Power

Open your mind, embrace your heart, nourish your soul, and smile mang!

"At the end of the day, goddammit I'm killing this shit
I know damn well y'all feelin this shit." -- Kanye West; Power

Mr. West has some very assertive ways about him, nevertheless his confidence is nothing short of substantial. To some people Kanye is overly arrogant, to others his drive and will to succeed is astonishing. At the end of the day though, he is right we are feeling his shit, music, style whatever you wanna call it; but Kanye gets mad love. More important is his belief and assurance that his quality of work is at such a high level it would be asinine to not vibe to it. How can we relate this to our life you say? Be the best at whatever you do, not the best at everything but what YOU do; be your best. One area where we can all start is by being the best at breathing, develop a rhythmic awareness of your inhaling and exhaling. Whether its sports, academics, work, love, relationships, driving, anything you do make sure that effort is maximized. Shoot, and they say no one man should have all this power, but we do, we all do! Ladies I ain't forget you too

Holla!

Thank me now!

Open your mind, embrace your heart, nourish your soul, and smile mang!

So check this out, Drake has a CD called Thank Me Later. It's off the hook, a lot of cameos, good concepts, tight beats, dope lyrics, and homeboy is from the dot so it makes it even more unique and special. Although the CD is entitled Thank me Later, the final song on the CD is called Thank me Now. Thank me now, hmmmm, what an interesting concept.

                                                          

 I was talking to my brother yesterday, and he told me that we really have to learn to cherish and value our time here together on Earth as opposed to only embracing memories when we are at funerals. Don't get me wrong, showing emotion at funerals is more than acceptable. However the immense out poor of emotion at a funeral, should be at the very least rivaled by the emission of love we show to one another; while breathing is still an option. You know we always end up missing a motherfucker when they gone, meanwhile when they are alive and well we seem to be busy, preoccupied, or tired.

Yo, I am guilty of this as well. I have nine nieces and nephews, five siblings, I wish I could see them more often. Well scratch all that wishing mess, it's time for me to step up and swallow my own words. I will make more of an effort to see my family, my friends, even my friends who I don't kick it with that often. I know that we can all be good at justifying reasons for not doing something, which sometimes prevails as a good resource. I challenge you to do this, next time we contemplate whether we're gonna do something or see someone, lets envision it being our last opportunity . . . . . . . . . . . . Let that marinate in your head for a few  . . . .






Shoot,

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you can Thank me Now!!!!  

Thank me later, yeah I know what I said, but later doesn't always come so instead, you can thank me now!

--Aubrey Drizzy Drake Rogers.

They Say

Open your mind, embrace your heart, nourish your soul, and smile mang!

"they say life is what you make it" - -Common

I really vibe with that motto, life is what you make it. Some say that life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you deal with it. I agree. I'm not gonna be negligent to the fact that there are some unfortunate circumstances beyond our control; but we have the power to choose any objective we want. To me life is an amazing dream where I can coast with eagles, I can reach mountains, I am as free as leopard in motion, the comedy network lives in my cranium, my tomorrows never surpass my todays and my level of excitement is easily sustained. Life is what you make it for real, if you want to be a thug, dancer, doctor, player, lady, clown it's your prerogative. Take in the track, but furthermore open your mind. Do not limit yourself to the circumstances that present themselves to you, allow yourself to be presented to higher circumstances. Love thyself homies.

