Frogs Boiling in Water

I have to speak on a couple of different things, and if you can grasp them, you can distinguish yourself from the billions of frogs boiling in water right now.

Just today, there was a ruling that few saw coming, in gay marriage rights being established. The other topic is an older one in the reviewed fight footage of the Mayweather vs. Pacquiao matchup from May 2nd. I'll start with the fight.

 For the last almost 2 months, there has been an enormous clash on the internet over the validity of Floyd's victory in the fight, amidst his being under investigation for judge tampering for years. Shortly after the fight on May 2nd, I made a couple of posts with mixed feelings about the result, and posted them here, as well as on Youtube, Facebook, etc. I rewatched and analyzed the fight, to clarify my opinion, and found that as I did round-for-round scoring, I was unable to give Mayweather more than 6 rounds. I also noticed that the numbers they had for Compubox looked way off. This is before the fight was reviewed in Europe by a panel of officials, where my suspicions were echoed. Bob Arum then went on a couple of interviews where he stated this, and was flamed by the public. I saw it as a breath of fresh air, due to the fact that when I see everyone saying something that I know for a fact doesn't fit, I question them, not myself. Most are not capable of that kind of thinking and focus. Facts and physical laws do not change, and I always keep this in mind. Then, shortly after that, a slowed down version of the fight was released, that showed every punch landed, confirming the panel's findings. In fact, I believe that one of the early slo-mo releases was the one used by the panel for review. Then, the video was revised and refined several times over.

  Fast forward to today, and you have the large majority of fans spitting blood through their teeth, swearing that those who argue in favor of what the footage shows, are stupid Pacquiao fans who are just bitter, and need to learn sense. I know I shouldn't be totally surprised, but it's very hard still. My jaw just drops as I contemplate how completely stupid the people of this world have become. Thinking that would be impossible a decade ago, has now become the standard. Who would have ever thought that the day would come when after video confirms that someone committed a crime, the majority of the public would say that it's completely stupid to think they are guilty. Wow. All I could say to others, was to try to take note of all of this.

  Then, we have the more serious matter of  gay rights involving marriage being established today. It's sad that no matter how peacefully I, or anyone speaks on this, if they don't ravenously support it, they are already under the axe. First, let's go back in time. If you can recall about 20 or more years ago, the gay lifestyle was treated violently by some, and put in its place by others. In the end, it was considered a niche lifestyle, that everyone, including those involved, knew was improper. Some of the actions toward them was cruel and wrong, as no one should be abused. The insulting names and treatment thrown at them was not right, and as with anything that is mistreated, that only fuels the fire. If you notice, there has been a constant fight by gays to be not only accepted, but justified over the years. It's one thing to want to be treated with respect as a person, but even those who aren't spiritually minded have wondered to no end why it is so important to them to have the aesthetics and honor of other relationships. But if you look at any two people who have no principles, who live together, and violate many of God's laws, you'll notice that they will usually insist on marriage after a period of time, and attribute it to everything but their conscience.


  The churches, and gays have tried for years to incorporate the scriptures in their defense, and have proved, obviously unable to do so, as the scriptures so clearly state God's disapproval of the act. Therefore, as should be expected, there has been a move away from the scriptures completely. There are some who still know the improper nature of it, but wonder what can be done.  The simple way to break it down is this: if you had an addiction to a drug, that you found was killing you, you wouldn't enjoy quitting, but you wouldn't question the necessity to do so. It's hard to see homosexuality like that for many, but if you analyze the scriptures, it is just that. I explained to a friend of mine who is a homosexual, in a deep conversation years ago, that we all have vices. At the time, I was dealing with one of my own. I told him that acknowledging it is the first step. The main thing is to prioritize things correctly. If you put your creator- God first, and everything secondary, it becomes much easier to see what you want to do, and what you need to do. And the scriptures also clearly state that if you put God first, he will support you in these kinds of trials, if you are battling doing what you know is wrong. Male to female relationship is not an old preference: it's God's arrangement. Bestiality and other practices are what was condemned and done by those who sought to anger and insult God. Go back and do research on pagan practices. They are the  foundation of so much of society's practices today for a reason.

