Rantings Of A Mad Rodent

I just got back from voting, and today's vote was very special to me. I voted my conscience, and mostly Democrat. As of today, THAT STOPS! No longer will I feel duty bound to vote for you. I don't think any of us should. Any time I ask about your accomplishments, your answer is always something you've done 20+ years ago. What in the hell have you done for us lately?! I'm an older guy now, but I'm doing this for the younger generation. No longer will, "They're better than the Republicans." or "People died for you to have the right." suffice. These kids need results, not more chastising and promises! Yeah, people died for us to have the right to vote, but they didn't die and get arrested and beaten for us to be beholden to the Democratic party. Pardon my language, but kiss my ass with that!

Starting today, you Democrats are going to have to work long and hard for my vote. And God willing, I will do everything in my power to make others feel this way. You guys basically pissed away 40 years of credit and trust from the younger generation and the black community. It is now time to put some money on your debit cards. We are tapped out. My main message to the young people is this: Vote for who think will look out for your interests best, not who your parents and preachers think you should vote for. It's time to get rid of the sharecropper's mentality. We don't owe the Democrats a damn thing, and it's time that you young people and we black people became truly independent. If a Libertarian does it for you, then vote for him, and the same goes for any other party candidate, but as for the Democrats, we don't owe you, you owe us. No longer will treat young people and those in the black community like a 2 a.m. booty call. Only calling us when you want or need nothing. You've been warned.

Well, you can tell by the ringing of the phones in the black community that the Democrats are horny, and they're making their booty calls. And as usual, we'll show up with our mouths shut and our legs open. What the hell is this power that they hold over us that causes us to vote for them out of a sense of duty, even though they don't do a God damned thing for us? Every time there's an election, we're the first ones they call. The black community: The first to beg from and the last to do for.

We've never truly demanded that they earn our vote, and at this point, it's too late to make demands. We've proven that we're not a viable threat to their comfort level. In effect, we've painted ourselves into a corner. What do we do? There are 3 sides. On one side, you have the Teabaggers/GOP who'd rather take this country back to the "good ol' days", and we know how good those days were for us. Hell, one Teabagger wants to make abortion illegal even if a girl is raped by her father! Then we have the Democrats, who see us as "Old Reliable". We ain't going nowhere. We're too stupid to go anywhere. And lastly, we have the pressure to vote from those in our own community.

To those in our community that like to beat our young people over the head with the "people died so you can vote!" argument, that shit's getting tired......FAST! That business model has run its course. Our young people want to see results! They want tangible results that will make them go back to the polls. What are tangible results? Figure it out! The right doesn't seem to have a problem producing them, why the fuck can't you?! Bottom line is this: if you want to keep the young people interested, you'd better show them that you're interested in them and they're issues. Especially the young black people. Keep in mind, this is not to say that he's nothing for the black community, but you can't be mad if people want to see MORE.

Getting back to the Democrats, why should we be bound to vote for them? Really. Now you have Democrats distancing themselves from this President, just so they can keep their jobs. Thus proving once again, that the Democrats would rather live on their knees than die on their feet. This is the party we're riding with?! These are the guys that are gonna make it right?! And as for Obama, when he got in office, everyone said, "He's going to be the President of America, not just Black America!", and the day after he was sworn in, everyone was there with their fucking hands out, and Obama obliged. Especially the gays and the Jews, while we were told to sit tight, or do for ourselves, or "Stop waiting on Obama to do for you!". Shit, it ain't our turn to be done for, but it's our turn to do for....them! I don't care how or if you vote. The bottom line is this: unless you have "INC." at the end of your name, it ain't gonna matter anyhow. You can rationalize it with "Yeah, they don't do nothing for us, but they're better than the Republicans." Are they? Really? I love to hear black people who are vote strictly Democrat ask an abused woman, "How can you stay with a guy that beats you?!", and I'm thinking, "Shit, you tell me!".

Tell you what my fellow black people, you keep on answering those booty calls. But remember this: while the Democrats are willing to come over and blow our backs out every other November, they'll never truly love us. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've gotta look for those sexy drawers they like. Afterall, the 2nd is almost here, and I wanna look good for that jackass. Oh, and I hope you have your KY Jelly.

