First Gentleman

I don't care if you are the leader of the free world. When your lady is cold, you come off that tuxedo jacket.

It's Not The Same!!!

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I pretty much get my weekly drinking quota knocked out between Tuesday and Thursday nights, so the weekend is when I try to just chill out and watch some Netflix through my Xbox 360. I remember reading a good review of this film Night Catches Us in Rolling Stone last year, but it never hit theaters anywhere near me so I was really happy when Netflix recommended this film and it was available for streaming. It is a dramatic period piece surrounding The Black Panther movement, set in Philadelphia, starring Kerry Washington and Anthony Mackie, with a score done by The Roots. After reading the last sentence I typed, I guess I should not be surprised that more people don't know about this this film. Anyway, unless Madea Goes To Jail is one of your favorite movies you should enjoy this.

Why Tupac Is Better Than Your Favorite Rapper

Several days ago Tupac Shakur would have turned 40 years old. While I never thought Pac was the best rapper when he was alive. I always admired his passion even if it was sometimes misdirected, I also respected his ability to expose the flaws in his own humanity. These are the things that make Tupac an enduring icon to so many people. I still enjoy reading and watching some of his old interviews, and the personal stories from the regular people who's lives he touched. Below are two stories that will soften the heart of even the biggest Tupac hater.


In 1993, Tupac received a letter from the parents of a dying boy, named Joshua. They said it was Joshua’s last wish to meet Tupac. Tupac flew to Maryland to meet Joshua and took him to a basketball game. Soon after Joshua’s death Tupac renamed his publishing company from Ghetto Gospel Music to Joshua’s Dream.

"I had written a letter saying how much I loved his music to his fan club. At the end I made a joke saying that if he ever read this letter to please take me to my prom since my boyfriend had just broken up with me. About a month later there was a knock at my door and it was him! He was by himself. No reporters no homies just Tupac Shakur at my doorstep. He came in and talked to me and my mom and my brother for about fifteen minutes and asked me if I had gotten a dress yet. I said no and he said he would take care of it and gave me $1500 in all hundred dollar bills and told me to get something pretty. Prom day came and he called and said to be ready. A limo showed up with Tupac in it and went straight to my prom. Everyone was going crazy taking pictures but we hung out there for about thirty minutes. We danced to about five songs then he said he had business to take care of kissed me on the cheek and left. I think the world lost a great person when Tupac was killed and I will always remember his kindness"

Most rappers, including many of the ones that I like are so full of shit as people. Other than David Banner who I know for a fact was giving people the clothes off of his back when Katrina hit, I coudn't imagine any of today's so called icons doing anything like this unless it was an 8 episode reality show on MTV or VH-1 in it for them. We miss you Tupac, happy birthday.

Cartoon Racial Draft

When I get drunk I tend to talk loudly and extensively about things that no one gives a shit about. On one particular morning I decided to take issue with the some of the ethnic representation in some old school cartoons.

Hotwing from The Silverhawks: I really was not a huge fan of this show but even as a 9 year old, I remember wondering why the only black character on the show was named Hotwing. The other characters were scientists and pilots. Hotwing was a cotdamn magician! In a random piece of trivia, Adolf Caesar was the voice of Hotwing. If that name does not ring a bell. He played Sarge in A Soldiers Story and Mister's daddy in the film The Color Purple.

Every Ethnic Character On The Superfriends: In an attempt to make it seem like white folks were not the only ones capable of saving the world, the Superfriends introduced Black Vulcan, Apache Chief, Samurai, and El Dorado who is not pictured here but if you could not tell by the name, he was Hispanic super hero who drove a gold low riding Cadillac. Black Vulcan wasn't too bad but why couldn't they just call him Vulcan? They never gave El Dorado anything important to do so I can't really go in on him. I really feel for my Asian & Native American brothers and sisters who had to put up with Samurai and Apache Chief. What makes these characters so out of pocket that their super powers and their names were based on them being ethnic minorities. It would be like if they had an Italian female super hero who got her strength from a magical tanning bed and she was named Pasta Girl. The worst thing about the inclusion of these characters is that they do not actually exist in the DC comic universe. They ignored the few ethnic characters that were in their actual comic books and made these guys up just for this show. By the way El Dorado did not actually drive a gold Caddy. That was a joke, but it did not seem that far fetched did it?
Roadblock from G.I. Joe: I had no problem with the fact that everything he said rhymed. It did bother me that every once and a while he would have to cook dinner for all of the other G.I. Joes at the end of an episode. To G.I. Joe's credit they had a lot of black characters who did nothing even remotely stereotypical, including Alpine their mountain climbing expert and Iceberg their skiing expert.

