Entry 13..

"Ask me where my mind at, you can never find out".. - Wale..

Westup folks? Wanted to drop something, a little quickie..

But umm, I was chatting with one of my homegirls boutta week ago, and an interesting statement came up.. I won't give yall the full convo, but one thing really stuck out.. Peep it..

Light background info first.. Basically, this girl broke up with her dude after a loooonnnggg relationship.. Reason doesn't really matter in this case so we shall hold off on that, but check it.. Convo was on the subject of having to live your everyday/regular lyf after this breakup.. Going from talking/seeing/being with someone almost all day every day to not talking/seeing/being with that same person ever.. Shi is cold peanut butter (hard to swallow).. (new phrase, coining it, ahahahhah).. But umm, yeh that's one of the hardest parts about the break up.. So going from that statement that was made, we shoot to this, which is the meat.. She then says, they turn from one of the most important people in your lyf to strangers (don't quote me).. Thought that hit pretty decent tho, cuz it's real.. People can go from being the closets in your circle to being people you don't even kno really, more specifically, turning from a bestfriend to no type of friend at all (shi in some cases an enemy).. Step back right quick, if you gon get in a relationship make sure that person is your friend from the jump, it'll make it run smoother.. Iight, come back.. That friends to strangers (shouts to Wale for that phrase) transition thing is a tough thing to tackle, but a reality that gotta be dealt with..

But umm, that about it, I just wanted to throw that down.. Something quick, ya deeg.. Shout some love, hate, bash, likes, requests etc.. Cold world, bundle up..

Track I'm spinning back: Kendrick Lamar - HiiiPower.. Spinning this heavy, the heaviest of heavys, easy..

Til then it's always..

Peace, Love & Soul..

1..

- D.No..

Entry 12

"We only lose things, cuz it make us strong" - Lupe Fiasco..

Well well, is it our little Author, coming back Blogging it up a little altered.. What it be folks? I know its been the coolest of minutes since I throwed one of these guys down, but you know how it go, better late than never.. A lot been going on, but I'd go down in History for the longest Entry ever written so I won't throw everything out, ya deeg!!!..

Let's catch up right quick tho.. School ended a month or two ago, glad to be out that mug, but I feel like I'm already finna be starting back up.. Decided I'm gon go head and finish up and Graduate before I try this Overseas thing.. Umm, other than that, Summer been coo man, massive amounts of chillin and gym work.. Hit a Wedding joint at some point and that was pretty coo/weird ahahah.. Shouts to the Hullvalos connection.. Kid had to bring out the Men in Black fit tho ahahah, but it was real decent, good to see 2 Luv Birds.. Best part of summer so far tho has had to be FCA Camp UCLA 2011 which was dope as anticipated.. Got a chance to meet some coo new folks, quite possibly made a dent in a few kids lives with the help of my Meshach and Abendago Cook and EP, and managed to grow stronger in my own personal Faith and that's always good money.. Gotta shout out my boys right quick tho, E, Cook, J.Wil', Big Josh, Corey, B.Myles, etc. Them late night Mescan food deliveries with the Monster Burrito and Carne Asada Fries was money ahaha.. That was a good week tho man, for reals.. Had a chance to go out to the nice scenery of Capo Beach a couple weeks ago to help with my mans Cali Buss video shoot for his Let it Be joint.. Mug was real coo, figure the vid will drop in a few weeks on Face, so look out for that.. Shouts to Klay Thompson (Washington State/Golden State Warriors) for helping us out spur of the moment with some footage, dude is good peoples.. But umm, that about it for the catch up, so let's dive into some topics..

Sports Talk..

First off, ESPN completely sucks right about now, ahahahha.. Cuz all they are showing is baseball highlights which is about two things, a diving/jumping catch or a homerun.. Man, they gon need to fix these labor disputes in the NFL and NBA asap style, Hoop gotta little bit of time to chill, but the NFL season right around the corner.. I'm hearing that they close to a deal tho, so hopefully this is true, cuz I don't know what I'll watch, not a big fan of College football cuz it's too many teams to keep up with.. But me and my peeps was rappin the other day like what if neither one comes back for a minute? How we posed to survive? Hahahha.. Lord Willing a deal will be made on both sides..

I mean, I think I needa say this.. Dirk is a Monster (Nicki Minaj voice).. That is all..

