Monday, January 28, 2008

You Idiots Have Tarnished My Beloved Sport

It's well known I love futbol de americano for my latin/hispanic cats or felines I know. I could watch football all day long in between showers and food re-ups. However, I kinda fell upon my the sport that I'm in love with and have loved sense I was 14. Track and Field!

Track was my girl in high school. She was good to me and even rewarded with higher education and propz that I never imagined. I ran track initially to get faster for football. Well, I wasn't growing fast enough for my Barry Sanders like dreams and my football career ended fast and abruptly to my sad demise. However, a great man saw a bit of potential in me and the rest was history. I wasn't overwhelming good but I had some pretty good performances.

Hmm Marion Jones......My coach always said sprinters did suddenly become dominant. It was a gradual build up. Simply put Marion wasn't overwhelming anyone early on. Then she exploded into this superstar. She was too powerful it seemed and he and I would wonder sometimes about her performances.

Then it all started happening. A plethora of big name sprinters were going down in droves. Marion's former husband even dropped dime on her and no one believed him. They chalked it up to a bitter divorce and scorn. Nope, he was did on.

Track is the ultimate individual sport. Your natural ability against another human's natural ability. Equipment has very little to do with your performance and teammates have no direct effect on how fast you run or how far. Relays are only times another person effects your performance. Even so the exchange has to be severely handled that it effects your outcome.

Now no one believes in the US's dominance in sprints anymore. They all seem suspect to the world now. Our distance runners have never been dominate in the last 25 years. So now we will simply look average and like a bunch of non-factors like how Germans and Russians reps were tainted for years. I guess we will wait it out and try to restore the feeling.

Shyt My Uncle Told Me LOL!

Alotta people that know me will agree that I'm funny. Not sure where I got my humor from but my parents are no comedians, well at least not intentionally. I make real life stuff that happened to me that wasn't remotely funny at the time funny for my listeners. I won't lie I went through some messed up and unneeded stuff as a kid. It's what makes me who I am but now I laugh the pain away because I refuse to be a "case" and can't cope with daily life.

Anyway, my oldest uncle had this thing about "schooling" his young nephews. My uncle was the family barber as a kid. It actually cut 90% of his nephews hair and he did a good job. Props to my uncle because the man is blessed with multi-talented hands. He would sit you on the toilet seat in his bathroom and smoke his cigarette and tell you stories. Some serious and some downright raunchy and humorous. When I was about 13 he figured it was now time to bless the young'n with the verbal knowledge of men.

Lesson 1 STDs
Big unc told me there was a way to find out if a girl was "burning". He swore it was fool proof. The man said your nose could fool you. So don't rely on that but don't disregard it either. The technique was to distract the girl while you are fingering the cooch then sneak a sniff. Sniff test checks out proceed to next mission. The follow on mission required you to play a bit of your ear wax in her cooch without her knowing it. NO LIE! The wise man said if she jumps or squirms something is wrong. I couldn't believe my ears! He told alright fine don't do it and see what happens.

Naw big unc, a condom will do just fine!

Lesson 2 Basic Math
Now this lesson is priceless because I can almost confirm he was living his own words. Trust me I spent enough summers at his house helping out to see this. He told me to stay with from those fine pretty girls because they were too much drama. Okay, he had a point meaning all of the other guys will be after her. Chances are she's going to get conceited and the games began. So what's a dude to do? Get a not so hot chick? Yep!

It was like this according to my uncle, "If you can't get yourself a ten, get five twos." Hmm? The man was an astute mathematician too LOL! Okay the formula was this, well its kinda like a hood Pythagarean Theorem if you will. Each of these said "2" brought something to the table that you needed this ten to but then ten only looked good and was incapable of offering anything but something nice to look at. Basically was a great cook, ultra nice, cleaned for you, super freak and one was there when ever you needed her no matter what. Fellaz the man is probably a genius of sorts because I can't say I found one woman who actually did all of that in one package. You just kinda go through life accepted there's always a category that needs work-lol!