Well, isn't it fascinating what comes out when a popular preacher gets caught with his hands in the booty, um...I meant cookie jar? Not only are we hearing about Mr. Long's proclivities, but we're also seeing his followers come out fighting a like a mama raccoon cut off from her babies. This is what happens when you worship the man talking about God, and not the God that man is talking about. Keep in mind, this is a man that made part of his name off rallying against and condemning gays to hell. Heck, he even held a march against gays, and now he's been accused of doing the very thing that he hates. Isn't that always the case?

His followers are telling us not be as quick to judge him, as they were at judging those gay people that they marched against. Ah, church people, those walking contradictions. They say that the Bible says "An eye for an eye." when something is done to them, but they want their victims to "turn the other cheek.". They're quick to judge those who don't attend their church, but when they or their pastor gets caught up, then it's "Judge ye not." or "He who is without sin...". When people say, "That's why I don't go to church.", y'all try to school them on going for the message and not the man, but won't admit that you drive an hour out of your way to go to that church because of the man, just so you can say, "I go to so and so's church.". I don't know how it is in other cities, but people in Atlanta treat their churches like designer labels.

Here's one of the things that separate us critics from the sheep. We realize that there's a possibility that these charges could be a pack of lies. They aren't ready to deal with the possibility that these charges could very well be true. When I saw him address his flock, and he mentioned that he wasn't "a perfect man" 3 times, I heard, "Okay y'all, some stuff is going to come out. I didn't do what they're saying I did, but I did do something.". I don't think that they are mentally prepared to deal with that something, whatever it may be. Also, far be it from me to tell you how to defend your bishop, but "Those boys were of legal age!" IS NOT the route I'd go.

I do have to wonder though, if these charges were brought against Glenn Beck or one of those idiots, would people like Warren Ballentine and Steve Harvey be willing to wait until "all of the facts are out"? Just like in the R. Kelly case, people are blaming the plaintiffs and not the predator. Also, calling an anti gay preacher out on his alleged hypocrisy and homosexual proclivities, IS NOT an "attack on religion and the body of Christ". Spare me the hyperbole. The surfacing of allegations not only forced us to ask questions of Eddie Long, but some of us in the black community need to also ask questions of ourselves.

I was in Guitar Center one day to mess around with a few bass guitars. I grabbed this Ibanez ATK, and started to play some of my favorite riffs. I played a few riffs by Victor Wooten (well, the ones I could actually play!) and the Woody Woodpecker riff by Les Claypool. It was then that this young bass player approached me, and told me that that was the kind of bass player he wanted to be when he finally joins a band: flashy. Ah, youth!

I showed him how to play a few riffs, and then I asked him to do me a favor. I asked him to go see some live bands that weekend, and get back in touch with me. He called me Tuesday to tell me that he saw 3 really good bands. The music was good and they all had great bass players. Then I asked him how many flashy Vic Wooten/Les Claypool licks did he hear. After about 4 seconds of silence, he said that he'd heard none. "That's the point.", I told him.

Yeah, Vic Wooten has mind blowing licks, but he can also sit in on a jazz jam session. Les Claypool has an array of tricks, but he also has the groove and pocket to sit in on an Allman Brothers tribute album. You know why they have that ability? Because it's about the groove and the song, not their tricks! Just concentrating on being strictly a flashy player, is like having all frosting and no cake. People will look at it, but nobody's gonna buy it. Yeah, other bass players will be floored by your flashy riffs and talk about you to other bass players, but they'll never recommend you for a gig. Trust me on this.

Learning this great instrument of ours take lots of time and hard work. Do you place so little value on your time and hard work, that you would spend it trying to be someone else, instead of a better you? Really? Taking up the bass is a noble and proud thing to do, but remember; we are the foundation on which the house is built. Here's something else to think about: when Flea sits down to practice, he's not trying to be the next so and so, he's trying to become a better him. As for that young bass player? He told me that he landed a blues/rock gig. I guess he realized that having a solid pocket was an even better trick, and the groove became more important to him.

Question: Why is it that when we black folks decide to recognize our African roots, we use Egyptian symbols? People are walking around with ankh tattoos, pyramid charms, and one guy even calls himself "Kemet". Well, guess what? WE AIN'T FROM THERE! I understand that we didn't learn anything about the west coast of Africa (where most slaves were from) in school, but we just can't latch on to ancient Egyptian symbols, just because it convenient and popular. Truth be told, we look like damned fools. Hell, some Egyptians don't even consider themselves African. They prefer to be called Middle Eastern. Before you go marking up your bodies and buying jewelry, how about really learning something about yourselves?

