.....and I still love poetry.

I’m sitting here trying to figure out what happened to hip hop. What happened to good damn music? Now it’s all about the hook and how many ringtone downloads you can get. Don’t get me wrong, I can’t knock the hustle but do these “rappers” consider themselves part of hip hop. I mean, maybe the term “rapper” should be in a class by itself because rapping and being a part of what hip hop is are two different things. Maybe I’m just buggin’ but I hate where music is right now. There are some good artists out there but they are being overshadowed by the garbage. A long time ago, I fell in love with music, with hip hop, and I miss her. Here is my story…..

“I Miss You”
By: Sean Kyle

I hate the way that you are being disrespected
People don’t know how to talk to you with creativity, only negativity.

And I know that you aren’t used to being talked to this way
Only Ignorance spews from the mouths of those who don’t truly know you when they have nothing to say

When I fist met you I was young and not hip to the way you would influence me
I was oblivious to the man that you would bring me to be

You see, back when I first met you, it was an adolescent, innocent fun
Because when I fist met you things were “fresh” and still “jamming on the one”

Baby, I knew you long before I got to “Stompin in my Air Force Ones”
I knew you and your prodigy with the no lace, shell toe ADDIDAS, leather jacket with the hat to match long before he left you and became Rev. Run.

Back before Flavor of Love was prime time for your forgotten son
See I got to know you back when he was helping his brother tell the world that his “Uzi weighs a Ton”

You even started dating white boys, and you did so without any fear
And it was a good thing my love because I got my first taste of “Brass Monkey and I got a chance to ride with “Paul Revere”

I was beginning to fall deeper and deeper, placing no one above you
Especially when you told me not to half step and that you were R A W

That’s it, I was hooked by your style and your grace, mesmerized by your pitch and your pace, open to both genders and whatever race but when I know I was in love was when I couldn’t get enough of your “Everlasting Bass”

I didn’t stop loving you when you told me you were a fiend, I dealt with it when you melted microphones instead of cones of ice cream

I didn’t look at you different when I read negative things in the papers
I didn’t think of you as nasty when you told me “You caught the vapors”

But you also taught me that one day in the trap we call love I would fall
And you never laugh at me “When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall”

And the time I was with that girl and my boys were trying to see me score
I remembered how you told me to put a towel on the floor by the 2 in. gap under the door, now they can’t see me anymore.


You weren’t always a positive influence though, at times your true colors would show
I will never forget the day you told me “I’m a hoe, you know I hoe”

And that time you went to jail, you never did tell me how you got there
But I do remember hearing you say that you “saw a trustee eatin more than me and I thought it wasn’t fair”

Baby can we go back to the times when JJ was a Fad
I don’t care that you’re a hoe and I want to hear you tell me, I’m Bad.

I wanna go back to waking up at “6 in the Morning” and sipping Ice T
I wanna know what Das EFX I had on you and “why is everybody always picking on me”

Baby, please just take me back, back to El Sugundo, you know just us and Ms. Applebum
I know I’m sounding selfish and even a little, “Dum, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb, Dumb……Dumb”
But I miss you.

Tell me what happened my love, why did things have to change?

Now you speak with no range, you rock a grill and platinum chains, wear candy paint and wood grain, you no longer speak from the heart just off the top of the brain.
My heart is broken.

Now we just sit back patiently hoping that you will come back to us, to, the ones who love you.
Until then, I will continue to place the nickel on the head of my needle to hear you speak to me in those old school ways. I miss you.

7/20/2007

Do they mean before you complete your order?

Maybe it’s just me being very silly about the whole thing but I am tired of being lied to by television advertisement. In these current times of economic crisis, I don’t like being deceived. I want the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I say all of that to say, there is no truth to what these fast food restaurants are telling us everyday. I can’t eat for a buck! It’s not going to happen and they need to stop lying to me. First off, food that is advertised as good food for a dollar is wrong in itself. Well…..if you’re drunk as hell and leaving the club, a cheap-ass meal or snack does hit the spot. Old memories, 2 tacos and a jumbo jack at about 3 am. Man!!! Okay, I digress. Back to my point, it wasn’t a dollar then and it isn’t a dollar now. If I pull up to McDonald’s and order something from the dollar menu, they are going to ask me to pull up and when I get to the window and hand them one dollar, I will get a strange look. That dollar that was advertised so much on TV as being so great suddenly turns into $1.08. The TV didn’t say *ish about tax. Is it somewhere in the fine print and I just missed it? Is it on the sign at the drive through? That big-ass sign says $1! Is that false advertising because I can’t eat for a buck? I can’t eat a $5 dollar foot long for just $5.00. I can’t go to CC’s pizza with $5 and eat at the buffet. Should the commercials say that you can eat for about a buck or maybe the song should be “Five, Five Dollar, Five Dollar and some change foot long!” Since when did under a buck mean .99? Technically, it’s still under a buck but once you say, “that completes my order”, you aren’t eating for “under a buck” anymore. I mean, you can order for under a buck but at the end of the day, it’s a dollar and some change! Can they change the advertising to the "Order for under a buck but after tax it's a little bit more menu"? Lying bastards!



To further my argument, I can’t go down to the car lot and get a car for under 10K. Okay, okay, okay, I can but you get where I’m going. Lying bastards tell me that I can get a Brand New car for under 13K but ummmm…..what about TT&L. That car that was $12,995.00 is now $15,000.00. WTF! Lying bastards!

Again, I digress…….I know that I am being silly as hell about the whole thing but let’s be real, TV is lying to us, STOP WATCHING IT! It’s bad enough that our minds and pockets are being raped by the damn snuggie and now we have to get bent over by the “little bit over a dollar” menu at our local eateries. Next time you only have a dollar in your pocket and you want a snack, go to Wendy’s, McDonald’s, BK and order from the “dollar” menu. When you complete your order and they tell you, “that will be $1.08”, fork over a dollar and see what happens? Can you raise hell or will you get laughed at and escorted out?



BTW….has anyone seen the infomercial about the metal detector? Don’t you just want to get one and go down to your local park, beach, your backyard, and search for buried treasure? Don’t you just want to uncover the hidden treasures of old license plates, pennies, dog tags? You might be that lucky person who finds a 10k gold chain or ring with the uzi on it (remember those)! The last time I checked, Blue Beard the Pirate didn't bury any damn treasure at the corner of McGregor & Main! Man, good times I tell ya!