90 - Hip Hop Honors

Hip Hop Honors screening and after-party
Opera
02 October 2008

Lucky for me, I have fantastic, interesting, exciting friends. On Thursday evening, thanks to the well-connected M.Douglas, we visited Opera (formerly the China Club) for a live screening of the Hip Hop Honors, which airs on VH1 on October 6 at 10pm. VH1 hosted the event, so all of the nibbles and drinks were on them. We grabbed some treats, perused the crowd, and settled into a booth to watch the show. As the show was being taped at the Hammerstein ballroom, we were watching a live telecast at Opera. The footage from the show is probably on the cutting room floor right now being edited and laden with commercials to make it ready for airing next week. A couple hours and a few drinks later, the after-party was ready to begin. We left our cozy little booth and walked upstairs to the VIP area and roof deck. The next couple hours were spent socializing, schmoozing, bumping into Mike Rappaport who was filming a De La Soul documentary, and seeing Kid Rock surrounded by beefy security guards and adoring fans. I am quite certain that there were more artists there, but since I don't know much about the big names of the Hip Hop scene, I wasn't able to recognize anyone else. The evening was lovely and certainly the type of event that I don't get to go to often if at all.