You see the size of that donk? I bet each cheek needs its own crack just to keep her regular. Anyway, I saw a girl dancing in her room like this one time and tried to walk up in the spot; the police were called within minutes. I guess women don’t like it when you let yourself in through the window, especially if you’re wearing a Freddy Krueger mask and naked from the waist down (except for a pair of Timberland hikers). Well, Drake could probably get away with that.

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Last summer a brotha in Texas, Kenneth Robinson, moved into a $300,000 Texas home for $16, the cost to file adverse possession paperwork. The home was a foreclosure owned by a mortgage company that went out of business. Thus the property was considered abandoned. I’d like to explain in more detail, but I don’t have a law degree. If I did it would probably from an unaccredited online university. However, the Dallas Observer noted:

But, Robinson said just by setting up camp in the living room, Texas law gives him exclusive negotiating rights with the original owner. If the owner wants him out, he would have to pay off his massive mortgage debt and the bank would have to file a complicated lawsuit. Robinson believes because of the cost, neither is likely. The law says if he stays in the house, after three years he can ask the court for the title. He told News 8 his goal is to eventually have the title of the home and be named the legal owner of the home.

Keep in mind that $300,000 goes a long way in Texas real estate; it’ll get you a house, plantation, and a couple indentured servants. Of course the neighbors had a fit and weren’t about to exercise “white flight” over a $16 transaction. They tried to get him arrested for breaking and entering; the police couldn’t do a thing. They put media pressure on Robinson, didn’t work. He just chilled in the house with friends and family, despite having no electricity or running water–neither of which are needed to play spades.

Now, Bank of America, the legal owner of the property is evicting Mr. Robinson. But whatever the result of next Monday’s court case he’s still the winner. He has a website and e-book explaining how others can use “adverse possession” to scare the sh*t out of rich people. And he’s looking for another abandoned crib in a ritzy neighborhood.

Hustle smart and hard so you can finally get your 16 acres and a mule.

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Nike will release the “Black History Month” edition of the LeBron 9 next Saturday. The shoe costs $170 and was made for a tenth of that with slave-esque labor. Considering black unemployment is at 16.8% I imagine most of us won’t be buying it. Well, some of us will at the expense of rent and other essentials, but I guess that shows the difference between black people and nig…oops, sorry, that’s not appropriate (in February). S*hit, don’t get mad at me, Chris Rock said that.

If you decide to buy the shoe from Nike Town make sure The Man’s not following you around. They have a history of doing that to young blacks, even super-Negros like NBA player Tyson Chandler. They paid $7.6 million to settle that case, so be sure to contact Brother Al if that happens, whether or not it actually happened.

And lastly, wouldn’t it be really disappointing if a shoe made to honor black people didn’t even make you jump higher?

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This is a great opportunity that could potentially lead to an appearance on a VH-1 show that involves fighting, yelling while clapping one’s hands and obliterating the image of minority women–while being wildly entertaining (and that’s all that matters).

“We are only accepting women for consideration. Men, even if you have a little sexy ass like Prince, are not being considered. Also, cellulite and stretch marks ARE more than welcome. However, one’s crack should be fairly clean and not too hairy as the final four contestants will be asked to wear a thong.”

Whoever wrote this is an evil genius. I’m sure he’ll post pictures of the “contestants” as they arrive.

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I guess they’re just reenacting the closing scene from Y Tu Mamá También. Magic Johnson and Isiah Thomas used to do this each time they played against each other, till Magic couldn’t stop coughing. Well, Kobe did tell Pau to go hard in the paint. Pau must have thought he said “get hard.” Pausa?

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Pfizer has issued a recall of more than one million birth control pills that lack enough contraception to prevent a blessing up in yo’ belly. According to a statement issued by the company: “As a result of this packaging error, the daily regimen for these oral contraceptives may be incorrect and could leave women without adequate contraception, and at risk for unintended pregnancy.” Man, I bet Planned Parenthood will make a killing off the resulting unplanned pregnancies (oops).

But if you are looking for creative and fun birth control options outside of Pfizer’s faulty pills just show your partner the above chart next time he wants to “feel the real you.” And remind him that the cost to raise a child from birth to 18 is not calculated to include luxuries like Air Jordans and baby’s first tattoo.

Anyway, I imagine there’s a class action lawsuit (or potential white collar crime) against Pfizer coming soon. Ex: “Hey Pfizer, I took your birth control pills correctly and still got pregnant. I need you to pay me the $226,920 it’ll cost to raise this damn kid. Sorry, I mean raise this precious child.”

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I was black before Barack (re)made it cool, but now I’m distant from my race. My main black man problem: removing wine stains from my LL Cool J soupcoolers. I live in a suburb a few miles from the U.S.-Mexico border and go weeks without seeing a single black person in my part of town. An area where the small number of racists are too busy hating on the Mexicans to worry about a couple-few black guys in the area, provided that couple-few remains a couple-few.

I live with my lady, who’s black in ass but white overall, and our six-month-old son who has yet to realize the discomfort that comes with “What are you?” The few black friends I have here operate as I do, without the constraints of being black. The phrases I heard in my hometown of Cleveland don’t apply: “Man, real ni66as don’t ____.” Fill in the blank with: go camping, fall in love with white women (smanging is OK),  listen to Radiohead, travel outside a three mile radius of racial comfort, sit right next to their homeboy in the movie theater, drink a beer without grabbing it by the neck, give high fives…

But we’re still very much black, and proud. I cringe when our ignorant 10 percent equates black with “ghetto.” I hate logging on to WorldStarHipHop.com, but rubberneck at our mess when temptation proves too heavy. I watch UFC and hope the brotha knocks the white dude out…sorry. I listen to “Watch The Throne” and see it as a celebration of modern “black excellence.” I want hot sauce on everything I eat, it’s actually crusted on my computer’s keypad as I write.

But I also thought O.J. was guilty, from the start. And my in-group politics mesh more with Bill Cosby’s than Al Sharpton’s.

Still, I can have an opinion on black love without getting the side-eye, even if my version of black love includes a white woman. I can criticize and compliment us and feel my opinion is just as valid as someone who’s really “down.”

Jesse’s struggle was different than Barack’s. Baldwin’s issues might not have meshed with Malcolm’s. Dubois didn’t see eye-to-eye with Booker T Washington. What K’naan went through is probably completely foreign to other black hip-hop artists. And Rerun from “What’s  Happening” probably didn’t understand the trouble Lamar from “Revenge of the Nerds” faced while becoming the greatest dancer of his generation.

But the breadth and depth of the black experience is great. Let’s appreciate the diversity within the black community. Even Herman Cain.

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Man, they should hire this guy as the new American Idol judge. A California man, 50-year-old William Oller Jr., was singing country karaoke when his father grew tired of the racket and told him “I’m going to shut you up,” before going to his pickup truck. (Did you think he’d drive a Prius?)

Oller Jr. locked the 70-year-old out the house, but opened the door when he believed him to be gone. Oller Sr. then barged in the house and a fight ensued. Oller Jr. forgot the golden rule that all children must follow when dealing with their parents: No matter how old you are you can never hit your parents back, your only retaliation is to put them in a state-run nursing home.

Junior was getting the best of him so Oller Sr. shot him multiple times in the arms, shoulder and chest. The police arrived and arrested Oller Sr. for attempted murder. He told the police, “He hit me so I shot the sh*t out of him!”

Oller Jr. is recovering from the assault and could very well become the 50 Cent of karaoke.

UPDATE 2/3/12: The victim was singing Kenny Chesney. Now this all makes sense. 

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The ad above aims to alert people that a number of nudie websites moved from .com to .xxx last month.  The switch is supposed to prevent people from accidentally landing on explicit instructional video sites, though that’s what makes surfing the internet fun. People who believe everything they see in a Youtube video with eerie music believe this could lead to government control of the internet, as the feds could simply block every site that ends with .xxx. However, there’s no legislation that mandates adult sites use the new suffix, so OnionBooty, 8thStreetLatinas, and the like are here to stay.

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We’ve seen President Obama croon classic Al Green. Now Mitt Romney, who’s all up on Obama’s nuts, tries to do the same at a nightclub for rich white folks over 60. And he sounds like the weak link in a barbershop quartet, the guy they keep in the group because he buys the outfits. But maybe I shouldn’t call him a biter, since President Obama copied his health plan first.

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The shadow dancing in this video reminds me of Flashdance, except Chris Brown isn’t wearing a leotard. But he does have his hair dyed blond so I guess that’s pretty much the same thing. I can see people in the club going crazy over this song, and of course fighting by the time it’s over (if you’re at a joint where the doorman has a metal detecting wand). More so, I can see a somewhat cute white girl mimicking Busta Rhymes’ verses and becoming an instant internet celebrity via Worldstar. Headline: “White Gurl Can Spit!”

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“I felt a little bit threatened, if you will, in the attitude that he had, because I was there to welcome him.” -Governor Jan Brewer on giving President Obama the type of greeting her administration usually reserves for brown folks who look “reasonably suspicious” of being in the country illegally.

The Obama-Hulk figure is by artist Ron English at Popaganda. No word on if the piece will be mass-marketed, but if this becomes 2012′s version of the Obama t-shirts, hats and leather overalls sold in every inner-city throughout the country he’s in the money.

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The great Furious Styles once said, “I don’t know why you insist on learning things the hard way, but you gon’ learn. Oh yeah, you gon’ learn.” Though he was talking to light skin Tre, he might as well been talking to the hip-hop community about carrying guns in New York.

