the bad rap: 4 unnecessary and undeserving villains of the black community

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“…and fake b*tches like beyonce and tyra banks need not apply”

–seen on a friend of a friend’s facebook profile last weekend, sandwiched somewhere between a “set it off” movie poster and an excessively airbrushed photo of benjamin bratt.

while we’ve already documented the peculiar feelings born from the idea 0f beyonce, the animus many hold towards tyra banks seems to be just as intense, and i’ve never really understood it.

although her tendency to store perished placental mammals on her head is a bit unnerving, she’s always struck me as altruistic, genuine, sincere, and blessed with such unbelievably spectacular boobage that i’ve actually individually named her breasts “genuine” and “sincere“…definitely not a person worthy of such miscellaneous hate.

thinking about tyra made me think of a few other things wrongly vilified by many in our community, and to further our commitment to crime fighting, i’ve decided to name three more.

black republicans

although a sizable percentage of them have less soul than pro-wings, i can’t fault the colored conservatives too much because their mere existence is proof that we’re not a monolithic mass of single-minded men and women. sure, we all love fried chicken, warm weather, and justin slayer, but thats where our blanket similarities end.

i can’t automatically discredit and discount someone who shares my complexion but disagrees with my views about taxes, capital punishment, and the reasoning behind affirmative action as long as they asses voted for obama

broken windows movie download kim kardashian

being suffocated with news about the homeless woman’s kim kardashian for the last week has made me much more appreciative of the real thing. so what if she has a thing for athletic looking black men with earning potential? so does michelle obama. and your mom.

as long as she continues to make laughably lethargic sex tapes instead of murking them in their sleep, she’s cool with me.

herpes

time bandits online download

tomorrow, somewhere between two and three thousand different people will probably read this entry. if the cdc’s stats are correct, twelve to sixteen hundred of them will have some form of herpes. although i’ll probably give their nasty asses their own seating section at the vsb bbq, i can’t continue to place the herp on the same mental mating monster list as the monster if half of the vsb-er’s have that sh*t. plus, with treatment and sh*t you can still ride horses, and who doesn’t love a nice horse?

diddy

along with paul mooney, ron artest, and my dad, diddy baron cohen makes the cut as the most entertaining black men in america, and the main reason why i can’t take him as seriously as many others seem to

is that i dont believe he takes himself seriously either.

the worlds a better place with diddy and diddy’s teeth in it.

i’m sure i’m missing a few. any additions?

—the champ

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  • overit

    another reasons hoodrats shouldn’t have FB accounts, profile names like “Candace “LetMeUpgradeYou” Williams and “Lamont “TymeToTurnItUpANotch” Jones.

    Why???

    I would add Britney. Now, I rarely get worked up re: anything a celeb does (except Mariah and her Kello Kitty room/guitar/pajamas/microphone/drapes/lamp/toothbrush ALLINONEVIDEO) but I really don’t understand the Britney hate. I have heard super long rants on everything from her parenting to her post concert snack choice, I mean dang! Who really cares all that much? I get more annoyed with Mariah Carey flying her dogs by private jet (I wanna sic Bono on her) than Britney’s….ways. I feel sorry for her if anything.

    That’s all I have to say for now, night night smart owls:)

    • http://www.singlesisterspeak.wordpress.com Nicki Sunshine

      @overit, Mariah makes me itch.

    • V Renee

      @overit,

      I have to agree with you on Britney. People didn’t understand why she was breaking down, when it was extra clear why she was.

      Thank goodness for her daddy. He came in and shut sh*t down.

    • AngelicNastyness

      A licking of the lips and lustful sigh for JUSTIN SLAYER. . .
      that is all for now. back to work

      • 8th Wonder

        @AngelicNastyness,

        Yes. Jesus.

      • miss t-lee

        @AngelicNastyness,
        Yes ma’am.

      • http://www.mysixcents.wordpress.com klysha

        @AngelicNastyness, ummm who is Justin Slayer??

        • miss t-lee

          @klysha,
          Wait til you get home and google.
          Seriously.

          • http://www.passmeashovel.com The Lioness

            @miss t-lee, Just hopped in to co-sign on Justin Slayer. In the past, I would have said Mr. Marcus but I met him in person and he came up to my navel.

    • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

      @overit,

      “another reasons hoodrats shouldn’t have FB accounts, profile names like “Candace “LetMeUpgradeYou” Williams and “Lamont “TymeToTurnItUpANotch” Jones.”

      says the person who has “reupandoverit” as their middle name on facebook

      • overit?

        @The Champ, lol, please. IF I were doing Wire nicknames, I’d def be “Z don’tplaythoseawaygames.

        • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

          @overit?,

          i’d go with “40degreeday”

          • overit?

