If you are what you eat/ then feed me dope. -BDK

New Orleans will never have a Black Majority again. Sounds strange right. The Black majority in New Orleans was a HUGE DEMOCRATIC voting block for Louisana. Now they they have been , er- elminated, the Reblican congress will not have to worry about a strong Democratic contingent in that state. Trust and see how it is rebuilt.


Your plans of cuddling up w/ your snuggle bunny this weekend and enjoying three netflicks is deaded. They have caught onto the heavy renters, that means you. You back to the back of the netflix line.

Los Gatos-based Netflix didn't publicly acknowledge it differentiates among customers until revising its "terms of use" in January 2005 — four months after a San Francisco subscriber filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that the company had deceptively promised one-day delivery of most DVDs.

Gretsky aint snitchin. That's his wife and quite honestly he does not have to say anything.

Craigslist ain't all good. Apparently negroes are discriminating on he housing ads and the Feds have noticed.

I predict that this will be the year that the real John Q. type situation is going to happen.
People are losing health care plans from their employers or its being minimized.
If you have hc, the quality hella scandless. To get health care you have to be ready to fight. Your job, human resources, the insurance companies. Sh*t is a wrap. Where is that number for the $40 Dr. in the hood again?

Stop snitchin' t-shirts ARE NOT THE PROBLEM. They are ONLY SYMBOLIC of the hood
s attitude towards the po-lice. Which is speak to them- minimally- when spoken to and keep it movin'. I hate when people act like a T-shirt, or a song, or any inanimate object is WHAT DETERMINES a persons behavior.

Oh in other news, your teflon pans (article from yahoo) are a KNOWN carcinogen. Thats why I cook in iron skillets-

I am begining to think that Kanye is the quasi Muhammed Ali of hip hop. The brash talk. The pretty women. The Uber Black politics. What do you think?

I am not smart enough to interpret this.

If for no other reason, J Dee is special because he produced the Stakes is High. R.I.P J dizzle. Your music moved us.


Some of the sh*t the comes out of humanity's mouth has me wonderin' if he is my twin. Case in point, his post titled, Hip Hop you know I love you, right?


@ Anonymous The song w/ the lyrics, " I need a Honey to give me the love, give me the ism and put the cash in my hand is Nice and Smooth. I don't recall which song it is but they only had three albums so you should be able to get it a fatbeats.com, amazon, or other sites that sell hip hop.

Up next 10 reason's why I love Oakland/Brooklyn/NYC.

Song: One the Road Again. Jungle Bros.

Book: No novel. Property chapter on Property as a Gift.

Mood: I got a winter pedicure so I am feeling good. And the s.o. just took a Corona out the freezer And imma about to make Taco's and work on the property outline so...Life is good.


>>>>>>A 'lil town bizness for the soul>>>.

Katrina Victims evicted & Coretta Scott King buried on the same day.

I was speechless when I saw this. Aryan gulliness.

A snitch in the justice department says the President can put out a hit on fools. Presidential gulliness. v.06.

Feb. 13, 2006 issue - In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances, the president might have the power to order the killing of terrorist suspects inside the United States. Steven Bradbury, acting head of the department's Office of Legal Counsel, went to a closed-door Senate intelligence committee meeting last week to defend President George W. Bush's surveillance program.

I write raps/ and nigg@s bit I clap/

cuz they sh*t sound better now/.

I saw this ad on a bus and screamed out loud, Yaaa-hooooo.
March 12 bichees!


F*ck you couch and gimmie my pensions. Workers getting gully fa they cash. Y'all seen what happened w/ that postal worker a couple of weeks ago. Mark my words. These companies keep gafflin' people for their pension, you are gonna have some granmomma's at the corporate head quarters w/ gats. Trust. Do not come between a granmomma, Latina, Asian, White or Black and her gambling and grandbabby money!

I been saying the NYC is Millionaire city so you should not be surpised that people are willing to live in closets.