Holla

throwback

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYKYka-PNt0


Stevie Wonder I Wish Lyrics



Looking back on when I

Was a little nappy headed boy

Then my only worry

Was for Christmas what would be my toy

Even though we sometimes

Would not get a thing

We were happy with the

Joy the day would bring



Sneaking out the back door

To hang out with those hoodlum friends of mine

Greeted at the back door

With boy thought I told you not to go outside

Tryin' your best to bring the

Water to your eyes

Thinkin' it might stop her

Grom woopin' your behind



I wish those days could come back once more

Why did those days ev-er have to go

I wish those days could come back once more

Why did those days ev-er have to go

Cause I love them so



Brother says he's tellin'

'Bout you playin' doctor with that girl

Just don't tell I'll give you

Anything you want in this whole wide world

Mama gives you money for Sunday school

You trade yours for candy after church is through



Smokin' cigarettes and writing something nasty on the wall (you nasty boy)

Teacher sends you to the principal's office down the wall

You grow up and learn that kinda thing ain't right

But while you were doin'it-it sure felt outta sight



I wish those days could come back once more

Why did those days ev-er have to go

I wish those days could come back once more

Why did those days ev-er have to go

On this classic track, Stevie Wonder is talking about some of the hard lessons he learned as a kid and how he misses those good old days. Ain't it funny how some of our most punitive and punishing moments in life end up being some of our fondest memories? I remember throwing toy cars in the toilet to see what they would do, well after I found out what they could do my Dad found out about my expedition. Let's just say after that moment my curiosity was much more selective lol. Sometimes we have to take ourselves back to those grimy and un fun times that presented challenges and turbulent times for us. If you are able to find time to read this blog however, you must be able to look back at several of those 'hard times' and laugh. Stevie took us back to his days and allowed us to get lost in his reminiscing. Now it's time for you to find solace in the past tense of previous troubles. " you grow up and learn that kind of thing ain't right, but while you were doing it- it sure felt outta sight" - Stevie Wonder

holla at ya boy!

Brad and Angelina

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-c3wWA1F5zc"Tabloid Junkie"




Speculate to break the one you hate

Circulate the lie you confiscate

Assassinate and mutilate

As the hounding media in hysteria

Who's the next for you to resurrect

JFK exposed the CIA

Truth be told the grassy knoll

As the blackmail story in all your glory



It's slander

You say it's not a sword

But with your pen you torture men

You'd crucify the Lord

And you don't have to read it, read it

And you don't have to eat it, eat it

To buy it is to feed it, feed it

So why do we keep foolin' ourselves



Just because you read it in a magazine

Or see it on the TV screen

Don't make it factual

Though everybody wants to read all about it

Just because you read it in a magazine

Or see it on the TV screen

Don't make it factual, actual

They say he's homosexual

MICHAEL JACKSON- TABLOID JUNKIE
 
This is for all of us who find time to read the tabloids, stare for hours at CNN and believe the tales we see on Entertainment Tonight. "believe half of what you see, none of what you hear"- Jay Z. The media has an unstoppable means of exploiting what they perceive is the most alluring story to the public. After Michael Jackson, I don't think anyone has been victmized by the media worse than Brad and Angelina. Everyday those two are in a tabloid that is exposing the best or worst of them, for their sake lets give Brad and Angelina the benefit of the doubt. Not just them, but let us give people the benefit of the doubt. Rumors are only able to exist because we breathe life into them by believing in them. I urge you to look beyond the surface and go to the source of an issue. Too many ties have been torn because someone was too scared to ask the other person involved what the issue was, or too insecure to admit that they were vulnerable. If you have a problem deal with it, but don't believe everything you hear. Don't even believe what I write and you read; merely see the truth, because it is always present!

holla at ya boy!

Eminem- Infinite

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRbEgoTqQs

My thesis will smash a stereo to pieces



My accapella releases plastic masterpieces through telekinesis


And eases you mentally, gently, sentimentally, instrumentally


With entity, dementedly meant to be Infinite
 
 
Eminem really goes in on this song. I admire his rhyme scheme, his visual imagery, the way he infuses so much power into his lyrics. I mean dude is talking about easing us mentally, gentally, sentimentally....damn most of our spouses can't even do that lol. Eminem's imagination is infinite, along with our longevity, and our potential. We come from an infinite source, we return to an infinite source and within us is an infinite source; tap in to it.
I'm infinite!