            @The Champ, lol, that prob would’ve been in my top 5.

  • http://stuffghettopeoplelike.wordpress.com Stuff Ghetto People Like

    Vanilla Ice: He’s done no worse than the next guy (Rick Ross) at making up who he really was and covering up his past to get over. Besides “Ice Ice Baby” was rocked to by everyone before the story broke. He didn’t exactly wreck Hip-Hop.

    Kobe: Decided to beat everyone else to mentioning him because he’s treated like the guy who invented AIDS-infested nukes and aimed them all at Africa. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones IMO. Sure he’s said things he shouldn’t have (plenty), married a non-Black woman (at least she ain’t a 2520), and dared to go after the altar of a canonized player (himself noways a saint IMO), but the man’s done feats on the court that we are here to remember right now and tell about for years to come, especially when we start up with the Michael Jackson-esque revisionism when he dies.

    Jagermeister: Dammit, people, expand your horizons and your minds!! It’s like black licorice, only it gets you nice. Ninjas were sipping on cough syrup and dare to turn their noses up at something meant to be drank that tastes exactly like it (OK, I’m not helping my case, but still)….

    More later to be sure, I just had to compete for first comment on this post (Damn you, overit! Oh well, #2 will do).

    • Nola Darling

      @Stuff Ghetto People Like,

      Black liquorice ( pun intended) is gross. Drop by around halloween and you can also have my Good & Plenty candies (no pun/double entendre /alternate meaning intended) because those are equally as gross to me.

      • http://nianaturally.blogspot.com N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….

        @Nola Darling,

        Who doesn’t like Good & Plenty candy? it’s called good AND plenty….what’s not to like….

        • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

          @N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….,

          Speeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

        • miss t-lee

          @N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….,
          I’d prefer my candy not to taste like dirt and tragic failure.

          • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

            @miss t-lee and KindredSmile,

            accurate assessments of the gastronomic abomination that is Good ‘n Plenty. What a misnomer that is. YECH!

          • http://nianaturally.blogspot.com N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….

            ok

          • http://nianaturally.blogspot.com N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….

            @miss t-lee,
            ok, so i guess the name Good & Plenty is basically a jedi mind trick?

          • miss t-lee

            @N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall…. ,
            “ok, so i guess the name Good & Plenty is basically a jedi mind trick?”

            It’s good & plenty nasty…that’s all I know…lol

        • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

          @N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….,

          true story: my nephew manages a cvs, and told me that good and plentys are so “unsought” that they were the only item in the entire store to have dust on them. lucky, those sh*ts never go stale, so all he did was wipe the dust off the packs and restock em

          • http://nianaturally.blogspot.com N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….

            @The Champ,
            lol @ your nephew. it’s b/c i’ve never actually tasted good & plenty. i just figured it had to be good with a name like that…kinda like smuckers

      • http://www.kindredsmile.blogspot.com Kindred Smile

        @Nola Darling, I hate them. They taste like shoe polish and despair.

        • An Island

          @Kindred Smile

          LMBAO!

      • http://www.sistersoundoff.blogspot.com Cheekie

        @Nola Darling,

        UGH. HATE Black licorice. My mama loves that stuff and she never has to worry about me eating any of it. It is the epitome of failure in regards to candy. Candy is supposed to make the kids happy, not curl into a ball and cry.

        • miss t-lee

          @Cheekie,
          LOL!!! It’s funny, my sister loves black licorice, when we were kids we used to give her all the black jellybeans because otherwise they were getting thrown away…lol

    • Leila

      @Stuff Ghetto People Like, I’ve never seen so many guys get so worked up about someone they hated as much as Kobe. He can be selfish and arrogant, but which NBA player isn’t….

    • http://www.itssaulewright.blogspot.com Saule Wright

      @Stuff Ghetto People Like,

      Jagermeister…goodness. This stuff right here. I was first exposed to it in a drink called Liquid Cocaine. Just as the name implies…it’s no joke.

      • Dante_Alexander

        @Saule Wright,

        Jager, 151 and Goldschlager?

        I too, have drank from the cup of Cocaine. And it was good. tasted like a disgustingly cold piece of Big Red gum. Then I woke up the next Tuesday.

        • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

          @Dante_Alexander,

          I’ll take a Mind Eraser for $400, Alex.

        • http://nianaturally.blogspot.com N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….

          @Dante_Alexander,
          wow, that sounds a little dangerousinteresting. I may have to check that out….

        • http://www.itssaulewright.blogspot.com Saule Wright

          @Dante_Alexander,

          yep, just like I remember it.

