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Miami Pepsi Smash

August 19th, 2005

After the Rub show I went straight to the airport and flew to Miami, where we had a Pepsi Smash concert with Kanye, Common and John Legend. We had a whole string section accompanying us, including a harp! The show was bonkers. Common rocked it too, with DJ Dummy plus Karriem Riggins and Omar on the keys. But the real highlight was when we performed an acoustic version of the “Diamonds” remix, and your boy Hova the God came out of the woodworks. The crowd lost their minds. We went into excerpts of “Encore”, “P.S.A.” and “U Don’t Know”, and I’m standing there thinking “holy macaroni, that’s Jay-Z telling me to play the beat.” Later that night Kanye rented a yaught and we went a-sailing along the Miami Sound (I think that’s where we were). Notice that there’s not much sleeping going on here.

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