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Real Talk: Crack: What does it mean to YOU?
By Cedric Shine
Twitter.com/NativeNotes
Crack House, Trap House, Real Estate
To the landlord, this is a legal nightmare! I could lose my home. And when I try to kick these people out I have to do it by the books and the books, well the law has more perks for the tenant than the landowner. It's a headache; the neighbors call me, saying I've forgotten where I come from. How can I let these people live here and do to the community what they're doing? I hate that house!
To law enforcement, this is the bust that could advance my career. A few more busts like these and I'll make sergeant. I hope when we go in there, these idiots were dumb to enough to leave loads of dope, and loads of guns out in plain view. It will be me, the drugs, and the guns on the front page of the newspapers. I'll be a hero for busting a crime driven establishment with more felonies being committed than one could imagine. These places are the reason I have a job, a place to stake out, a schedule to monitor, scheme to catch, the hunt is on for white October. Always bet on blue!
To the neighborhood kid, a place of action, constant traffic. This is the fast life right before my eyes. And the people are varied. Luxury cars, hoopties, suits, rags, whites, blacks, I even saw an Asian guy going inside. Not so smart now huh! This is the world outside my window. Fast cars, fast money and it never stops! Friday nights are insane but Monday mornings I see the remnants of a rough weekend, still cars outside, still people acting strange, my best friends brother tells us they're high. And there are people watching this place, some good, and some bad. It's a place mom tells me to stay away from. But the action of it, man the action of it!
To an elder in the community; this is the reason my property value continues to plummet. This is the reason our community is in shambles; it's them, them, them..... Those people in there sinning with their loud music, their destructive drugs and people coming in and out all times of the night. They are the reason I cringe when my grandchildren walk outside, I'm scared that my grandson will be hit with a stray bullet from one of their guns. Who are they, bastard children, they move in our neighborhood and destroy it and sadly their skin looks just like me. NO RESPECT NO RESPECT NO RESPECT... In the old days they kept this stuff out of the hands of women and children but these classless idiots will sell to their own mothers. I pray for my community, I pray for my people.
To the drug peddler. I'm just doing my job! I don't bother folks at their place of business so I wish they'd stop bothering me. Don't they see how messed up it is around here. The cops are crooked, the elders' judge, mad because they never got anything out of life. Scared to point their fingers at the real masterminds of this trade. I don't have a boat to get stuff past customs yet it's my face when they fight this so called "war on drugs". All while financing both sides.
This ain't civil rights this is my fight. My fight to live, my right to eat. When I was growing up poor these same people turned their backs on me. When mom had no food they wouldn't even lend us cheese. Now it's all about me. I gotta get mine. These crack heads, these fiends they aint got no lives. They steal to get the rock, they lie to get the rock, sell their body just to get the rock. So who really cares what I sell them. They're animals and if I don't sell it someone else will. I'm really tryna make enough bread and get out this game. Imma flip this into a legal hustle, I rap, and my man does the beats. Ima make a living putting my life on these streets to these beats. I see shorty outside he got a wandering eye. He's smart though so I want better for him but his best friends brother, he's dumb and wants in I'll have him selling for me next week.
The Abuser, I'm no junkie, I just like to get high. I been using drugs as a recreation for 20 something years. Life is hard, my kids done grown up and left me, my husband left me and my family constantly turns their back on me. Now I'll admit, I was strung out at one point, you know doing whatever I could do to get a hit but now I got this under control. Trust that I am no different than the Wall Street man, shoot I've snorted with the best of em, and had fun with the rest of them.
Sometimes I feel bad. Just because of what I've put my family through. They deserve better, I want to stop but you don't know my pain. For a brief moment my high helps me escape my harsh reality. I'm a victim of circumstance. I never intended to make this a habit, I guess it just happened. I told my children my story because they needed to know, I wanted them to beware of the choices I made. Now they look at me with disgust too, I aint got nothing left but that place to go get high at and buy my drugs. No one there judges me; they're the only friends I have left.
CRACK WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO YOU?
Marketing Buzz:How The Social Media Really Gets Made At Agencies
By Steve Canal
Twitter.com/SteveCanal
Twitter.com/ThinkGroupMedia
Advertising, PR, and marketing agencies are rapidly waking up to the fact that they can no longer be competitive without including social and emerging media in the work they propose to clients.
But in many, if not most, agencies, social media is suffering from Slide 29 Syndrome.
That's when an account exec calls the digital gurus and says something like this: "For the past few weeks, we've been working on an RFP that we need to send to the client tomorrow. Please add some social media recommendations to the deck and get it us by COB today."
They say that because they think social media is Twitter and Facebook and that you pretty much just need to throw up a page so you can broadcast your press releases and announcements.
