And you got HOW much money???!

Ok boys and girls. We're gonna play a game. You've all played this game or something like it, I'm sure. The name of the game is "What's wrong with this picture?"

1. 50 Cent is releasing a mixtape titled L.A.X. Wait, isn't that the title of Game's new album?

2. None of the songs on the album are by 50, feature 50 or have anything to do AT ALL with 50.

3. In this day and age, when record sales are wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy down, like Chris Brown take you down, he's giving the whole thing away? For free.99???

So I was browsing the internet looking for the Game's album. I'd been hearing alll these people tell me how the album is pretty good, and I figured that maybe I misjudged the whining ass, butterfly tatted lil boy and maybe I'd download it and give it a listen. (I'm a keep it real with you, I don't buy any albums that aren't directly gonna put money in my pockets in some way anymore)

As I'm looking I come across this. (See above)

Seems that 50 took THE ENTIRE L.A.X. album, redid the cover and posted it for release on his website.

C'mon Fif. Are you serious?

I think that's wrong on sooo many levels. I mean for one, in this day and age, nobody's really buying shit anymore, so for you to purposefully leak an artist's album just because they're in direct competition with you, is DEAD ASS WRONG!

I mean I have to seriously look at this situation and wonder. Is it that 50 Cent really has that much hate in his blood toward the Game?

Or is it that he's upset because his last album didn't sell well, the last G-Unit album didn't sell at all and he's worried about his upcoming December release?

Whatever the reason, I'm still not buying why he did this.

For one thing, it makes you look like a BITCH.

Nah, actually that's the only thing

Fif is the one running around talkin bout all the money he made off the Coca Cola deal.

So Mr.Write-me-a-check-before-the-baby-comes, you're gonna stop this man and his family from eating because????

I've seen some petty shit in the industry in the short time that I've been apart of it, but I gotta say, that for this month, this right here.... takes the cake.

Oh and 50 please don't beat me up or burn down my house, cause that would be the most bitch ass move of all.

...deuces

Oh, how they fell....

And I meant the title so literally.

First off, let me say, that I appreciate Durl letting me contribute, right?

So I'm not gonna be flooding ya'll with posts five times a day cause that's the easiest way to make ya'll sick of me and get me booted.

HOWEVER

I saw something that I thought couldn't wait til next time.

So clearly we've been on this good ol' days tip lately and reminiscin bout the good ol days. The best part of the good old days was clearly,  The Music.

One of thee best groups to come out in the 90's was Jodeci. They were the original bad boy band. I didn't say boy band as in the only, but when it came to down right freaky, nasty, grinding, play the tape over and over while you getting some, bet not let your momma catch you singing the words music, they were it.

Well, Jodeci was the forefathers of the whole Destiny Child revolving members/breaking up thing and eventually the two brothers in the group, tweedle dee and tweedle dum-- I mean K-Ci and Jojo decided to go their own way.

Not a bad thing, cause they had a pretty decent career.

Until Mary and the crack and all the other things, but that's another blog.

This blog is more of a special edition, type VH-1, where are they now type.

Here's where they are

Now on one hand, it's awfully sad to see how some of the greats have sunken so low.

But on the other hand this shit is HIGH-larious! 

I mean damn, so K-ci was just gon keep singing and leave that nigga on the floor??

and where the fuck was Jojo going when he got up? He thought that shit was still going on?

Talk about the show must continue!

AIght, I'll shut up for the day.

Til later ya'll

...deuces

They say I think I'm the shit. Well apparently....

Actual convo from last week:
"You think you a Phlyy bitch don't you?"
"No, but obviously you do cause you said something about it"

Ok, truth be told, I DO think I'm pretty damn phlyy.

I pretty much have to since I got it tatted on my back. But honestly, I have a college degree, a house with a pool in the backyard, a brand new 08 that I bought and paid for myself, no kids and a decent ass job.

Does that shit sound regular to you?

Thing is, I don't think I carry myself in a manner that says "I'm the shit, don't breath my air". I do feel as though I've paid certain dues and met certain requirements and am now entitled to certain things now, but that's life. I think everyone should feel like that when they reach a certain point.
The conversation in example came from a much larger discussion. Me and the bestie were talking about upcoming plans for the weekend. He was going to bag bitches and I was going to Love ( its a 4 story night club in DC.)

He remarks that he should go with me and just hit a two for one: free clubbing and all the bitches he can handle.
Him tagging along is not a problem. The problem is that he's not gonna meet many bitches up in the vip with me.

