Batman x Fast Life Yungstaz - Swag Surfin

Waiting till this Sterling stuff dies down to get back into thing of things... watch this while you wait!

The South Kongress "Donald Sterling Video Running Joke" Post

If you haven't seen this, watch it, like, now.  Everyone's going to be doing stories, articles, and speeches concerning this.   Brian, Quincy and myself will continually update this with thoughts until it get's old.  Also - this may never get old.

So... in 2014, old white guys are still legit afraid of their queens NEEDING that Black plug?  Just what adult films has this guy been watching? - Cam                      

looks like State Farm is pulling their team sponsorship. Others following suit. - Cam

now if... apparently he refuses to rent apartments to minorities.  like, wouldn't do it.  also, he's still married, and his wife has been trying to get the jumpoff outta here for awhile.  guess he should've listened? - Cam 

Here's a list of all of the LA Clippers' sponsors.  Let's see who all jumps ship. - Cam

CarMax, State Farm, and VIrgin America have all pulled their sponsorship of the Clippers. - Cam 

A fake deep rapper wrote a fake deep post for gawker.  People are upset, but not in the way he expected.  Also - it really sucked. - Cam 

Sprint pulled out too, knowingthat they need my $100 every month.  Can't risk a verizon exodus!!! - Cam 

The biggest scandal in all this is the NAACP once again demonstrating their incompetence by planning to give THIS man, Donald Sterling, a lifetime achievement award.  For what I wonder?  Blatant housing discrimination?  Saying Blacks and Mexicans stink and no one wants to live next to them?  This isn't the worst thing Sterling has ever done...not by a long shot.  Thanks NAACP! - B Ray 

  - Bomani Jones just always, always gets it. - Cam

So that's it for him... banned for life, max fine, "strongly encouraged" to sell team.  I pray for the first owner that is "unsure" about his daugther dating Black guys... - Cam

And BOY did everyone turn into Nat fucking Turner over the last few days!  Where were y'all when dude was paying his Black GM chump change, or denying residency to minorities?  But nah, I'm sleep over here. - Cam

"Prolly Rape" with Quality CGI - Sucker Punch Needs a Director's Cut???

So this happened.  Man listen - I liked '300'.  I own '300'.  Twice.  On two different platforms.  Cuz '300' was amazing.  I remember the day I bought my dog, he was in a small suburb outside of Dallas, and he actually got there before the breeders had him ready to go, so we went to a theater to kill some time.  We saw 'The Departed', in my opinion Leo's best work, and the preview for '300' was shown.  It was amazing.  Visually, tonally, you just KNEW how great it was going to be.  So I've seen '300' maybe as many times as I've seen 'Friday After Next'.  Kidding, I've seen 'Friday After Next' more times than your parents have seen the news, but you get the idea.

Honestly, things could only get worse from here.

Back to my point, '300' was a visual masterpiece, heavily stylized and completely taking advantage of everything green screen can provide.  Then came 'Watchmen'.  Oh boy.  'Watchmen' is considered by many to be one of the best American STORIES ever produced in any medium.  It's fun, it's deep, it's a mystery, it very mature, and most importantly, it's smart.  To find a movie that is all these things, it would have to be a LONG ASS MOVIE.  Zack Snyder wanted his cinematic interpretation of the comic series to be at least four hours.  The studio wasn't having that shit, cuz nobody's gonna sit through a four hour movie about anything.  Long story short, the movie sucked, for many, many reasons, but it was really good looking, and was profitable.  Slightly.  Like, it cost a butt load to make, and only made a crack load profitable.  But yeah, they kept giving Snyder the ball to run with - and where did he take his next carry?  'Sucker Punch', that's where.

Pretty as it was... this was a BAD PLAN.

