I loved the guitar solo in this song – until, that is, I looked up the video in YouTube (above) and, listening to the song over again, found out that the guitar solo in my memory was so much better than the one in the song! In fact, the song does not even have a proper guitar solo! Maybe there is some other version (or song?) I am thinking of.
Lyrics:
Nothing can make you high
Or put fire in your eyes
Or give you a chance to fly
When you need the wings
When all that youve got is doubt
And nothing can stop you from feeling down
But oh I know, I know exactly how you feel
But can you believe now
When youre on your knees now
Begging and pleading now
Can you believe
When all that youve got is doubt
And no one to pull you out
When your heart is slowin down
Can you believe
See the person I love the most
Is so far away tonight
And no other medicine or promise is
Gonna heal me up right
But I got to believe
That her and me
Will be together
Cause thats all I got
And Oh, I know
When youre down at the bottom
Can you believe
Can you believe when all hope seems gone
When your mother and father cant keep you safe from harm
Can you forgive in your heart
Can you ask for forgiveness
When nobody else believes can you believe
Can you believe in yourself
If nobodys watchin
You will never know
If somebodys watchin
You will never know
If nobodys watchin
You will never know
If somebodys watchin
You will never know
If nobodys watchin
You will never know
If somebodys watchin
You will never know
Warning: As in all things Roissy, this is not a gentle, PG-13 sort of post:
Roissy in DC, a white man, told us in “Interracial Loving” about his first time with a black woman. It was like watching a train wreck.
One commenter, Haroldmaude, a black woman, comments in part:
Wow. I thought my humorous racial comments and viewpoints were always in danger of being misconstrued. And I really want to believe you’re being a bit light-hearted with this nostalgic post, but you’re not, are you? As a black woman, thanks for fulfilling the stereotypes about how/why white men date black women: it’s exotic; she’s probably used to really big black penises; a lot of other black women will find me attractive; and though the black men hate me for taking ‘one of their own’, they RESPECT me for pulling it off (???). Wow. Wow. Wow. Actually, those looks from the black men were probably more about, “There’s only one reason why he’s with her.”
This went right over Roissy’s head. He either did not understand it or chose not to. Even after she pointed out how he was stereotyping blacks he went right on doing it – while saying he was not!
For example, about stereotyping black women as exotic he says:
you’re barking up the wrong tree if you think you can guilt me into some contrite backpedaling. homey don’t play that. of course she was exotic at the time. she was my first. the first asian i had was also exotic. hell, the first time i kissed a girl was exotic. if it’s the word that ties your panties in a knot, try substituting “novel”.
Not getting it. It is like watching a troll in control of his own blog.
But it gets worse. Here is what he has to say about his stereotyping black women as being used to really big black penises:
a fair assumption on my part as most people date within their race for the majority of their dating lives. luckily for me, i’m no slouch in the big penis department.
Still not getting it.
I later commented:
Roissy: A very interesting yet sickening account. You need to reread haroldmaude’s comments with care.
That was putting it nicely.
Government figures show that white Americans have higher reading scores than blacks. But then why is it that blacks easily understand my posts while some whites have such a hard time?
Round about comment #15 some white person will do just what Roissy did: state that I am wrong while proving I am right by his very comment.
I used to think I was not being clear enough, that if I used just the right words then scales would drop from the eyes of white people. But that assumes that racism is just a simple misunderstanding, a set of bad ideas, like stereotypes, that can be replaced with better ones. Sadly, it is not that simple.
One of my favourite songs these days. This went to #1 on the R&B charts in 2007.
