Waka does Paris ... and the offices of Spin
F what you heard. They love this dude in the City of Lights. Even Mos Def and Common showed him love
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Fuck what you heard. They love Waka Flocka Flame in Paris, France. In addition to his crazy cover shoot, and crazier video takeover of the offices of Spin - in which the magazine uses Waka to poke fun at its own Twitter reviews policy after Waka demands, “Who the fuck ate my hummus!” upon finding his lunch half-eaten in the company fridge - writer Julianne Escobedo Shepherd followed him to the City of Lights where he performed at Kanye’s fashion show and won over the likes of Mos Def, Common, and well, the whole city.
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But as we at CL can attest, no story on Waka is complete without killer quotes from the man himself. So after watching the video of Waka disrupting things at Spin, some prime outtakes follow. Just the sentimental stuff. For more on his personal tragedies (the deaths of his younger brother and partner Slim Dunkin), you’ll have to read the story yourself.
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On Waka’s halycon days growing up a knucklehead in Riverdale:
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“If a party didn’t get shot up, that shit was kinda dead. It might be dumb as hell to say that now, but that was the truth - as a kid. Young girls booty-poppin’ like crazy. I still never partied better than I did then. Lil Jon days. T.I. first came out. OutKast was poppin’. Hitman Sammy Sam. Jermaine Dupri. When Ludacris was radio DJ Chris Lova Lova.”
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On how he stumbled upon success after his friend/mentor Gucci Mane got locked up in 2008: