I saw this shit coming a long time ago. Weeks ago, I tell you. I thought about doing a post on how sales of Fish Friday could eventually catch up with sales of My Beautiful Homo Erotic Fantasy, which sold a lot quicker out the gate, likely due to the aforementioned overhype and overrating, but it damn near happened before I could bring my lazy, perpetually half-drunken self to commit pen to paper, so to speak. I checked this site’s silly, weekly recap of the Billboard 200 one day, thinking it might be time for me to have a look at the list and see if I couldn’t reverse engineer it to fit my worldview, as I do here occasionally, and Fish Friday had somehow managed to become the number one rap album in the country. Its sales had more or less caught up with sales of My Beautiful Homo Erotic Fantasy, which had fallen off to the point where it was only a matter of time before they were surpassed by at least the Nicki Minaj album, if not this new album by the Decemberists, the current number one album in the country, which also happens to be the new best album evar, arguably even more so than the new Destroyer.

But I digress.

My goal here is not to point to the fact that Kanye West got beat by a girl, like one of the guys from my high school wrestling team (but I promised 16 years ago not to say any names), as a testament to just how much Kanye West, and his album, suck balls. Because the truth of the matter is that, while I have no interest in listening to My Beautiful Homo Erotic Fantasy, I do believe Kanye West deserves a certain amount of credit for having so much ambition. More black people need to have that level of ambition. I’m not even gonna get into the dreaded n-word I gave $10 the other day to shovel snow, and he didn’t even shovel all the way to the end of my driveway. Nhjic. Because it’d probably be Miller Time before I got done. (Or just quit, because it was Miller Time.) The other day, on my way home from the BGM, that song “Through the Wire” came on Sirius, and I actually listened to it. and I was struck by how much his rapping has improved since then. It hasn’t improved to the point where it’s objectively remarkable, and I’m sure it won’t, because that’s just not how rap works, but it is way better.

And who gives a shit how well he can rap now anyway? He could have become the next Ghostface, and it probably wouldn’t have made any difference. (I don’t even want to know how that Ghostface sold.) It’s not like he could have gotten better reviews. There’s nowhere you can go but down from a full 5/5 across the board. (Which he’ll find out soon enough, if he and Jay actually go through with Watch the Throne.) And it’s not like so many people copped Fish Friday because it’s some sort of masterpiece. No, I’m convinced that its success has to do with another phenomenon which I’ve documented here over the years. Namely, the spending power, such as it is, of the hoodrat – perhaps the one last growth area in our economy, with the caveat that it’s not much of a growth area. It’s naturally limited by the fact that there’s only certain brands you can buy with those WIC vouchers and EBT debit cards. And so there’s no point in investing much in brand advertising, when you already have what’s known in business school (which, I’ll have you know, I graduated from) as a captive market. The key is to tap into whatever amount is left over when you subtract the balance of one of those EBT debit cards from a hoodrat’s overall net worth. Some of it usually goes to Internets access, to frequent Black People Twitter and Necole Bitchie, and the rest of it often goes towards obscure, weird-smelling, highly toxic hair care products. Hence the nature of the ads in magazines that cater primarily to a female demographic. Zombie Vibe, to use an example. Some of these mags are actually about various kinds of hair weave and what have you.. They’re generally found in grocery stores in blighted areas – the same ones where the items you can buy with a WIC voucher are conveniently labeled. Coincidence? Pshaw! Similarly, I doubt that the fact that the cover of Fish Friday is the same shade of pink as a bottle of Luster’s Pink Oil Moisturizer is a mere matter of coincidence. The TIs know what segment of the black community has what’s left of the money these days. They’ve seen what’s become of Twitter. I’m sure this is only the beginning of what they have in store.

“you’re a foo if you’re main bitch is easy to fuck” — Nas from Life we Chose.

The hardest thing about getting money is keeping money.

haha……….

Another day another tired ass topic… Minaj is the best femcee in the game blah blah blah Kanye’s a homo blah blah blah.. Nas is a broke ass nigga yadda yadda yada. Tired of this shit. I’m about to do a Lebron and take my talents to HipHopDX lol.

Nahh but for real before they erased Bol’s shit yesterday I posed a really good idea for a blog. I’ll put it out here again real quick while the story is still relevant: A month or so back there was a blog on Chuck D. I think they should do one on Flavor Flav with the news of his fried chicken joint opening up in Iowa of all places. Lots of sentiment is that Chuck does so much to advance black people and Flav is like the anti-Chuck, setting black folk back, years upon years with his coonery and questionable acts.Even though Chuck has defended him, Some wonder why Flav is even still affiated with PE. I thought this was a really intriguing topic for a blog : Do these two men’s agendas totally conflict?????

Speak on it yall!

Palestinians are made up of Muslims and Christians, both of whom are oppressed by Israel. Fact: Israel controls the lives of millions of Christian and Muslim Palestinians, yet denies them equal rights under the law. I’m calling for a change to this racist policy. Equal rights for ALL under the law. Stop bombing civilian populations with American made weapons to control the lives of others.

Everything else you discuss is irrelelvant.

^ low blow…but funny…

that spencer pratt drop got the trolls OUT (shouts to all the old regs I saw over there). caucasians talking about spencer makes their race look bad, white dudes like the one above brave enough to type “n^gger” behind the safety of their keyboard…classic

First, you get off my dick.

Nas is not broke.He has money rolling in from tours,record publishing and etc.Ya’ll bitch ass niggas read some shit and act like he’s assed out.Stop countin that man’s paper.He can go to IRS and work out a deal, just like he did with the child support.I swear that some of you bum bitches need to get out your moms basement and go live life on your own.

No, Long Live a Free and Democratic State: Israel/Palestine, whereby Jews, Christians and Muslims are treated equally under the law.

with whiskers like a rat

come on tough nigga, do something to me – nas is coming