Thoughts On The Light-Skinned Beef Heard Round The World, And More…

It was all good just a week ago

1. The Increasingly Bizarre Chris Brown (IBCB for short) is becoming a caricature of himself

You know how in every crime/heist movie, there’s always that one skittish and perpetually sweaty guy who no one really wants to talk to, no one ever wants to partner with, no one trusts with a gun? The guy with strange clothes and “unique” hygiene that’s only involved with the crew because…well, no one really knows why he’s involved with the crew, and the only reason his character was even written was to provide an in-house foil to annoy (and potentially sabotage) the rest of the characters?

Well, I’m not going to say that IBCB is becoming that guy, but IBCB is becoming that guy. His continued descent from “boy next door” to“that sweaty, skeevy, rapey guy with the platinum Caesar and the sleeveless jean jacket doing push-ups in a bar bathroom” has been amazing to witness. You can even argue that Britney Spears is the only other celebrity ever to go from “widespread heartthrob” to “person who creeps the hell out of everyone with an IQ over 86” as quickly as he has.

***“BOY FIGHT! Thoughts on the (Alleged) Drake v. Chris Brown Beef”— my latest at Ebony.com (and an article I obviously did not title) — lists four of my initial thoughts about what could be the most entertaining beef in hip-hop history. While I definitely want you to go over there and read the rest of the list, here are a couple more quick things I want to add

1. As much as I chide toughDrake for being, to quote Big Ghost, “the human electric slide,” I actually don’t dislike him or his music at all. I know his latest album was full of songs that may not even actually be songs, but I’ve stopped expecting him to live up to the expectations he set with “So Far Gone” and “Comeback Season” and just accepted him for who he is — a diabolical (Yes. Diabolical. “Marvin’s Room” was some diabolical-ass shit) stripper-saving “Merchant of Cuddles,” and a talented guy who makes decent albums that you wouldn’t be caught dead actually listening to.

2. Apparently, a three-way series of passive aggressive Rihanna-related tweets between toughDrake, IBCB, and…Meek Mill preceded all of this. Somewhere, Suge Knight is spinning in his grave. (and eating waffles)

3. Rihanna still scares the shit out of me. And by “scares the hell out of me” I mean “somehow simultaneously arouses and scares the hell out of me.” I’ve never been more attracted to a woman who I didn’t think was really all that attractive. Her p*ssy is a paradox, and I somehow feel haunted by it just by typing her name. Basically, she’s the coital “Candyman.”

If this doesn’t make any sense, good. It doesn’t to me either.

***Before you leave today, I want you to go and check out Anything But Style. It’s a fashion blog run by a good friend of mine, and she decided to celebrate her blog’s one year anniversary by launching her own online vintage clothing store today. Although she’s a (gasp) Delta, I’m very proud of her for setting a goal and doing what she needed to do to accomplish it.

***Lastly, check out A.P., this week’s Very Smart Single, and hit us up at contact@verysmartbrothas.com if interested in getting to know her better.

That’s it for me today. People of VSB.com, what’s new on your ends of the world and shit?

—Damon Young (aka “The Champ”)

345 thoughts on “Thoughts On The Light-Skinned Beef Heard Round The World, And More…

  1. Both Rihanna and E. Badu need to bottle up and sell whatever it is in those vaginal walls that makes n*ggas go crazy, or at least write a (someehat weird/creepy) self-help book; they’d make a killing. That is all.

  2. I rolled out of bed laughing after I read it on my twitter lol! Based on the details, this was the definition of a ninja moment. Heck Drake stole a page out of Gangstalicious lifestyle lol. But what kills me the most about it is the response that i have heard quite a few dudes I know say and the repeated it from Meek and drake: How can anyone lay claim to Rihanna’s ish since she has apparently been with everyone? I had a simpler way of saying that but I don’t want to offend people

    • “How can anyone lay claim to Rihanna’s ish since she has apparently been with everyone? I had a simpler way of saying that but I don’t want to offend people”

      And by “offend people”, do you mean the obsessed (and quite deranged) stans of Drake, Chris Brown and Rihanna? It’s not like it’s going to hurt them- after all, their primary fanbase is pretty much little kids, LMAO!!!

    • TBH…I don’t get the whole “Rihanna sleeps around” meme. So far, we’ve seen her with Chris Brown, Matt Kemp, Drake (??), and Dudley model boy. Her name was linked with Ashton Kutcher and Ryan Phillipe in the tabloids, and conspiracy theorists liked to claim she was Jay-Z’s other woman, but other than that–who else? If anything, we’ve just seen Drake crying and whining over her for the past two or three years after she apparently smashed and moved on.

      • @Gigi

        Yeah, I don’t get how Rihanna is doing that much either. But if a woman celeb walks down the street with someone the blogs all say she’s sleeping with that person. So I guess that’s why there is that perception.

        • exactly, and why wasn’t jayz added to the list? if she had better people (and she’s obv not dating the “marryin’ types) or more cash, we wouldn’t have a clue. most people have no idea how many people are being smashed @any given time…

      • One word: Carribbean. That Is. All. I imagine she is like a Siren in those greek mythology thingies. Sings and dancces to lure them and leaves them soulless. She probably has a lil vial necklace where lies all there souls *giggling*

      • She’s a heaux cause she’s pretty and the men who want her are pissed cause she doesn’t want them. If they had dumped her and never looked back, what would she be? Poor sad girl who got used. But because they’re crying over her, she’s a heaux. Basic rejected male coping techniques

        • “She’s a heaux cause she’s pretty and the men who want her are pissed cause she doesn’t want them.”

          I’m sure that’s part of it.
          but also her music is azz and she only remains relevant by basically being photod pretty much naked all of the time and fukin industry nigga’s or at least having the media savvy to be rumored as fuggin whoever’s currently hot. i can’t knock her hustle. that’s the climate we’re in now. be famous for famous sake!
          flash a tit tay for mediatakeout, and that’ll buy you another 10-15 minutes of fame.

          personally she’s not really cute to me.

          trashy? yes..
          would i fuq? of course give me a kevlar lined condom and some o dat sauce and we can get it in…
          hell with a little sauce, i’d hump a tree……

          • Puh. Leez. You’d be down on both knees with the biggest rock you could get at the pawn shop begging her to marry you if she gave you the time of day. Quit fronting.