Lyrics:
OOOhh yeah oh yeah
Oooh, remember
Oooohh i remember,and i wanna know
Where were you, when I said I loved you
And where were you, when I cried at night
Waiting up, couldn’t sleep without you
Thinking of, all the times we shared
I remember when my heart broke
I remember when I gave up loving you
My heart couldn’t take no more of you
I was sad and lonely
I remember when I walked out
I remember when I screamed I hated you
But somehow deep inside, still loving you, sad and lonely
No one knew, all the pain I went through
All the love, I saved deep in my heart for you
Didn’t know, where I would go, where I would be
But you made me leave, and plus my heart it just
It just kept telling me so
ooooooooooo
I remember when my heart broke
I remember when I gave up loving you
My heart couldn’t take no more of you, I was sad and lonely
I remember when I walked out
I remember when I said I hated you
But somehow deep inside, still loving you, so sad and lonely
There was nowhere else to go, oh
Nobody else, to turn to, no
For the rest of my life, I promise myself I
Will love me first, genuinely
I remember when my heart broke
I remember when I gave up loving you
My heart couldn’t take no more of you
I was sad and lonely
I remember when I walked out
I remember when I said I hated you
But somehow deep inside, still loving you, sad and lonely
I remember when I walked out
I remember when I gave up loving you
My heart couldn’t take no more of you, so sad and lonely
I remember when I stormed out
I remember when I gave up loving you, I was sad and lonely
My wife is a huge John Legend fan; I am not. But there are some of his songs that I like for some reason. Like this one. Maybe it is because in his songs love never turns out the way it should despite your best efforts, but even so you do not lose confidence or hope but keep on.
Lyrics:
so we did it again
knowing we should quit it, but we simply won’t admit it again
oh it feels good, it’s so good, but i won’t do it again
it’s so dramatic again
after we go at it, we get mad then we go at it again
oh i love it, then i hate it, she’s my favorite again
i’m wasting time
i can’t help it she’s so fine
oh i like her style
and i love the way she talks and i smile
as much as we may try
can’t quite see eye to eye
so in the meantime, i guess we say bye-bye
(and again and again and again)
oh, and then, we do it again
we do it again and we do it again
oh, and then, we do it again
we want it again, and we want it again
so we fake it again
i think we’re gonna blow it, and we know it
but she’s naked again
we get wasted, then i taste it, then i waste it again
i can’t invite her again
’cause she’ll go from a lover to a fighter
and i’ll fight her again
so it’s over, but i told her to come over again
i’m wasting time
but she’s always on my mind
i can’t let her go
oh, she’s not the best, but she’s all that i know
as much as we may try
can’t quite see eye to eye
so in the meantime i guess we say bye-bye
(and again and again and again)
oh, and then, we do it again
we do it again and we do it again
oh, and then, we do it again
we want it again, and we want it again
so i’ve got a new friend
i wish i could forget you
but i miss you, wanna kiss you again
she’s like you, but she’s not you, gotta find you again
so we remember again
the middle of december and i took you out to dinner again
oh i love her, it’s not over, just another again
(and again and again and again)
oh, it’s another again-
i love her, it’s another again…
Note: This post does not set out to prove anything – it is just food for thought.
Here are the top ten girl names of those born in New York City in 2007:
Isabella
Sophia
Emily
Ashley
Sarah
Kayla
Mia
Olivia
Samantha
Rachel
Sophia and Isabella are tied for first.
Now break that down by race, where Hispanics count as a separate race:
Top white names:
Sarah
Rachel
Sophia
Olivia
Ava
Isabella
Esther
Julia
Chaya
Emma
The top Asian names:
Sophia
Emily
Chloe
Tiffany
Angela
Ashley
Rachel
Isabella
Fiona, Jessica, Sarah (tied)
Top Hispanic names:
Ashley
Isabella
Emily
Mia
Brianna
Samantha
Angela
Melanie
Sophia
Jennifer, Kayla (tied)
The top black names:
Madison
Kayla
Jada
Brianna
Nevaeh
Alyssa
Makayla
Gabrielle
Taylor
Imani
Please note: There are white girls named Kayla, etc. These are merely the most common names for each race.
No name made all four lists.
Only two names made three lists: Sophia and Isabella. They were on all but the black list.
What I find interesting are the names that made only two lists. Why? Because I see it as a measure of how much races deal with each other as equals. That might be wrong, but for this post I will assume it is true.
Here are which names appear on only two lists:
white/Asian: Rachel, Sarah
white/Hispanic:
white/black:
Asian/Hispanic: Angela, Ashley, Emily
Asian/black:
Hispanic/black: Kayla, Brianna
I listed all six possible pairings, but only half of them have anything. These are just the pairings you would expect if you assume race in New York is a four-layer cake that looks like this:
white
Asian
Hispanic
black
With whites at the top as the richest and most privileged.
Whites and Hispanics do use some of the same names (Isabella and Sophia), but only if Asians use them too – just as if Asians are the go-between.