So Pippen made that statement that Bron could be better than Jordan.. And I believe it (shoulder shrug).. I'm not saying he's better, but he has the potential to be better, if he decides to use the Gift that he has.. No one has been touched by the Man like this guy, 6'8 270 quick as H with dumb bounce? Luck of the Irish for sure, sheesh.. But he doesn't seem to have that killer mentality like Mike had and Kobe has (DWade even showed signs of it).. This guy should seriously just take over games, but he never does, if he wants to win multiple ships he will have to start being super selfish and then he can be mentioned in the comaprisons with MJ (maybe).. But for now, Mike is the best, non closer to him than Kobe.. 6th ring or not.. Hold that..

Oohhp.. I should've put my name in the Draft.. That is all..

Tunes..

Tape a little old now but it's been a minute since I blogged so I can do what I want.. Frank Ocean is tight.. I don't know if this guy can sing or if he's doing the "I can talk like I'm singing" Drake trick.. Either way, it's tight.. You know you niice when you put out a free mixtape and your label, which is Interscope by the way, decides to re-release the mixtape as an album.. It was THAT good.. I ride heavy with the Strawberry Swing (Coldplay cover), Dust, Swim Good, and American Wedding, them my joints.. Easy..

A whole lot of music been dropped but I can't talk about all of them, so I'll highlight a few tracks and what not..

J.Cole - Return of Simba and Lost Ones.. Both of those are too ill.. Those two show you what kind of range this guy has man, for reals, go from Street shi, to Hope/Struggle shi.. Reminiscent of Tupac, straight up.. Hyped for dudes album man, September 27th, I'm on it, and supposedly dropping a mixtape first? Whooop!!!.. Niice..

The hype I have for this JayZ and Kanye collab album Watch The Throne isn't even able to be described in a word.. Just know two of the top 10 best rappers are going to spit over one of the top producers in the game.. Need I say more?

Big Sean disc dropped, umm pretty decent, I'd give it a solid 7.5.. Feeling that joint with Lupe (Wait for Me).. Wordplay is niice on there.. Not too many other joints I'd shout out tho..

Drake has everyone going crazy right now and understandably so, that Marvins Room and Trust Issues are dope tracks.. He steady making music that me and a lot of folks my age can relate too, that's why yall seeing mad statuses/tweets with these songs lyrics.. Kinda looking forward to dude album, can't stunt, should be decent..

With about 327827873 Marvins Room covers being done, it's hard to actually try and give one a legit listen, but Jhene Aiko's version is tight.. Even though the quality was a little weak cuz she did it on her GarageBand, it's still appreciated.. Ya deeg..

That's all I got off top as far as music.. MESSAGE!!!

Talk..

You know what it is, the relationship segment of the joint.. Let's see here buddy.. Really aint got much to say, it's Summer so you know folks is single, haven't really had anyone come to the kid about a situation, at least I can't think of any right now.. I guess all I can say is if you feeling someone and wanna make a step go ahead and take the step, cuz the longer you wait, there's a few things that could happen.. That step may get further and further away, or someone could easily cut in front and take the step that you was afraid/timid to take in the first place.. Of course the ever prevalent risk of the other person not feeling the same, but that's the risk you take.. I think it's better if you find out sooner rather than later, cuz that's just time and energy wasted.. Think I said this a while back on Twit, but it'd be sweet if everyone was just upfront/100 with the opposite sex.. That would save people so much more time and what not.. But I don't think that's ever possible, I'm low key tryna make it happen, let's see what happens tho..

Wrap it Up..

Moms moved out to Vegas :).. Yeh that deserved a happy face.. Woman has my Heart, easy.. Now she don't live 7 states away from the kid..

Shouts out to my cuz/ace/mans hunnid grand E.Perry.. Cuz headed back to the Sota on Thursday, Pray for safe travel, the whole 9.. Now I gotta find a new workout patna tho..

Shouts to all my peeeps really, Steve, Drew, Ike, P, NeLoc, Cook, Reesha, G (Be safe out there fam), Frankie and whoever else I missed..

This Instagram app on the iP4 dope, follow at dnorrisii..

Tad bit late roun here, but left a little amount to read.. You know what it is.. GNight folks.. Drop some love, hate, stabs, jabs, likes, bites, whateva, on here or Facebook/dnorrisii @dnorrisii on Twitter..

Til' then it's always,

Peace Love & Soul..

Track I'm Spinning Back: Nikki Jean f/ Lupe Fiasco and Black Thought - Million Dollar Hotel.. Real smoove joint right there, kinda got a light old schoo feel to it..

1..

D.No..

Entry 11..

"If you Love me baby this is how you let me know, don't ever let me go, that's how you let me know, baby" - Jay Z..

Wassup with the wassup?.. We steady in the double figures now.. Finally got a nice lil min to sit down, let the music flow through the earbuds, and lay down an Entry guy.. Lo siento for the delay, but leggo!!..

