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Thursday, February 26, 2004 |
Then what is my life
If I don't wanna go through
Anything without you
Couldn't be life at all
I could be lyin' on
You are the only one
We didn't make it by chance
And there is someone
belonging to someone
And I got no one belonging to me
I'm caught in a world on
the edge of tomorrow
It's all that a fool can find
I don't belong in the arms
of a love that is lost
Nowhere to cry
There must be something we
can say my love
Something except goodbye
- an excerpt from Someone Belong To Someone ( The Bee Gee's )
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Monday, February 23, 2004 | Hip Hop Star
As if backpack-rap or "alternative" rap can save the world..? This is why I can't stand reading white press.. and white people's take on Hip Hop.. Kanye West is Hip Hops saviour... 'fuckouttaherre! What bullshit! I love Kanye and sure he's a fresh of breathe air ( don't mind me ) but come on, he can barely rhyme.. he's mediocre at best.. I'd rather they call fora return to our "Roots" or a little "Kw-uality" from Kwe and I don't even listen to conscious rap...! I listen to kanye! haha how's that for loyalty.. but it's true.. there ain't no love or lyalty in hip hop. And on that token, if Kanye had a chance of "saving" hip hop I doubt it would be by rapping... I tolerate his attempts BECAUSE of his REAL skill at producing.. and for no reason should he get it confused!
yessir!
the propaganda
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Sunday, February 15, 2004 | If *** was a class, I bet I'll pass it
Nucca's love the way I bust a ****
Cause they all in line screamin one more time
Niggaz, grab your **** if you love nC
cuz this chick will rub-a-dub in the back of a club, straight up!!
Every girl has a lil' Lil'Kim in her ....right..? hahaha
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Friday, February 13, 2004 | My previous post reminded me of this song by Bounty...
Another Level
by Bounty Killer & Baby Cham
Bounty Killer giving you originality
Buss a shot if you respect and love the quality
Listen good and pay attention to my clarity
All a di gal dem a sey dem love mi personality
Mi go a foreign and big up mi nationality
Mi love dem money but mi nah bow fi vanity
Mi si di bwoy dem a come wid animosity
Pressure mi, pressure mi but mi nah leggo mi sanity
Bun a fire pon a p--p and Mr Faggoty
C...y deh yah fi wheel under Dorothy
Face a bend up and wrench under agony
p--p man fi drown dat a yard many philosophy
Tell di shotter dem fi hold a solidarity
Tell di government free up di weed policy
A our country dem fi lef it mek mi manage it
Trick wi and dem kill wi wid reverse psychology
Chorus:
Me an my crew, we are on another level
Hitting you with a new sound
Wow Wow
Me an my crew, we are on another level
Hitting you with a new sound
Wow Wow
Tell di bredda whey mess up di economy
Fi go read Chapter 3 Deuteronomy
Tell dem sey wi haffi secure wi family
Government corruption ago down like sodomy
Big up all di gal dem wid di big piece a property
Gi wi di gal dem whey possess whole heap a glamity
Mi check fi people but a gal a di majority
Woman haffi kill mi caw mi nah change me strategy
Big up di gunner dem whey run tings a Miami
London bad boys dem a follow wi
A last year wi mash up Brixton Academy
Cham and Bounty Killer lef di place inna frezny
Big up mi fren dem and sheg up all a mi enemy
Mi si di bwoy dem a watch and dem a penny mi
Mi jus a a chill and sip a glass a Hennessey
A humble man humble caa dem waa drain mi energy
Chorus:
Me an my crew, we are on another level
Hitting you with a new sound
Wow Wow
Me an my crew, we are on another level
Hitting you with a new sound
Wow Wow
Bounty Killer giving you originality
Buss a shot if you respect and love the quality
Listen good and pay attention to my clarity
All a di gal dem a sey dem love mi personality
Mi go a foreign and big up mi nationality
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Friday, February 13, 2004 | We must develop a black arrogance and teach it to our children. Despite the odds, success must be the center of our universe, and anything or anyone who tries to stand in the way of our success will fail...
