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A Word of Advice: Stop Sexting!!

I'm sure by now you've seen the pics of my bald-headed boo and her bald-headed parts. These aren't the first pics of Amber Rose to hit the net but they're definitely the most graphic. The two-fingered text messages sent 'round the world has cost Amber her representation by uber-talent agency CAA and has let down many of the girls who "look up to her" [her words, not mine].


Don't worry Amber...you're not the first celebrity, pseudo-celebrity, or basic yamp off the streets to have a naked pic of yourself leak. Plenty of women, and men (I'm pointing at you Eddie Long and Anthony Wiener) have made the mistake of sending not so private pics of their most private parts to other people. Sometimes the pics are sent to a current boyfriend/girlfriend just to keep things spicy. Maybe you send them because you're far away from each other and you want to show the other person what they're missing. Or maybe you send them because, well, somebody said send me a picture.


Whatever the reason, who you sext is your business. But whether you're a politician, a celebrity, or just someone with a bunch of friends on Facebook and Twitter, once you sext, you've officially put yourself at risk. If those pics get in the wrong hands, you can lose a career, and a relationship in the flip of a phone. 


My solution: Stop Sexting!! It hurts me to say it. I've gotten plenty of wonderful pics sent to my phone in my day, but enough is enough. There are people out here using good sexting to hurt other people. Those pics of Amber Rose should've been stared at, used at that persons discretion and put away in a T-Mobile vault, never to be seen again. Instead, Amber is out of a job and I had to create a secret folder in my iPhoto app.


Just stop sexting. If a person wants to see you, send a pic of your face. If they wanna see you do something freaky, Skype it so they never have physical possession of your naughtiness. I'm a fan of everybody finding their inner whore, but if that hoe is in your cell phone don't pick up!


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Embrace Your Inner Whore...You'll Thank Me Later

Disclaimer: If you read this thinking like a prude, you've already failed. Proceed with an open mind.


There's a common phrase in the social media world right now that simply says, "Hoes be winning". While it might cause you to snicker a little bit, there's some truth in the statement.


Women always like to consider themselves ladies in the streets and freak's in the sheets. The problem is you're not as freaky in the sheets as you'd like to think. Somewhere along the line it became commonplace to think that simply having sex with a man was enough to leave him satisfied. But men don't always want to be JUST satisfied. Any chick on the streets with a working vagina can leave us satisfied. Sometimes we want to be wowed.


It may sound unconventional, but I'm suggesting leaving that prude, vanilla, self conscious about her body, chick outside the bedroom and inviting in that inner-whore. You want these hoe's to stop winning? You want them to stop texting your man in the middle of the night? You want those pics of naked women to stop coming through to his phone? Then dammit release your inner-whore!


Men have to release our inner-porn star from the first time we have sex with a woman...why? Because if we don't there may not be another chance. From 1st base to home plate, a man has to worry about leaving an impression. Did she fake it? Was the timing good? Was I too rough? Was she really mad I pulled her weave? Could she have used a V8?

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Shout out to Big Sean. Make sure you pick up the Finally Famous cd on June 28th (next week).

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Are You Ready For BabyBook?

Yes you read that right. There is a website currently being built where parents will be able to upload pictures and video's of their babies doing the most precious things, like smiling with no teeth, drooling on things, and wearing every outfit they get dressed in every single day.  The parents will even be able to update every single status so that you know all of their kids milestones AS THEY HAPPEN!!!


Wait why does this sound familiar? Because you thirsty ass parents have already turned Facebook into the damn daycare center. When they said it takes a village to raise a child, they meant your family, your neighbors and your closest friends, not the 1,000 people you went to high school and college with who don't even remember you by name. I am so tired of seeing other people's children on Facebook, I'm about to have one myself just so my baby can fight their baby!


Look I love kids; I think they're awesome, I think they're a blessing, I think they're downright adorable. But I don't need to see your kid so much that I feel like I'm related to yall. It's so many babies in my newsfeed I'm scared that the cops might get suspicious. It's to the point that you gotta call your friends baby to see how their mama is doing.


The next time I see one of my social media friends out with their baby don't be alarmed if I walk up and hug the kid first. Hell, I see the baby so much on Facebook I might pick her up and ask how is my god-baby doing. If you would've put his/her pictures in a photo album like normal parents, it never would've come to this.


And no...BabyBook is not a real thing.


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The Jokes On You GOP!

The Republican Leadership Conference was a regular old Kings of Comedy tour stop when Barack Obama impersonator Reggie Brown took the stage. As he mocked President Obama and recently resigned congressman Anthony Weiner, the room was laughing like Mike Epps was hosting the conference. The comedian told plenty of racially charged jokes, and sexually themed humor was plentiful, but when he started to mock members of the republican party, some of whom are current presidential hopefuls, that's when the GOP had enough!


After a few jokes about Mitt Romney, tea party supporters, and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, they kicked Reggie Brown's black ass out like they were Stacey Dash and he just said he didn't "dine on southern cuisine"! Brown's microphones were cut off, music began playing and they damn near brought the sandman out to escort this dude off the stage.


I don't know why any of this was thought to be appropriate in the first place at a "leadership conference" but if Republican's plan on bringing more of these Fox News antics to the 2012 election, I think it's safe to say "Yes We Can" again. Now send me another stimulus check Pres!

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It's FATHER'S DAY Dammit!!!!

I might be a day late, but I want to voice my frustrations with the way Father's Day gets treated among the black community. If you were anywhere near Facebook or Twitter yesterday, I'm sure you saw the countless tweets and statuses from scorned children and baby mamas. The way some of these women were talking you would've thought it was devil worship day!


