Well, this was the last show. We made the drive to Jena from Berlin, settled into the hotel for a second head to Kassablanca, or what can be called Hip-Hop Paradise! Upon walking up to the club there was a train yard with graf writer’s gettin busy, b-boys gettin’ down inside and a SLAMMIN’ bass heavy sound system.



We were all very drained from the trip and needed some food and a few moments to relax. The homie Uncle Corn (Plaaaaaueeeeennn lol) came through to hand out with us and interview us for his radio show (link here). We had a great meal at the club, I actually passed out backstage for a minute (I know there’s pic of this out there somewhere), and before we knew it the stage was calling.



I have to say that Jena was so damn live that it made it even harder to realize that we had to leave the next day. I did a song that I’ve never performed and we all freestyled at the end of the show over an instrumental and beatbox as well. Signed tshirts, sold CDs and hit the hotel. The show started @ 1am, so we only had a few hours to sleep and get ready to head to Berlin for our flighs home.



Thank you For rockin with us Jena, PEACE, PEACE Y’ALL!

Picture the scene. The club is packed! The DJ is beginning to anounce us, then the olive raise the club about 20 deep (kinda like Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker) and shut the music off, search the club for underage drinkers. Hahaha! So many people got tired of the 15 minutes of harassment that they left. There were enough to pack the floor, but not not what it was before. This is the beginning of the Berlin show.



The conclusion…we went out and put on what may be the best show on this tour. Berlin was crazy! The club eventually filled back up and was ROCKIN!



Berlin was fly than a mugg!







(photos by Trek Life via iPhone)

What it is folks,



We are now on the last 3 shows of this tour. Usually by this point the energy is low amongst the touring artist, but in our case, not at all! We took a 4 hour drive to Heidelberg to get settled before a show we picked up during the time we were out here. I had heard a whole lot of good things about hip-hop in this city, and I was not disappointed at all.



It was pretty much drive to Heidelberg, spend 1 hour in the hotel, drive to the show, spend about 30-45 minutes backstage & eat sandwiches lol, then rock, then sell cds, then bounce. All that rolled into an extremely live and knowledgeable hip-hop crowd. Heidelberg is known for being up on their hip-hop though. So I didn’t expect anything less.



The dope part about this city is that at the merch table, people were quoting lyrics from the show! Muthafuckas was actually listening? That shit is wild. Thanks again ya’ll, off to Berlin we go!







Pics taken by Trek Life via iPhone

I can’t say enough about how beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland is. We ended up with 3 days off in a nice hotel right off Lake Geneva. If you ever find yourself in Southern Switzerland, please do yourself a favor and stay @ Hotel du port. Just trust me on this one.



I could seriously live here. We saw the city with dope architecture, rich culture and castles all rolled into one. Not to mention the best McDonald’s cheeseburger I’ve ever had lol. Thank you to the homie Laurent, his family and the entire staff at Hotel du Port, we genuinely appreciate the hospitality.







Photos by Trek Life (via iPhone)

(The Good News) I have to start this one off by thanking the crowd in Bergamo. This by far was my personal best performance on this entire tour. The energy at this show was RIDICULOUS!!! I started with a dope acapella freestyle and while introducting Diamond District the power went out on stage, so I simply made the crowd clap their hands til the power came back on and kicked 2 off the head verses while the crowd got live, NO MIC, just talking/projecting directly into the crowd.



(The Bad News) There is NO FOOTAGE of those 2 things :-/ (FUCK!!!).



The show was live nonetheless and the food was BANGIN!!!! The squat was dope! This falls in line as a personal best all around for me. 5 stars Bergamo, keep that real shit alive!



ps – ANYONE WITH FOOTAGE OF THE FREESTYLE WHEN THE POWER WENT OUT ON STAGE PLEASE POST IT!!!







Photos by Oddisee

We pretty much got off stage in Linz, sold some cds and headed to the van for an “Italian job” type drive to the airport. Our plane was to take off only hours from the time we left and we pushed that time to as close as possible.



After a short flight and little bit of a layover in the airport lol (all good Nano), we took a taxi with the screaming angry Italian guy to the hotel where everyone simply passed out. The homie Nano (possibly one of the nicest people in the entire world) picked us up and took us to the squat (definition here) to perform. Shit was insane! Graff writer’s heaven. It was once a dogracing track, and is now a squat and a practice facility for the Rugby team.



As usual, we rocked and hit Burger King (free bottled water for drunk people! LOL) then the hotel for some rest before some sight seeing & bus ride to the airport.



Shout to the homie Nano, very good people.







Photos by Oddisee

Performing @ Kapu in Linz, Austria is a surreal experience for me personally. Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, 2 Mex, Visionaires, Heiro and so many others I looked up to in LA when I was coming up have rocked there and it’s an honor to make that list. The homie Flip is a well known, ill producer from Linz (I have a joint on his upcoming producer album) that puts on shows at this venue.



We were once again rockin with Fashawn, Blu & Exile, it was a pleasure catching up with them and J.Kim for the final time overseas.



We had to pretty much perform then leave shortly after to catch our flight to Rome. Shout out the whole crowd in Linz, ya’ll definitely know ya’ll hip-hop!




Video provided by Oddisee oddiseemusic.blogspot.com

This episode of the Diamond District, Trek Life & DJ Quartermaine European Tour “iphone Diaries” is sponsored by Long ass drives and not so entertaining drunk people. lol



We headed out to Innsbruck from Paris early in the morning on a 12 hour journey. Time sped by since most of us slept over half the trip.



We got to a surprisingly warm Innsbruck with snow on the mountains above us. We got to this crazy ill place we were staying, got settled, head out to get something to eat and hit the spot to chill and get ready for showtime. The night ended up about as weird and crazy as it could be lol. Check out the footage. Peace.

So, i’m a few days behind, but I promise to catch up in the next couple of days.



This is footage from our trip to Paris. The show was insane. The one and only DJ Babu was spinning the next night so he fell through to kick it.



Check, check it!












Professional pics by Quartermaine

What up folks, after the show in Munster, I left the crew behind and headed to Cologne, Germany with JR and the homie Sam to shoot a video for a song called LA to the World produced by JR&PH7.



The rest of the gang arrived later on in the evening and we grabbed something to eat and headed off to get some rest and prepare for Carnival in Cologne the next day.