I've just read a short article about the arrogance of Blacks in America... and it basically reflects all of North America and not just the United States. As much as racism ( however implicit ) is ingrained in the North-American system it really shouldn't stop us from reaching our goals.. I guess I've been lucky in many ways:
1) because I"m not in America, I've not been exposed to African-Americans and their somtime bitter, corroding hatred ( however justified ).. I'm happy I'm not confused about my ethnicity, even though I'm somewhat removed from it, it's never been in question. You will never hear me call myself "Ghetto.." and I will never understand why children of Africa move to the US and become assimilated into that whole mentality of AfricanAMericans... WHen we should be models for what they should strive for.. We're coming from a land where we are the dominant race, we don't have feeligs of self-indequacy choking us, and deep-seed from generations back. As the artcile mentioned, black people who trace their ancestry through slavery to get back to their african roots are somehow used to settling for less.. they take what's given.. no Oliver Twist syndormes for the, they know they're not getting more.. But we Africans come and TAKE, we make a way with other African-Amercians who are sick of being "space dust". Not ALL African Americans settle but MANY do. It's a societal thing.. and it's not just the blacks but the white people there don't seem to have fully come to grips with the fact that black does not equal inequity!
2) I'm raised in Canada.. surrounded by white people with no clue.. and no pre-dispositions about black people.. although that is getting worse these days with all the American Influence.. it'e even reachign the youth.. I mean no Canadian municipality has any ghetto's yet you still see Canadian kids talking about Ghetto's and Projects..? Oh Please.. but tome that's Trendif anything..and not as harmful as the reality of our counter-parts in the U.S. Some younger one's here think that I must be like the black girls in the states..? I'm quick to remind them I'm not American but African and ergo cannot be African-America. Why should I sufferfor or with something I have no relation to? Especially when there shouldn't be a need to sufferin the first place! Even many Africans in america don't consider themselves "Ghetto" and therefore "lesser" a.k.a. "Ghetto-Fabulous" I can be Fabulous all by my damn self..I'm good without the Hyphen!... it's a fine line.
3) Being not only African but NIGERIAN? I truly believe my drive for success is intrinsic.. because to this day, I've not ever met a naija person who didn't have a "side" hustle or two on the go.. wether it's babysitting, teaching driving school or trying to sell something! And that's USUALLY after higher-eduction.. I mean who am I to claim laziness when I see people twice my age and older multi-tasking their life working an still living a good life? I was like huh? I feel so behind and yet in many ways I'm leaps and bounds ahead of so so many.. I just can't help the feeling I need to be doign soemthing "else". But yea, my people are always on the move and I can't say I'm mad at that!
Anyway, The article is as follows.. [ link ] the poem it quotes is very popular and if you belong to any forum, email FWD: chain from hell or whatever I"m sure you've come across it in the past few years.. at least once if not a hundred times! The article really floats around a lot of differnt topics.. a little bit of propaganda and some downright flagrant exgaggerations.. and aside from all the political references it's a good timeless article on success and the black mentality.
This is exactly why I don't mind seeing arrogance in certian black people ( I wrote about Omarosa a few days ago even ).. like why should we apologize..? Fuck you! If you don't like it get the f*k out of my way! I don't need to assimilate to be rich and successful and fabulous without the hyphen? Look at RUssell Simmons.. That's what it's all about to me.. it's okay to be uncompromising and yes, even a little arrogant if success is your goal..
They take my kindness for weakness
They take my silence for speechless
They consider my uniqueness strange
They call my language slang
They see my confidence as conceit
They see my mistakes as defeat
They consider my success accidental
They minimize my intelligence to "potential"
My questions mean I'm unaware
My advancement is somehow unfair
Any praise is preferential treatment
To voice concern is discontentment
If I stand up for myself, I`m too defensive
If I don`t trust them, I`m too apprehensive
I'm deviant if I separate
I'm fake if I assimilate
My character is constantly under attack
Pride for my race makes me, "TOO BLACK"
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Friday, February 13, 2004 |
That's the joint, that's the jam
Turn that shit up, play it again
That's the joint, that's the jam
Turn that shit up, play it again
That's the join, that's the jam
Turn that shit up, play it again
Remember Black Eyed Peas...? nah... not the Justin Timberlake collabo's but the ORIGINAL Black Eyed Peas... wtf happened? I might be hating a little too much but I just can't be happy with their new found fame... How come I never noticed that white chick before..? It's like they've sold out.. and funny enugh I was still in limbo about wether or not they decided to go pop or were just being their weird selves ( and there fore still loveable ).. but after the grammy's, I've lost all hope.
So I guess this is an ode.. to the old.. but not forgotten Black Eyed Peas.. back when nobody knew or cared who they were... I miss those Joints & Jams now I wish they would just Shut Up! Shut Up!
