I Think I’m Stuck off the Realness.

Isn’t that image hella fresh. Its actually on a hoodie. I don’t know sponge bob. I have been feeling the graphic heavy, skater meets hippety hop type jawns lately. The dope thing about copyright law is that THE artist HAVE A RIGHT to incorporate M-O-B-B into their art. I heart america. I heart the old M-O-BB too.

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Blog family. I am in HIP- HOP HAPPYLAND. I managed to “PROCURE” The World is Yours remix, where he says in the Hook, “Keep the La’s inna Air”. Dude. When I heard that sh*yesterday, I started dancing around. That song, in and of it self, in its brief three minutes represents me in 94, and who I wanted to be. Someone, actually, I think my first ol’ boy, gave it to me on a memorex mix tape, but it was f*cked up because the song would cut off at the end of the tape .

“The fiend of hip hop/ got me stuck like crack pipe.”
[ Ol’ boy is sayin’ that the crack is like the rap, and he stuck on stupid. Dayuuum GINNNNAH.]

“Holding a stolen cops glock w/ g-notes in my hand.”
[ First of all dude. This sounds like nothing but trouble. But as soon as he said it, I had a mental image of that scene in Clockers where the young buck was holdin
g the bench down. Talk about a saturated visual. Mental note to self, saturated visuals is hella fresh.].

“The mic is my religion/ the system is the devils lasso.”
[ Did god put him on earth to make such poetic songs. Could you imagine the fights that he and Kelis has. Does he leave her little notes. Prolly poetic text messages hunh. I know>>>>hopeless romantic = me<<<<<<]


For nas bloggery, peep fletch and his family.

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Up bloggin’ as the sun rises. God. I love life.

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New interview with Rakim where he discusses Nas’s song, his new label and how it feels to perform in ’06, and his family.
Peace to spine mag.


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In keeping with my Pharcyde documentation happening here at sex hip hop and power, here is an interview with J-Swift producer of Bizarre Ride to the Pharcyde. Who knew that he been to hell and back, on crack and errry thing. It’s a reminder thatn anybody cand get f*cked off inna game.

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Bilal got a bangin’ a*s pull up ya skirt and get low wicha’ ol boy type song, called don’t make me over. This song is like Al Green on a Jay Dee beat. Yes I said it n*ggas. Peep it here.

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My friend puts the side show’s into context eloquently.

Experiencing the different cycles of the Sideshow and now documenting the newest wave, Drop observes, ?The newer generation, they?re more concerned with being just hyphy, just being seen. Just kinda bein? out there, drivin? crazy. [Notice how he talked about the young bucks w/o being derisive]. Not so much about the actual doughnuts and the swingin? any more. It?s just kind of more, ?Hey, see me stunt!? It?s kind of like a cry for help almost, like the young people are like, ?I wanna be seen?I wanna be heard! Otherwise, I get no chance to really be noticed.??

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Spine got a new Roots jawn, It Don’t Feel Right. Oh. And it knock too blog family. Cool a*ss hook. They scratching and got a CLEAN A*SS EPMD Sample, OH the Beauty of being on Def Jam.

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Kristof gets to the bottom of THE ASIAN MODEL STUDENT MYTH.

In the U.S. ethinc Koreans are academic stars. But in Japan, Ethnic Koreans languish in the underclass, often doing poorly in schools and becoming involved in the yazuka mafia.
[Here is the good part] One lesson may be that if you disciminate against a minority and repeatedly and shove its members off the social escalator, then you create pathologies self doubt that become self sustaining.

[Kristoff for Mayor anyone? This is the most analytical I have every seen a WHITE PERSON be about NON-White achievement and how the public school system, local government all collude to enables and perpetuate negros falling off the social escalator]

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That was a fun post blog family? Now its time to get something to eat. Waffles!?!?!? Trix. Who knows? Raekwon and Boot Camp are gonna be at BB Kings in June. Who going?
The sun is finally out here, but it ain’t 80 degrees like how is inna bay right now. I’m jelli.

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Michael Jackson is Super Gully.


I don’t know sponge bob. But Lupe Fiasco is a more marketing savvy, likeable Talib Kweli. Peace to Brooklyn. Trust.But, I haven’t hear a song KNOCK this SOULFULL since Jay D’s jawn. It is the perfect begining of the summer ipod knock.

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Yall know Micheal and Paul McCartney fell out over the Beatles catalogue. Well, the Times gave up the game this weekend on the entire story. I loved reading every word. Who ever talks about financing ANYTHING in the culture. Its all about buy, consume, get fat.

