I like to consider myself a very honest and truthful person, so I try not to hide any of my issues or problems. So I have to tell y’all I’m a little upset with the way I conducted myself last night. I got into an altercation with a classless, tasteless, tacky other photographer who goes by the name of “Prince.”
I’m very disappointed in myself because I let somebody who clearly has issues upset me due to his association with the last individual that I dealt with. I just cannot believe that I’m dealing with these same issues. It’s funny how things work when people surround themselves with negative people and negative things.
But this is what happened. I came to the club after being hired by one of my homies to take pictures of my friends Tiny & Toya. After getting there, everything seemed like it was perfect. The two other photographers came in, took their other pictures and like professional photographers, they left. Everybody knows you take your pictures and you move out the way. You just don’t hover over the celebrities like a groupie and constantly take pictures of them for hours and hours on end … unless of course that’s what you’re getting paid to do.
After being there for about 10 minutes, I noticed Mr. Prince walk into the VIP and that’s when he tried to force me out of the way as he tried to get his pics. A good photographer should be able to take 3 pictures and have all the shots they need. They shouldn’t have to stand there and snap away 20 times to get their 1 or 2 shots. I mean, what’s the purpose of having an LCD screen on your camera?
Anyway, after walking away because I felt like there was too much tension, I went to go talk to one of Atlanta’s top DJs, Mizz Shyneka to have her take a picture with Tiny and Toya. We walked from one end of the club to the next and once we got over there, Mizz Shyneka started talking to all of her friends. Mind you, there were NO OTHER photographers at the time in the VIP … and then Prince Williams walked up. As I’m standing in the middle of the booth, getting ready to take the picture of Tiny, Toya and Mizz Shyneka, he walks up and says, “Yo! Move out the way, “I asked Mizz Shyneka to take a picture!” Confused, that’s when I said, “Dude, you didn’t ask her take a picture. I walked her over here to take a picture. What are you talking about?” He then proceeded to talk mad junk as Tiny, Toya and Mizz Shyneka look on in disbelief saying to each other “I know these two not about to fight!”
At first, I couldn’t do anything but stand there and take it. But then Prince goes, “Yeah, just take your picture and get the fuck out the way.” And I’m like, “Who the fuck are you talking to?!” As I’m taking my picture, he goes “…them blown out pictures! How it feel to have that cheap ass camera?! That light weight ass camera … that pussy ass camera!” Mind you, I’m laughing my ass off while he goes on and on about my camera talking about “That hurt didn’t it? That cheap ass camera!”
I’m sitting there thinking “Wow, I can’t believe this is happening…”
He then elbows me and I elbow him back. Then he pushes me and I push him back and that’s when he smacked my arm down when security, Toya and her best friends jump in the way. I felt like a complete idiot. I let my better judgement take a backseat while my anger took the wheel. The night wasn’t about me or that whack ass photog. It was about Tiny and Toya … and I have to say with all due respect, I am sorry for the way I conducted myself.
Before I came along, he was only focusing on taking pictures of people. There was no “taking pictures of celebrities” but if on the rare occasion he did, he only took 2 or 3. After my then-mentor asked him why he was doing that, he changed. It’s funny how as I started going out more and more, he started following me calling me asking me where I was going and even taking pictures like me.
Every photographer I’ve encountered I’ve shown nothing but love and respect, with the exception of him and another photographer who shall remain nameless. You can ask anyone. I’m not going to fight with somebody by lowering my standards and stooping to their level, especially when they yell ignorant sh*t like “I make a half a million dollars a year,” when clearly there is NO WAY IN HELL he makes that much money taking those pissy ass overly saturated grainy photos … if you can even call them that. Yeah, at times my pictures may not be at the standard I would want, but yet again I’m not going around telling people I make 500 stacks a year off of them. I don’t go around dogging other photographers about their work and their equipment like he does. My shit may not be top of the line, but it’s what I can afford. Who the f*ck does this dude think he is?
If you look at the page-views on his website, you’ll see that clearly he is a nobody. People, this is what I want you all to understand. Photographers lie. Bloggers lie. But Quantcast and Alexa DOESN’T. If you’re hiring someone to bring you exposure to your event, clearly after taking a look at some of his numbers/stats, you will see that there is absolutely no one going to his site.
Necole Bitchie doesn’t get a million hits a day and her site is the biggest site from the ATL. Bossip doesn’t get a million hits a day and they are one of the largest urban web sites in the world. Prince, your website ATLPlease.net probably gets 800 people on a good day, so don’t be going around lying to people and STEALING their money on claims that you get over a million hits a day. Stop lying to yourself, the public and promoters. It’s not a good look.
Go find out the real stats about your favorite websites… Don’t Let these people lie to you…
ATLPlease.net
Alexa.com and Quantcast.com
This weekend V-103, one of largest radio station in the city of Atlanta had one of the largest events that the city of Atlanta has ever seen…While there I got a chance to hang with my homies Tiny, Toya, Lil Chuckie, and The OMG girls as the took over the FSO stage, singing their hearts out with over 30, 000 people showing them love….This years FOS was off the chain… You can see all the pictures on the 