This seems to rule out two possible models of race in New York:
Whites at the centre: If that were true, then the white pairings would have the most names. Instead two of them have no names at all: white/Hispanic and white/black. And even the remaining one, white/Asian, is outdone by Asian/Hispanic. This also shows, by the way, that names are not coming directly from a white mainstream but spread some other way.
A white/Asian overclass and a black/Hispanic underclass: If this were true then the Asian/Hispanic pairing would have few to no names. Instead it is the strongest pairing of all.
You can also get a measure of ghettoization, of how separated each race is from the others, by how many names are found only on its list:
white (6): Olivia, Ava, Esther, Julia, Chaya, Emma
Asian (4): Chloe, Tiffany, Fiona, Jessica
Hispanic (4): Mia, Samantha, Melanie, Jennifer
black (8): Madison, Jada, Nevaeh, Alyssa, Makayla, Gabrielle, Taylor, Imani
To prove anything you would at least have to look at more years and go deeper in the lists to see if these patterns hold up. You would also have to study just how girl names start and spread.
Every two to four years the American Department of Education tests public school children across the country. They give reading and math tests to fourth graders (9-year-olds) and eighth graders, (13-year-olds).
Just to keep it simple, I will look just at the reading scores of 13-year-olds in 2007. The general pattern for math and 9-year-olds is much the same, though the particulars are different.
Note that in what follows only averages are reported. Not everyone scores at or near the average – many score way above and many score way below.
The good news is that reading scores have gone up since 1992 for both blacks and whites. The bad news is that the racial gap has not narrowed much at all: blacks still score way lower than whites:
270 whites in 2007
265 whites in 1992
244 blacks in 2007
236 blacks in 1992
The scores are on a 500-point scale. I always list scores from highest to lowest.
Poor children generally read worse than middle-class ones, but that alone cannot account for the gap: middle-class blacks read as badly as poor whites:
274 middle-class whites
257 poor whites
254 middle-class blacks
238 poor blacks
“Middle-class” in this case means your parents make more than 1.85 times the poverty level. “Poor” means they make less than 1.30 times the poverty level – poor enough to get a free lunch at school.
Here are the states with the worst average reading scores for whites:
265 Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky
262 Hawaii
263 Nevada
261 Alabama
256 West Virginia
Now compare that to the states with the BEST average reading scores for blacks:
259 Miltary (has its own schools)
255 Hawaii
253 Massachusetts
252 Colorado
252 Virginia
So the white 13-year-olds of West Virginia, as bad as they read on average, are still better off – on average – than blacks, even in the states that are best for them. And even the black army brats barely outscore them.
(Note that some states do not have enough blacks and whites to do a good comparison: nine states are too white – Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota – and DC is too black.)
Notice that Hawaii is in both lists: it is the only state without a racial gap. True, there is a 7 point difference, but that is within the statistical margin of error for the state.
Some states have a much smaller gap than the country as a whole:
Sometimes it is for a good reason: blacks do well compared to blacks as a whole – Virginia, Delaware, Alaska and the military.
Sometimes it is for a bad reason: whites do poorly – Kentucky, Nevada and New Mexico.
And there is one state where the gap is way bigger than in the rest of the country and, no, that state is not in the south: Wisconsin. The whites there are average, but the blacks are the worst 13-year-old readers in the whole country.
Here are the worst states for blacks:
237 California
236 Alabama, Arkansas, Michigan
231 Wisconsin
So much for the idea that the South has some kind of lock on bad education for blacks.
The woman who comes out of the black car and shakes hands with Paul Wall is Deelishis, the winner of the second season of Flavor of Love. So far as I know this is the only video she has ever been in. Does anyone know the name of the main white girl in this video?