Mr. Jackson’s pre-expense share of the “Thriller” bounty ? including the album, singles and a popular video ? surpassed $125 million, according to a former adviser who requested anonymity because of the confidential nature of Mr. Jackson’s finances. Below I have posted an excerpt.

Those who counseled him in the “Thriller” era credit the pop star with financial acumen and astute business judgment, evidenced by his $47.5 million purchase of the Beatles catalog in 1985 (a move that served to alienate him from Paul McCartney, the Beatles legend who imparted the financial wisdom of buying catalogs to Mr. Jackson during a casual chat,[ note to self, have more casual chats with yt’s re finance] only to see Mr. Jackson then turn around and buy rights to many of Mr. McCartney’s own songs).

The Dope part about it is that McCartney apparently was the one who TOLD MICHAEL to to invest in that sh*t in the first place.

Ha. They beefin’ over Beatles cash.

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Peace to the New York Times for writing something analytical ’bout Mike for once.

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Ceo’s might wanna heed Mr. Aks warning regarding what the future holds if nigg*s don’t get decent health care.

If those at the top of the heap are really so smart, they
should start advocating some orderly increase in redistrbution- at the very least, in the form of national health care coverage. They shoud do this if only to maintain social peace- to prevent the less fortunate, in other words, from losing their heads. Because if that happens, the rich may lose theirs as well.

Daniel Aks, New York Times, April 30th 2006

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Straight form the Bay. Brian Copeland in “Not a Genuine Black Man”. He apparently had SOLD OUT shows in ‘Frisco and is doing the damn thing in NYC.

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Yall know I liked to call NYC Millionaire city. Well. This cat lamented, over the weekend, over the changes in The Village.

These days, I hardly recognize the student population, or at least what I hear about it. Every few months there seems to be a tabloid scandal involving someone conspicuously identified as “an N.Y.U. student”: a young woman raised in a New
Jersey mansion arrested on charges of dealing drugs; a student accused of running a $7.4 million hedge-fund scam in Greenwich, Conn.
These strike me as the transgressions of young people who act as if they can get away with whatever
they please.

Even in my day, commuting students like me weren’t fashionable. We hadn’t taken part in half a dozen after-school activities by the time we were 12. We hadn’t played lacrosse in high school. But we did, I think, give an often cold and impersonal institution a soul, a grounded identity. The Olsen twins, for all the news media hype surrounding their presence at N.Y.U., do not.

MAYBE it’s just me becoming an old coot. But in my mind, N.Y.U. feels like nothing so much as an enclave of downtown elitism. Its relentless expansion has the air of manifest destiny. The Palladium an N.Y.U. dorm? It still feels like a joke.

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These innernets been kinda quiet yall. Where yall at? Watchall doing?
And why is it so hot in cali and so dreary here man. This s*it is wack. ***logs off and eats trader joes tamale and scrounges around for another stella.

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Bill Cosby is in My Brain. (New CNN Video)

Bill Cosby has a new interview out where he discusses pimps, our cousin laquanda and why Black women will NEED to lead until our potential spouses get outta jail. Here are some excerpts below.

This is not your grandmothers world, and you have to
think about you taking charge in business, family, raising your
home”.


We are many many things, we are the weakest, we are the
strongest, within ourselves.

All women have been brainwashed to be subservient to men. Not just Black women.

Our females are graduating 70 to 30.

I have a problem with the silence of the scholars. It is very problematic that the scholars are not writing articles and publising books about people who are not offering things to our youth.


Also. I found it irresponsible and inconsiderate for CNN to title the clip “People have Gone Crazy”. It is sensationalizes the issue of horribile Black Male to Femal graduation rate. Maybe I will e-mail CNN and let them n*ggas know they wrong for that.

In the spirit of Cosby’s words, Imma post what Mac Jay spoke from his soul about what it means to actually BE PRESENT in class. Take that BILL!!
[From his site Yay Mecca posted on Tuesday, May 02, 2006 titled i never could pass, cut class like scissors.]

Those problems are pretty small compared to all the positives
that come outta being a good student. I know I’m rambling and don’t really have any idea where this post is going, but I’ma let you in on the secret to what’s helped me the most… reading. If you read the textbooks and go to class, this school shit is so simple mayne. On mommas. I already been knowin’ I coulda
pulled these grades in Arizona but I didn’t read shit, I’d look over my books like the night before a test and go in the next day praying that I’d pass. I’d always be hella pissed when my tests came back with a shitty grade, all like “what the fuck happened”? Well, I was an idiot. But I stand there saying “da fuck was I supposed to know that” and thinking the teachers was trying to play me and do the exact same shit next test. When really they wasn’t, read the books and you cool. Now I go to tests prepared, like it’s nuuuthiiin’. De nada, blood.
Sorry for boring you with this shit, jus been pullin’ these grades lately n hella excited mayne. Now on to tha biz….