Destro from G.I. Joe: I know he is supposed to be a Scottish arms dealer but if you did not read the comics and only watched the TV show, you know Destro was black all day long. Not only did he dress like a pimp. He had the only female member of Cobra in check for most of the series. The Baroness understood that a pimps love is much different from a squares love, and the rest of the Cobra organization was full of squares. He also lived by one of legendary west coast pimp Rosebud's biggest rules for pimping success which is, if you want to be respected in the game you must stay deep with white hoes. Note: I made a mistake, it was pointed out to me that I mispelled Rosebudd's name. It is actually spelled with two d's for a double dose of this pimpin'.
Blaster from The Transformers: Transformers was my show. I am still a Tranformers fan to this day. I remember saving up 17 bucks so I could buy this toy back in the day. The thing is Blaster did not get his name because he was good at blasting the Decepticons, but because he transformed into a giant orange portable stereo. For those of you who did not grow up in the 80's these radios were affectionately referred to by many as a ghetto blasters. There was actually an episode during season 2 where he pissed off all of the Autobots by playing his music too loud. He was voiced by Buster Jones, the same guy who voiced Black Vulcan. Panthro from The Thundercats: I can't front, Panthro was the man. He was the best fighter among the the Thundercats and he was their engineer. On top of all that he had a nose like KRS-One just in case suckas on 3rd Earth tried to get it confused. The whole time I watched Thundercats as a kid I never put it together that Panthro's voice was provided by Earle Hyman a.k.a. Grandpa Huxtable from The Cosby Show.
Black Manta from The Superfriends: I know he wore a mask whenever he was on screen but under the wet suit was a very angry brother from Baltimore who hated white people because of how they treated black people on land. He wanted to create a strong black nation under the sea, and bitch ass Aquaman was the only person standing is his way. For obvious reasons they never went to deep into Black Manta's criminal motivation on the show. He had been fighting Aquaman for almost 10 years before he even revealed he was black. That said his first comic book appearance was 1967, so it was probably a good idea to keep that under wraps.

BAPE Optimus Prime

Does anyone in America still wear BAPE? It seems like as soon as Souljah Boy co-signed that shit, everyone else ditched it. Despite all that, I do think this special BAPE edition of Optimus Prime is pretty cool.

Bill & Camille

If you have not figured it out, I am borderline obsessed with Bill Cosby. Especially the old school Bill Cosby who really was the original king of comedy.

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha

I don't know who the woman in the picture is, but this is the meanest and funniest thing I have seen in a while.

Bell Biv DeVoe

I'm not even front I bought the cassette singles for "Above The Rim" and "Gangsta" and I got this album day one even though Deathrow came along and made the stuff BBD was doing look like well....."Candy Girl". In fact the song "Gangsta" was so poorly recieved that it did not even make the final tracklist for the album. "Something In Your Eyes" did make it on a couple of my slow jam tapes back in 93'.

These Are The Breaks

Soul Searching Vol. 3

This is the latest offering from my homie DJ Needles. Do yourself a favor and add this to your Summer playlist. For more good music check out his blog http://www.ghettoblastic.com/

Laughing At Your Plans

I have seen Foreign Exchange twice and I will be buying this day one.

One More Time For Mya!

I should have checked out Dancing With The Stars when she was on it, because I don't think she has done anything since.

Check These Shits Out!

I don't care how many Miracle At St. Annas he makes, Spike made Do The Right Thing. It still angers me that Best Picture that year went to Driving Miss Daisy.