"u aint artsier than me"

Chillin from today's work lissening to the soothing music of iTunes and i came across one of my new faves..The Grouch (from Living Legends they are a Oakland Ca. rap group that is awesome def. check them out live or on wax). Anyway The Grouch has a song called "Artsy". It speaks of a lot of kats out there who be fakin the funk trying to be "artsy' for the image. Dont call urself green just cuz it sounds good be real with it. I cant stand ppl who follow the crowd and do things for the sake of it we call me the "zombies"; brainless who can't maintain true self. This a shot out to those who dont think for themselves get ur shyt together!!!!!!!

vacaciones necesitan mucho

Hey there boys and gurls just got back from South Beach in Mia,FL. I went there for a bachelor's party. I must say that i needed this more than you will ever know. I have been goin thru some things lately in life and this vacation was what i needed to refocus. During the trip I experienced several epiphanies which was mind-boggling to me. I interpreted it as signs and advice for the future of mi vida.

This was the first time for me in Florida and it def. wont be my last. I love Mia and Fl. in general. I dont encounter much diversity where i reside but there just on South Beach u come across a wide range of Hispanic ethincity. Being that i am a novice in Espanol it has prompted me to really immerse myself into the learning of Spanish. I am okay and it does come fluid for me but i havent really challenged myself. It is not only so i can go back to South Beach(do trust das my new haven) but around the globe it is essential to learn Spanish and itz cultura.

I just didnt realize how significant a little vacation time free of ills can do to ur holistic being. I am glad ALLAH gave me this opportunity and watched over us all. We had a wonderful time and hope to do it again soon. If u need a break trust me take it.....!

happy b-day mi hija

Yesterday whas mi hija(daughter's) birthday and it kinda hit me how time flies(and how old i am lol). Now im 23 reflexive so i am still kinda young i had my daughter when i was still a naive young man in college. This post is a tribute to her and how she has changed my life. I have been thru a lot these past yrs from love lost to life in general but the one mainstay that keeps me driven is my daughter. I was born to be wild(lol) and though i am an introvert i can get crazy and before her conception i was somewhat lost. I am stubborn and she forced me to change my wayz cuz i realized it aint about just me. I have responsibilities not just to her but to my family friend myself etc. I don't claim to be the greatest dad in the world but i really do try as all men who father children should.

On a side note I wanna rap to the bruthas who are reading this if u do or dont have child(ren). It takes two to Tango(even artificial insemination lol) seriously though esp. black men we need to stand up and take charge of the family for real it is past due time fellows. Our queens suffer enuf thru birth and having to put up with our knuckleheads. This is not a bashing of men for the applause of the earths this is a state of union address if u will a union of bruth and sistah mother and father ....family. Rize up bruthas treat our women with respect and raise ur kids(even if they aint urs)


aight back to mi hija she is 8 yrs old since yesterday and it amazes me how fast they grow. I look back on when i grew up and my parents wood say" u growin up fast.." i didnt understand it then but i do now. I wanna cherish every moment of my life a quote from Prodigy(mobb deep):"every minute is jam pack because u cant get it back..". das real to real statement said rt there. Fulfill ur destiny ppl and live ur life dont fret the small stuff.

shut ur pie-hole!!!!!!!!!!!!

This has been a hellava couple wks and it aint even Christmas time yet. I am referring specifically of the outbursts of some high-profile entities; namely Rep. Joe Wilson, Serena Williams, and ya boi Kanye West.

First off is South Carolina rep. Joe Wilson. Now I have been in a cave for while now so forgive me if I can kinda rusty on some info but have neva heard of him before the incident. I could read up on him but i don't feel like it. He of course was the man of abruptly shouted "You lie" towards Pres. Obama regarding health care. I can't really speak on the actual issue of Pres. Barack's health care reform just yet (other than itz a lot of cheese) but to call Obama a liar is ludicrous. I am all for healthy debate and u can disagree but the lack of civility is frightening simply because i don't recall anyone doin that to "W" during his tenure(all those lies HE told to the Amerikkkan public). Im not sayin it was racially-motivated but still it makes u wonder.

Round two we have Ms. Serena Williams. I was appalled when i saw her tirade. It was crazy the way she came at the line judge. The line judge was wrong pt. blank!! Instant replay shows that she made an error in judgment but das no reason to be threatened by Ms. Williams. I personally think she went ballistic cuz she was gettin her azz kicked and she reacted in anger. She should have been wondered about losing not a call she should know all calls are not gonna go ur way.

