So here’s where I had planned to hip y’all to the glorious savagery being served at the Lil Boosie concert Friday night at IP54. The streets were lined with cars all the way down Grand and on nearly all of the side streets – and I counted four paid parking lots – so I just knew it was gonna be on and cracking with my beloved Boosie Badddd! Well, that’s where the story ends for me, because YET AGAIN the IP54’s overzealous lead security guard has decided he is going to keep us from covering their events by any means necessary. At this point he might as well break out in song and croon “And I’m telling you, you’re not going” in the style of Jennifer Holiday when he sees my face, because every.single.time. we try to show IP54 some love in Partyline, we are “Turned Away” like Chuckii Booker until Jessie Taylor gets involved and sorts it all out. This time, the guard wouldn’t even allow for Jessie to be summoned. So IP 54, if you are wondering why we don’t pump your shows up or give you as much play as you feel we deserve in the paper, take it up with your security staff who clearly doesn’t want you to have FREE publicity. Oh well, maybe we can straighten it out, but I’m at the point of throwing my hands up – and saving myself the gas and the trouble of even stopping by.
