OKAY, SO JONAS AND I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS CONTEST. THIS WAS FOR NIKETALK.COM AND MYSPACE.COM SO YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE SEEN ALL THE ENTRIES BUT THERE WERE OVER 180 ENTRIES.  THANKS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK. 

THE JUDGING WENT STRICTLY ON HOW SKILLED AND CLEAN YOUR PHOTOSHOP WAS.  AND 1 WAS JUST CHOSEN BECAUSE IT WAS SO SILLY.

ANYWAYS, HERE ARE THE WINNERS

1ST PLACE GRAND PRIZE = 57EVEN
HE GETS 1 JASON HOODY IN EACH COLOR ALONG WITH AN IPHONE CASE OR A BBERRY/PDA CASE AND A BEN'S NIGHT IN TOKYO HOODY.

GIVE IT UP FOR STEVEN, HE WENT OD ALL OUT HARD BODY.













2ND PLACE IS A TIE BETWEEN: SQUADZILLA & DARKSMILE & MUTEN24 (THIS WAS A TOUGH ONE, THEY FAUGHT IT OUT HARD!
2ND PLACE PRIZE IS 2 JASON HOODY'S OF THEIR SIZE & THEIR COLOR CHOICE

SQUADZILLA



DARKSMILE




MUTEN24





3RD PLACE = o206o CHRIS AKA WAREFARE
HE WINS AN APPLE X L-R-G LAPTOP CASE & A PDA CASE. (PROMO ONLY ONES, THERE ARE NOT AVAILABLE FOR SALE)

WARFARE



NOW THE REST ARE HONORABLE MENTION
YOU CAN CHOOSE BETWEEN A PDA CASE (PROMO ONLY BBERRY/PDA OR DIGI CAM CASE) OR I-PHONE CASE + ANY T-SHIRT FROM THE FALL3 LINE UP RIGHT NOW.

WHTHALO


J20  (BTW, YOU SPELLED TOKYO WRONG & THIS IS THE FONT THAT JONAS LIKED) LOL


KRISTEN


AND SOME NIKETALKER DID THIS AND IT JUST MADE JONAS AND MYSELF LAUGH, THIS WAS JUST PLAIN IGNORANT, SO F IT, YOU GET AT LEAST A TEE OR SOMETHING.



TO THE WINNERS ABOVE, MAKE SURE TO MESSAGE ME WITH YOUR ADDRESSES, SO I CAN SEND OUT YOUR STUFF ASAP, SO YOU HAVE THE JASON HOODY A LITTLE EARLIER THEN THE STREET RELEASE DATE.

THANK YOU AGAIN.

NEXT CONTEST WILL GET EVEN DUMBER!

I just wanted to give all y'all a heads up and tell you that if you support the "C"orean cause......I'll be in the next issue of Koream Magazine.

You can also check out their website at WWW.KOREAMJOURNAL.COM

I want to shout out Jeff and Eric over there for doing the interview and photoshoot.