  If someone told you right now, that they am attracted to animals, and feel that they should be able to have sexual relationships with any animal that they own, you will tell them that it's improper, and totally unacceptable. You will also probably say that it is not related to homosexuality. But the truth is that it is very much related. They are both unnatural acts condemned exactly the same by God, and even listed right next to each other in his word as detestable acts. Science and nature speak themselves about how improper they are, if you use simple sense. Even relations with family members was condemned early in bible times. At a time, the world was lightly populated, and it was difficult to find someone who wasn't closely related to you. However, in time birth defects could come about due to the improper action, and those who practiced it were condemned severely. How much moreso today? If you feel it's a step in a progressive direction, you are thinking with your emotions and a tainted heart and conscience. If that's the case, then you should be in agreement with someone having relations with an animal if they choose, or with someone taking your small child and having relations with them so long as the child consents to it. But at the present time, you wouldn't consent to that. Just know that they are all one in the same.

 Recognizing these things, separates you from the frogs boiling in water. Those frogs don't realize how society is deteriorating before our very eyes. The complex that some people have deep down, is that they are their own gods. Just like the story of the cat in Aesop's fables, who claimed he didn't desire the fruit in the tree, and degraded and insulted it, once he realized he couldn't jump to catch it, when people realized that their desires, or just lazy thinking and practices are colliding with God's will, they assume that telling themselves that He no longer matters, somehow removes him from His power. That's extremely foolish thinking. His standards and laws don't change. People do. You can't choose what you want to be outdated. The earth is still spinning. Oxygen still has its purpose. Gravity still hasn't bent. Why not consider those obsolete and write them off? They were all laws put in place by the same person, very long ago. It's not about convenience. It's important to focus on pleasing your creator before worrying about ruffling the majority of mankind's feathers.

  In the end, this isn't a rant against anything on a personal level. It's just an observance. The truth is that, as a reader of the scriptures, I knew from bible prophecy that this would eventually take place, as a sign. The bottom line is that whether these marriages are legalized or not, at the core, the entire arrangement is what it is. It can't be changed in God's eyes based off of acceptance in society, or getting so-called religious acceptance from prominent figures. Speaking out of love to someone involved in that, I would simply remind them not to lose sight of that. There are a lot of temptations in the world, and life and decisions aren't easy, but in the end, decisions do matter.

My Take on Recent Social and Sporting Events

 So much has been happening lately. In the world of sports, I'm not really happy for Golden State. That was as gift wrapped as championships get. To see a shoot-happy, anti-playoff team get away with a championship is a travesty in my opinion. As shot as the Cleveland roster was, they were more deserving of that trophy. Nevertheless, it's over. Now the new golden child can shine in Steph Curry.

 In the boxing world, I laugh at the fact that Floyd Mayweather is now slowly becoming the authority on all things boxing. And this is facilitated by his fabricated undefeated record. He now appears in countless interviews giving his take on who's hot and who's not in the boxing world. Errol Spence has become his new lapdog. Personally, I'd love to see Errol level him. In this past couple of weeks there have been a few upsets. Cain Velasquez lost in a title defense match with Fabricio Werdum, in a fight that marked the end of a very long lay off, fought at an unfamiliar high altitude to Cain. He never looked properly conditioned in the fight, and lost via Guillotine submission. Then, in a fight that looked to showcase MMA vs. Street Fighting, Kimbo slice looked like the more complete fighter and knocked out Ken Shamrock, after escaping a deep rear naked choke. That fight had me shocked for a while. After all of the talk, it seemed like it should be a walk through for Ken, who said he could win the fight anywhere. From the opening bell, he shot for takedowns. He got them, but didn't do anything except try for transitions into submissions. No damage was accumulated. Kimbo showed so much growth in his technique escaping the choke. When Kimbo broke free and stood, he walked over to Ken with a fresh body and delivered a couple of right hooks that ended the fight.

 Andre Ward actually looked very impressive in his comeback fight, and a lot like the fighter that GGG has been ducking. It's going to be interesting watching GGG convince his fans that he wants the fight now, while continuing to run. Shawn Porter pretty much ran through a loud mouth Adrien Broner in route to a UD victory in what I had pegged as fight of the year. It somewhat lived up to my expectations. I expected a bit more activity and versatility from Porter. He was sometimes open for the left hook, and was floored by one in the 12th round, when everyone thought Broner might stop him suddenly. I'm not sure how keen I am on Porter's eagerness for a Mayweather matchup. I honestly can still see his sparring partner- Pacquiao taking him out, with what I saw. Honestly, I'm looking at other weight classes lately, because I have no interest in the Mayweather sweepstakes any longer. Not only Mayweather, but the ignorant fans have killed my interest in anything involving him. He won't pick an opponent who is a threat to KO him in September, and as long as he survives, he can drop 12 rounds and convince every idiot out there, that it was another masterclass. I have no desire to see that. If he couldn't take the loss he deserved in the Pacman fight, I'm pretty sure it won't ever happen. I've sent video clips and breakdowns to countless people, and they are so mentally whipped into stupidity, they all fall back and retreat when faced with the fact that Mayweather lost his last fight. People despise being showed and confronted with how stupid they really are. That's a large part of the widespread continuing denial in his loss, despite the mountain of evidence. Apparently, he is considering Andre Berto or Karim Mayfield as his next opponent, overstepping Porter. I don't know who he'll pick, but apparently, he is avoiding Khan at the moment. He will most likely play the usual psychological game with the public, eventually being pushed into his actual choice.

