Redman's dopest verse....

Look up in the, I got the verbs, nouns and glocks in ya
Enter the centa, lyrics bang like rico-chet
Rabbit, I brings havoc with an A-K matic
Rollin blunts an all day habit
I get it on like Smif'n'Wes
Punks take a sip and test
Who split your vest
The funk phenomenon
I'm bombin you like Lebanon
Blow canals of Panama
Just off stamina
Styles not to be fucked with, or played with
Fuck the pretty hoes, I love those Section A Bit-ches
Hittin switches, Twistin wigs with
Fat radical mathematical type scriptures
I dig up in your planets like Diga,
Boo, scared you, blew you to smithe-reens
Fuck the marines, I got machines
To light the spliff, and read Mad magazine
I fly more heads than Continental
Wreck ya 5 times like US AIR off an instrumental
Look I'm not a half way crook with bad looks
But I may murder your case like your name was Cal Brooks
I breaks em up proppa
Ask Biggie Smalls 'Who Shot Ya'
Funk doctor, with the 12 Gauge Mossberg
Look, I got the tools like Rickle
To make your mind tickle
For the nine nickle

The Pleasure Principle

It is my opinion, that Janet Jackson in "Pleasure Principle" is the dopest.



Really.

Yeah, "Love Will Never Do" was good...

"Anytime, Any Place" was sexy on a higher level...

But for me, where that intersection, that confluence, of sexuality + innocence + optimism all meet, really took place within the presentation of the "Pleasure Principle" video.

Happy Birthday to The Cos!!!!!

All bullshit aside...

Its Bill Cosby's birthday today. He's 74 years old!

I have to admit that I never realized truly how cool Bill Cosby was back in the day. I came up seeing him in this image of Heathcliff Huxtable, the family man, with a beautiful wife and 5 kids. "The Cosby Show" for all of its greatness and success, while watching it as a kid, never really told me how cool and fun to be around this man was in real life. Cool, not in the sense of a family0man, a responsible adult with the responsibilitites of being a husband and a father several times over. But as a younger man who hadn't fully matured to the point where he was a well-rounded human being.

Now that I'm older...

Now that I am an adult that has seen some things...

Yeah, Bill Cosby was The Motherfucking Man!!!!

He was a regular at The Playboy Mansion in its heyday.
He did tours with jazz musicians.
(those same musicians that would later appear on his show)
He smoked cigars.
He drove fancy and fast cars.
He helped folks out in Hollywood
(ask Melvin Van Peebles)
He was well-connected and respected.

So, I have to give reverence to an icon. Respect where its due.

What I heard Eddie say in "Raw" really didn't give the full picture as to what The Cos had done prior to that point. Had I gone off that one bit in "Raw", I would not have thought about watching "Uptown Saturday Night" only to find Richard Pryor in a cameo. I'll do some further research, but I'm sure The Cos did somebody a favor(or three) during this production. Hell, the cast is a who's who of Black Entertainment at the time. Sidney Poitier. Harry Belafonte. Flip Wilson. Rosalind Cash. Roscoe Lee Browne. Harold Nicholas. Etc al.



Nowadays to have that many Black entertainers in one movie would require a 4 minute trailer just to show the names as equal billing, regardless of screen time.

It did not register with me that "Fat Albert" the cartoon series was also used in his Doctoral Dissertation. He used a show that he created(based on one of his routines) to help educate children and then use the outcomes from that to show the benefits in his work entitled: "An Integration of the Visual Media Via 'Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids' Into the Elementary School Curriculum as a Teaching Aid and Vehicle to Achieve Increased Learning". Mind you, he went to work on his doctorate while still being a major player in Hollywood. That's not just being talented, but also being driven and having discipline to complete tasks.

THOROUGH!!!!!

That is a trait that I am still trying to gain now. This man was already doing it before he was 40!

Even still, The Cos did what he could and its clear that alot of folks benefitted from associating with him. For a period of time, it was good to be friends with The Cos. And on this day, I wish him a happy birthday!!!!

Arthur Ashe

"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost."
-Arthur Ashe

Nomm Nomm Nomm

Giving honor & praise to my friends WiseMath and Kunle Solar.....

A word from the wise

Jack Tatum RIP

According to ESPN, Jack Tatum, one of the most intimidating DBs and an iconic Oakland Raider, has passed away due to a heart attack. He was 61.

I never saw Tatum play. Just before my time. But coming up as a football player and fan, he was one of those players that older fans made sure that you knew of. Like Jim Brown, Earl Campbell, and Deacon Jones. The legends told of them and their exploits on the field would create the folk tales of my youth and subsequent indoctrination into the game. "The Assassin" was known for some of the most punishing hits in the 1970s for the Oakland Raiders. Him, George Atkinson, Willie Brown, and Skip Thomas formed one of the most talented secondaries and were known as "The Soul Patrol" which won Super Bowl XI against the Vikings.

Losses like these, I call some oldheads and talk to them, sharing the news and trying to hear their stories about how Tatum would make a bitch out of Lynn Swann.

William Dent-THE MU'FUCKIN MAN!!!!

Not only is he a successful black man, but he has literally fucked the police(Yvonne), had sex with 2 of his best homegirls(Joan & Lynn), he also had Kenya FUCKIN Moore fight over him with another woman!!!

And if all else fails, all these women know he's packing heat!!!

What nigga in life DOESN'T want this to happen to him?