      • http://www.twitter.com/Vivacious2 This Just In…Like Beyonce..Like Trinaaaaaaahhh

        @Saule Wright,

        24th birthday + 6 or 7 shots of Liquid Cocaine = 1 full 24 hour hangover…..
        therefore,
        Liquid Cocaine = Death in a glass

        I am NOT a fan.

        • http://www.museacdonline.com pgh muse

          @This Just In…Like Beyonce..Like Trinaaaaaaahhh,

          me neither. I’ve never had one… but just reading the ingredients makes me scared.

      • V Renee

        @Saule Wright,

        This is slightly off subject, but we made up a drink that we called Sweet Misery. It was a mixutre of Coke, 151 and Everclear. It was definitely a mind eraser.

        • http://www.itssaulewright.blogspot.com Saule Wright

          @V Renee,

          Lemme investigate…

      • The BDay GEM

        @Saule Wright,

        i don’t even remember what liquid cocaine tastes like. but i do remember my friend offering me a couple shots. what a nite!

        • http://www.itssaulewright.blogspot.com Saule Wright

          @The BDay GEM,

          Exactly….it’s not about the taste….

    • miss t-lee

      @Stuff Ghetto People Like,
      “Jagermeister: Dammit, people, expand your horizons and your minds!! It’s like black licorice, only it gets you nice”

      This ish is nasty.
      Good look with that.
      That is all.

      • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

        @miss t-lee,
        co-FRIGGIN-sign.

        I’ve never thrown up from being overly intoxicated, but I did gag, spit and dry heave after my first and ONLY Jagerbomb. No bueno.

        • miss t-lee

          @blackberry molasses,
          Yep…I don’t even eat licorice candy, so why would I wanna drink something that tastes exactly like it?
          Dry heave is right…

        • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

          @blackberry molasses,

          maybe i’m just a lush, but to me theres no discernible different between jagerbombs and dad’s root beer.

          • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

            @The Champ,

            methinks its time to refine your palate.

        • http://nianaturally.blogspot.com N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….

          @blackberry molasses,

          the first time i had a jager shot was in college, and i had no problem with the taste. then again, that’s probably b/c i was already wasted… but i have had it again, and when cold, the shot goes down smoother than some other liquors. at least for me it does.

          @Champ,
          it does kinda taste like a really strong root beer. kinda has the same after taste….

          • http://nianaturally.blogspot.com N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….

            @N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….,

            on second thought, i was on my third drink the other time i had it…which is why i thought it was smooth…everything goes down smoother when you’re already drunk….

          • miss t-lee

            @N.I.A. LivingLifeOffTheWall….,
            “everything goes down smoother when you’re already drunk….”

            Exactly. This is why most people are convinced that Jager is good…they are already drunk when they are drinking that ish…lol

      • http://stuffghettopeoplelike.wordpress.com Stuff Ghetto People Like

        @miss t-lee (and Nola darling for that matter), I do have to keep in mind how girls are about the taste of drinks (an American girl who appreciates brew is hard to find)…that’s why all the froo-froo stuff is aimed at y’all.

        Strip away the syrups and puckers and soders and stuff…those drinks tastes like cold death with a screwface to match (yes, even Hennessy). Real talk, if I was to focus on the taste of hard liks, everything from gin to Hpnotiq is absolutely vile.

        A chilled shot or two of Jager goes down smooth and has a pleasantly sweet and mildly spicy aftertaste.

        And while Black folks are quick to say Jager is strictly for 2520s, it was an Ethiopian chick that put me on to it!

        • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

          @Stuff Ghetto People Like,
          I’m a chick who takes her liquor straight or mixes the most amount of potent shyt together as she can. Eff the taste, I’ve got a goal when I drink.

          If I want to enjoy the taste of an alcoholic beverage, I’m drinking wine. Frou-frou drinks need not apply. Unless its Fat Tuesday’s 190 Octane Slushie. Grain alcohol+ whatever else they got in there= EXTREMELY HAPPY BBMo.

          • http://stuffghettopeoplelike.wordpress.com Stuff Ghetto People Like

            @blackberry molasses,

            If I want to enjoy the taste of an alcoholic beverage, I’m drinking wine.

            It’s one thing if you mean white zinfandel or sangria….but your average dry wine is beyond vile. There’s nothing there worth tasting, it’s just a bitter *ss glass of tannins. Pure swill right up there with Lake Pontchartrain…

          • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

            @Stuff Ghetto People Like,

            to each their own. I actually DO enjoy the taste of a delicious pinot gris or this argentinian cabernet someone put me on to recently. There are actually a myriad of complex flavors in a *good* wine that delight the palate. But your palate has to be trained. Not only that, but 60% of taste is actually smell, so if you can’t smell shyt, you won’t be able to taste shyt.
            Moreover, not all wines are “dry”… I would say the vast majority have some residual sweetness, if that’s what you are looking for. Try a German Riesling or a Sauternes. Or h3ll a nice fortified wine like port. Get you good and DONE and tastes yummo.