You know when you are an assh*le when you can talk about being one and everyone agrees with you. I heart humanity and is Violent self.



Jesse Martin, from Law and Order is going to play Marvin in Sexual Healing. I love you Marvin. I hope he does him justice. I actually like Marvin more than Stevie. In fact Marvin and John are tied in my book. So.



Ladies. You every carry a ho bag? Don't lie to kick it. You know you got pannies and a tooth brush in your purse right now. Peep the Dragon's hilarious post about "THE HO BAG."

ho bag (n.): a large purse or satchel, carried by a woman, the contents of which includes materials to be used in the event of a scheduled or impromptu sexual encounter. Typically includes panties, condoms, gum, Metrocard, toothbrush (wrapped in toilet paper).

My family over at Canes Cassled has a humorous, write up of Gully ass Rhonetta, aka bubbly water, from American Idol. You will have tears in your eyes when you finish reading it.




So you wake up Monday morning w/ a sore throat, or a Saturday morning and your personal area is stinging and tingling from hanging out with those vegas girls, drinking henny. Oh, and you do not have health care. What do you do?
Yo go see the doctor down the street for $40 of course!


Anyone what knows me, knows that I am fascinated w/ sharks. Well low and behold, humans and sharks are damn near cousins. That settles it. I am getting my shark tatoo:)

Six people got shot in Oakland last weekend, and the city business are looking at taxing Taco bell. GO figure.

Cheba cheba yall, free ipods. Okay so they are not free. But they are $69. What is that, 3 pedicures and a trip to the movies. Pods for everyone!

I love DOOM, and I am Glad that I did not go to his show.

Oncewehave knowledeofself asapeople

/thenwe canbefree andknowone cantest ourboundaries./

SO, THEY USING DOGS TO IMPORT SMACK NOW?

You see those puppies. Well this was in them. Yes Virginia, there was LIQUID HEROIN placed in the doggas. That is some super gully, I'm gon import my heroin at all costs move.

F*CK YO' COUCH AWARD GOES TO:

Conneticut is suing the federal goverment over No Child Can Read (No CHILD LEFT BEHIND NCLB). It makes sense. Conneticut is first in the nation in per student spending. I hear that the attorney general is involved. Quite Gully. Here is a summary:

• NCLB requires states to test the students like crack heads.
• BUT the BUSH & 'nem will not PROVIDE THE MONEY for the tests.
• WHICH MEANS that the momma's and the daddies have to use their paper to pay for a goverment requiered test.
• So you wanna flunk my kid and you want me to pay for the test that WILL certify the flunk. Sure. Where is the vaseline?
  

ONLY IF CAN ASK THIS QUESTION, CAN I? YES YOU CAN?

When is the New NERD/Pharrell coming out?

Is there something wrong with me if I listen to this and this, back to back, at night and in the morning.

HIP HOP PORN

Hashim has a post about HIP HOP (soft) PORN magazines. You know KING, CHERRY, I meab EYE CANDY. He frames it as a argument about publishing.

When reality it is about:
a. Black womens bodies selling sexual fantisies
b.Pop crs, regardless of the consequences, at all costs.
ulture, and how it uses Black womens bodies to sell sex fantasies.
c. Capitalism, Corporations, and the tendency of Corporations to serve share holde

IN HONOR OF MORGAN FREEMAN

Dude. The Zora Neal Hurston Festival. Need I say more.

The law is the only thing that legally imprisons you. And if you don’t understand the laws language, then you are not free.

-(C)Johnnie Cochran R.I.P.

EMCEES I MISS
a. Masta Ace
b. EPMD
c.Ed Og
d. Rass Kass
e. (Old) Alkaholics,
even though the new jawn is suppose to be Dope


Valentine Gift Optionals

Hey Fellas. Get her this. It is cute and functional. red evenlope.com












Em. Oh an this is so sexy. (victoria secret.com)












Ladies, it isn't romantic but get him the NBA league pass.
Nothing like sitting at home on a sunday night, eating vegetable lasagne watching AI take it to Kobe. He just might fall in love with you.



















