The Chosen One

This is the only man that can save (and redeem) hip-hop for several reasons.
1. Nas is too much of a "Nigga."
2. Jay-Z is too far removed from the block.
3. Mos Def is too weird (like really weird in a personal way).
4. Talib Kweli's voice is too annoying.
5. 50 cent has outsmarted himself (saying "actually" every other word doesn't make you sound smart).
6. Lil Wayne is too high.
7. Kanye West is too fly.
8. Dr. Dre is too clean (horrible Detox pun... but I tried)
9. T.I.P. is too dumb (buying all those guns from a stranger for what?)
10. Jeezy just isn't a good rapper.

Is this what the Ladies like?

So Prince's look is growing increasingly popular these days?

Now I'm not calling you a liar but...

King Kong LeBron?

Now you know you can't be running around grabbing up white women without some controversy...nigga! Now the critics are calling it too racy...lol.

Questions for Lebron:

1. I know you're the best basketball player in the world (besides Kobe), but why are you on the cover of a fashion magazine with basketball gear?

2. Why are you screaming?

3. And just...why are you holding that woman? 

Who Cares?

Sooooo......Nancy Reagan came out to endorse Republican Presidential Candidate John McCain.........(crickets). Does it matter who she endorses? Didn't her husband drag the U.S. economy into the third worse economic depression in U.S. history with his polarizing economic policies (Reaganomics)? Did anyone think he was a better President than Actor? (rhetorical). 

Is she even sane?  

Common Knowledge?

Did you know that if you put $7,000 rims on a $7,000 car...that car is still only worth $7,000.

Blabberin' Patterson

When David Patterson was first sworn in as New York's Governor, Black people were fighting with Blind people over who could claim him. Was he blind first, and then black? or vice-versa? Black people said, "that nigga is black first! blind second!" Blind people said, "that man is blind first and then black...hell, he can't even see what color he is!"

Now that he's running around telling the world about his affairs and drug use, the fight is over.

 

21 Questions

1. Does New York still have a basketball team?

2. Who will live longer, John McCain or Barack Obama?

3. Are Record Companies really inquiring about Eliot Spitzer's hooker? (trick question)

4. Why is Kim Kardashian famous?

5. Why is Ray J famous?

6. Why was Br8ke Sk8te cheated?

7. Why doesn't anyone watch American Idol anymore?

8. Why is Coral still appearing on the Real World/Road Rules Challenge?

9. Is Hip-Hop the new Punk Rock?

10. Is www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com the best blog site ever?

11. Is Eva Pigford still famous?

12. Is Michael Jackson still rich?

13. Who is the elephant that Fat Joe is referring to?

14. Is Lil' Wayne the new Rick James?

15. Is Busta Rhymes the new Mr. T?

16. Is Johnny Nunez more famous than half the people he photographs?

17. If we had an unlimited supply of free drugs, would they still be bad for us?

18. Does John McCain have a bionic arm?

19. Was Barack Obama's speech comparable to Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech?

20. Is Britney Spears a singer?

21. Now that the Federal Reserve has cut the interest rate to 2.25; how long will that cut take to trickle down to the average U.S. citizen? In other words, how long will it take for the banks to still go from 7 percent interest rates to 5 percent?

my morning blog jog....BET as posted on crunktastical.net

I've changed my mind...pt2

Okay so I've changed my mind. For the 5 or 6 consistent readers of this blog, you know that very recently I've been posting very pro-Obama blogs. Let me explain.

At the beginning of this Campaign, I liked Obama but I supported Hillary Clinton for several reasons.
1. Hillary made me believe that she would fight tooth and nail for Universal Health Care.
2. Hillary appeared to articulate the issues better than Barack.
3. Hillary had more experience than Barack.
4. Clinton appeared ready to lead the country away from the Bush Agenda.
5. I questioned Barack's "black man experience."
6. I think there was just this sense of doubt that either a Black President was just outrageous and too good to be true...so why support ridiculousness.

But I'm a changed man.

Over the past week, Hillary has proven to me that she will not fight tooth and nail for Universal Healthcare, but in the alternative will fight tooth and nail to be President. She has not stopped at any cost to denigrate Barack, even stooping so low as to play the race card. I hope that no one in their right mind believes that Geraldine Ferraro is that stupid. This woman would not destroy her own legacy by stating, reiterating, and then defending ignorant hate talk. Many political analysts agree that this was a calculated effort by the Clinton campaign to reduce Barack to the "Affirmative Action" candidate. This assertion was further supported by the Clinton Campaign's lack of an apology, and then by the lame excuse of an apology that was later offered.

On the questions of issues and how well each candidate expressed their approach, Clinton appeared well-versed on how to deal with specific foreign policy and economic issues. However, as I studied each candidate a bit closer, I realized that answering a question is not the same as answering a problem. So while Hillary looked well versed at answering questions, Barack didn't look unsure, he looked thoughtful. I'd rather a thoughtful solution than a rehearsed answer.

