Guns and Tacos

Still Working on Chamillionaire.

April 26th, 2010 in Insanity! by Jay | 2 responses

For close to a year, I’ve been employing different tactics to get Chamillionaire, a successful Houston-based rap artist, to follow me on Twitter. I tried tweeting him several times, and I tried approaching him through his online forum, which was eventually shut down. Paul Wall, another successful rap artist from Houston (and friend of Chamillionaire), started following me on Twitter last week, and right then I thought I had it in the bag. But when you’ve got close to 80K followers, I guess it’s tough to read every message you get. I had to try another angle, so I went to see Chamillionaire and Paul Wall perform at the House of Blues in Downtown Houston in person.

Obviously I couldn’t go talk to him, so I stopped at CVS and picked up a posterboard and a fat Sharpie, then crudely fashioned a sign that said “FOLLOW @GUNSANDTACOS ON TWITTER.”

Since I would be holding up this sign in front of a bunch of angry people, I wrote “GunsandTacos.com” on the back of the poster so they would have something to read while I was blocking their view. I held it up for most of the show, and worked my way through different parts of the crowd to ensure full visibility. Note to self: It is difficult to drink a beer when you are holding up a sign with both hands.

The show was sold out and packed to the hilt. Here are a few photos.

The sign worked out to an extent. He once asked the crowd how many of them used Twitter.  It didn’t garner a huge response, but Cham asked House of Blues to turn the lights on. He did this so that all of the Twitter users could take photos with their camera, which I thought was a pretty awesome thing to do. Toward the end of the show,Chamillionaire gave props to “The guy with the sign, Gus or whatever”.

He’s still not following me on Twitter, but that doesn’t mean I’m giving up yet.