Trickin if you got it?

For as long as I can remember, I've been told (from rap music of course) that "it aint trickin if you got it" It took me YEARS to figure out what that means. In my understanding, that statement refers to the promiscuous activities of women for monetary favors. Apparently if you are a broke female with no cash of your own then the aforementioned action labels you a "trick" and thusly are "trickin". But if you have your own source of income, then it's ok and you're not labeled anything.

Then you have all these songs about women being independent and not needing a man for anything, and as of late these songs are being made by MEN! (Ne-Yo, Webbie, etc.) Now, what I get from this is that the guys out there don't mind spending some cash on the ladies they entertain in their bedroom as long as these women can drive themselves home in their own cars. Hmmm... I guess that's understandable, but what about when the shoe is on the other foot? Is it "trickin" if a man is broke as a joke and mangaes to pull a financially stable young woman who takes care of some expenses here and there for him, as long as she's satisfied? Last time I checked that was just called being trifling and free loading, but NOT trickin!!!

Why is it that women have to get called tricks in the event that they are not as financially stable as their "buddy" for lack of a better term? I say it's ALL TRICKIN! You're trickin if you're spending on her and she's not wifey, she's trickin cuz she's not wifey. You're trickin if you spending on him and he's not hubby, and you're trickin if you're not hubby! Let's do better people.

Swavor of The Week

This week's Swavor goes out to HATERS!! I mean, they really don't get any love. I think everybody has at least one hater and that one hater pretty much keeps you on your job cuz you know he or she is waiting to catch you slipping. So I thought that this week maybe we should be more appreciative of these haters, and chances are you might be a hater yourself, and you know what: there is nothing wrong with that as long as you KNOW your are a hater and you acknowledge and accept it. I won't lie, I have my hater moments, but I do usually give a disclaimer before I start one like "Yes I'm hating right now" or "I'm about to hate on this for a minute" So if you are a hater or ever been a hater or are thinking about becoming a hater, this week is for you!!!!

FOUNDER OF FUTURISTIC

I love J.Money, please believe that, and I hate to see every one walking around talking about how futuristic their swag is clearly since they heard him say it first. However, I was in music class and was watching a film and they started talking about what seems to be the first futuristic swag, a little something they called GLAM ROCK. Here is where I introduce David Bowie the rocker from outerspace, is what I think he was calling himself during this period....hmmmmm...sound familiar??? Let's give credit where it's really due, there is truly NOTHING new under the sun. Take a look at truely FUTURISTIC SWAG and it's founder! This is David Bowie's alien alter ego named Ziggy Stardust. (I can't make this stuff up)

So Good Remix

SO I'm not exactly sure what's up with this but, I came across it and was feelin it a lil bit, so here ya go.


Electrik Red - "So Good" Remix Feat. Lil Wayne

SWAVOR OF THE WEEK

I have one that the ladies are gonna LOVE this week. It's one of my new favorite songs by up and comers MAC & SLIM from their latest mixtape called "Cooley High" The song is called "Ms. Me" In the song they describe their lady friends as young women who do everything they do, call it a different take on Miss Independent. The chorus states "She ballin just like me...she swaggin just like me...she do it just like me..." I dont know about you ,but I appreciate a man that appreciates having a level playing field, if I wasn't so single this song would be mandated as whoever my significant other would be's ringtone for me. I want you guys to check this song out over in the SOW box and then run over to Mac & Slim's Mysapce page.

Lookin for a reason to party?

If you wnat to party this weekend but couldn't come up with a good enough excuse to convince yourself to do so, then I have the answer for you: IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!
I want everyone to party like it's their own birthday this weekend ALL WEEKEND. If you're in the Atlanta area, I want you to come party with me on Sunday night at Eric's Lounge 1213 Mt. Zion Rd. Tell them an ESTablished Lady invited you. If you go to GA State University or know where it is, then I want you to come out to our Spring Music Fest perfectly titled "The Leak" this evening from 5pm to 10pm in Unity Plaza in front of the student center. It's gonna be great music and FREE FOOD! If you're anywhere else in the world, I want you to hit up your favorite night spot and do it real big!
HAVE FUN GUYS!!! I KNOW I WILL!!!

Swavor of the Week

I'm a day late with this but...well...it happens ok. Seems like every where I turn there is an effin touch screen in my face. Personalyl I like pressing buttons. Tangible things give me comfort, however the rest of the world seems to be hypnotized by screens that only require your finger for operation. So for the pleasure of those people, the Swavor for this week is TOUCH SCREENS!

Sleeping in class??

Ok, I've been slack on the posts this week, please forgive me. Seeing as how the Swavor of the Week is COLLEGE, I thought I would share something with you that one of my professors attache dto the bottom of our homework (I guess to give us a laugh while we're agonizing over the assignment). It's the top five excuses to use for getting caught sleeping in class!
[Yes I copied this STR8 from my homework assignment]

NUMBER 5: They told me at the Blood Bank this might happen.

NUMBER 4: 'This is just a 15 minute power nap they raved about in the time-management course my other Professors recommended.

NUMBER 3: 'Whew! Guess I left the top off the White-out. You probably got here just in time!

NUMBER 2: Did you ever notice sound coming out of these Laptops when you put your ear down real close?

