Editor’s note: I know that we aren’t deep enough into baseball season to bring out the metaphors yet, but this drop from MAURICE G GARLAND over at Rezidue is a home run. To keep shit basketball we could call it a slam dunk. Enjoy.
With the Lakers and Celtics set to play in the NBA Finals, my suspicions have finally been confirmed. We are officially stuck back into the 80s.
Really though, look at it:
***A George Bush is in the White House.
***1980’s Movies are being remade.
Transformers
Indiana Jones
G.I. Joe (yes, that is Marlon Wayans)
***Rappers Sounding and Dressing Like This.
The Cool Kids
Life The Great
***Drug Epidemics
Seeing that Doug Collins will be coaching the Chicago Bulls again, I’m predicting that the 1980’s rehash will continue. I just hope good shit than bad comes back. Because something tells me when they finally get around to bringing Starter jackets back out, niggas are gonna go back to shooting for them. I also hope they keep mindless gang violence in the closet too, no need to bring that back. Oh yeah, they can also keep Jheri curls. Even though I had a couple pair of “Burger Kings” back in the day, I can’t say I’m hyped about seeing them return either. Nintendo’s (Wii) are back hot again, so that must mean that Atari is about to come back too.
Some of the things I hope to see return are:
$1.50 for gas
.75 cents to ride Marta
Berry Blue Kool Aid
Hawks in the Playoffs Semi-Finals
An influx of Intelligent Rap Music
Me not having to pay bills
What do ya’ll think?
I think the only way you’ll be happy is to get the train from Silver Spoons installed in your house with Alfonso Ribero as conductor. Don’t forget, Doug Collins sported the closest thing whiteness has ever come to a curl.
This post was cold kickin, funky fresh, and stupid dope!!!
Great post, word to the Cool Kids.
On a side note, Starter is pulling out of Wal-Mart and trying to make a come back. Even though they were hot like 90-93, just sayin’.
i say go farther back in the 80s when it was 60 cents to ride Marta (no Soulja Girl, just in case)…
It’ll really be like the 80’s if the Celtics do like they did in 1984 and beat L.A…but this time with an all Black lineup AND a Black coach!
Ubuntu! © Boston Celtics
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Oh man, I stayed up like half the damn night watching that Lakers/Celtics history thing on NBATV.
Great list, but there’s more. Consider that 20 years ago in 88 alone we had a black man that gave a serious run for the Democratic Nominee spot (Jesse Jackson), a TV writers strike, record high gas prices, and constant conflict in the Middle East. Shit never change I guess.
Son, I keep telling these young cats I’m not trying to see that 80’s gear. The rocking the wackest forms of it and I only see the dopeness in cats my age and older.
And….
Eddie Murphy is still putting out movies.
Brilliant
We really are the Greatest Generation.
Yo, this post was straight fire!!! I was born in the late 80’s and grew up in the 90’s and it would be dope to re-live the 80’s to the 90’s.