Cory Gunz, real name Peter Pankey (what the hell?), was arrested this weekend for having a loaded gun in his knapsack. In New York possession of a loaded gun is a felony that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of three and a half years in prison, though the offender can often plea down and do Lil’ Wayne time. Still, it’s hard to make music in prison where your only source of creativity is weed that was boofed in the joint via Big Los’ ass cheeks.

From the New York Daily News: 

Cory Gunz and his dad recently started a campaign called “Gunz Against Guns” where they speak at schools across the Bronx to steer kids away from the deadly weapons, Peter Gunz said.

 ”It’s heartbreaking,” Peter Gunz said. “Now I know how my father felt when I had the exact situation.”

Peter was referring to a gun possession arrest he faced – also when he was 24 years old. “It’s like deja vu all over again and now I got a taste of the same medicine that I gave my dad when he was sitting in the court.”

The Pankey family had an anti-gun program in the schools? Sh*t makes me think my D.A.R.E. officer might have been moving weight, or maybe my sex ed teacher, Mr. Clapp, had gonorrhea.

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Man, that’s crazy! You could buy a new car, or plenty of “TP for Beavis’ bunghole.” How long before some freak comes along and offers to pay double for an anatomically correct Beavis and Butthead doll?

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Apple just got a lot less hip. The New York Times is reporting harsh conditions, large numbers of underage workers and death by explosion at various Chinese factories that manufacture iPads and other Apple products:

Two people were killed immediately, and over a dozen others hurt. As the injured were rushed into ambulances, one in particular stood out. His features had been smeared by the blast, scrubbed by heat and violence until a mat of red and black had replaced his mouth and nose. NYT; 1/26/12

I’d say this calls for a boycott, except I haven’t heard of an American technology manufacturer that isn’t shipping jobs overseas and getting filthy rich from cheap Chinese labor. Still, you won’t catch me lined up for an Apple product that does nothing different than my $200 netbook (except make me look cool as I work on a screenplay while wearing a fedora at a Starbucks in a gentrified part of town).

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At this point in my life I’m more interested in exploring big butts from a sociological perspective (as opposed to a culinary). This documentary, courtesy of Vice Magazine, traces the development of a supreme donk from obscurity to national fame in Brazil. What’s most compelling and worthy of further study is: 1) The amount of upkeep this ass takes; 2) The influence that this hellafied boo-tay has on women who are blessed in a similar manner, yet lack the confidence to shake “what ya mama gave ya” and/or “bounce that ass, bounce that ass.” Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments section.

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Liam Neeson, the actor with the Batman voice who will get up in your ass if you kidnap his family, is thinking of becoming a Muslim. After filming in Turkey, Neeson told a British newspaper: “The call to prayer happens five times a day, and for the first week, it drives you crazy, and then it just gets into your spirit, and it’s the most beautiful, beautiful thing… There are 4,000 mosques in the city. Some are just stunning, and it really makes me think about becoming a Muslim.” I’m sure Brian Muhammad (below) and others are happy to hear that. Wait…are those guys selling bean pies at the corner of Crenshaw and Slauson even official?

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You can do anything you want as long as you can accept being average at it. In elementary school I believed in the fallacy of hard work and spent hours and hours trying to perfect my chess game. The school tournament came around and I lost in the first round in less than two minutes to Fat Terry, who had been taught a secret Hindu chess move from the school genius, Munir. To make matters worse my dad scolded me with, “How the hell you lose to Terry’s fat ass?” Because I was just an average chess player, Dad!

The disappointment continued in middle school. I practiced basketball for hours, even in the snow, and still got cut from the team. Luckily a Jheri-curled teacher, Mr. Hinesmiller, also believed in the fallacy of hard work and added me to the “C Team” with other kids who lacked natural athletic talent. We played our first and only game against Solomon Schechter, a school for Jewish kids whose parents didn’t want them interacting with black children, and lost by two points. Two points that I gave them by shooting the ball in the wrong hoop.

High school was a little better. I made the freshman basketball team and scored a couple points my first season. I practiced eight hours a day the following summer and believed I had a chance to be a star. But my sophomore year I got cut from junior varsity and cried like I’m doing now as I reminisce. The next year I transferred to a school in the hood, after my family moved three blocks away from the hood. I learned to play spades in class and took my first trip to the projects. I also made the varsity basketball team and sat the bench. More importantly, I got a handy (not from a teammate). That was great, but the look in the girl’s eyes made me think I was average in the meat department.

In college I got average grades in the easy major. Same for grad school. I then got a mid-level management job at a clinic, where I did just enough work to get my average pay. I left to pursue a writing career and released a book that based on the sales, was average. I traveled a bit and then got another job, but like any ol’ average brotha I was the last-one-hired-first-one-fired. Now I’m working various hustles to avoid being your average worker bee.

In this I’ve learned there’s one area in which I can exceed average-dome: fatherhood. With a little hard work, luck (i.e. not dying) and if only because my son has no one to compare me to, I can be a great father. He knows I’m the guy who grabs him from the crib at 2:15 a.m. and connects him with Mom’s titty, and the guy who plays with him a few hours later, and the guy whose bony shoulder he rests on at noon. So to him I’m great, and therefore, for the first time in my life, un-average.

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There’s a good chance you’ll hear this at the club about “fifty-eleven” times. When it’s played some helfa will kick off her shoes and dance like a stripper, for free. Stay away from her even if you’re wearing a latex bodysuit. There’s not a good woman in the world who will do that.

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I guess this is the antithesis of the Maury dance, and that’s a good thing. Ain’t nothing like black love, though I wouldn’t understand since I sold out last year. Now I don’t know what channel BET is on and no longer get invited to “Grown & Sexy” parties. Anyway, this guy can flow. “Dilated…cervix/What you doin’?/Servin…babies.” This is as good as the song Jay-Z made for Blue Ivy, but you can’t hear secret Illuminati chants when it’s played backwards.

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A Tennessee medical student lacking common sense was arrested when she tried to check her gun at New York City’s 9/11 Memorial in December.  Now, like Lil’ Wayne, Plaxico “Can’t Get Right” Burress and Ja Rule she’s facing serious time under New York’s strict gun laws. Some of her fellow Tennesseans, who tend to favor states’ rights when they stop “mens from marryin’ mens” but not when it’s otherwise disadvantageous to their political beliefs, are coming to her defense.

Tennessee legislator Frank Niceley introduced a resolution that specifically reminds New Yorkers to ”drive carefully through the great state of Tennessee, paying extra attention to our speed limits.” The veiled threat to target New Yorkers with traffic tickets comes up for vote next week, provided legislators safely return from the Civil War (reenactment) battlefield.

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The rule is simple: When drunk, don’t drive. Call a cab, or dial 911 to see if the police can drive you to the after-party. But some folks, like 44-year-old David Lakarnafeaux, never learn. He was arrested for suspected drunken driving three times over the past five days. The final arrest was around 6:30 a.m. Sunday after police were notified of a reckless driver in Imperial Beach, San Diego. Police arrived and learned the driver, Lakarnafeaux, had went into a bar. They ran his info and found he had been arrested on the same charges the previous Tuesday and Thursday. No word on why the bar was open at 6:30 a.m., but I’m willing to bet it’s within walking distance of a 24 hour massage parlor with a backdoor entrance and mandatory $20 tip.

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Video of President Obama singing Al Green went viral today, but it turns out he’s been crooning in public since at least 2007. Let’s hope he’s not singing “It’s So Hard To Say Goodbye” come November. By the way, check out his black-cent before singing Dionne Warwick. Dude said “Earth, Wind and Fi-yah.” White folks, that’s how we talk in safe zones.

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I’ve gone to Wu-Tang Clan shows since ’97 and have yet to see all nine members perform together. Obviously Ol’ Dirty Bastard has somewhat of an excuse, but the others (namely Raekwon and Ghostface) seem to no-show as they please. I’ve learned you’re much better off catching your favorite members during their $15 gigs at musty bars, or just being satisfied with seeing U-God, who never misses a show.

Nonetheless, I went to Wu Tang’s “Rebirth Tour” last night in Anaheim and had a damn good time. RZA, clad in a knockoff Ed Hardy t-shirt, sprayed the crowd (including me) with champagne and nearly fuc*ed up my camera. Method Man crowd-surfed and incited a mosh pit that featured male-to-female groping and a white dude scuffle-fight. GZA looked old as hell, as he should since he’s like 50, but was sharp with his lyrics.

The show, not including the after party at the Hyatt Regency for “females older than 21,” lasted about 90 minutes and featured all the hits that the youngins  in the crowd pretended to know. I highly recommend going, provided you don’t expect to see every group member and get a playa-price ticket from Craigslist. More (HD!) video from the show on the next page.

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Kind of sucks to watch a Down South rap video with exactly zero ass clapping, not even a single cheek (to see for historical research purposes). I guess this is for the fellas that like to jump around empty parking lots with their funny-facial-hair-having homeboys. Superman that bro? (No Amaechi.)

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I can kind of understand this. It’s frustratingly difficult to poke a straw through a Capri Sun. If I were attempting to do so and someone asked me a stupid question like, “Need some help?” I could see myself shanking two of my peers. And after that you’re pretty much forced to stab the adult so he doesn’t tell. Not saying that’s what happened, but…

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My grandmother, Jacqueline Gibson, passed away January 1, 2012 at the age of 73. What I’ll miss most is her kindness, spirituality and sense of humor. (One memorable day she taught me to see auras and hold a yoga pose. Midway through the lesson she said, “If you fart, just fan it with your hand so I know it’s coming!” I couldn’t stop laughing, let alone finish the lesson…but my stomach felt better.)

