Friday, January 29, 2010
Thursday, January 28, 2010
BLOG: Made in The USA
Those four words once meant a lot once. They meant a lot to my grandpa who lived thru the Depression and WWII. Made in the USA meant a lot to my father and step-father (I hate that word) both of whom are union members. These words were once what my grandma and mom would look for in the back of clothing labels before they bought them for me and my sisters. Polo and Chaps were bought in my house not because I had ever heard of the low-life’s but because it said Made in the U.S. of A.
During the Bush era I was always dumbfounded by the W supporter’s window stickers and God Bless America bumper stickers on Japanese and German cars. I mean these folks listen to endless “God Save Our Country” and “Greatest Country In The World” blah blah blah; right wing conservative malarkey every day yet they don’t drive American. Shame on you! Their “God Bless America” tee’s come from the local Wal Mart and were made in China, India, South Asia or another country of yellow or brown people. They drive their foreign cars to coffee shops to buy Kenyan coffee (lol at them hating a half-Kenyan Prez). If these folk really meant the f*ckery they preach every day why would they not start buying only American goods?
I have never heard Mr. Hannity, Mr. Beck, Mr. O’Reilly go on a “you better only buy American” tirade. Actually I have when they talk about everyone should like country music or drilling for oil off the gulf coast. You know the impossible sh*t! These three men and Rush Limbaugh seem to have forgotten the most basic and American thing you can do is buy an American car and clothing as well as products made in the USA. Yeah with all that talk of Obama being a Hitler-like socialist (please note Hitler was a fascist not a socialist) destroying the very fabric of this God-ordained empire (bullsh*t by the way), they never not once have said to buy a damn Buick or Caddy or Chevy or Dodge or Ford or Saturn or any other company that may bring a job to Michigan. They gladly take Wal Mart money for ads and never call out the unfair job practices that crush American workers moral and grossly underpays them.
When will the right wingers get the fact you can’t have it both ways. You can’t say “God Bless Our USA” and not support her workers. You cannot love a country and not buy products in that country produced buy her citizens. If you do anything other than that, you are like the distinguished Joe Wilson said “A Lie” and un-American.
I propose now that Ford’s and Chevy’s get decent mileage for the next 10 years and we only buy American cars. We pay an extra buck or so and buy only American products including clothing, TVs (GE ya’ll), furniture (no Ikea), etc. I also say we should put heavy tariffs on buying any foreign car or bikes (we did this in the early 80s to save Harley Davidson). We should also only buy locally grown food and alcohol that is produced here. Not only will we improve quality and safety (no more lead paint on your kid’s toys) we will restore American jobs and rebuild dead cities like Detroit, Watts, and Flint. Is this sh*t making sense? Cause it’s basic!
Until a few years ago, Warren Buffet our beloved American billionaire had only invested in American companies. If American companies made him 64-billi, imagine what supporting America could bring by way of jobs and industry to us, the common folk and our communities. Keep wearing New Era’s Hip Hop, the country needs us.
In closing I would just like to say right wing Hannity-loving Glenn Back-supporting, O’Reilly-agreeing, Limbaugh-lusting patriots are fulla sh*t or they would work harder at telling their listeners to start supporting American companies and workers. If they don’t, they can suck two tea bags if ya get the point. I gotta go now, my Chevy truck is calling! God Bless America…with these idiots she’ll need him!
Words By Mike Bigga
During the Bush era I was always dumbfounded by the W supporter’s window stickers and God Bless America bumper stickers on Japanese and German cars. I mean these folks listen to endless “God Save Our Country” and “Greatest Country In The World” blah blah blah; right wing conservative malarkey every day yet they don’t drive American. Shame on you! Their “God Bless America” tee’s come from the local Wal Mart and were made in China, India, South Asia or another country of yellow or brown people. They drive their foreign cars to coffee shops to buy Kenyan coffee (lol at them hating a half-Kenyan Prez). If these folk really meant the f*ckery they preach every day why would they not start buying only American goods?
I have never heard Mr. Hannity, Mr. Beck, Mr. O’Reilly go on a “you better only buy American” tirade. Actually I have when they talk about everyone should like country music or drilling for oil off the gulf coast. You know the impossible sh*t! These three men and Rush Limbaugh seem to have forgotten the most basic and American thing you can do is buy an American car and clothing as well as products made in the USA. Yeah with all that talk of Obama being a Hitler-like socialist (please note Hitler was a fascist not a socialist) destroying the very fabric of this God-ordained empire (bullsh*t by the way), they never not once have said to buy a damn Buick or Caddy or Chevy or Dodge or Ford or Saturn or any other company that may bring a job to Michigan. They gladly take Wal Mart money for ads and never call out the unfair job practices that crush American workers moral and grossly underpays them.
When will the right wingers get the fact you can’t have it both ways. You can’t say “God Bless Our USA” and not support her workers. You cannot love a country and not buy products in that country produced buy her citizens. If you do anything other than that, you are like the distinguished Joe Wilson said “A Lie” and un-American.
