Family Ties
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/30/2009 07:58:00 AM 0 commentsQuotable Stimulus Package
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/29/2009 11:30:00 AM 0 commentsJoi to the World
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/28/2009 02:06:00 PM 11 commentsIt is soooooo beautiful to see someone you grew-up with grow to become a beautiful beacon of light for the world to see. I am honored and blessed to see a dear friend doing God's work. She has always been a joy to the world, and now for all to see her shine! Joi I'm proud of you and all that you are doing, God is truly using you for your purpose in life!
Freedom to Preach
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/28/2009 01:32:00 PM 0 commentsThe urban blog game as it stands now is a joke! Everybody and they mama thinks they can write a credible article because they stole, footage, information, or work someone else put they foot in. Authentic writing and information is that, real! Just because I watch TV, or listen to music, or know one person in the biz doesn't give me a voice! As I type these words I too and included in the population of those that think they can blog.
I reached out to Gyant at Gyantunplugged.com and told him I had a vision, and without listening to him I ran with my thoughts and never looked back. I told me of how he has worked his way up from the bottom. Paid his dues, but he always had the same theme throughout. People these days don's get paid for their dues. The ones who do skipped steps, sold out, or bought in to an idea that something like the imagery of ones mind was free! We all have ideas but we must go out with a purpose, not be Paul Revere and just shout some tom foolery so someone can say " what he is saying is the truth" and have no idea of what we speak.
Bloggers today are cut throat, sell you out so they can touch on Gucci Mane diamond ropes. Get an exclusive that another blog might have covered hours prior and call it a news flash. Your right it was, it flashed on your twitter ticker and you grabbed some pics and info, and hit the copy and paste, and voila, so you think your a blogger? Don't sit in Iraq in a bunker and report news that has already been covered, go out get your hands dirty and find the news! Go into your heart, hit the search button for Love of the game, take those thought you have had for years and speak the truth from your mind! Pour that Bisquick mix of something edible for you to eat and understand.
To put you in the game you have to pay your dues and put your imprint on the game. Do the homework for free, put whoever you feel has something valuable, and work on your blog for free! People have done this for years. The blogs have been here for years, and now we act as if we can all talk about the same things. There are only a select number in the NBA, NFL, etc! We must know where we came from, and know who paved the way, for us to speak freely, and write! Urban blogs like straightfromthea, gyantunplugged, shuddup k.i.m, and concreteloop, have some gossip involved in their content. How many people know where they started or came from, what they have been through? The fact of the matter is that is not all they are about. They have created a canvas, painted a picture and give insightful information on events that have some meaning to the African-American community. It is opinionated but they look to bring us the information for no fillers, no bs.
People in our community need to recognize bloggers who are on their grind, going to cover events, sitting down for the interviews. Ever one who starts a blog these days wants the fame for the game with no hard work. No paying you dues, but getting things for free. Nothing is free if you haven't done any work!!! I keep hearing alot of people complain and go at each other's neck because one person broke a story and another person ran with it! Everyone on the internet can eat! I have never in my life seen HBO go after Showtime, ABC go after NBC. What you see in White America is cooperation to get more content, and more viewrs. In the grand scheme of things that is the best way to get more people to follow the movement! Im not sure if you didnt notice but bloggers don't paid money for their efforts. A REAL blogger does this for the love, not the affection of fans, or people knowing their name, their brand, where they are going to be, but a REAL blogger can be seen by the LOVE! I know Love of the game isn't real to everyone, but it is truly a vision of something never seen. It is a passion to do soethin you Love to do, but at the end of the day we need to stand up for those who paved our way, and make sure they get paid!
In general we are victim of our own success. People in this era do not realize we are held captive by the information we take in and send out like a fax. In this day and age with CNN, the internet, being exclusive means you were the first person that you knew that was smart enough to package the drug (information, gossip, insert your own definition!) cook it up (stir some value), cut it (take out the parts you knew no one would want to hear), and supplied it to the people you knew would send the information over the Gosspnet. That's right the internet is no longer a thought pad. Joe Budden's said it best in his cipher freestyle " I aint spit Ether yet, you need a major I just need an Ethernet." All you fake bloggers out there with mediocre pages, having your people, or someone else but you create your vision when you never learned what CSS, HTML, or worpress is! Get a real DJ, get a clue! "Be a student of the game, not a teacher's pet!" Learn the game first, reach out to some of urban blogs pioneers before you start throwing shots at the throne. Be quick before they get grab Macbook laptop's and start a revolution on your blog!