  3. HOT MOTHERFRIGGGIN DAMN, ALY-my arch nemsis, YOU ARE FLAMING H.O.T!!!!!!!!!!!

    OLOLOLOLOLOLOLOMAYOOOOOO *holding head while simultaneously screaming*(that’s how we do it in the modaland)

    Flawless skin-check
    Gorgeous eyes-check
    Beautiful twa-check
    Freckles-MARRY ME!

    Wish you all the very best girl!!!!!!!

  4. #teambreezy! F*ck drake & the wheelchair he rode in on. He irks me so bad hes a lame & a b*tch. He wouldnt last 5 minutes in a room alone with chris brown’s crazy azz. Chris would do him like he did rhianna! *Too soon?* Na, i dont think so….

    • I’ll never understand why people stan so hard for a mediocre singer and songwriter who pretty much regulates himself to a glorified back up dancer when performing because he has an inability to dance and sing simultaneously.

        • +1 On Trey Songz, don’t know or care much about Tank (is he still alive), but I like J.Cole. He’s not a lyrical genius or nothin but he can rap and makes good songs.

          • Tank is still alive and he just put out a new album called “This Is How I Feel”. He’s mostly a singles artist with no great or classic albums, and having his fans obseesing over his looks don’t help his case either.

            As far as J. Cole, I’d like him much better if someone else produced his songs, he has a little bit of talent as a rapper, but as a producer he really needs to stop- like right now!

            • I looked up pics of Tank, and besides the fact that he’s definitely a muscular dude, I’ve given up on trying to figure out what women consider physically attractive.

              As for Cole, maybe you’re right. (You are the music and pop culture encyclopedia and sh*t) I wasn’t blown away by the production (didn’t know he did it himself) but I did like his album a lot and many of the beats were perfect for his style of flow, so i don’t know. I can only see him getting better, which would put him ten steps ahead of most of the new rappers I’m aware of

              • You don’t see how Tank is attractive??? That’s like a woman saying she doesn’t see how men think Beyonce is attractive. Most gorgeous individual in the world? Nah. Attractive? Duh! :)

                I have yet to be impressed by J. Cole; he’s kinda like Talib Kweli or Wale to me, in that he obviously can rap, but he’s just not very interesting. These rappers don’t have delivery anymore. Ludacris and Kanye West are the only current ones I can think of that rap in anything other than a monotone.

                You know who I want to make it so I can hear more from him? That kid Astro from the X factor. I stumbled across this video of him on YouTube a while ago (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWlwSHCvXUs …funny enough, Rihanna happens to be in this one) and proceeded to look up every single video I could find of him rapping. He was like 12, writing all his own raps, beatboxing and sh!t…killin it.

            • “As far as J. Cole, I’d like him much better if someone else produced his songs, he has a little bit of talent as a rapper, but as a producer he really needs to stop- like right now!”

              ^ this ^
              he needs a better producer…

        • I mean, the kid CAN dance. I for sure can’t pull that shit off. And I’m not even a fan.

          Though Beautiful People was my ish though.

      • Thanks, cuz Chris is a marginal talent at best. The guy can dance, and I give him credit for writing some of his material, but I never understood the hype. His voice is straight garbage and he’s a Mike Jack ripoff. Complete ripoff.

        He definitely does not reflect “real” music, IMO.

    • I see…..a……Pusha T Feat. Chris Brown Exodus 23:1 Remix coming very soon.

      All I could say when all this went down is that Pusha T called it.

  5. Why are these ninjas so thirsty over Public Property Pu$$y? *runs out to trademark PPP* Seriously, y’all are young, rich and famous and can’t bag another chick?

    Meanwhile, the Queen of Barbados is probably banging some other dude and/or chick.

    I’m waiting for Part II, when Drake gets ostracized CB-style for beating Nicki Minaj…when he finds out she’s been banging RihRih, too. You know it will happen.

    • Word. Why can’t they just say “OK, you smashed her? Cool. How was it for you?” or on the occasion that you and your boy tend not to smash the same chicks “How did you two come across? Really, I didn’t know she hung out at (location you didn’t know dude was at). We need to kick it there sometime.” That should be it. Lame a$$ ninjas!

      • @Todd

        Thats exactly what non-corny dudes do. You laugh that you smashed the same chic, trade and compare stories on how you smanged her, or you school dude on what to do to smang the chic. There is no beefing over community p***y. I don’t get these new n****s.

        • +1 – These ninjas are a rare hybrid breed of diva dude and simp that wanna be tough so badly that they’re unintentionally caricatures of themselves. That scrawny siren got em losin the lil wits they had left lol

        • Maybe they were in love with her? It’s still lame and corny as hell, I’m just saying I think she’s a little more than “community p*ssy.”

          Drake and Chris Brown are both b!tch@ss ninjas…I have felt this way for a long time. Maybe Rihanna just has a preference for b!tch@ss ninjas lol.

          • ” Maybe Rihanna just has a preference for b!tch@ss ninjas lol.”

            haha, touche and sh*t. Good point. So that means this whole situation ironically reflects worse on Meek Mill than the other goofballs lol

          • Well, community pu$$y is at your own risk. If you know that she’s on some Crew Love ish (No Weeknd) then you don’t have a right to complain. Now if she hid this ish, and your peeps didn’t give you the scoop that’s something else. That means you’re about some worthless ninjas. But otherwise, Slick Rick had it right. Treat like a prostitute. Don’t give her all your love before you know the scoop!

          • “Maybe Rihanna just has a preference for b!tch@ss ninjas lol.”

            Basically. Same for Erikah Badu. Their vags aren’t powerful. It’s just that they choose men who are vags.

    • Hold up.

      The title of Queen of Barbados was, and forever shall be, bestowed upon Alison Hinds. Rihanna is not worthy.

        • Smdh what is wrong with ppl theese dayz? Wheres the respect for human life? Dude sprayed up the whole damn party! Senless, jus terrible.

          • You wanna know what’s the worst part of it? One of the guys who was involved in the fight could have easily walked away from it to prevent what happened. The one dude who started the fight was deeply hurt that one of his friends had been killed in the fight. What he failed to realize was that if he didn’t instigate the whole thing, his friend would have still been alive, SMH.

            • He probably did realize though. Only problem is jerks like PA keep remindin him smh lol, jk. That’s an awful story though. I heard about it a few days ago and was speechless. That’s the main reason I told yall yesterday I don’t play the “horna” role no more (I’m so stealin that word from the Trinis lol)

              • Ha! Your welcome.

