I Do It For The Ratchets

Last weekend I got the chance to attend a concert basically for free. The artist I went to go see was Tyga. I can't say I'm a fan of his music and that's not to say I don't enjoy some of his songs because for like a month Rack City was the song that would come on in the club that got me all the way turned up. Anyway while at this concert I noticed a few things.

1) These kids today are definitely doing it differently than when I was a teenager.  The concert's population was largely comprised of teenagers, now I don't know if that was because this was a Tyga concert and his fan base is made up of mostly pop tarts or because the Chicago teacher strike was still going on and these kids didn't have class on Monday. Either way that place reeked of teen spirit.... good God!!! I mean there were dozens of kids just roaming around and there wasn't a parent in sight. I mean I went to concerts with my friends as a teen. I recall my first concert being a Immature ( I was in love with them and then they change their name to IMX and I was over it), Monica, and Usher concert. My mama dropped us off in front of the stadium and was standing right in front of the Fox Theater when it was over. There wasn't even enough time for us to attempt to go backstage and find Immature's dressing room and be fast ass little girls.  These kids chile.... I think half of them come to the concert high on bath salts or pixie sticks. I mean not all of them were being absolutely ratchet but for the most part they were all the way turnt up for no damn reason. Lord I just don't think these were the kids Whitney Houston had in mind when she said "she believe the children are our future".

2) Groupie shit will never ever die its just going to multiple. Now for the most the concert was full of teenagers but there were a few grown ass women out there being groupies at a damn Tyga concert. When I say grown ass women, I am talking about 30+. Tyga himself is only 22..... there was no reason for women to have been at this concert in their tightest BeBe dresses and highest Bakers shoes. Why are you at the concert looking like Draya from BasketBall Wives doing the reunion taping? Girl where are you going?? Its fucking Tyga and you're 31. It was just him...... not the whole Young Money crew. Everyone else had on jeans and Jordan's, why were these hoes acting like it was 1996 and 2Pac just got released from jail??  Yes I came to the conclusion that they were hoes. If you have on the uniform, you must play for the team right? I guess the rent ain't gonna pay itself. 


3) I'm not as ratchet as I think I am. By no means did I think was that ratchet ass girl; that goes to the grocery store with my hair in a scarf, pajama pants, and Chinese slippers. All the while talking so loudly on my cell phone that other people can hear my conversation in aisle 2 and I am all the way in  aisle 8. But I do have my ratchet and trashy moments. I listen to my 2 Chainz Pandora station while at work, Bands a Make Her Dance was/is my favorite song this summer, I do drink Kool-aid out of mason jars at times (although that maybe more country than ratchet). Anyway attending that concert showed me that I'm pretty low on the ratchet meter. I saw some fashion styles that I haven't seen since BET's Uncut was still on air. Behavior that should only reserved for Saturday nights at your local city's most ratchet ass club.... I mean girls so fucked up that they were laid out in the bathroom floor looking like.... where are my keys?  I lost my phone. Also I'm sure one of them had pissed on themselves. Yeah I'm not about that life. I'll leave that shit to folks like Tyga because he does do it for the ratchets.

Just The Lonely Talking Again

So I was online looking at this blog post about Kim Kardashian and her whole family being on Oprah's Next Chapter. Man some folks are just outraged that Queen Oprah would have Kim K on her show, due to the fact that they view her as trash. I mean Oprah has got to do sometime to help those horrible ass ratings on her struggling network, those ratings are about as low as Fantasia's SAT score before she got a tutor. Anyway this post isn't a drag race post about Kim K or her antics. Its about one the comments someone made on this particular blog. I'm paraphrasing here but they basically said something about the fact ever since Kim first got her claim to fame by mediocrity slobbing on Ray J's knob, she's always been dating somebody. There's always a man in her life and I guess until someone wrote in black and white, I hadn't really paid attention to this and now that I really think about its kinda true. Well at least what she portrays to the public. The commenter when on to say she never really takes time to herself after her relationships fail because she's to busy trying to find another black penis or mulatto one to takes their place. Listen I'm not going to sit here and go through the Ghost of Boyfriends Past of Kim K. But her recent boyfriend Kanye West of 2-3 months comes months after her filing for divorce from Kris Humphries (who she's still married to) someone would say she jumps from one relationship to the next too fast. Which is why most of her relationships crash and burn because she doesn't give herself anytime to heal or whatever the fuck from the last relationship. Ummmm that may or may not be true, I'm not Kim K so I don't know what goes in that vapid mind of hers.

However what I do know is that there are women and men out there who just don't know how to make it on their own and do things Mary Tyler Moore style. They just can't be without a boyfriend/girlfriend. I'm not saying Kim K is one of these types of people but I do know people like this. There are some folks out here that rather have a piece of shit rather than a whole piece of nothing. They  just have to have a man or woman, they breakup with someone on Monday and are in the club Friday night trying to get a replacement. They're not even out here trying to casual date/fuck someone for the sole purpose of just doing it. No these people are meeting people on Friday night and trying to take them to Big Mama's house on Sunday for dinner and telling folks this is my new boo. The fuck??? The idea of being by themselves shakes them to their core, coming home to an empty house makes them want to jump off a short bridge. These are usually the same people that stay in these shitty ass relationships, where their boo is one transgression away from making them be on a future episode of Snapped. Why? Because the thought of not having man or woman is WAY worst then their current fucked up relationship. They live by the motto something is better than nothing. It's the loneliness that they really fear. The not having a date to their cousin's wedding, the getting into an empty bed at night, not having home base dick/box scares the living shit out of them. I get it..... everyone wants that one "special person" in their lives but where I have to get off the train is what some people deem as that special person.

If your special person makes you cry more than laugh, they may not be that special person. If you rather watch a marathon of Mr. Belvedere or Full House than to deal with their ass on a regular basis, they may not be the special person for you. If you can remember the last time that person did anything nice for you since your annual pap smear of 2010, well they may not be that special person of which you speak. If your friends are coming at you like the first minute of What Have You done For Me Lately by Janet Jackson, maybe that person needs to become somebody that you use to know. I'm just saying holding on to someone, who you don't even like half of the time is just foolish and kinda unhealthily. Look at DMX's wife this woman has been through the gates of hell with this man. Drug addiction, like 3 outside babies, groupies, and the way he was talking to her on the Couple's Therapy show..... Sweet Jesus of Nazareth. All for what?? To be a ride or die chick??? I understand that for some divorce isn't an option (although she recently filed for divorce) but if its getting to the point where you looking like Angela Bassett in the first 30 minutes of Waiting To Exhale and playing Mary J. Blige's My Life album every night. I have nothing but peace and blessings for you because you clearly need it. Fear of being alone shouldn't be you motivation for keeping a shit show of a relationship together. Being alone doesn't equal lonely just remember that and as the late and great Whitney Houston said it best, it's just the lonely talking again.     

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. 

Whitney Houston

                           



As y'all know Whitney Houston passed away yesterday. I really don't have much to say about her death, expect that I feel like one of my Aunts has passed on. I was really devastate by this news. She was/is an musical icon, her music transcended generations..... like I have no words to expressed my shock and sadness about this.As a 80's baby her music has a special place in my heart. I remember her record pictured above was one of the 1st albums I ever had. I would come home from school and play I wanna dance with somebody everyday. I think my parents hid the album from me a couple of times because they were tried of hearing it My heart goes out her family, especially Bobbi Kristina. Whitney we love you and you'll truly be missed. We'll always love you.