Before anything at all is said here, I just want to give a major shout out to the beautiful, kind people at Cadillac. Like, when you guys want to wine and dine someone, you really go all out, and I thank you for your generosity. You also make fucking nice as fuck cars. Sure, my judgement may be clouded by all the wine, food and luxe living quarters you gave me for free last week, but also maybe nah? I mean, who's to say, really? From my honest perspective, the 2015 Escalade is a dope ass ride.
While I don't know much about cars, truth is, I also don't know that much about being an #influencer. At least not in the Marcus Troy sense of the word. See, as I came to learn, some people do these press trips all the time, but this was my first such excursion of relevance. And it was awesome. Like, seriously, if you're not an auto journalist, switch careers. And just to reiterate this point, Cadillac is good peoples. I repeat: CADILLAC GOOD. GO BUY ESCALADE. IT NICE CAR. Above, I've chronicled my day—a day in the life of an #influencer—to give you a peek into the type of high-end, wonderful shit that actually goes on during press trips.
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Day 1: Palmetto Bluff, 7-9pm
This was the scene at dinner. Basically anywhere we went they made sure there was at least one Escalade on deck and that it was impeccably well lit. I made everyone super uncomfortable by taking a selfie with the grill of the car while they took struggle pics on their Samsung phones. There was even a tree house here that I climbed to the top of for a v prime photo opp. On the right, you'll see that there was a very opulent oyster situation, where there were on demand shuckers and I consumed roughly 100. At dinner, I ate with the designer of the Escalade, a wonderful Australian guy, and after a few glasses of Grigio I couldn't help but ask him about MTV Cribs and its storied relationship with the Escalade. His answer was something along the lines of: "We're not making a car for that audience, but if they buy it then that's also great." I don't think he had ever seen an episode of Cribs.