            White Zinfandel is the piss of wines (unless its from.. no, its still the piss of wines). Sangria isn’t wine. It is a wine based cocktail.

          • http://stuffghettopeoplelike.wordpress.com Stuff Ghetto People Like

            @blackberry molasses,
            Yeah, I’m far from a wine guy as of yet. Dry wines are only worth it if that’s what I’m offered, because hey, why not get nice? But if I’m buying, it’s gotta be at least semi-sweet. Hence my preference for white zinfandel, Manischewitz (LOL@ the screwfaces made when people read this word!), Carlo Rossi (that’s the “sangria” I was referring to) and such…

            I know the wine snob would see what I would buy and figure I may as well drink from a box.

            I’ll go after what you noted…though “fortified” makes me think of Night Train and Thunderbird (definitely frightening prospect).

          • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

            get with the wine program. its a certified panty-dropper. I’m not ashamed to admit that game has been run on me through the use of a good bottle.

            And ‘wine drunk’ is the best kind of drunk IMO. Everything is beautiful and feels delicious–you are the life of the party. And, (unless you had champagne or didn’t stick with one kind of alcohol) in the morning you just feel deeply rested.

        • miss t-lee

          @Stuff Ghetto People Like,
          ” I do have to keep in mind how girls are about the taste of drinks (an American girl who appreciates brew is hard to find)…that’s why all the froo-froo stuff is aimed at y’all.”

          Trust me, I know! I like my liquor to not taste like liquor. I need it to sneak up on me which is why I drink what I drink…lol My drink of choice, Mexican Martini made with Herradura silver tequila.

          Have you seen those Jager coolers? I was at a 2520 party and they had one of those. My thought? Ya’ll doing too dayum much up in here.

          • http://stuffghettopeoplelike.wordpress.com Stuff Ghetto People Like

            @miss t-lee, drinking is probably the only arena where we can learn a lot from 2520s. Not saying we gotta overdo it like frat parties, but being up on varieties of stuff only helps more than harms….

    • overit

      @Stuff Ghetto People Like, Damn you, overit! Oh well, #2 will do.

      loll, my bad!

    • K to the…

      @Stuff Ghetto People Like,

      Jagermeister: Dammit, people, expand your horizons and your minds!! It’s like black licorice, only it gets you nice. Ninjas were sipping on cough syrup and dare to turn their noses up at something meant to be drank that tastes exactly like it (OK, I’m not helping my case, but still)….

      That sh!t’s disgusting! I don’t enjoy eating black licorice, so I d@mn sure didn’t enjoy drinking it! Even though I was already inebriated. lol

    • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

      @Stuff Ghetto People Like,

      if i wasnt already convinced that kobe was nicolae carpathia, i’d agree with you.

    • OrangeStar616

      @Stuff Ghetto People Like,

      I um just wanted to add a better example would have been NWA ..folk act like Rick Ross the first dude to not exactly live the life he raps about LOL…So not the case and examples can be found all thru-out hip hop!!!

  • http://theyounganddisenchanted.wordpress.com/ puff

    supahead – ahem, i mean karrine steffans.

    i may or may not change my mind after i meet her tomorrow, but having read her book, i really don’t think she deserves all the shi*t she gets. yes she “exploited” the celebrities she slept with for money, but who in hollywood hasn’t stepped on someone to get where they are today? after all she’s been through, i kinda respect her hustle.

    • http://brandonsaintrandy.wordpress.com Brandon St. Randy

      @puff, Can you really respect that particular hustle though? Isn’t that part of our problem? We excuse every hustle as long as it makes a little cheese? Whore yourself out, tell kids to sell dope, snitch and then tell kids not to snitch? We’d do way better as a people if we learned to knock the hustle

      • http://theyounganddisenchanted.wordpress.com/ puff

        @Brandon St. Randy,

        i respect it insofar as i respect, for example, jay-z’s hustle: both of them did morally questionable things (her: sleeping with men to support herself and her son, him: selling dope to make his way out of the hood and onto the charts) that enabled them to escape becoming statistics. defying a system that’s pretty much set up to make you fail is something i respect; the way they went about it, not so much. but then again, i’ve never been in the same position as they have, so i don’t feel like i really have the right to judge.

        • http://brandonsaintrandy.wordpress.com Brandon St. Randy

          @puff, I question this whole set up to make you fail concept. Jay-Z’s sister has a square middle class job. There was nothing stopping Superhead from doing anything she wanted to do. People just make choices. Sure, Jay’s making a mint. What about all them dumb ass kids in jail who took “Friend or Foe” too seriously? And all them girls who just ended up pregnant and sidelined by, oh, say, Cassidy or Philly’s Most Wanted?