[Lil Keke]
[Intro]
I’mma break ‘em off real bad, I’mma show ’em pourin up a duece while ridin slab
[Chorus]
I’mma break ‘em off real bad, I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad,
I’mma break ‘em , I’mma break ‘em off real bad
I’mma show’em pourin up a duece while ridin slab
[Paul Wall]
Now I gotta work ma wood grain wheel
Poppin’ trunks, poppin’ pillz, still poppin’ seals
Higher than a hill with ma mind on millz
Piece and chain swangin’, bank roll, shiny grill
Baby, I got million dollar dreams, with ma mind on cream
I’m in that mean green machine clean on 19s
Flat screens in the headrest, swangin’ like a swing set
Brandy wine, paint wet, comin’ down that’s a bet
I’m in the lot chasin’ broads like a lesbian
Full of that Kush flower, I’m breakin’ off pedestrians
Higher than a street light, floatin’ like a parachute
Buzzin’ like a bumble bee, mustard green Bentley coupe
Young gangsta, Mac game, sharper than a thumbtack
Breakin’ ‘em off, makin’ all the boppers attract
Then they watch me, I’m rocked up fully loaded and sloppy
Tryin’ to hit it and quit it
And walk off like Big Papi then break ‘em off
[Chorus]
I’mma break ‘em off real bad, I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad,
I’mma break ‘em , I’mma break ‘em off real bad
I’mma show’em pourin up a duece while ridin slab
I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad, I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad,
I’mma break ‘em , I’mma break ‘em off real bad
I’mma show’em pourin up a duece while ridin slab
[Lil’ Keke]
Aye, aye
I pull up like this, untouchable white wrist
I’m hotter than warm piss, berry grape Sunkist
The truck blow mist five 50 snow bunny
Bentley continental with the mink floors dummy
Paul Wall money, dat’s expensive taste
And ‘em frilly ass fools we send ‘em to myspace
I’mma break ‘em off until the backbone broken
Stainless steel drop phantom, leave the top open
Shit done hit the fan, better cover your nose
And the Kush done start burnin’, better cover your clothes (that’s right)
Concrete crumblin’, glass shootin’ lazers
Crawlin’ and cuttin’ up on 24 razors
I’mma show ‘em how to make the slab look phenomenal
Chasin’ paper in the mornin’, call me Houston Chronicle
Hold on then u buckle up the seat belt
Swisha House, Young Don, capital TF
[Chorus]
I’mma break ‘em off real bad, I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad,
I’mma break ‘em , I’mma break ‘em off real bad
I’mma show’em pourin up a duece while ridin slab
I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad, I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad,
I’mma break ‘em , I’mma break ‘em off real bad
I’mma show’em pourin up a duece while ridin slab
[Paul Wall]
Already
Higher than the satellite, crawlin’ like a baby
Maneuverin’ thru the traffic like I’m Tracy McGrady
Still choppin’ on ‘em buttons, I’m struttin’ and lookin’ fresh
Switch hittin’ like Berkman, this is ballin’ at its best
In dat minute maid droppa’, with retractable roof
Finer than wood, wavin’ the hood, student loans on the two
The fifth wheel on the ground, and the trunk in the air
Paul Wall, baby I’m the definition of playa
Ma skillz is so ill when workin’ the wood wheel
Tippin’ 4s like a waiter, beware of the oil spill
Wide screen mind frame, panoramic pimpin’
I’m sippin’ on dat Osama, baby leanin’ like I’m limpin’
In dat 2 seater feeder, it’s me and a senorita
3 ounces up in the liter, and it’s ten up in the heater
Mackin’ a mamacita
Runnin’ game like a cheetah
I’m knockin’ ‘em out the park
Similar to Derek Jeter (Break ‘em off)
[Chorus]
I’mma break ‘em off real bad, I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad,
I’mma break ‘em , I’mma break ‘em off real bad
I’mma show’em pourin up a duece while ridin slab
I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad, I’mma break ‘em
I’mma break ‘em off real bad,
I’mma break ‘em , I’mma break ‘em off real bad
I’mma show’em pourin up a duece while ridin slab
this life can make me so confused but it’s alright
living day by day I feel so used that ain’t right
I just wanna run and hide
I don’t have the time to cry it’s alright (it’s alright)
alright
many thoughts are running through my head, it’s alright
wishing to be somewhere else but here, it’s alright
I can’t wait to see your face
I need a smile and your embrace, and I’m alright
alright
life can bring us through many changes
just don’t give up
it’s gonna be alright
people come and they go
it’s just the way that it goes
sometime the rain it makes me sad and it’s alright
some things in the world make me mad and it’s alright
in the morning when I see the sun I know I’m not the only one
its alright
alright
wish I had some money to pay my bills
I can’t even buy that dress on sale but it’s alright
having money don’t mean a thing
loving you is everything
I’m alright
(life can bring us through many changes
just don’t give up
it’s gonna be alright
people come and they go
that’s just the way that it goes)
Not only does Brazil have its own fashion industry, some Brazilian models are among the top supermodels of the world. Of the five top paid models in the world in 2007, three were Brazilian:
The best paid:
1. Gisele Bundchen (1980- ): $33 million (2.6 million crowns), the top paid and richest model in the world. She is worth about $150 million (12 million crowns) and has appeared on over 500 magazine covers. She left Victoria’s Secret in 2007. From Rio Grande do Sul. She is German on both sides of her family. 1.80 m. WHR 0.67.