 First off, if you like the movie 'Sucker Punch', I don't like you.  If you say "I liked things ABOUT 'Sucker Punch'", that's cool I guess.  But if you'd recommend that movie to a friend, I kinda want you to get unfriended.  "Dirt worst" is a strong opinion, but let's glance at the movie -

So "prolly rape" is really the crux of everything. I'll be using that term to explain a scene where they can't say it's rape BECAUSE SOMEHOW THIS IS PG-13 but as an adult with eyes and ears, you know rape when rape happens. In the beginning, a man who "prolly rapes" his stepdaughters has one of them committed because he killed the other.  Yup.  Going there early.  He brides the orderly who "prolly rapes" all the other commited girls there to have her lobotomized with the quickness.  So she starts to fantasize about being a prostiture in a brothel. a common setting for "prolly rape".  All the people in this Asylum are present in her dream, and the other girls ally with her to plan an escape before the lobotomy.  So the orderly tells her he's going to sell her virginity to "High Roller", the doctor who performs the labotomy (also, selling your virginity, here an allegory for the lobotomy, even worse that "prolly rape" - that's really rape!).

You even named her Baby Doll man.  Baby Doll?!??!?!?!

So if you're still with me, she does a dance (has sex with a guy) to go into a fantasy, within the fantasy, where her and the other girls are fighting giant mechs in Japan.  HUH?  From that point on, it's just dream fights alluding to "prolly rape" and violence against women without providing any real empowerment, justification, or even a really satisfying conclusion (she's finally "at peace" after SHE GETS LOBOTOMIZED) and one of  the other side characters actually gets away, after the other four are either killed, captured or... well, broken record at this point.  It's visually got some real juice, like the scene they ripped from Final Fantasy, but really it's empty and offensive and would have been an interesting music video ten years ago maybe kinda.

Yup, found a way to work 'Dredd' in here.  GO BUY 'DREDD'!!!!

 This movie made 7 million dollars.  The budget was 82 million, and it made 89 million.  By comparison, 'A Haunted House', which can't be funny, cost 2.5 million and made like 60 million.  Even the sequel, that cost 4 million made 10 million so far.  'Sucker Punch' was an expensive crock.   Numbers show it, reviews show it.  So a director's cut?  OF COURSE!  Now, there have been movies that have done so well on home video, they warrant sequels and additional versions.  The idea that we need more of that, or that somehow the studio messed up what he wanted, a la 'Watchmen', is crazy.  If this movie had been any longer, what would it include?  Prolly rape, I'd wager.  If you see the new cut, and it really does make the movie better,  MISS ME WITH IT.  COMPLETELY.  I'M GOOD OVER HERE.

Hannibal Buress - Gibberish Rap x Ballerinas

Writer/ Actor/Comedian Hannibal Buress was in Austin, TX last night as part of the Moontower Comedy Festival.  It was a really fun show from start to finish (in part because the other half smuggled in the disposable flasks) and the finish was... well take a look -

Can I Tell You My Side of it Though? - The Boondocks Season Premiere Review

We live in a country where R. Kelly probably is a serial rapist, Woody Allen imported a kid then married the kid and people still purchase Kells albums and watch Woody Allen movies without thinking twice.  Yup, straight like that.  So Chris Brown, who has more charges than hit records

(count 'em) was definitely fair game for "The Boondocks", the comic strip turned anime-stylized satire that very rarely pulls punches  on who and what they go after.

UNCANNY.

Enter Pretty Boy Flizzy, a chiseled, handsome R&B Heartthrob (complete with an ex-girlfriend named Christianna!) that all the women want, despite his raunchy lyrics and mile long rap sheet.  In an effort to fight the charges against him, he enlists the aid of local lawyer Tom Dubois.  Now, to an extent, we've seen this before - Tom's shortcomings as a man are only made more evident by the guest character opposite him.  Like the first time they did this.  With Usher.

You've seen this before.  A few times.

 Michael B. Jordan  does a great job as Flizzy, using a very even, but dialed back tone to rationalize the character's numerous errors.  When asked about the many crimes he's been accused of, he retorts "can I tell my side of it though?",  an excellent way to show that even with a hint of doubt, things like the "team breezy" movement will latch onto, and diefy someone they feel gives them a feeling of happiness.  Flizzy has song titled "Titty Telethon", and few of his bars go "baby grab ya ankles, you know what's next...".

You have my full attention.

With all this said, I have to say this was a letdown.  For one, it looks like the show's budget has been cut significantly.  Sure, it still has the same great voice acting, but there are was less actually frames of animation, and they try to make up for this by having the characters almost play caricatures of themselves, with way overblown facial expressions.  it's like that last season of X-Men all over again (thanks Weez) where it just seems like less of an effort was put into the actual aesthetics.

