Growing Up - Why Is It Such A Problem?

Ok, I'm PISSED OFF!

I just saw an interview on Mediatakeout that had a video clip of The Game crying. At first I was like what? What is he crying about now? Then after I saw what he was upset about I became upset too. Recently the MURDERERS of Sean Bell were acquitted on all charges. Which is bullshit! How you shoot over 51 rounds & get off. You only need that type of discharge if the perp has a machine gun or something!

Anyway, he made a song called "911 Is A Joke { Cop Killa }". If you haven't heard it check this link out - http://youtube.com/watch?v=rpJOwU2_Jcw

I like the Dead Presidents homage in the video. I feel like these cops need to pay, not necessarily die, but I mean how can you punish someone who is protected by a corrupt system that is supposed to protect you?

This song would have had a lot of rappers on it at the request of The Game, but he said that all of the rappers declined to lay down verses due to bullshit excuses. He cried in this interview because he was stunned at how easy it is for people to diss each other on wax and talk about how they hate the police but when it's time to really get it in they are nowhere to be found...

Here's the link to the full interview - http://youtube.com/watch?v=CKjo1kQ282g

Then people made comments calling him a homo, saying he is crazy, saying he needs to kill himself, shit like that.

First off if you are reading this and feel like that FUCK YOU! I feel what he is talking about 100%. If I alienate people with my opinions on this one so be it, you weren't needed anyway. I'm sick of people dictating what a man is, telling you that you have to be hard and emotionless to be a man. Fuck all that machismo garbage! I cry when something is painful or I am passionate about something. There is a difference between crying for a purpose and being a crybaby.

In the black community & in the male world it is looked down upon to show tears because it makes you less of a man. What kinda bull is that? Who made the people that feel this way the dictators of manhood? If a man cries he is still a man because he ain't afraid to show how he feels.

JESUS WEPT! Or did you forget? I guess he ain't a man neither, huh? You would be right he is divine as well as man. I bet none of these gun toting, pussy fucking so called "G's" could take what He took. Matter of fact I know they couldn't. No ordinary man could have withstood that type of punishment, we mere mortals would have collapsed from exhaustion.

So what's the point?

The point is I hate bloggers who have nothing better to do than tear somebody down for doing something good. This is a great thing because all you fans of music fail to realize that they are always in the media, in the magazines, on shows promoting their albums and movies if they have any, but when a pertinent issue in America comes up they always fade out of the limelight.

What's the deal with all these people hating on Usher & Tameka?

I've been paying attention to this for sometime now & was debating on the right time to air it out. Well if The Game ever sees this thanks for being the bomb that opened the floodgates...Get it?

Anyway people think Usher fell off and that Here I Stand is not as good as Confessions. Granted that album had more jams on it but that was an immature album compared to this one. I mean how long will we wanna party and talk about sex? I mean for real... That's what America wants. Us to be in a perpetual state of bliss while raising a bunch of fatherless kids who have a higher potential to end up in the system due to their skin color and lack of a nuclear family. Then people wonder why I don't go to clubs... WAKE UP!!!

People always call his wife ugly & I see it's mostly women that do it. Just a bunch of bops who mad they can't have their fantasy with Usher in it anymore. People want to see you stay in pain, they want you down so they can relate to you. People can't relate to happiness, well at least haters like those I'm speaking of. The minute you do something that's grown up or unexpected there is always this backlash from immature people that want you to stay on their "going nowhere" level!

Take Mary J. Blige's last CD "Growing Pains". I like that CD it has a lot of nice songs on it. It sold well too. Confusingly Mary had many fans who didn't like the album because it was too happy for them. What kinda shit is that? TOO HAPPY???????????????????????

She did an interview in response to the situation stating that she is sorry that you all haven't dealt with your pain, but she dealt with hers and she wanted to make happy uplifting music. I mean if you listen to the album she deals with problems but in a grown up way. Like a marriage that is nearing its end and both parties want to quit but she says "Stay Down".

I've come to the conclusion that whether you do something good or bad, if you do it on a high enough level, you'll get haters. It's sad that people are so miserable that they can't stand to see you make it like Jesse Jackson speaking on Obama...

Anyway, don't let ANYONE tell you NO, don't let anyone tell you that you can't make it, or that you are crazy for believing you'll do what you dreamt of doing. They are just the people the devil puts in your life to hinder your progress.

"It doesn't matter how many times you get shoved around by life, as long as you keep pushing back you won't lose the fight".

I'm out.

Fueled by passion, driven by pain before I die the world will know my name**

- JioVanni