I play hard, but I'm an emotional person.
Things affect me immediately and intensely,
It's just that life has taught that the weak get slaughtered by the strong.
So you learn to curb your.....
vulnerabilities...

I watch this video over and over ....

It makes my back straighten  and my chin raise.

Why?
we are Beautiful,
we are Varied,
we are Otherworldly,
we are Charismatic,
we are movement, and rhythm and Glamour ...
it is Obvious
It is inherent , not forced or taught.

Look at us.

We are beautiful
And that is why we are hunted, and copied, and demonized...
because look at this...
look at it.!

i would hate me too....

A friend of mine...well someone I thought was my friend, has apparently been saying some maybe truthful, but definitely hurtful things about me to some mutual friends.

That's really nothing new for me...but this person in particular I always believed would tell me the unkind things directly to my face if she felt it needed to be said.

I expected Hard truth from her...but Directly...not a susu.

I think...I KNOW..
.I'm more upset at having to hear these things from someone else, than even the CONTENT of what was said.

I could give a RATS ASS about her or their opinion of me and my life and choices. Shit everyone is entitled to their opinion...and not many people have been allowed to see the true interior of my life.

But I think I just lost a Hero...a personal one.

I expected better!

Steups...anyways...this inspired your music track today.

I think this is one of the most haunting tracks to exist EVER. I don't think you can listen to this and forget it...regardless of the lyrics.

I ran into this today because I was listening to Angie Stone' I wish Didn't Miss You, which is a powerful version too.


(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)

All you fellows who have someone and you really care, yeah, yeah
Then it's all of you fellows who better beware, yeah yeah

Somebody's out to get your lady
A few of your buddies they sure look shady
Blades are long, clenched tight in their fist
Aimin' straight at your back
And I don't think they'll miss

(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)

I keep gettin' all these visits from my friends, yeah, what they doin to me
They come to my house again and again and again and again, yeah
So are they there to see my woman
I don't even be home but they just keep on comin'
What can I do to get on the right track
I wish they'd take some of these knives off my back

(They smile in your face)
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers (back stabbers)
Low down... dirty...

(What they do!)
(They smile in your face)
Smiling faces... smiling faces sometimes tell lies (Back stabbers)
(They smile in your face)
I don't need... low down, dirty bastards (Back stabbers)

Anyways..Pandora threw her into my playlist this morning...Specifically...Paper Gangsta....

My head was down and I was working and listening....but paying attention to the lyrics..

This SONG IS HARD!!!!!

oh my god...its not scary metaphoric trite not my experience lyrics either ...

it Goes:

OMG...that hook is amazing.
I love the lack of music in the verses...its a plain piano chord...


Sometimes I feel so Def in the JAM??   WTH??
Is she Eminem's sister? Did she grow up in the Bronx? Does she write her own stuff?

Homegirl can't catch shit if it drop?? 
HUH? WHO IS THIS??? DOES SHE WRITE HER OWN LYRICS?????


Wont sign no Monkey papers.....
Won't sign away my life to someone who's got the flavor
but don't have no follow through....
thats a line Mary J. Blige would say back in the day...before she got happy and all..but thats another story.

got something really shiny to start
want me to sign there on your range rover heart
I've heard it before, yeah, the dinners were nice
'til your diamond words melted into some ice
you should been rapping to the beat of my song
mr. california, paper gangsta raw
I'm looking for love, not an empty page
full of stuff that means nothing but "you've been played

ollo?
its TLC...in spandex...
Where the hell have I been?
and I'm serious I need to know if she writes her own stuff before I begin this GIRL CRUSH

So I guess I Can do Gaga...
I just have to ignore the videos....
and listen with my eyes closed..

Woke up..with this song in my head....

This is what happens when you fall asleep with pandora playing..

Apparently these guys didnt do videos...

Steups..

The Isley Brothers Sample makes my heart hurt..

The hook.....well...just seems to damn personal...

That's a marker of a good song right?