If you don't like truth I'm speaking to you, I know Serena will, Im coming with the truth, I will get the US open like Serena. This the body issue from my thoughts on the game, you cannot fine me or take away my crown, I wont have to go Australian to go down under ground, God is my voice, here him speak out, no LOL or laughing out loud!
P.S: I am no where near done writing on the blog game...... part 2
Bound up Frustration?
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/28/2009 11:38:00 AM 0 commentsRadio Raheem
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/27/2009 02:58:00 AM 0 commentsVictorious Secrets
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/27/2009 02:37:00 AM 0 commentsDid You Get The Memo?
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/26/2009 09:50:00 AM 0 commentsMonday's Motivation
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/26/2009 09:39:00 AM 0 commentsReport Card
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/25/2009 11:19:00 AM 0 commentsPaper Planes going M.I.A
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/25/2009 01:05:00 AM 1 commentsexpeditiousmeditation
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/24/2009 08:16:00 PM 0 commentsDr. PhilUup
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/24/2009 08:10:00 PM 1 commentsHeavenly
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/24/2009 07:40:00 PM 1 commentsBS Proof?
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/24/2009 12:46:00 PM 0 commentsWe live in a toxic waste dump of sex on TV, crimes being played out like rated R movies on daytime TV, and political figures holding the public as political prisoners. As African Americans we pride ourselves on being able to see snakes in the grass, but we got so dayum lazy we don't even cut the grass no more!
Always looking to other things to raise our kids, and we cant even raise out the bed on time to get to work, the news telling our life stories, cause most of the time we are the news. I know every time I look I try to make it seem that I am bs proof. That I cant be fooled to follow, and Im the main person on twitter following, on fb following the very things I complain about.
People always say they can spot the truth, how is that a reality if if we cant tell the real housewives from our real housewife, or did we wife swap, to get that image of what a woman should looked like, so we can swap the wife for a concubine, one that's fine and didn't age like wine with time! The man has loaded, cocked, aimed and shot us full of the disease of following the wrong things. Shot us with small time dreams, miracles of things never to be, we instead blame our own people, the truth is our own people, disowned us a long time ago,
When the word nigger can be used against nigga to mean to different things lets me know, we learned the word on the street brought it home, and we never learned to let it go. We living life like we bs proof, but the vest is on our chest, I wear my heart on my sleeve, and the bullets are now in my head put to rest. Rest assured Im getting my mind right to fight the pain of the hot lead that burns down through my chest.
Mind to Work
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/23/2009 10:01:00 AM 0 commentsBaby Asprin
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/23/2009 09:59:00 AM 0 commentsRated R
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/22/2009 05:04:00 PM 0 commentsInterior Design
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/22/2009 04:33:00 PM 0 commentsStrawberry Letter 23
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/22/2009 04:30:00 PM 0 commentsmeanduyomommaandyocouzintoo
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/22/2009 01:31:00 PM 0 commentsEvery time we have something go our way, we have just said I do to the idea of something that we wanted for ourselves. Often times we are married to our job, because it provides, but we forget that God provided the job for the means, not to slave yourself to get married to the new Lexus you just bought. Married to the idea that if you work hard enough people will notice you. Heck people noticed you were working hard because they married your toil with the spoil.
