“My President Is Black, My Lambo’s Blue, And I’ll Be Damned If There’s Stimulus Too”

[We be havin' such a good time! For Realz]

By now you’ve probably heard Young Jeezy’s new song “My President Is Black”, featuring the eloquent verse“My president is black, my Lambo’s blue and I’ll be goddamned if my rims ain’t too“. Well, promoters across the city have been bee-bopping to this song for a while now, but they most likely wouldn’t mind a slight tweak to the verse.

A few weeks ago we talked about how B-list promoters are the ones who are actually benefiting from the current economic downturn, while bankers are the ones on the bottom. Yes, an obvious thesis. So we will compound it a little further. For the last 8 months most of us have been dodging unemployment and impending economic doom. When you email a friend’s work account and get the bounceback, “unknown user,” you can’t help but wonder if you too will soon meet this fate. While most people are either worse off or hanging on by a thread, there is a small group of people who are immune or actually doing better, and ultimately might not necessarily welcome an upturn, or the economic stimulus being proposed to remedy the situation by the Democratic party and our President.

Enter the promoter. No they don’t have Lambos, but they do have bottles. In the boom times these guys who wrangled enough models would have free tables specifically reserved for them despite people lining up behind them to pay mega bucks for that table or any other table. So what’s changed? Well, there ain’t no one lining up to buy tables anymore, so the only people remaining at those tables are the promoters cause they never paid anyway. What does this mean? Promoters don’t have anymore table competition from other people, instead of being a big fish in a big pond, they are the only fish in the pond.

It’s now easier for the promoter to delude himself about his lifestyle, and easier to convince the models he corals to come out. It’s even easier for him to cop an asexual feel because he looks like such a high-roller. Promoters don’t really register that it is kind of tacky to be celebrating so lavishly when times are bad because heck, times have really always been bad for them. Furthermore, none of their friends are doing worse, they are all actually doing better. As for tightening the belt, well, it was always tight for these guys, they were bargain hunting before they got off the bus at Penn Station. No life change there.

It’s not the Republicans who want Obama’s stimulus bill to fail, its actually the promoters, even though they don’t know it. Right now they are on cloud nine trying to soak in every minute. It’s not difficult to smoke these unwitting would-be-filibusters, they are usually wearing hoodies on their head indoors and acting a little too happy with life. This is usually conveyed by pursed lips or shit-eating grin. They purposely dress down as a foil to the opulence at their table, although they probably wouldn’t articulate it that way. Clubber beware!

Filed under: Promoters

March 10, 2009 @ 12:35:15 pm By STANLEY STUYVESANT

new yorka March 10, 2009 1:12pm	promoters are such douchenozzles, talk about laboring under delusion
tamoshanter March 10, 2009 1:16pm	Our country is going to shit and has been for some time, not because of all the financial markets but because doormen high-five guys like this instead of people with real substance like lets say one of the millions of PhD students in India that are eventually going to kick our ass. Fucking MTV culture, here we come!
Marcel March 10, 2009 1:49pm	omg this redhead in the pic is awesome!
partypants March 10, 2009 2:05pm	Didn’t you say that the last time this pic was posted?
stuypegleg March 10, 2009 3:47pm	Seems rather hypocritical of you people to be beating down the promoters. These are the very same people whose venues you incessantly hype up (see Merkato 55, which btw when NYMag is running full page spread on, you know is OVER!) Maybe you consider the A-list promoters a different breed but they are all the same. Same biz model. So get over yourselves because the whole premise of your blog is to glamorize nightlife and glorify alcohol consumption (have you ever thought about what percentage of people in your posted photos were wasted?). Stick to what you know and don’t bite the hand that feeds you. If we wanted lighthearted economic observations we would read freakonomics. http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
kidmatty March 10, 2009 4:09pm	“whose venues”…promoters don’t own shit so i don’t know why you are using a possessive pronoun….it is the venues without the promoters that people like. “stuypegleg,” explain to me why you think gofg was not grouping all promoters under the same umbrella? I have been reading this blog for a long time and only an idiot would think the premise of gofg was to “glamorize nightlife and glorify alcohol consumption,” don’t you get it dumbo, if anything it is the opposite.
stuypegleg March 10, 2009 4:43pm	I think it goes w/o saying that they don’t own the venues, so save me the grammar lesson. Why don’t you list the venues publicized here that DON’T use promoters. You can probably name them on 1 hand. If they are around in a couple of years you can be assured they eventually will be. As far as the grouping, there was a reference made to “B-list” promoters. “A” does come before “B” in the alphabet. Sure you can figure that one out on your own. Finally, perhaps you can enlighten those of us that are not as intellectually gifted as yourself on what the premise of goag is? This blog is not exactly lacking for photos of posers and partiers which is actually really entertaining when not taken as seriously as you seem to. What do you make of the Cobrasnake posts? Hysterical but doubt there’s alot “possessive pronouns” being thrown around. Lighten up kiddo…
kidmatty March 10, 2009 5:26pm	you mis-interpreted me, my point was that venues are what people really like and their regular clientele, not the promoters. I wish all venues wouldn’t use promoters and their unfriendly models…they really don’t add anything positive. Is there anything such as an “A-list promoters?” haha, that’s an oxymoron. Whatever the premise of gofg is, it is not as you stupidly put it “to glamorize nightlife and glorify alcohol consumption,” if anything nimwit it is to poke fun at it. Have you ever seen “Best 2k ever?” or “Who invited her?” Yeah I’m sure everyone who reads those posts aspires to be in them….retard
stuypegleg March 10, 2009 6:27pm	Actually I think you are an oxymoron. I express an opinion different than yours and you find it necessary to call me an idiot, dumbo, nitwit, stupid and a retard. Doesn’t exactly sound very “friendly”, “positive” or even constructive to me. Sounds pretty angry and not fun at all.Yet you find models unfriendly! Maybe you are just a repressed “regular” guy who gets to spend 2K on something that others get for free and gets shot down by models all the time? Did you ever ask yourself why all these places employ promoters and their model entourages? They must be adding something other than providing photo-ops for sites like this.Like them or not they are a draw and hell, it’s supposed to fun and mindless. Save your self-aggrandizing attitude for Davos pal and don’t get your panties all in a bunch over such meaningless matters.