Congratulations

I never understood people that want pats on their backs because they're doing the things they are "suppose" to do.  What I mean is have you ever come across people that say shit like this? "Well at least I take care of my kids" or " I'm not out here doing crack". Bitch, boo bye!!! Do you want a damn Thin Mint cookie because you're doing the things you're suppose to do, like taking care of the child you brought into the world or you not being on some kind of mind altering narcotic. Well sir or madame you won't get any cereal box prizes here.

That's the problem with a lot of people today. We are so use to a below level standard things that mediocrity is celebrated like its a holiday. Things like not going jail ever is what's up, but guess what? You shouldn't be doing shit to get you in jail in the first place. Shit like not being 16 and pregnant gets you a gold star stickers but call me crazy being 16 and pregnant should be frowned upon. You shouldn't be on a reality show getting famous because you're a statistic. Hell I couldn't image being 28 and pregnant let alone being 16, that's another post for another day. Honestly I've had people look at me like I'm bat-shit crazy because I don't have any children at my age. Then they ask me why, I tell them because I don't have a husband. Yeah that part always trips them up and makes them roll their eye at me. The song goes first comes marriage and then comes Brittany in a baby carriage. People have that shit twisted these days.... smh.  

Well good people I don't think the confetti should be thrown because you're not 16 and pregnant, on drugs, or not in jail. Chile that's things you suppose to be or not be doing. Its that simple. Doing the bare minimum isn't cause for a parade. We're are a nation of borderline achievers. I read an article about a school that doesn't assign grades to students because they don't want the underachievers to feel bad. This to me is complete bullshit, I say let the underachievers know what they're doing. So that they can try to be overachievers. There's no honor roll students everyone gets an award whether they did good or bad in school. This is absolute bullshit..... what the fuck do you mean grades aren't assign?  All this coddling is good for who? How does a school exist that all the kids gets passing grades??? Even if they didn't pass, you still get the same grade as the student that over-passed. Get the fuck out of here what kind of life lessons are you teaching these kids. Even if I'm not at smart as the kid next to me we still get the same grade O_o. Then the poor kid that is getting A's is getting the same grades as the D student. What kind of world are we living in that this is okay? This type of thinking isn't helping anyone and if this kind of stuff keeps happening.Well I'm afraid Whitney Houston was incorrect the children aren't our future. All I'm saying is stop celebrating mediocrity and start celebrating excellent. 

The Intern

I was at work the other day and a thought popped in my head, "Man..... I should've done an internship". In some majors internships are required , well in my it wasn't. We just had to do a huge research project. Anyway, I think if I would have done an internship my life would be hella different right now. An internship would have provided me the necessary tools to decide if what I'm currently doing is what I should be doing. I know I wouldn't have change my major but maybe I would have  changed my focus.


See I actually had the chance to do an internship while I was in school, but I turned it down because it was in Minneapolis, MN (to damn far and to damn cold) it would have put me a semester behind, and I was far more interested in getting drunk with my friends at parties. Hence, I wouldn't have graduated on time and I was all about getting the f*ck out of school on time. So I turned it down, and boy was that a mistake.  If I was the person I am now I would have taken that internship in a heartbeat. Why? Because I it was relevant work experience and maybe I wouldn't be in the position I'm in now, which is trying to figure sh!t out. I could have done that internship and saved myself a lot of time.  Unfortunately, I don't have a Delorean and I can't go back to the future. All I can do is push forward and do my best and hope/pray for the best. So if your ever offered a chance to internship somewhere and its in your career field, just do it like Nike. Where its paid or unpaid just do it. This is a chance to figure out if this job/career is what you really want to be doing with your life. I know a person that always wanted to be a lawyer, from the time we were in middle school they know they wanted to be a lawyer. They went to college got degree, took they're LSATs, went to law school, graduate, pass the bar, got a job at a firm and guess what now? They hate being a lawyer now, they absolutely hate going to work, now that's a damn shame. This person is talking about wanting to quit their job and go be an organic farmer O_o. Well that's what they're passionat about being the farmer and the dell and maybe if they had done an internship, they would've figured that out years ago and before they spent thousands of dollars on law school. But hey you live and you learn.