                I definitely played the horna-man role one time. Didn’t end well. I mean, I was fine, just lost the girl’s friendship, and well, she ended up single. Oops.

              • It was a shocking and quite sad story in the community, man. But Auburn has a long history of crimes that happened in this area that made people go “WTF?!”. Case in point: A woman I worked with once shocked everyone at the job when we found she was a big time meth dealer, LOL! We found out about her arrest in the local paper of all places!

                • Ha! She was ridin around and gettin on da low huh? Yeah, most people would be surprised at how many ppl deal drugs and even moreso by what some of them look like. Stereotypes work in SOOOOO many people’s favor. I’m just sayin

                    • http://youtu.be/MGmOiSMdr6c

                      In case you listen to this and are still saying, “what???” a Horna Man is a man that is basically a wife-stealer. He messes with women who are taken. In this song, somebody took his wife. “Somebody horn de horna man” and now… he’s crying. lol.

    • It’s Roll Tide till I die, but you hate to see situations like this happen to anybody. Truly a sad story.

  6. A guy who can’t sing and a guy who can’t rap fighting over a woman who can’t sing. That pretty much sums up the music scene these days.

    • I disagree with you on Chris Brown not being able to sing. If he actually felt like having a singing career instead of a pop star pretty boy career, he could have it. Otherwise, I agree with you. LOL

      • Agreed. Either way, i dont think u can take anything away from CB, talent wise. Hes a true tripple threat. I would say we havent seen anyone like that since usher, but usher cant act! Did anyone see “in the mix?” Rotflmao. No? Oh ok. One person did? Oh, ok :-)

      • I disagree there as well. The only reason we still know who him is because he sings his a$$ off and has been on every hook for the past 5 years. He dances like a maniac too. He does seem to be doing everything to prove to us he’s an a$$hole though.

      • +1 I didn’t realize he could actually sing because he comes off as so corny to me, but yeah he actually does have talent. Moreso than any of the newer artists I’ve heard, but he just uses it terribly. And yeah this whole story was more hilarious than any satire I could’ve written. Life imitatin potential art and sh*t lol

      • He can sing well enough, but we know him because he can dance and people like ham-fisted MJ comparisons. Serious question: Has Chris Brown ever performed at any award’s show and sang for the majority of his performance?

    • Okay, well let me “ax” you all this; if CBrown can sing then why does he use a vocoder? Seriously. I mean maybe you’re right. I’m not a fan of his so I only hear what’s played on the radio by him and it’s all with his voice altered.

          • Auto-Tune is a pitch correction software designed to make off-key singers sound pitch perfect in the recording studio (See: Any pop star since 1998).

            A vocoder is computerized device than can be used with a particular musical instrument- like with a guitar (See: Mick Mars of Motley Crue, Richie Sambora of Bon Jovi and Peter Frampton) or a keyboard (See: Stevie Wonder and all the artists I mentioned earlier).

  7. Eh, I stopped caring the minute I heard about it. Because I knew the minute everyone heard about it people would respond in the two most nauseatingly annoying I-think-I’m-being-clever-for-saying-this ways.

    1. Would be to mock Drake for getting into a scuffle and calling him a wanna be “tough”/”gangsta” guy. Because, of course, only gangstas have permission to fight. So Drake fighting HAS to mean he’s trying to be something he’s not. As Einstein proved, the type of music you make directly coorelates to your ability to fight. Hip hop fans, being the astute geniuses we are, know this. Which is why It’s unrealistic to suggest that getting into a physical altercation, let alone winning one, is uncharacteristic of someone like Drake.

    2. Would be to mock Chris Brown for the photos of his chin he released. I’m sure countless people have and will see the pictures and cleverly (sarcasm) retort with something like, “Oh you think that’s bad, you should’ve seen Rihanna’s facer. Oh wait…”

    So yea…

    • “2. Would be to mock Chris Brown for the photos of his chin he released. I’m sure countless people have and will see the pictures and cleverly (sarcasm) retort with something like, “Oh you think that’s bad, you should’ve seen Rihanna’s facer. Oh wait…” ”

      You may consider it annoying but it doesn’t make it any less valid. I’m not trying to hold this guy to past mistakes, because that’s unfair. But with the way that he beat the living hell out of Rihanna, it’s funny (and incredibly befitting) to see him get a chunk taken out of his chin in a fight that was supposedly over her.

    • @ TUK- U make some good points, but lighten up man. You’re takin this whole thing way too serious/personal (well maybe you’re not but it comes off that way). Drake would’ve gotten clowned WAY harder if he DIDN’T defend himself, so you should be happy that he held his own whether it was a “sucker punch” or not. Plus this is how I feel about what’s gonna happen when the Heat lose again. Ppl are gonna make ringless Lebron jokes and that sh*t is annoying. They’re gonna act like this year will be about Lebron losing rather than K.D. and company winning. Just like last year they made it about him losing when it was really about Dirk, Terry, and Kidd winning. So honestly this is the same sh*t you said you enjoy. It just so happens that it’s happening to somebody you like this time as opposed to everybody’s other favorite whipping boy

      • The difference between Lebron and Drake though, is that Lebron’s ringlessness directly coorelates to his ability to perform a physical activity, in this case, basketball.

        What irks the sh*t outta me, especially since this has been happening to me since high school, is when people judge your ability to do a task based on something COMPLETELY irrelevent. Like Drake’s apparent inability to fight because his music is “soft”. I mostly listen to Kanye (I’m a Ye stan) and Drake. But I’ve also never lost a fight in my life. Ever. Which probably has something to do with me being a black belt in Shotokan Karate since I was 13. So unless you fight in the UFC and your name is Anderson Silva or Jon Jones, if you fight me you will lose 10 times outta 10. But just by looking at my 5’8″ 150lb frame, big glasses, and love of Ye, Drake, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani, etc, you’d NEVER know that about me. That’s my point about Drake. You don’t know what he’s capable of.

        • ” The difference between Lebron and Drake though, is that Lebron’s ringlessness directly coorelates to his ability to perform a physical activity, in this case, basketball.”

