WHIP IT LIKE A WHAAAAAAAATT????

Lil (I am a Martian) Wayne, has a new song out. The title is “Whip it Like a Slave”. I now understand while Ni99a’s don’t stand for anything, when you have the idol to the new generation of young minorities concocting this sort of ignorance. First you start gang banging in your late twenties when you have never banged in your life. Sadly your listeners do not see that and fail to connect the dots on your life as a privileged 11 year old who was already a millionaire attending a private catholic school with a jerry curl, playing the cowardly lion in school plays. Let us also not forget in the block is hot video you were rocking a BLUE flag. Sorry to digress in the fraudulence of your Gangster; back to the subject at hand. Whip it like a slave is a blatant disrespect for what are ancestry had to endure and it’s insane that anyone would find this cool or hip. That’s like Ike Tuner making a song called “Beat Her like Annie Mae”, or R. Kelly singing “Fondle her like a Little Girl. Get my drift on how inappropriate and ignorant this is? Wayne you are a talented individual, and a great artist, you are also the leader to a young nation of the lost and misguided. Do not add to their destruction, and yes you do have a responsibility because you are the voice.

WHEWW...CHEAPA TO LEAVA

So today I heard from a co-worker that Rich Jeff couldn't finish when it came to his marriage. Apparently, he was to get married to a ahem Nets dancer in what was to be a 2 million dollar wedding at the Mandarin in NY. Ok, so I did some research and come to find out he reportedly postponed before so they're saying he got cold feet.

A couple of things stood out. First off, his fiance told her people the wedding was off a week earlier but STILL checked in at the Mandarin AND upgraded her room. Hmmmmm, sounds suspicious to me. Also, he left he people high and dry but was gracious enough to leave his black card with his boy to entertain his guest.

Man, this is crazy to me. I don't know him but it sounds like he just overpaid for some tail. I mean, he probably saw her and wanted to crush but sold her a dream. Next thing he knows he's in a relationship with a stripper....er uh....dancer. Lame. I bet thats the most costly piece he ever had. I can hear him singing to Drake, "most expensive piece I ever had".

HOT NEW ARTIST ALERT

Before I continue getting ready for the trap (WORK) I had to drop you all a gem. This artist TiRon from the West is one of the illest up in coming. So I shed light and Give you the Ketchup mixtape.

http://2dopeboyz.okayplayer.com/2009/02/25/tiron-ketchup-mixtape/

E -THUGGIN'

I’m petrified of all these E-Thugs roaming the Internet Superhighway terrorizing everybody like they own the ‘web or something.

If you don't know, an E-thug does all the things that a real life thug does except those actions physically violent or intimidating. Typically, they have better-than-average computer skills, particularly within the context of message boards and "keystyling." The "E" in E-Thug stands for "electronic" for the oldies reading.

The E-Thugs have landed and they can stand you down solo or with a gang of other E-Thugs. This phenomenon has progressively gotten stronger over time and as the online platforms have grown. So, the larger the audience, the harder the E-Thug.

What the E-Thug isn't so good at is face-to-face interaction and confrontation, but they can fend off just about any typist attacker with a swift movement of their fingers.

I can't lie.

I've written several of my columns and the comments and commentary of the E-Thug would make me believe that my life was in danger. Whenever I start seeing somebody typing in all caps, laced with profanity and irrational thoughts, I can only visualize a psychotic person slamming their keyboard foaming at the mouth. Like, this person has to be plotting a murder, if they only had the IP address of their victim.

I'm from an era that experienced much of life without computers, so when you had an issue, it was usually dealt with after school or face to face. Generally, the crowd would congregate as well. Or, even more fun, we would play the dozens, a right of passage where you verbally sparred with friends (or enemies) through hurtful, funny jokes. These things happen in the digital space now. If a twitter “fight” breaks out, people run to that page to see what is being said.

If you were a genuine thug, you could get away with pushing people around. Even those dudes would get tested from time to time. The point is, everybody knew there was some sort of bounds that they had to operate within or else you may end up writing a check you couldn't cash.

Most e-thugging is associated with the young and reckless, but that's not totally true. Recently, I have seen grown professional men e-thugging and digital gang banging on each other. It’s just weird to me and also shameful. Perhaps they want attention or to make up some aggression that they lack in physical interaction offline. Men have always needed to show their masculinity in some way or another, whether its lifting weights or typing hard enough to damage their PC.

On the others side, I have seen actual thugs discover the computer and magically become E-thugs. But these dudes are generally more serious and will even give their prison number or something as a badge of authenticity. They can go back and forth, between real thug and E-Thug. But, their P.O. may not appreciate terrorist threats in real life. I don’t know.

But, what I do fear happening is one of these wack job E-thugs is going to feel the need to cross over and make their gangster felt offline. Somebody is going to mess around and create the next Columbine disaster or worse. For now, they lurk under the cloak of anonymity and live "strapped" with threatening words that beg the question "What if?"

What if...

SHOULDN'T EVEN SHED LIGHT

So this morning I came across a clip of Bill O'Reilly bashing Michael Jackson. He stated that Jackson's interactions with kids were inappropriate for any adult. Secondly he accused Jackson of being selfish and hypocrital for making a song like "We are the world" yet spending hundreds of millions on himself.

