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BEN BALLER: My name is Ben Baller.
And you probably recognize me pushing fancy whips, stunting
in the nightclubs, or sitting courtside at the Laker games.
But the rest of the world knows me as the jeweler to the
stars, Ben Baller.
Los Angeles, city of dreams-- we're right here at Hollywood.
On my way to go meet up with Trinidad James.
It's crazy.
I have no idea what he wants to get.
But I'm sure he wants to get a chain, because I wouldn't sit
down with him unless we were going to make a necklace.
He's an unusual guy.
But let's see what he wants.
Big game, Trinidad James.
TRINIDAD JAMES: My guy.
BEN BALLER: What's going on?
TRINIDAD JAMES: Hey, you all right?
BEN BALLER: You good?
TRINIDAD JAMES: Hey man, it's always good.
I already know.
What's up, man?
I appreciate you coming out.
BEN BALLER: Ain't ***, man.
I heard you been eating a lot of ***, man.
TRINIDAD JAMES: Oh ***!
BEN BALLER: [LAUGHS]
TRINIDAD JAMES: Wow.
Well, the rumors on "TMZ" these days.
Look at you, man.
What's going on?
How are you doing?
You all right?
BEN BALLER: I'm good.
I was glad to get your call.
I seen you last time at the Feed House.
I was like, all right, well, let's see
what's up with my dude.
TRINIDAD JAMES: Basically man, chain or whatever.
Want to get something crazy.
You know, I'm a weird guy.
That's honest.
But the Nefertiti joint, I want to have your take on
Nefertiti, that you send me over some sketches and stuff.
And we'll go from there.
BEN BALLER: Why don't we do like a
Nefertiti slash black Cleopatra?
TRINIDAD JAMES: That sounds cool.
BEN BALLER: And what I'm thinking is, obviously yellow
gold, because you're gold.
TRINIDAD JAMES: Of course.
BEN BALLER: I'll do like some cognac diamonds for the face.
TRINIDAD JAMES: You know I don't know nothing about that
diamond stuff, but hey--
BEN BALLER: I'm just saying, I'll put black
diamonds for the locks.
I have an idea already.
I have a vision in my brain.
TRINIDAD JAMES: Cool.
BEN BALLER: What kind of link do you want?
TRINIDAD JAMES: Come on, man.
You know me--
Cuban.
Got to keep it me.
BEN BALLER: What time are we looking at?
TRINIDAD JAMES: I'm in LA now, but I shoot back to the A,
kind of slick.
Need it, like, 10 days, something like that.
Can you make that happen?
BEN BALLER: 10 days?
Who the *** you think I am?
Trinidad James, dog?
TRINIDAD JAMES: Aww.
All right, man.
BEN BALLER: I'll make it happen.
I'll make it happen.
TRINIDAD JAMES: No, I mean if you can, I'd really appreciate
it, you know.
BEN BALLER: Because we've got to cast.
I've got to get the idea tonight.
That means you've got to check your phone quick.
TRINIDAD JAMES: Just hit me.
I'm always lazing at the crib.
BEN BALLER: And then--
[LAUGHS]
and then, how do you want to do payment?
Wire cool?
TRINIDAD JAMES: My manager, I'm going to give you his
contact or whatever.
And he'll take care of it.
BEN BALLER: Let's just say, though,
roughly, you want heavy.
Give or take, it's going to be like $35,000.
If it's anything less, then I'll give you
whatever you've got back.
TRINIDAD JAMES: ***, that's cool.
BEN BALLER: Cool?
TRINIDAD JAMES: All right?
BEN BALLER: All right, bro.
TRINIDAD JAMES: Homie, thank you for coming out, man.
BEN BALLER: Let me get on this.
Can I take this?
Is that cool?
TRINIDAD JAMES: Oh, man, take it.
You can have this whole place.
BEN BALLER: [LAUGHS]
All right, bro.
So, you know it's rare that I get a chance to see my family.
It's basically like, I work, and then I get about 17
seconds to raise my son.
So I'm here to see my brother.
I haven't seen him in a while.
DAVID YANG: Hey, Mr Yang.
BEN BALLER: David Baller.
What's going on?
DAVID YANG: My name is David Yang, and Ben
Baller is my brother.
I'm director of operations at SuperBot Entertainment in
Culver City, California.
We made a kickass PlayStation all-stars battle royale game.
It's a PlayStation game for the PS3 and for the Vita.
I'm showing Ben the game today.
I'm going to introduce you to some people I work with.
Ben, this is Omar.
He's the game director Daniel, he's our community manager.
What else are you up to these days?
BEN BALLER: I'm actually working with this new guy,
this dude named Trinidad James.
DAVID YANG: No idea who that is.
BEN BALLER: He just signed a $2 deal with Def Jam, so he's
the hottest guy.
But he's just a tripped out dude.