EDIT..I don't consider Dwele a super singer [Ducks head like Luther or ...Stevie - see the comparison??]
but his first vocal on this track is amazing..
esp since the mish mosh of sample and vocals of the hook are so strong...
His first intro here is clean and clear..i like

Slum Village Featuring Dwele.. Lyrics after the Jump

:)

Morning World...

Morning Luvs,
I had a deep ass philosophical post about Value under here. 
Then the psychologist that is my music playlist selected this track for me this morning....
I previewed the video....and said 
Screw it.


This. Shit. Makes. Me. Smile!
From my Belly Smile...
Like... make my spirit Giggle...:)
Makes me wanna skip through the world throwing flowers at people...:)
Just the right balance of Bitter, and Bitchy :)
Enjoy it. 
I did.
:)
I love a transformation....especially in myself.


oh for the Newbies...The poetry in the Lyrics after the Jump:


Baby, It's me... Maybe I bore you
No, No it's my fault cause I can't afford you
Maybe baby Puffy, Jay Z
Could all be better for you
Cause all I could do was love you


Baby when I used to love you
There's nuttin that I wouldn't do
I'd twist through the fire for you
Anything you asked me to
But I'm tired of living this lie
It's getting harder to justify
I realize that I just don't love you
Not like I used to
Holla Holla Holla (yeaaahh)
Holla holla holla (yeah, yeah, uh, uh)


Maybe I should rob somebody
So we could live like
Whitney and Bobby
It's probably my fault
My bad, My loss
You are the cause
All I could do was love you


Baby when i used to love you
There's nothing that I wouldn't do
I'd twist through the fire for you
Anything you asked me to
But I'm tired of living this lie
It's getting harder to justify
I realize that I just don't love you
Not like I used to
Holla Holla Holla (yeaaahh)
Holla holla holla (yeah, yeah)


Oh! I used to (wheeen I used to)
Love you (used to... Love you)
Oh! But I don't (baby no not any more... I don't love you)
Love you (noooo, used to ... love you)
Oh! I used to
used to love you


You're gonna miss me now...

Florida's Cold....but not too cold today. 

Kinda trapped indoors....but not all Day! 

Yeah...:) I think i'm smiling ;)

Smile...

Cee-lo's album the Lady killer is out now.

If you're a soul music fan..no..a good music fan...you MUST get it.

This album isn't called the Lady Killer because he is Mister Mac Daddy...slay them chicks.

it's way more clever.

He's telling us ladies...EXACTLY what we want to hear.

Imagine your prince charming,

a slinger of metaphor...

a creator of imagery...

with an Uncanny insight into your personal heart...

give him a singing voice..

and urban swagger...

Meet LADY KILLER!

its a dangerous must have album....

But

Be very careful ...you may get swept away in it....

It feels like love and summertime..

its an illusion....but a sexy, pretty, happy one.

Oooohhh... 

Hey Hey Hey Hey... 

I want you [x2]

Hey, I love the night life

Yes I do it's so much fun

And before you know it

Ah here comes the sun

Sweetheart it's been real, but... 

The thrill is gone

Silence is like a spirit

That picked my house to haunt

But I know it's there so I'm nonchalant

Yet deep inside I need what I want

And I want you to run away with me and experience something new

Anything you've already done just won't do

I want you

And I want you to genuinely and sincerely want me too

You can believe in my baby

Don't be cruel

'Cause I want you

Would a trip to a remoted island ease your mind

Oh you look like a solitare every sunshine

I like her 'cause she's fun

And she's fearless

She's a friend of mine

And I'm not trying to say that you need some help

Or you can have anything you want with your bad self

I like her 'cause she's smart

But she's still sexy

She is somethin' else

That's why I want you to run away with me and experience something new

Anything you've already done just won't do

I want you

And I want you to genuinely and sincerely want me too

You can believe in my baby, don't be cruel

'Cause I want you

Oooh... 

Oh one world to find a lady

That happens to be three times the lady

God is good

But he took his time when he designed you baby

That's why I want you

And

Oh I'll even quit my job

Lovin' you, I'll make it my job

Thank you Lord, thank you lord

This is it

My god! 

That's why I want you