          • http://lizburr.com Liz

            @Brandon St. Randy, ….or Weezy, even?

          • http://theyounganddisenchanted.wordpress.com/ puff

            @Brandon St. Randy,
            i don’t think there being a black middle class automatically means that everyone can make it there… if that was the case, then there wouldn’t be people in jail/knocked by weezy f. baby. it sucks, and i wish it weren’t the case, but for some people i guess they just make the choices that, at the time, seem to make the most sense to them.

            with supahead, the fact that she was sexually abused as a child i guess played a role in the choices that she made as an adult… not saying that every person who is molested goes on to be a video vixen, i’m just saying the odds were stacked against her from jump.

            like i said before, i’m not going to hate on someone for being successful even if the way they went about it isn’t something i personally admire, it’s just not my style. i’ll just choose my role models elsewhere.

      • http://www.singlesisterspeak.wordpress.com Nicki Sunshine

        @Brandon St. Randy, co-signing.

    • http://lizburr.com Liz

      @puff, i think I agree with you. On some level I sometimes think she is a lot smarter than people give her credit for, or even more than you might see versus what you hear about her. But she snapped on me on twitter once, and I lost all respect for her. She’s quick to snap on people it seems.

      • Dante_Alexander

        @Liz,

        I knew a woman like Supahead. She was a prostitute.

        So I guess you’re no knocking THAT hustle, either?

        Okelly Dokelly then…

        • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

          @Dante_Alexander,

          I heart you for the use of okelly dokelly. I tought I was the only one.

          and as far as her being quick to snap on folks, its because she’s (like my e-chile overitey) suggested completely and utterly in a state of “defense”. All the freaking time. She expects people to attack her, and she probably lives by the “the best defense is a good offense” motto. Living your life defending a lifestyle and hustle that you know society has deemed shady will make you snippy.

          I don’t even want to know what kind of mockery her son goes through on the daily. That kid probably lives in two places… with his mom and with their therapist.

        • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

          @Dante_Alexander,

          “I knew a woman like Supahead. She was a prostitute.

          So I guess you’re no knocking THAT hustle, either?”

          LOL

        • http://lizburr.com Liz

          @Dante_Alexander, apples and oranges, and i never said i cant knock her hustle. i think i said shes a lot smarter than most people give her credit for.

          • Dante_Alexander

            @Liz,

            I’d never call her stupid.

            Slut, skank, whore, tramp, skeeo, skeezer, busto… these are words I’d use.

            Keep in mind I love ALL of these nouns/adjectives in terms of my sometimes self destructive personal choices in women.

            #youknowyouareahoodratwhen “You’ve ever used the phrase ‘Fook it girl, I needed the money’ when telling your homegirl about your last sexual encounter. Let alone your last… Hell, ALL of em.

    • overit

      @puff, ahh, the ‘ho shyt and mo shyt” debate. tis a classic round these parts.

      my thing is, whether or not she’s making money, i am sure a good chunk of that goes to a therapist. howe shyt is really not the business. i’ve only seen her speak once, and what i didn’t like about that was she never once said it wasn’t right, or even illustrate how men exploit weakened women. she was too busy being defensive. i understand being defensive, but if she had laid out the reasons that led to her choices: the abuse, esteem issues, etc so that many someone in the room working thruogh the same issues could relate, i’d be happy. no, she sat there and was on defense the whole time.

      • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

        @overit,

        “howe shyt is really not the business.”

        btw, this is also chapter seven in 8th wonder’s upcoming autobiography, “things ive learned through trail and error”

        • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

          @The Champ,
          *shots fired*

        • 8th Wonder

          @The Champ,

          I’m unfamiliar with TRAIL and error…what is it exactly?

          Chapter 8 in my upcoming autoB is entitled, “The Humpty Dance-Should EVERYTHING on his body be the size of an egg?: My run-ins with the Chump”.

          • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

            @8th Wonder,

            I call this battle in favor of Aif Wondra.

          • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

            me too actually. she won this round. good job and sh*t

          • overit?

            @8th Wonder, I’m unfamiliar with TRAIL and error…what is it exactly?

            LMAO. My girl.

  • http://brandonsaintrandy.wordpress.com Brandon St. Randy

    Fruits and vegetables
    Like real vegetables, not flavored carbonated drinks. Amazing how you people love every flavor of watermelon strawberry Mystic but wouldn’t eat a string bean not flavored with lard to save your life. Smoking blackberry cloves but hate tomatoes.