Grandma Jackie, who raised seven kids, also touched many others. In 1987 she founded The Light Center, a Columbus, Ohio based nonprofit organization that provided support services and self-esteem programs for incarcerated women and grandparents raising grandchildren. She received numerous awards for her work with The Light Center, including recognition from dignitaries such as Former Governor George Voinovich, Former Senator Ray Miller and Former Council Member Charleta Tavares. Most importantly, she left a lasting impression and helped produce positive change in some of the most downtrodden and vulnerable members of society.

Even though Grandma Jackie has passed, the need to help incarcerated and recently paroled women and their families continues. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, there are over 200,000 women incarcerated in the United States; most are imprisoned for non-violent offenses. More importantly, over 70 percent of these women have children. Also, more than 60 percent of imprisoned women suffered sexual or physical abuse prior to their incarceration.

The family of Jacqueline Gibson hopes to continue her work through Amethyst Inc. (http://www.amethyst-inc.org), an organization in Central Ohio that has provided addiction and trauma treatment for women for over 25 years, many of whom were recently incarcerated.

We are seeking donations of any dollar amount to fund an award to Amethyst Inc. in Grandma Jackie’s name. The fundraising period runs until February 1, 2012. Funds will be used to help Amethyst Inc. provide housing, counseling and assistance with family reunification to recently incarcerated women. Amethyst’s 2 to 5 year program is proven to prevent 97 percent of its participants from reentering jail or prison.

Please click the button below to give using your credit or debit card. If you are unable to give even a dollar, do us a favor and pass this link to others. Thanks a lot for your care and help. Feel free to contact me with questions.

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Through God all things are possible, and only He can give you the ability to play football chest naked. But more importantly God is a job creator many times over, as evidenced by Tim Tebow being asked to join the broadcast team for Sunday’s AFC Championship game.

Tebow has yet to accept or decline the offer, but a response is due midweek. Regardless of the outcome it’s a savvy move by CBS producers to increase ratings for an already popular game. But if they really want a memorable and groundbreaking production they should invite  Michael Vick’s evil twin Ron Mexico to tag (along with) a hot sideline reporter.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was first celebrated in 1986, after strong opposition from a swaggerless President Reagan. That same year The Fat (morbidly obese) Boys, New Edition, Baby Hair DeBarge, Whitney Houston and others came together for a song and video tribute to The King of freedom, justice and equality. The underlying message of this video: Whatever fashion trend you’re following now will look silly as hell in 20-something years.

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Outside of being asked to sing a rendition “Fair Eastside High” in the bathroom of your local inner-city high school, or receiving the Jermaine Jackson Award for Shiniest Mutha*ucka Alive there’s no bigger honor than having a strain of marijuana named after you. And at only one-week-old Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Jay-Z and Beyonce, has done just that. The strain is available at select California pot dispensaries (that are quickly disappearing due to overreach of the federal government). No word on what makes the Blue Ivy strain unique, but I imagine the Carter family will soon step in to cease distribution or patent its breeding path. “I’m not a businessman I’m a business, man.”

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The police often target the hip-hop community, which forces outstanding citizens like Young Jeezy to “hide the rest of the yams at Auntie’s house. (And then what?)”  But in the case of Wu-Tang Clan it wasn’t just the police on their backs; the FBI compiled a 94 page report their alleged illegal activities–most of it centered on the late Ol’ Dirty Bastard, whose reports are available through the Freedom of Information Act.

The report alleges that Wu-Tang Clan ordered murders with guns bought from Steubenville, Ohio; were connected with the Bloods (real Bloods, not guys wearing skinny red jeans like Lil’ Wayne), had shootouts with the NYPD and were involved in a number of violent crimes in Staten Island, New York. The report also details Ol’ Dirty being robbed and shot in his home by masked gunmen. (I hate when that happens!) Well, I guess they really are Wu-Gambinos and not just kung fu and chess nerds. Maybe I should ask about all of this when I go to their concert next week? Probably not.

“I ain’t shoot nobody in like…since the early 1990s.” -Ghostface Killah, 2009

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6am to 7am: Baby Nile awakes with a thunderous cry; he’s hungry. I run interference while his Mom gets ready for work, but my bony chest has nothing to offer. I figure he has enough fat reserves to last at least another hour so I say, “Man, I’m about to put you back in this crib and close the door.” Mom appears out of nowhere with a concerned look on her face and takes Nile. Oops.

7am to 8:40am: Nile has a doctor’s appointment at 9am. The hospital’s only two miles away, but my car has a flat (as it has for over a week). In determining if I can sleep until 8am I calculate the walk time in my head: Gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt can run 100 yards in about 9.5 seconds; there are over 3,500 yards in a mile, which means it would take him a little over five minutes to complete the two mile journey. I’m not a world-class sprinter, plus I’ll be walk-running with a stroller. But I am black so I figure I can make it in 20 minutes if I pretend the police are chasing me. We leave at 8:40am. We get there at 9:15am. Oops.

9:15am to 10:30am: We check in at the hospital. The nurse sees Nile’s transparent olive skin tone and blue eyes and asks if I’m the father. I think, “No…I’m just a nig*a who likes to bring other people’s babies to hospitals.” He gets three shots in his thick thighs and does the “Save me!” cry where he turns bright red and scrunches his face, but holds the audio for 3 to 5 seconds until it can reach a maximum decibel level. He extends his arms to me, apparently I’m forgiven for trying to abandon him in his crib just hours earlier.

10:30am to Noon: We start the uphill trek home. It’s January but easily 70 degrees in the sun. Nile’s knocked out in the stroller and I’m sweating like I just went 12 rounds with Nene Leakes. I can think only think of lunch. We get home, Nile’s stays asleep in his stroller. I heat some leftover pasta and wish a beer would somehow magically appear. It does not. All I have is orange juice and water. And spiced rum. My goal for the month is to have no hangovers, so I’m hesitant to drink the rum. But then it hits me: If I drink more during the day and less during the night I’m less likely to have a morning hangover. I pour the rum into my glass of orange juice. Not bad. The second one is even better.

Noon to 4pm: Nile and I play a game I like to call “Prince.” We take turns seeing who can do the loudest high-pitched scream. After that he does calisthenics (crawling, assisted situps) and chews on the couch. I give him real food, rice cereal with a touch of titty milk. Then we watch “Syriana” on Netflix as I give him a 15 minute back rub so he can moan himself to sleep. He wakes for more food, but is soon back to sleep after being hypnotized while staring at the carpet’s design.

4pm to 7pm: Mom gets home and I start my paid work so Nile can have a home and one  day attend community college. I text a tenant who’s renting a condo in the hood from me. “Happy Monday. Rent was due last week.” I then leave to meet a guy who’s tech company I’m writing for. We were to meet at a Starbucks downtown, but he wants to go elsewhere after arriving early and seeing a guy seated next to the only open outdoor table shoot heroin (real talk, as the cool kids say). So our meeting turns into happy hour. Three beers later we have an agreement for our next project.

7pm to 8pm: On the way home I ask Mom/my woman/domestic partner if we have anything for dinner. She answers, “Baby food and spinach.” I go to the grocery store and buy chicken gizzards, ahi tuna, sprouts and a bottle of wine. (All for less than $20!) Mom says hell no to the gizzards so I prepare our other options. It’s also Nile’s peak time so he’s anxious to show us the new things he’s learned: the fake cough and the 1.5 leg, ass in the air crawl. We watch and try to minimize the number of times he falls on his head. We fail as parents and he ends up with a small shiner above his eye. But he’s alright and the temporary red mark gives his face a little more character.

8pm to Midnight: The Bachelor is on TV so to make it through two hours of the least diverse show on television I finish the bottle of wine while also speeding through my 50 or so favorite websites. Afterwards the family goes to sleep. I planned to stay up until 2am to blog, calculate my meager 2011 book sales and online ad revenue, and sees who’s bitten on my eBay sales; but as usual the wine knocks me out as only it and the act that created Nile can do.

7am: Sh*t, I wake up with a hangover.

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International No Pants Day was held Sunday with over 16,000 people in 27 countries participating. It’s a recently created holiday and as you see in the video celebrated by very few black people, which makes it like Kwanzaa, though I assume its creator doesn’t have a history of torturing women like Ron Karenga. There’s no point to the “holiday” outside of giving people an excuse to show man-print and cameltoe on the subway while shocking others. But the question remains, “Where are the thongs?” (No Sisqo).

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When people speak of America’s heartland they often mean small Midwestern towns that produce valuable crops like corn and meth. However, America’s cultural heartland is the ghetto, where trends are created long before they reach the comfortable monotony of suburbia. But most Americans want to stay away from the ghetto (until it’s properly gentrified).

Microsoft is giving users of its GPS devices that option with a recently patented “Avoid Ghetto” feature. The technology uses recent crime statistics to plot routes for drivers who want to avoid parts of town where without permission a strange man may wash your car windows at a stop light and then ask for money. Microsoft is refusing to comment on the technology. Apparently they’re following the ghetto’s number one rule: No Snitching.

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I’d never hit a woman, though I suppose if one of the “mob wives” accosted me I’d be less than hesitant to give a throat massage and brief lecture on the importance of maintaining self-control. But a lot of guys, for example NBA player Kyle Lowry, aren’t like me. The Houston Rocket threw a ball at a female referee during a charity basketball game. The ref, who’s heart don’t pump no Kool-Aid, lobbed the ball back at Lowry. Lowry became enraged and told her, “B*tch meet me outside! I will kick your ass!” He then followed her to the referees’ changing area, cocked the ball behind his head, stabilized his three Mandingo legs for optimal force and threw the ball at her as hard as he could.

