C.I. aka Slate.......

We could start this story from a lot of different angles, but the net is Cornelius Ingram is family. He is a part of the PTM and soon enough, the rest of the world will see why....

'Slate' as is he called back in his hometown of the 'Thorne' better known as Hawthorne, Florida is the best athlete to ever come out of his town. He started playing varsity basketball in the 7th grade and scored well over 3k points, he is second all-time in the state of Florida in points scored...

He was a QB as well, one of the top 11 QB's (Elite 11) in the nation coming out of Hawthorne High School, being recruited by many of the top schools in the nation. He opted to go to school right down the road at the Univ. of Florida to play quarterback, he also decided to play basketball as a recruited walk-on.

Sooooooooo his freshman year he didn't get playing time on the football team but saw time for the basketball team, he was in the same class as Joakim Noah, Corey Brewer and Al Horford. Coming into his soph season in football, Tim Tebow comes to town.......You know how that went...Slate had to move to tight end....His increase in playing time on the football field made him decide to stop playing for the basketball team, the year he left, they won the NCAA National Championship, back-to-back, would have seemed like he missed out, but nahhhhhhhh!!!....In 2006 the Gators won the BCS national championship.....I say all this to say, C.I. is a winner, Hands Down!

As he's even told us, he should have declared for the NFL draft after his Jr. year as a Gator. He was projected to go in the first three rounds, but he opted to go back to school, play football one last season and get his degree. Unfortunately, C.I. tore his ACL and missed his entire senior season....But, the gators won the BCS title game again, 2 rings in 4 years, not too shabby....







Just to give you an idea of how much of a pro prospect C.I. was, he didn't play his senior season, but was still selected in the 5th round by the Philadelphia Eagles. He hit another bump in the road, his knee wasn't fully healed and he re-injured his knee in Eagles training camp in 2009 as well as 2010...

C.I. is the true testament of perseverance and continuing to have faith in God.....He has all of the tools and is destined for greatness. Once he proves he is healthy this coming season, he is going to make a lot of noise on and off the field......That is a guarantee......


I can talk about Slate for a long long time, but you'll all see soon enough........

I'm Gone!
--Jacky #PTM

Lake Shore, Robotic Minds, cause the grind takes time if you wanna shine

My apologies for such a late post, but hey, it's like that sometimes......Anyways........

Good Ole Chicago, this city is awesome, period! We came out here in January to support our guy, “Hit Man Hurns” bka Kendal Hurns CEO of Robotic Minds Clothing. Such good friends we are, we flew out to support him for his Birthday/RMC launch party at Lumen Lounge. The line is awesome, check out the website and pick up some fresh threads www.roboticmindsclothing.com. The fashion show was dope; the after party was pretty sweet too…We also had an opportunity to speak with Kendall about RMC....Check this out

                       The 400 PTM Presents: Robotic Minds Clothing... from The 400 P.T.M. on Vimeo.

The only thing about Chicago is the winter weather, and boy did we get hosed. 2 ft of snow, the day before we were supposed to roll out… I’ve never seen anything like it, it was like a movie. This is Lake Shore Drive after the storm hit……Yougetcho!!!!

So we had to play rescue team, shoveling and snow blowing, all types of BS for our dear Aunty Lisa, she’s awesome by the way. Great adults, generally produce great children, and she has two amazing kids, Gavin and Nigel Schilling, remember these names folks, these are special kids. Gavin is hooping in Germany at a basketball academy, and Nigel is a child prodigy, this fella has way too many talents, he can literally do it all….Just check out this video….SMH…..

Chicago was awesome, another successful trip…I can’t wait to go back.......


I'm Gone!!!
--Jacky

LA....PTM...The REAL All-Star Weekend Experience...

As I am thousands of feet in the air on my way to Gainesville, Florida, I have some time to reflect on All-Star weekend in LA…. Overall, the experience was great for Reggie and I. We were able to further build our brand and also meet/connect with some great people along the way…. I could honestly write pages and pages in regards to the weekend, but I will spare you, and also spare myself…. The theme for us was ’exclusive’. The way it worked out, we were in a lot of places/situations that others did not have access to. I don’t mean that in a braggart way, it’s just the way it shook down. The highlight of our stay in LA was being apart of the LRMR camp, aka “The Four Horseman” (LeBron, Rich, Maverick, and Randy). Oh the irony, The 400 PTM, The Four Horseman…fate? Ah you never know…To keep it short and sweet, Reggie B has known Maverick and LeBron for many years now and they always show love, these are some great guys.  Anyways, Lebron has created a cartoon titled “The Lebrons” and he held a private screening event was held at Siren Studios on Sunset, guest list included, Pat Riley, Drake, Mark Cuban and a host of other individuals.  As if that wasn’t enough, Saturday night, after going to the Dunk contest (that was rigged by the way!) we had the pleasure of attending 2 Kings event at CAA bka “The Death Star”. If you don’t know what or whom CAA is, you probably shouldn’t even be reading this and you can get a YOUGETCHO…This uber-private event had roughly 250 guests, hosted by Jay-Z and Lebron. This was an A-list event, those in attendance DWade, CBosh, Beyonce, Kanye, Floyd Mayweather, Ciara, Reggie Bush, Diddy, Steve Stoute, Mark Cuban, Amber Rose, Brandy, Jamie Foxx, Leonardo Dicaprio, Cam Newton, David Arquette, Uncle Wes, J Cole, Drake, Rihanna, just to name a few. That was the true definition of VIP party, everyone together in one room, no fish bowling, just everyone having a good time, open bar, Ciroc ALL NIGHT…. Funniest part was the next day when all I heard was “how was that party, how did you get in there?”  I can’t even front, its quite awesome that we were there amongst so much power, but hey we aspire to one day be one of those people that matter wink, wink…..