The is valet, from red envelop also, is mad cute and
and functional. He will think of you every time he picks up his keys/wallet :).

SEX, CHEATIN', CHICKEN

There is an interesting post on OKP about sex and cheatin'. Its hilarous. You have to read it to. YOU WILL laugh out loud.


So. Wow. Blog family. That was a long one. I am working on a few post topics:

• The ten best disses in HH.
• Ten authors you are not up on.
• Ta Nehisi-Cotes, and his love of his son.

Leave me love, I mean messages. I'll be back this weekend. -MM

I said, "I came to revenge for the rhymes you stole

Now you must die/ because that is my mission/.

Sadam said f*ck you couch and got kicked outta court. Dude either has no idea that he is being prosecuted. Being a member of the axis if evil, he prolly know and just don't give a fizzle. This is like Micheal Jackson standing up in court and arguing with the judge.



California jails are employing gully ass*d prisoners as "peace keepers" then act hella surpise when one of them dudes eats some guards food. What the hell you think. This ain't the boy scouts. This is EAT or GET ATE, fam. NOW the state is investigating. I guess the same way Katrina is being investigated.






Public schools are for crack babies. They are. Who else would place a child in a sub-par school that is OVERcroweded and UNDERfunded, HYPER Violent and expect them to LEARN how to read and write. More than anything the young bucks come out knowing HOW TO SURVIVE.

Run the schools like you run Walmart, UPS and Microsoft.
The fundamental problem with schools is three things.
a. They are designed to underperform.
i. If it cost $15K to fund a child in a public school system, (peep the evidence) and the states/county and feds supply $4, $5 or 6K, the kids have lost the race before they knew they were in it.

b. Two suggestions.
i. All schools have 500 kids max.
ii. All teachers make...let me think about a forumla for that.

c. If this sounds expensive think of how much it costs to:
i. For tax payers to subsidize someone while they are in prison.
ii. How much money in taxes a working person contributes to the economy.

This article, article talks, and this one talks about about how boys and black children are disadvantaged by the current education system. ALL OF THE STUDENTS are being underserved (Unless you are fortunate enough to go to a Montesorri or live in a neigborhood where the house taxes subsidize the schools).

On the real there needs to be a federal class action suit for the lack of equity in how schools are funded from district to district. Systematic solutions for systematic problems. Trust.

Memories of Crack's hey day in Oakland are fresh in my mind. DO I need to write the senators in Iowa and ask what are they going to do about this NEW MEXICAN METH?








Property is Freedom. That what my property professor said on the first day of class, and that is some of the truest sh*t I EVER HEARD.
There is about to be A HUGE WEALTH transfer in NEW ORLEANS. CONTRARY to what the mayor belives, IT will not be a chocolate city. That n*gga shit in NO is a wrap.
Trust. IT WILL BE condo/retirement/yuppie city.

Oh, please leave 'ya girl a messages. It's been awfully quiet on the boards. I know yall prolly a little depressed now that the Christmas credit card bills just came out. Show me some of that blog comment love fam:)

'Yall better not tell Morgan Freeman,

Negro History Month is upon us.

Hattie Mc Daniel, American Model Minority
(She played a mammie so Halle could win).

• Oprah told Frey, nigg@, f*uck you for 'tryna have my name all up in the game. Don't you know how hard I worked to get here? You better lean back. Well not exactly in those words. But you get the picture

• White People sure do some creative parenting. I guess anything beats whupping your child into submssion.
  

• Again. Bush DOES NOT love Black people from New Orleans.

• Here is a link to a vintage tan ass post about men and how they get demoted, back down tro friend status.
  

• Did 'yall know that Google is the only search engine that has not turned your search information over to the feds? I heard they were going to WIRE TAP GOOGLE.
  

Here's a little story I got to tell.

Drive By’s and Earthquakes

Athena was sitting at the bar minding her own business when this cat,Trench Coat, walks up and takes a seat at the bar. He asks the bar tender, “Ah, how you doing man?”