Like most women beaters Lowry apologized shortly after the assault, though he didn’t say the much too common, “Girl, I just want you to know I always love-ded you.” Lowry’s now facing assault charges and a likely civil suit.

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Cheaters never win, unless you’re a multi-billion dollar corporation like General Electric who manages to pay zero federal income taxes, or in this case the University of Louisiana at Lafayette basketball team. They had six players on the court for the game winning shot against the University of Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, which is usually only allowed if guys are playing girls in a shirt-versus-skins game (you’re on skins if you can’t touch the rim). What’s worse is the Hilltoppers coach, Ken McDonald, was fired after the loss. At least he’ll qualify for unemployment compensation, which is subject to federal and state taxes.

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The man pictured above could have played Barry Sanders in a made for TV movie, but instead he’s chosen a life of pop music crime. Ronald Deaver of Cleveland, Ohio stabbed a friend on New Year’s Even because he didn’t know Beyonce had married Jay-Z. Deaver was later arrested and charged with felonious assault. Now he’s likely going to prison where he’ll have ample time to perfect the single ladies dance in front of a captive audience. “Uh oh uh oh uh oh oh oh!”

However, the victim’s partly at fault for this. Had he listened to The Throne album he would have known that Jay-Z was referring to Beyonce when he said “I got that hot b*tch in my home!” (Though Kanye quickly eclipsed him by claiming ownership of numerous hot b*itches with, “You know how many hot b*itches I own?”) Hip-hop can be really romantic…

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There’s a lot of “I” and “me” (and a tad bit of cleavage) in Casey Anthony’s new video but not a peep about Caylee. I’m sure this isn’t the last we’ll hear from Casey, but I imagine her next video will be of the genre that’s best watched alone (or on the back corner computer at the public library if your internet’s down…one hand in your pocket, the other on the mouse).

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“Snitches get stitches,” but broke people can’t afford any sort of healthcare treatment (not even a bottle of store brand Robitussin), which is why the guns for cash program was started in Newark, New Jersey. The concept is simple: If your neighbor has an illegal gun tell on him and you’ll receive a four digit PIN. Call back in a month and if your neighbor was arrested you’ll receive another PIN. Take that PIN to a designated bank and get $1,000.

But if you want to be the next Nino Brown use that $1,000 to buy five illegal guns. Sell those five guns at a slight markup and then tell on all your buyers. Repeat that process 10 times and you have over $50,000, more than enough to pay for stitches and many other healthcare treatments. You can even buy a life insurance policy for yourself.

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Big Snoop Dogg co-hosted “The Price Is Right” yesterday with Drew Carey (who’s still funny despite no longer being fat). Snoop’s appearance raised over $72,000 for his inner-city football league. I’m sure we can all agree that one thing the inner-city needs is more athletes…Anyway, if Snoop’s pimp hand is still strong I imagine he took 90 percent of the contestants’ winnings. Chuuch.

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I’m all for gender equality, especially in sports, which is one of the reasons I pursued a part-time job as assistant volleyball coach/locker room attendant at Sweet Valley High. I’ve also supported the WNBA (see, I’m pro-lesbian too) and the Lingerie Basketball League.  Now I’m fully in support of Dennis Rodman’s attempt to form a topless basketball team. “The Worm,” as he was nicknamed after performing the johnson-in-the-popcorn-box-while-watching-a-movie-with-your-homeboys trick, is holding tryouts for a topless team that will compete against other teams formed at strip clubs. Making the team takes a lot of natural talent; you need to be at least 5-foot-10 and have a bust size comparable to the vertical leap of the NBA’s best dunkers. If you’re interested in trying out and regressing the women’s right movement, tweet The Worm, @dennisrodman.

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Hundreds of priests from different sects (or should we say “sets?”) riot in Jesus’ old stomping grounds of Bethlehem. The fight was over “areas of authority within the church,” which is really just a fancy way of saying turf. Obviously the turf isn’t used to slang rocks, but the priests do use it to sell an inside track to Jesus for just 10 percent of your annual income. If this sort of behavior continues I’ll imagine we’ll see a fight on pay-per-view when it’s time to select another pope.

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Heavy D could rap and sweat out a leather jumpsuit like no other. Now he’s in heaven, which I hear is a great place though that hasn’t been confirmed with a Yelp review. Heavy D’s much too early passing made me think, “What happened to his crew, The Boyz?” Like Prince’s band in “Purple Rain,” including the dude who wore the medical scrubs, they sort of disappeared.

Turns out one of The Boyz, Trouble T Roy (left), died at 22 from a two story fall from an arena exit ramp. He was the inspiration for Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.).” G-Whiz (Middle), left the industry and lives a quiet life in the Bronx. Eddie F (right), is still involved in hip-hop as the owner of Untouchables Entertainment, and writes and produces for Chris Brown and Anthony Hamilton, among others.

UPDATE: Heavy D died of a pulmonary embolism and deep leg vein thrombosis, likely brought on by remaining seated on a long flight. If you’re big (or any of the associated euphemisms including “thick,” or if your a woman named Candy) and on a long flight it’s important to diddy bop or pimp walk down the aisles. Not only do you prevent swagger defeating blood clots but you also get to show off your new outfit (especially if you’re flying to Miami and wearing all white everything).

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Man, you have to be a crazy bastard to try to shoot your wife because she’s spending too much time on Facebook. Any sane man knows it makes more sense to sneak up behind her, put her in a semi-sensual full-nelson (rendering her incapable of typing) and in a stern voice whisper, “Imagine the amount of Facebook comments you’ll get when you’re reported missing.” I hear that’s what they teach in marriage counseling.

But Harry Hibbs Jr., of Washington, Pennsylvania, went with the nuclear option. He pushed his wife to the ground and tried to shoot her. Luckily for her his gun malfunctioned, which means it was probably purchased at Walmart. Hibbs Jr. has been arrested and charged with assault and reckless endangerment. Hopefully the wife gets help and doesn’t justify getting back with the guy by saying the much too common, “Deep down he has a good heart.” O.J. had a good heart too, and a good knife game.

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Never bite the (ashy) hand that feeds you. With 50 Cent’s G-Unit Young Buck sold over three million albums and was even able to buy a piece of the American dream, a platinum spinning rim to wear around his neck. Now after falling out with G-Unit he’s going through bankruptcy and creditors are attempting to sell his trademarked name, presumably to print on skull caps that will be sold at Marshall’s.  What’s worse is he’s still under contract with G-Unit and 50 won’t let him release an album because he wants to “f*ck up his life.” Hopefully he can get a feature on “Detox” considering he stabbed that man who made Dr. Dre cry at the Vibe Awards.

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In the 1980s people would kill for a Starter jacket. Now we push and shove for Air Jordans. Shit, that’s progress. This is capitalism at work. It costs about $20 to make a pair of Nike sneakers; including equipment, labor, shipping and taxes (Nike’s factory workers are often paid less than $150 per month). Retailers pay double the price of production and then markup the price another 100 percent for sale to consumers. Consumers that are lucky enough to get their hands on an in demand sneaker like the Jordan Concords can markup the price another 200 percent if they want to sell. Ethics aside, as is often the case in capitalism, that was actually an unbelievable return on investment for sale made available to people without access to hedge funds. Push and shove away.

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Can you imagine a world without HIV? No more money spent on Magnum slim-fit condoms. No need to keep rapid HIV tests in the bedside drawer. Your t-cell count would match your credit score. South Africa’s president Jacob Zuma wouldn’t have to try to prevent infection by showering after sex. Well, we might see that day in the next half decade.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved human testing of an HIV vaccine created by a University of Western Ontario researcher. If it works it’ll be the most important Canadian creation since Paul Shaffer. The human testing process will last five years and involve 6,000 people. Some of the research participants will receive the vaccine, others will have to rely on prayer or wear a latex body suit.  ”Come on baby, just me put the tip in…” No!

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The Obama administration ended Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and replaced it with Let Me Watch “Glee,” Or Get Your Face Scratched, allowing the openly gay and lesbian to serve in the armed forces.  History was made this week when the military’s traditional first kiss off the ship was performed by a lesbian couple, which also benefited straight male soldiers.  The couple chosen to perform the kiss is determined by a buy-in raffle and the lucky couple above bought  50 tickets (my homeboy Rufus always says gays are driven and financially well-off). Just goes to show how much happier everyone is when a woman is allowed to have a good woman beside her, or a man is allowed to a good man behind him with his arms wrapped tightly around his waist. No Amaechi.

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Women tend to really want sex when they’re drunk or on Rohypnol. But some take it too far, as is the case with an Ohio woman who beat her husband for not giving in to her sexual demands. After Harold and Vera Baaske returned home from a bar Vera said, “Come down here in the basement and smang this kitty!” Or something like that.  Harold refused so she jumped atop him and began scratching and spitting on him. That’s hot. But not to Harold, who called police and had Vera jailed. I imagine some people would call this an instance of domestic violence; I say it’s gender equality.

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Damn, talk about an investment that won’t leave you dry. R. Kelly’s hoping to fund a new project. Unfortunately it’s not another instructional video featuring America’s most talented youth. According to TMZ, R. Kelly’s looking for investors for a film version of the 32 new chapters he’s written for “Trapped in the Closet.” Can you imagine watching this as a part of a double feature with whatever scorned black woman movie Tyler Perry makes next? I call that heaven.