          True, but the unfair criticisms stem from all the hype the media gives him. He definitely helped perpetuate it though, I’ll concede that. You can tell he’s as interested (if not more) in establishing his brand and making money outside of his NBA contract than actually winning championships (and it keeps bitin him in the @ss). But Charles Barkley, John Stockton, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, Dan Marino etc; are also RINGLESS and no one clowns them. They’re hall of famers… People clown Lebron cause he gets more hype than other people feel he deserves. Same reason they clown Drake. It’s all perception. But yeah, just cause we believe he’s soft doesn’t mean he can’t fight. I hope he did beat Chris Brown up in retaliation for Rihanna.

          As far as what Drake is capable of, you’re right. I don’t know nor do I care.

  8. Drake and Chris Brown thugging it out. Be honest, it doesn’t even sound right reading it does it? Like you can say the words, but as they’re coming out your mouth, even YOU can’t take you serious.

    I wish I had more to add, but seriously… Chris Brown and Drake squabbling? I’m pleasantly surprised that someone even threw a bottle cause I’d fully well expect a a fight between them to be all “windmill style” like girls used to fight in 3rd grade. Snuggles the Fabric Softener Bear fighting the Pillsbury Doughboy would cause me more concern than Breezy vs. Aubrey.

    • I’d put my money on the Snuggles Bear. Those sweet, soft and quiet ones are usually the low key crazy m*tha f*ckers.

      • LMAO @ DQ. I know right. I feel like we can’t even make jokes about this because it’s just WAY TOO EASY lol. Wait, which one is snuggles? lol
        I always referred to Chris Brown as the Wal-Mart smiley face (up until he laid the smack down on Rihanna) and Drake as the Brunette Barney Rubble lol

        • Chris Brown as the Walmart smiley face is probably the high water mark of what we’re going to be able to do here today. LOL. I’m out. have a good weekend folks.

  9. Thoughts:

    1.) I used to like Drake way back way, when he spoke like an intellectual! This boy had me at hello! UNTIL, he signed with the gremlin of sizzrup and the oblong shaped head of cash money we don’t brush our teeth, and everything pretty much went downhill. Aubrey Graham, c’mon son!

    2.) Rihanna-girrrrrrl who you feeling with this “bad gyal” personna?! Abeg! You have been illuminated, and for that I sprinkle holy water and smear oil on that your forehead! I proceed to cast out the demons that have you convinced you can sing, girl-uh uh!!! If you sing, I SANG!

    3.) Chris Brown-you and your nose ring need to gerr it together!!! You need to do a kumbaya moment with that thing in your nose, and stop the motherluving madness, it is leading you astray-the nose string. We know you have been POOSMATIZED but gotdamn-all this Al Shabab wars you are doing over her-only further to increase your less than stellar image-have some seats at ma granma’s church.

  10. That ish is such a waste of time. Beefing over a woman? Come on man. I got love for everybody involved, but these cats need to step their game up. And regardless of what you think of Rihanna ( i like her albums) treating he like a “thing” is not cool.

    • “And regardless of what you think of Rihanna ( i like her albums) treating he like a “thing” is not cool.”

      I agree. However, each individual weilds the power to determine how others treat them. I’m guessing that if she didn’t carry or treat herself as a “thing”, then no one else would be able to either.

            • I hate the type of people that say and believe that how you act directly corresponds with how people treat you. That’s absolutely grade A bullshit. I was originally going to list the many types of people that don’t give a f*ck about a person’s particular character, but treat them like shit anyway. I’ve decided to attack the crux of the issue though. It all boils down to the fact that it assumes people interpret all actions within a similar manner. I mean similar too, not the same.

              Anyone who’s ever interacting with another human being before knows that is not true. For example, someone who regularly calls, cooks and cleans for a person, and is extremely affectionate can be interpreted as a simp, someone trying to trap them into a relationship, low self-esteem so they give them “spouse” treatment upfront or another person can just view them as caring. There are 15,000 over interpretations as well. Hell, the very assumption that someone doesn’t respect themselves and therefore they deserve zero respect is the very example of that. How I define respect for self can, and probably is, entirely different from how you define it. So you’re just going off an assumption that places your values and beliefs as a universal human truth.

              • Foremost, I stated that each individual has the power to determine how others treat them. In other words each one of us, to some degree, helps play a role in the way others act toward us, be it due in part to our actions or our words. For example, if a man or a woman is wildly violent or has a short temper, then other individuals may keep those with the short fuse at an arms length for fear of being the target of their rath or retribution.

                And while it is indeed true that no matter how noble or honorable a person’s character that there will be others who may still deem that individual to be unworthy, our own attitudes about oursevles does prevail more often than not against the attitudes and opinions that stem from others. Of course our own self image is not absolute (meaning even if an individual holds him or herself in high regard, others may not necessarily follow) yet, it holds more merit than what you give it credit for. And just because someone may not treat another person as well as they treat their own self, that does not mean that that person must accept the condescending behavior.

                Basically, while Drake and Chris Brown may have had questionable motives for their “altercation”, Rhianna, or any woman in a similar situation for that matter, doesn’t have to buy into the notion that she is a piece of property in which a pair of guys must fight over (and of course my idea into why the pair fought is highly speculative). At the end of the day, how Rhianna feels about herself is far more important than how the pair of them see her.

                Just because others may not look at someone from behind rose colored glasses, that doesn’t she has to look at herself the same way, too.

  11. I lost all respect for Chris “beat a girl down” Brown after he beat Rhianna like she was a grown man.

    And Drake? I like some of his songs, but the “music” industry today is more concerned with image than they are with actual music, even if the artist actually has talent. Drake was a decent artist before he decided to pretend to be all hard.

    And Rhianna. *Heavy Sigh* I honestly don’t think she has anyone who truly cares for her wellbeing because Chris Brown is still alive.

  12. Times are a’changin. I mean, you NEVER heard of Al B. Sure!! scrappin with one of them DeBarge boys….

    #prettyboysgonewild

  13. It’s mathematically impossible for me to care less about this supposed fight over a woman that neither of those two (or three if you want to count Meek Mill) dudes are with. But since Champ mentioned Ghostfase and one of the many nicknames that he’s given Drake, I’d like to share a few of my personal favorites….

    The Kitten Whisperer

    The Merchant of Cuddles

    The Wizard of Pause

    and my personal favorite….