Number 1 And MY all time Favorite: best thing to say if you get caught sleeping in class: (Raising your head slowly and say) ... Amen

R.O.O.T.S.-Flo Rida

Ok, recap. Last week I went to this listening suite for Flo rida's new album R.O.O.T.S. Let's start with the fact that I'm not a big Flo Rida fan, he's got skill and I'll give him that, he just doesn't do anything for me. I do however enjoy that "Oh hot damn, this is my jam! Keep me partying til the AM!" song (obviously I don't know the title of it) Anyway, the new album gets one thumb up from me and one thumb at a 45 degree angle. I didn't really start feeling any of the songs til about track 7 or 8. Would I buy it? No, but I'm sure someone else would. Would I put it on my iPod if someone gave it to me? No, but maybe if I upgraded to like 30G and had extra space to spare then I probably would. I'm not saying it's a bad album, I'm just saying it's not for me.

Swavor of the Week

Ok ok ok, so I decided that the Swavor for this Week should be something....how should I put it without making previous Swavors seem less than...well this one is a Swavor that your parents will love. The Swavor of the Week is now.... COLLEGE!!! That's right, shouts out to all of my college students out there, getting your higher education!! I gets rough, I know, I'm there right now, but soon enough it will all be worth it once the degree comes. I want all of my college students to comment on this post if.....

1. You have had at least one 8AM class
2. You try to register for class that DONT meet on Friday
3. You eat Ramen once a week if not more often
4. You wait until it's ABSOLUTELY necessary to buy books ( even then you may just borrow one from a friend in the same class)
5. When you meet someone new, one of your first questions is: Are you on Facebook?
6. You have taken one of those shuttles to a party
7. You feel like Asher Roth's "I Love College" should be your theme song
8. You have seen someone (or been that someone) so drunk that it makes you rethink drinking all together
9. You've had a class where you learn NOTHING in lecture and the exams might as well be the text book with fill in the blank spaces.
10. You find yourself and your friends "putting in" on EVERYTHING because individually none of you have enough money to feed yourselves.

Feel free to add to this list, I know I left out a LOT of characteristics of college life.

SUNSHINE

So....I guess Bow Wow is gonna cut back on his video budget. IT'S A RECESSION!! I thought I'd watch this vid and e'd give a snek peak of this song of his "Sunshine", BUT I was wrong. dude had a full length video shoot on his bus equipped with Sour Patch Kids and all. I guess this is the way to get around the million dollar shoots. This video is so fresh off his camera it was uploaded to Youtube only about 40 minutes ago. Check it out for yourselvs.

FRIDAY FOOLISHNESS

Why is it that everytime I do this, I end up writing about Plies??? Someone please make it stop. I have nothing to say but SMH. First it was the Bust IT Baby show, now its the GOONETTE show. What is the world coming to? I have no more to say. SMH.

How NOT to get a fan

I went to this showcase last night at club Frequency over in Underground Atlanta. Everything was on the up and up as far as artists went for the most part, there was a dull performance or too, but everyone has to start somewhere. I want to take the time out now to say LET J.MONEY BE J.MONEY!!!! I DON'T CARE IF YOU ACTUALLY FEEL LIKE YOUR SWAGG HAS SWAGG AND YOUR SWAGG'S SWAGG IS ON THE MOON SOMEWHERE!!!!! I DONT CARE IF YOU'VE BEEN SAYING IT FOR YEARS EITHER, RIGHT NOW THAT BELONGS TO J.MONEY AND NO MATTER HOW YOU TRY TO EXPLAIN IT YOU JUST LOOK LIKE A BITER!! THAT'S IT. 

Most notably I'll mention (in order of performance) Lyrical Preacher, C-Squad, Izrael and Rellik Rebel. There was this reggae cat that held it down, Im just embarassed that I can't remember his name (If you know who I'm talkin about please leave his name in a comment to this post). Anyway, the afore mentioned acts were definitely worth the late night coupled with waking up this morning for class.

You know they say the good guys never get the shine they deserve, and I guess I'm about to add to that since what I really want to write about is this one individual who performed with his group. I don't know his name and I won't put his group name out there simply because, I wasn't pleased with him, so they get no love from me (at least until further notice). I will admit up front that collectively they had an energetic performance, kudos to that. BUT I just wasn't feeling the song they did, I prefer something a little more happy go lucky. So I sat there watching and taking mental notes, like I said before I wasn't feeling it so I wasn't groovin to it. Then I don't know what possessed this rapper guy to approach me during the performance, but he did, EPIC FAIL. It was definitely around 1 or later by this point so I'm hoping this was his idea of an April Fool's Day joke. So this guy is all in my personal space rapping all aggressively and intense like. Please don't put your finger in the vicinity in which I breathe my air!!! This was definitely not the song for a move like that, and I'm definitely not the girl for a move like that. If I wasn't interested in what you were doing before, do you really think that yelling in my face was going to win me over???? SMH. Do better. I mean really, what were you thinking?? Someone help me understand. I value my personal space and when you force yourself into my personal space it's definitely a violation. It's like.... social molestation, yes I think I may have just made that up but that's basically what it comes down to. A note to all performers: Don't socially molest an uninterested audience member, it doesn't bring them to your side!!!