Or, they say: "We don't have much money left in the budget and we need to add some digital to the deck. Send us some ideas we can add to what we've got."
They say that because they need to bill a certain number of hours this week, and they don't want social media to use up too many of them.
And then the digital ideas get added on to the deck -- usually somewhere around Slide 29.
Most CMOs, account managers and project managers in agencies or on the client side still don't have real-world experience using social media and therefore don't understand that:
1.Social media is a way of thinking, not just a set of tools.
2.They don't walk the walk themselves.
3.Emerging media needs to be built into the architecture of a plan, starting from the first brainstorm -- not appended to a finished proposal.
4.Social media is a conversational medium, not a broadcast platform.
5.Companies that don't listen to customers will often be bitten on the ass by them.
6.Emerging media is substantially more measurable than traditional media, but the metrics are different.
7.Social media is not a gimmick, or a substitute for a marketing strategy.
Just Think : Do YOU!!!!
by A.EVANS
Twitter.com/AdotEVANS
Disclaimer: As always, I write these articles to stimulate minds and to get the thought process in motion....
Disclaimer: As always, I write these articles to stimulate minds and to get the thought process in motion....
I hate to keep using "How To Make It In America" as my reference point or source for writing but if you can't get anything out of that show I will deliver it and translate it for you. For those who aren't familiar with the show the title speaks for itself, the show displays the hustle and grind of everyday people trying to make it and stopping at nothing. At times the characters run into brick wall but always figure out a way to either climb it or run through it. We all have issues, we all have dreams, goals and wonderful ideas; how we turn those ideas into gold is entirely up to us. How we use our issues as a stepping stone or obstacle to overcome is up to us. What we become is up to us. This week I feel it is my duty to say to all of you DO YOU !!! No matter what it is Do You !!!
What if it does?
We all have goals dreams and ideas, and sometimes when we share these goals dreams and ideas with others the feedback isn't what we want to hear. The feedback can be positive, negative, or just plain honest. What we do with that feedback, how we internalize it, or use it as motivation is once again entirely up to us. Too many times we think what if our idea doesn't work and we'll let that discourage us. Sometime friends, loved ones, and significant others can be the source of negating an idea. Whenever that occurs look in the mirror and say "What if does work out?" We should all have a "What if it does, or a Why Wouldn't it?" attitude. Don't let anyone tell you that what you are going after is foolish or pointless especially if they don't have anything going on for themselves. Always remember misery loves company, and sometimes the people you hold dear are the ones who aren't strong enough to make their dreams happen so they'll try to sabotage yours. Always think "What if does work out, Why wouldn't it"...
(Side note) Sometimes when people hate on your dreams, and ideas it's confirmation that its actually a great one, and they wish they would have thought of it first.
Final Thoughts
This weeks food for thought is short simple and to the point, Do You. Go after what's yours, you wouldn't have the idea to begin with if it wasn't. If you want to direct movies, design skateboards start a magazine, write a book, be a rapper (ummm think about it before you pursue it) go for it. Don't make any life decisions for yourself based upon the opinions of others, and even if what you are going after isn't for you, you will discover what is, you will be prepared for it when you find it. So with that said F*ck the haters and non believers and Do You. I don't care if it's your parents, girlfriend, best friend, sister, brother whoever...DO YOU !!! And once you make buy em a t-shirt that says "Left Cheek or Right Cheek" ...As Always Peace & Love
What Do You Think?
La Familia: FEAR... NOT!
By Shelli Tinae Price
La Familia Blogspot
How can you fear something you do not know? I mean, most people fear death, financial ruin, heights severe illness, or even the boogeyman, yet most people have NEVER experienced them. Follow me here: Experience is the only thing that makes such incidents appear real. I've never experienced physical death( I know, I know. No one likes when someone dies because we are left to felt alone, sad and the such, but we STILL don't know what death feels like...obviously) so how can I perceive its' woes? I've never been terminally ill, been on a sinking ship or had a serious encounter with serial killer, so to say I fear the unknown is a double negative: one cannot fear something unless the experience becomes tangible. And what if you have been on the sinking Titanic or have beaten cancer? Can you still say you fear it?
I can tell ya. I've been broke. It stinks. I have been without the love from a man...lame. But I do not fear it. I dislike it. I prefer not to have the previously listed instances occur because through my experiences i can testify that to me, it's most unfavorable. However I cannot tell you how the boogeyman creeps me out or how it feels to be shot because I simply do not know the feeling. What I do know of those things are the testimony of others through their experiences or even more bizarre, their perception of their experiences.