    The Patron Saint of Tenderness

    Dude goes in on Drake like it’s the meaning of life and he’s living it to the fullest. Last year, Drake managed to hold 1st, 2nd, AND 3rd place on the Top 10 Softest Dudes in the Game list. That tickled me something fierce. Pause.

  14. I’m sure the stans of all involved are going to start WWIII on the ninjanets as more details come out, taking sides & adding sh*t that has absolutely nothing to do w/the situation. I’m just here for the hilarious shade & slander being thrown around #don’tjudgeme *lol*.

  15. *checks time and sucks teeth*

    1st!!!!!!!!!!!! I don’t even care. I am 1st outta principle and respect and the sheer fact that I stayed up to be 1st. I am 1st…forget yall.

    Champ, amma need you to do better and stop posting on CPTime…this some bull. I have been gingerly refreshing since 12…dang! The one time I am up late and you play me like this!

    *pulls cover over head and snuggles next to Teddy Ruxspin*

  16. All I know is that as soon as I saw the Rihanna pics of her half nekkid in the mirror, I would go to the mat for her. The one where she squeezes her own butt and her finger makes an imprint showing just how soft her butt really is…Whoo

    • I wouldn’t fight for NAN woman that ain’t related to me, but I hear you. I didn’t find her attractive AT ALL when she first came out, but after them nude photos surfaced I fell under her spell. Dat @ss doe :O had me at a loss for words for at least a half an hour. She gotta be Illuminati, cause I started likin most of her music after that lol, it’s like I’m in a trance (and so are the yellow man icons that felt the need to defend her honor and sh*t)

      • Nah. Rihanna was always “aight’ right up until that Rude Boy video, when we were reminded that she was West Indian. After that, I would smash her punanananananny (#Dr.Evil) with the strength of the fist of God.

      • I think there’s a difference between fighting over a woman and fighting a ninja over some sh!t he said about me in regards to that woman. I ain’t never fought over no woman but I have slept some dudes because of what they said about me in the context of talking about a particular woman. Keep my name gully or keep it out yo mouth.

        • Good point. Apparently there’s a video of the incident too. That might provide some insight as to how it all went down. I doubt it hits the airwaves tho…if u can even tell what’s goin on. U know how video footage usually misses most of the important sh*t anyway

  17. “That’s it for me today. People of VSB.com, what’s new on your ends of the world and shit?”

    IT’S MY GRADUATION WEEKEND!!!!! Bachelor of Arts in International Relations with a minor in Middle Eastern Languages, Cultures, and Literatures from Stanford University! I would seriously like to thank all of the VSB fam, because you guys have no idea how many all nighters you’ve helped me through, how much inspiration I’ve gotten from the posts and comments, and how awesome it is to be exposed to so many VSP’s. Please excuse the melodrama, but it’s been a long road and I’m super juiced :-D

  18. “what’s new on your ends of the world and shit?”

    Oh, my girls… Nilla is in so much ‘trouble’ it ain’t even funny. This is going to be sort of cryptic so if anyone, Mami you particularly, has been following the tidbits of info I’ve dropped here and there, well, let’s just say Nilla is knee deep in something that she should have enough sense to pull out of and walk away, but didn’t.

    I knew I was getting pulled into this and now the gates have opened and things got out of control. So, what’s new on my end of the world?… a man. Someone I should RUN, not walk, away from, but holy freaking cow, there is some sort of magnet holding my feet to the ground! smdh… this is not a good thing and I know it, but what do you do when you can’t.. you just shouldn’t.

    Signs, yes, signs. You men say I don’t know how to read them? HA! GTFOH! What I don’t know is how to get out of something that I want, but I know is no good. Nilla needs therapy! lmao! And, yes, I know I’m rambling.

    I gotta get some sleep. Maybe things will be different tomorrow.

  19. First, RihRih got that psycho chick p*ssy. Like I said yesterday, when a psycho chick puts her emotions all out in bed, it messes with a dude’s head because few sane women are willing or able to put their emotions out. A dude gets some of that, and he’ll overlook the other stuff simply because ol’ girl was able to actually express how she felt about him without being manipulative or shady.

    As for Drake, Chris Brown and Meek Mill, I couldn’t care less. Though I do thank you for mentioning the “Merchant of Cuddles” nickname. I’m using it from now on for Drake. :)

    • +1, i think that she shows that she appreciates tha “D” and doesn’t lose her damn mind trying to lock it down and it fux them up

      • What is it about women that a) leads them to treat the D like it’s just some chore to do to keep a man and b) if they do appreciate it, they want to immediately enslave the dude attached? There’s a difference between a good D and a good marriage that women seem less likely to get than men. (Key word being LESS likely. Men do fall for that power nani, but they tend to snap out of it before they get to the altar more often.)

        • b) if they do appreciate it, they want to immediately enslave the dude attached?

          oxytocin. i been enslaved by the chemicals of my brain and they make me want that man feel the same. and if he don’t, i’m gone. my emotions are just too daaamn strong to be fuhckinn with a half stepper.

          ohh and i don’t mean marriage as enslavement. i mean mutual commitment to true intimacy. which i don’t see as enslavement, but i see how others try to create prisons rather than take down walls. love is terrifying because it means being completely vulnerable.

          on another note, aside from the purely biochemical nature of this connection is that spiritual space where triple x sexxx be like five minutes heaven while i’m talkinn to God. and He knows that, thas why sex is how life is created. how could something as profound life be anything but pure, visceral, and beyond the rational brain ..

          i have a reverence for this in a way i have just come to respect, and if i am only one of two feelinn this way, i am with the wrong man ..

          • ” how could something as profound life be anything but pure, visceral, and beyond the rational brain ..”

            Co-sign to the tenth degree. However I’m a weirdo who’s also convinced that the moment of death must feel similar to an orgasm (I mean it does put u to sleep), so maybe you shouldn’t give my viewpoints too much weight lol

            • I hear the moment of death is like a DMT trip. DMT is actually supposed to involve the same chemical that our bodies release when we die. Everyone I know who has done it has told me that it was both the most amazing and the most horrifying thing they have ever experienced. From the description of it though, it sounds like it would be really cool way to go out when the time comes. Like an explosion of light, color, and sensation.

              Note: I am not advising anyone to try that sh!t. If you’re curious, though, there’s a movie called Enter the Void that pretty much shows you what it’s like. It’s filmed from a first-person point of view too, which is really cool. It’s on Netflix.

