The winter has been awful to me.

Bout two months ago I was hit by a car while riding my scooter through my neighborhood. The culprit was a drunken teenager who fled the scene. Nothing really happened to me but my scooter got pretty fucked up. Last month I crashed again while riding in the rain on my way to work. This time I was hurt. I broke my right collarbone and sprained my left wrist. The only upside to any of this was that I'd saved enough money to not be totally screwed by missing work. I was also prescribed some awesome drugs.
The point of that little back story was to give you all an idea of the pain I was in for the better part of two months. Two months of backaches, bruised ribs and broken stuff. Also two months of "We Fly High" by Jim Jones and it's subsequent shitty non-remix.
I don't like this guy one bit and that fucking song has had enough time in the light. Both need to hide out for a while. While I'm hating this dude, I'd also like to ask that New York rap guys stop using up the best Southern rappers (read: Lil Wayne) to beef up your wack song. No amount of Nolia charisma and clever ass lyrics can save you. Besides, most Southern rap is fucking boring and when one of the few talented ones waste a good verse on your next flop, that pretty much equals one more stupid song about dubs on the next Cash Money release. And for the record, I liked Fat Joe better when he wasn't repping Miami. Don't try to steal Trick Daddy's light.

Everyone knows that live hip hop shows usually suck, so I shouldn't have been surprised when after plunking down 35 (!) bucks to see Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, and Big Daddy Kane it would turn out to be horse shit. Nevertheless, I fell for it. I showed up pretty early at the club only to be informed that the show had been cancelled. I was predictably pissed off and wondered how it would have turned out if, say, UGK was on the bill. Anyhow, I hope the same thing doesn't happen next month when Public Enemy is scheduled to appear. With X-Clan no less.

Why did people stop saying "knockin boots"? That phrase, along with the Guru approved "Herb" need to make a fast comeback. I'm not saying that folks have gotten lazy with their slang but those are classics. Speaking of slang.........

"Ghost Rider" will be stinking up a theater near you sooner than you think so you'll probably be subjected to more than your share of marketing. Notice that in the new trailer,when the release date appears on the screen, the announcer fella says"ghost ride the whip". Something that has nothing to do with any aspect of that movie. It just happens to have the same words and marks the death of this goofy fad. I think that whole phenomenon started in Oakland as did "hyphy" which is the funniest rap trend since krumping and is right up there with the "donks" of Miami. I think it's great that rap dudes are going so far out of their way to appear ridiculous.

My new rap name is Mr. Stoneface Stucco. My new b-boy name is a toss up between HAZMAT and Amazin' B. Fresh. Buhlee dat.