Entry 9..

"Decisions, decisions, this life is our decisions, and I got the right aim but not always the precision".. -Phil Ade..

Late night, great write.. Sup folks..

Mike Jordan on em.. (Meaning I'm 23).. Clap for em..

Looking like my playoff predictions are on point thus far.. Should be Negrodamus, ahahah.. Na but Playoffs are looking nice for reals, things getting chippy, that's always a goody.. Zaza really head butted JRich like 3 times, ahahhaha, that's G, he probably moves in silence like lasagna.. D.Howard always be getting them cheap shots in tho.. But umm, the C's smacked the Knicks, that series disappointing me man.. NY where you at? Melo can't do it solo, STAT and Big Shot Billups gotta get through these injuries and make this series competitve.. Much respect to the Heat for taking care of business on the verge of sweeping Philly, same with DRose and the Chitown Bulls.. Shouts out my Chitown lords by the way, JayB, DT and Dnice.. Lakers gon handle they biz in the next two, Portland gon come up on 4 in a row, bet.. Spurs as well.. Looking forward to seeing how the Thunder go do in the Mile High tho, with the altitude and shi, if Denver can get that W then this series should become interesting as it should be..

Since we on the NBA joint, let's touch on the ensuing lockout for next season.. I don't know all the specs and stuff but it's a money thing I'm pretty sure, because that's always the case.. The L wants the players to be paid less, cats be on that Spreewell talking bout they can't survive on just millions a year.. That's bull, I mean if you buying cars, houses, clothes and just splurging then you won't survive, point, blank, period.. There should be like a universal class for everyone called Money, to teach folks how to spend they money, invest to make interest for the future, instead of spending it on interest of the present.. But the lockout in general will probably happen, so we'll probably see a stalemate like we seeing in the NFL.. A lot of jobs on hold with lockouts man, if you take into account everything, from the stadium keep up, season ticket sales, advertisements during commercial breaks etc. It's going to be interesting to say the least..

NFL tho, man I feel sorry for the elite college football cats that have a promising career in the Pros but are basically being put on hold with this lockout.. Same situation over there with the money thing.. It's retarded, but it's reality.. Hope they get this mug resolved soon so we can get a football season next year, cuz I'd go bizerck (spellcheck) if baseball was the only thing on, sports wise..

Matta fact, how the MLB still alive? They be paying they players mad amounts of money, with no salary cap.. Makes 0 sense.. Oh well, shoulder shrug..

iPhone 5 being released in Sep or Oct.. Wow, how it get pushed back from June/July? And they saying it's gon damn near look the same.. Even with all this, I'm still gon prolly get it ahahhaha.. Or the new Sidekick 4g, you know that mug looks dope.. If AIM was still the shi, everyone would have that guy.. I say we bring it back, like corduroys, white tees, with the brush in our back pockets throwin up the W, cuz that's how we did it on the Westcoast.. Hahahhaha (insider), I aint seen that in a min.. But umm.. Peep it..

Tape Time:

Fabolous/Loso dropped his tape The Soul Tape a couple days ago and that mug is dope.. He's always been niice with the flow, very underrated, but I think he really did his thing on this one.. I've always bumped dude, and probably got his whole catalog, but on this one I feel he really put his Soul in this Tape.. Hahhaha, na but for reals, it's real tight.. First joint called Pain over that See World beat by Pac is my favorite thus far.. Coo features, one with Weezy coo and the joint with Trey Songz money too.. I'll be nice and drop the download link so yall can judge for yourself.. http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2011/04/21/fabolous-the-soul-tape-mixtape/

Talk:

I'm gon drop a little something that I've realized.. Men often front to they boys that they aint feeling a chick or wouldn't even give her the time of day, but on the sly they be trying to, or have gotten at the chick.. OR.. They lie about who they've hit, or just randomly feel the need to tell you they hit a chick.. I've come to the realization that these niggas be lyin, ahahhaha.. Flipside.. Women front like they aint feeling a dude, that whole playing hard to get shi, so when the dude aint tryna work no more and they pick up a new chick, they automatically hate.. Shi ladies seem to not like each other in general, I don't get it.. Chicks can really be around another girl they don't really like, but if we kickflip, Dudes aint having that, I know if I don't like a dude I aint finna be around this guy unless we gon scrap..

Me and my mans Ike be having some real convos tho on the relationship topics, I should start putting em up on here on the low.. One recent joint was the topic of the Title of Girlfriend/Boyfriend and what it means.. It's basically two things.. 1. You are low key obligated to communicate with that person, go on dates, hang out, all that stuff, and 2. It's a conscious to have one partner/so you won't cheat.. Quite simple, but that's basically what we marked it down to be.. Opinion, not Truth.. All it takes is for a person to not want one of these things and that'll be the end of that.. It's Curve Season so fellas, yall might start hearing some retarded excuses from these ladies..

For example.. If you ask a chick to hit a flick and she says she don't wanna go out, and you see her at a club that night, you got Curved.. Or if you ask a chick for her number and she says find me on Facebook, Curved.. Hahhaah.. Or if you getting in good with a chick, yall vibing, hitting on all cylinders, all that, and you decide to lock her up and she says she don't want a bf, Curved, you aint the only man she talking to patna.. Hahaha, let me stop tho..