Tender responds , “fine….”. Trench Coat “Ah, you don’t remember me? I arn’y you the owner”.

Athena immeditaly starts thinking…Here we go, another negro comin’ up in her dive to start some 'ish. She was already flirting with this other dude that was playing pool, but he was just a harmless distraction.

He kinda looks like a transient. So between bites of her sandwich and flirting w/ the pool player he asked her "What are you writing there?"

Athena ignores him and it is very apparent that he is not used to be treated that way.

He says softly, " I like the way your hand looks, moves when you write."

Athena thought to herself, what kinda kinky ass complement was that? It is different though.

Athena realized that she was not going to be able to eat her sandwich in peace so she askes him "What is your industry?".

he answers "Finance?".

She asks again, slightly irritated,"Naww, nigga really…what do you do?"

"I sell financial services."

"Now was that so hard Mr. Wall street?"

Now he had her attentioe. He was not put off by her brash, and she was attracted to it. Athena loved to banter the way she loved food and sex.

Soon the pool player left her alone and she was holdin a conversation with Wall Street.

The he says, "So are we going to get otta here or what?"

Athena thought, No this nigga didn’t.

She just let out a, throw your head back, cackle and took a deep breath.

This cat was serious. Type A, Alpha DAWG.

She then looked him sqaure in hihs face and said, "You don’t know anything about me."

I know enough about you to conclude that I want to go home, get sticky with you, wake up, go to work, and you to school. Meet you work, go to the movies tonight, and do it all over again.

Is this nigga tryna fuck up my high?

Again you do not know me.

"My family gets on me all the time about not messing with black girls. I just don’t come across them in my line of work."

Athena thought, at least he was honest. Because if she closed her eyes and listened to his voice he show inna hell sounded like a WB to me. Can’t knock a brotha' for how he speaks. She couldn't can’t stand it when people comment on her usage of "the" languge.

She responded to him, coyily, "What if I told you I had that in my life already?"

He ignores her comment.

Total f*ckin’ alpha.

I have to ask/

Does Ye have a god complex?

It looks like he is pushing to envlope in '06. I wonder how long it will take for THEM to silence him. I know he is NOT Malcom. But he is an OUTSPOKEN BLACK male artist. You know that 'ish don't fly. He a mess around and be like Kobe'd, if he keep it up.

Be good. Be brokeback. Its irresistable.

So, look like WB and UPN is about re-up they game to get more money from the advertisers that cater to hyper-sexed teenagers. I wonder how many people are going to lose their jobs. More New World Order consolidation.

UPN and The WB had both struggled to compete against larger rivals in the broadcast TV business, including Walt Disney Co.'s ABC, General Electric Co.'s NBC, CBS Corp.'s CBS and News Corp.'s Fox. Both place consistently behind their larger rivals in the Nielsen ratings race and have been financial burdens on their parent companies.

You Best Protect Ya Neck

DaimlerChrysler AG announced Tuesday morning that the company will cut 6,000 white-collar jobs, or about 20% of its administrative staff, by the end of 2008.

Again. Why Google is telling the feds, F*ck Yo Couch Nigg!.

Disney is BUYING Pixar. Do we own any Pixar stock? Blog family, lets get out weight up!

I clock G's/ While you clock Z's

and I dont smoke crack/ I smoke emcees/.

So I log off for a day and come back and Kobe don' scored 81 points. Is that legal?

I know ya'll musta been praying for me because the CONSTITUTIONAL law professor called on me today. (Peep the link. He is a big dude too.)

Understand blog family. He asks ONE STUDENT questions for the entire duration of the class. YOU NEVER KNOW IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE PICKED. I REPPED' MODEL MINORITIES TODAY FAM. TRUST.

I was nervous at first, then it just felt like we were having a "conversate"(tion) about the constituional, states rights, contracts and property. Whew. Talk about slaying dragons on a Monday afternoon. All I can say is that I AM GLAD I did today's homework. REAL TALK.

