This is not a conspiracy. This is a fact.


April 24, 2013 written by Homeboy Sandman



Homeboy Sandman

GoldenUndergroundTV recently released an interview I did with them late last year. I got a bit animated at the end. Only so many interviews in a row I could handle being asked about Chief Keef.

My tirade wasn’t really about Chief Keef. It wasn’t about Gucci Mane or Wocka Flocka or any of the acts spontaneously catapulted into stardom by synchronized mass media coverage despite seemingly universal indifference (at the very best) regarding their talent. Whose arrests, involvement in underaged pregnancies, concert shootouts, and facial tattoos, dominate conversation for weeks at a time, with their actual music a mere afterthought, if thought of at all.

My tirade was about marketing. It was about media powers seeking out the biggest pretend criminal kingpins they can find, (many of whom who shamelessly adopt the names of actual real life criminal kingpins like 50 Cent and Rick Ross), and exalting them as the poster children for a culture. It was about an art form reduced to product placement, the selling of a lifestyle, and ultimately, a huge ad for imprisonment.

This is not my opinion.

Last year Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the biggest name in the private prison industry, contacted 48 states offering to buy their prisons. One stipulation of eligibility for the deal was particularly bizarre: “an assurance by the agency partner that the agency has sufficient inmate population to maintain a minimum 90% occupancy rate over the term of the contract.

What kind of legitimate and ethical measures could possibly be taken to ensure the maintenance of a 90% prison occupancy rate?

Two months later an anonymous email was sent out to various members of the music and publishing industries giving an account of a meeting where it was determined that hip-hop music would be manipulated to drive up privatized prison profits. Its author, despite claiming to be a former industry insider, did not provide the names of anyone involved in the plot, nor did he specify by which company he himself was employed. As such, the letter was largely regarded as a fraud for lack of facts.

Here are facts:

Ninety percent of what Americans read, watch and listen to is controlled by only six media companies. PBS’s Frontline has described the conglomerates that determine what information is disseminated to the public as a “web of business relationships that now defines America’s media and culture.” Business relationships. Last year a mere 232 media executives were responsible for the intake of 277 million Americans, controlling all the avenues necessary to manufacture any celebrity and incite any trend. Time Warner, as owner of Warner Bros Records (among many other record labels), can not only sign an artist to a recording contract but, as the owner of Entertainment Weekly, can see to it that they get next week’s cover. Also the owner of New Line Cinemas, HBO and TNT, they can have their artist cast in a leading role in a film that, when pulled from theaters, will be put into rotation first on premium, then on basic, cable. Without any consideration to the music whatsoever, the artist will already be a star, though such monopolies also extend into radio stations and networks that air music videos. For consumers, choice is often illusory. Both BET and MTV belong to Viacom. While Hot 97, NYC’s top hip hop station, is owned by Emmis Communications, online streaming is controlled by Clear Channel, who also owns rival station Power 105.

None of this is exactly breaking news, but when ownership of these media conglomerates is cross checked with ownership of the biggest names in prison privatization, interesting new facts emerge.

According to public analysis from Bloomberg, the largest holder in Corrections Corporation of America is Vanguard Group Incorporated. Interestingly enough, Vanguard also holds considerable stake in the media giants determining this country’s culture. In fact, Vanguard is the third largest holder in both Viacom and Time Warner. Vanguard is also the third largest holder in the GEO Group, whose correctional, detention and community reentry services boast 101 facilities, approximately 73,000 beds and 18,000 employees. Second nationally only to Corrections Corporation of America, GEO’s facilities are located not only in the United States but in the United Kingdom, Australia and South Africa.

You may be thinking, “Well, Vanguard is only the third largest holder in those media conglomerates, which is no guarantee that they’re calling any shots.” Well, the number-one holder of both Viacom and Time Warner is a company called Blackrock. Blackrock is the second largest holder in Corrections Corporation of America, second only to Vanguard, and the sixth largest holder in the GEO Group.

There are many other startling overlaps in private-prison/mass-media ownership, but two underlying facts become clear very quickly: The people who own the media are the same people who own private prisons, the EXACT same people, and using one to promote the other is (or “would be,” depending on your analysis) very lucrative.

Such a scheme would mean some very greedy, very racist people.

There are facts to back that up, too.