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In an earlier post I referred to President Obama as The Black James Bond for his “you better ask somebody” response to criticism of  alleged appeasement of Middle Eastern leaders. But it turns out he’s been smacking haters down since 2008, on both sides of the aisle. From Hillary to McCain here’s a brief compilation of Obama’s baddest smackdowns (with assistance from Prince, Wu-Tang Clan, Snoop and Smokey from “Friday). This is what change looks like, bitches.

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April 2010: Fashion has been on my mind all week, mainly because I’ve been forced to plan an intervention for a friend with an addiction to Ed Hardy. As you might have heard excessive wearing of Ed Hardy is now a felony in most states, along with the wearing of Steve Harvey suits (both in and out of church) and stand alone moustaches, aka “wolf pussy” on one’s lip.

Unfortunately my intervention will be delayed due to breaking news in the fashion industry. North Korea’s dictatorial head of state Kim Jong-Il has officially declared himself a worldwide fashion trendsetter. According to the official North Korean government website “Kim Jong-Il mode which is now spreading expeditiously worldwide is something unprecedented in the world’s history.”

Keep in mind that this is from the same government that does the following:

• Claims Kim Jong-il once hit 11 holes in one while golfing

• Claims Kim Jong-Il does not defecate or urinate like other people

• Executes people for making a long distance phone call

• Planned to solve its hunger problem by breeding giant rabbits

• Tell its citizens that Kim Jong-Il created weather and the world

• Sends short people to neighboring islands so they don’t “taint” the gene pool

UPDATE, 12/18/2011: Kim Jong-il has died. His jumpsuits and stunna shades live on. Dictator Swag.

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Football is an incredibly fascinating sport. A orgy of entertainment where the fun doesn’t start until the big guy bends over and has his balloon knot tickled by a tall stud who wants the ball(s) all the time (No Amaechi). But it turns out the most amazing moment in NFL history occurred during halftime of the Broncos -vs- Patriots game. A monkey rode a dog.

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Good deeds never go unpunished. Especially 350 good deeds (performed with the help of Halle Berry’s “make me feel good” scene in Monster’s Ball) that led to the births of at least 14 kids. Trent Arsenault, a computer dude from small town California, was offering free sperm donations from his home until the FDA put an end to his operation. Now he’s left with a fridge full of man-moonshine and disappointed potential clients who want his top notch DNA.

UPDATE, 1/18/12: Mr. Arsenault stated that he is a virgin who “committed 100 percent of my sexual energy for producing sperm for childless couples to have babies. So I don’t have other activity outside of that.”

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Based on the cover alone this is probably the most important piece of American literature since the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, or at least the most wavy. Though I imagine it’d be even more interesting (or more wavy?) if it was handwritten on prison issued paper. The Wavy Baby is also available on Blu-Ray for those who weren’t fortunate enough to enroll at the Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good. Free Charly Wingate? We’ll see if the court of appeals agrees next year.

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Jamie Hein, a white landlord in Cincinnati, posted a sign at her duplex’s pool that read “Public Swimming Pool, White Only.” Not only was it bad grammar, but the Ohio Civil Rights Commission ruled it to be in violation of the Ohio Civil Rights Act. Hein’s defense was that a black girl in the duplex had chemicals in her hair that would make the pool “cloudy.”

I’ve had friends with Jheri curls, S-Curls and wet sets (Or should I say “have?” I still know a couple people in the post-activation-not-sure-if-I-should-still-be-this-juicy gray area). I’ve also used copious amounts of Luster’s Pink Moisturizer and maybe I touched up my baby hair with Just For Me No Lye Gentle Relaxer during a down point in my life. But I’ve never experienced a hair chemical that could defeat chlorine. Besides, chances are the black girl had no intention of getting her hair wet anyway. Not to mention the number of chemicals white folks use in their hair: gels, sprays…Jersey Shore pomade!

Hein has appealed the ruling and will have her day in court.

UPDATE; JANUARY 12: The Ohio Civil Rights Commission voted 4-0 against reconsidering its ruling that the sign violated the Ohio Civil Rights Act.

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The Admiral Theater, a nudie bar in Chicago, is offering free lap dances to patrons who donate toys for needy children. Unfortunately there’s a limit of one lap dance per horny dude, which means you’ll need to go commando and wear linen or nylon pants to make it worthwhile. If you’re smart you’ll request that the DJ play Prince’s “Purple Rain” during your dance since it clocks in at just over seven minutes. Donated toys will be given to a local churches for distribution whose members (I’m guessing) frequent the club’s Sunday brunch. To get an idea of the Admiral Theater’s talent have a look at the video above from some sort of skank-zombie event they held.

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This guy reminds me of Walt Kowalski, Clint Eastwood’s character in Gran Turino, and one of the most hilarious racists ever. He should advertise in Atlanta. Assuming T.I. does another stint in the big house he’ll need the help. Maybe if he gets enough business he can hire Casey Anthony as his assistant. Sorry, too soon…too damn soon, still.

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There’s a fine line between being thick, black man thick, and obese. Japan’s government is saying that line is at a waist size of 35.5 inches for women, 33.5 inches for men. Companies that employ workers above that size face fines and hours of intense staring from Pat Morita.

The Japanese were until recently a small, healthy people who emphasized Hara Hachi (eating until you’re only 80% full). But all hell broke loose when then they reached a trade agreement with the United States to exchange American fast food for bukkake and Honda cars. Now they, like many Westerners, are slowing killing themselves with unhealthy eating (as opposed to the old days when they would quickly off  themselves with a sword to the belly after being fired from the company they hoped to be employed by for life).

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Watch the big dude get tagged (No Amaechi) with the one-hitter-quitter and say “The hell with this, I’m going to the locker room.” If you’ve ever been to Cincinnati you know fights like these are pretty much commonplace, though they usually end up as cases on “The First 48.”

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Willard, Newt and Herman (sounds like they’re members of an a cappella group for seniors) accused President Obama of appeasing Iran and their Members Only jacket wearing president who wants to develop a nuclear weapon so his country can be cool like Israel and Pakistan. Obama responded to the suggestion with a Harvard version of “Ni99a please…”

I love it when he has Negro moments like this. We generally keep it in during working hours and if more than 10 miles away from the nearest MLK boulevard, but some sh*t we just don’t play (i.e. A guy named Willard Romney talking mess behind our backs.)

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It’s kind of sad to witness Bishop Eddie’s fall from grace, especially when you see the toll it’s taken on his S-curl. What’s more sad is that his barely legal victims can still smell his cologne. (Maybe he was wearing CK-One?) Even worse off, his wife. Just imagine the embarrassment and guilt she feels for not realizing that Lycra body shirts usually mean “he’s just not that into you,” or any other woman. I can’t believe folks are still going to his church. We are a forgiving people. Unless you cross President Obama. We don’t play that sh*t.

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I tell children who display criminal tendencies (like cheating in video games or stealing their parent’s weed) that crime doesn’t pay unless it’s white collar. And in this case it paid handsomely. A Seattle doctor and his wife bilked the welfare system out of over $100,000 with a simple scheme; the wife pretended she was single and low-income to get Section 8 housing assistance and cash welfare to care for her two children. Turns out her landlord was also her husband and both lived in a $1.2 million dollar house (pictured above). She also received additional funds from Social Security, though it’s unclear if she actually had a little arm like the guy from Three Six Mafia.

The plan worked because the wife used her maiden name and the husband used his office’s address as his home. Well, it worked until he slipped up and put their correct address on a passport application, prior to one of the at least six international trips they took in the past eight years. I imagine you won’t see this story go viral like the black lady with 15 kids who wanted a handout.

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Patrick Swayze starred in a PBR commercial (obviously) before he was dead. Though a case can be made that Patrick Swayze can never really die because he played Sam Wheat in “Ghost.” Notice how the commercial portrays PBR drinkers as elegant dancers dressed in nice clothes. By nice clothes I don’t mean a flannel shirt complimented with a ridiculous mustache.

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Hip-hop is competitive, but now some MCs are battling over who wears the tightest yoga pants and the most expensive lipstick. And I think Dallas’ XY Movement is the winner, by far. By really-really far. But I guess this “movement” isn’t much different than Dr. Dre wearing makeup and a sequence one piece in his pre-N.W.A. days. Or any ol’ rapper who sags his pants to let his ass hang out (Fleece Johnson gonna’ get you).

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I tried to give Newt Gingrich the benefit of the doubt on this because his middle name’s LeRoy and I think that’s cool for a white guy. But the idea of firing “unionized” school janitors and replacing them with schoolchildren so they can learn the value of hard work as cute little breadwinners makes no sense; unless you like downward social mobility that turns the working poor (janitors on average earn $26,000 a year) into the unemployed and destitute.

I just can’t buy the idea that most poor people are poor by choice. No one’s ever said to me, “Dewan…man, you gotta try this poverty out. One meal a day, no heat in the winter, children I can’t provide for…shit’s great!” Most poor people work, albeit in a job that pays less than a living wage. So even though schoolchildren would probably do well as janitors, with their tiny arms fitting into the most narrow crevices to remove dirt and grime, the best long-term solution is fund education so they have an opportunity to learn and stimulate the economy so their parents have jobs (good jobs that they don’t fear losing to their kids).