While studying their pasts I realized something else; Hillary does not have more experience than Barack Obama. As a Senator, their records of attendance, voting, and legislature are comparable. If Hillary counts the years that she was First Lady as experience, then she has to bear the burden of the failing NAFTA, Desert Storm campaigns and aftermath, and the Monica Lewinsky disaster. Also, if Hillary counts the First Lady as experience, then Barack can counter that with his experience as a local politician.

Hillary Clinton does not seem astute enough to lead us away from the Bush Agenda. In 2002, Hillary Clinton voted to lead us into a war based on faulty intelligence, even though she received a report to that effect. Hillary's negligence to fully read the Intelligence Report is inexcusable. Meanwhile, Barack Obama was a vocal critic of the war. This war has helped push the country to the brink of a depression and the Hillary foreign policy view supported it. In a time where the US has alienated itself as superior to most of the world, Hillary has stated that she would not meet with the new government of Cuba unless certain conditions are met, while Barack has stated that he would meet with Cuba with out any conditions. This represents a stark contrast from the Bush Agenda and is evidence of his desire to combine global efforts to positively effect local results.

Barack's speech addressing the Rev. Jeremiah Wright controversy was amazing. I cannot question his experience as a black man after that speech. It would have been really easy to continue to distance himself from the statements of Jeremiah Wright and continue to play it safe, but Barack took those statements and aligned himself with the thought process behind them. He stated proudly that race is still a very real problem in this country. He acknowledged that the statements were made in error but urged us (and white america) to take a closer look at a man he still respects. He owned those statements and said that he was a product of right thinking, wrong thinking, black racism and white racism. He didnt disown his Pastor, he explained him. (I find it particularly disturbing and interesting that the media isn't covering the aftermath of his speech as much as it covered the Jeremiah Wright controversy to which he responded.)

So Barack Obama is a black man running for President. I was previously afraid to vote for him because I was afraid to hope. But what is life with out hope? Hope is something I haven't possessed regarding politics in a long time. But if he were my President, I would be something that I haven't been in a long time, proud. Proud of the United States and Proud to be an American.

I've changed my mind...pt1

Hillary

Olberman

"Treat her like a prostitute"

This is just another reminder of how close grandeur is to disaster. Once a darling on the New York political scene, Governor Eliot Spitzer has become a pariah overnight. tsk, tsk...so much to lose. We all have vices, but this seems particularly bad because of the public image of self-righteousness that he portrayed.

In my humble opinion, prostitution should be legal. If adultery and fornication aren't illegal, why is paying for the aforementioned acts illegal? Maybe because it's a hard activity to monitor for commerce and tax purposes? hmmm.....things that make you go hmm. Why does Amsterdam have a government subsidized prostitution program? Just questions folks...just questions.

Enjoy an oldie but goodie below

White Girls?

Sooo Cocaine is back in style now? I guess everything happens in cycles so it's time for young people to to start mimicking the Rappers. Now I say this at the expense of sounding really old but I pray that the really cool young people of the world get hip and dictate what's cool....and determine that cocaine is not cool. I like Lil Wayne, Gym Class Heroes, N.E.R.D., and all the rest of them but this drug talk is wack. Sponsors should be pulling their support from these idiots...not just because it's the right thing to do but because it's bad for business.

Here's the science:

The illegal drug game has always supported the music business. From illicit Opium sale and use supporting classical music to Bootlegging alcohol and tobacco supporting Jazz, music and drugs have been financial sister and brother. But in this stressful day and age, where free goods are constantly leveraged to support more expensive utilitarian products, we don't need the drugs. The drugs act as a bleeding ulcer that drains the lifeline from what could be good business. The music business is already struggling and doesn't need to promote drug use in order to create zombies. When Mozart used Opium and promoted it, people still had to buy access to the music. When watershed Jazz Musicians promoted tobacco and whiskey, people still had to buy access to the music. But when Lil Wayne promotes cocaine use, he's promoting a lifestyle that takes away from the music and fuels other economies....not ours. Cocaine supports Iran/Contra types of economies and agendas.

See what people like Lil Wayne, Gym Class Heroes, N.E.R.D. and the like don't realize is that we (young black people) have always been on the bottom of the drug game totem pole. No matter how hard we try, we will always be on the bottom because it was designed against us: By the turn of the twentieth century, the addictive properties of cocaine had become clear to many, and the problem of cocaine abuse began to capture public attention in the United States. The dangers of cocaine abuse became part of a moral panic that was tied to the dominant racial and social anxieties of the day. In 1903, the American Journal of Pharmacy stressed that most cocaine abusers were “bohemians, gamblers, high- and low-class prostitutes, night porters, bell boys, burglars, racketeers, pimps, and casual laborers.” In 1914, Dr. Christopher Koch of Pennsylvania’s State Pharmacy Board made the racial innuendo explicit, testifying that, “Most of the attacks upon the white women of the South are the direct result of a cocaine-crazed Negro brain.” Mass media manufactured an epidemic of cocaine use among African Americans in the Southern United States to play upon racial prejudices of the era, though there is little evidence that such an epidemic actually took place. In the same year, the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act outlawed the use of cocaine in the United States. This law incorrectly referred to cocaine as a narcotic, and the misclassification passed into popular culture. As stated above, cocaine is a stimulant, not a narcotic.- Wikipedia