The final night was a great ending, The Conga Room with the big homey Tyrese. This guy is really an inspiration to us, as a mentor and big brother, he always looks out for us as much as he can.  He is going to make A LOT of noise in 2011, with his Book “How to get of your own way”. Two blockbuster movies coming you may have heard of, Transformers 3 Dark of the Moon and Fast and Furious 5, as well as an album “Open Invitation”. This will be his summer; BELIEVE THAT…Here is a little snippet from The Conga Room…

We didn’t take any pictures, didn’t really make any videos other than from the Congra Room, mental memories is all we have and they are priceless; this was definitely a trip to remember. There’s a lot of other things that occurred, some that I should mention but most that I don’t need to mention, the standard bopping, etc, but that doesn’t need to be addressed..Yougetcho…This is about things that matter…. Shout out to everyone we crossed paths with, if you were out there and we didn’t see you, oh well, I hope you all enjoyed your time in LaLa land, I know we sure did………

I’m Gone!!!

-Jacky

THEY ARE HERE!!!

While most people went bananas over the re-release of the Cool Grey Jordan XI, I quietly counted down the days until my personal favorite shoe of all time, which too is a Jordan re-release. I must digress and say I too got a pair of the Cool Grey Jordans, thanks in part to a last minute call from a trusted family member (Lacy from THEM) and a person  I would like to codename as *Bird*. Anyway on to what I would like to describe simply as "The best J's ever HANDS DOWN". The Cement Jordan III's  were re-released today and I got a pair, sadly only one pair. I still would like to get my hands on some more of them but only time will tell if that is more reality or inception. Im nowhere near as big a sneaker head as many of my friends are , but I can tell you this much, these shoes go hard!!!! I would like to thank *Bird* for playing a part in securing these puppies too. Next purchase for me will likely be Marvel Vs Capcom 3 for the PS3, yes Reggie B the nerd you are all too unfamiliar with is in full effect! Ciao

-Reggie B-

BEST J's EVER HANDS DOWN

The Cool Kids......

Boy oh boy, where do I begin, I guess there's no better place than the beginning.....

Fall 2009, the owners of StrongBox Lounge approached Reggie and I, they wanted to give StrongBox some flavor but within good reason *we all know what that means (haha)*. We mulled it over and thought "Hey, let's give this a shot!" We wanted to give Philly nightlife a shot in the arm. We were fresh off an amazing vacation from Vegas and we knew if we could bring some of the energy back to Philly we'd be onto something.  That didn't, really work but hey, it was worth a try!!! The first few parties at StrongBox were straight duds, scud missiles, bombs over baghdad, whatever you want to call them, they were terrible....We didn't know how to "throw" a party, we just knew "how" to party.

Fast forward to......

A party for Drew "The Mayor" Carballo and Terressa "Shortie No Mas" Thompson. You talk about a sh*t show!! The party was awesome, simple and plain...From there the good times rolled, the buzz started and Reggie and Jackiem became the "Cool Kids".

For the Record, we did not come up with the name, we simply said, "if you're cool you will come out on a weekday, Tuesday night is Friday or Saturday night".  As with most things, people ran with it. Instead of saying they were going to party with Jack and Reg, people started saying they were going to party with The Cool Kids. We didn't complain, we just wanted people come to party. Tuesday nights were definitely a success and we put StrongBox on the map. We've had some very notable people come in and out those doors; Lebron James, Ryan Howard, Tyreke Evans, Desean Jackson, LeSean McCoy, Jeremy Maclin, Andre Iguodala, Marsha Ambrosius, Mario, Uncle Wes, just to name a few...

The Cool Kids is a brand, the nightlife arm of The 400 PTM. if you hear the name, you know the party is going to be crazy, and in a good way. The most notable of our events thus far have been Jeremy Maclin's birthday Party at Sumo Lounge. The secret Lebron James party at StrongBox,

My birthday party

Check out the video

...and our infamous annual Christmas party, this year it was held at Recess Lounge.

Anything we put our time and effort into we believe will inevitably be a success, this was no exception. A little party on a Tuesday night in Rittenhouse opened some doors for us....We are EXTREMELY APPRECIATIVE to any and everyone that has attended a Cool Kids party and we are thankful to any and everyone that we have met and built relationships along the way......

Phillyin.com/cool-kids

      

  

I'm Gone!

-Jacky

400 Influence...

A little over a week ago, we had the pleasure of orchestrating a photo shoot/interview for Philadelphia Sixers G/F Andre Iguodala for The Source Magazine. The segment "Jocks Meets Jocks" aligned an athlete with a radio personality, Dre had the pleasure of working with Kendra G. from 100.3 The Beat.

The shoot was awesome, although it lasted around three hours, we all had a good time. It's always a pleasure to be around great positive people....Shout Out to Andre Iguodala, Kendra G, Larry Howard (The Source Magazine), Kendall Hurns (CEO of Robotic Minds Clothing), AZ (Creative Director of Robotic Minds), Whitney Thomas (Photographer), Curran Swint (Stylist).....

Check out the behind the scenes video........ 

Yougetcho!!!

                        -Jacky Wright