So you mean to tell me you got gully dudes on ships, jackin' fools and firin' at other fools. Sounds like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. First Cam and Jay funkin' and now real life Pirates. Next thing you know Hillary gon' run for president!

The chocolate boy wonder/ makin' heads bop/

So, I went out to Joes Pub last night.

There is nothing like being held at the door at a club and then getting inside and theres only 5 negroes up in there.

I like Joes b/c the lighting is warm and gentle and the couches are soft and cushy.
Pete Rock was spinning those joints. I didn't even know he was gonna be there so it was an added treat. He was on some WU 'ish, w/ Camay and some other Rae jawns ain't heard inna minute. Mainly, Nice and Smooth's "Funky for You". Singing along and dancing has got me feeling tired. But damn if I did not have to get up this morning and take my Model Minority self to Property.

Funny Dudes in Hip Hop

Apparently Cam's panties are inna bundle. He has decided to go at Jay, which is cool for hip hop I guess. He does a have a point about Biggie's Mom's needin' to receive some royalties. But at the end of the day, all of HH is about reusing, other peoples jawns and flipping it into something new and fresh. And how is Cam gonna go at Jay regarding Jays business w/ Dame. They are grown @ss men who are prefectly capable of negotiating with one another. Dave and Benzino have finally got booted from the Source. I wouldn't be surpised if the Feds weren't investigating THEM for money laundering and what not. Yo, that RICO act is real talk.

Why is Paul Wall starting an online gold front store? Cool nigg@s like they fronts. Which is dope. I am all about entrepreneurship in the hood. But fronts. Dude. He could do so much better. He need to call Magic and leverage that 'ish. $hit, if he was smart he would poly his celebrity into chain of stores that sold nothing but gold fronts and rims. Nigg@, what if nigg@'s rims matched their fronts. Okay, I am getting delirious and must stop typing.

Google is a damn fool. Why they just tell the goverment, f*ck yo' couch nigg@, and refused to turn over documents regarding an investigation on internet porn. Doesn't google allready have founk w/ mad publishing companies because they just D-bo'd their way into publishing excerpts from books witout getting permission.

Some Negroes Aint Sh*t

So you mean to tell me, you so cheap and so lousy and so unwilling to be a father that you are going to FAKE YOUR DEATH, to avoid paying child support. *SMH* He either needs to upgrade his brand of crack, stop watching TV or both.

Women are stupid for listening to Hip Hop

I refuse to have a conversation with someone who talk about the mysogony in HH and are unwilling to discuss the how the HATERED/ DISLIKE/OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN hatred in POP culture as a whole.

A rant in the Baltimore Sun, that I have excerpted below, talks about how "WAIT" and GOLD DIGGER are mysogynistic AND are up for grammies. (courtesy of Spine)

See how it sounds, a little unRational. Only a selected few in this country activley cultivate their critical thinking faculties. And unfortunatley, in a Democracy that we live his greatly underutlized because of it, but that is another question. Women, especially, Black women are not honored, VISUALLY and MUSICALLY, in American Pop Culture and American CULTURE in general.

"The industry is so oversaturated with these types of songs," says Nicole Marzan, an industry insider and publicist for the Hyacinth Group, a New York-based public relations firm. "Women's lib — we've taken off our bras already and burned them. Women can wear the pants now in relationships, and they can like these songs without getting so offended."
What in the hell is she talking about women wear the pants in relationships? What relationships is she talking about. Women are disporportionatly everything. Disporportionaly infected with Aids, by heart disease, by diabetes, by breast cancer. Women as a WHOLE, ONLY make 75 cents on the dollar. Speak for yourself. I BEEN offended by the WAIT song. The same way I am offended by Hillary calling the White House a plantation, but thats just me.