The man actually had women like that around. No lie!

Lesson 3 The Rule of Percentages
Okay finally that made sense to me from the start. He said all women want a man who be the energizer bunny in bed and wow them each time. Basically keep them off balance with new revelations each time out. With that ability you will never be alone he said. Hmmm? Well the man was on to something. For my tricycle with training wheels population he meant go all out sometimes then kinda all out sometimes.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Nas Illmatic-Illmatic (10yr Anniversary Release)

First off this is one of rap's greatest albums ever. Don't even try to debate it. If you doubt it either you are too young or caught up on some coastal regional stupidity. The problem I had with this joint when it dropped was it was TOOOOO short! I wanted Nasir Jones to continue to murder my eardrums and stimulate my mental for at least 5 more tracks. However, Nas had it right he put quality over quantity into this album before everyone would flood the market with double cds full of studio floor fodder.

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Note this at 256kbs bitrate. Meaning it will sound just like the original joint not compressed like 95% of the joints on your comp right now.

Ultra Magnetic MCs-Critical Beatdown

Another one of my favorite ol skool tapes. Yeah I said tape because the CD game wasn't poppin yet. I remember as a young skrappa reciting the hook to "Ego Trippin". "Magnetic, Magnetic". Funny how that track is listed as the 12" Remix but I've never heard the original? Maybe someone can help me out.

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Now for the What You Really Came Here For

The Source Fat Tape

1. Terminator X feat Chuck D & Sista Souljah - Buck Whylin
2. Brand Nubian - Who Get Busy Like This Man
3. Kool G Rap & DJ Polo - Streets Of New York
4. A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum (Hootie Mix)
5. Eric B & Rakim - The Ghetto (Drums Mix)
6. Ice Cube - Who's The Mack
7. Boogie Down Productions - Love's Gonna Get'cha (Material Love)
8. 3rd Bass - Products of the Environment (Marley Marl Remix)
9. LL Cool J - Boomin' System (Underground Mix)
10. Frescho & DJ Miz - Ain't You Freshco?
11. Barsha - Who's The Master?12. K Solo - Your Mom's In My Business
13. Michie Mee & LA Luv - Jamaican Funk
14. Poor Righteous Teachers - Rock Dis Funky Joint
15. KMC - Gangsters

Since I'm an ol'skool rap fan I'll bless ya'll with Real Shyt I "found"
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Politics and Bovine Excrement

Ahhh the campaign trail and the drama of the state primaries. If you are invoking your constitutional right than you are paying attention to this stuff. If not you are pretty worthless in my view and you should move to some other land that suffocates your basic rights as a human.

Anyway, I'm too concern about the republicans and their "I can do better than you and religious mud slinging" mentalities. None of those dudes excite me. Naw ol Hil and Barack are getting it on. Barack being the charismatic and witty Black man who's actually held in high regard by large percentage of white voters are engaged in verbal and character warfare. Hillary has the "leverage" of having a former president as husband who's often humorously and seriously referred to sometimes as the first "Black President" on her side. Trust me many Black voters were offended by the tactics Bill began using and felt "betrayed" somehow. Remember we are the group of people that laughed when it was made public that he got head in the oval office from an intern. That became stuff of urban lore. I mean what man wouldn't want to brag that he got some skull in the ultimate office. Problem was he picked the wrong chick!

No one expected Obama to destroy Clinton in those keys states and the now the winds of change may be upon us, seriously. Either way it now appears that we may have a woman or Black man as our president. The Republicans are reeling from these two candidates onslaughts in key states. Is out society finally letting go the white collar oppressive stance to progression? The base the Republicans are trying to separate themselves on is the needed change of view on Iraq. It's getting ugly and lies are being slung and twisting of words are being quoted or should say misquoted. Yeah, you Mr. Warhero McCain! Shame on you for blatantly lying on your opponent just calm down his surge.

Anyway that's just how I feel and I don't expect anyone else to follow me on these views. Do you and I'll do me!