So Rappers....why promote something that will quadruple your chances of heart attack? Why take a drug that causes toxins that lead to respiratory failure, stroke and cerebral hemorrhaging? Why push a drug on your audience that will not benefit you? In fact, the rise in cocaine use will directly cause an already receding economy to slide further and further reduce financial support of music products (tickets, mp3's, cd's, etc.).

I write this blog with the assumption that we all know that there are NO RAPPERS that sell drugs on any meaningful level and thus DO NOT benefit (directly or indirectly) from the rise in drug use.

The Secret

God is Good!

Things we usually take for granted ought to be appreciated...because we are all only one degree of separation from Skid Row...

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GOOD Magazine: On Skid Row, Part 4 - God

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Are We Serious?

As posted on www.wired.com:

Tensions are running high in Democratic circles between the supporters of senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama -- and nowhere is that more evident than on the internet.
Some of the more explosive blog posts making the rounds today concern a charge from a couple of diarists on the Daily Kos that the Clinton campaign deliberately darkened Obama's skin color in a recent television ad.
"Troutnut," who made the recommended blog post today, is an Obama supporter. A myDD diarist named "Hunter Thompson," a Clinton supporter, blasts the entry as "the dumbest diary in blog history."
Asked about the assertion made in the Kos blog post, Clinton campaign spokesman Jay Carson said that "the ad capture on Kos is not a capture of our original ad and this entire assertion is ridiculous."
Yet the video below, and the screen grab above, is taken from the Clinton campaign's own footage of their ad posted on YouTube.
Who's doing the race-baiting here?
However you want to interpret this assertion, this kind of ugly infighting is probably the kind of thing that troubles the leaders of the Democratic party as this race drags on in its inconclusive manner.
I've included the two videos below.

Pieces of a Man

I know it's been a while but I've just been so uninspired. Lately, the world has been so stressful that it's been really hard to write about life. I've only had time to live. But it's time to write...about the pieces of man. Not the groundbreaking second album by Gil Scott-Heron, but the pieces of me...and the stress filled world that seeks to take away The Peace of Me.

So it's 5:24am on a Monday morning and I'm writing because I can't sleep. I can't sleep because I've got so much on my mind. First, I'm worried because my MacBook Pro has crashed and I won't know if Data Recovery can recover the information on my hard drive until next week. I had volumes of music, documents, files, and two novels (that I'm writing) on that drive....and I didn't have a back up.

I'm concerned because the music industry is proving the hypothesis espoused by the great Kamal the Abstract, "Music Business people are shady." I hate to be so cliche but the character of people in the music business works on a sliding scale. The more honest and genuine people are on the lower end of the totem pole. However, the sneaky, lying, and conniving people seem to gravitate together toward the top. While there are definite exceptions, this is the general rule. And while I'm so very concerned because I can't really find anyone to trust (or even like) in the business, I have a bigger fear.

My biggest fear is becoming what I hate. The allure and power seems to be drawing me in like Luke to the Dark side. I have previously prided myself on being a master negotiator by maintaining a high standard of moral character and integrity. But that just doesn't seem to work in this business of alterior motives and hidden agendas. In recent times I've relegated to playing dumb just to see how far Industry "friends" would go in order to take advantage of me....and the depths of deception has been astounding. But like Luke, I've been redeemed from the dark side and I have since re-committed to doing things my way.

Pieces of a man folks...pieces of a man.

I'm nervous about this political season. Are we really this close to having a Black President? I feel like we are being set up for a let down...I just can't help but be skeptical. I was so embarrassed by this country's election of our current President that I wanted to become a citizen of England, where everyone speaks proper English (pun intended). Can we really go from having one of the most inarticulate and unintelligent people in the world as President of The United States, to having a smart, articulate, and inspiring Black Man (with an African name) as President? Barack Obama? A black man that has admitted to sniffing coke, smoking weed, and enjoying both.

The happiest I've been in while was on February 3, when the Giants won the Super Bowl. And that's when it hit me, my happiness is far too circumstantial. I don't want to live my life so fragmented that my happiness is compartmentalized in segments of genre or vocation. I am not pieces of a man, I am a man that desires to be whole.

Computer crash was probably for the best. Time for new ideas.

The Music Business will work itself out but I am in it for the music and as long I love the music the fight is worth fighting.

Barack, Hillary, or even McCain will be an improvement. It just can't get any worse that Bush.

Resolve: Peace of a Man.