Commontaries

Where we examine both sides of the coin and let the chips fall where they may.It's always heads or tails.You can't honestly decide unless you look at both.

Friday, January 31, 2014

How They Look

Attitudes about people in these situations are changing. Some people if they think they look good have no problem taking racy pictures even though they have no idea where they might end up. We had the same thing happen to a young teacher in Memphis last week. She didn't hang around, she quit. I didn't see her photos so  I don't know if they were flattering or not.  How they feel largely depends on how they look.

posted by Common at 5:51 PM 6 Comments

Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Top Tiger

Larry Finch is hands down the most influential figure in University of Memphis, formerly Memphis State Basketball. If not Memphis Basketball period. He is the best point guard and the winningest coach the school has ever had.  But he never gained the status of basketball royalty in this town. From Melrose to Memphis State and eventually the Memphiss Tams  He should have been like a local John Thompson was at Georgetown University. But he was treated like an outcast before he died . They layed out the red carpet for John Calipari.  He used Memphis as a resume builder to get the job at Kentucky. He forfeited all his wins while he was coach in Memphis.

There were three strikes against him in Memphis from the start. He was black, light-skinned and lacked charisma. Memphis to this day has a race problem. So no doubt there was a problem back then.Some of the fans didn't want a black coach then. Just like they don't want one now. Lionel Hollins led the Grizzlies to the best recird in franchise history and they didn't rehire him.

The fact that he was a man of lighter complexion but didn't look like he was white. Didn't help things either..He didn't have the full support of the black community like a  Willie Herenton as you would think. He had to deal with jealousy from his peers not just the obvious haters. Sylvester Ford was one of his biggest critics. All because he didn't start his son. In hindsight that was a no brainer. Deuce Ford never lived up to expectations.

That along with there is still division among blacks over skin color.  Kriner Cash was the latest victim of this mentaliy  And like Coach Lionel Hollins with the Grizzlies Larry Finch  wasn' t a friend to the media  Him and Coach Hollins were on opposite ends of the spectrum when it came to attire.  But they were both effective at their jobs.Though one was college and the other pro. They both eventually drank from the same bitter cup  But in terms of dedication to Memphis Basketball. Larry Finch is the top tiger  

http://www.commercialappeal.com/top-tiger/

posted by Common at 11:28 PM 6 Comments

The Business

I'm sure this chicanery didn't start with Jemar Lambert,but he had his part in this travesty since taking over at Galilee Memorial Gardens Cemetery..This young man comes from a long line of hustlers including his own father. And the apple obviously didn't fall far from the tree. I bet the previous owners were probably shady also. The cemetery was just about full when they sold the place. Why would white cemetery owners sell a golden egg to a black man? They would have cashed in on this themselves. They would have used a black face like Southern Funeral Homes and M.J Edwards and kept it moving.

Can you imagine what kind of guy would do something like this? He shook your hand and abused your body. The white cemetery owners stole the money. The black owners stole the money and the bodies too. I'll explain later what I mean. I feel sorry for those who can't find their loved ones in all this  But I'm beginning to see a correlation here. They haven't had state certification in three years. The first time I went to visit my relatives' grave and it wasn't able to be located.  The flags would have gone up right then. How bad can your record keeping be that you don't know where you buried a corpse? How many bodies do they have?  Why didn't they just buy more land?

With all this happening,there is a subject we haven't touched yet. W0ith the  ease in which  the employees are going inn and out of graves. You know they are  robbing graves. I bet if you opened every grave on the entire nine acres. You  wouldn't find as many valuable as you might think. Those diamonds and pearls you buried with your loved ones are probably gone by now.  This  explains why they won't let you watch them close the grave. They still have  to give you the business..

 

posted by Common at 1:11 PM 3 Comments

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Changed

For once I have to agree with Thaddeus Matthews. Him and Jesse Ryan LosKartos were charged with the same thing. But instead of stating a defense fund and hiring a lawyer to get him off  He  took his own life. Then left a letter explaining why.  He cared a lot about what people thought.I know Republicans are tough.  But I  would have just changed parties before I did this..

