... the other Black experience
= THE VENT!---GET IT OUT =...
Props goes Illaziam the originator who started this with his 'D-Bags' thread. Helped many of us vent out our frustrations, thanks for the carthartic venue Mr. Ill, make your voice heard!
Setting it off:
= Enough with the Obama-mania already. Put a moratorium on the overdone coverage until fall.
= Hey Miss Big Breasses, I believe you know damn well how you look when you leave the house. Yeah it's hot but if you didn't feel secure with that tight spaghetti-strap top that hugs your bouncy DD assets, don't wear it.
You look foolish walking around the supermarket with your arms covering your chest, grabbing your shoulders like you're trying to give yourself a half-nelson. It's part funny & part frustrating ('cause I couldn't get good glance, damn...). For real though, either wear less revealing clothes or deal with the unsolicted male attention (from nasty gawkers like me).
= You, Mrs. High Level Educator from another school, need to stop acting like you want to get hollered at. Keep the flirty looks coming and I will step to you. Regardless of what your rude, bratty daughter thinks about it. See how she likes it when I'm having breakfast at the house and picking her smiling Mom up for dates.
I'm only halfway joking...
= Dude, how many times am I going to ask you to not tell me any plot details of film I haven't seen? I will hang up on you right now...
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Permalink Reply by Compound Egret on -
Spoiled brats oversharing. The woman is nice enough to post all these workouts for free, sometimes wearing form fitting workout gear. Youtube geniuses act like stereotypical construction dudes hanging off a girder with their lewd comments. Y'all will be the first ones complaining if she stops posting. The other half are whining about camera resolution, no music, no modification for my special situation. How much did you crybabies pay???? ZERO???? Zip it.
Strange new developments have my head spinning, but I need to keep the bigger picture in mind.
Thanks for the vote of no confidence. Thanks for always comparing me to other people who are in completely different situations. I guess that's one less thing we can talk about.
I still miss you. It's weird and not always pleasant how I am reminded sometimes. Hope things are going well for you.
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on -
I don't really have a major vent today, other than Sears delivered my tv on the day I was NOT at home on my front porch in the dark and my next door neighbor with "credentials" he used to tell me and SS about years ago did NOT steal it nor did his buddy down the street the Old Lady told me about too, and the neighbor started blasting very loud bass driven hip hop last night about 8:30 for over another half hour.
I really came in here to say, XDDMystic9er and Compound, I truly enjoyed reading the stuff you just wrote up here in your vents. Some of them sound like they came from some painful and annoying places and people that have hurt and pissed both of you off, but DAMN I wanted to thank both of you for your great writing skills in expressing yourselves, because SOME of that stuff made me LAUGH.
I wish both of you happiness and refraining from doing things to other annoying people.
I could do damage, or have damage done, to the folks in my neighborhood who scare me and annoy me and make me feel unsafe sitting on my front porch or my backyard, if I really wanted to, cause SS from way back still probably has connections to people in "the life" of crazy Russian and MiddleEastern not-so-squeaky-clean dudes and I know if I asked for "protection" he'd get it done. But I don't believe in that because I'd feel bad getting someone hurt that I don't like in the first place.
I firmly believe in not having anything to do with people who scare me and annoy me, especially when they live close by.
I will not waste my freedom of podunk fools like that.
Sigh. So thank you guys for making me laugh at some of the vents.
And California African, let go of the past. I had to do the same and it still hurts sometimes and I still miss him.
But when someone takes themselves out of your life, I refuse to give them any more of my heart once they leave.
Whoever it is..........their life is less now that they do not have your great friendship and spirit and love and happiness in their life.
Cause I sure as hell appreciate you, even if we only talk sometimes and we live far away from each other.
You proved to me and were there for me when some folks who live closeby wanted nothing to do with me and were scared by the pain I was in. You weren't scared, you got right in and told me to get help and told me to never be ashamed to ask for help when you can't figure out shit by yourself.
Thank you, Beya. :)
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Permalink Reply by X-D-D-M*9 on
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Gracias Rosenda.
You and the rest of the fam have always been great friends & advisors that have shown me the humor in all situations. If I'm funny at times it's 'cause y'all are too. I put an effort to express myself in a more creative way because you guys do.These vents may be more simple...
= You gotta let us know the deal. For & safety & sensible reasons, keep us updated because we are concerned.
= I'm half glad you didn't call back. We are in verrrry different categories
= Maybe I should have done and paid the extra 60 bucks for the rapid service. Y'all probably make a killing from desperate folks needing renewed/new passports for travel in a hurry. So now 2 weeks later I'm checking the mail daily for the most important legal document to ahve as a US citizen. Y'all just shoved my basic payment & unhurried package to the bottom of the pile, didn't you?...
No wonder in the movies they pay counterfieters massive $$$ to get a false one done; with a US passport you practically can go anywhere. That's shit we (I know I do) take for granted, seriously. Well when it finally comes through, I won't have to worry about it for a decade.