Full disclosure: No matter the club I went to last year, an upscale joint or a hole in the wall, women in the place flocked to the floor whenever "Gold Digger" or "Wait" boomed through the speakers.
So. We dance to ignorant sh*t. Miles Davis use to beat the sh*t outta Cicely Tyson and was unapologetic about it. Consequently, I did not listen to ANY Miles until two years ago. I was being hypocritical in listenin' to Snoop's DOPE, anti-female music but, girl-cotting Miles. F.O.H.

"How do you expect the media or anybody else to get upset about these songs when the women don't?" asks Reed Baker, a New York-based hip-hop record producer and chief executive of Sophist Productions. "Women — the women I know — concentrate on the hooks and the beats, anyway. There's a general unawareness of the lyrics."
"The Media" is run by corporations. Corporations only care about the bottom line. People can care, but we would be doing a huge disservice to ourselves to expect the media to care. Its one of the many beauties of capitalism:)

"Hip-hop is all about talking about concepts and content that aren't comfortable," producer Baker says. "It challenges us to contemplate tough issues. The Britney Spears song isn't going to do that. 'Gold Digger' is a deep-song concept, more so than 'Wait.' It challenges some girls to think about situations they put themselves in. It challenges them to think about what they're going after in relationships."
A. I will beat his @ss for saying that WAIT is a high concept song. Right and Ms. Fat Booty is a "High Concept" song. NO dude. "Stakes is High" is a high concept sone. "I Usta Love Her" is a high concept song. "The P is Free" is a high concept song.
B. Ain't nare negro analyzing Brittney Spears nor Gold Digger. Negros don't care. They just wanna dance.

How can a man with a B.A./ make more than me/

/when Rashid got an emceeing degree?/

Something really significant must have happended today politcally, because the STRANGEST post-MLK day news has been coming out. Today sorta reminds me of when I was little I could tell, based on the clouds and the humidity, if an earthquake was coming. Walk with me now.


New Orleans Negroes killing fools in Texas. What would you do if you got evicited from your town and was being treated like the wicked step sister? Okay, prolly not murder people, but you proably would be angry enough to be rather violent.

And about New Orleans. Why is the Mayor walking around talking about Chocolate City. Does he know he will get the "getcho hand outta my pocket" treatment?" You can't walk around talking about your gonna have a "chocolate city" located on PRIME American real estate. I predict he will be resigning soon.

Dude. Methamphetamines is the the NEW CRACK in rural, working poor white America. The fact that it is so pervasive, yet there is NOTHING substancial and significant being done to address it confirms my hypothesis that negroes and poor white are "going to hell in a special little handbasket" together.

Hillary Clinton out there talking about the White House is being ran like a
Plantation. Dude. A plantation. Maybe like a brothel. But a plantation. Does she think we really are that desperate to be liked? Okay, so we are, but it does NOT need to be broadcast on the news.

I didn't even have to use my AK/

/I gotta say it was a good day/.

• Shaq and Kobe Kiss and Make Up.

• New Sista's Getting Real About Aids compaign.
  

• Family Values folks wanna keep a HPV vaccine from women/girls. They think it enourages sex. I thought that was what TV is for?

• Ex Steeler, Lynn Swann is running for Governer off Pennsylvania. Did I mention that he was running as a republican?
  

• Tiombe, Cody Chestnut and Martin Luther are performing at South Paw this friday.
  
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• Bilal, Robbie (Robert Glasper), Roy Hargrove and other jazzy snizzles are gonna be performing at the Blue Note on Jan 25.

• Trader Joes is coming to Union Square. Finally. I have been waiting for what, 15 years. I am going to celebreate with a dinner party, slumber party or something!

• Beautiful Hustle has the NEW E-40 video up, Tell me when to go Dumb.Town bisness fam! By the way, why isn't there a Town/ Bay turf dance documentary. It really IS overdue.

• On the Outs is a new movie that you need to peep. It is the story of three young girls, a drug addict, a drug dealer and a run away. I heard about this film a year ago and I am happy to see that it has gotten distribution. I hope that the young ladies are portrayed as compassionate human beings. After I see It will let you know whussup.

