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Nothin Changed, I'ma Ball to the Death


December 19, 2007 | Tags: none

Well, DX, it’s been a while hasn’t it? Finals are over, school royally kicked my ass, and I think I spent about 90% of the first 24 hours of break sleeping. And now just when I think I have a vacation? The to-do list is already piling up. Oh well though. Such is life, right? In a day or two I’ll be good to go, but damn if the aftermath of all that hell didn’t make me temporarily brain dead. Y’all know the feeling? Like you just don’t have enough brain cells to remember everything you need to remember? Just a warning – that kind of mental state induces severe bouts of random shit. Anyway…

While you guys were busy forgetting about me during my absence, and apparently being excessively moody c-boys (and girls?), it seems that some notable things have happened in the hip hop world. Pimp C died, the internet was flooded with American Gangster remixes*, and Diddy gave the world a list of tips on how to have a good new years party (which should have been stamped “ONLY IF YOU’RE RICH, BITCH!” because my broke ass for damn sure can’t afford a wait staff…**)?!

So it seems that during my state of distraction hip hop did more losing than it did progressing…quite disappointing, but not surprising these days. I just wonder what it will take for the trend to start changing. I mean the good music is getting put out there, but why is it not getting attention? It seems like people care more about hearing that Britney Spears’ younger sister Jamie Lynn is pregnant. Hm, so the pregnancy of a sixteen year old Nickelodeon star is getting more national attention than Ghostface Killah’s latest release? Gee, and everybody loves to blame hip hop for everything. As if splattering some little kids’ favorite actress’ teen pregnancy with her technically statutory rape-worthy boyfriend all across the national news is helping matters at all either. There’s a lot of positivity that could be drawn from that, yet nobody is doing so.

Matter of fact, why don’t I stop yapping for once and take control of things? I’ll do the positivity honors.

Miss Spears could be risking her career as an actress (face it, those kid-oriented stations don’t play that scandal shit) just because she and her boyfriend chose to be irresponsible in their endeavors. What does that mean, kiddies? Well, aside from keeping it in your pants, think with your BRAIN if you insist on getting busy. A short amount of time spent endulging in pleasure can quickly turn into one hell of a headache and life changer if you aren’t careful. And no, you aren’t invincible just because your age ends with “-teen”. It can happen to you too. Don’t put all the government mandated time you had to spend in public school to waste by never utilizing your education towards a career pursuit because you’re too busy changing diapers and are too young to handle a career and a child at once.

Now that I got my lovely rant out of the way, one more matter of business – shouts to everybody out there who provided me with many an internet distraction when I needed to avert my eyes from Microsoft Word and the many essays I was working on and indulge in e-debauchery. And props to everybody else in the same situation as me who just finished their finals and shit too. IT’S OVER! Until January…but IT’S OVER! Celebration time.

 

 

 

*Props to 2dopeboyz for keeping steady coverage of those…Von Pea of Tanya Morgan fame’s American Angster and the American Godfather joint belonging to DJ Skee were standouts to me. I see you, Shake!

**At least he promoted responsible drinking…after shamelessly plugging Ciroc vodka, but whatever.


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