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Walmart is an interesting place to shop, and not just because they hire silent greeters. Their stores are great for people watching, second only to an inner city Greyhound station on a Saturday afternoon. Plus they have an extraordinary amount of ass walking through their aisles at the oddest hours; they’re pretty much a 24 hour nightclub. But they also have a dark side. And I’m not just talking about its sweatshops in rice-cooking countries. Walmart has a secret security force that’s retail’s version of the Mossad.

My brother and I were driving from Cleveland to Columbus, Ohio when we stopped at a Walmart in small town Macedonia to exchange a broken CD player (Fuck yo’ i-Pod). We approached the cashier with the replacement and she looked at us like we were criminals, though we hadn’t even stolen anything…yet. The cashier rudely explained that without a receipt she could not exchange the broken CD player. We pointed out that Walmart’s policy, as described on a sign directly behind her, said exchanges would be given without a receipt. Still, she didn’t budge. So my brother did what any mature adult would do, slam the broken CD player on the counter and walk out with the new one.

The cashier began yelling, “He’s stealing; he’s stealing!” An employee near the store’s exit momentarily tried to block his path, but simply moved out the way as my brother got near. (I guess being big and black is good for more than just having sex with white women in college.) I followed my brother out the store and yelled, “Man, what are you doing!” It was too late.

A plain clothes security guard grabbed my brother in the parking lot and tried to wrestle him to the ground. Another grabbed me, but quickly let my scrawny bones go when he saw his colleague needed a second body. The first guard was nearly riding my brother’s back. The second leaped for his legs and tried to bring him to the ground.

My brother, with the spirit of Kunta Kinte running through his veins, kept trudging his way towards our car. Then one of the security guards did the unthinkable; he squeezed the shit out my brother’s balls.

My big brother yelped in pain. I hadn’t heard him scream like that since my dad whooped his ass for losing a fight in school. I was nearly 10 feet away and felt the pain in MY stomach. Those big balls, which were flashed to me when they first grew hair, were crushed.

I tried to pull one of the guards off my brother, but he was strong and tired and unmovable. Within seconds police cars arrived. A goofy looking cop with a classic redneck haircut, sideburns shaved to the top of his earflaps, threw me against his car and cuffed me. For good measure he whispered, “You try to run, I’ll knock your fuckin’ head off.”

They pulled my brother off the ground and quickly cuffed him. We were taken to the station and interrogated separately. I was let go after the officers determined 1) I was not at fault and 2) My Air Jordan sneakers were not stolen.

My brother spent the weekend in jail where a bigger muthafucka took his grilled cheese, though he did leave his balloon knot intact. I vowed never again to shop at Walmart. I kept my word for awhile, until I needed a new CD player.

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Man, $68 for a Louis Vuitton condom? For that much money I hope it’s reusable. Even if I could afford it (and assuming it comes in slim fit) I still wouldn’t want to ruin my investment by using it. Besides, isn’t it cheaper and more fun to go raw? Just use the money saved for antibiotics and morning after pills? #Moneyteam.

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See, I knew there was a message in Harold & Kumar 2, other than the importance of having bottomless parties. A University of Colorado study showed laws legalizing marijuana resulted in a nine percent reduction in traffic deaths. The theory is: 1) Smoking marijuana reduces alcohol use. 2) Weed smokers drive slower and take less risks than other drivers. 3) Marijuana is used more in private, away from bars and restaurants (and often in my friend Will’s garage). No word on the influence of road head on traffic fatalities.

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Unless it involves Prince slapping Apollonia with the Rafael Nadal backhand in “Purple Rain.” Damn, he had the force of Lake Minnetonka behind that smack. Made her look like a drunk ice skater trying to do a 360. I bet Suge Knight did the same thing to Dre and Snoop when they left Death Row. She should have known not to join Morris Day’s band. Or at least known to duck when Prince sticks that bottom lip up and gives the side-eye, like a kid picked last in a game of full-court. Prince don’t play that sh*t. She got beat up by a girl!

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When I was in school I learned the best way to deal with bullies was to show my bravery, by telling my older brother. If that didn’t work I’d use my girl fight technique: put my head down, swing wildly while yelling “you’re not the boss of me” and hope the teacher soon stopped the fight. But bullying has changed over the years. With the internet harassment is often nonstop, even driving some kids to suicide.

If it were up to me I’d create a “Shoot The Bully, Not Yourself” campaign, though I imagine such an initiative would only be popular in a blood hungry state like Texas. Outside of that I have two other proposed solutions. One, encourage bullied kids to focus on their studies and get revenge years later when they’re successful and the bullies are employed as recently paroled cart guys and gals at Target (browsing the Facebook pages of past foes shows me this is often the case). Two, have your son take bully defense classes so he can put an ass whipping on the kid who calls him gay just cause he likes to jump rope and do hair at recess.

Turns out my second proposal is gaining popularity. MSNBC reports bully defense programs are rapidly growing. The programs teach kids to set verbal boundaries and perform martial arts moves perfected in Brazilian favelas. Check out the article if your child is coming home from school with speed knots on his forehead.

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I don’t know what’s crazier; old ass Michael Jordan schooling this young dude, or old ass Michael Jordan schooling this young dude while wearing FUBU jeans from the clearance rack at T.J. Maxx. The size 52 waist joints that come with a free belt clip for your pager. Jeans so baggy you gotta wrap your braided belt around twice. Still, you like them so much that you try to wear them to church. Just figure you’ll “dress up” by sporting them with your Stacy Adams huarache sandals. Damn, can we get a dress code for NBA owners too?

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Come on, sista. We have to stop getting our news from Media Takeout. Don Cornelius is alive and well, as evidenced by the number of young white women he’s f*cking (and beating).

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Cool song, but for ass-vious reasons the video gets a lot better around the 3:20 mark.

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Black things: VH1 shows, not smiling in pictures, and feeling that talking about Obama is like talking about my mama. Not black things: Doing corny sh*t, eating “supper” and long-term financial planning. I’d say mac-and-cheese is somewhere between the two categories, though definitely not a black thing. When the last time you seent a ni*ga in a Kraft commercial?

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Having barely passed a couple-few HIV tests, I’m definitely aware of how scary and inconvenient the process can be. But now thanks to the Department of Motor Vehicles in Washington D.C. you can get tested while renewing your license. In fact, for taking the test you get a $5 grocery store gift card. (Maybe use it buy condoms? Better yet use it for beer and put the grocery bag to good use.) You also get a second incentive for getting tested–$7 off your license renewal fees. Though I imagine if it comes back positive renewing your license is probably not on your bucket list. Well, at least the DMV workers wouldn’t bug you about being an organ donor.

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If you’re apart from family this Thanksgiving, whether due to distance or fear of bringing your black boyfriend home, check out “Carlos” on Netflix. It’s the biopic on Carlos The Jackal, a Venezuelan terrorist hell-bent on freeing Palestine and promoting cross-cultural harmony with the powers vested in his loins. It has all the components of a great gangster film: excessive violence, a charismatic lead actor, frontal nudity, an engrossing story and cool fashion. Imagine an NC-17 rated Bond film with leftist political leanings. Plus the entire five-part movie lasts over 10 hours, which helps your family get the hint when you say “Maybe we should just talk about Darius after I watch this movie.”

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I’m a young and sensual 32, but going to nightclubs makes me feel old. Waiting in line for hours, dealing with assault charges when it should be considered self-defense since the woman started the fight by telling you “I’m just dancing with my friends,” finding a condom that’s comfortable enough to wear the whole time you’re there–is all a game for the young and foolish. But it’s hard to know when to throw in the towel. Though a receding hairline and constant requests that the DJ play the “Electric Slide” are clues, one can never be sure until you hear it from someone else. So here it is, a whole bunch of reasons why you need stay your geriatric ass home and leave the club alone:

-You have to use the wheelchair ramp to get on the party bus.

-You think a bar tab is something you don’t have to pay each time you leave the club, ’cause that’s how you saw it done on “Cheers.”

-Your pickup lines include words like “reckon” and “yonder.”

-You ask for directions to the colored people’s bathroom.

-You go to the coat check and steal a hanger just in case you need it to perform a back-alley abortion.-After getting rejected by numerous women you recommend to the club owner that they hold a Sadie Hawkins hopscotch.

-You don’t want to drive home drunk, so you make plans to take the Underground Railroad.

-You and your “posse” are kicked out the club for repeatedly harassing the DJ to play “Lionel Richie’s new sh*t” that you saw on Video Soul.

-To appear smart you wear a monocle and discuss the benefits of FDR’s New Deal with uninterested women while describing all that you’re doing to ensure he gets reelected.

(This is a repost from August, but fitting for the weekend. Also, I figure if people watch reruns on TV they’ll also read the occasional repost.)

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America went in an uproar over a Jackson titty and now Egypt’s going wild over an activist/blogger wearing nothing but panty hose and the Pope’s red shoes. Aliaa Magda Elmahdy posted pictures of herself and a guy playing guitar with his dong out to make a statement against Egypt’s “sexual complexes.” Now the country, both liberals and conservatives, are pissed that she would show more than her eyelids. Hopefully Egypt soon learns that the acceptable way to oppress women is to bombard them with unattainable images of beauty, leaving them with low self-esteem and the willingness to undergo major cosmetic surgery.

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Singer and instructional video creator R. Kelly once said “When a woman’s fed up, ain’t nothin’ you can do about it.” He also said “It’s like Jurassic Park, except I’m your Sexosaurus” (but that’s entirely unrelated to this post). What he meant in the “fed up” lyrics is really exemplified in this exchange between Bill Maher and Elizabeth Hasselback (Young Anne Coulter), except Hasselback is fed up from a joke and not from her man coming home late at night smelling of whore and scorched latex.