In more serious news....
Barbie and Ken go the way of Bennifer?
If even Barbie can't keep her man... what hope do real women have? I'm so distraught..
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Monday, February 09, 2004 | Two things that caught my attention today!
City of God ( the movie ).. It looks so good!
and
Mobolaji Dawodu ( the naija designer )
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Friday, February 06, 2004 | Going out like Jigga..
So when I heard lennox Lewis had announced his retirement... I was at once shocked and in awe.. I certainly hope he's made as much money as Tyson.. or Holyfield... If I've ever known any boxer in my lifetime that I could root for more than Holyfield the night Tyson bit his ear off, it would definitely be Lennox. I love pretty much everything about him.. He's grounded, cute, fit, talented ( boxing, rapping ), super ambitious ( first Brit to win in America and hold both titles simultaneously ), he didn't give up trying to get a title fight.. and to top it off, he's always bigging up his mother! Who wouldn't love him!
I really hope he knows how blessed he is.. I hope he's as smart a business man as he's been with his boxing career.. I really do.. we don't need to see him working as a security Guard like Gary Coleman.. ( how pathetic.. Imagine all that mnoney and you couldn't even buy and education? ) Anyway.. I do wish Lennox all the best.. he's an itical black manin my eyes because he was stubborn enough to get what he wanted when all he was getting were no's. What audacity for him to come from London and think he was good enough to fight the likes of Holyfield? And then to win? If that's not ball I don't know know nada.. I respect the guy so much.. Plus he's controversy and ego free... We all know that's rare for a athlete in these days of rapes, beatings andjust plain lunacy from other black athletes.. I for one don't believe in the word "sports hero" but then again, I'm not America..
What does the world have against determined black girls?
Omarosa is a bad ass... I love that chick.. she can diddy-bop in heels and look like she owns TIme Square or soemthing.. I love how she said to Donald Trump, my mother used to shop at Good will and now I'm sitting in front of you.. I just love chicks who kn they're the shit.. I don't think she has an attitude I just think she's not-fake. I can't stand how whitechicks gigle and cuddle up with eachother like they don't have enough brains to string a sentence together on their own.. they do everythingin unison andit's ridiculous. I'm sure Omorosa saw taht and decided not to make a fool of herself.. after all it'snot highschool where you're tryign to get with the coolest guy.. it's big business and you're trying NOT to get screwed ( pun intended )... anyway that's one girls opinion.. I'd rollwith Omorosa anyday. She thought she'd get cut. She knew she's be called in by that useless Kristi but guess who got cut instead...? She walked in there like a champ I guess deep down she knew that show didn't make her and could NOT break her.. that's the kind of girl I can respect.. not all these ditzy white chicks all they do is backstab eachother in their tell-all interviews when no one was even asking them nada..
I know she got some hard-earned respect when she walked back in there after the meeting... All of them looked so shocked.. little did they know she was bent on being reckoned with and I really believe shes been on her game from day one. If that had been me I'd proabbaly have popped my collar in front of all of them.. told that other skinny bond chick to help me dust my shoulders off... or better yet dusted my shoulder off on her flat chest. yep! Hahaha j/k.. there's more victory in being humble anyway and staying focused sha.. So, the lesson for the day? Hum.. How did Biggie put it?? "stay low and keep firing, keep extra clips for extra shit" and "50 shot clip if a nigga wan test" mehn.. Biggie might have been talkign about guns for real.. but it can be taken anyway.. u gotta be prepared and have that "ready to die" attitude to stay alive. ironic isn't it!
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Monday, February 02, 2004 | Janet's titty Vs The Madonna and Brittney kiss
I could kick myself for missing yet another shameless ploy for attention by a celebrity! Damn my lack of interest for sports.. I totally forgot there was even a half time show! I watched Beyonce and went back to my Sunday.... dang I can't believe I missed this... Janet Jackon in her old age sef.. wetin she dey do? I wonder why she'd even try such a stunt?
Whoever actually saw the "clothing malfunction" abeg break it down for us.. was it worse/better than the OTHER MTV extravaganze..? All these so called unplanned events.. MTV has got to be kidding if they think anyone believes thyey didn't know... But I give them props for being so daring..
Anyway, as pa I miss am, I wan see am! And in the worst way!.. if anyone has links to video abeg hook am up! I wanna seeeeee.
if your'e toos hy to comment, email moi: holla@nc.com
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