4. Adriana Lima (1981- ):$6 million (a half million crowns). Spike TV in America says she is the hottest girl on the planet. More on her below. She is from Salvador, Bahia. She is part Swiss, black and native Indian. 1.78 m. WHR 0.69.
5. Alessandra Ambrosio(1981- ): $6 million. People magazine says she is one of the 100 most beautiful people in the world. From Rio Grande do Sul. She is part Italian, part Polish. She has wanted to be a model since she was eight. 1.78 m. WHR 0.67.
Kate Moss of Britain is #2 and Heidi Klum of Germany is #3.
Here is who I think are the most beautiful Brazilian models, of the ones I know of. Some no longer model, but they have all modelled at some point:
The most beautiful:
1.Taís Araújo (1978- ), from Rio, became the first black actress to appear as a main character in a telenovela on Brazilian television. She is a presenter on the television show “Superbonita”, about how to be beautiful! More.
2. Adriana Bombom (1974- ) is a Carnival queen from Rio. She she was once one of Xuxa’s helpers. What a body! More.
3. Ildi Silva (1982- ) is a television actress from Bahia. She was discovered on the streets of Salvador and became a model. More.
4. Rojane Fradique (1986- ) is a fashion model from Bahia in the north where most people are black. She is tall (1.82 metres), extremely thin but looks like a work of art. In 2003 she placed second in Brazil in the Elite Model Look contest and 15th worldwide. More.
5. Raica Oliveira (1984- ) is a model from Niteroi, near Rio. She now lives in New York with her mother. She has been on the runway in Paris and Milan and in many fashion magazines and makeup ads. She is friends with fellow Brazilian models Adriana Lima and Ana Beatriz Barros.
6. Adriana Lima (1981- ) She has modelled for Victoria’s Secret and Maybelline. She is friends with Raica Oliveira. More.
8. Camila Pitanga (1977- ) is a Brazilian model and television actress from Rio. Best known in Brazil as Bebel on the telenovela “Paraíso Tropical”. Ildi Silva, listed above, plays a secretary on the same show. Her father is black, her mother is white.
9. Lucy Ramos(1982- ) is a model and television actress. She is best known for her role in the show “Sinhá Moça”. She was born in Recife in Pernambuco. More.
10. Marina Montini(1948-2006) was a beauty from Rio in the 1960s and 1970s. She was so beautiful that men painted pictures of her, especially Di Cavalcanti. Her heavy drinking brought her to an early end at age 58.
Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation — oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.
If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I’d want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I’d want is you to shade me and be my leaves
If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I’d want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and greeen
All I’d want is you to shade me and be my leaves
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If you were a river in the mountains tall,
The rumble of your water would be my call.
If you were the winter, I know I’d be the snow
Just as long as you were with me when the cold winds blow
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If you were a wink, I’d be a nod
If you were a seed, well I’d be a pod.
If you were the floor, I’d wanna be the rug
And if you were a kiss, I know I’d be a hug
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
If you were the wood, I’d be the fire.
If you were the love, I’d be the desire.
If you were a castle, I’d be your moat,
And if you were an ocean, I’d learn to float.
All I want is you, will you be my bride
Take me by the hand and stand by my side
All I want is you, will you stay with me?
Hold me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
Sometimes I really don’t wanna have to speak my mind.
Cause I really don’t wanna tell you how I am digging you so.
I can’t let go.
But it hurts me to my soul.
To tell you every little thing that is on my mind.
