Xzibit & the Arabs at Tryst Nightclub, Wynn Hotel Las Vegas

I heard this crazy story from my friend Saum while waiting for Mickey Champion's beautiful blues set to begin at Bordello's (formerly Little Pedro's).

So, a little background: Saum is a PhD candidate and has one brother who is going to dental school at USC. Saum's brother has a friend who works for Tryst, the Wynn hotel's busy nightclub, and after a few exchanged myspace messages they decide to check it out one night while they are on their family vacation in Las Vegas for Thanksgiving.

I'm paraphrasing Saum's story now, because it just sounds better in the 1st person...

We get to Tryst and there are - no joke - like 600 of the trendiest people waiting in line outside. There was no way I was going to wait in that for something I wasn't really into, so I told my brother that we would just charge to the front (Saum & his brother are like 6'4). We get to the front and ask for my brother's friend but they keep telling us to wait. We stand outside for about 10 minutes until his friend comes out, points at us - he doesn't say a word - and we are escorted inside. I found out later that tickets to get in were like $40 a person! Is that what we have come to now?

Anyway, the place is beautiful inside... but what I really noticed was a private party along the right side of the club of about 50 - 60 Arabs. They're partying hard, making a big mess, all of that. The NEXT thing I noticed was that this huge entourage floats in with that Pimp My Ride guy, Xzibit, and sits on the opposite side of the club. Xzibit gets a microphone in his hand and starts to MC the night. I don't know whether they paid him to do that or whether he was self-promoting, but he stayed on the mic just talking and stuff throughout the evening.

At one point, he mentioned the Arab party and they responded by ordering 20 bottles of Dom Perignon champagne. At $1,000 a bottle, they just dropped $20k like no big deal. Well, when you order 20 bottles the Tryst nightclub turns off all the lights and makes this big production where they have their waitresses carrying the bottles with firecrackers on them to the table. Everyone oohs and aahs, but Xzibit and his crew are miffed because the Arabs didn't send them over any bottles.

So Xzibit's crew orders their own 20 bottles of Dom. And then the frenzy begins.

The Arabs then order another 20 bottles, but this time of Cristal - which is at $2,000 a bottle.

Then, Xzibit's people just start throwing cash in the crowd. One dollar bills. And they are throwing it out there with arms WIDE open and they do it for a long time. I think they must have thrown out $3,000 dollar bills.

Then the Arabs start throwing one's out and the money is flying everywhere.

Once Xzibit starts throwing out $20 bills and this beautiful woman starts hitting on me and then it turns out that she's a working girl, I've had enough debauchery for the night and decide to leave.

Crazy nights at the Wynn's Tryst - check it out, I guess.