              • Is that the drug that Joe Rogan talks about? I heard it’ll do a lot to explain the after life to you. I’m scared to try it, but understand why others would. I’m definitely gonna have to check that movie out though. Thanks for the recommendation

        • “b) if they do appreciate it, they want to immediately enslave the dude attached?”

          A woman being led to the brink of emotional promised land = a dude right when he’s aroused enough to have hot monkey style chex.

          You just can’t be left hanging. There’s a female emotional equivalent of blue balls, but it just doesn’t have a common name.

  20. Psssssssssstttt!!!!!!!!

    I don’t know about Eryah Badu but what Rihanna has is called that Ooh na na. She is a Caribbean girl and if Chris and Aubrey dem had watched the “Gal Bruk” video, they would know not to mess with us. Hurt feelings, broken hearts, dudes doing the windmill in fights and gross amounts of emo stuff ensue once you have been TOUCHED!

  21. Her p*ssy is a paradox, and I somehow feel haunted by it just by typing her name. Basically, she’s the coital “Candyman.”

    LMMFAO!!! Champ, you’z a ghat dayum FOOOOL!!

  22. Boy Fight??? I can’t click on that link based on GP alone. Did Jamilah Lemieux title that?lol. Big Ghost is funny. I still laugh over his comment about Tyga looking like a “new born rodent.”

  23. IT’S ALL BS THAT IS AS TALL AS FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON. Ever since they staged the beat down the mainstreamed Rihanna career. Anytime these fools have a project in the pipeline. We must be subjected to the limp dyck foreplay in an attempt to get their propaganda machine erect. I am mad as hell and I am not gonna take it anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  24. Chris Brown can’t even win in a Twitter fight with a dude. He’s most famous for beating up (and biting) a slim young female singer and throwing a chair out of a window in a hissy fit over what a middle aged female news anchor asked him in an interview.

    I’ve always had a feminist objection to calling men pussies but I can truly not think of anything more accurate to call Chris Brown. He’ll take on Rihanna and Robin Roberts but gets his ass kicked by the likes of Meek Mill and/or Drake(!!!) (DRAKE!)

    He’s a pu**y, a b*&ch, and the fact that he’s allowed to get away with pretending to be a thug is the biggest embarrassment to the pseudo hip hop community since the world found out Rick Ross was an ex correctional officer and he was permitted to keep pretending he was something he wasn’t.

    • “He’s a pu**y, a b*&ch, and the fact that he’s allowed to get away with pretending to be a thug is the biggest embarrassment to the pseudo hip hop community since the world found out Rick Ross was an ex correctional officer and he was permitted to keep pretending he was something he wasn’t.”

      I think most who listen to hip hop (read: not the mainstream press that continues to call him a “rapper”) know who he is and few consider him to be anything resembling a thug, psuedo-thug, or tough guy, but I see where you’re coming from with this. As for the Ross bit, I still don’t get that, because somehow that actually made him more popular. #paradoxical

      • +1 Wayupthere- But with Ross I think ppl just decided they didn’t give a f*ck because his sh*t just goes so hard in the club and the trunk. That man can pick some beats, plus his flow is so authoritative that his music isn’t even about him or his street cred, it’s about puttin his fans in that “I’m a BAWSE” mood. We’re growin out of the whole “street cred” culture. Just make some sh*t ppl like listening to and you’re good

      • I don’t think anyone who isn’t a fourteen year old blonde named Tyler is buying that either Rick Ross or Chris Brown are thugs but they still sell, still get featured in magazines as rappers or hip hop artists, still get to go on social media and pretend to be something other than what they are, hell Rick Ross still uses the name of a drug dealer. This bothers me more in Chris Brown obviously but I can’t help but find it hilarious that Drake gets called out more for being soft then Chris Brown.

        Drake is soft but at least all the fights he’s been in have been with dudes. Chris Brown only takes on women – he fights dudes when they leave him no other choice, loses, and then whines about it on Twitter.

  25. flatline_______on “creflo and jesus”

    this ish so staged, sad, random that i’m sure even their camps are like WTF???!!

  26. I want drizzy and cb to have a mf seat! This beef is staged, its the equivalent of a kitten fighting with a baby seal! Both dudes are softer than my @ss cheeks! Stop trying to bring back light skinnededness LOL! I declare light skinned dudes won’t reign again until 2027! Nice try though

  27. Twitter had me laughing all morning yesterday about this Chris Brown and Drake fight. I’ve come to the conclusion that other than the DeBarges no one takes light-skinned dudes anger or beef seriously. It reminds of when light-skinned dudes were about to get in a fight back in the day and everyone would laugh because they would be beet red with anger. I guess the consolation prize for not being taken serious is that they attract more women than the rest of us.
     
    I wish I could get a better understanding of how new n***s operate. If Rihanna has been with Meek and Drake where she stands is already established. Fighting over her with another dude that use to hit is lame. Then again I’ve seen dudes fight over a woman that’s been around. Those women scare me. Whatever they have between their legs I want no part of. The funny thing is most of the women I’ve known that have this power are not highly attractive. They look average and don’t have the video girl body or face of a model but they have men stalking them and fighting other men over her.

  28. I’m not sure we have time for “Things I Care More about Than Drake, Breezy and Rhianna”….

    Nothing new around these parts; still focusing on old stuff- wedding, business, trying to stay on task at work…

    Getting my passport soon! I’m going to be sophisticated; y’all won’t be able to tell me nothing.

  29. ” Her p*ssy is a paradox, and I somehow feel haunted by it just by typing her name. Basically, she’s the coital “Candyman.”

    If this doesn’t make any sense, good. It doesn’t to me either.”

    It makes ALLLLL the sense to me, being a Chi Head and the product of a mother raised in Cabrini Green which is where that movie was shot. Also, things that don’t make sense to most people usually make sense to Chicagoans.

    But, yeah. Drake and Breezy. THEY WENT HELL NO HELL NO HELL NO, F**KING LEFT F**KING LEFT.

    All the way left. SMH. As I said on the Twittuh, this all proves that the post-MJ world ain’t ish. You know what the THRILLERMAKER woulda done? Smoothly walked up to each of them, touched their shoulders, and an epic dance brake woulda ensued.

    World peace, ninjas. No Metta.

  30. Smh. Now yall see why we don’t like rappers that get caught up in their feelings and R&B ninjas that wanna be tough and pretty at the same d*mn time?