I can’t let you know so I hide it inside.
All my feelings for you.
Don’t want you to let it go to your head.
I am mean to you sometimes.
But I can’t get you off my mind.
So I hit you with the game.
Always tryna act like your loving doesn’t faze me when the truth is that it amaze me.
I know it’s a big lie.
Cause you can see right through my eyes how much I wanna hold you.
Give you all my loving.
Baby boy, let me show you.
And I really wanna get to know you.
But I’ve been there.
And I’ve done that.
And I promised never to get hurt again. (Never, no, no)
Never again.
Never hurt again.
You drive me crazy but I promised myself never to get hurt again. (Never to get hurt again)
Never again. (Never again)
Never hurt again.
I can’t never ever let you see me this way.
So I take all my feelings and I tuck them away.
Frontin like I don’t want you to hold me tight.
So I act like I’m putting up a fight to get your attention.
And make you stay around longer.
So I tell you I don’t like it cause I know that that would make you wanna hold me tighter.
I can’t help myself.
I really like ya.
But I’ve been there.
And I’ve done that.
And I promised never to get hurt again.
Never again.
Never hurt again.
You drive me crazy but I promised myself never to get hurt again. (Never to get hurt again)
Never again. (Never again)
Never hurt again.
But I’ve been there.
And I’ve done that.
And I promised never to get hurt again. (Never to get hurt again, no, no)
Never again.
Never hurt again. (Never hurt again)
You drive me crazy but I promised myself never to get hurt again. (Never to get hurt again)
Never again. (Never again)
Never hurt again. (Oh boy)
I don’t deserve it.
I can never get hurt again.
Never get hurt again.
Never.
I don’t deserve it.
I can never get hurt again.
Never get hurt again.
Never, ohhh…
I’ve been there…
But I’ve been there.
And I’ve done that. (And I’ve done that)
And I promised never to get hurt again. (And I promised never to get hurt again)
Never again. (Never)
Never hurt again. (No, no)
You drive me crazy but I promised myself never to get hurt again. (You drive me crazy but I promised myself never to get hurt again)
Never again. (Never, no, no, no, no)
Never hurt again. (Ohhh)
I’ve been there.
And I’ve done that.
And I promised never to get hurt again.
Never again.
……
No all-star cast, no scripts, no budgets
In the soundtrack of my life
Just drugs and violence, sex and cryin’
In the soundtrack of my life
I’m like Halle in “Monster’s Ball”, Jada in “Set it Off”
In the soundtrack of my life
No special effects, just rep my set
In the soundtrack of my life
…..
Three months from my first child
I’m standing on a welfare line
Baby daddy went and hit my moms with a metal pan
They fight ’cause he don’t treat me right
My faith I’m in is real life, but
I can’t seem to get that right
Feel like a bum because my gear ain’t tight
Up late cutting crack for his feens
Is that why the Feds question me
Ooh, when I was young i was a really good girl
Ooh, remember when I had no need for liquor and green, yeah
……
No all-star cast, no scripts, no budgets
In the soundtrack of my life
Just drugs and violence, sex and cryin’
In the soundtrack of my life
I’m like Halle in “Monster’s Ball”, Jada in “Set it Off”
In the soundtrack of my life
No special effects, just rep my set
In the soundtrack of my life
…..
See the job wasn’t making it
So that’s why they hustlin’
I smoke more than i sold
Got to get to the studio
And moms don’t wanna babysit
She thinks i don’t love my kids
Dropped out and got my GED
Because the pressure was too much for me
Up late cutting crack for his feens
Is that why the Feds question me
Ooh, when i was young i was a really good girl
Ooh, remember when I had no need for liquor and green
I had no need, I had no need
……
No all-star cast, no scripts, no budgets
In the soundtrack of my life
Just drugs and violence, sex and cryin’
In the soundtrack of my life
I’m like Halle in “Monster’s Ball”, Jada in “Set it Off”
In the soundtrack of my life
No special effects, just rep my set
In the soundtrack of my life
…..
Kim Kardashian (1980- ) is a rich party girl from Los Angeles, California. Till 2007 she was mainly known as a friend of Paris Hilton, but then a sex video of her and her boyfriend, the singer Ray J, made the rounds on the Internet. After that she made the cover of Complex, King, Playboy and other magazines.