West Africa supplied the majority of the slaves that went to work in the Caribbean and America. The strip of land in West Africa that used to be called the Gold coast and the Grain Coast is the location for modern African countries such as Ghana, Togo and Benin. Other countries that supplied slaves were Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Nigeria and Angola. Notice that I didn't mention Egypt. Some guys like to claim that they're Mandingo or Ashanti. Chances are, you ain't one of those either. Slave traders steered clear of both tribes, because the Mandingoes from Senegal were clever and able to steal the master’s goods. They also said that the Ashanti from the Gold Coast were good workers but likely to stir up rebellion. So, guess who they brought over? You.

If you want to reclaim and be proud of your African heritage, learn more about West Africa. Many slaves came out of such Sierra Leone tribes as the Limba Timine, Bulom, Loko, Kono, Sherbro, and Mende. Those from Liberia included the Gbande, Manon, Kpelle, Gyo, Gola, Vai, Ge, De, Basa, Kru, and Grebo. Stop trying to make yourselves look hip and enlightened by displaying Egyptian symbolism. You look like an idiot. You know why? Because we ain't from there!

"Many intelligent black men seem,
To look uncivilized when on the screen.
Like I guess I figure you,
To be some jiggaboo,
On the plantation. What else can a nigga do?"

That was my favorite line by Big Daddy Kane from Ice Cube's "Burn Hollywood, Burn". You know, back in the 70's, 80's, and 90's, black movie fans decried the negative roles being offered to black actors in Hollywood. If a black actor was in a film, and if they didn't have a white love interest, you know that they were going to be playing the part of a criminal, junkie, or buffoon.

We were so pissed off, that we screamed, "Fuck Hollywood!", "We need our own studios!", and "The Jews are running Hollywood, and making us look bad! We need to make our own movies!". Well, let's talk about that. We did make our own movies, and what were they about? Gangstas, drug dealers, and rappers participating in some type of baboonery. Maybe we didn't like the Jews making us look bad, but we didn't care if we made ourselves look bad, because we LOVED those movies. Well, some of us didn't. We had a few directors like John Singleton and Spike Lee that made positive movies, but for the most part, it was the same old same old. Enter Tyler Perry.

Now I'll admit, I'm not the biggest Tyler Perry fan, but I totally respect what he's trying to do. This man came in and made movies that try to show us in a positive light, and all he got in return and arrows hurled in his direction. Some were even shot by other black directors. They called him a "coon", not realizing that this "coon" employs more black people in Hollywood than anyone else. Especially the other black directors that attacked him. Yeah, I'll admit his movies can be somewhat corny, but at least he ain't portraying us as pimps, ho's, and drug dealers. Plus, he's a good business man: he gives his audience what they want! I heard on guy criticize Perry's movies, and then said, "What happened to the good movies like New Jack City, Juice, and Sugar Hill?". Really, dawg? Give me a break!

I recently read a black critic's review of "Just Wright", starring Queen Latifah and Common, and he slammed it. He called it a "corny love story". He also complained that it had no profanity in it. Really, black movie goers, what in the hell do you want? You don't want us being portrayed as buffoons and criminals, and all of the positive roles being offered by black directors, you think are corny. You can't have it both ways.

"Drill baby, drill!", you remember that? C'mon, yes you do! It was the rallying cry of the right, lead by that beacon of brilliance, Sarah Palin. Funny, but I can't seem to find any of these people now. It seems like they've wiped their fingerprints off the megaphones, and hid them away. Now these same "Drill baby, drill!" people are crying out in anger over what has happened in Louisiana. The same people who supported the Bush administration (who loosened up the regulations and safety requirements that led to this disaster), big oil companies like BP (whose rig it was), and Halliburton (who was operating the rig at the time of the disaster. Funny that they're always involved, huh?) have now found a way, with the help of the media, to conveniently lay this at the feet of the Obama administration.