Bill O' Reilly caters to a group of individuals who are not self thinkers, most of his listeners take his word as gold without researching facts. So they lies he spits just get spread from one idiotic listener to another like rumors.

What Mr. Hoe Reilly left out is the fact that Jackson is in the Guieness book of world records for the most Charitable giving ($500 MILLION), how is this selfish?

Secondly follow me for a moment. The childhood MJ endured most of us could not even imagine and believe me the Jackson Story movie did not capture it all. The was no child hood for Michael Jackson. Did it ever occur to anyone that maybe he wanted to be around children because they were not yet corrupted to be cruel and judgemental to him as the media is, as adults are. Or maybe the children were those with similar backgrounds who had their childhoods robbed and he wanted to provide to them a safe haven where they could just be kids?

Accusation does not mean guilt. Settling out of court does not mean guilt Although in the public eye you are most definitely GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT. Why do you think you are locked up before trial, before verdict. If you were innocent until proven guilty would you not be able to go about your life until a jury decides your fate? FOOD FOR THOUGHT. RANDY SAID IT BEST "MAYBE NOW THEY WILL LEAVE YOU ALONE MICHAEL"

HEY BILL WE HAVE NOT FORGOT YOU SETTLED OUT OF COURT ON A SEXUAL ASSAULT CASE, WITH YOUR MARRIED A$$, BUDDIE.

REPROGRAM ALL THAT YOU KNOW

The world's oldest known Christian Bible goes online Monday -- but the 1,600-year-old text doesn't match the one you'll find in churches today.
Discovered in a monastery in the Sinai desert in Egypt more than 160 years ago, the handwritten Codex Sinaiticus includes two books that are not part of the official New Testament and at least seven books that are not in the Old Testament.
The New Testament books are in a different order, and include numerous handwritten corrections -- some made as much as 800 years after the texts were written, according to scholars who worked on the project of putting the Bible online. The changes range from the alteration of a single letter to the insertion of whole sentences.
And some familiar -- very important -- passages are missing, including verses dealing with the resurrection of Jesus, they said.
Juan Garces, the British Library project curator, said it should be no surprise that the ancient text is not quite the same as the modern one, since the Bible has developed and changed over the years.
"The Bible as an inspirational text has a history," he told CNN.
"There are certainly theological questions linked to this," he said. "Everybody should be encouraged to investigate for themselves."
That is part of the reason for putting the Bible online, said Garces, who is both a Biblical scholar and a computer scientist.
"Scholars will want to look very closely at it, and some of the Web site functionality is specifically for them -- the ability to search the text, the ability to highlight a word, the degree of detail is particularly interesting for scholars interested in the text," he said.
But, he added, "It's for everyone, really a wide audience, because of curiosity, because they appreciate the value of it."
By the middle of the fourth century, when the Codex Sinaiticus was written, there was wide but not complete agreement on which books should be considered authoritative for Christian communities, according to the Web site where the Codex is posted.
The Bible comes from the Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai desert, where a scholar named Constantine Tischendorf recognized its significance in 1844 -- and promptly took part of it, Garces explained.
"Constantine Tischendorf was in search for ancient manuscripts, so he appreciated the age and value of it," Garces said.
He took a handful of pages to Germany to publish them, then returned in 1853 and in 1859 for more. On that last trip, he took 694 pages, which ended up in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The Soviet government decided to sell them in 1933 -- to raise money to buy tractors and other agricultural equipment.
The British government bought the pages for £100,000, raising half the money from the public. Garces called that event one of the first fundraising campaigns in British history.
Film footage from the time shows crowds of people turning out to see the manuscript, which was considered a national treasure, he said.
Though the Bible has been reassembled online, in the real world it remains scattered.
Most of it is in London. Eighty-six pages are held at the University Library in Leipzig, Germany, parts of 12 pages are held at the National Library of Russia in St. Petersburg, and 24 pages and 40 fragments remain at St. Catherine's Monastery, recovered by the monks from the northern wall of the structure in June 1975.
The manuscript contains the Christian Bible in Greek, including the oldest complete copy of the New Testament. (A copy held at the Vatican dates from about the same period.) Older copies of individual portions of the Christian Bible exist, but not as part of a complete text.
The Codex also includes much of the Old Testament that was adopted by early Greek-speaking Christians.
That portion includes books not found in the Hebrew Bible and regarded in the Protestant tradition as apocryphal, such as 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, 1 & 4 Maccabees, Wisdom and Sirach.
The New Testament portion includes the Epistle of Barnabas and The Shepherd of Hermas.
As it survives today, Codex Sinaiticus comprises just over 400 large leaves of parchment -- prepared animal skin -- each of which measures 15 inches by 13.6 inches (380 mm by 345 mm).

Jackson Memorial Service

There are few things in life that take our breaths away and leave us speechless. Today one such thing happened. The Memorial Service for MIJAC was the jolt to my reality that the greatest entertainer of our time and many generations to come was really no more. I kept my composure through most of it even fought back tears as Jermaine performed, and as Randy spoke and broke down. The moment I could no longer fight tears backcame as Paris spoke of the great father MIJAC and how much she loved him.

I thought it was tough when Tupac passed but this is truly the one person I never met in my life, yet I felt like I knew him on a personal level.

R.I.P. Michael Joseph Jackson you will be forever missed.