I propose now that Ford’s and Chevy’s get decent mileage for the next 10 years and we only buy American cars. We pay an extra buck or so and buy only American products including clothing, TVs (GE ya’ll), furniture (no Ikea), etc. I also say we should put heavy tariffs on buying any foreign car or bikes (we did this in the early 80s to save Harley Davidson). We should also only buy locally grown food and alcohol that is produced here. Not only will we improve quality and safety (no more lead paint on your kid’s toys) we will restore American jobs and rebuild dead cities like Detroit, Watts, and Flint. Is this sh*t making sense? Cause it’s basic!
Until a few years ago, Warren Buffet our beloved American billionaire had only invested in American companies. If American companies made him 64-billi, imagine what supporting America could bring by way of jobs and industry to us, the common folk and our communities. Keep wearing New Era’s Hip Hop, the country needs us.
In closing I would just like to say right wing Hannity-loving Glenn Back-supporting, O’Reilly-agreeing, Limbaugh-lusting patriots are fulla sh*t or they would work harder at telling their listeners to start supporting American companies and workers. If they don’t, they can suck two tea bags if ya get the point. I gotta go now, my Chevy truck is calling! God Bless America…with these idiots she’ll need him!
Words By Mike Bigga
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
MIXTAPE: G-Side - Huntsville International
01. ‘Intro’ – Rob Breezy
02. ‘Huntsville International’ ft. Sound of Silence (produced by Block Beattaz)
03. ‘So Gone’ (produced by L-Don)
04. ‘What It’s All About’ (produced by Johnny Juliano)
05. ‘Bandz’ ft. DJ Cunta (produced by Bossman)
06. ‘Paradise’ (produced by Mick Vegas)
07. ‘Matthew Africa Speaks’
08. ‘Aura’ ft. P.T. (produced by Mick Vegas)
09. ‘College Chicks’ (produced by Block Beattaz)
10. ‘This Groove’ ft. P.H. (produced by Block Beattaz)
11. ‘Feel The’ ft. 6 Tre Gangsta & AC (produced by Block Beattaz)
12. ‘Who’s Hood?’ ft. Yelawolf (produced by Block Beattaz)
13. ‘This is Life’ (produced by P.T.)
14. ‘In the Rain’ ft. Bentley (produced by Block Beattaz)
15. ‘Rising Sun’ ft. Kristmas (produced by Block Beattaz)
16. ‘So Wonderful’ ft. Chrystal Carr, G-Mane & SupaKing (produced by Block Beattaz)
http://limelinx.com/files/b4c32a89f19512d3cf6556637b23b7f5
AUDIO: Slim - Just Like Him (Prod. by Tago)
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NEWS: Morehouse Whiz Kid is Causing a Stir: 13-Year-Old Dominates College
At thirteen years of age, Stephen Stafford is causing quite a stir at Morehouse College. Stafford has a triple major in pre-med, math and computer science. Though he loves playing video games and playing his drum set, he is no typical teenager.
“I’ve never taught a student as young as Stephen, and it’s been amazing,” said computer science professor Sonya Dennis. “He’s motivating other students to do better and makes them want to step up their game.”
Stafford began his college career at the age of 11, after being home-schooled by his mother. Stafford’s mother said that when Stafford began to teach her instead of being taught by her, she knew he needed to be in a college environment.
BLOG: Money Over Everything
M.O.E “Money Over Every Thing”. I know the world credits the homie “Chopper” aka “Young City” with this saying now but the 1st time I actually heard this saying it was from a Houston Texas rapper 50/50 Twin (what up my Ni**@). When I heard it, my 1st instinct was “ohh sh*t” that’s hard! It sounded like a Gangta’s morning Mantra. I can imagine Italian Dons and Capos, Black Goons and Thugs, Asian and Spanish G’s alike waking in the morning and instead of prayers they all would sit on the side of their beds, light Cuban Cohibas and slowly repeat M.O.E dozens of times gradually speeding up like Angela Basset doing Buddhist chants when she played Tina Turner. They would spin these words into motivating song before getting up. Money over everything. Money over everything. Money over everything. Money over everything….climaxing in a quick abrupt silence and a focused glassy-eyed stare. After they arose and did the morning rituals: sh*t, shower, shave, they would hop in there G mobiles and descend onto the streets like James Galdolfini as Tony Soprano and “Carpe Diem” or Seize the day. A day in which nothing mattered except the “color of money” the “good fella” codes and how many “dead presidents” one could amass in a day.