The Problem That is Ciara

Disclaimer: If you are a Ciara stan, you'll be offended

As you can tell from the title I don't particularly care for Ciara, I don't hate her she just makes me scratch my head in confusion a lot of the time. I do have some of her music on my ipod but would I pay my hard earned money in see her in concert, HELL NO! I believe that this girl's days as a recording artist are numbered, and I'll tell you why. After releasing her last two albums that barely went tin foil let alone platinum, her music career is sinking faster than the Titanic. I believe that the ship started to sink with the release of her 3rd cd Fantasy Ride, or as I like to call it "the MARTA train wreck." I don't think this cd made a blip on anybody's radar, hell I had to goggle to see what singles were released off it. The only one worth mentioning is that song with Young Jeezy and that was a hot a$$ mess.

So she goes back into studio with The Hambuglar  The-Dream (somebody tell this man to stop buying his clothes of the little boys section of H&M) to create her album Basic Instinct, that was suppose to put her back on the map as one of R&B's elite again. Well that didn't exactly go as planned, she literally fell off the map with this one. The first single Ride barely made it on the top 200 charts. Well that should've been a sign there, maybe she should stop making this valley girl/pop music and go back to basics: you know the princess of Crunk (even though Crunk is dead).  I understand that artist sometimes want to change the direction of their music, okay but when the direction goes all the way to the left from where you started, your original fans don't always follow this new direction and just lose interest. Ciara was trying to be Beyonce, Rhianna, and Lady Gaga all in one, and in my opinion she just lost her way. Although I didn't really like the song Ride, the dancing in video was hot!! So hot in fact that BET banned the video, really BET?? Of all the f*ckery on this station, this is what y'all chose to ban.

Well as some of you know this album went on to sell 35k its first week out, to say that this was a disappointment would be a gross understatement. Now I could give my own little theories as to why this happened, no promotion, weak material, blah blah. But what it boils down to is that her time in the sun is just over, people are just over her. How many times can recycle the same types of songs but just with a different beat? Girl how many times am I going have to see you do that damn matrix dance move in your videos? And the real underlined problem with her is that she can't sing worth a damn. I never looked at Ciara and thought 20 years from now Willow Smith or somebody is going to honoring this girl at the Soul Train awards. I just don't see that in her future.

But what really prompted me to write this post was Ciara (who will now be referred to as the little engine that could) was her response to her dismal record sales. This child said she wasn't worried about it (girl tell that tale to somebody who believes you) because she makes her money touring. Then she likened herself to Madonna by saying, Madonna current music doesn't really sale but she sells out arenas worldwide and that's how real artist make their money. They're so many blasphemy comments here, where do I begin. First of all little engine if nobody is buying your music, who in the hell is coming to your shows??? *crickets*.  Honestly, I don't even think at this point she could sell out a high school gym, let alone Madison Square Garden. What little engine fails to understand is that, people like Madonna and Janet Jackson can sell out arenas because they're legends. People go to see them for their whole body of work, not the new stuff. Little engine your body of work consist of goodies and promise, so please 1,2, step your a$$ to the closest exit because you're out of your hot damn mind to even compare yourself to Madonna (I love her).

So I've come up with a couple of things that little engine can do instead of music. 1) become the next boom cat/Laurie Ann Gibson. This girl can dance her a$$ off there's no denying that or just open a dance studio. 2) make a work-out dvd because I'll buy two copies of that, 3) open up a chain of beauty supply stores, or 4) maybe just be a model. Look I'm sure little engine is going to make more music because its probably always been her dream to be a singer, and I'm really not trying to be a dream-slayer here. All I'm saying she that the girl has other alternatives and she really might want to look into them. Especially since Beyonce is coming back this year to snatch wigs and cut throats, hell she gave everybody a year to get it together. Ummm good luck with your career girl.