I'm Sorry, Baby. It Won't Happen Again...

Was anyone else aware that American Idol is back? Wow, I have really gotten good at blocking out painful memories. Anyway, I felt kind of bad about that last post, going on a tirade like that. I should just stop watching BET.

I have a big day tomorrow, seeing as how I will officially be a bum after Feb 3rd. I have interviews and seminars and stuff over the next three weeks, so hopefully I will be back in with the 'taxpayers' soon. I have been getting pumped up for tomorrow, and this has helped out a lot. Hopefully it will do the same for you: http://www.youtube.com/?v=pq3g7zC4j1Y

(Note to WWE: PLEASE create a 'Macho Man' Randy Savage DVD Set, I will give you key lime pie. Take it or leave it. Just an offer.)

Oh, and on the better late than never tip, Martin Luther King Day came and went without any fanfare for the most part. Don't even START with the CPT crap. Although the day isn't his birthday much like Christmas (oh, I went there), it is still a day to reflect on the vision and understand the dream that Dr. King had. Yet, BET went on business as usual, and even had a 'booty booty butt cheeks' video for the new 50 Cent Mobb Deep joint. *Sigh* Dr. King's words never rang so true: http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=U2laP_rTOHs

I may update tomorrow about how things go. Stay tuned to the blog, I have some ideas that I am working on between getting a job that will be up in about a week or so. Stay up, peeps.

Chachi Out

I Hate 50 Cent

It's my first rant, everyone. Be forewarned, my rants will be obscenity laced. So reader discretion blah-blah-blah-yakkity-smackity. If this offends you, you may not want to be here for my Paris Hilton rant.....

I am just going to go past a lot of back story for a minute and get right to my rant. Despite several accusations, these are NOT reasons I hate Fiddy:

-He's swollen up like a bum fighting bodybuilder.
-He wears those G-Unit Corset/Wifebeaters
-He glorifies gun violence yet attempts to damn it in the SAME SENTENCE.
-He sounds like Chunk from The Goonies
-He spent 2 years dogging Ja Rule for being 'hip pop', yet name one song he has done that is typical a street anthem? Is 'Candy Shop' or 'Disco Inferno' for the thugs? Squirrel please!
-He looks like King Kong (scaled correctly to boot)
-All his songs are the same song. (In his defense, all rap sounds like 'Booty booty butt-cheeks!' to me, but still)
-He is (sadly) in a position to put a new face and style on rap music, but just does what will help him get G-Unit spinning rims. I am honestly surprised tdidn'the didn't jump on that one. It sells itself.

Those are reasons I don't LIKE Fiddy, but not reasons I HATE him. Hate is a strong word, and I'm not a fan at tossing it around. That being said, I was watching MTV2 and they had a special about 8 Mile 8 Furious....I mean Get Rich or Die Tryin' and he was talking some nonsense about all his songs being about death. I turned around thinking he had some revelation as he began to talk about a song he made about birthdays. He said something along the lines of 'When one life ends, you know, another one begins. So this song is special to me'. I was almost ready to look at this man in a new light when I realized the only song this jerkass made with birthdays in it was....and then he went into a half-assed live rendition of 'In Da Club'. Yeah, 'It's Yo Birfday really sums up the life cycle, doesn't it.

Well, those who that have known me for more than a minute know that I have kind of given up on rap music in general. Aside from maybe a few artists that I can tolerate, rap as a genre overall is in a downturn and bastardization been bastardized into 'urban culture' and catchphrases. What do I mean? Three words: YEAH! WHAT?! OKAY! Nuff said. I also would have accepted 'I'm lovin it.' Now 50 Cent isn't the only one that has created this problem, but in my opinion he is the one that has blown the hip hop culture and rap music into this crapfest I have to deal with today. I am willing to guarantee more people know who Curtis Jackson is than Curtis Mayfield. And that is a goddamn shame. Pusherman is a better song tmonstrositiesurtis's monstrosites.

Back to Fiddy (as he is referred to in Nigga-ese). My dislike for him started long ago, when I got a sampler for an Omar Epps/L.L. Cool J shit-storm of a movie that I can't remember (a piece of key lime pie for the person that can tell me that movie). It had the track 'How To Rob', a track where Fiddy in all his lyrical prowess raps about how he would rob hip-hop's biggest names. {http://www.wmacstudios.com/50-cent/how-to-rob.html} Now I am all for self promotion. However, anyone that listened to this crap and said, 'This nigga is the next Redhead Kingpin, let's sign him!' should have been beaten to death with a Common CD.

I know people are free to listen to and like whatever (hell, I still like Oaktown 357musicalan't say much about muscial taste) but I know what is bad. He's bad and his music is bad for you. I leave with this: I remember going on a Fiddy rant in college in my Ethnic Studies class with a ain't black people (Colorado ain't D.C. when it comes to diversity) and they told me to blame Eminem because he signed him and it all lies in the hands of whites with money. Hip hop is based of money and if you sell, you star. That is an interesting theory. Well, do we blame the Philadelphia Eagles front office for SIGNING Terrell Owens? Or do we blame T.O.'s stupid ass for acting a fool and losing his job? Exactly. I could blame Eminem for buying his hustle or I can blame the hustler. A hustler is just as guilty as the person that buys his product, my friends.

Chachi out.

Next Rant: 1/20/2006

Okay, let me see if this works.

I think I have this down now. This is a test to see if the video links will work on this bad boy.

Let me preface this video: David Alan Grier is one of the 10 funniest men alive. I am DEAD SERIOUS. I will put his comedy head to head against Chappelle, Carlin, Maher (although he isn't funny as much as just a poor man's Dennis Miller), Rock and anyone else out there.

That being said, I leave you with these timeless words: Uppercut. uppercut. To the gut. Yeah.

http://www.youtube.com/w/Ike-Strikes-Back?v=523_DUGZbtg

In the beginning.....

So it has come to this. I am doing a blog. Somewhere, God is having quite the hearty laugh. Uppity bastard deity. Anyway, I am here and things will never be the same. This is not your average blog. This is a BELOW average blog. There will be very little about my life because quite simply, my life sucks right about now. I'm jobless, the search ain't going well and my DVD player is all for crap. Which means no Cromartie High School. However, a few things you can expect from this site:

• Videos. I created a YouTube account. Every once in a while, I'll link to it with a super-cool happy video. What kind of video? Whatever mood I'm in.
• Advice. Pretty soon (due to quite racy pictures of said person and Rosie O'Donnell) I will have someone answer question of those who take the time out and visit my little blog. Any question you may have, I'm pretty sure he could answer it. Let's just say Geraldo wouldn't have looked so stupid had he asked him what was in the vault.
• Rantings. Those who know the Duece (one of my many nicknames) know that I can not stand a lot of things. And I will rant about them. A lot.
• Battle of All That Is Awesome. Something that has been in the works for a while. A battle NCAA March Madness style of all things awesome (Ninjas, Pirates, Samuel L. Jackson, Chic-Fil-A, etc.) that the American people (and maybe some Canadians) will vote on! Stay tuned.
• Just cool stuff. It's a new kind of blog. I try to entertain.

With all that being said, there will be days I update a lot and days I don't post for a few. Be cool, the Chachi will return.