 

posted by Common at 11:34 PM 3 Comments

They Don't Remember

All the robberies that have been happening in Memphis, you would think between WDIA, WKIM and a member of the Memphis City Council. Someone would remember this heist.  At the time it was the third largest in American history,.and the largest ever to date in Memphis. I was wrong about the holiday and the company involved. But I was close enough to cause a spark. This just shows how soon we forget. They forgive because they don't remember.

posted by Common at 1:25 AM 2 Comments

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Make It Work


Being that several of the people nominated for Oscars this year are blacks acting in black oriented films. It's to be expected that people would want to know how those who have benefited from roles and films like this in the past feel about this years nominations. Djimon Hounsou was offended when asked how he felt. He didn't like the fact that blacks were being singled out on the list. I say "get over yourself.". He should know from personal experience. It's not like chocolate and vanilla. This is just the flavor of the month.  Let's keep it real. This doesn't happen every year.There hasn't been a year like this since "Roots."

Cicely Tyson was the first dark skinned woman I ever saw on the big screen. She was the first of her kind. Before her we only saw black women like Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne. But she will always be the mother  from "Sounder" or " Miss Jane Pittman " to the younger set. But just last year she still played a maid role in "The Help." She isn't sitting around wating for another "Women of Brewster's Place."  She stays with the original game plan  Now there's Alfre Woodard and Kimberly Elise. That's two people in almost forty years. As much as blacks talk about slavery and it's effects. Lupita should have a full dance card.       

Dark skinned men weren't in demand either until Sidney Potier went to dinner. Harry Belafonte had the look the studios were after back in those days. Unless your aim was to make the audience laugh. It didn't matter whether they looked like Ethel Waters or Mantan Moreland. Lincoln Perry and Hattie McDaniel were working and making big money. But their genre was comedy not drama. Much like the majority of most black thespians today.  The most popular black actor/actress is Tyler Perry in his role as Madea.  He makes the most money. His "Madea's Christmas" blew "Black Nativity" away at the box office with it's star studded cast. The people would rather see a man in a dress.

New players Barkhad Abdi and Lupita Nyong'o have both landed once in a lifetime roles. We might never see them again, but then we might.  Some images are etched in our memories. LeVar Burton will always be Kunta Kinte and Gabourey Sidibe will be remembered as Precious.  Whoppi Goldberg's biggest role to date is still Celie. But all these people are household names to this day . The women seem to handle typecasting better than men. Instead of complaining about thee business and turning down jobs  . They make it work.
  

posted by Common at 4:57 AM 5 Comments

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

Both Sides



The problem here is they both have valid points. It is ingenious to think that some people don't disapprove of the president just because he's black. But it's equally ingenious to think that's the only reason some people approve of anything he dors. CNN has gotten a whole lot better. They show both sides.     

posted by Common at 12:38 AM 3 Comments

Monday, January 20, 2014

Heist

At first I thought this was another ill conceived crime. But after getting all the available details. This has the makings of a brilliant plan.This same thing happened in Atlanta six months ago. They hadn't caught them yet. If the two incidents aren' t connected. I bet that's where the idea came from initially  From the looks of things. They won't catch these people either. I hope no one is greedy or causes division among the group. I say that only because no one was hurt. Nothing but a loose lip could sink this ship. They pulled off the perfect crime.

When a city gets bigger so does the crine. This happens in cities like Atlanta and Miami, not Memphis. Who would have thought a jewelry store in a mall in Memphis would have seventy-five Rolex watches in stock? That sounds like a whole year's inventory. Wolfchase Security, MPD and SCSD don't know what hit  them. The whole thing was over before they were alerted. Therefore neither department is coming forward with new details. They have no pictures or descriptions to begin an investigation. They don't know whether the suspects were black or white. They disappeared like puffs of smoke.

The last time we had something this big was when the Wells Fargo employees stole the entire Thanksgiving deposit. They got clean away, and got into it over a woman. That still is the biggest caper ever pulled off in Memphis.  Even though they eventually got caught. It wasn't a spur of the moment thing. It took patience and planning. Not like the pond scum who  robbed and killed the pawn shop owner for stuff he was going to sell by the piece.  The streets of Memphis will never see these watches again. These people have a buyer with lots of money. Ar this level it isn't  robbery. This was a heist.  

posted by Common at 11:55 PM 3 Comments

Sunday, January 19, 2014

About To Change

I am not racist but this picture tells a story that migjht not be discussed openly in the media.. Appealing to the poor black community surrounding the plant is at best hypocritical. I remember how some of the workers walked around  with their noses in the air back in the day. The only thing the Kellogg plant has brought to Castalia is smoke and the smell of corn flakes. Two hundred twenty-three jobs are in question now. But at its peak the plant probably employed 500 to 600 people at the most. As one  who  was never fortunate enough to be included in that number  Now that the city council has gotten involved. I can see why some.residents are crying foul.

