Shawn Johnson: I watched (and loved) the gymnastics events. I don't give a damn, I'll admit it over and over again, I ain't ashamed. Those chicks did some ridiculous things that impressed me big time. Plus, I liked being able to call Nastia Luikin "that Nasty girl."

Speaking of impure thoughts, I'm sure NBC's pervert/pedaphiile/aquaphiliac ratings went through the roof during the swimming and diving competitions. Did they really need to spend THAT much time showing the athletes in the shower?


Above: Olympic athletes or possibly softcore porn


Lolo Jones: They aired a pretty cool video package on this chick about how she had a tough childhood, always moved around, stuff like that. She didn't take home a medal, but I totally loved saying "hittin' corners in the Lolo girl!" when she was on TV.

Bela Karolyi: You probably saw this old guy sitting next to Bob Costas. Man, he was hilarious! We need more honest people like this on TV. He was genuinely into every event he commented on, and didn't hold back what he thought. Everyone at home was thinking the same thing about the Chinese gymnasts: "There's NO WAY these girls are 16!" Bela was the only one on TV with big enough man parts to say it.

The U.S. Softball Team: What's not to love? Jenny Finch and a bunch of Mexicans kicking ass at softball? I'm all over that.

Dishonorable Mention:

Real quick, I wanna bring up a couple things that were just stupid:

-Speed Walking: You can call it what you want, it's still just walking. Compete in a REAL event!

-Badminton: Do you really have to train for this event? Any group of third-graders can get together, call themselves a team, and be just as good as anybody that was in Beijing.

-Ping Fu**in' Pong: Oh, it's called table tennis? Screw you, it's ping pong, dude. Could you ever really be proud of winning a medal playing the same game that gets played in retirement homes?

-Finally, here's a pop quiz: Do you have to be a complete moron to take a photo that's racially insensitive to Chinese people before competing in Olympic games taking place in Beijing, China?
Answer: No, you just have to be part of the Spanish Basketball team.


Above: Dumb-asses


But overall, I was totally diggin' the Olympics this year. I'm seriously looking forward to 2010 and 2012.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Is it me, or does Michael Phelps have about 10 too many teeth?

-Salas-

Last week, a bunch of us from work got together for a going-away lunch for one of the nicest guys I've met here. His name's Chris Miller.

He got another job, so we wanted to take him out one last time.

I shook his hand and told him these words before he left, so I'll repeat them here:

Of all the people I want to see leave this place, he's definitely not one of them.

It's very rare to be a long-term manager and still have the respect of so many people who work for you and around you.

It should be the goal of every manager to achieve that level of respect from his employees that Chris did. 

I'm gonna miss that guy around here.