I can respect Cole without liking the actual output. The difference with Cardi is that we have zero expectations of her. Nobody is expecting - honestly - for Cardi to be a cultural influence on the game at large. meanwhile, Cole fans (I think Cole fans are the real culprit in any Cole dislike) won’t let him just be a…

If Eminem never made another beat again, nobody would be mad.

I feel like the active dislike isn’t even Cole’s fault. It’s the fault of his fans who tell you that if you don’t like Cole you’re either not smart or deep enough. There’s this narrative surrounding Cole that he’s an intellectual man’s rapper who layers his music with deep rhymes and shit, and that’s just not true.…

1. I’ve been accused of being a purist. And his beats still suck to me. Pete Rock is my favorite producer of all time and I grew up on 90s hiphop. I can also appreciate and enjoy some trap beats. But his beats are largely fairly non-awesome.

That’s called great PR. lol

Homie, don’t come for homie.

There are people who suck everywhere tho. At Fisk. At Elizabeth City State. I think bc folks expect it from us (HU, MC, SC) it seems so much worse when it’s true.

Pretty sure i went there. That’s what my degree says. Before you try to tell me what I know, do your googles.

They called it that - I have the letter - though it was financial. I had to get my financials together or they wouldn’t release my grades. Sounds dumb. I know. My GPA never dropped below a 3.5 for any semester. My academics were solid.

I wish I could have a car that got 99 MPG .

I can’t drive a Suburban in the city? or Park there? SUBURBANIST.

A CRV won’t handle my needs thank you very much. I need three rows because two of my children are in car seats and one is in a booster though she’s almost out of it. and my car does just fine in DC on DC’s streets. The streets aren’t so small that I don’t fit on them.

I bought a Suburban b/c I have three kids, two of whom need car seats. And while I can understand not having sympathy - you really need to see what I’m talking about on my particular street. There’s one particular individual for whom several of us neighbors talk about in this way. My car is rarely the issue. I…

To quote one of my professors - “I’m an economist; I don’t answer your questions because I know the truth, I answer because I was asked.”

“You guys are at a 10 and we need you at a 2.” - Boiler Room

There is literally no point in me considering myself - for me - half-white. Especially because nobody is going to say, “hey, I’m half-black.” You can tell. You already know. Nope, the only purpose is to point out that “hey, I’m half white” and what purpose does that serve? I don’t speak for all mixed folks obviously,…

Neither. I wasn’t raised that way. Apparently it’s nurture, not just nature.

I actually have. At my old job, when we’d have happy hours in our unit, there would always be bowls of chips or peanuts or foods cut up and shit on the lunch table and I was always baffled at my coworkers who would stick their whole hands into bowls of food. I saw it MANY times over my 14 years there. And I would…

It happened over Gchat. Hence the copy and paste action. That’s the literal conversation.

I’m not a big fan of the VaporMax joints. I actually like the Lebrons though. And based on convos, it seems like others do too. I’m not a big fan of the Yeezys. I do have three pairs of Pharrells NMD Human Race joints though. Does that suffice?lol