More importantly, we have the Social news:

 In other news, we have three stories that I've been saying are related in certain ways. One story is the escape of 2 "white" murderers from an upstate prison, who enlisted the help of a worker at the prison in their escape. They're still on the loose and could be anywhere. We also have the massacre of 9 people at a southern church by a little white boy who says he is seeking to start a race war. And we have the sudden uproar over Rachel Dolezal being a white woman, and pretending to be black for years before taking the seat as head of the NAACP chapter in Washington. Now, you've all heard just about everything regarding these cases, so I'm not going to go into reiterating what's been said a thousand times. But I will tell you what I'm pretty sure you haven't heard, and what ties these few stories together.

  A friend of mine, and fellow trumpeter posted online, his take of things and how society is somewhat conditioned into seeing certain things as normal and other things as abnormal, and that leading to rifts in different groups. I can't recall the details of it, but he touched briefly on some powerful stuff. I'll take it all the way, when I say that society has been conditioned for countless years into believing in white supremacy. It's sad, because even those who don't want to feel that way, are so surrounded by that thinking, which this country was sadly built on,  that their thought process is tailored to that. I had a deep discussion with my coworker a couple of weeks ago, when I said to him that this country has no culture at all. To have a culture, you have to have common bonds that unite all different groups in the region. The USA is not the only diverse country, and may not even be the most diverse actually. Yet, if you go to other lands, there just isn't the same kind of senseless racial divide that there is here. You can't use music, food, or any other common cultural sectors to identify this country, because all of those things divide it further. You can take 2 different looking people from Italy, or England, and regardless of what issues they may or may not have, they can both, in agreement show you a culture, and have many things that integrate them, from dialect, to interests. You couldn't do that in the USA, because as far as the inhabitants are concerned, they come from different countries, and each believes the other doesn't belong here. My coworker put it well when he said that you can't run from a culture, and destroy another, to build one. He pointed to how this country began, in the outing of the inhabiting Native Americans. Enough was said there.

 Even when you look at argument over the confederate flag in the south, it's laughable. There are actually many, who feel as if they support the flag as non-racists, and to remember their fallen ancestors. And they may honestly feel that way on the surface. But the truth is that, just like the argument for same sex marriages, the flag argument only hides deeper issues under a layer of so-called good intent. The flag clearly represented those who believed in the former ideal of an enslaved America. Period. Supporting one supports the other. Yet, they can't, or refuse to see it that way. I said jokingly earlier, that if the 2 prisoners were minorities, I wonder how far they would have gotten. Or if the boy who shot the church up was black, how far would he have gotten. It's funny, but if we're honest, we have to admit they would have likely been gunned down before even doing much at all. Now, we have residents of an upstate area, with mixed feelings, because criminals are on the loose, who would be, on any other day, folk they associate with. The 2 convicts blend right into the area they escaped from, which is likely a big part of why they got so far. But if they should happen to harm or kill one of the local residents, the same brainwashed people will be forced to revisit who exactly, they choose to diligently hate. That's the interesting part. There is so much hatred towards blacks at this time, that other criminals are being totally forgotten, as they reek whatever havok they can.

  The boy who shot the church up, was able to escape from the police's grasp initially, which is amazing in itself. Then, a hunt went on, until he was turned in. There were countless things that could have went down in that span of time, that I'll let you speculate on.


 It's sad to have to say that, but it's the truth. And on the other side of things, the truth is that race separation is indeed a man-made concept. There are a variety of different people in the world, but as one reporter stated in the Dolezal story, "who is what," is a concept that society has made up on its own. What Rachel did is a bit sad, but the funny thing is that she has also exposed a bit of hypocrisy. If you look at many African countries, as well as Mexico, and other lands of tan skinned minorities, you will see that someone as "White" as possible in the public eye, is often elected to the highest seat of official. Rachel did her hair to appear "black," but in truth, she looked as black as people chose to see. If you look at Saul Canelo Alvarez, he is a hero in Mexico, and no Mexican will accept that he isn't 100% Mexican, because they're proud to have his face as their symbol, although he is clearly of Irish decent. In many African countries, elected officials often look similar to Rachel. Not that race is a prerequisite for those positions or Rachel's, but it speaks of an undertone. On Wendy Williams' show, they put up pictures, and talked about how black she looked. She looked "blackish," but in truth, many non-blacks can pass for that typical androracial look that she took on. It's the look that is often portrayed in commercials, sought after by every black woman to the best of their ability, and used as the face of the American black. It's become shameful over the years to put anything "less" forward. And that is a subtlety that has creeped into black society as well. The truth is that when you genuinely mistake a "non-black" for a "black," it's just evidence of the fact that we are all related, and come from Noah. As science has revealed, there are more variations within races than without. These differences are reached for.


