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     Late June, 1996 : a Man who would become 🐐, was released unto the masses.  Shawn Corey Carter of Marcy, is the greatest to ever wield a 🎤 but why?      Reasonable Doubt was released 24 years ago today & while it did well as far as sales & garnered positive initial reviews ; most were NOT ready, so we just HEARD the slick 💩 this “Manimal” (y’all don’t remember my show, 🔥) was bleating.  Once we were ready to LISTEN . . . The transformation would be completed : 👨🏾 to 🐐.  I could write several pages regarding each track from this album but I’m in Walmart, iPhoning this scribe so I’ll move on.        HipHop is a genre full of braggadocio & embellishments, especially amongst those who season their works with 🔫, 🌱 💊 💉 & 🐈 🐱 : Jigga’s talk was more than just talk, he was verified by true American Gangsters (double entendre in honor of 🐐 Z).  One of the main n reasons for Young Hov’s goatnes...

     I’ve seen ppl express their wanting to return to normalcy, tiring of protests/rants/tears & all this 🖤🖤🖤 shit . . . in 35 seconds Dave was horrified : George Floyd had to deal with that terror for 526 seconds.  I’ve been alive for close to 23,126,400 seconds, more than many & fewer than many others; people that look like me aren’t afforded the luxury of being tired of this 🖤🖤🖤 shit.  Idk about the next but as far as Severiano is concerned, I’m not superior to any individual based on my ethnicity (I’m just superior to most mfs: be they white, black, brown, off-white, swirled, tanned, beige, cream or albino) and that seems to be getting lost in translation.  Don’t get me wrong, there’re Blacks who link superiority to ethnicity (there’re ppl of every ethnic group who think as such) but for the majority of us this is not true.  I am positive that quite a few outside of the Black race erroneously see the  #BLM  in such a manner ...

     COVID-19 is a blessing.  My prayers go up for those who’ve lost loved ones amidst this horrible pandemic BUT it’s still a blessing (I’ve lost at least 2 Framily members in connection to it).  Niggas have been getting murdered by unscrupulous/vile civil servants (IMO the vast majority of our police force, as is our country, are good ppl at the core) and little, if anything, changed.  You’d expect that Trayvon’s murder would have been “the one,” due to the situation.  LISTEN CLEARLY BECAUSE I AM ABOUT TO GET TOO REAL AND SPEAK TO YOU ALL AS IF YOU’RE MY SQUAD : I DO NOT GENERALLY DO SO BECAUSE MOST DO NOT GET ME NOR DO THEY LISTEN, INSTEAD THEY HEAR.  Trayvon was a kid & totally innocent, he was just walking through a neighborhood : in comparison, Mr. Floyd was about my age, had a criminal past (I said listen, not react.  I’m not justifying shit, so stfu).  Between the 2 you’d choose Trayvon as the murder that’d be the fuse to set...

“Renegade” ft Eminem by Jay Z      1st Hov verse = him force feeding America the reality of the hood: forcing it to acknowledge it. How dare ye who’ve grown up in some amount of comfort, rate horrific #BARS that I was forced to live ... ( Hov’s 1st verse continued) the scraps y’all gave us (as with chitlins etc in slavery), I made a meal & fed my ppl; the shit we were forced to live in, i packaged as fertilizer.  In that 💩 I cultivated crops and unbeknownst to you, sold you those crops in your living rooms/cars/televisions/computers & radios.  I’m not just an emcee, an entertainer. . . I’m a conduit: I’m a 💡. . . a poet . . . a 👨🏾‍🏫........ Shakespeare was aight (despite the 👻 ✍🏾 rumors) but did he sell out the Garden in a day?  Did he hold it down for 9 straight summers (or was it 12 ..... go check, I’m busy)?  Yea, I spoon feed y’all with sugar/🧈 (the hits) but y’all don’t even realize that the guns (grime/lessons/game) snuck in with ...

     Everything that’s gold doesn’t glitter . . . Yes, I know what I said & I meant it. You likely came up being told the reverse but I came up telling myself the version which I choose to use.  Money is a means to an end, a necessary evil (it isn’t evil in any manner, the lust for it takes that cake. . . Ppl are the evil) due to its being a tool in the handling of responsibilities & the procurement of necessities; otherwise, I haven’t much need for it (when I was younger, I thought I did).  The most fun I’ve ever had with another human being 🤔. . . Much of that time I was bout broke, had no car & I stayed in a rundown house : everything that’s gold doesn’t glitter.  My gf at the time could care less about that house/my finances & she had a 🚗 (s/o to my G), she genuinely cared for ME : everything that’s Gold doesn’t glitter.  Growing up we started out in the Vrew (mama says we were in Alpha Arms at one point but my memory only goes ba...

     Ok time to speak on the genius of this here 3 part epic drama (I warn thee that I am a bloviator, so this gon take some time). So Jay cheats on B with Becky (allegedly Dame’s ex-wife 🥶) & that act alone changes the course of their lives & music forever. Jay is Jay & seemingly has the 🌎 in the palm of his hands .... then B discovers his debauchery and hastily grabs her daughter & to the West my brother to the West. Up until this point Jay is basically, undefeated since he stepped onto the scene but this one hurts; hurts like no pain he’s ever endured and that’s saying a bunch when Adnis is considered. Jay watches his family ride into the sunset while he instead is simply burned by the sun. Over time B has to face the fact that her husband cheated & that it will soon become public: will she forsake him? Will she forgive him? Tis my personal opinion that initially Jay turned her out & in doing so, acquired there lion’s share of power in the rel...