A few years ago when my popularity started to grow a little bit and went past the internet fame, I turned down over 40 magazines and online interviews thinking it was cool or I was too cool, but for real, I didn't realize how valuable doin press and interviews could be for getting "US" out there. I wanted "US" to be represented in a totally different light then just the ordinary stereotypical one. Ya feel me? I don't know Karate, Tae Kwon Do or any of that shit(okay, when I was a kid, I took a few lessons of course LOL), real shit though, my parents don't own a liquor store and I don't eat speghetti with chopsticks, nor does my house smell like Duck Soup. But I do love Kim Chee! And just because I was born and bred in KoreaTown, Los Angeles, don't mean I drink SoJu or Crown Royal every night & hang out at Le Prive', etc. I was around mainly latinos and blacks most of my life growing up, but consistently stayed very close to my family and asian friends. I'VE ALWAYS BEEN PROUD OF MY HERITAGE SO PLEASE DON'T EVER GET IT FUCKED UP OR CONFUSED, I'M 1000% KOREAN! But again, even though I'm Korean, don't let the long face fool you, I'm a universally sound Seoul Brother who can blend into any culture. My Image is totally different then most other asians, but I'm here to tell y'all there are many others like myself who are not some FOB'S who got into HIP HOP Culture in the last few years and ONLY hang out or surround themselves with asians.  I love all races/creeds/colors.... people are people. BUT I BACK MY RACE BIG TIME, I BACK MY PEOPLE AND IT'S OUR TIME TO SHINE! My older brother produced the first ever korean/american feature film "Broken Words" (very small indy, but it was the first of its kind circa 1991)
and then later produced a film called "YELLOW", so I'm trynna to build, make and join in this ASIAN movement period!!!!! whether it be Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Viet or anything Asiatic related, I'm pushin for y'all!  I faced a lotta racism and crazy obstacles being Korean/Asian and playing College Basketball/Football, to being an executive in the Music Industry, etc, etc.... (read my other blog "who is ben baller?") So anyways, this is just a blog, if you see the magazine, please go ahead and pic it up..... I also got feature interviews in: DUB, Vapors, Ballin, Low Rider Arte, NYC DAILY NEWS and a few other magz coming out too with photoshoots...... peep game..... GOD BLESS. I LOVE YOU!

HERE ARE A FEW PICTURES TAKEN BY: ERIC SUEYOSHI

aite y’all. to those of you who are curious to know who the fucc this kid Ben Baller aka K-Town is and if my lifestyle a game or something; I’m here to break it down to those who wanna read it.

I was born and raised in L.A. been here all my life almost (lived in NYC for 2 years, lived in the Bay Area. SF/Berkeley for 4 years). Played Division II college basketball and football (yes i’m 100% asian, korean to be exact) I got my degree in Fine Arts "Cinematography" and I’m a true jacc of all trades. I can sell anything! I’m that guy who can steal a car stereo and sell it back to you for more then you paid for it, I will sell seats to a roach fight and have seating assignments..... but real spit, I’ve slaved and worked real hard in my life, I’ve made tons of mistakes(but learned from them, still learning), I’ve been shit on, but I have also have turned tragedy into triumph!

I started out my music career professionally in Los Angeles in 1993 when I met Denzel Washington on the Melrose Ave. and asked him for a job, 2 weeks later I was djing at his restaurant and doin black grammy and oscar events... It was later that year I met Dr. Dre at my club and he offered me a job. From there I started out as a low level employee and then got a better job @ Priority Records......19 platinum records later(Jay Z, Master P, Ice Cube, Friday,etc) I am a degree of seperation from anyone in the music business still to this day. I left Priority Records to start up Aftermath Entertainment with Dre when he left Death Row. 2 years later I quit the music business for what I thought was for good. I still was djiing at all the hottest nightclubs in LA and NYC from 93 to 2001 until my partner DJ AM decided to take over the world. lol. I got nothing but love though since he’s my crew and fam. I never gave up DJing even if I was on tour with one of my bands or had a gig someplace else, I think I was one of the first kid in L.A. to get flown out to NYC or Tokyo and still actually have an executive vp title @ a major record label....... so anyways, I slowed down on the djing and got heavy into the shoe game, in late 2001 me, my brother DJ Homicide and DJ AM started AMC (Air Mack’$ Crew) we were and still are the most notorious sneaker crew out there, shittin on basically anyone (the dvd on us will be out soon. lol) in 2002 I got a job offer to market and do some consulting for NIKE inc. it was not until 2004 that I found out that Nike was not the road to millions for me.... so I went off and did other things.