    Imma just sum it up with two poignant quote from the honorable Juvenile.

    ” I’m from a different world. Where we don’t tie a woman down if she wanna be free, go head and get it girl”

    In other words, let it go Chris, let it go…

    Now adjourn your @sses

    • Lol they should totally re-create this. I picture it like an SNL skit or something….it would be hilarious.

      • That would be genius. Then Dave Chapelle as Prince could appear and shut it down. “Need I remind you all who the real king of bizarre is? Now adjourn your arses.” #noObsidian

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  32. These dudes were throwing glass bottles. At people’s heads. That had to be about more than Rihanna…if it wasn’t, then Rihanna has now usurped Erykah Badu’s throne. Several times over. These boys need therapy.

    I’m interested to see how they’re all going to get out of this one. Drake in particular, since I read that he went and hid and the bathroom when the sh!t hit the fan. (And I believe it too…would you expect anything else?) The winner in all this is Rihanna of course, whose intrigue factor has skyrocketed. She’ll pretend this troubles her but is probably basking in the attention as we speak.

    • +1 Except I don’t believe that rumor about Drake hidin in the bathroom tho. It just sounds too much like what we all would think/want to happen.

    • “The winner in all this is Rihanna of course, whose intrigue factor has skyrocketed. She’ll pretend this troubles her but is probably basking in the attention as we speak.”

      Yep.. Right now she feeling “like the only girl in the world”

      lol

      Gotta Love It!!!!

  33. You know what, I don’t doubt Riri’s p*ssy game got these lame duck ninjas acting the fool, but I also won’t attribute it to that solely.

    I really believe one of the reasons she has this effect on dudes is because she emanates confidence. She really carries herself with the air that reflects “I know I’m the sh*t, you know I’m the sh*t, I don’t care if you don’t think I’m the shit, but I know your ninja thinks I’m the sh*t” kinda attitude.

    I can’t even be mad at that type of confidence because it’s hard to come by. And dudes recognize this. Women with that kind of confidence tend to be sexually uninhibited. They’re not ashamed of much when it comes to the boudoir.

    I also believe Chris is acting like he owns that p*ssy even though he has Koochie is because he’s still in love with Rhi. I’ve always said it post beat down…they’re always going to pine for each other because their love didn’t run its course due to the media/business pressure. Until they get the chance to end their love on their terms and not that of their handlers, they’re going to continue to send subliminals, show up at the same clubs, sub-tweet, and commit to whatever f*cksh*t they do to one another to piss each other off.

    As for Aubrey…he’s just Hostess cupcake all around. He in love with everybody. It’s not hard to work your magic on this type of dude. They’re falling regardless of what you do or what’s between your legs.

    • Aubrey Graham is a die hard romantic who believes in relationships, marriage, kids a white picket fence, 2.5 kids and a Dobberman to boot. Thing is, no one will let him be great, second and most importantly, he is such the desparado he gets rejected even before he opens his mouth. I’m holding a state wide prayer line session on his behalf. As, always Breezy will be leading the Bible study session, everybody else is welcome….He needs to be delivered from this unhappiness!

  34. (Deep sigh)…Seeing as how there are now fifty-eleven articles out there about this beef, I couldn’t help but read another one, and for once I’m glad I did. Drake allegedly sent a bottle of some alcoholic beverage that probably cost more than should be legal over to Chris Brown’s table with a note that said “I am f**king the love of your life. Deal with it.” While I am skeptical of that report (with good reason, Drake being softer than a Sobakawa cloud pillow and all. Watch that Punk’d video if you don’t believe me.), IF it’s true, that is a move that takes cajones of refined and purified steel. I’m now officially amused by this sad and senseless incident.

    • I watched his Punk’d two days ago. Hilarity!

      That YMCMB sh*t flew out the window real quick. I’m pretty sure this is how YOLO came to fruition. Lmao

      • When that pregnant woman came up to the car, I was done. There was nary a trace of thug in dude’s voice when he told her “but this is my car.” I hadn’t laughed until my chest hurt for quite a while before I saw that video.

        • I think I died when I saw the fat dude crawling on the ground and then make his way into their front seat….H I L A R I O U S !

          Drake and his boy were shook, but I felt kinda bad because they don’t know anything about earthquakes. lol. I’m from CA so I know how they can make you feel…the ground is just not supposed to shake.

  35. Ladies and Gents, the reason why Drake, Rihanna and Chris Brown have come to prominence, is because of you, the older generation between the ages of mid/late 20′s to early 40′s.

    You see, one of the main tenants of hip-hop, used to be that hip-hop always represented something. There were the guys who represented the hood, there were the people who represented the hoes, there were the people who represented the hood philosopher etc. However, it reached the point where the hood rappers won out, they started making more money, started getting more appearances on the TV shows, started getting more exposure and people started feeling left out. The philosophers got left out the most as well as the smart rappers like a Nas. It was envy, which ever way you look at it.

    So people started protesting. People started complaining about conspiracies to destroy hip-hop. People started rallying against B.E.T, people started saying that the baggy jeans were too much. That the misogyny was too much, that the violence was too much. People felt they were being left out. And guess what happened…

    Hip-hop became Pop. What is pop: music that represents everyone, and isolates no one. That’s what hip-hop is today. What exactly do Chris Brown, Drake, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj etc represent? They represent nothing. That’s why they can sing, dance and rap on the same album. That’s why they can dress like hoes and feminists in their videos.

    We finally got what we paid for, yet people are unsatisfied. People still try to find things in hip-hop that bugs them, because they don’t want to accept that this is what reality gave them. All you can say about today’s musicians is they suck. You can call them offensive if you want but we all know that’s not true. You can’t drag someone to court for being a bad artists, but you can drag somebody to court for being too violent or talking about drugs (something that was real and representative of black culture, regardless of how you felt people were exposing it.)

    So this is what we have, and trust me it’s gonna get way worse before it gets better. Think about how bad things have gotten since Soulja Boy first hit the scene lol.

    • I like how you put it. You can’t be too honest and popular. I was just looking at what PA put up with the whole Bangin’ in Little Rock and compared it to now. Hip-hop had a very different edge to it 20 years ago compared to now. To be fair, all art forms get weakened and watered down out as they get mass appeal. Rare is the concept with mass appeal that is somehow controversial for long. But times change and people change.

