E Broooooo. Now don’t even ask me why this is my second time writing this cuz you know my luck. But Brodie this is never something I could even imagine. My brother, my best friend, my business advisor, my skateboard/bmx/scooter/road bike/infiniti riding brother. Over a decade of friendship with zero, absolutely zero arguments. You are probably the only friend I have that I’ve never been mad at, the thing is we never let each other be mad at each other. No matter how bad the news we shared to each other the first response was always how we are going to get each other out of that situation. No matter how down someone was feeling at the time it was always full love and support. We always made sure each other was straight, no matter what the issue, we always had each others back. You have been my business partner throughout every business I ever thought of, whether it came to fruition or not. I came to you to manifest every idea I ever had, you knew my process of manifestation and you were a key factor in that. I spoke to you every time I had a idea for a new product and you pushed me until that product was made. You seen the sketch, the rendor and the physical product before anybody else. And I honestly don’t know who to go to for that now bro. I’ve tried a couple people but they don’t really care like you did bro. I need that guidance bro. When I started Soulo Photos you were already my main model, you assisted me on many shoots and I showed you how to operate all of my cameras and you developed into my photographer. Some people only know me as your photographer but you were my photographer at the same time. I’m really going to miss you being in front of my lens bro. We shot ALL THE TIME, damn near every other week we had a new shoot planned. We had the same exact vision our shoots would literally be like 5 photos max cuz it was automatic. I knew exactly how you wanted to look and it was captured instantly. I don’t think it’ll ever be that easy shooting with someone.
I miss you bro. I miss us mobbing the neighborhood just looking for something to get into. I miss us mobbing around to find something cool to skate. Then when we got the bmx bikes we literally hit every street spot, every mini skatepark in the middle of a neighborhood park. Remember the double dip bro? we thought we was on the xgames mega ramp on that thing. Remember the big dirt mound in between the baseball fields at west that we turned into a ramp. Shit was always a fun time riding with you bro. We went from pushing skateboard to pushing whips you had the Q50 I had the Q45. I miss you bro, I’m honestly rambling crazy rn trying to get around to what hurts me the most.
When Shelby called me that morning I didn’t believe her at all. I left work so quick and drove straight to your house bro and Nani answered and I broke down brodie. I hugged Nani so hard bro. I know it’s hard on everyone bro but I’ve never been this hurt in my life bro. You know me it takes a lot to get me emotional. I try to stay that strong figure my friends can look up to but I couldn’t be strong at all for this bro. This is a crazy amount of pain, my whole best friend dawg. You had the entire world in front of you bro. You a father of four dawg FOUR. You made me Noah’s Godfather and I promise on everything I’m going to be that positive uncle in his life always. All of the kids brodie. I got them all, Niko, Noah, Kaia, and Adaleya. I will always be there for them. I will always tell them all the stories of us getting into stuff. I will show them every photo I have of you and tell them the story behind the photo, the look we were going for, where it was, how many fences we had to jump to get to that spot cuz you know that was most of our shoots. We liked the run down/abandoned look that was our shit. I have 500+ pics of you brother and those are all the final edits not even the stuff I skipped over tryna get some photos to you quick, I still have all of those raw photos too never seen by the public. The fam elected me to do the slideshow at your celebration of life because I already had a majority of photos of you, but bro you know I have never done a real deal slideshow a day in my life. I was stressing that entire week bro. How was I supposed to put together a visual for your entire family and friends and knowing you, it had to be perfect. But brodie I know you already seen it but that mf was every single bit of perfect dawg. From the sections to the songs to the uplifting ending, perfecto. Let’s just talk about the songs bro, the songs had Elijah written all over them and I did it the player way, instrumentals only. So only the real ones knew what was playing, everyone else just thought it was a cool beat lol. Let’s go through the tracklist shall we, Mac - 2009, Mac - BDE Bonus, Dom&Nip - Pleeze, Dom - 1997, Mahalia - Karma. Bro if that wasn’t the perfect playlist to celebrate you we gone have to fight haha. I had the church speakers bumping bro, playing some real player shii. I don’t even know if anybody was bumping they heads to it cuz I was crying throughout the whole slideshow but I know the real ones knew what it was.
It was a such a perfect service for you bro everyone made shirts for you with the pics I took of you, everyone asked permission for it but seeing that was crazy bro fr crazy cuz that was never the intent of us taking pics, I would’ve never thought that I would see any of my photos on a shirt, I was always against that and you know this. But I had to let them do this for you brodie. and they came out so clean I know you seen em. We gone put on you bro, always. We not going to let you down not one bit. I know what I need to do to make you proud, but if any force ever sends me down the wrong path please correct me. I love you brodie, always. Thank you for being that solid friend in my life. Thank you for never switching up or letting anything get in the way of our friendship. Thank you for always believing in my endeavours. Thank you for being a day one Wavy, SouloPhotos, The waves never stop, +Soulo fan. Thank you for always being down to shoot whatever idea I had, the iphone square shots, the commercials, the modeling of merch, everything. Thank you for all the random facetime calls, you always caught me in the most craziest places like when I was lost in Canada or the last time you FT’d me I was on my kayak for the first time lol. Thank you for accepting me into your loving family, it’s always love in your household it is such a warm feeling being there. Thank you for introducing me to all of the homies, they a solid group and it’s crazy sharing stories with them cuz they be having the same type of stories that I do. that’s how I know you kept the same energy with everyone you met. Thank you for bringing your beautiful children into this world, you know I would do anything for them, it’s crazy my last blog post was for the boys. Thank you for always being there when I needed to manifest something and never allowing me to say the words “Can’t, Won’t, Might, it was always I WILL and nothing less. Thank you for always being a positive person in my life and never allowing me to have a bad day when around you. Thank you for being there for me when I needed you brother. I love you Brodie, fr. This hurts me so much man every single day. Most people aren’t even going to read all of this, they just want to see photos so here are some of my favorites photos of you.
Love, Always.
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