The plant has been in South Memphis on Frisco Ave. for the last sixty years. Union plants that have been around since the fifties are closing every year. It's easy for me to say because it doesn't affect me personally.But I'm not surprised that this is happening.  It started with Cleo Wrap then it was Wonder Bread now it's Kellogg. The only thing left is USPS and they're cutting back. With Cleo Wrap it was mostly black women who were getting some  type of supplemental income anyway. But the job paid $ 13 hr.and plenty of overtime at time and a half. Before it closed some of the men were working almost around the clock. They were making a killing. But Wonder was a little different. It was mostly black men with families. The job  was a hustlers dream. Don't have a woman making good money too. The  average pay at Wonder  was $17 hr. So half of the workers made more than  that. You had guys making over $20 hr. watching a machine wrap cupcakes. But the union wanted more.

The glory days are over. Companies like  Firestone, International Harvester and the packing houses are gone. No  more earning  $1200 a wk..and you can't sign your paycheck. Kellogg is the last hourly job in Memphis like that. That we know about anyway. I just found out about a Ford parts distributor warehouse in Memphis in  recent  years that paid  $45hr. plus had excellent benefits. They've since moved to somewhere away from Memphis I can't remember. Just that there wouldn't be many blacks there other than his wife and their interracial children. He was young and white and he followed the company.What if you're old,black and can't leave? Hold on because things are about to change.
 

posted by Common at 1:05 AM 2 Comments

Saturday, January 18, 2014

The Cover


This is what Rich Dollaz is trying to do with Erica Menas if he could just calm her down. I am behind because I just heard about Jhene Aiko tonight. I've heard her before and didn't know who she was. This woman does and has done so many collaborations. You don''t really get to hear her sing. From Drake to J. Cole to Kendrick Lamar she has been around. In addition to that lovely voice. That's her on the cover.

posted by Common at 3:48 AM 4 Comments

Friday, January 17, 2014

Dream About

When the Boondocks did a parody about this, it was a joke. At least two people thought it was a good idea, or at least it would make money. If this thing is successful, it just shows what young people dream about. 

posted by Common at 1:01 AM 3 Comments

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Confront Ray J

 
Kim and Kanye must have recently watched "Goodfellows." Kanye must have thought he was Ray Liotta. Someone needs to tell Kim and Kanye he doesn't get street cred for beating up skinny teenage boys in Beverly Hills. Wait until you're in New Jersey on the shore and you get insulted by Vinny. Call Kanye and let him regulate that That would give him points. If he  really wants to make a statement. Confront Ray J.
 
http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/13/kanye-west-fight-n-word-n-lover-beverly-hills-chiropractor/

posted by Common at 12:13 AM 1 Comments

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

Reality Check


Kanye West is the same hot dog he was when he was getting Punkd' by Ashton Kutcher. He has maids a lot of money and sold a lot of  records since then. But he is still the same a-hole he was then. I never liked Kanye much, he came across as arrogant. But say what you will he was very talented. But not too personable.

But since those days he has got with Kim Kardashian and gotten progressively worse.You really can't get through to him. He has the woman he always wanted and a new baby girl.  To him that means he must have been right all along. Since his mother died. He has been like a misguided missile  No one has influence over him except his woman and his money.  That's not a good combinaton. And that's not good.

Kanye isn't gangster and never has been. I hope Kim doesn't get him in trouble trying to be her hero. If he is going to start trying to defend her honor. He better start training with Floyd Mayweather.  When it comes to people talking about Kim Kardashian. Take a number and get in line.  He won't get the consideration that he thinks. The judge is going to throw the book at him He is going  to get a  reality check.