= Even with the tornado warning today I'm going to appreciate this mild winter here in ATL. It's been years that I went from November to February without shoveling snow, I'm thankful. I don't miss laying down rock salt on the driveway, longjohns, thick gloves, iced walkways & steps, frozen pipes, etc. at all. There is nothing romantic or cool about it.
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Permalink Reply by Lightning Pill on -
I got two things to say: one to everyone and one to my girlfriend who is least likely to sign on here. first:
1. Why is it that people look at us lonely people who want friends, and say we need to work on ourselves? As if the reason we are alone is because know we are absolute scum. Now, I don't mean to go all Kanye on y'all, but I know damn well that I'm a beast. I'm not only good as a friend, but if you watn to go record-shopping, talk about random stuff, go see a good movie, make music, if you want to just fuck around and have a little fun, then I'm your man. Personally, I think I'm an awesome motherfucker. Why can't you either see that or find out on your own?
2. Baby, if there is anything that annoys me about you is that you like to pretend that you aren't as weird as the rest of us. Every movie we watch that is supposed to be a weird comedy, you comment on the nonsense as if you were living it. Everytime I do something a bit unorthodox, you act like people around both you and me don't do the same thing. But when you act a bit weird, you have to remind yourself.
Look, iit's high time that people just accept that we are all a bit weird. We all have strange idiosyncrasies, views, values...we are all the weirdest motherfuckers on the planet. That is what keeps people like us interesting and worth getting to know. The only thing wrong with being weird is when it is a clear detriment to all of mankind (i.e. one's ratchetness, laziness, etc.)
Don't ever apologize for being weird. It's who you are. It's one of the many spices of life. Anyone that is trying hard to maintain their normalcy around people who aren't are just wasting their time.
3. To an acquaintance's sibling: please go back to high school or something, please. Everytime you open your damn mouth, my IQ drops a piece. Pleas,e put down the weed for a second, recognize reality for what it is, and just fix yourself already. Do yourself and others a favor already!
...and stop howling so loud like you are a freaking wolf already! Everytime you talk you got to be so damn loud that the entire street can hear you!
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It's real they must have put me at the bottom of the pile. Well all good now got my passport today after nearly a month of waiting and nervnously checking the mail daily. Party like itsit' '23 beyotchez...
X-D-D-M*9 said:
Gracias Rosenda.
You and the rest of the fam have always been great friends & advisors that have shown me the humor in all situations. If I'm funny at times it's 'cause y'all are too. I put an effort to express myself in a more creative way because you guys do.These vents may be more simple...
= You gotta let us know the deal. For & safety & sensible reasons, keep us updated because we are concerned.
= I'm half glad you didn't call back. We are in verrrry different categories
they
= Maybe I should have done and paid the extra 60 bucks for the rapid service. Y'all probably make a killing from desperate folks needing renewed/new passports for travel in a hurry. So now 2 weeks later I'm checking the mail daily for the most important legal document to ahve as a US citizen. Y'all just shoved my basic payment & unhurried package to the bottom of the pile, didn't you?...
No wonder in the movies pay counterfieters massive $$$ to get a false one done; with a US passport you practically can go anywhere. That's shit we (I know I do) take for granted, seriously. Well when it finally comes through, I won't have to worry about it for a decade.
= Even with the tornado warning today I'm going to appreciate this mild winter here in ATL. It's been years that I went from November to February without shoveling snow, I'm thankful. I don't miss laying down rock salt on the driveway, longjohns, thick gloves, iced walkways & steps, frozen pipes, etc. at all. There is nothing romantic or cool about it.
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Permalink Reply by Dale Jovan Rodriguez on -
Men make too many excuses for failure, I am glad I started being accountable for my stupidity and lameness.
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^^^ damn straight, Dale.
= For the last time new jacks, freestyle does NOT have to mean off-the-top of the head & unwritten. It means a rhyme kicked freely over a beat. In my opinion a real emcee can kick dope rhymes they wrote and do off-the-top, not just stay in one lane.
All that matters in a freestyle or any rhyme is that it's dope, hear me? No one cares in battle whether it's written or not. You get into a beef with somebody and all you know is streetfighting but your opponent knows Jujitsu, streetfighting, boxing, Kung Fu, etc. what do think is gonna happen?
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Permalink Reply by kifaru on -
Just paid my bill and now i am broke. No cash until March. Food will be sketchy unless I go hardcore on rice and beans. Guess what. I work a full time job and have worked every day for the past month and a half and I am still on the edge. Hard work pays off? Damn!!
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on
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Rice and beans are awesome if you know to season them. Yum! I am thankful, Kifaru, that when money is tight after taking care of financial obligations, that I DO know how to survive properly at such times. You'd be in real bad shape if you were one of those trust fund kids who had maids to cook growing up and couldn't even boil water. ;) Know what I mean?