Playoffs

WOW.. I don't know what's going on.. Memphis beating people, Russ shooting more than KD, Lakers getting SWEPT/smacked in the last game.. I aint even a Laker fan, but I even felt bad like, yall aint got no Heart or what? Heat dismantling my C's? Bulls pushing through tho I see.. Since my C's out, I'm riding with the Bulls tho, just gon voice that now.. But let's speak on these Conference Finals matchups, right quick..

In the East we got the Bulls and Heat.. Very interesting matchup.. Bulls won all 3 games in the regular season, but as the Heat showed last round with the Celtics, the regular season low key don't matter.. Prior to game one, I'm already thinking that the matchup is very good.. DRose will demonlish Bibby and Chalmers so prolly gon put DWade on him and that's gon get Wade tired from chasing that guy around after having to chase Ray Allen around the previous round, and on top of that Wade gon have to go against a steady dose of pretty good defenders in Keith Bogans, Brewer, and even Kyle Korver (he is iiiight when it comes to D).. The matchup of Luol Deng and Bron James is pretty good, Deng can't shut him down, but can be a nuisance, and with Bron, who isn't a great moves guy cuz he'd rather just go by people and dunk, that can be a problem for him.. Plus Deng brings a little O on the other side of the ball.. At the bigs spot, the frontline of Noah, Boozer, Taj Gibson and that huge white guy (ahahha forgot his name) should be enough to handle Bosh and umm, that's it, ahahah.. So after seeing game one.. Sheesh I aint think the Bulls would dub the Heat, but I guess they was just on.. And umm..

Jean Claude Van Dam, that's Disgusting (J.Cole voice).. Hahahha.. It happens to everyone, but when it happens, sheesh.. But anyway.. I don't see there being another blowout, either way, in this series.. I'm gon go head and call it Bulls in 7..

West side of things, we got the Mavs and OKC.. Offense vs offense yet again.. Idk who can guard this guy Dirk, I thought L.O. was the perfect matchup, but he torched the Lakers so maybe he's "unguardable".. Prior to Game one, I'm thinking maybe Ibaka and KD will share the load of guarding him, and KD can still drop 30 40, Russ drop 20 25, and James Harden put in bout 15, and shorten the amount of treys the Mavs hit and they should be straight.. Mavs gonna have to kill with Dirk and Terry as usual, get a solid spark from JJ, and use a steady dose of Marion, Stephenson, and Brewer to guard KD and hold him in check and they should be iight.. After watching Game 1, this guy Dirk is unguardable ahahah.. Sheesh, he made that lil fade away jumper look like a free throw, oohp, by which he hit something like 23 straight give or take.. I say Ibaka or whoever wants to guard this guy needa get in his body and stay in his shot pocket (on his right) and just contest, he gon make some, not 12 of 15 like last night though.. JJ was the reason why they won tho, cuz KD had 40 as well, but had no help.. Russ had an awful shooting night, but he still tryna find out where he can score.. Dirk will not shoot like that again, I'm pretty sure, ahahah.. So the matchup should be coo, I'll throw this one to 7 as well, and I'm gon call..... OKC with the 4-3..

We freestylin right now, meaning I aint come in with no topics so, might have to excuse the random-ness that might ensue..

Talk..

You know, the usual segment or rant about relationships.. Been a couple recent talks about the Game itself.. It's a Game whether you like it or not, it's reality.. From the jump, people basically out for one thing, guys and girls alike.. Why? Tell them that it's Human Nature.. Now, the Game is to play or get played, it's going to happen to everyone, even if you don't feel like you playing someone, there's a chance that you are, and if you aint feeling like you getting played, there's a chance you are.. Misconception is that men play more.. Now, I don't do surveys and shi, but from experience/hear say/etc. the game is played both ways.. Woman are more "secretive" about it, but it's all the same.. So that whole notion that men bout games can officially be deaded.. So if you not playing, or getting played, then you are either in a solid relationship or just straight single.. Now, for the game to end, there has to be a reciprocal action of not playing the game by the two people within the relationship.. Hard position to come to, with the risk of being hurt and all that stuff, but when that point is reached it's coo beans.. Til then, Play on playa..

Hoop..