 

posted by Common at 12:55 AM 3 Comments

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

Mind Our Business


The people of Nigeria are trying to take steps to try and save their country. Since President Goodluck Jonathan has signed the "Same-Sex Marriage Prohibition Act:" in January of this year. The United States and Canada have come out against them . I don't necessarily agree with the Nigerian tactics. But I don't have a better solution. And I don't disagree with their position. What works for us, doesn't work for the other. So maybe we should mind our business.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/01/14/dozens-arrested-for-being-gay-in-north-nigeria/20807928/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl21%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D430355#!slide=2154164

posted by Common at 5:34 PM 3 Comments

Sunday, January 12, 2014

Equity


I watched the Memphis Grizzlies and the Atlanta Hawks play. Memphis won (108-101) but I still wasn't impressed. It's like they just beat another struggling team. This year sometimes looking at the NBA is like watching the University of Memphis. Not always a game they played well either.I don't think the Grizzlies have played a team this year not riddled with injuries. Especially one where they were a winner. I know no team has come to  the Fed Ex Forum at 100 % efficiency.Who wants to see the Golden State Warriors without Stephen Curry?

I hate it for the players but not so much the  team. Mike  Conley is having a breakout year and Zach Randolph is in the twilight of his career. I'm still not convinced about Marc Gasol by himself. Even  though he was selected defensive player of the year. I think that was political. They had to have a white player on the leagues blue collar team. James Johnson adds excitement, but you can't win a  title with him. He is a super-sized Tony Allen. Him without Hollins hasn't had the desired effect. The rest of them are role players who last in the league because they know all the plays

Management is backing down from it's earlier stance. They realize you can;t be competitive paying players $1 million a year.  The latest signer Courtney Lee is being paid $5 million a year. He was the cheapest shooter available. And they just got the money to pay him.  Time the new owners bought the team. They cut the payroll $20 million and the salary cap is only $58 million. I expect another unexpected trade when the season is over. The team still has some equity.
 

posted by Common at 10:31 PM 3 Comments

College Fund

You won't be hearing a lot about Tamar Braxton's new ring. She didn't get it until she was married and had a baby. So this doesn't qualify as an engagement ring like Kim and Gabrielle's. But in my limited knowledge about jewelry. And what I know about Tamar and Vince. They would be bragging about how big it was and how much it costs if they had something  to brag about . It's.a pretty ring and all, but Vince didn't spend the college fund.

http://s2smagazine.com/87162/tamar-braxton-flashes-huge-ring-on-ellen/   

posted by Common at 3:39 AM 5 Comments

Swim

Gabrielle Union is among the most photographed black women in the world today, She is in the running with ladies like Beyonce, Nicky Minaj and Michelle Obama. But one thing they all have in common is this. You might catch these ladies poolside or even at the beach. But you will never see any of them in the water. When it comes to black women it's a given. They won't get their hair wet for any reason. That's why bikinis weren't made for the black female anatomy. Big derrieres weren't in mind when the thong was designed. And the image of beauty doesn't include coarse, curly hair. When it comes to black women and their hair. It doesn't go well with water.They don't want to get it wet.

I've been saying this for a quite a while now. Blacks have a pool party and nobody swims. Women like Gabrielle Union used to be the star of the show. Just because she wasn't fat and she was cute. Then along came Lisa Lisa and all her cousins. Now she has competition she didn't have at first. These young black men want a woman with her real hair and ample hips. The stakes have gotten even highe these days. Now she has to be pretty too.  Ladies like Faith Evans and Tiny Cottle no longer go to the front of the line, just because they're half white . That's a thing of the past. Today Faith and Lil Kim would lose out to a Lo'real. 

There might be something behind this rise in popularity in natural hairstyles. I think black women and men have started to count the money they've spent. Especially your average working stiff.  They are spending too much money on their hair. But it hasn't caught on with the men with money yet. Jennifer Hudson is getting away with the pixie cut. Probably because it looks more natural on her anyway. But Beyonce tried it for a week. And she hasn't sported the short cut since. Amber Rose and Nya Lee are the exception, not the rule. If Wiz Khalifa cheats on Amber Rose. I bet it will be with a chick with hair. The relaxer and the weave rendered sistas inactive for the last forty years. But if they want to have their own identity back. Black women better start wearing Afros again. That was the last time they were able to swim..

