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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...