• I ran into Kenji Jasper last week on the train. He has a new book out titled a, "House on Childress Street." He was generous enough to give me an advanced copy. I am up to my eye balls in Con Law and Property reading and have not been able to read it. However,my hat goes off to anyone who is a WORKING ARTIST in NYC.
  

I need a honey to give me the love/

give me the ism/ and put the cash in my hand/.

file this one under

SEX AND MONEY

I was thinking a couple of weeks ago about how sex and money are so pervasive in our lives, especially in the lives of women. However, I could not think of any place where the two issues were analized together. Bada boom bada bing. The sex and money post is born. Tell me what you think blog family.

• Rapid HIV test,is giving some false positives. When it is finally up and running it WILL change how we date. Read here.

• Wouldn't be dope if you get your potential smash buddy to take the rapid HIV test when slip a lil' but of "truth serum" into his taco?......talk about a perfect date. All truth, no lies.

Money

• Swiss dudes are angry. They are going to have to share some of that corporate cream with the sista's. Its about time! (Swiped from Bomani.) Read Here.

• Pension removal countdown. So. You thought you were gonna retire and live cool. Sike. So far, IBM has got the ball rolling in '06 interms of making sure, employees understand that it is not about them, but the bottom line allways. Read Here.
  

Now everyone, including executives, will have their IBM pension plans frozen in January 2008. IBM will thereafter only contribute to their own private 401(K) pension plans.

Oakland, California thats where I'm based/

And brothers out there say this is the place/
You see, the crew gets Stangs, the Zeniths the Daytons/
A Brother like me, man I am just debatin'/ - Richie Rich 415

Yall remember when Oakland AND Frisco was 415. I still remember my phone number from back then, 638-462*. Ha, you thought I was gonna put the whole thing on there hunh?

Blog Family....I found some new treats for you. You can't ever say I never gave ya'll nothing.

• Old School Hip Hip Videos.....The highlights are BDK's Smooth Operator and BDP's Loves Gonna Getcha.

• Spinemag is one of the MOST thorough hip hop news sites that I have come across in a minute. Remember how True magazine usta be like a "hip hop" Vice? Thats what spine reminds me of.
  

• The other jawn that I am obviously late peeping is the Smoking Section. Talk about brilliant minds thinking alike, (ahem, shamless plug). The Smoking Section just posted about Big L too, he must be communicating with heads from the other side.

Smilin' is cheesin', bleedin' is leakin'

Beggin is bummin/ if you nuttin you comin
Big L- RIP

Ohmylanta blog family, I got some treats for you in the 'ox, say '06 real fast, and thas what it sound like, ox.

You see in the Bay We LIVE in our language.
This one is for you Sal.

What do you think all that PIMP talk is about?

Of course on its face, pimpery is about gettin' cash. But I belive that it is also about using your language (albeit on women, just like the rest of American culture) to get what you want.

I be talking to people here, in NYC, and they be like WHAT.....with their faces squinched up. Now that I have had my negro history lecture...here it' tis.

To have your property taken from you
Gaffled- Oakland
Jacked- New York
Dude, I got gaffled for my Pac Cd. Skan'less @ss females came to my house and got me when I went to the bathroom.

The truth, I am serious.(proper english translation)
Dead Ass- NY
Real Deal Holyfield- Oakland
Dave said, "The government is spyin' on fools, without warrants, for real."
Jean responds "Fam, that is real deal holyfield!"

Come back and let me talk to you for a minute.
I'm sayin' though Ma-New York
I'm saying though ma, you look mad good.

In NY dudes don't get at females in the street.
Unless the "SSSSSS", "SSSSSS", snake sounds that are made towards women in the Village or on 2fifth.
But in the town, please believe it goes do like.
You got a man?
You committed?
You in love?
Can you have friends? (assume she says no.)
Oh. Because I let my woman have male friends.
Ya feel me.
Because see in a relationship, I am not trippin' off the next man kickin' it with my lady. On and on on....

