Biggie = Obama? Negro Please... of January 17, 2008

Dipset rappers (or former Dipset rappers) Jim Jones and Juelz Santana will be providing a free screening of the film, Notorious, to fans. The film covers the life of the late Christopher Wallace, also known as Biggie Smalls and the more popular Notorious B.I.G.

B.I.G was gunned down on March 9, 1997 (a day before my birthday... depressing year) leaving an after-party in California. The slaying has remained unsolved as the rapper’s mother, Voletta Wallace and wife, Faith Evans, continue to seek justice in the aftermath of the tragedy.

"I never got a chance to meet him, so this is me as a Harlem dude saluting a cat from Brooklyn, in a small but meaningful way," Juelz stated. "Jim and I figured that so many people in the Hip-Hop community would be going to the see the movie individually; if we can make it so that everyone sees it together, that's a great thing."

Ditto to that. Most regions are too proud to big up a pioneer from another one, try to convince some ATLiens to get that chip off their shoulder.

However, someone is always going overboard...

"I did it for Hip-Hop," said Jones, who compared B.I.G. to another trailblazer. "It's as big as Obama's being the first black president. This is part of our history in the urban community; Biggie was our first Obama."

Word? Negro Please.

Forget B.I.G. Forget 2Pac. Forget Pimp C. God bless the dead, but NO rapper, dead OR alive, can be compared to President Barack Obama's historic win. "Ready To Die," "All Eyez On Me," or any other classic album by whatever hip-hop artist, any Black artist ever, cannot compare to this win for Black people everywhere.

Jim Jones is an ignorant nigga, not quite as ridiculous as Lil Wayne, but this takes the cake. I want to see "Notorious," but I'm not as geek'd for it as... oh... the Inaguration of President Obama. If someone offered me a free ticket to DC over some free screening, the choice would not be hard.

Biggie = Obama? SMH.

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Yung Berg and the YouTube Slapper Phenomenom

So I'm behind on my posts... AGAIN. Between finding out some extra heartbreaking news in my personal life, getting back to school, and drama that picked me up from the airport and followed me to campus, I'm behind. I've gotten a lot of sh*t to air out... complain about, depending on your love/hater status.

Apparently, Ole Berg is still getting his *ss whooped again. This happened like a week and a half ago, but according to illseed and his infamous rumor mill, Berg and Master P's nephew, Young Trump, got into a fight last week. Surprisingly, no one got involved (not even Berg's security HAHA). The match was pretty even until Trump swung and knocked Berg out. Ole Berg's security then pushed Master P's nephew off and the club security broke it all up. It's not up on his myspace now, but Trump had a pic up that depicted a photoshopped Berg with bruises and such with a message, "yung-berg nigga we got yah!!!!!"

Well aren't we creative?

Cannon Ball Note: "Young Trump?" Negro Please.

Second, and more importantly, I think this a sign of worsening conditions in 2009, for both Yung Berg and us all. We have all grown accustomed to the hater and his devious, sometimes infectious, bitchassness. We have also watched and laughed at the beatdowns unfortunate person's experience on YouTube. 2008 was the year of the slapper, where everyone was experiencing this most demeaning types of assault. 2009, however, seems to be the year of the YouTube Slapper, haters who broadcast their "alleged" feats of bitchassness online.

You see the combined might of the disrespect we have left to fester all these years now???

What you got on a WWJD band for nigga?! Jesus don't threaten anyone with beatdowns!

Now, I don't like Sambo Boy, and I will tell anyone who listens or reads my blog (stay tuned). Maybe I'm a hater, or maybe I don't like the type of music he puts out or the image he portrays that convinces people our generation are a bunch of minstrels who appreciates slave masters. I guess it's hate then. BUT, this guy is ridonculous, and a good example of the bs that we are dealing it. Not to mention the grown *ss men who went on YouTube claiming they are the ones who robbed the Sambo and tried to kidnap on of his boys? Isn't that evidence of a felony?!