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I almost joined the Nation of Islam years ago, but they would accept my love of pork and white women. Now there’s a product that will let me enjoy both: Bacon Lube, a bacon flavored massage oil and personal lubricant. A tube retails for about $12, which is a bit costly considering half a pound of salt pork works just as well for a quarter of the price. Hurry up and buy! Only 3,000 of the bottles are being produced.

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Love makes you do the silliest things, like get married. Or even worse get married in the middle of a protest where the PO-lice are beating people like Marquez did Pacquiao last weekend. Of course in both instances there’s no justice. And what’s with the bike helmets? Can you imagine real protesters like the Reverend Jesse Jackson wearing a helmet (or for that matter, in his case, a condom)? Hopefully these two lovebirds in the 99 percent don’t become part of the 50 percent of marriages that end in divorce. Hey Babe, how ’bout we honeymoon in my tuberculosis ridden tent?

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I could really use a personal trainer who calls me a “lame” and tells me he’s “straight out the muthaf**kin’ yard.” Plus I’d love the convenience of doing chin-ups on a walk/don’t walk sign, my nuts gently tapping the foreheads of waiting pedestrians. And how fun would it be to invade a playground and pull children off the jungle gym while yelling, “Not in my house!”

The video above is a 2002 (B.S.J.; before skinny jeans) release from Ruff Ryders Entertainment, home of DMX and those “real ni*gas from Yonkers.” But in today’s age of soaring gym membership costs it’s just as relevant today. Aerial assaults…dominating bars, son! It’s like 24 Hour Fitness without the smell of feet and ass.

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Being the Son of God is a tough, often thankless job. Sure you get to work the door at that ultra exclusive club Heaven & Hell, but you also deal with people who confuse you with a swagerless pagan god by wrongly celebrating your birthday in December. Not to mention the headaches from all the kooky preachers like Bishop Eddie Long who ignore your 11th Commandment, “Thou shall not wear a lycra body shirt in the house of God.”

With all of that drama and the added responsibility of saving heathens, I’m sure Jesus can use a good laugh every now and then. That’s where Landover Baptist Church comes in. It’s a fictional church and satirical website written by a student who was kicked out of Liberty University, where Jesus holds a spot on the board of trustees, in spirit of course. Think of the site as the Dunder Mifflin of the Jesus industry. In addition to Christmas cards and t-shirts they also sell a genital free salvation turkey for Thanksgiving. Can I get a witness?

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Some of the best advice Dad ever gave me was “Never send a cock pic.” But he also said, “If for some reason you must, make sure it’s taken from a good angle and there’s a limited amount of ashyness shown. And be sure to line-up your basement fro so you give a fair portrayal of your package.”

But some people never learn. And they end up on websites like IsAnyOneUp, which posts user-submitted nude pictures. The problem is “user” can mean the jilted ex-boyfriend who still has pictures of you preparing salt pork and black eyed peas while nude, except for a shoe that you leaned the hell out of (like the lady pictured above). Worse (or better) yet, the site also posts your Facebook profile so site viewers can contact you directly. Of course it sounds illegal, but IsAnyOneUp is in compliance with the law because the photos are owned by the users.

Just goes to show that if you give explicit pictures to some guy you’re dating or interested in dating, understand that the overwhelming majority of these pictures will be shared. And while we’ll be somewhat turned on, we’re also likely to laugh at your attempts to make a sexy face. So, unless you want his friends or the world to see you in your good underwear or bucknaked, please send with caution.

Or just say the hell with it and let them titties breathe, publicly.

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I’m all for making an honest buck, or a dishonest one provided it’s white-collar with a large reward-to-risk ratio. So I get why an Oscar nominated actor like Gary Busey is pitching Kias at a Houston car dealership. But I don’t get why anyone would buy off the lot when they could probably meet Gary in the alley behind the dealership for a much better deal. Check out the end of the video when he turns into a red faced monster. He made that same face when Dr. Drew took his smack.

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Heavy D could rap and sweat out a leather jumpsuit like no other. Now he’s in heaven, which I hear is a great place though that hasn’t been confirmed with a Yelp review. Heavy D’s much too early passing made me think, “What happened to his crew, The Boyz?” Like Prince’s band in “Purple Rain,” including the dude who wore the medical scrubs, they sort of disappeared.

Turns out one of The Boyz, Trouble T Roy (left), died at 22 from a two story fall from an arena exit ramp. He was the inspiration for Pete Rock & CL Smooth’s “They Reminisce Over You (T.R.O.Y.).” G-Whiz (Middle), left the industry and lives a quiet life in the Bronx. Eddie F (right), is still involved in hip-hop as the owner of Untouchables Entertainment, and writes and produces for Chris Brown and Anthony Hamilton, among others.

What’s my favorite song from the crew? The “In Living Color” theme! You’ve heard that, but here’s a performance from the show with ‘Pac and Flavor Flav. Rest in peace, Hev (Pac too, but he’s been resting a long time now).

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Being a super tall, genetically-modified looking dude is cool if you’re in the NBA. But once your basketball career is over your freakishly long limbs are of little use outside of fetish porn or the UniverSoul Circus. But 7’5″ former NBA superstar and Chinese spy Yao Ming is taking a different route, he’s enrolled in college in Shanghai. In the video above, which for some reason has those silly drawings I see in the menu at Mandarin Express, you can see him walking his modest ass into class and receiving a round of applause. Apparently he always wanted to pursue higher education, but the Chinese government shipped him off to a sports academy where he learned to shoot hoops and literally beat the sh*t out of visiting American teams. Now he’s back taking history and English. Can’t wait to see him do a keg stand.

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Two gay penguins in the Toronto Zoo, Bad Ass Buddy and Lady Pedro, want to be together and do all the things gay penguins do like strut across the ice with great posture and get their tuxedos tailored so they can really-really “work it, b*tch!” But the Toronto Zoo wants to separate the two because they are endangered African (and therefore down-low) penguins with “top-notch” genes for reproduction. Though they aren’t interested in “fish” the zoo is hoping they will find female mates who are unconcerned about their history with “menz.” This is really a shame considering outside of fight over cage design that led to Lady Pedro getting his face scratched, the two penguins have been great together. If you believe in equal rights for all penguins contact the Toronto Zoo.

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I only believe in beating children that aren’t mine, especially kids that jaywalk slowly across the street and dare you to beep your horn so they can give you the Reginald Denny. But in a conversation with Dr. Drew, who I just learned is not the same person as Anderson Cooper, DMX said I should consider whooping ass in-house. X’s mom used to stop and drop him with a dookie braid of extension cords and if you disregard the crack and numerous jail sentences he turned out great. Now he pulls the strap out on his 10 kids. “X Gon’ Give It To Ya.”

You can watch the full interview this Wednesday. Apparently, when Dr. Drew’s not diagnosing people he’s never met on CNN or exploiting washed-up celebs on VH-1, he has a show called “Lifechangers” on THE network that used to show the “The Game” until they canceled it to appeal to a wider-whiter audience.

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I like my eyes because they’re dark like my soul and Black Jesus wanted them to be that color. Plus they match well with desert boots. But if I wanted blue eyes I could get a surgical procedure done in Los Angeles called Lumineyes. The technique involves using a laser to scorch the melanin from the top layer of the iris. It takes only minutes and weeks later the eyes turn blue, at a cost of $2,500 per eye. (If needed, you can get one eye done and put the other in layaway until tax time.) Though you’re much better off going to prison and getting your eyes tatted, as shown by the scary white people in the video below. It’s generally free, but they do accept cigarettes and ass as barter. But if you ask me, why spend the money (or bunghole)? Everyone knows that if you want to feel better about yourself all you have to do is degrade others. It ain’t rocket science!

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When I saw all these black people in a circle I figured somebody was about to fight (no sellout). I was wrong and possibly jaded from watching too many videos on Worldstar. The clip above is actually a Jookin’ contest, also known as Gangsta Walkin’ or Memphis Buckin’. I vaguely remember Master P talk about this dance years ago, but the only information I retained from him was to be careful around devious women and pay special attention to that “big monkey between they legs.” Anyway, Jookin’ is cool. Hopefully I can learn right after I get the Casper Slide down. What happened to that guy? He was “tight behind that mic!” (-Master P)

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The only things certain in life are death, taxes and the fact that “Law & Order” is always on television. But now you can add something else to that list: Posthumous recordings to ensure an artist’s name and back account live on. Here’s a new track from Amy Winehouse featuring Nas. Sadly, alcohol is one hell of a drug. Drink in moderation and never around college age white men who wear dirty baseball caps and play games like “nuts on your forehead.” Amy’s new-old album comes out at the end of the year.

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If you use blow you’re one missed paycheck away from using crack. And even though crack will make you a good dancer like Gator in “Jungle Fever,” it will also have you doing things you never thought possible…with your mouth. Plus, The Man looks down on crack, even if The Man himself does blow.

Prior to the Fair Sentencing Act passed by Congress in 2010 there was a 100-to-1 disparity between minimum sentences for crack and powder cocaine users. Now the disparity is 18-t0-1. The good news is that the sentence change is retroactive, freeing an estimated 12,000 former users and sellers. Though the majority of the people being released missed Halloween, and therefore the opportunity to dress as terribly realistic zombies, they will see the outside in the coming days. Also, there’s a chance this program will increase demand for drugs and stimulate the economy. Hopefully not in my neighborhood.