I understand that a lot of children in black households don't grow up with their father around. I also get that a lot of black men don't always do the best job at maintaining a good relationship with the mother of their child. But not everybody experienced that type of upbringing. While I don't fault anyone for having ill feelings for an absent father or neglectful baby daddy, but do those frustrations really need to be broadcasted on the one day that good father's are supposed to be celebrated?


Then for the baby mama's mad because their childs father aint sh*t, I got a harsh truth for you; he probably wasn't much of sh*t during the period he was just your boyfriend. Why have a baby with a man who's already shown you he could care less about your feelings? Having a child is not a relationship lifeline, it's a life long commitment that you better try damn hard to make with someone who is at least man enough to hold up their end of the bargain even if your relationship ends.


Father's Day is not a sequel to Mother's Day. It's a day to find that uncle, brother, neighbor, teacher, coach or, God willing, your own dad and tell them thank you for being the man in your life. And if you happen to be one of the people who can't relate to having an influential man in your life, then for the sake of all the good dad's, find a better medium to vent your frustrations and let these men have their day. They earned it.


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I Mean It Is His Birthday: Meek Mill "Tupac Back"

Happy Birthday Pac!!!

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Question of the Day: Is It Cheating?

In light of a conversation I had with a friend of mine recently, and the ongoing, unraveling, scandal involving congressman Anthony Weiner, I wanted to pose a question: Is sending lewd pictures of yourself to someone else while you're in a relationship considered cheating or harmless flirting?


Personally, I think it's super cheating. I can't imagine myself in a situation where I find out that my girlfriend/wife sent pics of herself in her underwear (or less) to some dude and I'm like "aww babe that was so inappropriate". I'm gonna be like get ya cheatin', hoe'in, lyin', stankin' ass out of my life!!! Too much? Ah, well.


Anyway, tell us what you think --Is it wrong to send pics to somebody else while you're in a relationship, or are you gonna say you were innocently posing in the mirror fresh after a workout with a tight shirt on (I'm looking at you, Eddie Long.)?


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Let Those Folks Get Married Sheesh!

Currently, five states -- Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire -- along with the District of Columbia, grant same-sex marriage licenses. We may soon be able to add another one to that list.


A new bill has been proposed that would legalize same-sex marriage in the state of New York. Should it pass, The Marriage Equality Act would grant gay couples equal rights to marry in addition to other benefits and protections that are currently only available to heterosexual married couples.


Obviously this bill has a long way to go through the proper channels before it is legalized, but it goes without saying that this would be an extraordinarily big step forward in the ongoing fight for gay rights. Personally I'm in full support of the act. If same-sex couples want to make the ultimate relationship commitment, I really don't understand the resistance.


The institution of marriage is being made a mockery by heterosexual couples everyday. Whether it's through infidelity, extra-marital children, or the extremely high (and consistently rising) divorce rate, heterosexual marriages have turned into a sham. Most couples treat their vows like a freestyle they spit when they were drunk and now they can't remember the hardest line they said; for better or worse...as long as we both shall live (BARS!!!). These days it's inspiring to see couples passionate enough about their relationships that they fight to make them a part of their everyday civil liberties.


Are you for or against same-sex marriage? Do you think that it should be legal nationally, or are you ok with each state having their say?


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Your Thought's: Drake "Marvin's Room"

Let's get things straight early, I think Drake is dope. He's obviously gifted and his presence in music was as refreshing and necessary as ever. But as much as I'm a fan of what he can do with a pen, I'm not always moved when it hits my speakers.


When listening to his latest web sensation, Marvin's Room, I can't help but feel a little blah about it. It's not that the content isn't dope, but that the sound of it feels like everything I've heard from Drake over the last year. Drake's sound a year ago was unique but I remember feeling like when he dropped a second album I was going to need to hear something different to be excited about it. Even though Marvin's Room isn't an official single, I'm already concerned about Drake's next project sounding like Thank Me Later II, which would be terrible because Thank Me Later sounded like So Far Gone II.


I'm really into artist growth. Listening to Reasonable Doubt isn't like listening to the Blueprint or the Black Album. I know Drakes next project will only be his second so obviously he has plenty of time for album comparison's but I'd love to see him start taking some risks musically. I'd like to see him switch his rap style up. Give me something unexpected like when B.I.G. did Notorious Thugs. Do a full R&B album and really test your range vocally. I just don't want to keep hearing different versions of "Fireworks" and "Find Your Love" for his whole career.


Let us know what you think about Marvin's Room?


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"Live the phrase sky's the limit..."

One of the things about life is it has a tendency to get away from you. It's easy to get caught up in the day to day trappings of going to work, school, and whatever other combinations of different obligations you have.


For anybody reading this, I want you to step back and figure out what you can be doing on a daily basis to make sure you're genuinely happy. Going to work and finishing a tough project is great but your sense of accomplishment would probably be greater if you read that book you've been wanting to read, or joined that charity you're interested in.


Most people's dreams have nothing to do with the desk they sit behind or the clock they're punching. While there is absolutely nothing wrong with making an honest living, there's just something about spending time doing what you really want to do that can relieve you of the worries of the world. It's following those internal passions that led to some of the worlds most successful people. Your thoughts might consist of an NY Times Bestseller or an award winning script if you take time for yourself and write them down.


If there's an instrument you'd like to learn, a meal you'd like to cook, or memoirs you'd like to pen, do it; and if you can't do it, work toward it. Finishing that book you've been putting off might inspire you to write your own. Make sure you do something everyday to separate yourself from your 9-5. You only get one life, but you're fortunate enough to get as many dreams as you allow. Do yourself a favor and spend time trying to realize them; you'll find happiness in trying.

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