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/gabrielle-union-back-dwyane-wade/story?id=21467067

posted by Common at 12:46 AM 2 Comments

Friday, January 10, 2014

Not A Secret

I'm not surprised at Kandi Burrus. This is the rachet move I would expect from her in this situation. The business side of her was on the "Big Tigger" radio show  the very next morning doing damage control. And her sidekick Funky Dineva was busy doing what they do with the spin. Ths isn't  the first time Kandi ran interference for Phaedra, nor Dineva for her. The one everybody should be mad at is NeNe Leakes. She put this train wreck together. Even though I believe him. Chuck Smith was petty too. But he may have suspected something like this to happen. Kandi From ATL Housewives Says Chuck Is A Liar And He Has A Small Tool......Whoa Chuck Should've Kept Quiet About Having Sex With Kandi Back In The Day When He Played for the Falcons.
 
This is so predictable on Kandi's part. Chuck told the whole story in the presence of Phaedra. She didn't bother to dispute his story to his face. So anything she says now is questionable. He really left Kandi's reputation in tact. She should have just kept quiet and let it blow over. While Kandi is going in on Chuck. She better be keeping an eye on Phaedra. Until Chuck busted her on camera. Phaedra was claiming she was the one who got away. When all the time she thought she had one on Kandi. She was screwing her man. Kandi is a better friend to Phaedra than she is to her  She introduced Kandi to Todd. And Mama Joyce knows something we don't. I hope we don't find out later Phaedra and Todd have a history.

Now we find out. Chuck Smith was a man about  town in Atlanta back in the day. He was making his rounds with  the young women trying to make a name for themselves.Turns out Kandi and Tamar Braxton were playing for the same team at one time. Good thing this came out after Tamar had her baby. After he almost died. Vince had started questioning  whether he married the right woman  But.Kandi won't have that advantage. Her skeletons are coming out now. Her name keeps coming up in the wrong circles. Where there's smoke there's fire. Kandi is starting to look like a whore who got lucky. If more than one person knows. It's not a secret.

posted by Common at 5:29 PM 3 Comments

Foolishness



This is the beginning of the mindset of the separation from what is proper in normal situations. I don't care what you do there will be somebody there to defend your actions. People like Mark Lamont Hill and Charles Smith who was the speaker for the Basketball team who went to North Korea. I think it's arrogance to a degree. They make a career out of defending foolishness.

posted by Common at 3:04 PM 3 Comments

Thursday, January 09, 2014

Unpatriotic Blacks


I am going to discuss this issue probably like you won't hear it discussed anywhere else. I was waiting to discuss this on the radio. But locally the subject wasn't discussed except on WDIA. Even Janis Fullilove saw the error in  this. But the usual clowns came to Rodman's defense. After having some time  to think. I think I know why. This thing would become racial. This is an indictment of the mindset of some blacks in America. Remember the blacks they caught trying to conspire with the Taliban? What happens to America happens to blacks in America too.

Charles Smith must have been appointed spokesman for the group. Dennis Rodman sounds like he is under the influence of something But as articulate as Smith might speak. What he is saying is pure rubbish just like Rodman. He claims it isn't political. But why are the only players on the team black? You couldn't get a conscientious American to touch this with a ten foot pole. Even though they were paid handsomely. That is a political statement in itself. .

Charles Smith sounds like he's running for political office. I'm sure Kenny Anderson needs the money. He blew the fortune he made playing in the NBA. Doug Christie would do anything trying to get attention. He probably was encouraged to do this by his overbearing wife. I don't know much about Cliff Robinson and Vin Baker. But this won't help their brand. I don't blame the streetballers for getting the biggest paychecks they ever collected. Nobody knows them anyway. Dennis Rodman is being used like "Shine"  king of the monkeys. In North Korea he is the face of unpatriotic blacks.

posted by Common at 4:11 PM 4 Comments

Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Turned Him Out

Robert Griffin "RGIII" has come under fire for not being black enough. He seems to spend most of his time in the company of whites. But that's probably not totally his fault. Blacks aren't open minded when it comes to politics. Because he's a conservative. He is ostracized by other blacks.

Of course black women are his most vocal critics. Since he has a Caucasian wife. That's not a CoCo Austin or a Kim Kardashian  They both have certain assets that give them a pass. Sistas have gotten used to their type competition. But they weren't checking for Ellie Mae   RGIII really has a real life Becky. The kind Juicy J raps about. RobertHis wife is a pale, straight haired, white woman with an average build. Even other white women are causing her drama.