Iight, so this kinda urked me a little bit.. Twitter be heavy during Playoff games (ummm follow me @dnorrisii) so of course the Timeline be going crazy round those times.. So the day that the Lakers got smacked, there was this buzz of Kobe will never be better than MJ talk.. Now let me throw out the fact that I aint saying dude is better already.. It's coo to say that he won't be better, but the basis of people arguments is what irritated me.. Many were saying, just cuz he didn't win that 6th ring, or the fact that they got damn near 40 pieced.. Pause kinfolk.. A ring doesn't define you as a great player.. People already saying Bron is Top 20 greatest, already, and he doesn't even have one ring, so chill on the ring talk.. Even if Kobe got to 6 people would still hate on him, cuz they feel he's an asshole, and all he cares about is the Game.. What people fail to realize is that Mike Jordan was the same way, the Game was everything.. Like when Bron complained about playing on Christmas or whatever, Kobe or MJ would never say that, at least in public.. Then people kept saying that MJ, would have never loss by 40 in a close out game.. Umm, did you people realize that the Mavs bench themselves score 86, while the Lakers as a team scored that same 86? And they hit like 64% from 3? That's crazy stats, I'm not sure Mike could have done anything like that.. Now Kobe could have dropped 70, and really should have, but that aint the easiest of things to do.. But, all in all, Kobe is not better than Jordan, but he's the closet one.. Hahhaha..

Now, let me peep this Bulls Heat Game 2 and grab some eats..

Yoga done shut my whole body down..

Track I'm spinning back.. Lupe Fiasco f/ Sarah Green - Letting Go..

Til then, it's always Peace Love & Soul..

1..

D.No..

Entry 10..

"Just a little old Hope, with his back against the ropes.." - Lupe Fiasco..

Life is good, lyf is good.. Feeling really good folks, like abnormally good.. For reasons that's unknown.. But umm, what upppp..

Catch it up right quick.. Grinding through this schoo crap for another month, while everyone gets out in a week or two, but oh well.. Boutta start looking for a j o b.. My mans NeLoc said finding a job is like tryna find 2Pac.. Hahahah.. He's low key correct.. I applied at Target a week ago online and left my availability open 24 hours a day 7 days a week.. And they somehow didn't even want to see the kid for an interview.. This why niggas sell drugs, ahahah, can't even get an interview dude, really? I'd rather they had told me in an interview that I'm terrible than to not have a chance at all, like why are you even hiring? Makes 0 sense to me, like no money.. That was a little rant but we back..

Playoffs or Osama Been Hidin?..

Playoffs.. Well most of my picks were correct.. The Spurs really f'd up with that L, cuz they way too old now to win another one.. But lets chalk up these Conference Semifinals right quick..

Miami and Boston: Best matchup, hands down.. This series should low key be one of the greatest, (hopefully).. Rondo should kill Bibby.. Ray Ray and Wade gon be even througout the series, cuz Jesus Shuttleworth seems to not miss 3's ever, and Wade on and off every other game.. Bron and PSpuared matchup favors Bron cuz Pierce gon expend a lot of energy guarding this guy and gon lose some on the O side of things.. KG should kill Mr. Raptor aka Chris Bosh (dude really looks like a Raptor, like thee actual dinosaur).. Center spot is a stalemate, I don't even wanna speak on that.. I want the Celtics to win, but it's going to be very difficult especially if the Heat lock up like they did in Game 1.. I see the C's pulling it out with Jeff Green stepping up and doing what he can, scoring 12-15 while spelling Pierce and helping to lock Bron.. I'm going Game 7 with a Boston W.. Oohp, watch for the resurgence of that man Shaquille "The Diesel" Oneal.. Bet..

Lakers and Mavs: Pretty good matchup right here.. I mean the Lakers are the Lakers, period.. They forever have Kobe, ankle and all and Pau Gasol/Gasoft and the rest.. Mavs is very stacked so they can hang with LA for sure.. People sleep on how niice this guy Dirk is too.. I mean dude is really good, even though he's a 7 foot jump shooter, he's not like Big Z aka Jigsaw from the Saw flicks, meaning he don't just stand and shoot wide open crap, he hits these one footed leaner runner shots with ease.. I see this going to Game 7 with every game being close except for maybe 2 in which each team blows each other out by like 15.. I'm going defending champs Lakers in this one..

Bulls and Hawks: First off, D.Rose, you can not get hurt ahahahha.. How'd this guy tweak his ankle at the end of the game man? Really?.. (Real life just shook my head so "smh").. I've gotten immune to the lower seed winning the first game in these playoffs, so the Hawks win tonight doesn't shock me, I see them winning two games at least anyway.. Rose will have to do his whole 30+ a game in order for Chicago to win, and Luol needa drop 15 to 20 while Ashton Kutcher/Kyle Korver needa go 3 for 5 from the Tre line.. Hawks are a talented team and Joe-Jo and J-Craw will score.. Key part of this game is Bogans and Brewer to hold those two scorers in check and the Bulls should be straight.. I'm gon call this one Bulls in 6.. (Could go 7 tho)..