What's interesting is that, although there might not be footage of the actual slap, beatdown, etc of any superstar, you will most like fine someone taking credit for it. For example, search for Katt Williams getting slapped. Face slapping, chain snatching, home invading and car jacking masked bandits are no longer keeping their *ss in the shadows and behind the bushes. They want credit too, like the actual producers of some of these hit records. Rappers have been taking responsibility for all sorts of niggerdom recently to the relief of those who actually did it, ie, the smart niggas who are AVOIDING prosecution. Now some niggas are actually pretty stupid, and have been prosecuted for their Myspace page and YouTube channel.

The YouTube Slapper can't rap, but is steadily polejocking the most recent and fastest growing Hip-Hop trend since skinny jeans.

Is there anything that we can do about this? I doubt it. I believe this is just the next step in the evolution of hate. Instead of getting an education and become a law-abiding citizen, good father, or President, these young men are interested in leaching and robbing dudes of their success. We can pull the plug on these YouTube Slappers, but it's been happening in real life forever. It's so latent that we don't even notice anymore... have you ever though about how Rico from "Whoop Rico" feels?

Maybe we could dismiss all these YouTube Slappers who fake criminals who want infamy, or future criminals who will need a lawyer. But then we would probably have to dismiss all of our favorite snowman/thug/gangsta/REAL rappers. Yes, we all know that Young Trump (Trump...SMH) will never put out a credible album that will sell, but what about 50 Cent and his bullying? Or the Lil Wayne or Jim Jones and their Blood "affiliations?" Jay-Z hasn't hustled on the street in like 15 years, but he still goes hard like Brooklyn.

How about Maino, who has championed the "I Heart Haters" movement I so readily detest? What can he say, when he's bragging about slapping Ole Berg or beating up Lil Cease.



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Star Wars/ Coming to America Mash-Up... A-HA!

This is ga-reat. You'll probably watch it 3 or 4 times. They mixed Star Wars footage with James Earl Jones lines from Coming To America. It is madd funny actually, but I think they could do even better with Mufasa's lines from Lion King.

A-HA!



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20 Questions (February 2009)

So I'm a little early with the 20 questions, seeing as how it's January 11 and this is the February issue.

Sue me.

I'm a little excited about this issue however. My favorite artist (f*ck rapper or producer, despite what the cover says) is featured, Kanye West! I sound madd excited by I'm not... my heart was broken... 4 or 5 hours before I posted this blog, and I related to 808s & Heartbreak way more than I did 6 or 7 hours before. More on that later.

But I digress... 20 Questions! I think they're pretty lame btw, but hopefully I won't be as bad.

1. How many people have already broken their New Year's resolution?
Ha! You have to had MADE a New Year's resolution to break it!

2. Did T-Pain really call someone a copycat?
Yep. And I think he meant it.

3. If Chris Brown and Rihanna's matching tatts don't make things official, what will?
He calms his cheating *ss down and actually stay faithful. But you didn't hear that from me.

4. Plaxico Burress: When keeping it real goes wrong?
I'm gonna be real: If the Giants don't WIN the Super Bowl, I'll shoot him.

5. Aren't you secretly hoping the Obamas pick a Rottweiler as their White House dog?
As much as I had hoped Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson would pray at Barack's Inauguration.

6. Why do we keep hearing that all of Jodeci is getting back together?
Yall keep listening for some reason. A better question is, why do you care?

7. What happened to Christina Milian's singing career?
Same thing that happened to her acting career.

8. Isn't Ripley's portrait of Eminem (made from M&M's) brilliant?
Eminem portait of M&M's, fitting and delicious.

9. When did Law & Order and CSI turn into resume builders for rappers- turned- actors?
Somewhere between Ice-T and Ludacris.

10. Are you sipping NUVO yet?
No, that sounds dirty, like Nuva Ring.

11. Can rappers please, please, please, (pretty) please stop creating clothing lines? (No, not Clipse, too!)
Yeah this is pitiful. It's not even like it's high scale like Pharrell's Billionaire Boy's Club or urban chic like Sean John and Rocawear, it's Wal-Mart brands like Master P's crap.

12. Are people done pretending Beyonce's new album is better than Solange's?
Are we going to start pretending that it actually matters if Solange's was better?

13. After Dedication 3, is Lil Wayne the "Best Skitmaker Alive," too?
Don't go there. I don't care if you got navigation don't go THERE! I love a b*tch with glasses too, Weezy!

14. Shouldn't 50 collect and endorsement check for suing Taco Bell?
After losing those few million dollars to the recession, he can use the money.

