{"id":45131,"date":"2020-04-23T18:34:04","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=45131"},"modified":"2020-04-23T18:40:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T22:40:51","slug":"throwback-thursday-gangsta-boo-at-shade-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/throwback-thursday-gangsta-boo-at-shade-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Gangsta Boo in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shout out to Gangsta Boo, my gorgeous rapper friend, for reminding me that seven years ago today<\/a>, I was her entourage as she visited The Fader magazine<\/a> office, followed by the Shade 45<\/a>\u00a0music station.<\/p>\n

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Boo in 2013 wearing my custom Gangsta Boo nameplate necklace and my silver YOLO rings at the Fader magazine.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

This might have been the visit where the Shade 45 peeps assumed I was in the music business and asked, “So what do you do for Boo?” and I — at a loss as to how to explain my presence — awkwardly said, “I’m her jeweler?”\u00a0 And then they all moved away from me on the bench<\/a>, to quote Arlo Guthrie, and I vowed never to speak again even if spoken to. Though maybe that exchange happened another time, considering I thought 2013 was the year we met actor Billy Bob Thornton. That turned out to be in April 2014. I was wearing the same jacket, and confusion about dates is a slow-fashion hazard.<\/p>\n

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I was wearing an Ossie Clark top in this 2014 picture with Billy Bob at Shade 45. In April 2013, I was wearing a black sweater. Case closed.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Anyway, I like the way Boo conscientiously noted all the outfit details in this photo she took of me hustling to catch us a cab in 2013. Pre-Uber days!<\/p>\n

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I still have everything I’m wearing in the 2013 and 2014 photos except the jeans. If those are black jeans, as I suspect, I gave them away. If they’re actually very dark blue jeans, I turned them into shorts. Who else finds it strange to look at photos from the pre-COVID-19 life, even though that life only ended last month? It’s hard to believe that we just WENT OUT like that. Like it was no big deal!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shout out to Gangsta Boo, my gorgeous rapper friend, for reminding me that seven years ago today, I was her entourage as she visited The Fader magazine office, followed by the Shade 45\u00a0music station. This might have been the visit where the Shade 45 peeps assumed I was in the music business and asked, “So…<\/p>\n

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