Speaking of perception, how many things that you believe you fear come from constant years of people telling you how it felt to them? or perhaps your fear comes from what you read or what you see on television? Think about it....a little more...ok. Almost all our fears are solely based on our mental conditioning, yes, mine included. But it's alright. It's never too soon to change how we see things. When we change our vision, we change our perception. when we change our perception, we change our entire life!
I was told that fear is an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real... the past is history(cannot be changed) the future is a mystery(unknown therefore unreal)and today is a gift. Why so? The only real thing in our possession is NOW. This moment is the only immutable truth. Tomorrow is an illusion because it hasn't happened yet. So to fear something that hasn't occurred means we aren't living at all. Crazy right? The only thing that separates us from those labeled 'crazy' or 'mentally unstable' is there thoughts and illusions are spoken aloud and ours lie dormant...that is, until our fears manifest themselves into all we imagined them to be...and more. So guard your thoughts and more so leave behind the concept of fear. There's simply no such thing. As I write to you, I write to myself.
Peace, People.
SahshaJay
Grub Report: The Vortex
438 Moreland Avenue
Atlanta, GA
By The Fabian
Twitter.com/thefabe
A nice afternoon out in Little five points with friends, people everywhere, spirits high. We arrive at Vortex and are welcomed by a 20 to 25 minute wait, which apparently was not that bad for fellow fans of obviously not so healthy food as we weren't the only ones waiting. By most standards Vortex isn't that big of an establishment but its the food that matters, you can opt for a table inside or sit on the patio and enjoy your meal. First thing i noticed is the "Stuff you need to know" section of the menu which starts off by saying Vortex is not politically correct and then proceeds to let you know stupidity will be rewarded with ridicule. As for the food, they offer soups,salads, sandwiches,burgers and stuff for you vegetarians but i obviously skipped that section. I always pick something unhealthy which is usually the best tasting. Enter the Coronary bypass burger, a half pound of beef with a fried egg,3 slices of cheese, four slices of bacon,mayo and tater tots. Tasty,filling and sure to be on the list of things a doctor would advise against eating regularly,but if that's not enough you can order the double bypass burger which is twice as big (i bet money you wont finish it). A spot that fits right in with the appeal of the Little 5 area, check out Vortex when you have some time to spare.
To see more pictures click here
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
TITLE LOUNGE
GetMyNameOut.com
High School Combine
April 10, 2010
5pm Playground
4 Locations
5pm-10pm
Every Wednesday of The Month
Starting April 7, 2010
www.5pmPlayGround.com
Essence Music Festival
Convention Center and Super Dome
New Orleans, LA
4th of July Weekend
Brand Ambassador & Model Resumes Accepted at www.ThinkGroupMedia.com
Don't Waste Ink...Think
Keep Haiti In Your Hearts
"Keep True To The Dreams of Your Youth"
sincerely,
Think Group Media, Inc.
www.ThinkGroupMedia.com
Just Think : Do YOU!!!!
by A.EVANS
Twitter.com/AdotEVANS
Disclaimer: As always, I write these articles to stimulate minds and to get the thought process in motion....
Disclaimer: As always, I write these articles to stimulate minds and to get the thought process in motion....
I hate to keep using "How To Make It In America" as my reference point or source for writing but if you can't get anything out of that show I will deliver it and translate it for you. For those who aren't familiar with the show the title speaks for itself, the show displays the hustle and grind of everyday people trying to make it and stopping at nothing. At times the characters run into brick wall but always figure out a way to either climb it or run through it. We all have issues, we all have dreams, goals and wonderful ideas; how we turn those ideas into gold is entirely up to us. How we use our issues as a stepping stone or obstacle to overcome is up to us. What we become is up to us. This week I feel it is my duty to say to all of you DO YOU !!! No matter what it is Do You !!!
What if it does?
We all have goals dreams and ideas, and sometimes when we share these goals dreams and ideas with others the feedback isn't what we want to hear. The feedback can be positive, negative, or just plain honest. What we do with that feedback, how we internalize it, or use it as motivation is once again entirely up to us. Too many times we think what if our idea doesn't work and we'll let that discourage us. Sometime friends, loved ones, and significant others can be the source of negating an idea. Whenever that occurs look in the mirror and say "What if does work out?" We should all have a "What if it does, or a Why Wouldn't it?" attitude. Don't let anyone tell you that what you are going after is foolish or pointless especially if they don't have anything going on for themselves. Always remember misery loves company, and sometimes the people you hold dear are the ones who aren't strong enough to make their dreams happen so they'll try to sabotage yours. Always think "What if does work out, Why wouldn't it"...
(Side note) Sometimes when people hate on your dreams, and ideas it's confirmation that its actually a great one, and they wish they would have thought of it first.