    Snitching
    I mean your neighborhood isn’t dangerous enough without a wall of silence to protect people that kill other black people, destroy the community’s economic interests, and generally wear down the quality of life so far that gay white gentrifiers can come in and buy up houses for next to nothing? Cause trust me, they snitching. Calling the gang force hotline every time they see a ni**a in a blue shirt walking a pit bull. And in three years, when your ass is priced out of the neighborhood, they’ll be laughing their snitch asses to the bank when they flip that house for $300k in profit.

    Michale Steele
    Naw, just kidding, but y’all started it with the Black Republican thing. That’s one of the three other blacks I honestly would not stand in the way of them being sold back into slavery. Ray-J and Chance, you boys have fun picking sugar cane.

    • http://stuffghettopeoplelike.wordpress.com Stuff Ghetto People Like

      @Brandon St. Randy, I was gonna touch on snitching, but left it alone. It’s one thing to have issue with a criminal ratting out his partner in crime…but to have a problem with law abiding and innocent citizens telling the boys about crime that’s wrecking their town with the power of a bull (no one will get that reference) is what makes the Black community its own poison. As if they’re really doing something honorable by acting all shook in their homes.

      • http://www.singlesisterspeak.wordpress.com Nicki Sunshine

        @Stuff Ghetto People Like, I agree.

      • Dante_Alexander

        @Stuff Ghetto People Like,

        “It is forbidden to send a ninja to prison if you’ve been in it along with him and then snitch and become hidden” — Obie Trice

        Thus ends the first (and last) time I quote the man they call Obie.

        Cam wouldn’t snitch on a serial killer living next door.

        Fookin idiot.

        • http://stuffghettopeoplelike.wordpress.com Stuff Ghetto People Like

          @Dante_Alexander, that’s the thing though, tipping the boys about the serial killer living next door or someone who raped your sister isn’t snitching, it’s doing the right thing.

          There’s a difference between that and what I see Obie means, e.g. some dude selling out his accomplice for less jail time or a jilted lover of a drug dealer mad because he didn’t buy her a $500 bag. That’s where these idiot hood and rap nookas get it twisted as they try to terrorize the community into a culture of letting every Tom, Dick, and Harry get away with foul crimes.

        • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

          @Dante_Alexander,

          Cam wouldn’t snitch on a serial killer living next door.

          when i heard him say that, i was secretly hoping that the cameraman would have peed in his face.

          he’s a f*cking assclown, and i don’t even know what an assclown is, other than the fact that cam’ron is one

          • miss t-lee

            @The Champ,
            I watched that episode of 60 minutes when he said that…I was like Florida Evans when she threw that punch bowl.

          • http://cookinwitgrease.wordpress.com Chas

            @The Champ, i heard he later said he was wrong for saying that. altho i didn’t actually hear it, i read it so i could be lying.

    • Humble_One

      @Brandon St. Randy,

      I agree with you on the snitching thing. People don’t even know what snitching is anymore. For example, if you are outside of MY HOUSE disturbing me and mines with your customers and I call the police I am not snitching. I am a civilian and what you do should have no bearing on me. I use to hustle and I know the rules. Dudes don’t know the difference b/w snitching and being responsible for your community.

    • K to the…

      @Brandon St. Randy,

      ‘Bout time some recognize the true gangsta of vegetables!!! Chuuch!

  • Nola Darling

    Enunciation – try getting your point across eloquently to a group of black folks ( read:ninja’s). The only question you’ll get in the Q & A portion is “Where you from?” and/or “Why you sound white?”

    Education – reading, spelling, math, and all of the disciplines under the sun. I am saddened by a cashier that is stuck like chuck when the register isn’t working and they’d rather take 5 minutes to locate a calculator than do the math in their head. I am also saddened by kiddies who seem to have the metric system down thanks to gucci man and oj the juiceman but can’t do long division.

    Saving money – Fools don’t get pensions and 401k’s don’t grow on trees. If you plan on getting old or at least being buried in something other than a shoebox you’d better save some dough. Living paycheck to paycheck or hustle to hustle is the anti-cute and you’d better have some money in a bank or mattress to see you through hard times and old age. We’d rather spend our money on rims, chains, and a fresh fit though.

    • http://jdivaonline.com chaoticdiva

      @Nola Darling,

      Agreed. On all three.

    • WestIndianArchie

      @Nola Darling,

      Yeah, you’d be sitting pretty if you had all your money in a 401K right now……oh wait

      • Dante_Alexander

        @WestIndianArchie,

        403(b) For the Win. Especially if your company has a matching program…

        • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

          @Dante_Alexander,

          finding out that your company has a matching program is the adult equivalent of getting a h*nd job for the first time.

          ***btw, this made much more sense in my head. i probably should have kept in there***

          • Dante_Alexander

            @The Champ,

            Oddly, I knew EXACTLY what you meant, though.