For that statement I earn a " damn you so fucking bougie now"
Well actually no. I work for the station that puts on the club night on saturdays so I have to go upstairs and make an appearance regardless of everything else. You know company politics and all that.
I choose to stay upstairs because honestly, I don't like being crowded on the floor with the regular people

*record scratch*

Did she just call us regular????

Yea I did. I'm 23 now. I'm way past having 50 niggas in a row grab my ass as I try to get to the bar, I'm soo over getting elbowed when the dj plays some down south shit and to keep it really real wit ya'll: not only do I NOT wanna sweat in my good party dress, but I'm natural and I aint tryin to fuck up my press too early in the night either.
Does that mean I think I'm the shit? Not at all. It just means that I'm a little more grown now and everything that was cool with me aint necessarily cool no more.
I mean, I'm not a rapper, so it aint like I gotta keep it real for the streets. This is the shit I dreamed about as a little girl anyway, so yea I'ma take full advantage. I still dance and I still give out fake names and numbers to the ugly boys (oh that's been the same since day one. Your bad) its just that now I have a different platform to do it from and I'd be a fool not to take advantage of it.
A wise man once told me that the only people who say that money didn't change them, were the people who hadn't made enough yet.

Aight, it was 50 cent but if he put that on a rap cd, he'd be doing weezy numbers right now.
At the end of the day, I'm not gonna apologize to you because I moved to a different level in my life. It aint personal, but if it bothers you that much, then get like me....

...deuces

Fresh Prince Appreciation..

Im a YouTube-ing ass nigga right? So while going through some of my favorite videos and wondering what to blog about next, I thought.. why not show some more appreciation... A coupla entries ago I showed my appreciation with Isaac Hayes.. well now its Fresh Prince's turn.



This theme song is one of the most known theme songs ever in history, at least in my opinion. "Now this is a story, all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down..." We all know all the words, all the actions during the words.. like when he whistles for the cab.. or when he waves his hands when he says, "smell ya later".. or when he rolls his head when he's at the door. We all know it.. Sidebar.. my nigga Will did have on some real OG jordan 5's on too.. i gotta respect him for that..



My nigga Will used to be a trend setter at an early age.. he the one that had us wearing all the fresh Starter caps back in the day.. he had all colors.. he had all the fresh ass shoes every week.. I can remember seeing him wearing the Barkleys, Jordans, Pennys, David Robinsons, and Alonzo Mornings.. even as a kids i noticed all of these things... he had all the CrossColors outfits early.. everything..
The show had stupid comedy, dumb Hilary and her cliff-jumping fiance.. Geoffery, the witty-one-liner. He had all the jokes.. Ashley and her cute self... remember when she was playing the drums and Will was "Dumb Dancing" as he called.. "I DONT KNOW WHYYYY, I PLAN TO STAY.. GET YOUR BOOTY ON THE FLOOR TONIGHT.. MAKE MY DAY.."
or when Carlton and Will was apologizing to Ashley with the puppets and Will was beatboxing.. im cheesing hard just thinkin about it... I used to laugh everytime I saw Jazz wearing the same shirt.. cuz I knew he was goin to get thrown out the door.. Or do you remember when Uncle Phil was trying on toupe's.. Man.. there's soo many memories.. U cant forget the Carlton Dance.. Heres a few clips I thought I would share..


Notice the black Jordans he got on..



watch how he hits uncle phil when he says "no, no,no"







I know I missing some.. but i just wanted to jog ur memories..
I got more appreciations coming..

DJDURL

I'm not a kid anymore, but sometimes...

I don't know what it is lately, but I been feeling mad.... nostalgic. I mean like thinking back, more than usual. 

Maybe it's because the seasons are changing. That usually does it to me. No more long days bullshittin with the people I like, love and some I don't, just for the hell of it. 

And I don't know about you, even though I'm only 23, the end of the summer just plain makes me feel OLD. Maybe it's the fact that I'm used to fall signaling the start of another school year. 

I just graduated from college (Howard: The best FIVE years of my life) and I'm a lil discombobulated at the fact that for the first time in over two decades, I don't have to buy school books, supplies, register for classes and don't hae to line up a fresh ass wardrobe for the first week of classes. I mean I'm still gonna go to work Extra fresh as hell for a whole week straight, but that's what I do anyway so it doesn't have the same appeal. I think all of that combined is just making me miss the old days real heavy. 

So you're just fonna hve to come with me for a minute as I think about the old days when it was aight to rock Fila...