Relegated to a cameo.

 Also, for a Season Premiere of a show that's been on such a long hiatus, you'd like to see at least one of the three central characters play a big role in the episode.  Save for one extended scene, there was VERY LITTLE Granddad, Huey or Riley.  While the Tom-Alpha Male formula was definitely worked in the past, this episode felt like a very heavy retread of something that didn't need revisiting.  The allegory of Chris Brown being untouchable was good, and Tom was probably the character to cast him against, but there wasn't enough variation from the advice he got from A Pimp Named Slickback years back.

I still have high hopes for the show, but people worried that Aaron McGruder's exodus would take some of the edge off of the show are for now justified in their beliefs.  This is one of the least memorable episodes so far.

Final Rating - 6/10  (it was cool...)

Best Quotes -
 "Mixed Race Quadroon Nigga Children!" - Uncle Ruckus
"Can I tell you my side of it though?" - Flizzy
(on multiple occasions) "Man, I was fucked up!" - Flizzy
"A woman would rather be with a guy that beats them to death than bores them to death.  Beleive me, I know!" - Flizzy
"If I can just stay in the right amount of trouble..." - Flizzy
"I guess hitting a woman is ok if you have abs, is that it?" - Tom
"I know sometimes bitches step out of line!  I know I do!" - Sarah

Struggle Shirt x Struggle Bra - a FaceBook Challenge

I put my friends to the task of using a comment to describe this picture.  Hilarity ensued.

Post by Cameron Hawkins.

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We Got a Batman Beyond Animated Short in 2014??? THANK YOU BASED GOD!

Commemorating Batman's 75th Anniversary, Darwyn Cooke created a stand alone trailer for "Batman - Beyond" with Kevin Conroy reprising his role as the cantankerous OG Batman, with Will Friedle playing the Terry McGinnis, the young thundercat Bat  with the high tech suit.  Artist skins galore.

My Weekend Was All Like

.... bought a half a P to smoke and a pint of purple to chase it! (Guess you had to be there)

Frat Fails and Admiral Ackbar - The Progression of Ole Miss

It could have all been so sweet.  The nerd in me was HYPE!  In 2010, there was a petition at the University of Mississippi (more commonly known as Ole Miss)  to choose a new, more PC mascot.  Why?  Because the team name is the Rebels.  Mississippi Rebels.  In Mississippi.  Rebelling against what you ask.  That would be that overbearing greedy as Abraham Lincoln and his forces in the North, naturally.  Now, there's a time and a place for everything, and well, Mississippi in 1936 was probably ideal in chooses such a, decisive mascot as "Colonel Reb" for your school.  But in 2010, it seemed to have worn out it's welcome.  A campaign was started to update the schools mascot to something, well, more awesome and less racist.  The said "forget a Colonel, let's get an Admiral!"  What Admiral?  Only the MOST IMPORTANT ADMIRAL OF ALL TIME!

He'd still wear the hat. Compromise.

This would have been the coolest thing to happen in the history of forever!   But I'm a card carrying geek like that.  But truthfully, is it any more ridiculous to have the Mon Calamari (lazy naming, Lucas!) leader of the Alliance as the school mascot than a heavily stylized Col. Sanders???  Probably not, but I'm not from Mississippi, and don't make the rules out there.

They get it.

But this notion being dismissed immediately lends credence to an incident that recently took place.  On campus, there is a statue of James Meredith, the first Black student admitted to Ole Miss.  Three members of the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity had the bright idea to hang a noose on the statue, and leave behind a confederate flag, just in case you didn't get the picture.  This particular chapter of the frat was shut down, and the reasoning given was that this was the final straw in a long series of mistakes.  That makes perfect sense, given that racially influences defamation of property typically isn't your first offense.

He's no Space Amphibian, but a clearly better choice than "Col"

Now, to give credit where it's due, they got Colonel Reb the hell up outta here, and replaced him with Rebel Black Bear, (who may be from Louisiana) a much better choice.  While not the leader of the most significant military fleet in a galaxy far ,far away, he's still pretty cool.  Things that we feel are CLEARLY outdated and wrong can take a long time to die depending on who's in charge.  But it is comforting to see that there are limits on wrongdoing, where even if crimes are committed against a single person, even certain gestures can carry harsh, necessary penalties.  Here's hoping that more and more organizations take firm stands on this type of behavior.  And that we get an awesome fictional character as a mascot for a major university soon (Looking at you, Maryland Teenage Mutant Ninja Terrapins!)