According to this blog she is the fifth most beautiful woman in the world. She has big, beautiful eyes, a beautiful face, long, thick black hair and a great figure. Her measurements are 35D-26-40 (89-66-102 cm). She is 5 foot 3 (1.60 metres).
When Paris Hilton was asked if she wanted a big bottom like Kardashian, she said, “.. it’s gross! It reminds me of cottage cheese inside a big trash bag.”
In reply Kardashian said, “If Paris Hilton thinks my butt looks gross, I don’t really care. At least I have a butt.”
Even though Kardashian is white, black men seem to like her more than white men. She was the first white woman to make the cover of King magazine yet she barely made white American Maxim’s Hot 100.
Since she herself seems to prefer black men, did she use her family’s money to give herself a black woman’s body?
She says no: all the women in her family have her sort of figure. But there is at least one picture of her where her legs seem too thin compared to the rest of her body and another one where her bottom was clearly smaller than it is now.
She said that Jennifer Lopez’s pride in her figure gave her the courage to show off hers. And that she did, naked, in Playboy in December 2007 in what she calls “tastefully done” pictures.
She said she appeared in Playboyat the urging of her mother (yes) and “because I’m not one of those stick skinny girls you see. I felt like girls today need to see a normal body.”
When Vivid Videoput out her sex video in 2007 she took them to court. How could she face her grandmother? But later that same year Kardashian herself put out a much longer sex video.
Many think she masterminded the whole sex video thing from beginning to end: it was all a bit too much like what her friend Paris Hilton did a few years before. And the video is too well done to seem like something private that suddenly saw the light of day.
If the name Kardashian seems somehow familiar you are probably thinking of her father: he helped to defend OJ Simpson at his murder trial in 1995. He came out of retirement to do it: he and Simpson were friends.
In 1989 when she was little her parents divorced. Her mother married Olympic gold-medal winner Bruce Jenner.
She was married to R & B producer Damon Thomas from 2000 to 2004. A mistake, she says.
She and Paris Hilton have known each other since they were little girls: their mothers were friends.
What we know about 2007 on the last day of the year:
The year ended with the death of Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, who returned to the country in October to bring back democracy. Her 19-year-old son has stepped forward to take her place.
Pakistan has been ruled by the army chief, General Musharraf, since 1999. But now the country is at the edge of civil war. After the fall of the Red Mosque in July, a holy war against the government has broken out in the mountains of the north-west, where Osama bin Laden is believed to be hiding.
Pakistan has the bomb, but it seems the Americans have made sure it will not fall into the wrong hands in case Musharraf falls.
In neighbouring Afghanistan the Taliban has been making a comeback in the south.
In Iraq the strength of Al Qaeda has fallen by three fourths. Anbar province has turned against it. America increased its troop levels in the Baghdad Surge in the first half of the year. That seems to have brought greater peace to the country. The British were able to turn over Basra, ending its four years of military rule in the south.
Iraq is still a mess, but now it is out of the newspaper headlines in America, giving the Republicans party a chance at winning the 2008 election for president.
Iran, despite Western attempts to stop it, went forward in processing uranium. Iran said it was only interested in building power plants. America said it was secretly building an atom bomb. That turned out to be false according to its very own intelligence – something Russia and the United Nations had been saying for years.
The war in Darfur in Sudan went on, pulling in the neighbouring countries of Chad and the Central African Republic. The West has been slow to help, slowed in part by China, which needs Sudan’s oil.
China has been busily getting ready for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Despite that the air there is still dirty.
Sarkozy became president of France. He wants to turn France to the right, just as Thatcher did in Britain and Reagan in America in the 1980s. He has already faced down his first labour strike.
The big New York banks on Wall Street have lost billions in mortgages made to those with bad credit histories.
Global warming became a top issue and is now accepted by most as a fact of science: that the earth is becoming dangerously warm because of all the oil and coal that man is burning. New word: carbon footporint.
The iPhone came out in America. It is a pocket computer that can make telephone calls.
Google continued to build a universal library on the Internet.
Top song worldwide: “Umbrella” by Rihanna
Nobel Prize for Literature: Doris Lessing
Academy Award for Best Picture: we will know on February 24th 2008
Abagond 