      The one thing that worries me is that the next generation hasn’t found the new thing to take over and surpass hip-hop. Hip-hop should be old people’s music right now. That it is not scares me.

      • Hip hop will be around for a long time. It just needs to evolve past this bullsh!t we’re getting now, where people rap (poorly) about nothing and sing all their hooks. Ew. Gag me.

    • Dubstep is the answer to all of our music ills. It will wash over and engulf everything just like the great flood destroyed life on Earth in the Bible. :)

      • Dubstep is dope! It does get old after a while though…I thinking it should be married with other genres like funk or hip hop to make it fresh again.

        I just went to rave (no, I did not get the full rave experience…I was safe this time) where there was a lot of dubstep. Watching drugged out white people dance to that sh!t is entertainment at its finest. I mean that in the best way possible too. It was kind of beautiful.

    • Yeah, being popular requires becoming safe. And boring. At least for people of color. We have people like Madonna and Eminem who can be as reckless as they want and be accepted in- or rule, in their cases- pop culture. Or maybe it’s just that they found ways to express themselves in a meaningful way while still being catchy, which is something today’s artists haven’t figured out.

    • As a music fan, I agree to this whole post. When hip hop became safe and non-threatening, that’s when the trouble began. When a genre of music that’s uncompromising starts to compromise, the end results are disastrous at best.

  36. Personally, rihanna rates about a six. I just don’t get the attraction. She looks odd to me. Maybe it’s that forehead of hers.

    Oh well

    • Agreed. The weird thing is that she looks cuter just with those candid pics that get leaked of her than when she’s all dolled up. Not the hottest girl in the world, but if I spotted her somewhere, I’d holler. I don’t get her at all.

    • She may be around a 6 in real life, but in front of a camera? B!tch is a 10. I’ve seen pictures and videos of hers that had me, a straight woman, wondering what she would be like in the sack lol.

      • Exactly my point. Fame makes her hotter than she really is. Take away that, put her back in Barbados on the beach, and men will probably try to track it, but there would be no epidemic of men falling over her.

    • Ha! “Waffle colored” has just killed me.

      Light skint people have problems too. And even tho I have loved Drakes with the power of a thousand irrational fires since the beginning, he is looking like a big silly loser with this one. So sad.

  37. I am so out of touch. I keep The Beatles, Passion Pit, and Crystal Castles on rotation on Pandora and rarely listen to any recent pop. I had not connected a face to the name Drake until I read this blog post. He’s attractive. He has an interesting looking face.

    “Increasingly bizarre Chris Brown”…iDied. lol.

    These young cats need Motown style management, for seriously. They need parental figures to keep them in their lane. There is no market for your angst and antics until after you reach musical god/ goddess status.

    • Interesting take. The problem is that the industry isn’t set up for that anymore. For one, because of modern entertainment law, you don’t have artists in a stable the way Motown did back in the day, and anyone trying that with an artist with a gold record is one shrewd agent away from losing that artist. Two, even if you could manage that, the money simply isn’t there to pull it off. Unless you have a successful artist with a decent catalog backing a label, everyone is running on a bit of shoestring.

      You are definitely right thought. Artists were much more polished in the Motown days.

      • The reason why the artists were more polished at the time had a lot to do with Motown having an ettiquette school and session the artists went to show how to act in public and how to conduct themselves in interviews. Clive Davis used that same formula when it came to his label Arista Records. That’s how he was able to transform Whitney Houston from a Jersey hood chick to a pop diva phenomenon.

    • These young cats need Motown style management, for seriously. They need parental figures to keep them in their lane. There is no market for your angst and antics until after you reach musical god/ goddess status.

      This is real to the tenth power! Chris’ PR sucks and so does his manager/s. If I was on Chris’ PR team there is no way he would pull a quarter of the stunts he does. I would’ve had his image hovering right back where it was pre-grammy brawl. I don’t know who’s advising this fool, but they’re doing him a disservice. That bad boy image is not a good look because he comes across as a douche.

  38. I am thoroughly convinced that rih rih got them ninjas boxers buried in her backyard back in barbados…

    LOL

    In any case, she is sitting somewhere laughing at these two ninjas and thanking them because they just sent her psussy stock off the radar… Ninjas love unicorns and now errbody is gonna try to catch it.

  39. This is all publicity. It isn’t even about Rihanna, though she’s in on it because any publicity is good and these 3 idiots need the publicity since they are slacking in the talent department. A while from now #teambreezy and #teamdrizzy will be featured on a song together discussing their “beef” and putting the past behind them. They’re all talking beef but they’re all vegetarians.

  40. “You know how in every crime/heist movie, there’s always that one skittish and perpetually sweaty guy who no one really wants to talk to, no one ever wants to partner with, no one trusts with a gun? The guy with strange clothes and “unique” hygiene that’s only involved with the crew because…well, no one really knows why he’s involved with the crew, and the only reason his character was even written was to provide an in-house foil to annoy (and potentially sabotage) the rest of the characters?”

    ^You know that was Chris Brown’s role in “Takers” right. Had that fool not used his signature “deuces” hand gestures and mannerisms in the camera, that cop would not have been able to put 2 and 2 together so quickly. Art mimicking life or the reverse?

  41. Hooray and Congratulations for my Soror Shay-nanigans/FashionablyTardy! Proud of you and much success! Not sure if you remember, but we met with some of the other VSS folk in Toronto (I got big hair, lol!). I’ll be doing my part to spread the word and love of your new endeavor:)

    • +1 – Shout out to all the VSB father’s out there, hopefully you are enjoying your day with your children. You definitely make a difference in your children’s lives, and they adore you for it!

  42. I have a solution: introduce Rihanna to Desmond Crockett.

    Given the knowledge that both parties apparently have divine genitalia (31 kids from 20 women for Crockett and the abovementioned brawl over Rihanna), they may possibly be a perfect match.

    Drake and Chris can pour their losing efforts to “keep” Rihanna into their music (something that may keep them off the streets for a little bit.) “Losing” to a non-celebrity may be the push that they need to knock Rhi-Rhi off of the p*ssy pedestal.

    Tennessee’s version of BCW can start docking Rihanna for her man’s back child support. This way, Rihanna won’t have all of that extra money for her international partying and overall ratchetry. Plus, his kids will get more than $1.47 per month for child support.

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