At what point are you people willing to look past money and ideology, and do the right thing for once in your miserable lives?! Seriously, there is no other Earth out there people! It ain't like we can screw this one up, and go invade another one like we've done to so many countries. No assholes, this is the only world we have, and it seems as though you morons chose money and party rhetoric over it. When Obama wasn't 100% sure about more drilling, you said that he didn't care about America, and now that he isn't moving fast enough for your tastes, this has somehow become his "Katrina". Really? You same people that cried for corporate freedom and for the government to stay out of corporate affairs, now want the government to clean up BP's mess with taxpayer money. Those same taxpayers that BP gouged to make record breaking quarterly profits just a few years ago.

Now, it's going to be different. See, with Katrina, you people were able to look at the bodies floating in New Orleans, act outraged and turn off the TV and get on with your lives. Not this time, cupcake. No, this time we're all going to be affected. Maybe this time you'll pay attention, but early indications don't look promising. You people are still trying to play party politics, even in the face of our self inflicted doom. We continue to treat Mother Earth like a battered wife, and just like a battered wife, there's going to come a time where she can't take it anymore. Once that happens, your profits, and your political party will not be able to save you, and all that rhetoric, won't mean shit. If it were up to me, I'd fine BP $50 million per day. I bet they'd find a way to stop the leak then. Some people say that that amount would be too much, to them I say BP should look into all of their bank accounts and stock holdings, and "Drill baby, drill!" to come up with the money.

Now that I'm older, a little wiser, and have traveled the world, I've seen and learned a lot of things, and up until now, I thought I had most things figured out. I was wrong. The one thing that continues to puzzle me, is trying to figure out how the "blame game" works. As a bass player (El Pus, India.Arie, Anthony David, Sol Cypher, etc.) and former rapper (Tony MF Rock), I've been a part of an industry that's seen more than its fair share of blame. When groups like N.W.A. and 2 Live Crew were around, they were often blamed for a lot of bad things kids were doing at the time. N.W.A.'s "F**k Tha Police" and Body Count's "Cop Killa" were both blamed for police officers being shot in the 80's and 90's. , I'm pretty sure rampant police brutality had nothing to do with it. "Gangsta rap" was blamed for the rise in gang violence, even though gang violence was already bad before "gangsta rap" was even around. Hell, where do you think "gangsta rap" came from?

When the media first started blaming music for crap happening, people immediately took up the cause. People like Tipper Gore and C. Delores Tucker even made it their personal crusade, and records were required to display warning labels. As for me, I thought, "It's a reach, but I kinda see your point. If an impressionable kid listens to hardcore rap, it may cause him to go out and do some things. Okay.". From then on, the "blame game" was on and poppin'! Then in 1993, the World Trade Center bombing happened, and shortly after that, both CNN and ABC News ran follow up reports on it. They had an "expert" on the panel pointing out the flaws in the terrorists' plan to bring the WTC buildings down. This "expert" said that the only way to bring down a building of that magnitude, was to hit it from the middle and up. In 2001, that's exactly what they did! Oddly enough, nobody blamed those CNN and ABC News reports for "influencing " the terrorists like rap music influences gang members.

In the 90's and in the early part of this decade, we witnessed a rash of school shootings, and the media was quick to blame some forms of metal music, just as they had when 2 kids committed suicide after listening to a Black Sabbath tune. In most of the cases, the kids doing the shooting had been bullied, but instead of blaming that or the school administrators for not doing their jobs, blaming the music made more sense. When Bill O'Reilly took to the airwaves to called abortion doctor, George Tiller, a murderer, Tiller was gunned down soon afterwards. Did anyone blame Fox News or O'Reilly? He was simply called a "person who was passionate about his beliefs". Uh, yeah, okay. Maybe if Bill had said what he said with a "gangsta rap" track playing in the background, he'd have gotten his share of blame.

I thought I knew how the "blame game" worked. If video games like Grand Theft Auto can be blamed for the rise in vicious crimes among teens, then surely people like Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh can be blamed for the rise in domestic terrorist plots, right? No? Hmm. Okay, then how about this; "Mind of a Lunatic" by the Geto Boyz was responsible for a few women getting raped and beaten, right? Yeah? Okay, I got that part. And Glenn Beck is responsible for helping to increase the division between blacks and whites, right? No? Really, why not? Is it because it wasn't done to music? CNN did story today pointing out all of the incorrect things done by the guy who failed to detonate a car bomb in Times Square. If they next guy, remembering what he learned watching that report, is successful, would CNN be as culpable as they made Marilyn Manson for the Columbine shootings? No? Okay, help me out here. I'm really having trouble trying to figure this "blame game" thing out.