 But anyway, I just wanted to speak on current events. Don't be put off by my blatant stating of the facts. It's not intended to stir any pot of separation, as I love all races, and identify with all. I come from African, Mediterranean, Asian, and Caucasian ancestry, as far as these man-made classifications go. That's why I think perspectives like mine are useful at times. Personally, I hate to have to use race handles like "white" or "black." To me it's stupid, and shouldn't even exist. That's why I usually put it in quotations, due to the fact that it's often fabricated. Look, for instance, because it's attractive now, a brown-skin Kim Kardashian is white in today's world. Just like any other prominent celebrity in that position or what would formerly have been a hispanic George Zimmerman, who wants to suddenly gun down blacks in the name of justice, is now as white as anyone else. No one knows where I come from, or my roots. They label me based off of what they feel I socially should be characterized as, and my social "status," regardless of how far off it may be. The truth is that love should supercede all imposed borders. Just like I love Floyd Mayweather, but I love the sport more, so when I see him take a loss in front of my eyes, I'm not controlled by feelings as far as what I say. I would respect the boxing world more if they were the same. Unless better officiating is done, I don't see a point in even watching big events. As society gets dumber, you will only see more of this nonsense, and more support of it from the masses. Until next time.

Tribute Painting- The Nova

I did a tribute some years ago for one of my favorite players and artists Rafael Nadal. Now, I believe my very favorite player is long overdue. Here's to Novak Djokovic, who I affectionately call Kofax.

The painting is called- "The Nova." My scanner is down, so low quality photos for now.. sorry

How am I Whack?

  For a long time, a few people, including small label executives, and so-called avid music listeners, have sworn that they don't particularly listen to my stuff, or my "type of stuff," or like it, not because of it not coming from an established name they are familiar with, but because my material is legitimately whack. A workmate of mine, keeps going on with that as his little running joke. We constantly get into these "BAR" discussions. In fact, the other day, I was asked about my top 5 favorite lyricists. Among them, I included Lupe Fiasco, and Rakim. They couldn't understand the Lupe selection. I explained that when you are talking about lyrical content as the basis for the argument, even if it's the delivery man, he has to be considered, so long as his work shows that. People can't separate preconceptions and evidence. I go to Genius.com sometimes to look up the breakdown of certain song lyrics that I like, and what I see is hilarious. The site is basically shallow and narrow minded listeners interpreting the lines of some of the artists that they consider deep. As a lyricist, I liked the concept, but there's no point in doing a site like this, unless deep thinkers are going to get involved. I looked up "City of Gods" by AZ, and watched as lines were misquoted, and some of the deepest lines in song either were skipped for obvious reasons, or completely went over the head of the commentators and were misinterpreted. It is so frustrating to see such a waste. I had a class in high school that specialized in analyzing works and compositions, and we as kids dug deeper than the clowns on that site.

 So, without further ado, the stage is YOURS listeners. This goes out to Chis, as well as all others who argue that I'm overlooked legitimately. It's your chance to point out how and why I'm so whack, in your opinion, that I don't deserve any attention at all. It's your chance to bring forward lyrics of you own, or the stuff you listen to and respect from your favorite artists, and stack them against these lyrics here, and show the gap. Show how those lyrics dwarf mine.

In the attached video, I have selected a few random songs from my career. I play through sections of them, and show the lyrics, as many hide behind the excuse that they can't hear me or understand me. There will be no excuses this time. The lyrics are there to criticize. Show me how they are foolish and whack. I didn't select my best songs either. I'm not a desperate artist. If you know me, you'd know I have work for days. I could have put my best stuff in, but there is no need, as the way I write is consistent. This is a video that you can pause, rewind, etc. Leave a comment if you dare on this page, or on youtube backing up your claim as to my lyrical prowess or whackness. The ball is in your court.

 Ignorant silence for those who have an argument, only shows the lack of faith in your argument, so I encourage you to say your peace. Have the courage to listen, and the courage to state your mind.