15. Don't you wish more artists were like Kanye and pushed their album release dates up instead of back?
I wish more artists were like Kanye and put out good music.

16. And who do we have to holler at to cop a pair of Air Yeezy's?
I thought you didn't care for any rapper's clothing line... hypocrite!

17. Won't it be cool to see The Roots as the house band for Jimmy Fallon's late-night show?
Who the f*ck is Jammy Fallon?

18. Is Black History Month still relevant?
Why do we need the shortest month in the year when we have the highest office in the land now? BI-YOTCH!

19. Why doesn't Carmelo Anthony talk to Allen Iverson about those tired braids?
If he doesn't get it by now, he just ain't gettin it.

20. Shouldn't Jim Jones and Juelz Santana be pouring champagne on the girls in the "Pop Champagne" video instead on each other?
In the words of Dipset, "No homo."

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Am I Sprinting?

I'm worried that the actual objective of Cannon Ball Sprint is not being fulfilled. We all know that there are a lot of things that are not said in this world, whether it is between co-workers, friends, people in relationships, politicians and their constituents, etc. It is my belief that these unsaid things are f*cking up the world right now and why hate is a f*cking pandemic that's infecting every generation.

Cannon Ball Sprint was primarily established because I'm an a-hole and I want everyone to smell my sh*t. But, my delusions of grandeur have got me convinced that there is a deeper meaning to all this. That by putting all the crap of the world out there, we are forced to clean it up. By shining a light on haters and exposing the true nature of hate by indulging in it from time to time, we are able to combat and reverse it's devastating effects on the Black community and the WORLD.

Basically, my sh*t can cure such illnesses as HIV, cancer... and hate. Screw Chuck Norris.

But I'm worried that I'm being politically correct. I'm falling prey to... The Unsaid! So many a-hole things I could blog about, and I mentioning gutta Israelis/Palestinians and that people aren't paying to jerk off anymore. Shame on me! I have a responsibility to my followers, my friends, my ego and the friggin WORLD to let it be known.

I rededicate my effort to a full out sprint! I shall carry out a two-front war on running and the Unsaid. Dem nah ready.



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A F*cking Bailout? a la Negro Please... of January 8, 2008

Please note... Larry and Joe are not Black. But it's my blog so go kick rocks if you don't like it.

Larry Flynt and Joe Francis are asking Washington for $5 billion to bailout their industry, which is hurting from the soft economy... LOL.

Was that not funny? Don't know who Larry Flynt and Joe Francis are? Well, Flynt is the publisher of Hustler Magazine and Francis is the producer of the Girls Gone Wild series. That's right, the porn... um, adult entertainment industry is suffering from this recession. Get the previous joke now?

A world without... Girls Gone Wild? *gasp*

The $5 billion figure, Francis said, reflects the decline in U.S. adult-entertainment- industry revenue from $18 billion three years ago to $1 billion last year. In a phone interview, he insisted that this was not a joke or publicity stunt. Francis stated, "The government’s handing out money to the auto industry. Why shouldn’t it hand some to an industry the nation could not live without?"

Touche.

"People are too depressed to be sexually active," Flynt said in a news release. "This is very unhealthy as a nation. Americans can do without cars and such, but they cannot do without sex." Adult DVD sales and rentals have decreased by 22% in the past year, the news release claimed, as viewers seek free porn online.

Indeed.

Jenna Presley said she has also felt the effects of the sagging economy... LOL. her web site has seen a 20% decline in customers, about 1,000 of whom pay $19.99 a month to watch the 22-year-old perform online. I can get 22 YO's to perform for free... Anyway, she said the downturn has forced her to cut overhead. Instead of paying co-stars, she is posting their videos on her site and they're posting her content on theirs.

Other performers, Presley said, have faced pay cuts as video companies take the step of tightening their belts... LOL. "Instead of paying a girl $2,000 for a boy-girl , now they’re trying to pay $1,200." Presley said she has refused to work for less and so far has not lost business. "I stand up for myself," she said. "A lot of girls, the business is so slow, they're happy just to find work (at any price)."

You go girl.

"I regret that two porn-industry executives have used the current economic crisis to launch an obvious publicity stunt," said Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, a congressman in San Fernando Valley. "As Americans face tough economic times, we need a serious discussion of the issues."

