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Oh Atlanta! How I miss thee. I am sure T.I. did as well. Unless you were living under a rock, I am sure you are familiar with the fact T.I. went away for a year or so for stock piling like he was a militia leader. (You can read my original comments on that here)

So TIP throws himself a welcome back party. When did it become appropriate to celebrate getting out of jail?? I don't think Hallmark has a card for that [Congrats on your release. Hope you didn't drop the soap!] I mean really I feel like its a glorification of breaking the law. You are getting praise for something you weren't supposed to have done.

So him and Tiny seem to be back on track. He has given her a ring and they are engaged, They are in this pic stepping out to this party. They seeem happy. Her with her new hair color of the week, tasting the rainbow as always and him sans weapons. Fabuolous. I really try to like them as a couple, but I am just not feeling it! First off the fact that subtitles are necessary to understand both of them [On T.I.'s Road to Redemption] maybe is causing a disconnect for me. Secondly, I am consistantly confused when people have been together for years and have children together and are still dating or newly engaged. Ummmmm what are you doing? Getting to know each other better?? I mean really! Tie the knot already!

But I guess their dimmuntive sizes and extreme hoodness make them a good match. Its not for me to understand I suppose. However, I need her to keep her man out of trouble from now on. Cause T.I. is beyond his three strikes for sure and with him being 5 foot tall, any long jail stints might make her boo someone elses boo!

R&B Today: Keith Sweat Come Teach Some Whinning

So anyone who knows me. Knows I LOVE a good R and B song. I am talking about some male singer begging and pleading for his woman or from the depths of his soul explaining why he loves his woman. Carl Thomas's Emotional is currently in my car CD player and I have been blasting Cold Cold World.

It's a cold cold cold world

Living here without you in my life

Although I try to get along, but I can't

Cuz I need you to be here, why oh why

WOOOHH I mean can't you feel it!? He's singing from his heart! I can just imagine him in that studio begging and pleading for his woman back, Scurl juices running down his forehead and all!

So of course the current state of music saddens me. When it comes to R &B I have a general rule with few exceptions made, that if it was made after 2000, I generally don't listen to R&B. [Please no judgement but that allows for my enjoyment of TP2.com by Robert Kelly] I mean singers these days are usually singing a song featuring some rapper, and not singing about how they love their woman and want her back, but usually about something ignorant. Even Usher has succumbed to this madness. Have you heard that song Little Freak by him. Put your hand in my pants??? Usher you are a 30 year old man, I need you to stop the madness! As one of my friends remarked when she heard it "Usher's Little Freak is beyond filfth, I turn it off whenever it comes on, my Jesus comes out". I can only agree.

Anyhow suprise suprise that my new favorite CD is Trey Songz's Ready. I for the most part enjoy every song on the CD. However, its a prime example of whats wrong with R and B today. First off Trigga must every single you drop have an accompaning sexually explicit video???!!! Sir if my 13 year old sister is in the room I certainly could not watch any of your videos! Secondly, about 50 percent of the CD is about him having relations. Its overkill. He is in fact pulling what I call a "male Rhianna/Ciara". I mean he can actualy sing so he is not using sex to cover up his lack of talent. But he is using sex (and his washboard abs) as a distraction. He is distracting us from the fact that he is just like the other perpitrating R&B singers out there and is not really singing about love, but lust. And he has somehow successfully distracted me!

You know in the midst of this hooplla on black relationships. I think Nightline, Steve Harvey\, and Jill I mean Hill Harper (cough) need only look at R & B music. Maybe if more begging for my heart was going on in music and not for the nookie, I believe men would follow suit. Yep see I have solved the whole issue. Go ahead crown me a relationship expert like Steve Harvey. Minus the two divorces I am dropping knowledge just as well. :) Now if someone would just pay me to write a book with my theory, life would be grand, and Sallie Mae could stop caling me!

Keepin it Real Goes Wrong..... Techie Edition

So clearly I am proof that New Years Resolution's are easily broken. On January 1, 2010 I promised I would write consistantly....my computer crashed two days later.....so here it is April 21 and I am back! Thank Dell Preffered Finance and this situation I am about to comment on for my return.

Recently, I got an iPhone. I know you are thinking so what? But honestly I don't know how I functioned without it prior. I do everything with it. It's my bestfriend. We are tight. It was love at first sight. I call it iBoo. So some haters out there following the announcement of the iPad, iBoo's big brother, felt that there was no possible need for the device since you could get a computer or an iPhone. I dispute these attacks on my boo's brother because trust if I get $400 in discretionary income, like Swizz Beatz said:"I'll be on to the next one"

However, in this ever changing world leave it to ignorant people to make a bad name for the iFamily:



An ireporter (basically me everyday when I take pics of kids acting a fool on DC metro on my iPhone) was at my old stomping grounds, Lenox Mall in Atlanta GA and saw this fool who was more than willing to pose with his iPad on a chain. Is that what we are doing now?? We are wearing technology! And you know he was playing Gucci Mane or some other foolish rubbish. He thinks he is fly. iReporter thinksthat he is a fool. I find myself per usual like I want to on the metro, wanting to put on my invisible cape and pretend not to be associated with this young man by race.

I know I shouldn't say that. Cause honestly I love being Black.......until we do this foolishness! I was so angered by this that I immediately came to write here to vent!!! Like honestly, why do we feel that ignorance is cool? You look a fool and no one takes you seriously. And now certain types of people will make value judgments about me based on you wearing a iPad around your neck! Prayerfully its not the next person who interviews my under 30 self for a job. I want us to do better.

Also is this man serious! Sir how much street cred do you have rockin an iPad around your neck. Hope you are not walking to the MARTA Station with that on cause trust "pumkin and dem" will jack you.

Anyhow someone just hit me on gchat on my iBoo gotta run! But this is just the beginning. I am back and committed to getting Toye back to Talking.