Prison industry lobbyists developing and encouraging criminal justice policies to advance financial interests has been well-documented. The most notorious example is the Washington-based American Legislative Council, a policy organization funded by CCA and GEO, which successfully championed the incarceration promoting “truth in sentencing” and “three-strikes” sentencing laws. If the motive of the private prison industry were the goodhearted desire to get hold of inmates as quickly as possible for the purpose of sooner successfully rehabilitating them, maintenance of a 90% occupancy rate would be considered a huge failure, not a functioning prerequisite.

Likewise, the largest rise in incarceration that this country has ever seen correlates precisely with early-80′s prison privatization. This despite the fact that crime rates actually declined since this time. This decreasing crime rate was pointed out enthusiastically by skeptics eager to debunk last year’s anonymous industry insider, who painted a picture of popularized hip-hop as a tool for imprisoning masses.  What wasn’t pointed out was that despite crime rates going down, incarceration rates have skyrocketed. While the size of the prison population changed dramatically, so did its complexion. In “‘All Eyez on Me’: America’s War on Drugs and the Prison-Industrial Complex,” Andre Douglas Pond Cummings documents the obvious truth that “the vast majority of the prisoner increase in the United States has come from African-American and Latino citizen drug arrests.”

Add to this well-documented statistics proving that the so-called “war on drugs” has been waged almost entirely on low-income communities of color, where up until just two years ago, cocaine sold in crack form fetched sentences 100 times as lengthy as the exact same amount of cocaine sold in powdered form, which is much more common in cocaine arrests in affluent communities. (In July 2010 the oddly named Fair Sentencing Act was adopted, which, rather than reducing the crack/powder disparity from 100-to-1 to 1-to-1, reduced it to 18-to-1, which is still grossly unfair.) This is not to suggest that the crack/powder disparity represents the extent of the racism rampant within the incarceration industry. The U.S. Sentencing Commission reported in March 2010 that in the federal prison system, even where convicted for the exact same crimes, people of color received prison sentences 10% longer . Where convictions are identical, mandatory minimum sentences are also 21% more likely for people of color.

Finally, let us not forget the wealth of evidence to support the notion that crime-, drug- and prison-glorifying hip-hop only outsells other hip-hop because it receives so much more exposure and financial backing, and that when given equal exposure, talent is a much more reliable indicator of success than content.

Yasiin Bey aka Mos def







Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def) put it best; “‘hip-hop” is just shorthand for ‘black people.’” Before our eyes and ears, a “web of business relationships that now defines America’s media and culture” has one particular business raking in billions of dollars while another defines the culture of a specific demographic as criminal. Both business are owned by the same people. Mainstream media continue to endorse hip-hop that glorifies criminality (most notably drug trafficking and violence), and private prison interests, long since proven to value profits over human rights, usher in inmates of color to meet capacity quotas. The same people disproportionately incarcerated when exposed to the criminal justice system are at every turn inundated with media normalizing incarceration to the point that wherever there is mainstream hip-hop music, reference to imprisonment as an ordinary, even expected, component of life is sure to follow.

Conspiracy theorists get a lot of flak for daring entertain the notion that people will do evil things for money. Historical atrocities like slavery and the Holocaust are universally acknowledged, yet simultaneously adopted is the contradictory position that there can’t possibly be any human beings around intelligent enough and immoral enough to perpetrate such things.  Even in the midst of the Europe-wide beef that was actually horse-meat fiasco, and the release of real-life nightmare documenting films like “Sunshine and Oranges,” there is an abundance of people content to believe that the only conspiracies that ever exist are those that have successfully been exposed.

The link between mass media and the prison industrial complex, however, is part of a very different type of conversation.

The information in this article was not difficult to find; it is all public.

This is not a conspiracy. This is a fact.

Time Warner Cable Holdings

Viacom Prison Holdings

CCA Holdings

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All Eyes on Me.. War on Drugs

As-Salaam Alaikum! (Peace!)

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan went to Alabama in June to join other leaders in the Voting Rights Act Caravan. White Jews from Birmingham synagogue Temple Emanu-El attacked him, but documents reveal that the Jewish history of anti-Black hate and terror goes back to the Alabama slave trade. Read on:

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BIRMINGHAM: A JEWISH HAIR FOR 1,000 BLACK LIVES?
RICHARD FRIEDMAN’S ‘CREEPY’ CHOICE

By any measure the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s presence in Alabama in support of voting rights justice for all Americans was a monumental victory for that important cause. Places like Birmingham, Montgomery, Edmund Pettus Bridge, all evoke horrific images of Black suffering at the hands of vicious, hateful domestic white terrorists. To all who had seen The Minister in the racial crucible of America reclaiming the Civil Rights Movement’s original purpose and raising the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s forgotten writings, he was a brilliant example of the grace, power, and dignity that The Minister brings to EVERY movement he makes. He used every occasion of his visit not only to remind us of the greatness of Dr. King, but to rescue him from the image-killers and propagandists who would reduce this great thinker to a mere slogan.