The things that got me feenin for the 90's right now:

1. Crayola crayons

I know I said something but school supplies earlier, but specifically I miss crayons. Guess this says something about how juvenile I really am at heart, but I used to loooooove going to Krogers and picking out the 64 color box. Honestly, the only colors that really got any play were the red, black and brown and I could have just replaced those, but I loved getting a new box every year. I used to try and game my mom into getting me the 96 box, like I was gonna use those too, but she new better. I still get all tingly when I see a coloring book though...

2. Passing Notes

I don't know how many of ya'll did this, but in DPS, that shit was an art form . It wasn't so much what the notes said, but how they were created and then folded before they were passed off. I was cleaning out some of the old shit from my mom's house and came across a box full of notes from when I went to Stivers. When I tell you I was Picasso with them shits, believe me. I found one note that I wrote to an old friend and I have to believe that I didn't do shit in class. Every line was a different color and it was like two pages long, complete with drawings and of course one of those long ass signatures: Signed, Phree aka Twix, bka Mrs. Dotson (shouts out to Juju wherever you are) aka pimp of the year, M.O.B., Pimpin aint easy, hoes is just dumb, your bff 2 gether 4ever, and so on. And it didn't stop there. You had to be a damn licensed architiect to even open the thing. One was actually in the shape of a flower!!!

3. The Flyy City/Black Cultural /Precious Blood Festival and the Montgomery County Fair

This one is for all my DYT people. Before niggas started losing their home training and shooting up everything, there was nothing better about being in Dayton at the end of the summer. Those festivals/fairs that I named were THEE Shit! When I was young (like 10 - 14) it was fun to go for the rides and the food. WHen I hit high school, they all took on a whole new meaning. I can remember buying a whole new polo outfit to go to Flyy city and see who I could see. ANd of course this was before everybody and they 2 year old cousin had a cell phone, so you had to carry a pen and at least one piece of notebook paper so you could get and give your pager number out.

(Side note: Even though I thought I was pretty damn Phlyy cause I had an upright pager for the longest and I used to change cases like every week, why the fuck did we have pagers? Most of us just used them to type codes and shit anyway. Remember what 304 meant or 17 31707 1?)

4. The old Dayton Public Schools Sports league

Another one for Dayton folk specifically. Before they combined Roth and Colonel White ( and I don't care how nice the new building looks, I'm always gonna miss the one on Niagara) and disbanded the league, I loved sports season. Any damn sport. Basketball at the schools, track and football at Welcome. Remember how for a while, CW was known for killing everyone in basketball, Dunbar couldn't be fucked with in football, Meadowdale had good looking cheerleaders at every game and Jefferson was.... Jefferson?

I used to love going to Welcome Stadium for the football games. That was like the highlight of my week. Moms would get me and my friends together, load us up in the Saturn and then after she'd worked her magic and gotten us in the door for free we'd be off. I don't ever remember sitting down at one of those games. I spent the whole time lookin for cute boys I didn't already know (but then again we WERE in Dayton, so you know how much luck I had with that. ), chillin with the homies and just acting an ass in general. 

5.  Kissing

I know we all grown now and we all probably do way more than kiss, but remember back before you became the experience freak that you are and just kissing the person that you liked was a big deal? 

I miss that shit the most

A bad kiss left you with slobber all around the outside of your mouth and something to laugh about with your peoples. A good kiss left you with something to think about all through the next day and even more to tell your friends about. I'm talking bout the kind of kissing that lasted for at least 15 minutes at a time and had me in class the next day drawing his and my names all over every single piece of paper that I owned in different variations.  I remember the secrecy of it all. Acting like 007 and scouting out new places to kiss in. I remember when kissing was the goal and there was no pressure to actually have sex. Maybe grab a feel here and there, but that was ok

Those are the top five things that I'm reminiscing on right about now. They aren't the only ones, cause I remember corner stores and actually walking places and don't get me started on that the short lived Island skating rink, Island park in general, skipping school at the bus station downtown and the Salem Mall. Retreats and movies at the Northwest Theater down the street from my house. Shit that takes me back to when my mom worried about my bills and I worried about... nothing. Before I had to worry about taxes, insurance and all the other stuff grownups worried about. My mother always told me not to be in a hurry to grow up cause I was gonna wish I was young again.

I'll be damned if she wasn't right....

*cues Skee-Lo- I wish*

The LLOYD Shuffle..