Are you serious?
Fa' Real-Oakland
Word?- NY
So, y'all went to dinner AND the movies and she paid for everything? Say word? Word!

Inconspicuous
In the Cut- Oakland
Leaning Back- NY
I been in the cut the last few days working on my con law final.

Dude/Female that gets no respect.
Bootsie- Oakland
Herb- NY
Uuuuuh, he hella bootsie, tryna talk to me when 'errry body know he just broke up with his girlfriend.

Oakland/ Bay Area- gradiants from acquaintance to girl/boyfriend

Gettin' at- verb, someone you speak to when you see them, and let them know that you are interested, but for the most part, they are not reciprocal.
" I been tryna get a Keisha, but she ainn't tryna feel me."

Talking to-verb, someone you are interested in, but you casually speak to on the phone with another a few times a week.
"Yeah, I am talkin' to Dawan, but his cousin look good too."

Do you understand?
Feel me?/Ya da da mean?- verb
Knowhut um sayin? verb
"My baby momma was trippn' off this, that and the third, but I had to tell her, she could not be calling my phone and hanging up like that, feel me?"

Hollern' at- verb, You have kicked it a couple of times, but are not exclusive.
"I was hollern' at Aisha, but she got a man though."

Add on and let me know wha'chu think.

Lovin' ya' hole seed/ and be in there boo'/

7 End the year CD's.

I am cillin' at Cato's Ale House, in a city called Piedmont, a small town that cluster in the north eastern part of Oakland. I am enjoying some wifi and pondering my first post of '06.

Yeah...Imma put my backpack on and talk about my appreciation of CD's that I found my self listening to this year. So, it is not the traditional end of the year list, but it matters to me.

Happy New Year Blog family.

Been up since 4am, took a 7 am flight, and have yet to take a nap. But what would life be like without the grind.

topa' that/ you got the good power u!/.
Word Meth!?!? I didn't know you appreciated it that much.<<<>>>

1. Tical
I found myself listening to Tical right before my first final. It was like my pre-game, locker room, warm up song. Tical is so grimy and war like. Very approriate for helping me get my mind right for exams.

2. Dare is a Darkside
I got the stunt/ inna front/ with a blunt and moet.

Red and 'nem had some of the founkist jawns outside of Memphis and the Bay. And his skits are just as appealing as the damn songs. I listened to this the summer, while putting together some Ikea (those baaastads!), then started bumping it again a couple of months ago.

3. Voodoo

After the final was done, I would take a shower, turn on the the D'Angelo, proofread my answer, send to the registrar. Then just carry D w/me on the 'pod. There was something so sensual about hearing him slowly, Marvin Gaye it out where he was coming from, stating,

I am going to/take you/away from him

At the end of the day a girl, wants to be pursued & loved consistently, right? I guess after sitting down for L-school exams I needed to hear a song that was light and easy and made a sista' feel desireable, ya feel me?

4. Spoon

Who knew White boys could, rock, get founky and be soulful. They have some cool baselines, and some memorable lyrics and That is really the essence of a good song, hip hop or otherwise.

5. Extraordinary Machine.

Fee, fee. All I gotta say is, a white girl, whose major influence is Maya Angelou, and whose lyrics reflect it. And I quote,

If there was a better way to go it would find me,
I can't help it the road, just rolls out, behind me,
be kind to me,
or treat me mean,
I'll make the most of it
I am an extraOrdinarymachine.

6. Goapele

I ain't even GOT the new Gwop yet, but I rep her just on the strenght that she is from Oakland.
Yeah so I know it is about Hip Hop...but, fam...yall need to get up on that Spoon

7. Platinum Pied Piepers (PPP)

Yes, my girl Tiombe did come tight on that album. I can only imagine what wonderful things she will offer us this year. T is a sultry Libra, who has a deft hand a writing songs that are both vulnerable and inspiring. I think '06, no, I know, '06 is going to be a dope year for her.