Why white girls run from me late at night..

I'm back again and I have to get something off my chest..

I'm a black guy. As far as stereotypes go for black guys, I fit a few but I'm not your typical 'Boyz in the Hood' type of negro. Ok, I like fried chicken (and watermelon but who doesn't?). I like rap music and I used to wear Fubu and Rocawear when it was cool. However on the gangster scale I'm probably like a 4.5 out of 10 and I'm proud of it. I never had dreds or cornrows (thats a whole other blog in itself). I've never been to jail, unless you count timeout at christian camp, and I've spent more time at bible study than on the block hustlin'. I don't beat girls, unless it's in a pillow fight, and the only tattoo I ever had I won from Chuck E. Cheesse because I had 20 tickets (happy belated birthday stew).

Why are people (white and asian girls) so scared of me at night?
I feel like Shrek when he met donkey...

I was walking to my car after work at around 9:30p.m. and I see a white girl about 20ft ahead of me walking in the same direction in the parking lot. I work at the mall and at 9:30 on a friday night at Annapolis Mall the parking lot is pretty well lit. So I wasn't really worried about getting robbed, raped or a combination of the two; but apparently she was. After about six seconds she realizes I'm walking in the same direction as her and she starts to noticeably change her pace. I'm still not far behind her and I guess she realizes this, so her brisk walk quickly turns into an all out dash to her car. She runs to the car door, opens it as fast as she can, and starts locking all the doors (her whip was a lil ghetto, she ain't have automatic locks).

At this point I'm right in front of her car and I can see her heart is beating harder than a drum in Africa because she thinks I walked all this way to rob her broke self. I smile and then unlock the door to my car which is right next to hers; she feels pretty dumb when she realizes that I was parked right next to her. While she sits in the car trying to calm her breathing,, I put the key in the ignition and drive away.

I don't think this girl was racist. She just saw a black guy at night and her instinct's told her to...run. Can I blame her for trying to do what she thought was best to survive? No. 'Cause honestly when I see a group of black guys I get a little worried myself (mom should've enrolled me in that Karate class). So who is to blame here? Well we can start with the media. Thier exhaustive coverage on the country's 'war on crime' completely warps the nation's view of black men in America. I know, I know we have a black president with black kids and a black wife. However, that dosen't erase the fact that the only movies released by major production companies overwhelmingly feature black guys as criminals. It dosen't change the fact that police brutality is on the rise in heavily populated urban areas and it's going unpunished. As a black man I have a better chance of going to jail for 4 years than going to college for 4 years. So when more police forces are implemented I start to feel unsafe. Not because I have anything to hide or any crimes that I want to keep from police, but because of the vigilante justice that seems ever so popular with the nation's police forces today. Don't believe me? Just ask Ronnie White or Trey Joyner what I mean. Oh wait, you can't because the Prince George's County police killed them already.
I don't mean to go on a rant or anything like that but when the girl ran from me it just got me thinking. If your that girl who ran from me and your reading this right now, maybe we can do lunch- I know a great sushi place.

Hip-Hop or Boob rock? My beef with Drake's new video

This is my first blog, so if this is a completely absurd topic to write about, chalk it up to me being a blogging beginner. However when something's on my mind, its on my mind and I have to let the people know.

Drake "drizzy" Rodgers also known as Jimmy (with no shape-up) from the Tv show degrassi happens to be a phenomenal rapper. His metaphors are well thought out, descriptive, easy to understand, and they keep coming; the perfect formula for an all-star in today's hip-hop game. He can sing, that's always a plus, and he has the potential to slide into Chris Brown's spot as the "loveable light-skinned guy." He's already dating Chris's girl why not take his fame too? He has endorsements from everybody in rap including Lil Wayne, and Kanye West so obviously no one is brave enough to beef with him yet. He doesn't even have an album out yet and my Grandma (sweetest lady ever) is begging me to download his mixtape for her. Basically this guy has everything going for him...What could he do wrong? Shoot a wack video..and that's exactly what he did.
Rap videos are usually filled with so many busty, half-naked girls that Perez Hilton could get a boner watching one. In fact, Rap videos have been the scapegoat for the moral deterioration of America since Luke and 2Live Crew. But I expected something different from Drake. With all his talent in singing, acting, and rapping in combination with his background with the TV industry I thought he would put together a hot video with "Best I Ever Had." Instead we get a mediocre over-sexualized video that has literally NOTHING to do with the song. Don't get me wrong, I love seeing sexy girls jump up and down in outfits that make thongs look like sweatpants. But I also like seeing artists break down the barriers of their hip-hop forefathers. Here are some reasons why he should've done another video...
1) Parents buy music for kids: Drake had the opportunity of being a favorite of parents with his witty style and less than gangster look.Kind of like Kanye West was when he came out with "Jesus Walks." When parents see this video their going to think this guy is a nympho.

2) He was in the song "every girl": The chorus of this song goes "I just want to Fuck every girl in the world." This song is hot but the concept is soo middle school. In a time when more black people have AIDS than college degrees I think we can do without a song that says "I exchange V cards with the retards" (that's an actual lyric from the song).

3)Kanye West Produced and Shot it: That's right. Yeezy himself produced and constructed this video.So maybe I should be blaming Mr.West for this video. You can tell he was behind it from the double D's on all the chicks to Drake's College Dropout esque wardrobe. My biggest beef with Kanye in this project is that he tried to hard making this video which made the end result seem like he didn't try at all.

"That's what happens when you spitting whats inside you/but slip up and shoot the wrong fucking video and they think they can market you however they decide to" -Drake, Say What's Real

The above lyric from Drake in his freestyle "Say What's Real" was about his video "Replacement Girl" with Trey Songz (youtube it). He was done filming Degrassi and he put all of his money into putting this song together and making this video which debuted on BET's 106 & Park and was never seen again. He was basically broke after he paid for the video and he was hoping to get his big break in music but it never happened until now. He swore he wouldn't make another dumb video that affected the public's perception of him. haha Liar. Fool me once shame on you, Fool me twice shame on Drake.

Wacth the Video "Best I Ever Had" by Drake here!