Archive for the ‘Social Upheaval’ Category

BILLY SUNDAY GONE TANNIN’

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

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As if we needed any more color. See y’all on the flip side.

GOOD MORNING LEBANON!

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

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Much respect goes to ROBIN WILLIAMS for what he does for our collective sanity.

It might be hot outside, but trust me, shit is way hotter in Tel Aviv right now. It looks like all the sand nigger that talk that jihad shit is on the rag at the same time. The Palestinians in Gaza are always up to no good, and now the people in Beirut want to get gully?!? Well, there aren’t enough trees in Hebron to make all the caskets that Israel is going to rain down on these fools.

You ain’t really a baller, Hezbollah. You need more people. Sure the global community will reprimand Israel for setting your azzes on fire, meanwhile you just lost half a generation. Killing the menfolk is easy enough, but Israel is like Homie the Clown and they don’t play that shit. Expect to have rows of dead bodies of women and children.

I blame Damascus for all of this current nonsense. They weren’t happy leaving well enough alone so they had to go and give arms to Hezbollah. So don’t be surprised either when Israel steps to Syria. Knowing Israel, and the fact that they are slicker than all the oil in Kuwait, they will creep on BASHAR al-ASSAD and put a fly in his soup. ASSAD better hope that his son isn’t in the building at the time.

I suppose this was inevitable in the long run. The military industrial complex stays on their grizzly building bombs and tanks and planes and whatever. It doesn’t make sense to have all this shit just sit in a factory in Nebraska and dry rot. The good thing about expending all of our reserves of depleted phosphorous and enriched uranium is that in a dozen or so years we can start a non-profit organization that specializes in bringing drinking water to all the radiation poisoned children in Tripoli.

I DID DRINK THE KOOL-AID!

Thursday, July 13th, 2006

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I admit it. I was one of those cats that drunk the Kool-Aid. Red was my favorite flavor.

So now drinking the Kool-Aid has a different conotation. To me it means whether or not I choose to believe the information that mainstream media tells me is important to believe. I am not sure how I became connected to the Viacom-glomerate that controls popular culture with an iron fist. Entertainment has become news as politics have become entertainment. I hate to think that someone at MTV controls my life so much because they probably got their job on a family plan hookup. These are dangerous and curious times in our nation. We are guided by people that have little respect for knowledge. I suppose we could just keep drinking the Kool-Aid for the comfort that sugar gives our neurological system, or we could pour the Kool-Aid onto the ground and decide that we are ready to take back our minds and our lives.

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PAUL WALL drinks the Kool-Aid. VH-1 sent me an e-mail that they are making a documentary about blood diamonds and Hip-Hop’s connection to the civil war in Sierra Leone. The film won’t be aired until early 2007 so I guess that gives me enough time to get my grills out of lay-a-way. Sorry MTVH-1, but you are about 1 day late and 1 millions lives short. I don’t believe you, you need more people. It’s disingenuous and borderline evil to insinuate that the civil war in Sierra Leone was caused by Hip-Hop cultures love for diamonds. The diamond trade didn’t begin with rap music and it will continue long after rap has gone the way of blues and jazz. If you really want to do something for the people you should create a documentary describing how supremacy keeps people in check. Use FLAVOR FLAV as the host of that show.

PAUL WALL and NIKKI ‘HOOPZ’ ALEXANDER are the most requested names for people that google this site. I consider quitting this blog shit everytime I review my stats.

There has been a recent spate of incarcerated felons having their convictions overturned due to the fact that they were innocent. In some cases the prosecutors withheld evidence or used faulty DNA samples or in most cases just locked up a nigger because of the convenience. The return of these people to their families is fucking up the economy. There are already enough young Black males in their teens and twenties that are unemployable. What the fuck are we going to do with a grizzled Black male in his forties or fifties?!? If you have spent more than twenty years in jail for a crime that you didn’t commit you should have to stay there until you die. It’s not the president’s fault that you got locked up and he shouldn’t have to help you and your family put your lives back together.

The President doesn’t lack a credibility problem because he’s rich. If he were a poor man then he would have to be a man of his word, but as a multi-billionaire he doesn’t have to do a damn thing. Tapping people’s phone calls, opening up personal bank records, publicly disclosing confidential information and lying about WMD’s are all good when you have more money than GOD.

JAY-Z and BeYONCE will finally announce their break up with the release of BeYONCE’s second single, ‘Why You Treat Me So Bad’.

Note to self: Cancel vacation plans to Jerusalem

I am a beast when I’m drunk, but could you imagine trying to corral a drunken JACKIE CHAN? That motherfucker can climb walls like Spiderman.

Rest easy jig readers, your voting franchise will be renewed for another 25 years. Although, since you haven’t voted once as yet I don’t see why you should even care. Just keep on enjoying the Kool-Aid.

