Angel

 A hit song I revisit and like more because of the demented way Madonna laughs at the beginning and the dope electronic piano sample, surprised nobody hasn't flipped it, slowed it. Madonna low-key don't get her props, there legit wouldn't be no Beyonce, Rihanna, Lil Kim, Nicki, etc.....without her. Not since Josephine Baker did any musician use sex to the extent that she did in pop culture, some people legit hated her for it too.

Europeon History and Trumpism

There's this unsaid rule in Western society, (and most societies Worldwide) that those who possess a vast knowledge of European-based philosophy, literature, art, science, politics, and history are more well equipped to make wise, intelligent, decisions than those who don't, regardless of whether one is in Europe or not.

If anything, Trump was the smack in the face to this intellectual supremacy, despite the obvious lack of moral leadership qualities he possessed. Trumpism is Eurocentric-based White Supremacy eating itself. What the use of woke by the right-wing hints towards is a bastardized term to describe "the institution", i.e. the institutions of Europe and anything loosely associated with it. If you study the "great works" of European history, you see they're pockmarked with, and predicated on countless examples of savagery, which some people are triggered by, and subsequently shooting wildly at. Some see those in the institution as a decadent group of educated elite who are free to do whatever sick crimes they wish and are never punished for it, and well, that has been mostly true. This explains the Epstein/Hollywood elite/Billionaire pedophile obsession. That's European history! That's how the elite have been celebrating and achieving objectives throughout European history, and that's not the worst they've done.

Rottenhouse

The Kyle Rittenhouse situation is the same scenario as many gang shootings: poorly-raised child taught to aggressively resolve conflicts with violence, arms himself to hit the streets and flex on the ops, winds up getting attacked and subsequently has his sense of hubris driven invincibility threatened, so he reacts in fear and kills somebody 

The difference is that unlike the other ten thousand times it happens where you have the perpetrator quickly flushed through the prison pipeline, this time you have an impartial judge and a significant portion of society supporting him. 

It doesn't surprise me. The minute that judge said that the people shot shouldn't be called victims, I knew what time it was. 😑

Top 10

I'm my favorite MC by default, I'm my favorite Griot by default, but there's those that influence ME that find the best midpoint between the two, the ones that I revisit the most, because their material, whether its flow or substance or both, gives me the most of what I enjoy and need on some level. I'm not doing a top 10, because hierarchies waste time and energy, the only hierarchy that is constant is age.

 No particular order


Solo Acts:
Ice Cube
2Pac
Biggie 

Kanye West
Dr.Dre
Andre3K 

Big Boi
Lauryn Hill 

Krayzie Bone
Bizzy Bone
Twista
DJ Quik
Big K.R.I.T. 

Lupe Fiasco
Busta Rhymes
50 Cent 

Missy Elliot
Snoop
Common
Eminem
Kendrick Lamar
Jay-Z
Nas
Erykah Badu

 
Groups/Collectives:
Bone Thugs N Harmony 

Outkast/Dungeon Family 
Little Brother 

Wu-Tang Clan 

N.W.A. 

Cash Money Records 
Crucial Conflict

Perspective

 

Policing

The law is determinant upon whether people choose to follow it or not. The consequences of not following the law are also determinant upon compliance. Its not a given, nor is following court protocol. Most Police follow peaceful protocol. When they don't, the penalty isn't severe enough, hence the protests and the contemporary issues of Police Brutality and abuse. Any unnecessary infraction of aggression by Police should be treated 10X as harsh as a normal crime. These infractions have largely have been ignored or even encouraged, which is unacceptable. When the courts can't discipline our public servants, its up to us as citizens to step in where they have failed.

The Gay Agenda

I hope there is a Gay agenda and it gets fully implemented, just because the way people whine about it is disgusting. Insufferable. 

Even if you're religious, I assume God assumes you know the difference between a deviation from the norm VS an actual existential threat.