The Minister’s first stop in Alabama was in Birmingham’s Kelly Ingram Park, the 4-acre plot of sacred soil that was the scene of the government’s brutalization of Black women and children—its own citizens—on May 3rd of 1963. The news footage of Black churchgoers being set upon by police dogs and blasted with fire hoses is so seared in the consciousness of the world that it has become the American Blackman’s Zapruder film. The park sits across from the symbolic civil rights cathedral, the 16th Street Baptist Church, where 135 days after that horrific Ingram Park pogrom four little Black girls were blown up by dynamite in a terrorist attack. The Minister’s presence at this holy epicenter was incredibly meaningful.

While Minister Farrakhan was extensively quoting Dr. King, Richard Friedman, executive director of the Birmingham Jewish Federation, tried to explain why Jews were absent from both the rally and the voting rights issue. “The Federation only takes positions on issues where a clear consensus exists within the Jewish community and...there is a diversity of opinion in the Jewish community regarding the need for continued federal monitoring.” This itself is not surprising. After having used the foot soldiers of the Black struggle to secure their own legal and economic rights, Jews snatched their money and support away from the Black freedom movement and booked. They have since enjoyed unprecedented prosperity beyond that of all other segments of white people. But even “diversity of opinion” could not keep them from making themselves known for what they have always been—the bedrock of Alabama’s anti-Black, apartheid infrastructure.

Let us deal with three remarkable sentences Friedman posted in a statement titled “FARRAKHAN’S PARK PRESENCE INSULTS DR. KING’S LEGACY.” In language that better fits the world of Jerry Springer or Maury Povitch, Friedman proposes that The Minister’s presence was “creepy.” He elaborates: “Creepy is the best word to describe it. Behind his dapper attire and charismatic exterior lurks an enemy of the Jewish people. His very presence on this sacred Civil Rights era battlefield was an insult to Dr. King who envisioned and sacrificed his life for an America free of bigotry.”

Friedman, a Jew, here professes the power to channel the hopes, dreams, and “vision” of the Black leader Martin Luther King. Let us be clear: The Minister was invited to participate in the “Never Forget, Never Again Pilgrimage” to save Section Five of the Voting Rights Act by a coalition of wise leaders, including Alabama state senator Hank Sanders, Tuskegee mayor Johnny Ford, and Dr. Charles Steele, the former CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the organization that the Reverend Martin Luther King himself led as its first president. Certainly, Dr. Steele, who was inducted into the Martin Luther King, Jr. Board of Preachers of Morehouse College, would be a clearer and more direct channel of Dr. King’s point of view. And since Dr. King and his wife, Coretta, were personal acquaintances of The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad, the very source of Minister Farrakhan’s immense wisdom, Friedman’s claim to know what “insults” Dr. King is beneath nonsense. Further, is there any doubt where Dr. King would stand on the Supreme Court issue of voting rights in 2013? According to Friedman, he and his people are on the opposite side.

The fact is, Friedman’s hostility and belligerence are designed to conceal the heretofore-secret relationship between Alabama’s Blacks and Jews. The Jews of Alabama—and throughout the South, for that matter—have always supported Black slavery and Jim Crow segregation. Early on Jews flooded into the state to profit from the booming world market in slave-picked cotton. Mayer Lehman and his brothers were just one of many such Jewish cotton-trading firms that dealt in thousands of bales yearly and who built their massive wealth on the suffering of African slaves. When the Jewish Encyclopedia wrote “The cotton-plantations in many parts of the South were wholly in the hands of the Jews, and as a consequence slavery found its advocates among them,” they were talking of Richard Friedman’s brethren—not Farrakhan’s.

Alabama Jews fought against Abraham Lincoln to maintain Black slavery, and when they lost the Civil War they feared the loss of their unpaid cotton-picking African slaves. So they financed the Ku Klux Klan to terrorize Blacks into remaining on the plantations as sharecroppers long after Emancipation. Where did you THINK American Jewish wealth came from?!

When Dr. King arose to confront the injustices of a society that has enriched so many Jews, Birmingham’s Jews stood firmly against him, even going so far as to financially back the notorious American Nazi Eugene “Bull” Connor—the man who unleashed the dogs and fire hoses in Kelly Ingram Park!