Marriage is a sacred thing. So sacred that many people stay married to themselves far to long! Oh I’m sorry I just stepped on some toes. That marriage is what I call a single person, who says men are dogs or that women are scandalous. You are single because you are married to the idea that you can live the single life as long as you want and transfer that lifestyle to another person. Be with that person and still lead the same life! Not possible if you are forming a common bond, oil and water don’t mix! Take a closer look you are talking about yourself!!!! You’re married to the thought and fear of finding the right person and not being able to handle what they bring to the table. Wake up people; we are all married to something! The question is can you admit you are married to the wrong things, ideas, guilty pleasures? If you want to be married to the one who birthed you, you have to be married to the sacred idea that sin is bound up inside of us, and lose the foolishness of a child, and learn to have a childlike mentality! Don’t sweat the techniques of how to be married! We have been in many a committed relationship all our lives we just didn’t know what to call it!
Binded or Bound? (Marriage) pt.1
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/22/2009 11:16:00 AM 0 commentsBe Pliable
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/22/2009 10:58:00 AM 0 comments2) Surround themselves with the right people: The Psalmist said, 'They… treated me badly all my life, but they have not defeated me' (Psalm 129:2 NCV). Ned Hallowell grew up with a bipolar father, an abusive stepfather, an alcoholic mother, and two learning disabilities - a history that's often a precursor to jail or a mental institution. Today he's a prominent psychiatrist, a happily-married father and a successful author. It happened largely because at boarding school he attached himself to teachers who cared about him and took him under their wing. So in tough times, lean on God, take control of your life, and surround yourself with the right people. (the vine)
Young Simba
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/21/2009 12:00:00 PM 0 commentsLove Jonez
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/21/2009 07:13:00 AM 0 commentsLate nights filled with cries with visine to get the red from my eyes as I take a quick flight to an unknown tourist attraction to get away from you and your limelight. I landed outside of your arms, I went left, and you made your way to the light. I’m sorry you made a right. I cried to you, lent my eyes to you, stooped on you stoop, to let you know that I would stoop to your level.
Cemented in the cracks of emotions I was bonded to your mind controlling elixir of sweet talk in my right ear, with a set it off mentality in my left. Within the confines of my periodic table of affection I once grasped fell into thin air, and now as I gasp to reclaim my chemical composition, I’m now on a mission, to get the chemical equation to my condition.
Search out the laboratory of hate,deceit, and the power that was lifted from my research group. I got lost in your sauce because you looked oh so cute. I’m lost I don’t want to be found; because I didn’t listen to a few good men, and oh yeah ya boy couldn't handle the truth!
My thoughts for you don’t want to be found because even when you’re far as hell away from me you are still around. Like summertime I will always be hot, without you I have become cold and bound to this label I’m about to be dropped...
Venus vs. Mars
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/21/2009 02:03:00 AM 1 commentsDid he (Diddy) Steal Hip-hop
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/20/2009 07:26:00 AM 0 commentsLights to dark I switched from off to on. Switched like lukewarm to hot, or woman with small hips to men with rouge lips. They both wash off my sins, but I didn't use Gain to move forward, because the Tide turned for me to give you my A-L-L and now I can scream, SHOUT, and Cheer! As if a Febreeze came from the clouds up above to descend down the pouring rain of words that flow with ease. Diddy drove down Park Ave. only to get stopped on Boardwalk. He lost his soul, lost his bling when he couldn't grab Mase in the club. Lost his Shyne when Missy called him out, she needs her money and BET was her SHOUT out! Man Diddy you worse than platinum plaques. Oh by the way Biggie is still alive. Hip-hop soul wants it's soul samples back!
Mellifluous Exercise
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/20/2009 07:22:00 AM 0 commentsholding the fort down but it's real in the field. Field nigga, field
mob, I'm still alone in my mind trying to hold down this facade.
Through the rain, pain, struggle, fight, and strain I will remain
standing throughout this hurricane. My sweetness will remain like a
sugar cube in the strain-er, I will melt my heart away in the pain.
Sweetness in the gutter down the drain. I tried to hold it together
but I will never be the same. You took my sweetness for a weakness.
Now I have melted away, I was a sugar cube, now I'm just mixed with
everything that I used to disdain!
Three's Company
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/20/2009 06:54:00 AM 0 commentsbe careful whom you keep company with, evil communication corrupts good manner! Keep God's riches in order when he leaves the premise of your mind!
Danger Will Robinson, Danger...