Final Thoughts
This weeks food for thought is short simple and to the point, Do You. Go after what's yours, you wouldn't have the idea to begin with if it wasn't. If you want to direct movies, design skateboards start a magazine, write a book, be a rapper (ummm think about it before you pursue it) go for it. Don't make any life decisions for yourself based upon the opinions of others, and even if what you are going after isn't for you, you will discover what is, you will be prepared for it when you find it. So with that said F*ck the haters and non believers and Do You. I don't care if it's your parents, girlfriend, best friend, sister, brother whoever...DO YOU !!! And once you make buy em a t-shirt that says "Left Cheek or Right Cheek" ...As Always Peace & Love
What Do You Think?
La Familia: FEAR... NOT!
By Shelli Tinae Price
La Familia Blogspot
How can you fear something you do not know? I mean, most people fear death, financial ruin, heights severe illness, or even the boogeyman, yet most people have NEVER experienced them. Follow me here: Experience is the only thing that makes such incidents appear real. I've never experienced physical death( I know, I know. No one likes when someone dies because we are left to felt alone, sad and the such, but we STILL don't know what death feels like...obviously) so how can I perceive its' woes? I've never been terminally ill, been on a sinking ship or had a serious encounter with serial killer, so to say I fear the unknown is a double negative: one cannot fear something unless the experience becomes tangible. And what if you have been on the sinking Titanic or have beaten cancer? Can you still say you fear it?
I can tell ya. I've been broke. It stinks. I have been without the love from a man...lame. But I do not fear it. I dislike it. I prefer not to have the previously listed instances occur because through my experiences i can testify that to me, it's most unfavorable. However I cannot tell you how the boogeyman creeps me out or how it feels to be shot because I simply do not know the feeling. What I do know of those things are the testimony of others through their experiences or even more bizarre, their perception of their experiences.
Speaking of perception, how many things that you believe you fear come from constant years of people telling you how it felt to them? or perhaps your fear comes from what you read or what you see on television? Think about it....a little more...ok. Almost all our fears are solely based on our mental conditioning, yes, mine included. But it's alright. It's never too soon to change how we see things. When we change our vision, we change our perception. when we change our perception, we change our entire life!
I was told that fear is an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real... the past is history(cannot be changed) the future is a mystery(unknown therefore unreal)and today is a gift. Why so? The only real thing in our possession is NOW. This moment is the only immutable truth. Tomorrow is an illusion because it hasn't happened yet. So to fear something that hasn't occurred means we aren't living at all. Crazy right? The only thing that separates us from those labeled 'crazy' or 'mentally unstable' is there thoughts and illusions are spoken aloud and ours lie dormant...that is, until our fears manifest themselves into all we imagined them to be...and more. So guard your thoughts and more so leave behind the concept of fear. There's simply no such thing. As I write to you, I write to myself.
Peace, People.
SahshaJay
Grub Report: The Vortex
438 Moreland Avenue
Atlanta, GA
By The Fabian
Twitter.com/thefabe
A nice afternoon out in Little five points with friends, people everywhere, spirits high. We arrive at Vortex and are welcomed by a 20 to 25 minute wait, which apparently was not that bad for fellow fans of obviously not so healthy food as we weren't the only ones waiting. By most standards Vortex isn't that big of an establishment but its the food that matters, you can opt for a table inside or sit on the patio and enjoy your meal. First thing i noticed is the "Stuff you need to know" section of the menu which starts off by saying Vortex is not politically correct and then proceeds to let you know stupidity will be rewarded with ridicule. As for the food, they offer soups,salads, sandwiches,burgers and stuff for you vegetarians but i obviously skipped that section. I always pick something unhealthy which is usually the best tasting. Enter the Coronary bypass burger, a half pound of beef with a fried egg,3 slices of cheese, four slices of bacon,mayo and tater tots. Tasty,filling and sure to be on the list of things a doctor would advise against eating regularly,but if that's not enough you can order the double bypass burger which is twice as big (i bet money you wont finish it). A spot that fits right in with the appeal of the Little 5 area, check out Vortex when you have some time to spare.
To see more pictures click here
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Events
TITLE LOUNGE
GetMyNameOut.com
High School Combine
April 10, 2010
5pm Playground
4 Locations
5pm-10pm
Every Wednesday of The Month
Starting April 7, 2010
www.5pmPlayGround.com
Essence Music Festival
Convention Center and Super Dome
New Orleans, LA
4th of July Weekend
Brand Ambassador & Model Resumes Accepted at www.ThinkGroupMedia.com
Don't Waste Ink...Think
Keep Haiti In Your Hearts
"Keep True To The Dreams of Your Youth"
sincerely,
Think Group Media, Inc.
www.ThinkGroupMedia.com
