New Art

 This is a new piece of art I'm working on. 

When beefs were entertaining.

No Vaseline 

Dre Day

Real Muthafukkin Gs 

The three most entertaining diss songs all came from a group that broke up. None of these diss songs of the day can compare IMO 

Unwritten history Vs Written history.

Unwritten history is akin to the number of times someone dubbed a CD, dubbed a Cassette, spun a song at a party, played a song in their Walkman, played a song in they stereo, played a song on a local radio station, played a song in they CD player, etc. 

Written history is akin to the number of streams 

WWE random musings (this time with an actual title to describe this random nonsense.)

The thing about the WWE is that the owner showed us he was racist with no apologies, and made a mockery of it. Kamala. Kamala was scary though, cause he was scared the whole time. Hulk Hogan was white Shango. And they had Shango, who was the tag team partner with Kamala. Look. 

Cities as chakras

Here's a graphic showing off the feel I get from a city as represented by a color. 

Here is my purely anecdotal evidence as to why I chose said colors. 

Atlanta has Soul Food as the preferred cuisine of the city. Not pizza, not sandwiches, not BBQ. Soul. Food. Home of the most prophetic American known worldwide, a city of red dirt and tall trees. Life is fast paced, but slowed down. Mess around and Atlanta could swallow you whole if you don't get up off yo ass (like the chakra). 

Houston is more LA than LA. They burn orange, its so hot down there. It's the graphic design at the beginning of the "Still Tippin" video. It's the swamp, but the desert starts right outside it's metropolitan area. Big Oil money. Big Oil Money sounds like that could be a name for Houston Rapper. Oil burns orange. Burnt orange. Blood orange. Tangerine. They can claim Beyoncé. 

LA. You can't think of LA and not picture orange sunsets. Even they most LA drink, the Margarita, ain't right without Triple Sec or Gran Marnier. It's the city of.....

Detroit. Detroit is Black, and the kind of Black place you'd find some random shit, like goth communities. Even the color I chose, Amber, sounds like, a "Amber". It's Halloween all the time in Detroit, famous for starting Heavy Metal with a Black band called "Death". Detroit is the hood Castlevania. 

New York is golden. Everything about New York glows gold. "Big Bird" yellow Gold, the Empire. Even a line in a Diplomats song goes, "You never been approached by Golden Eagles/vultures that will scope and feed you". I don't even know what that shit means, but thanks for bringing it to light. The Zulu rock Gold.  

Miami has the Caribbean on lock, but is under-appreciated for its contributions to Black history too. I bet somehow you associate key lime pie with the Carribean and don't even know it.  It's the sleazier LA, but with Southern niggas that look like they originated from somewhere in East Africa - Senegal or some place. In Miami, the Black republic of Haiti is at its strongest in the US, and the "worldwide luxury millionaire lifestyle" is at it's most flamboyant. Miami is closest to lavish displays of the type of wealth the rich people of the World indulge in. You will find someone rocking a lime green suit or other lime green clothing. You most likely will find a few lime green buildings. A Margarita ain't right without lime, neither is a Mojito, and neither is a Caipirinha.

Recipe


Speaking of Haiti....

Don Bishop Magic Juan wears green. Green is the color of the Congo. Chicago is the capitol of the psychological heart of the country, the workforce. A lot of old industrial machinery is green. Solid green.

The Bay is an area where niggas could make Turquoise hood. How would E-40 say the word Turqouise? Exactly! It's the sky-blue Starfleet future, with niggas. The Egyptian word for Turquoise is "Mefkat". How would E-40 say that? Exactly! How easy is it to get dirt on Turquoise, and how hard is it to get it off? Exactly! 

Philadelphia is the big city in the US with the most wisdom. Wisdom as in the wisdom that's measured by time, and by time only. It's the oldest big city. The beginning of the American Empire. It's watched NYC grow up. "The Roots" of America's 3rd eye. A deep saturated slate blue.

Seattle is the capitol of a region where the "smartest people" escape, (and often to be more racist than where they left, but you know). It's the most successful "Manifest destiny, out west among nature" type of city. This is America's spirit. The iris of 3rd Eye. A solid indigo. The front. The progress. Windows. 

DC is where the royalty, as in the royal people who rule this country, reside (Blue/Red). Purple is a royal color. DC's music King, George Clinton, was inducted to the Que dogs. DC's music greatly influenced a Pop Icon who famously wore.....If you've ever been to DC, it looks like a futuristic city where a solid, grape colored purple would work.

A Torontonian argued with me that that the second city Toronto was more influential than the second city Chicago. That's Toronto. They have a magenta CN Tower. People from the "T." are somewhere deep in Asia mind, looking down at America, like, "wow, these savages..." said in the most  monotonous, taciturn delivery. It looks like the first city in America with cyborgs, except it's not in America, and it's not on a great lake. It's just stood in for America millions of times in film, especially films set in the future. It's an "American city" ran by people with origins from many different countries from many regions of the World. It's no longer majority white, and still rich, and getting richer. It's the future. The most famous Torontonian is? Exactly! Magenta.

Haiti is also in New Orleans, along with 300 other cultures. They have their city-specific Creole, Cajun, and Indian cultures. It's the place where anything goes. They can say that they created an American form of Voodoo. Yet it's firmly religious. Their culture is the most unique to America. The Big Easy. Red Violet.

Some big cities aren't on this list because they aren't a solid enough color in my opinion to fit within this "baker's dozen" model, yet. 

Random Thoughts 11:44 pm.

Krayzie Bone can sing along "murda" to any melody and still sound good. 

LA had a higher murder rate and more murders than Chicago at one point. They went from a rate of over thirty, down to five. I wonder have they made reforms in their gang structures that could be used to mentor the rest of the country? 

The West side of Chicago go out they way to show you they Black.  

The South, the South South, got a different type of power (as most evident in their Southern Hospitality ). 

Note: I like to envision apocalyptic scenarios for fun.  Here we go:

What if, *Jeffrey Wright voice*, what if, the Souf matched the North's level of outright meaness? I picture Little Richard as Usman. 

The T-Dot

Toronto is the kind of place where a gangster might bring out a siberian monkey in a cage to yo table for no reason at all. Magenta city vibes. Dubai Oil Money.