Let me give a major shout out to the ladies of Café Soul for coming back in a big way with their first event in a minute. Trap Soul Paint was beyond my imagination and expectation – and an amazing way to reintroduce the Café Soul brand to the nightlife scene. The Gallery By Troy was so packed with folks with a canvas ready to get a sip and show their creative side that it wouldn’t be a stretch to believe there were a couple of people perched in the liquor closet peeking around the corner to follow the lead of the main artist. I was expecting it to be packed. I was expecting it to be fun. I was not expecting it to be so lit – even though host DreCo could probably get a corporate prayer group to turn up. They are probably gonna have to call the second installment “Trap.Soul.Paint.Twerk.” The girls didn’t even put their brushes down when they headed to the dance floor to drop it like it was hot. Some of my favorite folks were in the building too, including birthday girl Alice Prince, Trina Claggett, Ebonee Shaw, Anne Jones and some other people who will be mad because I left them off. Sorry y’all. And let me give an early b-day shout out to my girl Shai since she was in the place to be repping for Café Soul. Everybody genuinely enjoyed themselves. It was a good grown time. Now because of my own artistic limitations, I’m going to give everybody a gold star for their efforts – even if the alcohol had a few of y’all making a portrait of Michael Jackson look like Rebbie.