But that is not the worst of it. For the last 50 years Birmingham’s Jews have been hiding the fact that one of the most vicious race haters in America was the spiritual leader of Richard Friedman’s own synagogue! In the 1960s, Rabbi Milton Grafman led Temple Emanu-El, which to this day still honors its race-hating clergyman with its Grafman Endowment Fund. So destructive were the rabbi’s actions to racial justice that Dr. King criticized him directly in his famous “Letter From Birmingham Jail.”

It is rarely asked why Dr. King was in that jail to begin with. He was leading protests against the anti-Black practices of the major downtown retailers, including the Parisian, Pizitz’s, Blach’s, and Loveman’s. All these stores were Jewish-owned, and all insulted Black shoppers daily with their apartheid drinking fountains, segregated lunch counters and bathrooms, and all-white sales clerks. And all were members of Rabbi Grafman’s Temple Emanu-El synagogue. Instead of standing with Dr. King for justice, these Jewish merchants used their immense financial power with the city to throw him in Birmingham jail. Dr. King could easily have been referring to Jews when he wrote: “Why is equality so assiduously avoided? Why does white America delude itself, and how does it rationalize the evil it retains?”

And how did Rabbi Milton Grafman—Richard Friedman’s rabbi—rationalize his city’s evil as children were being bombed, as hoses flattened Black church-goers, as Black shoppers drank “negro” water from “negro” fountains in Jewish department stores, as Dr. King sat in a cold, dark cell? Rabbi Grafman publicly decreed: “The lives of one thousand Negroes are not worth a hair on the head of a single Jew.” Think about that statement, then think about the history of the Civil Rights Movement, and try to find a comparable anti-Black expression of grotesque inhumanity from any white Gentile segregationist.

Let us “Never Forget” that the collected bile of notorious haters like Rabbi Grafman, George Wallace, Strom Thurmond, Lester Maddox, and Bull Connor had its source in the Jewish Talmud, a book of tricks and lies crafted by the rabbis of ancient times. Foreseeing the immense profits of African slavery, these Talmudic troublemakers invented the CURSE OF HAM, a myth made up out of whole cloth that makes God Himself the author of racism and justifies Black slavery!

Grafman’s “one-Jewish-hair” statement—which reduces the value of 1,000 Black lives to less than a strand of hair—carries into modern times a hate-filled Jewish tradition thousands of years old.

Who ARE these people?!

We are blessed to have the answer in the red-letter words of Jesus Himself, who made a powerful distinction between Jews in Revelation 2:9 and 3:9. “I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.” In fact, those “Jews” who operate from Rabbi Grafman’s twisted, hateful and creepy racial belief system are the Synagogue of Satan. Who else could they be? Would the God of Freedom, Justice, Equality, and Righteousness ever choose such a people, a people whose wealth is based in slavery, sharecropping, exploitation, and Jim Crow apartheid?

The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan presented a crystal-clear choice to Blacks and Jews in Alabama. And so did Richard Friedman. In A Torchlight for America Minister Farrakhan writes, “It’s not one’s maleness or femaleness, being black or being white, rather it is our growth and reflection of knowledge that distinguishes us from the lower forms of life.”

Now it’s just a Friedman’s Choice.

PVA Jewels - Question of the Day (6/8/13)

Do you think Shabazz, the rebellious god of 50,000 years ago who manufactured the makeup of today's warrior-class Blacks , knew of the coming of Yakub?

