Randumb Words and Thoughts: The Power of Money

“…bitches don’t appreciate nothing man.

2 dollar bitches with 3 dollar haircuts…” – Lost Boyz

This has to be by far the best article I’ve read in Black Enterprise in a month or so.  If this shit don’t put things in perspective for you then by all means drink bleach because only the ignorant will not understand what this means. If you can, definitely pick up subscribe to Black Enterprise magazine and put it on your table so you and those around can learn something besides the usual mediatakeout.com, WSHH, and BET garbage.

This issue they have a series about women and money, yeah I know, it should just begin and end with “spend your own shit and stop stragging for the next mans money.” As I was reading, they had this insert about the wealth of the single black woman. This is when shit gets real:

Inspiration Is There...

“Even shit has trace nutrients in it” – Old Man at the bar

This conversation lasted hours, not because we were bored, but because we were bored and drinking. As there were many choices, we had to condense it.

Prolifik: TV raised us man. Can you admit that?

Q Double: I mean, yeah, it raised us in ways, Sesame Street and Mister Rogers had us at a standstill.

Pro: Think about it man, we can quote “The Wire” for hours; we can break down a scene from “The Godfather” into life lessons. Shit man, TV and movies got the best life lessons out there.

Q Dub: Like the scene with Omar and Bunk in “The Wire,” where they talking about the days when the game was more structured and how it changed for the worse.

Pro: Indeed, that scene right there says a lot about the code and what----

Q Dub: Code! Code! That shit long gone.

Pro: Man! You know how many times I watched that scene. Muhfuckas would just hear the dialog, I paid attention to everything. The background, foreground, and paint color, all that shit. One of my favorite scenes from the show.

Q Dub: Fam, you really got to stop smoking.

Pro: Why the fuck for?!!!

Q Dub: *sigh* My shit is the scene in “The Social Network” when Sean Park talking to Mark about what he did to change the industry. Sean Parker basically said “fuck the rules, those days are over! Get money, do drugs, and fuck models!” That’s my go to movie when in a slump.

Prolifik: Yoooooooooo!!!! What about the Kid-n-Play dance scene in “House Party.” If you could pull the whole dance routine off you were the man.

Q Double: That’s when it was cool to dance; before we found out that being a wall flower was a better way of enjoying yourself.

Pro: House parties were epic man, epic! *opens up another beer*

Q Dub: That scene with Bodie and McNulty is Fire too. We he finally realized he just a pawn on the chessboard.

Pro: That was that full circle moment, do remember in the first season where D’Angelo was trying to teach them about chess. He really didn’t listen then. Now he finally got it, but it was too late. *sips beer*

Q Dub: Fake ass Socrates. *opens up another beer*

Pro: The Game is rigged man.

Q Dub: Greatest scene ever then??

Pro: When Michael got Vito killed. Shit was deep man.

Q Dub: Nah, whole Godfather was great, hard to put that into scenes.

Pro: Aiight, what you got?

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Q Double's Randumb Thoughts: Road Trip Music

  

Driving long trips are the best way to listen to albums or mixtapes that you have no time to hear. I can't do nothing else but vibe out to music and give your undivided attention. I was driving 12 hours so I had all the time to play any and everything, even played Black Dynamite cause that's the best fucking comedy that came out in the last 5 years. So this just some of the things I played, my thoughts, and the dopeness and/or wackness that came with it.

By the way: This is far from a music site. I just have these thoughts that I have to share and this just happens to be what I listen to.

What I Learned On My Summer Vacation

• It's warmer in the summer so during my morning fill-ups the gas flows quicker as opposed to slow flow in the winter. This is the reason gas prices go up in the summer. 

• The heat makes folks CRAZY cause the murder rate seems to jump up every time.

• Lil B had one of the dopest albums this summer. Big Sean too, and Game surprisingly. The summer wasn't right if you didn't have at least 8 Weeknd songs playing before you went out. 

• "Jawns with shaved heads think they're eccentric now. FOH!!!!!! They shave their head and now think they got the aura of Isis and the beauty of Cleopatra. Tryna eat whole foods and read Black Panther books and shit. Go put a weave back in ya hair and be independent and irreplaceable like Beyonce told yall hoes to be." 