OKC and Griz: Welp, no one expected Memphis to be here but they here and aint dissappointing yet since they smacked KD and them at they house.. Terrible.. Russ is niice but he gotta realize KD is the man, period, so hold off on how many shots he be taking a game (mainly jumpers).. No one, I repeat NO ONE, can hold Zach Randolph, point, blank, period.. OKC may needa do what the Hawks did with the Magic and let him get off but hold everyone else in check.. Perk and Ibaka gon have to hold down the paint like they posed to and KD will forever get off, Tony Allen too short to lock him up, he'll just shoot over him.. But we'll see how the series goes.. I'm gon call it OKC in 6..

Freeze Frame: Lakers just did some uncharacteristic stuff.. I'll leave it at that..

News..

Like a crip say, I got way too many Blues for anymore bad news.. This guy Osama Bin Laden finally was found and killed, I'm sure everybody and they Momma know.. ^Raise the Roof^.. Now people are acting like we done cured cancer or something.. Don't get me wrong, it's a great victory for America, more specifically, I feel for the families of the victims of the terroist attacks because maybe they have some sort of Peace now that they know that the mastermind behind the attacks has finally suffered consequences for their actions.. But, now we gotta realize the backlash that may spawn from this move.. We killed the leader, the controller, he wasn't the one doing the things, his followers were.. It's kinda along the same lines as a gang.. The dude at the top aint the most dangerous, it's the little folks under him that's doing the dirt so now they have no one telling them what to do so they have the potential to wile out, no Nick Cannon.. These followers may have the same resentment for Americans after this as Americans had for Muslims after 9/11, but the difference is most Americans weren't about to head to the Middle East and handle some business, while these people have the ability to, because this is what they are used to anyway.. Just putting things in perespective, not tryna scare folks, just shining on the real.. But my thinking is like who's gon rule now? It's now a matter of who can one-up the next guy for the leading position.. Folks don't need to be paranoid, just understand the possibilities.. But the ignorance/arrogance of some people kinda irritated me so I had to speak on it.. Just live your life (Rihanna voice)..

Livin' it up right quick..

Peep my mans Cali Buss music.. Threw some links out.. Both of these tracks are ceritfied dope.. If you don't like them, then you probably don't like music.. (Shoulder shrug)..

http://soundcloud.com/calibuss/i-think-i-love-you#

http://soundcloud.com/calibuss/free-people#

Lupe dropped his Words I Never Said video featuring Skylar Grey.. Very good video, represents the song very well as a music video should.. Peep it at http://www.lupefiasco.com/.. Best vid portraying the song I've seen since Eminem and Rihanna Love The Way You Lie..

Chris Brown dropped a Vid for that She Aint You song too.. Songs tight cuz it samples MJ - Human Nature.. Great stuff..

Seen Fast Five this past weekend.. Dope as H.. I only seen like the first one but this made me wanna watch all of the sequels.. If you haven't seen it yet, I'd advise you to go see it and stay til after the the credits are over for a suprise.. But great flick, plus the chicks were bomb.. Always a goody..

Real Talk..

So we know it's Curve Season, let's make that known yet again.. Anyone can get Curved, no one is immune, once you realize that, you goody.. But umm, people seem to hit me with they relationship probs like I'm a Guru or something, so after a few situations presented to me over the past couple weeks, I've come to the conclusion that chicks are shadier than men.. Hahaha.. BOTH SEXES ARE SHADY.. Just females are "better" at it.. That's it, ahahahha.. I don't want to put anyones business out just yet, so we'll chill on the examples..

Vibin..

I don't even have any new music for folks, ahhahah.. At least, no tapes, so I'm gon throw out some albums, kinda old, that I don't think people realize how nice they are.. Usher - 8701, Justin Timberlake - Future Sex/Love Sounds, John Legend - Get Lifted..

A few songs off these albums: Usher - Can You Help Me, JT - Another Song/All Over Again, Set the Mood Interlude..

That'll suffice for the night.. Been up since 4 something, I think I should sleep finally.. Throw some requests, love, hate, bash, laffs, clowns, jokes, likes etc. at me via Facebook/dnorrisii or Twitter @dnorrisii or on here if you gotta account.. Ya dig..

Spinning back: Jamie Foxx - Fly Love.. Real different, but believe me it's dope.. Jamie Foxx is too talented..

Oohp, just an instrumental, but quite Soulful.. Terrace Martin and 9th Wonder - Never Stop Loving You..
http://youtu.be/hpRoHC-19OM

Til then it's always..

Peace, Love & Soul..

1..

- D.No..

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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