Many, including Presley and Rep. Sherman, aren't buying the necessity. Steven Hirsch, co-Chairman of Vivid Entertainment the self-proclaimed world's leading adult film producer, believes that going to Washington is unrealistic. "This is not the time to make sweeping statements. This is the time to buckle down and take the steps we need to save our industry. This industry is not immune from (the bad economy). People are spending less money, period."

He suspects that Flynt and Francis are just... poking... fun at other industries. He stated that Vivid is not suffering as bad as smaller companies because its name brand gives it a "leg up."

Damn, people can't get it up. This recession has got to go!

For more info, read: Porn Industry Seeks $5 Billion Federal Bailout

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Israel & Hamas are Trully Gangster

I've always thought that Israel was one of the G nation-states in the world. After all, they managed to defeat Egypt, Syria and Jordan in 6 days. Those three states were also supported by arms and supplies from Iraq, Saudia Arabia, Sudan, Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria by the way. Sooo this one state manage to G most of the Middle East in less than a week... Word?

I'm not sleeping on the Palestinians either, they are the most G stateless-nation in the world. These people have been fighting for their own government, and fighting the Israeli government, for decades. With every new generation, an intifada begins with young Palestinian men and women hoping to achieve a dream their parents and grandparents had. You would think they would just move. Plus, their style (the kuffiyeh) is being copied by people and niggas everywhere.

In case you didn't know, Israel launched an attack against Hamas on December 27 last year, which is possible because you have been sleeping off the Christmas dinner itis. A six-month truce between Hamas and Israel ended on December 19. Hamas blamed Israel for breaching the truce and for not lifting the Gaza Strip blockade, and Israel blamed Hamas for rocket fire directed at southern Israeli towns and communities. Israel's stated objectives in this conflict are to end Palestinian rocket fire and prevent the rearming of Hamas. Hamas demands the cessation of Israeli attacks and an end to the Israeli blockade.

In any case, they have been getting in each other's *ss with no sign of pulling out. Israel is packing the bigger stick though (if you know what I mean. Casualty figures are hard to prove, but officials at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City and the Gazan Ministry of Health said 683 Palestinians had died since the conflict began, including 218 children and 90 women. They said 3,085 had been wounded. Ten Israelis have been killed during the offensive, including three civilians. Most of the seven dead Israeli soldiers were killed in so-called friendly fire.

Israeli soldiers chillin' for 3 hours before they get back in that *ss.

On Wednesday January 7 alone, Israeli shells killed some 40 people at a United Nations school in Gaza. Israel said Hamas militants had fired mortar shells from the school compound prior to Israel’s shelling. No one seemed to be injured however. Hm.

However, according to the New York Times, Israel and Hamas militants paused their fighting briefly on Wednesday, "Israel suspended its military operations in Gaza for three hours on Wednesday to allow humanitarian aid and fuel for power generation to reach Gazans, who used the afternoon break to shop."

Whoa... shop? For glocks and AK's, these mugs are dealing with mortar shells and rockets! I would be trying to get my butt out of the area. I'll swim the damn Meditteranean to head to Egypt. Or dig a hole deep enough to hide in for a few weeks. But nooo, these people are stocking up for the long haul.

Unfortunately the lobsided battle resumed soon afterward, "In the evening, the Israeli Army dropped leaflets warning the citizens of Rafah, next to the border with Egypt, to leave their homes." How polite of them. Israel has been bombing the tunnel networks through which arms and consumer goods are smuggled from Egypt into Gaza. Hamas on the other hand fired 22 rockets into Israel, but no one was wounded.

The Israeli government said it welcomed the efforts of France and Egypt to work out a durable cease-fire. It said it would end its assault if Hamas stopped firing rockets into Israel and ended the smuggling of weapons from Egypt. Hamas is insisting that any new arrangement include the reopening of border crossings for trade with Israel and the reopening of the Rafah crossing into Egypt for people. But Israeli and Hamas officials both denied an assertion by the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, that a cease-fire had been agreed upon.

Let's hope a peaceful resolution is found, there's only so much a G can take... stateless or state(ful).

For more info, visit: Israel Resumes Attack After Pause for Aid Delivery

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