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/20/2009 06:51:00 AM 0 commentsIrrigation System
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/20/2009 06:42:00 AM 0 commentsGod waters their work and fuels the efforts through sunlight, rain, and shade. He will always regulate how much light, rain, and shade you need to grow to your potential. The food you need to survive is always in the soil that was prepared for you. You can make it through any season of the year as long as you stay rooted in your row of the field!
Fairy Tale vs. Stone Cold Truth
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/20/2009 06:39:00 AM 0 commentsTuesday Testimony
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/20/2009 06:17:00 AM 0 commentsNever Spare Change
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/19/2009 03:10:00 PM 0 commentsStanding Room Only Experience
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/19/2009 01:19:00 PM 0 commentsAre We Talking Our Way Out Of Our Dreams?
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/16/2009 10:45:00 AM 0 commentsPushing for Sucess or Grinding for Excellence
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/16/2009 10:25:00 AM 0 commentsGravity (remix)
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/16/2009 12:40:00 AM 0 commentsRace Against the Machine
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/15/2009 10:04:00 AM 0 commentsChewable Quotes
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/15/2009 09:53:00 AM 0 comments80's baby ( 80's TV)
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/14/2009 09:26:00 AM 0 comments35mm or Digital camera
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/14/2009 09:22:00 AM 0 commentsWords in the Keys of Life
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/13/2009 09:42:00 AM 0 commentsThe Drive
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/12/2009 11:47:00 PM 0 comments
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Woke up early asking where I went so right to go so wrong. I still write after you left. Why do you hate my song? I stick by, but you struck my vocal chords wrong. I'm still around and you barely hear my song, but you blast my wrongs. How the volume get turned up on this psalm? My dial has been turned one way, totally wrong.
Idk
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/12/2009 06:25:00 AM 0 commentsMoment of Truth pt .1
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/10/2009 02:29:00 PM 1 commentsI have no Idea what I wrote!
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/09/2009 08:37:00 AM 0 commentsSuddenly we refuse to get right and choose to point the finger left to the Fast Lane. Ain't no such thing as half way crooks, you scared to death, you scared to look, you shook. Are you that afraid to make a change in your freeway? Ashamed to pity the fool that is in front of you, be called a mockery because you have too much bling, and yet have no money to even drink Mister Tea?
Imagery of Hope
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/09/2009 08:01:00 AM 0 commentsQuotes for Hope...
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/08/2009 09:28:00 AM 0 commentsRealizes everyone out there in their day to day, needs a voice, we make a choice to be who we are, free will to act as we wish, put God at the forefront, make an effort to spread the good news of God, and his saving power! Make God a priority, not an accessory!
Mood For Love
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/08/2009 09:28:00 AM 0 comments When we sense a growing gap between what you say matters most to us and what we actually do in our day to day operations, take action! Get radical if you have to. Seize this moment while you still have it. The call to do something you love rarely comes with urgency! (The Vine)
More Harm than Good
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/07/2009 12:36:00 AM 0 commentsDJ (Desire Jesus)
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/06/2009 09:09:00 AM 0 commentsQuote's for Hope
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/06/2009 09:07:00 AM 0 commentsWhen It Comes To Giant- Problems
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/06/2009 09:02:00 AM 0 comments
Every morning I attempt to read something I get through email called the Vine. Always an inspiration to start my day of late I have been waking up late, running late, becoming late and making others late. My day never started right because I didn't take the time for God! Take hold of the Vine and see what can help you mature in spiritual size…
Perception TV
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/05/2009 01:44:00 PM 0 commentsReal Talk
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/05/2009 01:23:00 PM 0 commentsRx
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/04/2009 10:38:00 PM 0 commentsLurid Dream
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/04/2009 10:31:00 PM 0 commentsDrunk and powerless,
My past creeps on the come up
Like shots of intoxicating metaphors.
Craf-t in the Kitchen
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/04/2009 09:45:00 PM 0 commentsMissionary Statement
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/04/2009 06:59:00 PM 0 commentsSpecial News Bulletin
Posted by Todd Alexander at 10/02/2009 10:24:00 AM 0 comments
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