now to present date, I have used all my resources and basically joined up with some friends and created an army, A MUTHAFUKKIN MOVEMENT!  I only rep clothing lines that I actually make money with, with the exception of white tees..... so you’ll only see me in L-R-G or Supra Footwear. I have kept the relationships in this business that meant the most to me and these networks have now progressed into full blown bonds. One of the only reasons why I work so hard is because of people like Mr. Cartoon or DJ Skee  & Jonas Bevacqua who I see work 20x harder then any other man I know and it gives me motivation to get on my grizzly when it comes to my grind.

currently, I’m holding the heavyweight title for the illest Jeweler on the planet Earth.  Me and my cousins have made the best jewelry around for celebs to bloccstars to gangsters to everyday normal people.  In a short amount of time, I’ve corned this market as well and with the grinding my uncle and cousin have put in the past 20 + years, we will takeover where others who got greedy left off. I have projects up the ass and will work until I’m sitting on 1/2 a zillion (that’s 500 million, million you faggets). If you need cars, I got those too, these pics ain’t photoshopped, fucc outta here, those cars are sitting or were sitting in my garage at one point in time, how you think I got the keys? lol. once again, I got a jewelry business for those interested in some shiny shit on their wrist, neck or fingers..... ICEE FRESH & CO. is at the top of the game and can challenge anyone from Jacob the Jeweler to Johnny TV as far as pricing or quality. IF YOU NEED BLING, GRILLS, WHATEVER ICED OUT, I GOT THAT. I WILL BEAT ANY OTHER JEWELER PERIOD! and as for sneakers, yeh, at one point in time I was that dude. I was clownin cats all over this earth with shoes and I didn’t have to succ a dicc or be involved in gay ass fag magazine to gain fame, I just did my thing on benballer.com and when I was done, I still was talked about and still am talked about to this day in the sneaker community. No one til this day has topped my auctions on ebay. My former business partner Allon Abraham Iny(rest in peace) was one major reason why I don’t fucc with shoes or that business anymore. oh yeh, how could I forget, my man METHamphibian..... in 2002 to 2005, we took the sneaker community by storm and set the bar for sneaker customizing. to this day I thank god for bringing METH in my life, we ran the competition out from LA to NYC to Tokyo and all over the world. We did things in the shoe business that no one could imagine or has done after us, they only can copy us. METH’S still in the game, but I’m out. I wish him the best of lucc. and I thank him for that opportunity and those 3 years. Back to the sneaker thing...... I still hold the world record for the highest dollar amount for a pair of sneakers sold on ebay for 1 single pair which was a collaboration of METHAMPHIBIAN and s0lerebel. It was a charity shoe for my boy Allon Iny(R.I.P.) and the proceeds were given to Allon’s Family’s charity "THE SOLEREBEL FOUNDATION". the shoes sold for $33,100 beating out the infamous "ebay sb dunk". I also hold the largest shoe auction period in ebay history for selling a part of my collection for over $229,000 for 330 pairs of kicks...... not bad for a bum like me huh? so when I get bored, you might catch me selling anything from DVD’S to shoes to clothes on ebay under the user id " K_TOWN_HU$TLER

One more thing, I do not use this page to attract women, I know most of you guys are on here to get some pussy (MYSPACE IS NOT THE EBAY FOR SNATCH), not me, I got a girl and I’m real happy with her, so ladies, thanks for the thousands of nice messages, but I’m taken. I put out to the public what I want them to know, but most of my friends on here know me and it’s all for fun...... my real personal life I never disclose, especially family, so fall the fucc back pretty please.
Dudes, I’m sorry if I’m late on replying back to a message but I don’t have an assistant or someone who helps me out with this page, I just do me and get to it when I can. I use this page strictly as a marketing tool to promote projects I’m working on. if you read all this shit above then god damn you must be bored as fucc. haha

my current goals? well, I try to be honest and a good person in spirit. If I can be better today then I was yesterday and better this week then I was last week, then I’ve made progress.
get ready to be tired of seeing me, you might open your box of cereal and see this long face asian pop out! HOLLA!  WE HERE NOW!
peace and god bless.