I knew that “Girls Trip” was going to guarantee an epic, but supremely congested ESSENCE Festival – which is one of the reasons I decided to sit this year out. Y’all had me wishing I had made peace with being piled on top of folks and powered through to New Orleans the way STL was representing. I’m not going to start naming names, because I know I will leave people off and they will be in their feelings. But I must give a shout out to Dameon Christian. Sir, you were serving with those hats even though I wouldn’t have wanted to be your seat neighbor for a couple of the more robust ones. Why was I peeping through the pics on Nola.com and saw him perched on a slideshow of the 29 favorite photos from the whole weekend – all up in the mix with shots of Queen Latifah and Mary J. Blige. He wasn’t the only one doing it big amongst the half a million folks that made their way there this year.