The other day, my nephew was telling me about Chris Brown going on a local station and literally begging for his records to be played, and for fans to help save his career. Then he told me that Brown is also on the verge of being dropped from his label, because of poor sales. This kid has done everything that was asked of him, and people still won't give him a second chance. I'm not particularly a fan of Chris' and I'm totally against what he did, but I do wonder when is he going to get his second chance? I guess Americans are selective about who they give their second chances to, and I found the way that black radio dee jays have treated him to be the most shameful and hypocritical.

The 2 that treated him the worst were Tom Joyner and Steve Harvey. Hell, these 2 clowns wanted to actually fight Chris Brown for hitting Rhianna. Oddly enough, I don't seem to recall them wanting to fight Mike Tyson for hitting Robin Givens, but I digress. These 2, and many other dee jays will not play Brown's songs, but they still play R. Kelly songs. Tom Joyner asked Kelly to remix his theme song and was yucking it up with him on air, while the Steve Harvey show promoted his current tour. Warren Ballentine called Brown a coward, but uses R. Kelly's music as the intro to his show. I guess to them, it's cool to have sex with and urinate in a 14 year old girl's mouth on camera, but hitting a woman for hitting you first is somehow crossing their continuously moving line.

I heard many black people say, "Man, what R. Kelly did was sick, but '12 Play' is my jam! I'll still bump his music.", but after the Chris Brown story broke, I heard the same people say, "I'll never listen to his music again!". Really? You wanna know how pathetic it got in the R. Kelly case? I heard MANY black women blaming the 14 year old girl! Hell, the NAACP even nominated him for an Image Award! We all showed up with the mentality of an angry mob to defend Michael Jackson against molestation charges, and now that same mob is showing up to lynch Chris Brown. I guess we black folks don't care about children as much as we do pretty women.

A lot of these black holier than thou morning show hosts and their listeners frequently hoped for the end of Brown's career. Keep in mind, these are the same black people that like to whine about white folks not giving Michael Vick a second chance. The next time a black celebrity gets in trouble and pays his debt to society, and you black radio personalities start whining about "the man" not giving him a second chance, think about the second chance you gave Chris Brown. How in the hell can we black people complain about the "white man" not giving us a second chance, when we won't even give our own a second chance? Jus' sayin'.

Ah, cringe moments! You know those moments that you take to look at an old photo from high school or the club, and cringe at the sight of your bad perm or ridiculous outfit? Yeah, we've all been there, but at worst, it was only a source of laughter and not shame. Being in my 40's, an old Polariod picture from the 70's and 80's is about the only thing people my age have to worry about, unlike today's kids. Considering today's technology, young people would gladly trade with us!

The reason I'm writing this, is because after seeing a few young women posing for very graphic pictures, I began to wonder, "How is the going to go over when they get into their 30's and 40's?". I don't think that our young people TRULY realize that what's on the internet, STAYS on the internet. That threesome you allowed yourself to be filmed participating in and uploaded, ain't going nowhere, but that topless photo grandma took back in the 60's is probably long gone by now. I have a friend who took nude pictures for his girlfriend in high school in the 80's. He's at a Fortune 500 company now, because his prospective employee couldn't do a "search" for him on the internet. Conversely, we've all heard the story of the young man who didn't get the job, because someone in Human Resources found racy pictures that he'd upload to a page that he'd deleted YEARS earlier. Again, what's on the internet, STAYS on the internet!

It's cool to have fun and get "caught up" in the moment, as long as you don't get "caught up". I guarantee you, having someone see a picture of me from the 70's in bell bottoms, won't be nearly as bad as a prospective mate seeing a picture of you in college taking on 3 guys at once! You can burn a picture and trash a VHS tape, and know that it's destroyed. But when you hit that "delete" button, that doesn't mean that it's gone, it just means that YOU don't have it anymore. It's still there, and it WILL show up at the least opportune time. Guys, the next time you plop your privates out to take a picture for an "adult" forum, or you girls decide to "take it off" for the digital camera, realize that the young you will get a pass, but the old you will be paying for it. Think about it.

When you see Americans finishing last in worldwide polls that measure matters of common sense and intelligence, do you ever wonder how? I mean, we have some very brilliant people in this country, so how come we keep coming in last in these studies? I use to wonder that, but in the last 9 years, that little mystery kinda cleared itself up.