Rebecca  Liddicoat sort of  pulled a Savannah Brinson on this one. Rebecca got Robert early like Savannah did Lebron. Before the jump-offs got to him and blew his mind. She was his longtime girlfriend before rhey got married. This definitely won't be another Vince Young situation. This little lady turned him out..    

posted by Common at 11:27 AM 7 Comments

Tuesday, January 07, 2014

Choice


A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. My mind regarding this issue has remained the same for the last eight years. My reserve was tested recently with the case of the pregnant woman declared brain dead, but  the fetus didn't have a heartbeat. Given the same circumstances. I feel the same way. today I did then. It's not always whether you're right or wrong in the mind of others. But would you make the same choice?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/03/terri-schiavo-family_n_4533067.html?1388758464&icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5%7Cdl9%7Csec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D426994

posted by Common at 10:36 PM 2 Comments

Monday, January 06, 2014

Counts For Something

These three women don't quite qualify as starter wives. None of them were with the men in their lives before they had money. This is the perfect picture of what I call the baby's mamas. All these women's claim to fame is the father of their children. Toya doesn't like to be called that, but let's face it. That's just what she is known for. All she has done of note is be a baby having Lil Wayne's baby. Which wasn't as innocent as everyone thinks. Even though they were young. Both of  them were ahead of  their years. Then she grew up to be a woman who took K Michelle's man. She didn't go after Memphitz. But she gave him an escape. I don't care for K. Michelle. But there is some validity to what she said.

Whether his fans like it or not. Usher likes older women. He avoided scrutiny for many years by being with Chili. But even still she was seven or eight years older than him. As far as getting one of those older women pregnant. The sun was going down. Essentially what he has done is pay Tomeka Raymond to have his children. The whole crying and court proceedngs was just for effect. With all his money and what he spent with lawyers. There was no way he was going to lose his boys in Atlanta.  With all the children there who don't even know their father. It has worked out for her. She still lives in Buckhead and maintains a certain celebrity. If she hadn't had children by Usher. She would probably be working five days a week at AT&T. Instead she is living large and having lavish parties. All at her baby's daddy's  expense.

Ne-Yo must be walking around with a sign that says "come get this money." Everyone he gets with tries to stick him with a baby. Who is Monyetta Shaw and where did she come from? She must have had two babies in the same year. Because just a few years ago. Ne-Yo  was engaged to another woman and claiming a child that he later found out wasn't his. But he gave Monyetta an engagement ring. Just more proof as I said earlier. The ring doesn't mean a thing. But based on how these women are moving and shaking. They don't have to have the men. They didn't get the award but.they were nominated. That counts for something.                                                                                      

posted by Common at 1:34 AM 3 Comments

Saturday, January 04, 2014

Grounded


This family represents a true dynasty. They stuck together and went against the giant corporation and won.  I relish n the fact that they shall not be moved. Good thing it wasn't " Thicker than Water." I can see Ben Tankard trying to explain  why Christians should accept the gay lifestyle.But this man is an example of a tried and true leader. He was once wayward.  But he didn't stay that way.  He turned it around and got his life together. Phil Robertson lives the life he preaches. That's why his entire family followed his lead.  Including his son.who is also his pastor. They knew he isn't a hypocrite. And they all agree with him. He doesn't do one thing in front of the camera and something else at home. He should run for public office. What you see is what you get.

This is the type stance I always wanted to take. I don't appreciate being called uneducated due to my belief.  This was the mindset of the German people before the holocaust. You couldn't disagree with the furor or you would be dealt with. Now here in America they try  to hit you where it hurts. The way they did Paula Dean for something she said years ago.  But they underestimated Phil Robertson's supporters resolve. They couldn't be bought off by the media. Unlike many people these days. They stand for something besides a check.  Being rich already, helps.keep them grounded.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2531980/We-ready-learned-lot-Duck-Dynastys-Willie-Robertson-speaks-New-Years-time-fathers-anti-gay-comments-reveals-Phil-safely-tucked-bed.html

posted by Common at 4:48 AM 3 Comments

Friday, January 03, 2014

BMF


Some people don't know "Scarface" isn't a true story. Al Pacino is an actor who didn't even get an award for that particular role. Only in the black community has this movie developed cult like status. Practically every gang banger, rapper or baller lists this as their favorite movie. Don't they realize Tony Montoya was killed in the end? What does that say about the future. Regardless what Tupac said in "Menace to Society" Going out in a blaze of fire isn't "on top of the world". The story of BMF is about a group of young men in Atlanta who obviously took what he said to heart. But that life leads you two places. Six feet under or behind bars.