Now because I, like most young males, I know have been indoctrinated by our culture to know the rich guy ALWAYS gets the Playboy Bunny, and broke guys get….well broke guys get what rich guys have had…ask the men currently dating Juanita Jordan, The former Mrs. D. Wade or any dude dating 50 or Rick Ross’s ex-girls. Coming behind a rich dude in games of love and sex sucks dick (no homo). Rich guys drive dope cars, broke dudes girls drive them crazy. Rich guys do what they wanna and broke dudes do what they can…sigh. We all know money is important. But how important is having lots of money??? Hmmmmmm. If the money over everything is truly the “way” …the “way” of the rich, the “way” to completeness and happiness, why the hell don’t other people work harder to get rich? Because most of us don’t, we spend money on feeling good. Why epend ya last dollar on the club or even a gift for a loved one. If money is the Great equalizer and the almighty in a capitalistic society, “huh”, I ask? Because money don’t mean sh*t! It doesn’t. It never did and it never will. Paris Hilton knows this. So why do we squander it buying shit like gifts or get well cards or tithes to mega churches 4 Jesus, huh, huh? Paris had an opportunity to get a STOOPID inheritance from grandpa and she threw it away, partying, showing her snatch and sexing via night vision all the while charging a small fee (couple mill here couple mill there) so that she could live like the rest of us and enjoy the dispensable years (the 20s). She gave up an inheritance and earned her own money (1 itty bitty titty flash at a time) so she could LIVE. Money is a tool used to keep taps and measure debt. The less debt you have, the more money you can save, the more money you save, the less stressed you can become, the less stressed you become, the more your life can blossom. Say you make 100k a year, the old money model says you can afford a home that is worth the value of 2 and 1 half years of work. That’s 250k. That’s a couple grand every month for 20 or 30 years or so. Basically you become a slave to the house you “own”, cant miss a day of work, can’t retire, sure as hell can’t quit! As dope as it is to own a good looking home, when will you get to enjoy it and the people you bought it for (your family)? Now may I propose that there is a way to defeat the money matrix? Beating the matrix involves you adjusting your focus less on money and more on Life, Love and Happiness. What the F*ck?!!! Oh yes, I hear you now “this ni**@ Mike is crazy. And yup I am..like a fox. Here’s my answer to money over everything……. LIVE BELOW YOUR MEANS and you will have everything (travel, leisure, cars, clothes) although you must have game and get ya own girl doe. Playboy Bunnies ain’t free sucka ). What exactly does that mean? Well it means that you adopt the M.O.B mentality” Money Over Bullsh*t.” Since money is a tool, you should use it as such. Remember that 100k salary we just talked about? Let’s say you choose to take half of that year’s salary and purchase 1 HUD home to live in. The government gives you an 8k tax credit (thank u Mr. Prez). Live there, repair the place, write off all expenses regarding that place. Wow, 1-year, 50k minus 8k tax credit and you own a beautiful ranch style home in a decent neighborhood and because you repaired it yourself, has gained value. Also you never buy a new car, buy pre-owned and used only (most millionaires do) plus they put an extra 8k in the price of a new car. So you got a house, you own a nice, sporty 7 grand Honda and disposable income to start a biz (I suggest buying more homes and renting to former project residents), take trips or invest (now is a great time). This will also give you more money to bullsh*t in random clubs picking up the bar tab for your degenerate friends, etc. But always remember, keep the receipts, write it off as a biz expense. Having control over your wants and your money will allow you to truly have everything: happiness, travel, adventure and more. If you can forgo your wants of un-needed sh*t and save and spend with purpose, you can escape the rat race of “no money and debt.” If you are not in debt, you are RICH! If you own your property, if you have a small business, if you save money every time you can (even vacations should be planned for the best deal possible), you will always be able to do what you want when you want (with proper planning). When I ask people why they want money they usually tell me so they can do what they wanna do. I feel’em that’s why I rap. Couldn’t do the regular gig sh*t and wouldn’t wanna sell dope forever. I propose most people can already do all they want to do if they stop chasing money and trap the money they already earn. If you control your immediate and usually un-needed wants, you can save more and spend less (Clark Howard’s line), then you can do more and stress less (my line). Here’s a simple exercise I learned from (Neil Bortz) as a kid. Take 5s, 10s and 20s out with you when you leave the house. Every time you break a bill, put the 1s away in another pocket and save them. Not only will you save at least 50 to 100 dollars monthly, you will think about every purchase more b4 you fluke a 20 on a swisher, tater chips and a Faygo. Now you can treat yo self to a nice dinner at the end of the month (at a real restaurant) or save 600 to 1200 hundred and take an off-season vacation to Jamaica (girls are great at this sh*t). I promise you if you try this, it will work and you will adjust the way you think about and spend dough. With all that said, I gotta go do a show and make sum paper. I saw a house I wanna buy in an empowerment zone. I’m a few shows away. So everybody spend more time saying love, Fam, adventure, even life over everything and use money 4 what it should be used for, a tool to buy cheap tickets for travel and leisure and paying off student loans. Extra special “thanks” to Clark Howard, Dave Ramsey, Neil Bortz and Paris Hilton for helping me see the way. I’m out this beyyyatch. I got $$$$$ to make! But $ don’t make me. GTRG…BBB
Words By Mike Bigga
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
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