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THE INTERNETS GOT ALL-STAR GAME

Monday, July 10th, 2006

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The All-Star game in Major League Baseball gives you a chance to see rising stars that play in towns that regularly don’t visit your locale. Living in New York, it gave me the chance to see KEN GRIFFEY, Jr. and VLADIMIR GUERRERO before they would hit the bigtime.

I want to use this moment to introduce you to some of the blogs that I visit regularly that bring their special game to the internets playing field. I predict some of these cats will go to the mainstream media machines big leagues one day and you can always say that you knew them when…

TECH WHORE
Beware the Deuno is one of my all time favorite posts.
tony gwynn

kirby puckett SHE REAL COOL
Whenever I am being a mysognist pig I get a visit from JB and she checks my steez.

BETTER THAN YOURS
JEROME BAKER’s blog is an influential site for any bloggers on the come up. Skateboards, sneakers and new car speakers. BTY is cooler than you are.
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mike piazza GLAMAZON LIFE
Glamazon Life is an L.A. based entertainment industry insider spot. Everything isn’t based on Hollywood at her site, but when she goes Hollywood, she goes glamazon.

SNEAKMOVE
These cats drop music and lifestyle info that I live for.
nolan ryan

reggie NO DAMN LIFE
ThatGirlTam’s latest incarnation on the internets. Me and Tam go back like lawn chairs.

THE RAP UP
Hip-Hop journalism chopped and screwed from the heart of Texas. Plus here is where I copped most of my STACEY DASH Playboy mag pics.
pudge rodriguez

sammy sosa START SNITCHING
Still the internets best blog title.

TRAPPER JUAN
When this blogger isn’t taking care of stray rescued animals he’s reviewing kung fu flicks.
ozzie guillen

ricky henderson MODEL MINORITY
From the Bay to Brooklyn, Model Minority is trying to make a dollar out of fifteen cents.

AMADEO SOGNI
Thoughtful rants and under control hate spew from this brother’s mind.
rod carew

pedro martinez SUPA SISTA
My homegirl SOUP is part of the Los Angeles collective called the West Coast Blogging Hotties. Ask her to send you some of her pics of her wearing sandals. Hotness.

ZILLA SAYS
ZILLZ is one of the places that makes me laugh out loud. “What does it smell like?” is going to be a feature on this site in the near future.
young manny

carlos delgado Mr. KAMOJI
KAMOJI?!? Put Rebel Mag on the air already.

BIOCHEMICAL SLANG
You need to visit this spot more often because he drops some dope posts and he searches YouTube for some of the rarest music videos that you have never seen.
thurman munson

george brett TONY’s KANSAS CITY
TONY is a good buddy of mine although we have never hung out. I dig the way he focuses on politics and economics inside his hometown. If America is taken over by Mexicans I hope we make TONY el presidente.

NAH’ RIGHT
Nah’Right is a beast on the web scene for Hip-Hop news and views. His internets crack got these rap stans turning into strawberries (late 80’s lingo for dope fiends).
donnie baseball

the rocket OH WORD!
Oh Word! is the thinking man’s Hip-Hop blog. Hey RAFI, send me my DILLA shirt.

CRUNK & DISORDERLY
C & D is like having Thanksgiving dinner with WHITNEY HOUSTON, FLAVA FLAV and TRINA.

Everyday.

ozzie smith

albert pujols BYRON CRAWFORD
The internets begins here. This is still my favorite spot on the web to talk crazy shit since Comedy Central shut down their message boards. KANGAY WEST reads this site religiously. Nullus.

ESSENCE Magazine Doesn’t Really Care About Black Women

Sunday, July 9th, 2006

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I know how some of you good folks think that ESSENCE Magazine is the paradigm for progressive thinking on behalf of colored women, but I am here to tell you that is far from the truth.

A year ago I sat in the corporate offices of ESSENCE and listened to several editors AND the mag’s president tell me that none of their readers were familiar with the Black Codes, therefore the advertisement for the new Armani fragrance wasn’t offensive. I asked these women if they knew what the Black Codes were, and if they did how could they ever let this ad run opposite the editor-in-chief’s splash page? In the end of our meeting the ladies at ESSENCE agreed to disagree with me, but I had dissected their June issue like so much the frog in high school biology. What used to be one of the magazines best issues featuring tributes to fathers and summertime grooming tips had become a rag of shenanigans.

ESSENCE hates your Blackness and they teach you to hate it too. Notice how many ads are placed for products that help you remove the markers of you disease. I am so tired of Black women with blonde hair, but ESSENCE isn’t. They also will teach you how to shop away the disease of Blackness. ESSENCE and their publishers love your money and they will try to separate you from it on almost every page.

At the ESENCE Music Festival in Houston last week, the beautiful and courageous JILL SCOTT told a symposium that the time had come to discontinue consuming pop culture entertainment that was degrading to the Black community.

“It is dirty, inappropriate, inadequate, unhealthy and polluted,” SCOTT said. “We can demand more.”

It’s a good thing that she didn’t name names, because ESSENCE mag could have been at the top of her list.