On the latest drink champs, Dame Grease talked about how his management at Ruff Ryders would tell people calling to get his tracks that he stopped making beats and then they'd direct the inquire to Swizz Beatz. I can understand looking out for your fam but this is foul...Dame Grease had some heat...stop being greedy was my joint. Did you know about this @tuckdog ?


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Here's a video of Jay Z saying that Ruff Ryders redirected him to Swizz when he was trying to get to Dame Grease.

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Anyone have any recommendations for YouTube videos? Why not make this a topic where we can share clips on YouTube. Anyway, I'm looking to start watching YouTube more often. Do you guys have any recommendations for comedy channels, movie channels, rap/hip-hop, R&B, and other such music channels? I'm looking to subscribe to a lot of channels, so lets get some suggestions going.

So, Madden NFL 22 came out yesterday, and I'm torn on if I will get it or not. I used to buy each release of Madden back in the PS2/Xbox era up until the PS3 era. Sadly, I haven't really bothered much with recent releases, because I've found them to be more mediocre as of late. They've stripped a lot of content, that was originally in past games. And I don't understand why.

I was hopeful for these games to improve, but I don't know if they ever will. They are essentially the same games every year with some small changes here and there. I'm honestly thinking of going back to ESPN NFL 2K5. :D

I was a fan of his in his early career. I thought he was a wholesome dude. Had family values and everything. I really felt like he was truly an NBA player younger people could look up to. I noticed since he went to LA though, a lot about the dude changed. The one thing that really soured me on him was the issues with Hong Kong. Like I know, we are not expected to be helping people in other countries as citizens but to stand with China while they were abusing, killing, locking up, and enslaving those people... It just rubbed me the wrong way. I lost any respect for him that I had left. I used to be harsh on Kobe (RIP) because of his actions with his wife and some of his friends over the years but that was nothing in comparison. He did some stupid stuff but he never sold out.

What are your thoughts on LeBron James? Do you think he changed?

I noticed a lot of brands go downhill over the years. The quality and styles just aren't the same anymore. I tend to just find random brands I like that are more affordable and make comfortable clothing but I still have my preferences. Like for shoes and whatnot, I almost always buy Puma. For me, they have made some of the most comfortable footwear out there and if you find it on a deal, you aren't paying much for the quality.

Are you team playstation, xbox, or PC? I tend to lean towards PC but I wouldn't mind having a PS5 at some point. The PS5s were so hard to get last year I gave up lol

I used to try to hit the gym a couple times a week before the pandemic hit. I bought some weights awhile back to put in the garage but I think they got used once and that was it lol I think I just lost motivation with the shutdown and it hasn't come back yet.

Aside from the normal stuff like being trustworthy, I don't like when someone makes a point to be negative in every situation. I get that not everything can positive, but if you're constantly focusing on the negatives, it frustrates me. I want to be able to excited about something without worrying about your negative opinion.

I am not trying to be disrespectful, if you love yourself the way you are more power to you but past a certain point of weight gain... It just isn't a good look. It isn't healthy either. I keep seeing this being pushed on women, especially women of color. How is this a good thing long-term? Like yeah, you feel better about yourself and I am happy for you but do you want to die in your 40's? Do you want to struggle with health conditions your whole life and live miserably? I don't know man. I feel like this is doing an injustice to women. Loving yourself means you want to take care of yourself. There is nothing wrong with wanting to improve your health for your own sake. Having some extra weight is one thing but once you are obese, it just isn't good. Maybe this is just me.

I left the platform. I just wasn't feeling it anymore. People argue over stupid things, act like they know it all, and cancel everything. It makes no damn sense to me. Like I used to enjoy reading through the posts but most of what I was seeing was politically charged and designed to make someone look bad for something. Got sick of it and just decided to wipe my account and leave. This was last year. I haven't been on it since. I would much rather socialize on forums like this one.

Over the years, my family kind of went their own ways. Once my grandparents passed away, we seem to have mostly just stop celebrating a lot of holidays. I mean we do birthdays still, summer cookouts (4th of July is a real banger every year), Christmas... But that is about it. I don't remember the last time we celebrated Easter or Halloween, even Thanksgiving. I think 2020 put the nail in the coffin for those completely as we had plans but they fell through. Which holidays do you and yours celebrate?

Not trying to be political here but I definitely think the pandemic has influenced my feelings toward the general public. I was never a people person before but now I feel like that's even worse lol Has it affected you?

I'm hearing that we may be required to get a booster shot after we get our vaccines (if you haven't already). I feel like covid is never ending at this point. Does the vaccine even work if we need to get more of the vaccine? Seems weird to me. Are you guys going to get the booster shot if you have to in our area? Or will you wait it out a bit first?

What is your favorite food? I am going to go cliche here and answer pizza. I love pizza dude, it's my favorite, and I could honestly eat it a lot. Which looking at my habits, is probably a bad idea haha! I buy a lot of frozen pizza, and even order once in a while. It's addicting isn't it?

But what is your favorite food?

These days I kinda steer away from social media, because it's just a mess of dumb people arguing about politics, covid and other such things. It's a big reason I left Facebook, because so many of my friends and family just talked nonsense about stuff and i got tired of it.

Do you guys even bother with social media anymore? I wouldn't count streaming or doing videos (Youtube), but facebook and twitter for sure.

Its cuz of this idiot.

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We have train tracks downtown Dallas and people either try to beat the train or end up stopping dead on the tracks waiting for a light to change. Common sense tells me to not roll on a train tracks if I don’t have a clear path across it but common sense ain’t common.

I don’t think I could trust myself on it let alone a tesla. The visibility going up has to be terrible, it’s like a San Francisco street on steroids.

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YOOOO!

Any Common fans here? Looking forward to hearing what he's putting out.

Common Announces New Album + Shares Black Thought Collaboration 'When We Move'

This is kind of a controversial topic but for the men here, do you expect a woman to submit to you without you having to be accountable for results? It seems like a lot of men in our society feel that submissiveness from a woman is a right, I disagree. I feel like submissiveness is a privilege and you have to earn it by being a provider and protector that creates emotional, financial, and physical stability in the household. A woman is unable to bask in her feminine energy when the basic tenets of survival are unmet.

This is why our Black American women typical display masculine traits because they have been dealt a bad hand over the past 70 years. Their men have been overly arrested, overly charged, overly Incarcerated, and denied jobs which culminated in a environment where Black American women had to be the tentpole for the family. To make matters worse, the Man was UNABLE to come back into the household if the woman was on public assistance thus reinforcing the Black woman having to hold down the household.

So I say all that to say this, understand masculinity and what woman expect from you as a man. Be a leader, a provider, and protector and she will choose to lock onto your plan if it makes sense. Will there be women out there unwilling to do so? Yes. But for every bum ass woman is a bum ass dude…don’t let their darkness mask your light.

Submissiveness is a side effect of you being a provider and protector…don’t expect it if you ain’t doing your job.

I hear a lot of stories about people trying to make long distance work but I don't think I could personally do it. It seems to take a certain type of personality to even attempt it and even then I don't know that it works every time. That's just my opinion though - What do you think?