“Ten minutes” was A$AP Rocky’s ETA at his Met Gala after party. Monday night turned into Tuesday morning, and while his AWGE party at Jean’s was packed — with people and smoke — the rapper remained MIA until around 2 a.m.
Julia Fox, Richie Shazam, Mickalene Thomas and Daniel Kaluuya stopped by the clubby basement of Jean’s earlier in the evening. Upon arrival, downstairs guests were handed an “enjoy a joint on us” ticket. At one table, two people were busy rolling marijuana into joints and laying them out neatly on the table according to type, with an AWGE-branded menu card nearby providing more context for the choices with names like “dark web” and “zkittlez” and “permanent marker.” A cigar station was one table over.
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While one entrance led to the joints and red-lit dance floor, another entrance led to a quaint tailor shop: the VIP entrance. On the ground floor, an AWGE-branded tailor shop had all the markings of a speakeasy entrance, with golden lighting and minimal product on display and a man who was, perhaps, a real tailor. A black velvet curtain led to a dressing room — a full-length mirror was obscured by an affirmation, “don’t be dumb,” printed on it — and yet another curtain led to the main Jean’s venue, where a classic jazz playlist set a much different scene than the downstairs DJ booth. The hallway leading to yet another velvet curtain had been decked out with a display of colorful AWGE x Ray-Ban sunglasses, which guests posed with upon arrival in the space.
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Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee hung out in the lower-key upstairs space for a while, but left before the party really heated up with Rocky’s late night arrival sans Rihanna, who was rumored to be headed inside the rest of the night, but shortly after 3 a.m. had yet to materialize.
Other guests following Rocky’s arrival included Heidi Klum and designer Guram Gvasalia, Sergio Hudson, Jeremy Pope, Dapper Dan, Sabrina Carpenter and Jenna Ortega. And what awaited them, but a scuffle and late-night standup comedy set?
After giving a shout-out to party sponsor Ray-Ban — A$AP Rocky is the brand’s creative director — the AWGE creative team introduced comedian Rob Kazi to the mic, who launched into a bit about flying first class for the first time.
“So I’m sitting in first class and I’m trying to play it off like I’ve been there before. But this is when I f–ked up, when they brought the breakfast, I was like nah…oh, what we got goin’ on?”
Kazi briefly paused his set as a fight broke out somewhere in the room.
“We good? Looks like somebody don’t deserve to be here — just like I was in first class, I did not deserve to be there. Let’s get back to that,” Kazi finally continued. “Everybody relax your nerves. I gotta finish my first-class story.”