In the early 1990s, Demetrius “Big Meech” Flenory and his brother, Terry “Southwest T,” rose up from the slums of Detroit to build one of the largest cocaine empires in American history: the Black Mafia Family. They socialized with music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs, did business with New York's king of bling Jacob "The Jeweler" Arabo, and built allegiances with rap superstars Young Jeezy and Fabolous. Yet even as BMF was attracting celebrity attention, its crew members struck fear in a city.

When the brothers began clashing in 2003, the flashy and beloved Big Meech risked it all on a shot at legitimacy in the music industry. At the same time, utilizing a high-stakes wiretap operation, the feds inched toward their goal of destroying the Flenory’s empire and ending the reign of a crew suspected in the sale of thousands of kilos of cocaine — and a half-dozen unsolved murders.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itBUxN6BsZs&feature=share&list=RDEkJA6idN8A8&index=20

posted by Common at 3:52 PM 5 Comments

Thursday, January 02, 2014

Quite Convincing


The pose in this picture looks awfully familiar. But I think someone stole someone else's idea. The first time we saw it was back in October. Four months after Kim Kardashian had her baby. But Damon Wayans Jr., Lamar Odom and Dwyane Wade probably saw it before then. In case you were wondering. This is what a gold digger looks like. This is the light skinned girl  they rap about with no extensions in her hair. This chick has that Tahiry Rose gene except she's really pretty. Aja Metoyer is fine and good looking. She is so sexy, young men with money are taking a chance.having unprotected sex with her  If this woman didn't already have two children and he have Gabrielle Union. Dwyane Wade would've probably married her.

People couldn't understand how Evelyn Lazoda pulled her pregnancy off.  She has took resiidence in all three major sports. She did it the same way Aja Metoyer did  with D Wade and Damon Wayans Jr., "with whom she has two daughters." She let them have their way with her. Can you imagine the things these guys were doing with these women? They take it from behind and don't even scream. At some point having babies might have been for love. But this last one was for money. Aja has never had a job in her life. And she won't hardly be getting one now. She has her hooks in Dwayne Wade for at least the next eighteen years.

This could have been the straw that broke the camel's back for Khloe and Lamar. If Khloe saw this picture she was devastated.  This was before she loss the weight. If Lamar is smoking crack and getting women like this. She is fighting an uphill battle trying to keep him occupied. He will never come back home completely. But what goes around comes around. Khloe has to pay for her role in what Lamar did to Liza Morales. What Khloe did was drive his stock up to a new high unknowingly. He became a target after they got together. Until Khloe got with him Lamar remained low key. A man is only as faithful as his options. She afforded him new options. Women like Aja live to cause women like Khloe drama. "I look better than her. I can take her man."

Gabrielle Union might just forgive D Wade for his indiscretion.  He has already said it happened during a breakup. But the numbers don't support that. When she looks at this woman. She is somewhat invigorated. This is a bad b^*ch, she must be thinking. I can't blame him for getting that. If I were a man I would  too. We are working with the same weapons. Gabrielle isn't bad by a long shot herself. She can get another baller.still  But it won't be a top tier player like she has now. This might be the one thing she couldn't provide Wade with. Yet she has out lasted all these other young women trying to take her place. She beat out the lovely Lauren London. Considering the fact that she is forty-one years old and has never had a child.  This might stroke her ego and she feel like she got the man. She might just believe his story. That 8.5 carat engagement ring is quite convincing.
                                                                           

posted by Common at 9:40 PM 3 Comments

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

Kayo Redd Found Dead

Kayo Redd is the second shocking death in the hip hop industry in as many weeks. The cause of death is listed as suicide.  But I don't know about that. I hope this has nothing to do with a beef of some sorts. He is mainly known as being Waka Flocka's younger brother and Deb Antney's son. Who both have more than their share of enemies running around. But he supposedly shot himself.

posted by Common at 12:06 AM 4 Comments

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