With a Single Picture, ASAP Rocky Shows Me Just How Out of Touch I Am.

A picture can say 1,000 words, or leave you speechless.  I think 4 more grey hairs just popped up on my dome.

Even the guy in the background is like "Really my G?"

Curb Your Enthusiasm - The Unfair Standards of a Jay Z/ Beyonce Meme

Heauxs be trolling.  So maybe that's a bit harsh, but it has to be said:  That meme is the worst possible way to express your desire for a relationship.  Why?  Because you probably can't sing, and he probably can't rap for starters.  Do you understand just how good Jay Z is at rap?  Do you?  HAVE YOU HEARD REASONABLE DOUBT?  Take a second here to listen to Hov at his very, very best.



So yeah, chances are the person you crush on, date, have a kid with, whatever, isn't going to meet those standards, because that bar is REALLY, REALLY HIGH.  And that's just from an artistic standpoint.  The amount of sacrifice, dedication, and star alignment it took to get Jay Z to this level  would at least require, I dunno, if Reasonable Doubt came out in 1996, and "Crazy is Love" came out in 2003, that means it's going to take at least another 7 years before a person can go into a relationship in Jay's mindset.

Chances are, you already have a relationship like this.

 Also, the other half of this equation is Beyonce, the world killer.  Beyonce, with the golden voice and bronzed, chiseled body.  You could make the claim that she's in the very top percentile of Women, if you use things like, I dunno, beauty, talent and dedication to your craft.  She runs the world man.  SHE CAN GO BY ONE NAME.  SHE'S SO INCREDIBLY POPULAR, YOU FORGET HOW HOOD HER NAME IS.  So having to be the Beyonce in this comparison, you are essentially saying you are an eternally sought after, and until recently unattainable and you want to be appreciated as such.

If you want that, BE THIS!

With all that said, the crux of these memes are the are usually the two of them doing regular stuff, like sitting court side at NBA games.  COURT SIDE.  Costs more than you make in a month, but hat's what you want.  Really?  Take a second to think about the last time your boyfriend invited you to a sporting event, and you opted to stay home.  Beyonce doesn't stay home.  She's at the game, next to her Husband!  I can think of so many instances when I'm out with the guys, and when one of them gets asked where his girl is, he says "she didn't feel like coming out."  But you want to be HAPPY like them. 

Lowered Expectations - not just a MADTV sketch.

No one is familiar with their conversations, whatever fights they have, and what irritates them about one another.  They just look amazingly happy in the pictures together.  Doing rich stuff cuz they are both wealthy.  It's more realistic to want... I dunno... Flav and Brigitte's relationship - you'd just need drugs and a camera.  And a viking hat.  All of which you can probably locate in a 10 mile radius from where you're reading this.

X-Men: Days of Future Past (Trailer #3)

Ok... this time they got it all the way right.  Time hopping Wolverine, young buck Professor X running his mouth, Sentinels, Mutant powers and Scott Summers can't avoid X-Men: The Last Stand spoilers.  Just over a month away!

Mimi's Adult Film, or That Time Y'all Pretended to Care about Other People's Kids.

(With my luck, this will be the one time my mother decides to read my blog.)

Mimi Faust, one of the major figures on VH1's "Love and Hip-Hop: Atlanta", recently released a preview to her Adult Film "Mimi & Nikko - Scandal in Atlanta (The Secret Sex Tape)".

Keep it 100 - This is the healthiest relationship he's ever had.

1)  If your "sex tape" has a computer generated title screen, it's not a sex tape.

2)  If your "sex tape"  has a preview build, it's not a sex tape.

3)  If your "sex tape"  has a "Vivid" logo in the bottom right (southeast for the nerds) corner,  IT'S NOT A SEX TAPE.

If only all the blac... nvm.