• It’s possible to go to nothing but free events the whole summer and have a good time. Met a lot of dope people along the way. You haven't lived until you had 5 Irish car bombs and chased it with three 3 wise men. 

• Oh it’s still fuck you hipsters. Ole "let me be different because that should make people notice me" ass muhfuckas. 

• Rise of The Apes and Transformers were the dopest movies to come out this summer!

• Last minute decisions are the best decisions ever to be made in the history of life, except for pulling out. Trust ya instinct within that first tingle.

• 'Member in grade school where they had you read 'x' amount of books for the summer? I read 6 books this summer. I be damned if a hoe say I'm not eclectic, trick I read Siddhartha twice this summer while you were watching Basketball Strags and Scorned Ladies.

Can't forget "Crooked Smile"  

Crooked Smile Trailer-(Teaser) from M.Drumline Productions on Vimeo.

• Black people need to get that chip off their shoulder, have a good time and party. White people need more rhythm and seasoning in their food.

• Going on dates really aren't that bad. Why was I so against saying "I'm going out on a date?" I blame rap for brainwashing the masses. Yeah, I blame rap and Beyonce for all this shit now. 

• These ladies really going natural and shaving their head and all of a sudden transform into Angela Davis. The guys out here really think because they have 5 pairs of Foamposites their all of a sudden sneakerheads. The game is truly fucked up. 

• People purposely like to live their life miserable and boring just so they can talk about how much their life is miserable and boring. Lazy miserable fucks.

...And that's how I spent my vacation....just the part I felt like sharing.

Now let's get this football season going!!!!

Randumb Words: I Can Find A Metaphor In Anything

"It's like your first time jumping in a pool. It’s uncomfortable, it’s freezing. After a few times in it, your body is used to it. So it’s easier to go in and enjoy it. Thing is the next day, it’s the same thing all over again." - Some Shit My Friend 

Black Man's Kryptonite Really is Water.

You ever notice when you're at a pool party how nobody ever jumps in the pool? Everybody comes to it with their trunks on, their bikinis on, but nobody gets in the pool. All surround the edge of it, talking, drinking, playing cards, looking at the asses, watching the few people that's in the pool or waiting for the first person to jump in as the OK to follow suit. If you want to jump in by all means do it because you want to not because you see one person jump in there. 


A pool party is no different than the life you live out here. Everybody got goals and dreams they want to fulfill; they just don't want to be that first one to do it. So they bring all the essentials to get in the water but will stand at the edge at wait until there's enough people in to say "aiight the pool must not be that bad, I'll jump in now." By that time biddies and fellas already pissed in it and the water warm as fuck because they were in it first. Playing volleyball and wrestling in that shit because they had all the room in the world. Once it got a lil too crowded the smart ones jump out and now go to on the sidelines and talk to the stragglers not ready to go in. Those are the easy to get ones. I'm just saying pay attention to the ones that's at pool parties who don't wanna get in because their hair just got done up or they don't have their water slippers or "I'm wearing my Jordan’s or Foams and I didn't come to get in the pool."

Those are the ones who most likely never took that chance at nothing. The ones who worry how other people will look at them. The ones that are quick to jump in the pool enjoy life and take advantage of what's coming to them. Not wait on the outskirts until 20-30 people jump in that and say "oh aiight the water must not be that bad." It’s already too warm and crowded all you can do is sit on the edge and wait watch all the biddies getting claimed up and taken for the kill as your feet get wrinkled and you twirling the beach balloon to yourself, looking lonely and in need of friends.

…Moral of the Story…

That's up to you to decide. Take it as a grain of salt or a gem make me no never mind. You can be the one who gets the party started or the one waiting for the club to get crowded and start dancing. 

Oh!

If you jump in the pool, right, and you happen to have cannonball'd in the deep end, right, and you don't know how to swim? LEARN! Now take that as a life lesson.  

Randumb Words and Thoughts from Q Double

REALLY, WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO SAY!!!!