June 2013
white girl said she “disagrees with” statistics and actual news stories about people of color experiencing racism…
The finales were a total roller coaster. " Their winning--Their losing--Yessss! 3- Pointer!--WHY LeBRON? WHY?-- Wait! Wait!! YESSSS!-- Nooooo! Pass it to Allen!--Yeah! A tie!!-- Wait wha--Fuck, Fuck, Fu-- We're winning? We are winnin-- WE WON!
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“You’re a ghost driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust, what do you have to be scared of?”
—~ Porkbeard (via criminalwisdom)
- Young Man: How do you know when you've found the one?
- Older Man: When everything makes sense. No questions. No concens. No prolems. No worries.
“I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.”
—Malcolm X (via stellablu)
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
—Mark Twain (via musiquegraphique)
Erykah Badu Interviews Kendrick Lamar
- BADU: How do you choose chicks from backstage?
- LAMAR: How do I choose chicks from backstage?
- BADU: Yeah, what is the protocol?
- LAMAR: I try not to. [laughs] I’m too scared. Anybody who knows me knows that I’m probably the most scared person when it comes to that because I’m so caught up in the act of sex, of something going crazy, going out of my control. I’m too paranoid.
- BADU: [laughs] So you just pass?
- LAMAR: I’ve got to because I’ve seen a situation where it got totally out of hand, where something seemed so innocent, and now this person has got allegations on them. It spooked me. This was before my career really started, though—before any “Kendrick Lamar.” And that right there? It changed my whole perception about certain things. I’ll always keep that in the back of my head.
- BADU: So who is your asshole-checker?
- LAMAR: Who is my what?
- BADU: Your asshole-checker—the person in your crew or your family who let’s you know if you’re being a asshole.
- LAMAR: I have two, actually. [both laugh] But the main one is a friend of mine—a lady friend who has known me since high school. She has always been someone, since day one, who has said something whenever I’m an asshole, or also if I’m doin’ something positive—but more so when I’m out of my element.
- BADU: What’s your favorite cereal?
- LAMAR: Fruity Pebbles. When people ask for my rider, they think I’m crazy: Fruity Pebbles, baked chicken, bottle of Hennessy, and some Polo socks.
- BADU: What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman?
- LAMAR: There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante…
- BADU: That’s a good perspective. Something I envy that men have is that ability to grow a goatee. I think that’d be really hot on me.
my mind is telling me no
and my budget
my budget is also telling me no
My Type Of Party [Prod. By DJ Dahi]
Dom Kennedy
dom kennedy my type of party
So I was on the train today and these two black guys were having a conversation not even that loud and said “nigga” like once when this white lady turns around and says “How do you think MLK Jr. would feel about you using that kind of language” and one of the guys snaps back and said “Idk maybe if your people didn’t shoot him I would know”
OOP
welp
the 90’s was a great fucking decade; great music, the economy was on point, and the national average for gas was $1.16. Where’s a time machine when you need one?
Real talk!
Let Nas Down
J.Cole
& also what defines my name
Prayer
“I come to you hungry and tired
you give food and let me sleep
I come to you weak
you give strength and that’s deep
you called me a sheep
and leed me to green pastures
only asking that I keep the focus
between the chaptures
You give me the word and only acts I interpet
And give me the eyes so I can recognize the serpent
You know I ain’t perfect, but you’ll like me to try
And just like the devil who wants me to lie
Till I die
Lord why is it that, that I go through so much pain
All I saw was black and all I felt was rain
I come to you because it’s you that knows
To show me that everything is black
Because me eyes were closed
You give me the light and let me bask in your glory
So it was only right that when you ask for this story
I put together to do all dogs some good
All dogs being all the brothers and sisters in the hood
Plenty of times you sent help my way but I hid
I remember once you held me close but I slid
There was something that I just had to see
That you wanted me to see so I can be what you wanted me to be
And I think I am seeing it but I don’t feel the same
Matter of fact I know I have seen it I can feel the change
And it’s strange almost got me beating down your door
But I have never known love like this before
It’s a wonderful feeling to get away from the pain
And up under the ceiling I get away from the rain
And the strain that I feel when I’m here is gone
I know real so I wipe away the tears son
And I almost lost faith in you when you took my man Monty
Pass over chase a brother down
And I fear that what I saying won’t be heard until I’m gone
But it’s all good, Cause I didn’t expect to live long
So if it takes for me to suffer for me brother to see the light
Give me pain till I die but please lord treat him right”
DMX — Prayer