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The biggest victories are won by the smallest margins.

Dallas vs San Antonio 104-103

L.A. Clippers vs Phoenix 114-107

Latley, the semifinals have exemplified that. Who knows that Lebron will do. I was happy to see that the other players got involved last night. Cleveland won by what one or two Friday night. It is hard to BE PRESENT, if you are not INVOLVED with what the game.

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So much blogging such little time. Y’all catch that segment of VH1 SOUL that is all Old School Reggae jawns. Pass the Dutchie on the Left Hand Side, Ting-a ling a ling Huh – BoyaKA-BooyaKA and Flex- Time to have Sex.

Where is the old school 89-92 reggae and Hip Hop Party. I can’t believe noone has done this yet. *forrows eye brow up*.
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Family over at Nah Right has revisited the 50 vs. O factor again.
One of the best responses suggested that O needs to have some emcees on there and put her Oprah’s Book Club magic ‘onnem, first up, THE Roots anyone!?!?!!?
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Even though I read Slap Boxing with Jesus a minute ago i am gonna gon’ head and big up Victors book. In the spirit of Fletchies Illmatic posts.


I will say that ANYONE who names his book after a Quote from Illmatic is a damn GENIUS.
I also remember being moved by how nuanced the characters are.
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Anyone heard The Brand New Heavies have reunited. God, I usta wanna be N’Dea Davenport.
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I came across this quasi disturbing article about how there are few women in hip hop who “love it” as much as the dudes do.
So gotty, neo, ms. ahmad, tpw, walt, what ‘chall think about it?
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Alice Smith is my FAVORITE FIZZLE right now.
Man. I think I would sing her typa songs.
Peep the fader blog, They given her some muched deserved burn.

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The A’s beat the Yankees. Yippie. I hate when the A’s come here and get mopped by the Yankees and fat a*sed GIAMBI. If Anyone is on steriod’s its his big a*s.
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I found stella money on the subway. 10 bones right on the ground at Borough Hall. I think it was god’s way of telling me, baby girl, gon’ head and get cha mind right and chill with yo folks. Happy Mothers Day to The Prisoner’s Wife/Poet/Momma and friend * [AND TO THE OTHER MOMMA READERS].

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Gurrl, I was out w/ Bronx Logic and his baby cousin’s [5,6 &11years old)yesterday. I have never been in the bathroom so many times in my life. I forgot that you can take little boys to the ladies bathroom. When you are out with kids you have to plan when and where you will take the kids to pee. Who knew?!?!!? And doing that ‘ish in NYC is the truth.

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Hip Hop *IS* Who We Are.


I was about to spread the thighs/ but she surprised me when she said/ “oh like that? You know I don’t get down”** /I know my homies gonna clown cause I let her stick around when/ … She said… It’ll be good if you stayed with me tonight so I granted her wish/.
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Um. This week. Really for the last month I have been a ‘onna pharcyde jawn. They represents a convergence of several of my life’s elements.
Cali Slanguage.
An independent b-girl identity.
Jay D’s grumbling soulful basslines.
’94.

All those issues were jumbled up and kickin’ it together.
** When was the last time you heard a someone rap/discuss/ write about the politics of sexual interaction, INSTEAD OF ABOUT sex ITSELF!?!?!?!
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Whats good blog family? Life is good and love is love. Shout out the the fam at Nah Right for giving me the CRAZY PLUG. I never let a statue tell me HOW NICE I AM.

I never let a statue tell me HOW NICE I AM/Comin’ with more hits than the Braves and the Yankees/Livin mad phat like an over sized Bam-bi/The wackest
crews try to dis, it makes me laugh/When my track record`s longer than a DC-20
aircraft/So, next time that you think you want somethin here/
Make somethin deffer, take that garbage to St. Elsewhere/.

Recognition from my peers re my-blog game made my cheeks blush, and I think Zora and James winked at me too.

I made it to the end of the semester even those some little shark bait a**ed nigg@s tried to snitch. That’s cool though, because where I am from, and what I have seen, it will only make me come with more of a beast jawn. It hurt. Yup. I ain’t gon’ lie. But once I got over the pain of it, I realized that I need to aknowledge that not only do some people need to win, but the NEED TO ANNIHILILATE YOU TOO!
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Peep the techinque about HOW POWER is PARLAYED in NEW YORK CITY AMONGST IT’S ELITE.