            It’s like, I could do this myself, and it’d be great… but I can get somebody to do this WITH/FOR me? Jeebus Cripes, that’s OUTSTANDING news!

            I worked at the Y, and the matching program was 12% of my gross salary. That was not just a hand job in the Navigator outside the Manoogian Mansion, it was a double-handed super astroglide special during a movie with gratuitous chex scenes. Swedish.

          • A Plus

            @The Champ, and you know there were fools in my company that wouldn’t participate! i’m like you idgit, it’s FREE MONEY!!!!

          • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

            @The Champ,

            That was not just a hand job in the Navigator outside the Manoogian Mansion, it was a double-handed super astroglide special during a movie with gratuitous chex scenes.

            ummm…thanks for the imagery.

      • http://www.museacdonline.com pgh muse

        @WestIndianArchie, lmao.. just mean about the 401ks!

        What goes down is bound to come back up. Now seems to be a good time to buy if you ask me. On the other hand – if there are folks out there who had pension funds that where absorbed by bankrupt corps – that’s straight BULLshyt.

    • http://www.singlesisterspeak.wordpress.com Nicki Sunshine

      @Nola Darling, CHECK!

  • nia

    Tyler Perry.

    That is all.

    • http://lizburr.com Liz

      @nia, so you think Tyler Perry doesn’t get the respect he deserves?

      I think he isn’t vilified enough. but i might be swayed in the other direction, after all he is helping fund my new favorite movie, Precious.

      • overit?

        @Liz, is Precious really your new favorite movie? I was in a book club a few years back, and we had to read Push by Saphire, the book its based on. TRAUMA! I am still traumatized, and I gave away the book.

        • http://lostwomanchild.blogspot.com blackberry molasses

          @overit?,
          Were you in my book club? I ran a book club for a group of teens in SW philly and we read Push. It was like a train wreck. So ugly but couldn’t put it down.

          TP is making a movie out of this? I wonder how he’s going to handle it. *thinks for a moment* I’se scurred.

    • Dante_Alexander

      @nia,

      Tyler Perry is another “Respect his hustle” thing, and I think it’s a crock.

      All his movies are, in my humblest opinion, hot garbage on a roadkill platter, served with a side of black licorice.

      The reason people enjoy his movies? We’re fooked up as a people. Laughing at our shortcomings and calling it good cinema when it has crappy dialogue, terrible actors (at least in supporting roles) and what not is fookin stupid. Again, in my most humble opinion.

      There’s a reason why only the ninjas really dug the play “Don’t tell momma I’m pregnant by a thug, cuz that woman art loosed herself!” C’mon now…

      • http://cookinwitgrease.wordpress.com Chas

        @Dante_Alexander,
        “The reason people enjoy his movies? We’re fooked up as a people. Laughing at our shortcomings and calling it good cinema when it has crappy dialogue, terrible actors (at least in supporting roles) and what not is fookin stupid. ”

        *stands up and starts slow clap*

  • http://lizburr.com Liz

    i LOOOOVE tyra. even way before she was ANTM tyra or tyra show tyra. always did, always will, even if sometimes i catch a glimpse of tyra when she’s “off” and she looks a lil evil or snide. i might be too tho, if i were as badd as her. shoot.

    diddy, i seriously think dude is really insecure but can’t wallow in it because he has goals and a show to keep up. ever since i started following him on twitter i have deduced that he (like some other celebs) just needs constant validation. it’s quite funny how this works, actually.

    • Dante_Alexander

      @Liz,

      You KNOW he’s insecure. Somebody told him he had a weak chin, so he grew a goatee.

      Tuh. The nerve.

      I despise Diddy, but it is what it is. He’s just the Baarry Gordy for the new millennium, minus the stones to dangle folks out of windows and kill first born children.

    • Suga&Spice

      @Liz, It is that same constant need for validation that drives most of them to become so successful at their craft/profession.

      • http://lizburr.com Liz

        @Suga&Spice, agreed.

    • http://www.sistersoundoff.blogspot.com Cheekie

      @Liz,

      I think the thing with Tyrais that she tries a little too hard to be “down”. Like she extra-emphasizes it too much to actually be believable. And she has the uncanny ability to make every single interview about herself. I was cracking up when she gave Miley Cyrus a picture of herself when she was a teen.

      The reason I can’t be truly mad at her, though is because when she’s crazy…she’s CRAZY. And it’s hilarious.

      • http://lizburr.com Liz

        @Cheekie, well i def agree Tyra is a big ole cornball. I can’t knock her hustle tho, and i love her for it.

    • overit?

      @Liz, co-sign, I love her too, always have.