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This year we gave candy to trick-or-treaters and the occasional freeloading parents holding newborn babies. My domestic-partner in-a-not-gay-way wanted to give the chillun’ one piece of candy each. I suggested they take a handful. Why? I don’t want to make them mad. Children today are corrupted by evil forces, namely parents that are too busy posing in the bathroom mirror for mobile phone pics and thus unable to give their little tax credits the guidance they need. So the children end up unruly and perfectly capable of shooting you for any slight, even accidentally stepping on their Air Forces Ones.

In Aiken, Georgia a 10-year-old boy pulled a gun on a 28-year-old woman while trick-or-treating. She joked about taking his candy and he replied, “No, you’re not…bitch.” Well, he didn’t say “bitch” but I’m sure he thought it. The kid had gotten the handgun from his grandfather. Police came to the scene and told the woman not to worry, the clip was not loaded in the gun, though the boy did have the clip in his possession. The child’s only punishment was being turned over to his parents, so I’ll assume he’s white.

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This is the tale of my very worst sexual partner. For his own sake I won’t reveal his name so let’s just call him Shit*y McShitterson. I met Shit*y the same way a lot of us girls meet guys like him; while drunk at a bar.

Shit*y ended up coming back to my place. We do the whole foreplay thing, and holy sh*t he is the worst kisser I have ever had the misfortune of kissing. It was as if he learned how to kiss by practicing on a St Bernard. Just all slobber. For some reason dumbass me did not take this as a huge sign for how horrible him going down on me was going to be. As soon as he put his mouth down there my vagina felt like one of the passengers on the Titanic drowning in an ocean of despair. Now you guys want to hear the best part? Shit*y goes down on me for about two excruciating minutes, then quickly feels my vagina and gets up to get a condom. I ask, “What are you doing?” and he says, “We should f*ck now. You’re really wet.”

I was so pissed off at this point, and in my drunken stupor could not stop laughing. No I’m not fu*king wet you asshole. I’m just covered in your gross saliva and being reminded of the movie Beethoven not getting horny. At that point every bone in my body was telling me I was going to regret it if I had sex with this guy, but when I’m drunk I don’t listen to my bones. I listen to my dumb head that reminds me I haven’t fu*ked since my boyfriend and I broke up.

Well he gets it in there, and immediately the phrase “jack-hammer” comes to mind. He was going so fast that I could hear the sound of his stomach and leg fat loudly banging onto my body. I was thinking that it was a good thing I didn’t have one of those “clap on clap off” lights in my room or else it would have been going on the fritz at that moment—it would have looked like we were fu*king in a rave.

Then the dirty talk happened. He kept going, “Yeah, you like that don’t you?” Seriously, how can this guy be so stupid? There was nothing about my body language that even came close to implying I “liked that”. Yeah dude, I like it so much that I can barely look you in the face without laughing. I like it so much that I have to tell you to slow down every ten seconds, and stop breathing so hard. By the time he finished I was so pissed off and disappointed that when he tried to cuddle I told him to leave. He asked me why and I said, “That sex was so bad that there is no amount of post-coital cuddling or cutesy pillow talk in the world that can make up for it.”

This incident happened around a year ago and luckily I’ve been better at choosing partners. This guy just couldn’t face the fact that his fucking was so bad. Honestly, if I had to choose between having sex with him again and being forced to watch Justin Beiber music videos for five hours straight. I would go with Beiber. It was that bad.

Note to the fellas: being good at sex does not necessarily come naturally. These things take time and it’s different from woman to woman. A real good sexual partner is someone who will be open-minded, and will invest in the other person’s feelings as much as their own. A good sexual partner needs to have humility, and learn from mistakes. Not deny them to the point of delusion. Obviously, I never spoke to this guy again and if you’ve ever hooked up with a girl thinking she’d call you back…maybe this is the reason why she hasn’t.

-Alison S.

Myspace was great for dating and general whoredom. Facebook is great for venting, whether over a failed relationship or simply expressing disapproval of stereotypical Negro acts. In this case, a former acquaintance of the updater has been prank calling her. Said former acquaintance has a history of trouble with the federal justice system, but was able to get the The Law and The Man off her back by pleading insanity. But the updater, through use of various references to cereals, wants that bitch to know she ain’t see ain’t really seen crazy yet. Overall, the paragraph was well crafted; the threats were malignant yet elegant, and the prose was tactfully gangster. Thus Latasha is the recipient of my first Facebook Update of the Week award. Congratulations!

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At some point everyone drops a mean load that needs to be broken up with a coat hanger prior to flushing. And what do you do when that happens? You stare in disbelief at such a hideous but fascinating sight curled around your toilet bowl like a sleeping ferret. Such is the case when watching the “Big Bad Wolf” video by Duck Sauce. Though slightly upsetting, this is quite possibly the most interesting music video since Lionel Richie’s “Dancing on the Ceiling.” By the way, I still haven’t figured out how Lionel managed to hang upside down without dripping curl juice on the floor. Friggin’ amazing!

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I’ve put up with a lot of sh*t from hip-hop through the years. Years ago I saw Hammer’s “Pump and a Bump” video, where he dances in a banana stuffed bikini, and became afflicted with lifelong penis envy. More recently, I’ve suffered through countless tracks of false rhymes about “shooting up the block” that complete overlook the most efficient manner to kill an enemy: show up at his door dressed as a UPS driver, quickly cover his face with a chlorophyll rag, stab his jugular, and ship his body to New Guinea to be eaten by the Korowai.

Thankfully there are a few new artists working to expand hip-hop with honest lyrics, influences drawn from a number of genres, and well-crafted lyrics. Case in point, Karmessiah, an “experimental” hip-hop artist out of West Columbia, South Carolina. The “rap game’s Paul Simon” and first artist to sample Al B. Sure and No Doubt just released a helluva debut album titled “Lush.” Check it out below, along with our interview.

Q: I’ve traveled a fair amount, though I’ve never been to West Columbia, South Carolina. I imagine it as a place where white chicks engage in still-taboo interracial sex with black University of South Carolina athletes and therefore feel they have permission to say “nigga,” which would be completely fine with me. Anyway, what’s West Columbia like and what influence has it had on your music?

A: Yeah that’s exactly what it’s like. Except I’ve never played football in my life, so I miss out. West Columbia is basically just the other side of the river from Columbia where the losers go. Being 20 minutes away from any real fun, or white girls who go to Carolina, lent its self to me sitting around making beats and creating this world that I live in now.

Q: Yeah, I never played football either. But my Uncle Tanisha said I’d make a great tight end. Do you feel you can stay in West Columbia and “make it,” or do you need to venture out to New York City?

A: I’ve been to NYC and I’ve never had more fun starving in my life. I tried to network and all that but I had no songs recorded at all, and ran out of money too soon. Right now I’m content to stay right here and not starve for a while, but if given a chance I’ll gladly go back to New York because it’s basically Disneyland for grown ass kids.

Q: On the “Lush” album you sample Al B. Sure and feature a Tommy James & the Shondells interlude, that’s an eclectic mix. When producing what type of sounds are you looking for?

A: I sample music I like. “Night & Day” is one of my favorite songs of all time, and probably my favorite video of all time. My dream is to remake that video and do the pirouette shit he does throughout it, that’s a vulnerable ass dance move. But real talk, I look for what’s dope buts taboo in hip hop; like the No Doubt sample on Stay Gwen for example.

Q: I like that, creating hip-hop without hyper-machismo or fear of going too far outside the genre. Here are three more female artists for you: Lady of Rage, Beth Ditto and Chaka Khan. You have to marry one, bone one and sample one. Choose…

A: Ok I’m definitely not tryna fuck Lady of Rage, so I would sample that afro puff song she had.. but wait Beth Ditto is a lesbian…aight ill fuck Beth Ditto…marry Chaka cuz I know she still gets checks.

Q: During the “See Throne” track you adlib, “We passin’ out turkeys bitch! I can’t help y’all…” It reminded of something I’d hear on a Ghostface album, cracked me up. What the hell were you talking about?

A: Well in New Jack City, Nino Brown does his best to help the community, and one of the ways he did that was passing out turkeys on Thanksgiving or Christmas, T ain know, ain seen the movie in a minute.

Q: Tracks like “Sky Ferreira” and “Five Guys” feature a rapid, aggressive delivery and have a battle rap vibe. Did you come up battling, or was your craft more so developed by writing and developing songs?

A: Hell No haha. I definitely consider myself a songwriter, not a rapper. Im like the Paul Simon of this shit, I’d like to think, or anybody equally as important as him.

Q: Rap game Phil Collins! Speaking of writing, describe your creative process.

A: Basically I find a beat that I don’t think I sound too corny over, brew some cheap ass coffee, and chainsmoke. Then from there it’s just about entertaining myself, first and foremost. I don’t like to rush so might chill for a bit, go watch some Millionaire Matchmaker then get back on the job. Then hopefully something comes out of it that I like enough to want to share.

Q: What’s next for Karmessiah? Also, are you willing to agree to the following pledge: When I blow up I will NOT release a formulaic, trite album as many rappers do in an attempt to please the masses. Meaning, you will not hear me say “I got a couple tracks for the ladies. Threw some gangsta shit on there for my real niggas. I got a radio cut too. Plus I got that Rick Ross feature…this album got something for everyone!”

A: Nobody can say whats next. I’m still waiting for Sky’s people to get at me, since I dedicated a song to her. Working on some music with some people I know. Looking for a deal. I agree to that the pledge, and i cosign too. My music isn’t for everyone, so why try to make it that way? Fuck it, if you like FIFA and beer, fuck with me. That’s all I can say, #swish.

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