In the terminology of foreign affairs, influence is soft power?the ability to shift the course of events through ideas or relationships rather than coercion or enticement. Influence is Jacobs, holding no office and possessing no institutional leverage, inciting a bottom-up movement that stopped Moses in his tracks. Now, New York has always been obsessed with power: getting it, wielding it, harnessing it, and, most of all, keeping it.

Power is what Moses employed to historic effect for nearly 40 years. Influence, by contrast, is more subtle, more indirect, more de facto than de jure.

Instead, we look around and see an increasingly Jacobean city?a place where moguls, machers, pooh-bahs, and potentates are seeing their collective mojo rivaled by a newer class: the influentials.

That being taken into consideration, what is HIP HOP [IN NYC] about, if not POWER AND IT’S RESPECTIVE DYNAMICS & BENEFITS

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Peace to the Jujitsu school in the Bx. I will be tryna holler at them this summer to get my gully ninja on!


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Cody’s is gone.
How much time have I spent reading at Cody’s book store in Berkeley. University press publised books. Out of Print Graffitti jawns. Women Power Manifestos. Apparently Telegraph Ave is having ‘prollems. Well, you can’t have aggresive a*s HUMAN Punk ROCK kids sleeping and pan handling in front of stores and npot expect people to take their business ONLINE or to strip-malls closer to their homes. REAL TALK.
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LOOK at this video where Mr. FAB talks about the HYPHY movement on
Channel 5 news. N*ggas is blowin’ up fam. (Mac Jay, I see you).

Mr. Fab is so cute with his little hyphie love.
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Did you know that Puerto Rico got shut down.

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DUDE. New Orleans looks like Oakland. Is that legal?


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Looks like a beech gon’ have to change the title to Model Majority.
Could this fact be why congress wanted to call 20 million people
illegal?
Of course not! Tongue is in cheeck so hard I feel blood.
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Wait, so she got invitro, with her husbands sperm and STILL GOT FIRED.
This, blog family may go to the supremes. Talk about a violation of privacy.
Wow. Welcome to the 21st century.
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Writers and editors told the
New York Times that Beloved is [one of] the best book written in the last 25 years.
I coulda told ya ass that.

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My horoscope is on point. Libra’s stand up.

The leaves on the persimmon tree outside my door
are growing so fast I swear I can see them expanding right in front of my eyes. Like them, you are in a period of almost maniacal fertility. The
ripening process is so
elemental
that you may feel as if unpredictable forces of nature have been unleashed inside you. As long as you keep your sense of humor about it, however, nothing too out-of-control will happen. At worst, you’ll resemble a funny monster with a brilliant future, like an awkward kid destined to grow up to be a cute genius.

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NY Times rape case.

The report applauded Dr. Brodhead’s “personal commitment to address all of the issues” and found no effort to cover up the incident or to deceive anyone. But it found problems with how the investigation, involving a student at nearby North Carolina Central University who had been hired to dance at a party for the lacrosse team, had been handled from the beginning. The two experts said
that although the Duke police knew that the woman, who had been taken to the emergency room of Duke University Hospital, is black and that the players she
said had assaulted her are white,
“information about her race and about racial aspects of the case did not reach key administrators” including Dr. Brodhead
until March 24, 10 days after the party.

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Duke said they were just lissening to the Po Po. They figgerd that po po said the case would go away, THEN the case would GO AWAY.

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Sarah Jones WINS a TONY. GO SARAH its your birthday. GO SARAH!

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My OLD MIDDLE SCHOOL. YOung Bucks acting up robbing old folks.

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9 Great NON DINNER dates.

Here are FIVE of my own.

a. Home Depot. Ladies. Ya’ll seen a brotha get OOOPEEN in the saw/drill/workhorse isle. They be LOVING that sh*t. Me I like the plant jawns and the shelf isle. But still its fun to peruse together.

b. Grocery Shopping. Getting frisky in the bread Isle What. And don’t let the Becks be on sale.!?!!?!?!

c. The Subway. Sometimes you can just take a train ride wicho sweets. You gettin’ on the A, Im gettin’ on too, okay, I’a ride with you to 14th street. Yall will both laugh when dude get on there with the sandwiches talking about noone should go hungry tonight, with the irony being that you BOTH heard his routine so much you know the words.

d.Walking. Just walking together. Across one-25th. Or from Canal to Astor. Another jawn is the BK promenade. Walking and talking can be someone of the best jawns you ever had.

e.Barnes and Nobles. Gurrrl, Lemme tell you. Lucky magazine. The Economist. Black Issues Book Review. Mags on Organic Living. Bronx Logic and a hot steaming coffee. Tell *me* WHENNA GO.

