Baltimore Blocks: Can somebody please translate the bottom red part of this sign, please?

I parked in front of this sign last night, got out, and tried to decipher this parking language and could not. So I ended up just saying eff it and took the chance. I don't know if I should be happy I didn't get a ticket or if I should be sad that I couldn't comprehend what the sign really meant.

Video: Skyzoo (feat Talib Kweli) - Spike Lee Was My Hero

Joint G-O-E-S! When I think of Brooklyn hip-hop this style of music and the early Jay-Z and BIG work come to mind. Followed by Black Star and MOP too, can't forget about them.

Keeping alive that hip-hop that a lot of us grew up on.


SkyZoo and his music are both under-respected and under-disseminated.

Rick Ross almost got the worst birthday present of all the times!!!

Glad to see this dude didn't get murdered and like 50 said: "BIG got hit in that passenger seat, Pac got hit in that passenger seat. Now I'm 'ridin' 'round in the passenger seat."

The moral of the story??? Don't ride in the passenger seat It's better to be a rapper that doesn't talk tough all the time (Drake) than it is to be a tough-talking rapper that as a result, makes himself a target for even more people than those who are already haters by nature. You don't get no points for poppin shots at Drake but if you hit Fat Ricky that might count for something in the streets.

Trent Williams was serious when got that silverback gorilla chain I see

A long time ago I read an article about Trent Williams getting some ridiculous gorilla chain made that reportedly is work up to $150,000 (check out that article here and the picture below).

The article starts with the following quote by Trent:

"'I'm always saying how I want to be a beast on the field and Silverback is a beast, so they just kind of gave me the nickname,' Trent Williams said after he was picked by the Redskins and introduced as Trent “Silverback” Williams by Roger Goodell."

And if he hadn't already "earned" the name somehow, he definitely earned it this past Thursday morning in Hawaii where he was there for the Pro Bowl (played this past Sunday) and he got into a brawl at a club somehow.

His role in the brawl appears to be victim but it's being reported that this dude was tasered and cracked over the head with a bottle... READ THAT AGAIN

TASERED AND CRACKED OVER THE HEAD WITH A BOTTLE...

And it required 7 stitches to close his head up but he "would not go down."

Let's be clear here, Trent is 6 foot 5 inches and has to be at least 300 pounds so short of a couple of strong men together, most people are not just going to be able to get him to the ground with a punch or by sheer strength if he's defending himself. But after being tased you'd think he would go down out of pain. And after being hit over the head with a bottle (I'm assuming something bigger than a beer bottle) you'd think he would go down. But apparently he somehow withstood all this. That is completely insane, completely!

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D@mn, lol.

Aye, but they do though!!!

You know somebody that thinks this way, you just might not know it yet, lol.

Gun control much?

HA!

Chip (feat. Jeezy & TIP) - On the Scene

I could have done without a Jeezy verse and had Bobby Ray on this joint but it still goes. And surprisingly, the Bri'ish accent doesn't bother me but that's probably because.....

Clearly, TIP is ghost-writing Chip's stuff. If he's not, I'd be shocked.

Shot out to the homie RipRock for responding to my email about this joint and thereby inspiring me to scribe (ha) this post.

Wisconsin High School has a class where white privilege/guilt is addressed and examined. Oh my God no please stop the madness!!!!

According to the Huffington Post:

"A Wisconsin high school is under fire after a parent accused a diversity class of promoting a critical race theory, alleging that students are being taught that minorities are disadvantaged by white oppressors" (disclaimer, the HuffPost article follows that quote with "Fox News reports" which I assume is where that "being taught that..." line comes from, lol).

Anyway, the article goes on to say that "an unnamed parent tells Fox News that assignments and class worksheets seem like 'indoctrination.' ... They’re teaching white guilt... They’re dividing the students. They’re saying to non-whites, ‘You have been oppressed and you’re still being oppressed.'"

Ok, first-and-foremost, the concept of "white guilt" makes me laugh though I understand it and I think there's some validity to it. Maybe it's just me, but I'm not walking around blaming white people of today for shyt their ancestors did. That would mean I'd come to work every morning pissed off. The only white folks I'm angry at are those that appear to be consciously or subconsciously prejudice, racist, or a bigot RIGHT NOW. But white guilt makes sense although I doubt there are really that many white people walking around daily feeling bad about how their ancestors effed over Black people.

Moving right along, the idea that introducing the concept of white privilege as part of a class on critical race theory is probably par for the course I'd guess. One way for everyone to move forward is to be able to have open dialogue and discussion about the past and how it's affecting people of all races today. That's a fair discussion to have and white privilege is definitely a part of that discussion. I don't see anything wrong with discussing white privilege, white guilt, black stereotypes, why most black stereotypes have some validity to them (yep, I said it), and ways that everybody can work together to be more open-minded about the past, the present, and more importantly, things they just simply don't understand.

It's unfair to everyone that every time a discussion about race comes up someone has to jump up and speak-out against having conversations that could move everyone forward. The article is definitely worth a read and there are other links within the article that point to some interesting materials. I highly suggest reading it if you have time.

Google AKA Big Brother AKA Eye in the Sky AKA Privacy is Optional introduces...

...Google Now


I'm sure someone reading this will think that this is super cool and in some ways it is. In other ways, it's on the verge of making privacy something that you toggle on-and-off on your phone or mobile device. Pretty soon there'll be no more privacy by default, it'll be an option or series of options you have to find and select/enable. Technology has brought us some great things but how much are we willing to sacrifice our own privacy to have a computer think for us, suggest things to us, and tell us what they think is best for us based on their tracking mechanism/algorithms? Pretty soon you'll be at home and your phone is gonna tell you, "Your fat azz loves to eat ice cream at 1pm, go get some cherry vanilla" and you're going to do it, just because your phone said so. I love innovation but I don't think people realize just how close to artificial intelligence and thinking on someone's behalf (not to mention, tracking your every move) this stuff is. And to be clear, I'm not anti-Google by any means (I've talked about Google a lot here in the past). I just think we need to think about some of these technologies before we just embrace them by default.

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Video: Grinding at the School Dance

This is pretty hilarious!