  • http://jdivaonline.com chaoticdiva

    Non-rap/R&B. There are a lot of great songs/artists that don’t fall under this genre that are listenable. For instance, Sara Bareilles. Soulful, plays piano, and is considered pop. I hate when my roommate will look at me for listening to “non-black” music like I’m an alien or a traitor or something.

    Mixed Clubs Just because white people go there doesn’t make it a bad club.

    Latinos. I have heard so many black folks say that “blah blah blah, Latinos haven’t struggled like black folks did, because we were once slaves”. Guess they forgot that it was the Portuguese and the Spaniards that raped and enslaved those south of the border. (Slavery didn’t end until 1888 in Brazil, not to mention, they’re 88% black in population. Know your history). Plus, it is possible to be Black and Latino (*cough cough*).

    Tea. Dude, its a cure-all.

    • http://www.singlesisterspeak.wordpress.com Nicki Sunshine

      @chaoticdiva, AMEN. I feel you on the music and on the mixed clubs… me and my beau ended up at this Latino club in Chicago (albeit by mistake) but he b&tched A LOT.. talm’bout (wrck: MIK), “where are all the black people we saw before?” I wanted to knock him down the stairs.

    • http://twitter.com/ReverendDrDash Legendary Dash

      @chaoticdiva,

      Maybe these are not Southern negros. Where I am from tea is often the beverage of choice, even over red, grape, and the greatest KoolAid flavor of all, green.

      I don’t like mixed clubs either. I am not attracted to snowbunnies, and reverse vitiligo sisters are the anti-fine. Plus the only club fights I have ever gotten into, and the worst dancefloor experiences I have ever had in my life occurred at mixed joints. The music sucks as well. I swear they will play about 30 remixes of Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop”. The original version sucked enough.

      • http://www.mysixcents.wordpress.com klysha

        @Legendary Dash, in the south Sweet Tea (Iced) is the beverage of choice….they aren’t really up on hot tea down there…trust me I was once one of them

        • http://twitter.com/ReverendDrDash Legendary Dash

          @klysha, I grew up drinking sassafras, green, and chamomile tea.

      • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

        @Legendary Dash,

        lol, you can always tell a mixed club by the dj, who all seemingly have the exact same “what a 26 year old white woman who exclusively dates black men would listen to in her scion” go-to playlist.

        • overit?

          @The Champ, which is mostly Lil Wayne, lol.

      • http://cookinwitgrease.wordpress.com Chas

        @Legendary Dash, two of my best club going experiences were in mixed clubs. better music than most black ones that still believe the gateway to southern music begins with “knuck if you buck” and ends with “lean wit it, rock wit it.” however, my mixed clubs were in vegas, so i really don’t know about regular ones.

        • http://twitter.com/ReverendDrDash Legendary Dash

          @Chas,

          I haven’t heard “Knuck if you Buck” and “Lean Wit it Rock Wit It”. Florida clubs tend to give you more Island music and Miami and Tampa flavor.

      • http://1flamboyantchiq.blogspot.com flamboyantchiq

        @Legendary Dash,
        thats funny

    • miss t-lee

      @chaoticdiva,
      Tea. Dude, its a cure-all.

      I love tea. But then, again…I have to. :)

    • http://www.sistersoundoff.blogspot.com Cheekie

      @chaoticdiva,

      “I hate when my roommate will look at me for listening to “non-black” music like I’m an alien or a traitor or something.”

      Yeah, I HATE that ish.

      I always retort with, “Well, Black folks made every genre of music and the 2520s stole it so in essence, it’s still Black music”. lol

    • A Plus

      @chaoticdiva, co-signing your entire post

  • http://www.itssaulewright.blogspot.com Saule Wright

    Hip Hop. Yeah, I said it.

    • http://stuffghettopeoplelike.wordpress.com Stuff Ghetto People Like

      Especially the kind of Hip-Hop you won’t hear on 106 & Park or in the club.

      • http://www.itssaulewright.blogspot.com Saule Wright

        @Stuff Ghetto People Like,
        exactly!

  • Jamaicangirl

    Joe Jackson

    I kid I kid, that man should be sentenced to life in jail wearing nothing but mama tina beddazled creations.

    • http://verysmartbrothas.com The Champ

      @Jamaicangirl,

      lol, i have something in store for mr. jackson later this week

    • http://www.sistersoundoff.blogspot.com Cheekie

      @Jamaicangirl,

      I need him to step off of this earth for saying he wanted to make MJ’s kids the “Jackson 3″. I pray to everything that is holy that his hot morning breath doesn’t even go near those kids.

      • http://hunnybeezhive.blogspot.com Beez

        @Cheekie,

        That pissed me off to no avail. He needs not be nowhere near those kids with his melted Jack O’ Lantern face. Scouting talent in your own grandkids?

        *fumes*

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