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Blog family. Needless to say. On the real. When those wack lil shark bait biddles were asocial, racist and “liberal” yall came through checking for a sista’, sending kind words, letting me know that you missed the blawg when it died a lil bit in March. Y’all helped me get through the last 8 months. <<<

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I was inspired by a post a Nah Right to discuss the idea 50 vs. Oprah.

50 have allegedly called her a sellout. GFOHWBS.

Oprah and 50 are similar. Oprah?s fans are women, mostly white, with some negroes asians and latino?s thrown in for good measure.

The majority of hip hop fans are white, be it back packer suburb, urban cat artist, wanna be etc.

If Oprah “Caters to older white women 50” then you cater to their children.

Look at the pot calling the kettle a negro.

Last time I checked 50, Oprah doesn’t promote, condone nor benefit from anything as ruthless, careless or amoral as your video game.

Don’t get it twisted. I was riding for 50 in his movie. Any time a man is trying to work out his childhood disruptions, I am down with it. But don’t sit up here and talk about what you don’t like about O, like you are on some quasi, giving thugs a bad name, high horse. ***smacks teeth and rolls eyes****.

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?The only time I have agreed with Fifty. And even Fifty admitted his audience are those rich white kids trying to be ?down.? Think back to the Trading Spouses skit on Chappelle.? (taken from Nah Right thread here)
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Case in point. You will not move your product in this country, at least in a substancial way if you don?t sell to the majority, and D-Boys for TRUE, Oprah knows it and Jay Z knows it.
Oprah nor Hip Hop, Nor 50 would be where he is to day without white mommas and their children.

So if O is a sellout then so is 50. Its like he is saying, because she appeals to the majority, she is irrelevent.

What is worse blog family, Oprah’s perceived lack of involvement with the black community, which is debateable, or 50?s wealth built largely on poison?
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Talk about big government back take little civilian bank.
Eminent Domain Part I
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Gentrification from a childs point of view.
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Speaking of gulliness, this lil indian lady gon’ try and hooride me out of my spot to get on the train.
Please believe I been a little on edge blog family. Suffice it is to say, you ain’t gon’ out gully my gully specially when I need to sit down on the train to study.

I bet she learned to live lil’ skinny black girls w/ big teef alone in the future. I don’t care if you old enough to be my momma, if you less than 4 months pregnant, you are not gonna cut me in front of my to get on the train. The ELBOWS are the sharpest point of the body.
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Talking about the Mayorga fight with Bronx Logic and I had en ephiphny.
I asked BL why Mayorga ain’t win? I wanted him to win. He was the underdog, he was scrappy he had hard.
BL pointed out, you can have talent, heart, but if you do not have the fundamentals, you will never win. That resonated with me because regardless how much I love writing, or basketball or the law, if I don’t have the fundamentals, I am gonna be ass*d out. Who knew that seeing Mayorga lose would motivate me?!?!? *hunches shoulders*
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The Funniest part of the movie, Friends with Money, is that Jennifer Anniston
has more money in real life than her costars.
People, especially white people tend uncomfortable talking about how much money they have.
I remember going to my private, preppy, ‘Frisco high school and encounter a student, a white student, who had holes in his shoes on the first day of class. It blew me away. I had NEVER seen anyone who looked like that on the first day of class.

The first day of school is practically a religous ceremony for black people which requires
outfits with coordinating, shoes, socks and freshly done hair.
Needless to say, how we think about money, by and large has to do with how our PARENTS think about money.

“The real issue is not money itself, but the power money gives you,” said Dalton Conley, a professor of sociology and the director of the Center for Advanced Social Science Research at New York University, who studies issues of wealth and class. “Money makes explicit the inequalities in a relationship, so we work hard to minimize it as a form of tact.”

Once college friends leave campus, their economic status can diverge widely depending on their careers. While 20 years ago a young lawyer and a new college instructor might have commiserated about their jobs over coffee and doughnuts, today the lawyer would be able to invite the assistant professor out for a meal at a restaurant with two sommeliers and a cheese expert.

Read more of the article here.

Me. Money can be like friends, easy to make, hard to keep. Didn’t somebody famous say that?!?!?!?
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That property final was the truth blog family. It wasn’ t that I wasn’t prepared,
becaused I worked mad hard, (last night I missed my first episode of the Sopranos, so you know I was serious) it was the fact that she asked the kind of questions
that I did not anticipate. Lots of policy questions. 4 essays, 2 short answers and 3 short questions in 3 hours. Yes, three hours.
At least I got me a cheesecake from Trader Joes and some Gladiator Sandals from Urban Oufitters. So I am happy. How you?
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