Tell the Senate: Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act

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"The Monsanto Protection Act is an outrageous and dangerous giveaway that forces approval of genetically modified foods ahead of our safety. Please support Senator Merkley's amendment to repeal this shameful act of Congress." Automatically add your name: "One of the most outrageous special interest provisions in years." That’s what Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) calls the Monsanto Protection Act, which became law in March.1 Now we have an opportunity to stop it. Senator Merkley has proposed an amendment to the Senate Farm Bill that would repeal the Monsanto Protection Act – but it will take serious grassroots pressure to even make sure the amendment comes up for a vote. Senator Merkley was blocked from offering the amendment for a vote last week, but we have another opportunity when the Senate returns from this week's recess, so we need to keep the pressure on. Tell the Senate: Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act. Click here to automatically sign the petition. Cynically dubbed the "Farmer Assurance Provision," the Monsanto Protection Act allows Monsanto and other companies to ignore existing food safety rules, and continue selling genetically modified seeds even if a court has blocked them from doing so. Even worse is how this shameful giveaway became law. It was inserted anonymously, and without review into the must-pass budget bill to avoid government shutdown in March. CNN said that "the law passed without most of Congress even knowing about it."2 Jon Stewart put it a different way: "The laws of the most powerful nation on earth are written with the same level of accountability as internet comments."3 Even from our dysfunctional Congress, this was stunning. Tell the Senate: Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act. Click here to automatically sign the petition. Our system of ensuring the safety of genetically modified foods is already insufficient, and wrought with industry influence. The FDA and USDA routinely approve foods without sufficient review, and often rely on shoddy industry-generated studies to determine the safety of GMO foods. The courts provide a vital check to allow us to challenge approvals that were conducted too hastily – as when federal courts found the USDA’s 2009 approval of Monsanto’s GMO sugar beets to have been based on an insufficient review. But the Monsanto Protection Act strips the courts of the power to halt seed sales, and actually compels the USDA to approve products whose approval the courts have challenged. It’s so outrageous, the USDA says the provision might not be enforceable.4 Now our legislators have an opportunity to undo this appalling act of putting special interests like Monsanto ahead of our health and the safety of our food. Urge the Senate to take action now:

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A Black 14-year-old Carrying a Puppy Tackled and Choked by Police for Giving Them a "Dehumanizing Stare" Grown police officers allege that the unarmed teen looked at them funny.
AlterNet / By Steven Hsieh

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/black-14-year-old-carrying-puppy-tackled-and-choked-police-giving-them-dehumanizing

New cell phone footage shows Miami-Dade Police officers aggressively pinning an unarmed teen to the ground while choking him. His alleged crime: giving the officers“dehumanizing stares” and “clenching his fists.”Fourteen-year-old Tremaine McMillan says he was feeding his puppy and playing on the beach with some friends when cops riding ATVs approached him and asked what he was doing. The "peacekeeping" officers say they saw McMillan roughhousing with another teenager, told him it was “unacceptable behavior,” and asked where his mother was. When McMillan walked away, they chased him on ATVs, jumped out, pinned him to the ground and arrested him. According to police reports, McMillan “attempted to pull his arm away, stating, 'Man, don't touch me like I did something.'" See footage of the incident, captured by McMillan's mother:McMillan says he obeyed orders, and was leading the officers towards his mother when they jumped him. The teen adds that he was holding and feeding his puppy at the time, who got injured during the encounter.“I don’t like it. I feel sad. He got in front of me on the ATC and he slammed my hand,” McMillan said. “Then he started choking me. Then my 6-week old Pit Bull mix named Polo got hurt and bruised his front paw when the police grabbed me and slammed me down. It makes me feel sad.”Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta justified the use of force, saying McMillan was exhibiting threatening “body language,” which includes “clenched fists.” McMillan adamantly denies this charge because, well, he was holding a puppy.“Of course we have to neutralize the threat in front of us,” said Zabaleta. “And when you have somebody that is being resistant, somebody that is pulling away from you,somebody that’s clenching their fist, somebody that’s flaring their arms, that’s the immediate threat.”McMillan’s mother, Maurissa Holmes saw the incident and recorded it on her cell phone. She told WSVN-TV, "I ran over there and said, 'That's my son, that's my son. Can you get off of him? He can't breathe.'Police charged McMillan with resisting arrest, a felony, and disorderly conduct. The teen’s attorney entered a plea of not guilty for his client and asked the court to reconsider the charges. The judge did not grant him his request.McMillan’s 6-week old puppy, who suffers an injured front paw, did not make the police report.“At this point we are not concerned with a puppy,” said Zabaleta.

PSA For NOI Muslims ONLY!!!

The Nation Of Islam, under the teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad, and under the guidance of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan IS NOT a Gang! I repeat, "It IS NOT a Gang!"

gang1 [gang] noun
1. a group or band
2. a group of youngsters or adolescents who associate closely, often exclusively, for social reasons.
3. a group of people with compatible tastes or mutual interests who gather together for social reasons

Much of what Minister Farrakhan has shared with the world, but especially with the Nation may tickle the ear of its listener as he berates our oppressors, but that's not by design...

Much of what the Honorable Elijah Muhammad left us, as taught to him by God-In-Person, Master Fard Muhammad, may have the remnants of great lore, hinged on the precipice of spectacular, but his messages are Instructions, NOT anecdotal references!

We are running out of time! We must develop a "get-my-ass-in-gear" mentality post-haste! The light is "Green!" Neutral is a position of readiness without an instruction. But we have an Instruction! Put your self in gear! No more idling! Orientation class is over. "Do For Self" was not to be just a popular catch phrase!