He's got like 13 teeth total in his mouth.
It's just a trip.
Let's play this game, dude.
DAVID YANG: Yeah, for sure.
BEN BALLER: I'm playing Toro because he looks like the
*** gayest *** character on this stupid-***
crazy-*** game.
DAVID YANG: I'm playing Kratos, god of war.
All right, so this is free-for-all, man.
It's four people, every man for himself.
I'm much more of a mellow, take-it-easy,
laid back back dude.
And he's always been really hyper and crazy, and getting
into trouble.
But the whole family's so incredibly proud of him.
BEN BALLER: Dude, that was really stressful, man.
All the responses that I've gotten from my followers and
stuff, they're like, man, this game is fun.
It's just about the awareness of getting to the game.
Once they get the game in their hands,
they have a good time.
DAVID YANG: I have a bunch of games for you.
BEN BALLER: Thanks, dude.
All right, I'll see you later.
Thanks, Dave.
It's always good to see my brother.
He is a *** valedictorian, sigma *** *** schlousy,
all that ***.
He's the type of person, we're walking down the street, and
he found a billfold.
And the billfold had $600 in it.
He *** returned it.
You're my older brother.
In the Korean tradition, you're my [KOREAN].
And I respect you and ***.
But ***, you're retarded.
Two different worlds.
Got to get back to this Trinidad James.
Gold all in my chain.
The process of Trinidad James's piece, with the
Cleopatra slash Nefertiti piece--
gave the image to Jimmy.
Jimmy cut a mold.
And cutting the mold on this is really tough, because we
had to laser certain parts of this to give us a guidance,
almost like a paint by color, except this is
like set pave by color.
So once we cast it into gold, we got it back.
And it was just a really, really tedious process, with a
lot of diamonds to be set.
And once the diamonds were set, we had to do some
rhodium, so put some black gold rhodium
around the black diamonds.
We put some yellow gold rhodium
around the cognac diamonds.
After everything's finished and polished, ***, it's done.
It's ready to deliver to Trinidad.
We made it happen.
The deadline was kind of crucial.
I'm heading over to Trinidad James right now to drop off
this piece.
It's kind of ugly, but it's kind of *** beautiful.
It's really crazy, the chocolate diamonds with the
cognac diamonds and everything.
I can't wait to see the expression on
Trinidad James's face.
TRINIDAD JAMES: Homie, what's happening?
BEN BALLER: What's up, bro?
TRINIDAD JAMES: You all right?
BEN BALLER: I'm good, man.
TRINIDAD JAMES: I know if I see you, there's got to be
something going in the air.
Money is around.
BEN BALLER: You excited to see your piece?
TRINIDAD JAMES: Hey man, let me see what
you're talking about.
Let's see what it's looking like.
How's everything been for you in life, man?
Couldn't be too bad.
BEN BALLER: Everything's all right, you know.
I don't have no crazy Def Jam deal like you've
got, but you know.
You ready for this, man?
TRINIDAD JAMES: I've got to be.
BEN BALLER: Bow!
TRINIDAD JAMES: Oh, wow.
Wow, she looks like she's up to some trouble.
BEN BALLER: [LAUGHS]
TRINIDAD JAMES: And she's got the earring in her ear.
BEN BALLER: Yeah.
I had to do the earring, you know what I'm saying?
You wanted all that detail.
You wanted the hood Cleopatra and black queen, so tell your
manager I appreciate the fast payment too.
Look at that, man.
TRINIDAD JAMES: This makes my little skateboard look like
it's about to fall off the curb.
BEN BALLER: Gold all on your neck.
TRINIDAD JAMES: Oh, lord, there you go.
No, man, my G.
BEN BALLER: You like it?
TRINIDAD JAMES: Thank you, man.
You already know.
BEN BALLER: She's not even sweating either.
She might be, though, you know?
TRINIDAD JAMES: After we hit a couple clubs, she's going to
be sweating.
BEN BALLER: [LAUGHS]
TRINIDAD JAMES: Oh man, definitely.
BEN BALLER: So I'll let you do your thing.
I want to just--
TRINIDAD JAMES: I appreciate you, man.
You already know it's always love, man.
BEN BALLER: All right, fam.
TRINIDAD JAMES: G.
BEN BALLER: I appreciate it.
TRINIDAD JAMES: Ben is always pretty cool.
He's been doing his thing, just in general, for years.
I've been seeing Ben ever since the LRG days.
RIP to Jonas.
And LRG was a huge brand for me.
So I respect the grind and the hustle.
The necklace alone by itself is dope.
So the pendant is just like a smack in the face after you
beat somebody up.
It's a blessing.
BEN BALLER: We wrapped up my boy Trinidad James.
He said some things about my best friend of
my life, Jonas Bevacqua.
Rest in peace.
Trinidad, man, you're a class act.
Much love.
I appreciate it.
[THEME MUSIC]