Archive for the ‘5000’ Category

Wall Street Is The Financial Iceberg…

Monday, August 8th, 2011

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Would Wall Street have bitten the bailout hand of George Bush Jr.? PrA’li. It’s only about race to the most pedestrian observer in this clusterfuck. This is all about the consolidation of wealth.

Americans think they are wealthy because they have flat screens televisions and $500 mobile phones, but the truth is that Americans live way above their income levels and carry an individual debt load that would cripple most third world countries.

We are about to become a third world nation ourselves, or at least in our poorest precincts like Detroit, St. Louis, Kansas City and Camden. Get ready to sell off all your Nike Air Max sneakers. You are gonna need that money to buy yourself some oxygen.

Words For My Father…

Sunday, July 31st, 2011

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When someone told me I had already dropped my Baltimore story it made me think about what it is I am trying to convey by telling my life experiences on this website. From founding the Decepticons to being a five and dime drug dealer these stories aren’t meant to regale the reader with the notion that I was a gangster.

In truth, these stories are meant to show how far I have come in my understanding of what brotherhood and manhood actually requires. I don’t want to be anyone’s hero either. I don’t deserve those accolades. I just want to pay back a debt I owe to the people who helped shape me, protect me, inform me and ultimately save me.

Without Megatron, the rabbi or my father this website wouldn’t even exist. My whole online profile would be nil. Looking outside of my window I can say that none of this shit is about me. It begins and ends with Mr. Penn who married my mom when I was five years old. He knew a lot about sacrificing himself to reach his goals.

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Today, on Mr. Penn’s birthday I am going to re-pledge myself to telling my story properly. With the right focus and the right aim. I’m sure that someone will know someone who can benefit from the knowledge that all is not lost when they have heart and believe. The book is gonna be called ‘The Transformation’.

‘The Transformation’ will start in my teenage years when I separated myself from my giving tree. I’ll tell you all about my failures in Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami and how I took these losses and converted them into lessons. I learned to love my life for the rainy days because they allow me to fully appreciate the sunshine. And everybody loves the sunshine.

I won’t have to tell some of y’all to stay tuned since y’all have been on this page since it went live in August 2005. Back then my homey Paris told me to write the book. He was right and now I will be write. Even when I was young my swag was grown man and that’s because Megatron, the rabbi and my dad kept their eyes on me. If they could see me now they would be happy their efforts weren’t in vain.

Let’s go internets.

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Get Ready For Combat…

Friday, July 29th, 2011

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Shooting from the lip never actually killed anyone.

I apologize for this drop. The show’s podcast still isn’t loaded. The Combat Jack Show is looking for a few good men [ll]. Hit me up if you’re interested in joining the team

*UPDATE*UPDATE*UPDATE*UPDATE*UPDATE*

The Combat Jack Show (Don Will) 7-27-11 by PNCRadio

SNEAKER FIENDS UNITE!

Friday, July 29th, 2011

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I was all hyped to hit up my favorite little Nike SB shop when I was in Atlanta. It just so happened that the highly coveted ‘Space Jam’ Dunk was being released the weekend I was in town.

Ambush in Kennesaw had been kryptonite to the hypebeasts up to this point. Everytime I fell thru that spot they always had my size on the shoes that were long since sold out everywhere else.

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Not this time tho’. The hypebeasts descended upon Ambush and raided their stash before I could even get a chance to see one of these Dunks in person.

Oh well, I have these pics at least…

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Do You Know What Time It Is?

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

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Paragon Sports was the spot where you copped all your official high end hiking gear. Paragon wasn’t the type spot you could steam thru. You would have had to be the illest booster of ALL TIME to rack ta Paragon. If you tell me you used to boost up there you lose all credibility to me. The 10th Floor of Lord & Taylor was an easier rack.

One of the points of status for a street kid in NYC was to be able to copp some shit from a store like Paragon. This is where you bought your K-Swiss, or your New Balance. Having a shopping bag from Paragon was on some level like Saks 5th Ave. Niggas from the hood didn’t go to Paragon, they went to Modell’s or V.I.M.’s or the local Army+Navy spot. Paragon was my spot since I copped my OG 40 Belows from there in 1987.

I had some bread from my nickel and dime late night white dealing in the downtown clubs. Let me not minimize the cash I had at the time since it was several hundred bucks. I was going to Paragon on a mission to blow my grip. The shit that I was hot for at the time was time immortalized. The hottest watch in the game was the Tag-Heuer ‘Formula 1’.

Tag had the sporty style and Swiss movement of the slickest watches but the pricepoint that allowed a regular nigga to live large. Paragon had a sale on the timepieces too. If I had another chance at this moment I would have copped two(2) watches. As a comic collector I was always fond of doubling up so that I always had a mint condition item to rock out for a special occasion.

I was on my way to Paragon on Monday after I got back from a weekend visiting my shorty at Morgan State. Things in B’More didn’t work out for me as I had planned. When I finally got back to Queens my life had changed irreparably. I wasn’t going to be copping a watch. I was lucky just to be alive. Chasing this lifestyle just almost got me merc’ked. You wanna hear the story?

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