 Now that that's out of the way, let's talk about the internet's most prevalent reaction to the 45 second clip of Mimi and her costar Nikko (on screen love interest and alleged producer) going at it.  People are legit outraged that she would make an adult film, because "what kind of example would that set for her daughter?"  That's a load of crap if I've ever heard it, and here's why - the same people that are upset over her making a porno are the same people that watch her damn reality show!

If you haven't seen "Love and Hip-Hop", here's a very quick analysis.  Mimi has a child with Stevie J, former bad boy producer and public womanizer.  He has a relationship with his grossly untalented protege Joseline, and parades her around very publicly in front of Mimi, who he still pursues.  They've been on again, off again for over a decade because of his cheating ways, but she refuses to make a break, even going so far as to agree to a living situation with the both of them.  For the.. ahem... sake of her daughter.  The crux of the show is her yelling, and at times battering Stevie, while also placing misplaced anger toward Joseline, who owes her nothing.

Yup - this relationship was a GREAT example for the youth.

So people take issue with her having sex on camera for profit, but don't have the same issue with her being abusive and violent towards her daughter's father, and other women as well?  Hypothetical question - what would you rather explain to your child:  Why there's a video of you having sex on camera, or why for the entirety of your child's life you let her father take advantage of you physically and emotionally?  If you judge her actions on the standards of recurring problems against a single incident, it's really no contest!  But well, we also live in a society where a penis in a movie is considered more detrimental than a sword, gun, rocket launcher, lightsaber, and giant lizard monster, but I'm just talking here.

I know some of you ladies' history - if your daughters still love y'all, Mimi's gonna be good.

I'm not saying that performing in Adult Films is an ideal life choice for a mother, but it's certainly not the worst life decision she's made.  Probably not top 5.  So everyone that stepped in yesterday and played Auntie or Uncle, have fun watching her set an even worse example next season - but with her clothes on so you can qualify it.

P.S. - To each and every woman that saw that clip and said "she's not even doing anything special" you are either a liar, or making some young man very, very happy.  And asking if "Yeezy taught you." 

New Music: KP tha Profit - Play Yo Position

I know guys that make really good music.  They know guys that create really good visuals.  So things like this happen.



Kp tha Profit on Soundcloud

Kp tha Profit on Twitter

If you Can Make Out the Words I've Typed, your Biracial Children Will be Fine.

Kermit was about that life.

A Facebook friend, a Hispanic in her late 20's, was livid yesterday.  A coworker of hers told her that she "doesn't approve of Hispanic and Black babies."  Now, the same coworker takes no issue with Hispanic and White children, but made it a point to voice her displeasure toward her choice in partner and living, breathing (adorable!) children.  She had every right to be upset - anyone that would try to define a "proper" combination for race mixing is proving their ignorance toward the world that we live in, and the world that is approaching.  If anyone tells you that they don't "approve" of biracial families/children, or think you are placing unnecessary hurdles in front your children, it's clear they aren't going to be the movers, shakers or policy makers your children will have to interact with later down the line.

Yeah, I think the "Safe" stigma helped out a bit.

When people say "post-racial", chances are they don't know what the hell they're talking about.  But an argument can be made that the world is progressively "mixed tolerant".  Why exactly?  Who knows - this is an entertainment blog, not  (insert boring blog title here, ZING!)  so let's just throw out a few examples:

1) KINDA Black President - not a shot, but do I think  Barack Obama being a handsome, not so dark individual made him a more attractive choice than Al Sharpton?  Damn right!

2) Jessica Alba - Nerd and race motivated shit talked that I am, I didn't even think to question her playing the Invisible Woman, or being Chris Evans' sister in The Fantastic Four.  And he's so clearly white they let him be Captain America!!!

3) Today's NBA - Look at Joakim Noah, Blake Griffin, (create-a-player #1) Klay Thompson.  They are appreciated for their talents as top players, and even in barber shop circles, they aren't made out to be "too" anything, or "not enough" anything else.  And three of the best point guards of the last decade (Parker, D. Williams, and the GAWD J. Kidd) are all from mixed ethnicity.

So those in control - the voters, the people that talk with there dollars, and the American sports fans, are all tolerant, and appreciative of the portion of the population that come from mixed backgrounds.  So what does it matter if people you interact with on a lower level don't?

Nobody even blinked.  Not a soul.