XDMM9: seriously? I never knew that! I did think freestyle meant off the top and spontaneous creation. My bad.*
The flow is most important along with the voice. In my amateur opinion. Why is that Slaughter Rico song just popped into my head. I reeeeally liked that. Thanks to El Machetero years ago for introducing me to that one.
I have absoulutely nothing to complain about this minute. I'm just in here shooting the sh*t, Y'all.
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^^well shoot it then, POW! ha
it's not your bad about freestyle and that could be correct in today's definition. But I hear too many young purists complaining if an emcee kicks a written verse in a cipher, on radio, on stage, etc. even when it's crazy dope. If Prince is backstage at a Roots show and he grabs a guitar and plays some chords from Let's Go Crazy, are you gonna yell boooo nigga, improvise! We dont wanna hear that old shit, freestyle fool...
Maybe I'm wrong but this is what I call freestyle cypher:
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= I kept it real with you & it seems you had bit of an attitude. I only did what you did and not as a response but as an honest statement about why I was slow to agree with you, but I do agree. You did contain your annoyance but I sensed it bubbling behind your eyes, ha. I'm pretty transparent as is and never good at holding back my feelings for a long time so I said what was on my mind. Deal with my truth, we're on the same team. All good I got nothing to prove, just laying the facts down of where I was coming from.
= I used to love to give you my money back in the day (even if a few products may not have been as good but some things you had were superior), a health food shop in the neighbor "hood" where I lived. Great herbs, vegs, but for someone with habits like me, the healthier snacks were my favs. It felt so much better to make short trip to get it from y'all than the larger more popular hippy-corp health store across town with the crazy traffic and limited parking.
But now you've forced my hand. After years of being away I return last summer looking forward to picking up some good eats at my healthy around-the-way shop. I step in and it looks like you are renovating the whole back half of the shop 'cause it's barren of the refridgerated meals I consumed and various veg products (especially snacks) I was hungry for. Not to mention the stern/indifferent vibe I got when I walked even though I was on the friendly tip, smiling (secretly hoping you remembered a past happy hungry customer). All I got was a weird expression and less-than-warm-or-professional service. In white businesses I process this, think about it, and either leave immediately or respond by being a annoying them back, asking questions and then leaving without buying anything. But here I tried to find some stuff which amounted to less than $10 of products which is bad because 'cause y'all know health shop can run high for quantifiable reasons. I bought my stuff, thanked you & rolled out. Maybe you're under construction, restocking, yeah...
I came this weekend 9 months later and you weren't there (fortunately, sorry). You had an employee at the register, he was watching TV since it was as barren of customers as it was of my favorite snacks & good products. I tried again really hard to pick more stuff & wanted & needed; the new dude couldn't offer much on advice for herbs on my health needs. I cordially bought the stuff & thanked bro and he was friendly enough handing my purchase then returned to watching TV.
I honestly wish you the best and properity for the store and in life (ha that was part of your store's name). I honestly wish you had more for me buy. I guess I'll check back with you in a few months (more likely several months to a year). Right now I have little choice than to give the long running hippy-owned shop and the big corp health food franchises my cash. I don't feel guilty doing that but I I'm ready when you are to recirculate a few cents from my Black dollar to your store rather than all to them.
Fare very well, get your money, hold down that store, get products & get at me when you do.
= I'm going into this positive. This project should be fun & progressive. But knowing our history & vibes, we will need boundries and full understanding. Most important is that I help out and get what I need and then do for myself. Then we can collaborate as it comes along but being locked into contracted long-term business may not be the best choice. But we will work together well on project-by-project basis. That has great potential. But even my early ideas of us being this siamese duo in business forever wouldn't make sense because of our already in progress endeavors and different personalities. We need to use our differences to enrich what we work on, strenghten where the other is not, manifest and then go home. Can't let business and personal differences interrupt our spiritual bond. With little to zero conflict we can empower each other, let's do it.
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Permalink Reply by Rosenda on
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NICKERSON GARDENS???? I know that area. This place and Jordan Downs nearby are big housing projects that I think were built during the 1940's or 1950's. Word in the streets (always from a friend or relative) back in the late 70's-late 80's was that you did not drive through either projects at night and if you drove through during the day, you were advised not to wear visible gold jewelry in your ears or around your neck or it would get snatched off.
I hope it aint that bad for folks living there nowadays. Creativity and Talent can be found anywhere, XDDM9*.
That is a good reason to always keep your eyes and ears open wherever you go.!
X-D-D-M*9 said:^^well shoot it then, POW! ha
it's not your bad about freestyle and that could be correct in today's definition. But I hear too many young purists complaining if an emcee kicks a written verse in a cipher, on radio, on stage, etc. even when it's crazy dope. If Prince is backstage at a Roots show and he grabs a guitar and plays some chords from Let's Go Crazy, are you gonna yell boooo nigga, improvise! We dont wanna hear that old shit, freestyle fool...
Maybe I'm wrong but this is what I call freestyle cypher:
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