Ben Baller > Cristobal

In February, Gritz and Pants were at Magic in Las Vegas. There they did some cool things like meeting Lupe Fiasco, Nick Cannon, Mr. Cartoon and touching hot avirex girls. They also saw this character shinning like 1,000 suns. He is Ben Baller, face of Icee Fresh Jewels, eBay world record holder and King of the Slauson Supermall. He knows lots of things about cars, stunting, picking up chicks and marketing. Nakashon.com caught up with him to learn more.

 

How does it feel to stunt on everyone all the time?

 

I don’t know, it’s everyday natural behavior.  I’ve been doin this since show and tell Fridays in Kindergarten.

You are arguably one of the most important people in American popular culture. Discuss.

Take it easy, not at all.


What can we expect from the Icee Fresh x LRG line?

We’re basically going to make a jewelry line that isn’t costume like Chanel or others do. We’re going to make Yellow Gold pendants that are somewhat affordable but only for certain boutique accounts.  Everything we do will be copy written logos owned by L-R-G.  we’re also going to make a few tees and hoodies while we’re at it.  You’ll just have to see.


What ever happened to DYRT?

No one had the time to put into it fulltime, so I stopped, but I think DJ Homicide might still find some investors and get it cracc’in sometime in the future.  At one point, I think Travis and Quiksilver were interested, but I don’t know what happened, I just know we coulda blew that up crazy, especially after Cartoon finished the final logos…. But I got super caught up into my jewelry biz.


Be honest, is Cake worth a spot on my net flicks queue?
 

 I don’t know, I haven’t watched the movie myself fully through, I just made it with my cousin and the entire movie is like 98% accurate and true to real life shit that happened to us and a friend during 1999 to 2000.


In Adventures in Hollyhood, Juicy gets real excited about getting Ashton's black book, would yours have been a better look?

probably, actually, I’m sure yes it is.


As a College athlete did you ever employ common Canadian slurs, like "hoser" or "eh-hole" to taunt Steve Nash and throw him off his game?

naw, I barely got any playing time and as he was good, he wasn’t that good in college, I’ve played against better (i.e. Jason Kidd)  no hate, I have no clue how the hell he got so damn good, he honestly scored maybe 14 points against us each time we played and we’re a division II school.  There was a guy named Darryl something on their team who had hops and crazy skills who was their star player not that fag Nash.

Can you take Game on the court?

I doubt it, I haven’t exercised outside having sex in 5 years or more and haven’t shot a ball in years, last thing I shot was a load on some hoes feet.

 


Before you redefined the sneaker game and broke into jewels, you were involved in some pretty important rap records. Is there any one record that stands out to you or that you most enjoyed being apart of?

There were a lot, there were some artists you never heard of, but I put in 1000% into all my projects.  As far as important, I think ICE CREAM MAN and REASONABLE DOUBT were the 2 that are still relevant into today’s game.  It was crazy to see Jay-Z blossom into what he is now, I would have never guessed in a billion years he’d be where he is now.  Also, working with Ice Cube was always great, he was the illest MC to me bacc in the day.  He may make some corny movies now, but they’re bringing in major bread and he did start up the Friday series which was 1 of our first films, so I can’t hate.  But go listen to Amerikkkas Most Wanted or the next 3 albums and also listen to all the OG N.W.A. cd’s and tell me he wasn’t spittin waaaaaaay harder then any underground battle rapper ever did.

 


When the Vans bubble bursts, what is going to be next?

Ben Baller X Jonas Bevacqua hybrid

 


I sometimes push a 1982 Rolls Royce Silver Spur, what do you have to say about that?

cool car

 


Hypothetically, if someone wanted to make a chain based on a company slogan, in this case "EVOLVE OR DIE," how would you style it out?

 

I’d make the “evolve” part in all princess cuts and all white diamonds

Have the “or” pave’d out in blk and white diamonds and then have the “die” in pave set all blk diamonds.  The whole piece would be white gold and I’d charge them $100,000 at least because that’d be what’d it would cost to make it the way we make ice.

 

 


What are the top five pieces in the game?

I don’t know and honestly I don’t care.

 


What piece out of Icee Fresh are you most proud of?

the cali piece.

 

 


What is your advice for first time jewelry buyers?

Go someplace else first, get jerked then come to us when you wanna get right, I don’t wanna sell you anything really, you should already know we’re the best jewelers on earth and have the best pricing.  So go get some weak shit in the south or in NYC.  If you pay less then what we charge, then expect lesser quality, that’s guaranteed.


Who has the best boobs in the world?

I don’t remember her name


Would you say that your general life principle is: Do it big, or not at all?

Just do something period.


Many yuppies drive 3-series BMW's. If I wanted to get real ignorant and floss on them, and still needed to remain on that type of budget, what could I do?

 

Take $20,000 cash in 1’s and pull up next to them on a GSXR 1000 and pop the clutch, get on 1 wheel and make it rain on them.


What's with rumors of a Ben Baller reality show?

Until it happens, it’ll just be rumors, because I’ve turned down FX, Spike and Bravo.

 

Any last shout outs?

 

ICEE FRESH fam, Jonas and L-R-G