At this point, it's not even "progressive" to date outside of your ethnicity, it's almost a given.  Growing up in San Antonio, Texas (nawfwest till I rest)  it's almost a given that as a person of Black/ White/ Asian/ Middle Eastern descent, you would at some point date a Hispanic person, unless you actively avoided it, because they made up most of the population.  Any person that would give you a hard time for this was old, or couldn't count, or wanted you for themselves and wouldn't verbalize that.

The bigger issue is this guy being French.

 The people in charge of hiring your children, the people that grant them admittance into college, these people don't have a bias against biracial people, because by the time your children are old enough to encounter these people, the population will have grown to be exponentially multiracial, based on a whole bunch of numbers I read so you wouldn't have to (I care.)  So let people you talk to have their opinions, even if these are things they try to pass down, it'll be awfully hard for their children to formulate such strong resentment if the people they grow up with, in the same neighborhoods, playing the same sports, wearing the same clothes and having the same interests as them.  Changing with the times isn't for everyone.  Lucky for us, time tends to change without their approval.

The Game, 40 Glocc, and the Dead Battery in your Back.

First - that ass whoopin' -



The Game is... mercurial.  One second he loves you,the next we wants to tear your head off.  But well, when he wants to tear your head off, he tears that shit CLEAN OFF.  West Coast Rapper 40 Glocc found this out the hard way.  Rap is all good when it's just rap, but when you get ran up on outside of a Mansion Party for talking slick, chased through the bushes and molly whopped, things aren't so sweet.  So you'd think, with video evidence of you not keeping it as real as you claimed, you'd take a hint and sit the hell down somewhere.  You'd think.

Oh boy.  Now, let it be known 40 is vehemently denying any role in this, saying his IG was hacked.  Well it damn well better be!  But if he didn't have a history of Internets tough talk, this may not have been an issue at all.  I've seen a fair share of beat downs happen on the back end of calling someone out on social media (worldstar worldstar) and then you never hear the tough talk again.  Why?  Because getting beaten up hurts, and getting beaten up for the world to see leaves REAL SCARS man.  Which is why, whether it was truthful of not, this happened:

Damage control is essential to avoid an actual ass whoopin', especially one you've encountered before.  It's very, very easy to let social media give you the perception that you are who you advertise.  A Google search can make you as rich as you want, photoshop can make you as good looking as you want, and the fact that you can't be "touched" can make you feel invincible. You feel like you are who you create, and that battery in your back is rechargeable WITH the damn copper top! But you aren't.  You can be found, you can be approached, and you can be challenged at any point by anyone.  The easiest way to avoid these problems is to operate with the idea that you aren't Rocky, you aren't Bruce Lee, and you damn sure aren't Scarface.  If you weren't a tough guy or a boss prior to social media, it's best to maintain who you are and what you know.  All it takes is leaving your location on ONE TIME and it can be curtains for the character you built up.  Of course you can still get served, but well, people are less likely to advertise it to the world.

The moral of all this - operate within yourself, and you can avoid most ass whoopin' and 94% of ass whoopin'- related embarrassment.  Or... you can do things to perpetually end up looking like an ass:

Some people never learn.  They talk a big game while they hide in the... well, you know:

My Wrestlemania 30 Videos

I was fortunate enough to attend Wrestlemania 30 this year, and I've uploaded most of the videos I took at the event to YouTube.  Some may have failed to upload due to copyright issues.  I'll post the most popular ones here, and place a link to my page below.  Enjoy!

Bray Wyatt's Entance


Stone Cold Steve Austin's Entance


The Rock's Entrance


All of my Wrestlemania 30 Videos can be found here.

Get into an argument with your gal at the Relays, ruin a perfectly good slab.

If you read the piece on my experiences with the Texas Relays earlier, you may have seen this coming. And well... it's important to keep domestic disputes verbal, and in private. Whoa.

The Boondocks - Season 4 (Trailer #2)

It's almost that time again!

Refinancing, heaxuin, and... STINKMEANER BYKE???



The Boondocks returns for it's 4th season Monday, April 21st on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.

Wat Dat Mouf Do - Lil Duval x Trae Tha Truth

It's the question on everyone's mind - now it has video treatment.

For when it's kinda cold outside.

 The song can be purchased here and "Wat Dat Mouf Do?" apparel can be purchased here.