Guess I'll cut this right here, left a little something to read.. I don't want to discourage any guys by the way ahaha, if you see something you like, go get it man, Easy.. I know I do.. Just beware that it's Curve Season..

Oohp, umm, we bringing back this l.y.f. clothing tho, be on the lookout.. Hit me if you tryna get some shirts.. Shouts out my peoples man, E, Ike, P, Drew, Frankie, G, Steve, NeLoc.. Whole Crew cuz.. But umm, got some Hoop to get into 2morr, I holla.. Stay up and Pray up til your Days up..

Spinning Back: Estelle & John Legend - Hey Girl.. (Listen to Legend get Soulful towards the end)..

Til then you know its always..

Peace Love & Soul..

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-D.No..

Entry 8..

A little bit of something, a whole lot of nothing..

Sup folks, you know with the NBA Playoffs jumpin off this weekend, I had to speak on it.. Throw my predictions and word bout the matchups and stuff.. Brace yourself, like overbite..

Start off with the East side of things first..

Orlando Magic and Atlanta Hawks: Decent matchup I believe.. No one can match up with Dwight "chocolate shoulders" Howard, as evident in game one.. Hawks are stacked with mad talent, but too much talent is a curse at times.. I think this series has the potential to go to 7 because if the Hawks play how they should then they can hang with the Magic with ease.. Joe Johnson is niice, and he needs to kill, as well as J Crawford.. To contend fully they need one or two more players to step up too like a Josh Smith and short ol Al Horford.. The strategy to just let Dwight kill and hold everyone else seemed to work in Atl's favor in Game 1, so well see what adjustments the Magic make in Game 2.. My call on this is Magic in 7..

Miami Heat and Philly 76ers: This isn't even a contest, or at least shouldn't be. I haven't seen the 6ers play all year, but I mean they playing the Miami Heat, ahahah.. It's gon be very hard for them to beat the Heat in a 7 game series.. Game 1 showed a little of what Philly can bring to the table as far as maybe making it a little hard for Mia, but they do have Bron Wade and (the never mentioned unless he has a bad game) Bosh.. Philly might can sneak one, maybe two in at home, but I'm gon call this one Heat 4-1..

Chicago Bulls and Indiana Pacers: First off, big ups to IE repper D.Collison for the Pacers.. He was Hoopin that first game too.. As far as the series goes, the Bulls had the best record, and best player in the regular season.. Therefore they basically should sweep this series, if things go how they posed to.. But it is the NBA, so anything can happen.. The Pacers had the whole game, until D.Rose did his thing and Korver hit that Trey, I mean some people scared now cuz they feel it gave the Pacers confidence, thinking they can hang with Chi.. I don't know Rose, but he seems like a super competitor so I'm sure he's gon rally up his team to not let that happen again.. This series could go 5 maybe even 6, but I'm gon put it on Rose to step up and bang on his team, and make this sweep happen.. Bulls in 4..

NY Knicks and Boston Celtics: This is easily my favorite matchup of the first round.. Call it the most intriguing because this is probably the only Series that is 50/50.. I should put it out that KG is my favorite player and I respect Ray Allen and Pierce game so I'm pullin for the C's, as I'd like to see them get one more with Shaq, cuz those are all "good guys" in the L.. At the same time tho, Melo game is sooo niice.. Illest triple threat player I've seen, cuz will rock you to sleep and pull up, stutter step, step back, rocker step, hezi out this World, to the rim, it don't matter, dude has a nice game offensively, prolly the best scorer in the L (debate me).. With all that being said tho, the question is the Knicks D, can they hold the C's? They have all the pieces to be a decent defensive team, besides a giant underneath, but they got athletic bigs in Turiaf and Amare that can contest at the rim so if they "buy in" (Coach Smith) to the D side they should be decent.. Boston just needs to do them and hold Melo and Amare a little bit, and make sure they completely lock up anyone else.. I wanna see this series go down to the wire every game as Game 1 displayed (Melo aint have to try and be a hero tho, ahahhaha).. So I'm callin this one Boston in 7.. (Watch Shaq get off when he come back too, ahaha)..

Left coast the best coast.. West Coast now..

San Antonio Spurs and Memphis Grizzlies: Game one was a nice lil suprise for me as it was for everyone else I'm guessing.. No one really seen the Griz taking game one for sure, but as I said earlier, it is the NBA.. The Cavs beat some top teams this season and no one woulda thought that neither.. But umm, Geee-no-billy aint even play, so I call that game one W a fluke, and the Spurs gon use they elderness and win the next 4 in a row.. So Spurs in 5..

Portland Trail Blazers and Dallas Mavericks: Very interesting matchup, this one can go either way too I think.. Dallas is another one of those teams that's stacked, like retardedly stacked, they got people on they squad I aint even know bout for a min, like Peja, really? Crazy, but they don't play no D ahaha, cept for Tyson Chandler.. Dirk is niice, but he's 7 foot and shoots jumpers, that's not a good move for the squad, he needa get some boards.. Flipside of things, Portland stacked too, Gerald Wallace is key in they success cuz he can lock Dirk and do all the dirty work, rebounds, blocks, run the floor, all the little stuff that teams need.. Aldridge is raw too, does all the things that Dirk should do, and that's why they gon win this series.. Think there's a possibility to go 7 but, I'm gon call Portland in 6.. Gon be some good games tho..

Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Hornets: Depending on whether Gasol or Gasoft shows up indicates which team will win the game.. Gasoft was present in Game One therefore the Lakers took a L.. My mans Ike pointed out that it seemed like LA aint even care that they was finna lose, I just took it as they are true vets and realize that this is only Game one, I'm not advocating taking the L, but I'm saying that they don't really need to trip, just do what they posed to do.. CP3 will kill DFish if they keep him on him for the whole series, that will be a problem, although I don't see Paul winning a game by himself if the Lakers come how they posed to.. I think they'll put Kobe on Paul kinda how they put Kobe on Russ last year, but well see.. Bench production is key for N.O. and that'll help them contend throughout the entire series.. Since they stole game 1, they got a little confidence, so I'm gon give them one more win, but I'll call the Lakers in 6..

Oklahoma Thunder and Denver Nuggets: My mans NeLoc put it best, "First to 150 wins the game" ahahaahha.. This is a high scoring matchup, everyone keeps saying that no D will be played, but game one had a billion blocks that I seen, so I wouldn't call it no D.. They put like 4 diff people on KD and he still murdered them, dude is just too raw, skinny and all.. And Russ will get off cuz he's too fast in the open floor.. Even tho Lawson and Ray Felton quick as well, they aint got the height to really bother Russ a lot.. Nuggets have 8 or 9 offensive threats, and Nene went crazy with the left hand bang ons tonight ahhahah.. He's very underrated, he can finish with either hand, decent size, and plays pretty good D.. There prolly will be a fight between him and Perk before the series over tho, should be funny.. The game tonight was controversial with that basket interference thing that gave the Thunder that go ahead bucket, there will probably be a Challenge Flag entrance into the NBA rules next season like the NFL.. But, I think the key for OKC is going to be bench production, the Nuggets got potential starters coming off the bench so there's an advantage for them, JHarden and Maynor gon have to bring bout 10-12 pts off the bench while Russ and KD get 35 each ahhaa in order to get the points.. Pretty good series I see brewing tho, I'm gon roll with OKC is 6, Nuggets don't have a closer.. Melo?.. Hahhaha..

Those are my calls, thus far, I think I'll speak on every round, or if my mind change or something I'll throw it out there.. Looks like it's gon be a lot of good games tho this year..

Still a Clips fan tho, don't get it twisted..

But umm, late night, time for the kid to knock.. Debate my picks, like em, hate, bash, call me crazy, whatever..

Til then its always Peace, Love & Soul..

D.No, signing off..

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Entry 7..

It's basically common knowledge now that I be laggin on the posts, so we'll skip that.. Wassup with the wassup tho? Gon switch it up a tad bit on this guy..

Iight so, it's pretty evident that I am a music head mos def.. More specifically I'm a lyrics guy, if an artist talking bout something and just hits me, I can run the joint back all day.. But umm, it's something about words having the power to illicit (spellcheck) emotion in the listener.. So dope to me.. And if you can throw that over a nice beat then it's easy money.. But umm, I've found myself to appreciate the art of writing, I wouldn't necessarily say that I'm niice at it, but I'm decent.. If I hear something, or read something, it'll just spark this random writing, in which I've coined, Brainwork.. But anyway..

I was on Face earlier, and this chick wrote on her status something along the lines of "why we always want what we can't have".. And this is what transpired from that..

"The allure of the chase, drives us, motivates and inspires us, that's why it's just, in our nature as humans to want what we can't have. As this drive, influences our strive, for something, otherwise, we're merely alive, for nohing. Yet, no one can truly pinpoint their purpose in life, that's why we try and read between the lines, as we collide with life's many battles in which we always seem to survive, in an effort to further define what it means to really be alive.." (prolly will add more)

Idk, I think that people have a lot to say, that they hold in, and this is a decent way to get it out.. I'd say to folks to just let stuff flow one day, it aint gotta rhyme or nothing, aint gotta be a rap, or poem, it's just words that mean something to you, and it might have the possibility to mean something to someone else, you never know.. Just let it flow.. Hahaha, low key just went sentimental, or philosophical on that, but umm, as you know how the river go..

Anywho, something real light.. And you know I gotta throw in a little music ahahhaa.. Jay Z linked up with Sade for that Moon and Sky remix and J completely murdered it.. He's prolly the only person that can even make that move, or have enough power/pull/stardom/complete geniousity (invented word, and what?) to make that connect happen, but that track is pure greatness.. Stamped it.. I'll get back..

Track I'm spinning back.. Phil Ade - Your Hands.. (It's rare to get this term to define your music, but Marsha Ambrosious (spellcheck) is "Soulful" the way she sings over that beat.. And of course Phil Ade lyrics is on point too..)

Til then, Peace, Luv & Soul..

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