This is a blanketed statement that touches a wide-spectrum of actionary measures. Let's BE PRODUCTIVE!

That is all...

"Love" should never be mistaken for neglect.

This is important... Many of us twirl in our minds how "I" (We) can best please my (our) special people in my (our - this is the last one I'm doing this, I swear) lives. And in my efforts to be warm, accommodating, sincere, and seemingly appreciative I may have overlooked one major thing - "What does she/they want?" My purpose for my actions might be quite valiant but if unwarranted, buttressed by a lacking in quality communication, my effort(s) may not manifest a pleasing response.

Take for instance this scenario:

My queen has just been traveling all day with business clientele and I want to surprise her with a hot meal of her favorite dish. She calls me to state she's back in town, sooner than expected, and needs for me to pick her up. Now I'm in the middle of preparing a potentially pleasant surprise for her and didn't anticipate this breach in preparation time. But I still want to unveil the surprise. So I continue doing what I'm doing, only a little quicker than before, all awhile thinking I have more than enough time to get to her, and she's gonna be thrilled. I finally finish the prep work; the house smells great from the aroma. I look at the clock and see that about 20 minutes has passed since speaking with my queen. I make haste to get out the home to go get her (she's approximately 20 mins away). While in route, I remember I also intended to add decor to the dining room table, but I needed to stop at the store for a new vase I saw a week earlier. It's on the way to getting her, and I figure it'll only take 3 to 5 mins tops to get it. So I make the detour, and sure enough, it only hindered me "6" mins to retrieve it. I'm happy that she's gonna be so happy about what I've done for her to show her I appreciate her. I look down at my phone and see I have a text message. It reads, "Don't Worry About It." I'm about 5 mins away still, and now I'm wondering what does that mean. I get to her place of work only to find she's not there. I call her several times but she doesn't pick up. I text her questioning, "Where are you? - Are you still here?" but she doesn't respond. I look at my watch and realize that 50 mins has passed since the last time I spoke to her...

My point is, though your efforts and intent may be good, without communication, only you know it to be such. Your efforts to showcase "Love" may appear as "Neglect" to onlookers, especially those whom you intend to evoke effect from. This probably could have been remedied with a simple phone call or text explaining the delay. How does one explain why a 20 minute route takes 50 minutes to complete without some communication? My interest isn't to argue tolerance and patience, only communication, opposing perception and reflection.

...just a PVAJewel for the day. Make today a great day!!

Any Woman who will HONESTLY attempt to defend Lil Wayne and his entourage has absolutely no sense of Self-Worth! I admit I'm a little caught up in the production of a YMCMB collaborative track, but that's as far as it goes!! Lil Wayne is often credited for being creative, which somehow translates to him being a great lyricist. However REAL LYRICIST exist in this day and Wayne aint one of them! That's just my opinion on the matter, but back to the subject.

Most of the time I'm listening to the radio, it all sounds like White Noise to me, but today I decided to listen to the lyrical content of some choice tracks. I came across the collab between Lil Wayne and Future, with Drake on the hook (~Good Kush). "Long as my Bitches love me"  was the anthem of the track. What!?!? Seriously!?!?! That's what gets the people going today? Am I THAT out of the loop?? But this is a book report moment, so I'm taking notes. Lil Wayne comes on, and this (in part) is what he spits about women:

...and these hoes love me like Satan...
...and all she eat is d*$k, she's on a strict diet...
...She say, "I never want to make you mad, I just want to make you proud, I say baby just make me c*m and then don't make a sound"...
...these hoes got pu**ies like craters, cant treat these hoes like ladies...
...Yeah, all my bitches love me, and I love all my bitches, but its like soon as I c*m I come to my senses...

Appalling! But what made it worse was while I was listening to it, a young lady in an adjacent car was listening to it too, 'cept she already knew all the words to the song as if she wrote them herself! I was hurt.

All I'm saying is... Without preaching, every women on this Planet deserves better than that mentality against them. Every last one of them! But it's hard to want to defend you when this is what you cater to. I don't want to Hate on Wayne. Fact is, he's a victim too and I absolutely NOTHING him (but that's another blog at another time).

Please have better respect for yourself Queens... You are soooo deserving of respect, but you can't get it if you don't act the part. Forget saying "Leave Drugs Alone!";  LEAVE WAYNE ALONE! Cold Turkey is your best bet!

ijs...