"Off in the Club.. off in the club"

Nigga.. this shit be havin me DYING!!... Lloyds my nigga.. i am a fan of his music.. his new CD is really good.. i suggest you go buy it and take a listen..

I came across this video and its been in my head every since.. Its Lloyd at his house.. as it seems.. singing "Gifts" by Ray J... doing that stupid ass dance that Ray J does in his video.. bad thing is that Ray was serious about his.. Lloyd is just playing.. Ol girl in the video kinda cute too right? But gone head and enjoy the video.. and then tell me WHAT U THINK.

When No Homo Goes Wrong...

I know its old.. I just wanted to share this with those who havent seen it..
its Wild Homo.. but its funny... at least to me..

Can U Blame Them??

I cant...

So well have all had our eyes on the Olympics this past coupla weeks. Watching Phelps beat records, watching track records being broken effortlessly.. hoping the US bring the gold home in basketball and whatever you might watch.. Well looks like we at home aint the only ones watching...

The camera caught the USA basketball team "watching" the womens swim team.. for obvious reasons.. I cant say that I wouldnt have been in attendance also.. feel me?


Look at Bron Bron tho.. and peep CP and J Kidd whispering about it... and then the coach over there staring too.. LeBron stroking the flag and shit.. niggas is silly..

In a some what unrelated story.. over 60,000 condoms where sent to the Olympic villiage..

Sorry ladies.. had to have a moment..

Don't Call It A Comeback..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfFQewpL4Sg
LL Cool J ft The Dream - Baby

Please dont call this a comeback. I love this song.. but the problem is that I start to hate it when LL speaks.. Sux that LL got a good song but its only good when he isnt speaking. The beat, the chorus, the breakdown are all smooth.. The Dream.. thats my nigga ( no homo ) and he sure can write and produce some songs.. but damn he wasted this one.. LL had to drop down on this one.. I wouldda been salty if I was the Dream.. And why does LL feel the need to change the way he raps on the 3rd verse.. nigga please.. will go to get Busta Rhymes and both go have a seat somewhere where there is not beats, booths or recording equipment.. i mean damn... Go make a movie or something...

WHAT U THINK???

Walk On By

::Now Playing - Isaac Hayes - Walk On By ((RIP))

You dont really feel me. You dont understand me. Listen to the song I'm playing for you. You dont feel the depth of this forreal. You dont truely feel the mood of the song do you? Do you feel the lump in the throat of this song before any words are even said? you dont. I know you dont.

I do. This is a situation I can almost relate to. Just the title is strong. Who am I talking to? What do I mean, and how do I mean it? Whats the context? Well the song speaks on a heartbroke lover who warns his expartner to please keep it movin when you see me on the streets. If Im crying, lookin heart broken or anything, just keep it moving. Do me that favor and just walk on by. This aint what the singer asked for, this is what you gave him, a broken heart, a torn down frame, a shell. So walk on by.

Can you relate?

We have been hurt before, how do you feel when you see the person who has hurt you? Do you want them to speak? Do u want them to see you happy, with someone, so nonchalant and care free? Do we really plan this out? Do we put our front up just so we can seem sooo strong? Do we change our facebook status' so they can "see" that we have moved on to better partners that keep them soo much happier than the loser who hurt them? Do we blog about it and leave little clues in each entry?? do we cange our Texting signature to something like "Back In Love Again"?

Why front?

Why cant we be alone for a lil bit? Why must we be so quick to find someone to love us? Why can we just love ourselves? How can someone treated you right if you dont really know how you should be treated? Treat yourself. Splurge on you. Dont wait for someone to do that for you. Go to Krogers and buy one steak, one box of mac and cheese and a can of green beans and cook for yourself. Watch your favorite movie, have your favorite drink, smash that ice cream and go to bed feeling like, "damn, thats the way I should always treat myself, i deserve that". Know your worth.

I got a lil off subject but I just wanted to show my respect to Mr Hayes. In his passing, Ive downloaded more songs. The songs are sooo strong. I suggest you just take sometime to listen and see whats made him a legend. I bet that when you hear some of these songs you will hear a beat of song that you already know and the words of this songs or the instruments being played with provoke some type of emotion or physical reaction. I will prolly space out for a good 10 secs at least thinkin of when you wanted someone to just walk past.

Some suggestion i have for you to listen to is the song Im speakin of now..

Walk On By
Look Of Love
Never Can Say Goodbye
Ike's Mood
Hung Up on My Baby
Theme to Shaft of course..

just a few.