It was already the perfect sunny, Sunday afternoon when Nappy DJ Needles put the cherry on top with his daytime grove in the Mangrove. Afro Sexy Cool morphed into a day party this month on the patio of Siam – and it was everything I could have hoped for. Some of my favorite folks, like Vanita Applebum Thompson, Tiffany Shawn (creator of the lovely blog My Natural Reality) and Corey Black, were in the building. And Needles was eviscerating the tables with a mix that had me at a happy place between twerk and twirl. It wasn’t packed, but it was a black to the basic melanin overload with some of the most stylish folks I had seen all week. Who was that beautiful tall goddess with the yellow short romper and the black maxi kimono? She is my style spirit animal. And if the people watching wasn’t enough, Needles’ brother Nicholas Gates and his dance crew gave of a snippet that belonged in “Beat Street” breakdance scene.