We have greedy ass old people wrecking town hall meetings trying to stop this "government run health care", even though they get Medicare and Medicaid. They're also saying that they don't want any socialist programs, even though they're receiving social security, a program that was modeled after a German socialist program. Why are they protesting against something that they already get themselve? Good question. We also have people against Obama's healthcare plan, just because they were told to. Nevermind the fact that most of these people are without health insurance. One ignorant ass lady said, "My deductable is $5000, and I don't want Obama messing that up." What?!! Obama even look directly into the camera and said, "If you like your current plan, you get to keep it.". What were the responses of the scared stupid Americans? "He's trying to take away my plan!". Can't you just smell the brilliance?

We had parents who were so mad that Obama's speech to school kids would be broadcast to students, that threatened to pull their kids out of school. You know, the usual "Eat your veggies and stay in school" line Presidents say to school kids? But now it seems that scared white people have been convinced that this speech is going to be a "brainwashing session". Even whole school districts were refusing to show it. Are you fucking kidding me?! You honest think that the President would get on camera and try to tell kids some shit that even you frightened ass racist parents don't understand? Don't you find it funny, that the parents who are concerned that their kids are going to be brainwashed, have been brainwashed themselves? "They've awakened a sleeping giant!", huh? Oddly enough, that "giant" was sleeping peacefully when the country was being run into the ground by the Bush administration.

Osama bin Laden and 11 other men from Saudi Arabia, with support from the Taliban in Afghanistan, attacked us on 9/11. We invaded Iraq. To this day, there are seemingly intelligent adults who still think that Sadam Hussain was behind the 9/11 attacks, even though there is concrete proof that he wasn't. Those who mentioned this fact, were called traitors and anti American by the stupid scared Americans. France saw through the rouse, and refused to participate. The stupid scared Americans responded by renaming french fries "freedom fries". We were so scared and stupid, that we willingly gave up our constitutional rights. Americans like to play the "founding fathers" card, when they want to justify doing something evil like the Patriot Act, but somehow, Ben Franklin's quote: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety", doesn't seem to get mentioned. Wrong founding father I suppose. I guess they meant the one who said it was okay for them to wipe their collective asses with the Constitution.

Since "soccer moms" was already taken, Pres. Bush came up with "NASCAR dads", and now you have unemployed white men with no jobs or health insurance thinking they're Republicans! Then there was fight to put copies of the Ten Commandments in every government building. The proponents said that this country was built on the Ten Commandments, they just never mentioned that they broke every last one of them to build it! Americans specialize in short memories and stupidity.

And now we have the latest attraction in the main ring, the Tea Baggers and the Sarah Palin fanclub. Cue up the music and pass the cotton candy.

First of all, I hope everyone has a happy and prosperous 2010. Being that it is a new year, I've been thinking about making some changes. I'm sure you've seen every wannabe, hanger on, and Z list celebrity acknowledging me in their tweets, Facebook posts, and mixtapes. Yes, I am "hater". They seem to be obsessed with me, because they all give me shout outs, but I never acknowledge them. I was hoping that they'd have blown up, and become huge, thus making my "hating" productive, but sadly, such was not the case. I'm sure I'm not the only one that says to himself, "Who the hell are you?!", everytime someone says, "This goes out to all my haters!".

I've decided that I can't do the "hate" thing anymore. It's not personal, mind you. It's not you, it's me. Well, actually, it is you. You guys are no more famous than the guy that hands me my Chik Fil A chicken biscuit in the morning. You've only "made it" in your own minds, and I feel that I've wasted a whole year's worth of good, quality hate. It's not totally your fault, I'm partly to blame as well. I should've used my "hate" on people like Anthony David, India.Arie, or even Chris Bosh, but since they were already doing their thang, I decided to get in on the ground floor, and attach my "hate" to some unknowns. It seems like you benefited from this relationship more than I did. You got to shout me out every chance you got, and in return, all I got was, "Who?!", every time I mentioned you. So, I'm gonna move on. We could still be cool, and one day, hopefully you'll earn my "hate". Until then, could you please refrain from putting my name in your posts, tweets, and mixtapes until you've done something that won't make people say,"Who is this again?" ? Thank you, and buh bye.