And finally Mr. Kanyeezzeee!!! I must say that he continues not to amaze me but disgust me with his arrogance. Maybe cuz he think he tight(musick that is..) or maybe cuz he got dough is it both idk. The fact of the matter is he is an azzhole...and quote me on that one. I think he knows this and feels like whatever on that issue but ppl not gonna stand for it well most won't but there are some who will look the other way but not me. I esp. am incensed with Mr. West cuz i actually love his music he is a talented brutha but personally(neva meet dude but still...) i wouldn't wanna meet him don't care for him much and kinda am ashamed sometimes to call him my brutha. He has had several tantrums i mean outburst that make u say "wtf??!!" I respect his honesty and all but there are appropriate wayz to convey ur thoughts and there are times when u just need to shut the hell up and keep it to urself.

Aint nuthin wrong with voicin ur opinion but as with all things there is a time and place. So the lessons for today is there are always consequences(good and/or bad) to ur actions whether they be verbally or otherwise and remember it aint all about U....

can a brutha get some luv?

As you may well know by now i fashion myself as an activist;a social agitator if you will. I luv to debate all things esp. politics. I was reading MSN about the resignation of a Mr Van Jones. If you don't know him he WAS the White House's environmental advisor. Unfortunately for the brutha he resigned amidst "inflammatory" comments and other "undesirable"actions. See link for synopsis(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Jones#Resignation_from_administration).

Now i am neither Democrat nor Republican and i don't necessarily always pull for the bruthas and sistahs just cuz they are well...bruthas and sistahs I try to be objective as possible. But I agree to some extent to what Anthony "Van" Jones said and did. Firstly he signed a petition saying that 911 was a pretext for war; that it was somehow manipulated by the Bush Admin. 911 was crazy as hell and i wish all the families who were involved peace but hell yeah i think Bush and them had something to do with it. The whole shyt got holes than Swiss cheese. Bush,Condo,Cheney all of em lied and used their political tango(conversation dancing) to dupe the American ppl into believing whatever they said and plus to re-elect "W"(???) again. Secondly he made a vulgar comment about Republicans at a conference. Read the link above for details but i mean granted he probly should have used better judgment "Ye who is w/o sin throw the 1st stone". The man was telln it like it is in his opinion of course. Yeah i think a lot of Republicans are out for the rich and disregard the poor but i aint feelin the Dems either so...das what he thought and he said it but damn do u have to make him resign over that.

This for all you haters out there loathin the new Administration. We are all human we all make mistakes and Obama is doin a hell of a job considering he is basically the custodian that has to clean the shyt that was 8 yrs from ya boi that U voted for. Van Jones seems like a reasonable good dude has some good credentials so give the brutha some luv will ya?

wtf??

Hello all yeah im up early to give u this shocking news! Well actually itz more of the same shyt really my dad sent me this email and to be honest i am not really that upset about it. It is pertaining to a doll that was in Costco. This couple went in there with their daughter and found this doll. Of course the couple was Black and they went to HR in the store and it was subsequently pulled. I say "of course" not to be a smart aleck but if the couple was any other ethnicity i don't think anything would have happened(maybe? what do u think?). Now I have some opinions on this esp. since the New York Times incident with Obama and the monkey cartoon.

Okay I'm a scientist by trade so the whole evolutionary idea is real to me but I don't necessarily believe we evolved from monkeys(all humans not just Blacks). I know the whole "porch monkey" rhetoric is formed by idiotic individuals so anything associating Blacks and monkeys causing an uproar. Nah it aint right and sometimes it is hard to tell if it is racial or not nowadays everything is so subtle. I think sometimes we(Blacks) think everything is racist and fail to realize that we may be oversensitive(and rightly so i guess but think before u act).

In this incident I don't really think it was racial but knowing the history of Amerikkka it is unwise to manufacture such things that could cause social unrest. The manager of the store should have been prudent enough not to allow that to be placed on the shelves. Itz unfortunate we are in the state of mania where everything is scrutinized and prodded from Ms. O's hair to black dolls but that is the wonderful hypocritical continent called North America.

my life feels like an empty stomach

today at work i got an email pertaining to a team-building function that will take place in the near future. The email asked a question of what obscure interesting fact could i share with my coworkers. I thought long and hard(well ....kinda) on this and I really couldn't think of anything interesting about myself. I realize that that is sad in my opinion because I feel I have so much potential to be great. My life as like most have been filled with success and failure yet i still think i could have done more in my youth. I know my strengths and weaknesses. I am writing to you now because i know many have felt the same way i do; that we could have made our lives more interesting, more fulfilling. There are so many things on this Earth to partake in and u only have one life to live so live it up. I know the topic is debatable cuz the term interesting is soooo subjective but it is whatever u think though in the end that counts. I cant dwell on the past but use it as motivation for the future. Ask urself what can i do to enrich my life to make it more fulfilling?? And do it.....!