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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.

Happy New Year

Alright..... I know what you are thinking....... after not posting for a decade. No this heifer did not have the nerve to post. One of my friends said I just need to kill Toyetalks cause she can't follow it with my random and inconsistent posting. Lol and eye roll. As usual I shake the haters off and continue.

However, its a new year and I am in a better place right now and recommitted to a lot of things. One of these is using Toyetalks to keep my friends and extended circle abreast on whats going on with me, my life, and as always with a humorous twist. :)

Look for a revamped approach though. A little more personal and look forward to watching me get through what I pray will be a blessed, happy, and prosperous 2010.

With that I share some of my New Years.... well I won't say resolutions because everyone makes this list of stuff that they know they will stick to for 2 weeks and fall off...... so I can't be saying I resolve to do something like lose 30 pounds when you guys will maybe definitely see me out eating Popeyes maybe today [I mean really you guys know those people know how to fry some chicken!]

Some of My New Years Un-Resolutions- Things I will not do this New Year

1. I will absolutely not get a Snuggie

Didn't expect that huh? I noticed in 2010 that these Snuggie people have amplified their efforts to ad to my useless junk chest. Sir since the sweet baby Jesus was in his manger a regular ole knit or wool blanket has had no issues. So I am gonna keep the blankie rolling. If its good enough for Jesus, its good enough for me.

2. I will not give the side eye to crackheads

Not only do I recognize now that an addiction to rock cocaine is a real disease and struggle that affects many and their families, I learned recently that making eye contact with crackheads of any kind causes them to engage you in conversation, and I don't need any of that in my 2010.

3. Not judging a person by their catsuit

Usually I find catsuits morally wrong. But last night at the new years gathering I was at, I met a nice girl who let me sit in her VIP section cause my feet were swollen and killing me! We had a nice discussion about politics as well. Usually the fact that she wore a catsuit would have had me make a snap judgment. It was a lesson learned. I will give catsuit wearers a chance.

4. Not neglect Toyetalks

I can't promise everyday cause I live in the real world. However, I am promising to be more frequent!

5. I will not forget how blessed I am

Often I have a day where the following occurs. I wake up late, miss my buss, catch the next bus, sit next to someone who clearly englected to wash themselves, get to work, encounter some extra douche, realize I forgot my lunch on the bus and the non washer is probably enjoying my homemade chilli and rubbermaid container, have to stay late, get home to find some appliance broken. With all of that, its often that I just want to cap the day with cake.... like a sheet cake. Lol But not everyone has a home to go to and some people did not make it to see 2010. So I will not forget how blessed I am to have family and friends a roof and means to sustain myself. I am blessed and also you remember how blessed you are.

Toye is back to talking and hoping you will ad me to your blogroll this new year :)

I'm Back and Pissed Off At These Young Musicians

Hi Guys !!

I know its been awhile but I lost the creative juices! But I fugure as we near the year anniversary of Toyetalks, I would hit you with the new new!!

Hurrican Chris is back with more ignorance after his last hit "Ey Babe" The above video is entitled Halle Berry.................................... Thanks to my girl for putting me on.

This video represents all that is wrong with music today. Igninint (not a mispelling I meant ignint!!) @$$ teany boppers making up foolish dances (ummmm the stanky leg) and singing about nothing (ie Marco Polo which ain't nothing but the grown kids version of peak a boo!!) WHAT HAPPENED TO GOOD MUSIC? Shoot music that makes sense?????

Shoot can someone sing a love song anymore?? Or a song that does not require me to learn choreographed steps (Y'all a basic two step is the limits on my dance abilities)

VH1 has thier Save The Music Campaign.............I don't mean no harm... but WHY? So I can hear this nonsense?? Thoughts Welcome.

~Toye

Not So Cute When George Mistakes Your Head For a Banana

Awwwwww.....that's what you think upon first viewing this image. Takes you back to childhood when you used to read The Adventures of Curious George. However at the age of 7 I knew that a monkey in bed with the man in the Yellow Hat was no more than fiction. Clearly some people never got this memo.

I should probably preface my tirade with the fact that I do not really care for animals unless they are on my plate. If you are a PETA member please do not do something crazy like deface my car!!

Anyhow if you have not heard about the Old Navy chimp who attacked a woman's neighbor in Connecticut click below:

Herold had called Nash to her house to help get 14-year-old Travis back inside after he used a key to escape.

While her friend was being attacked, Herold was unable to pull the primate off. She then called 911 before stabbing the chimp with a butcher knife and hitting him with a shovel. Neither fazed Travis, who police said had been like a child to Herold.

A Stamford police officer later shot the chimp multiple times after the primate went after him inside a police cruiser, Conklin said. Travis returned to the house, where police found him dead. Conklin estimated that Travis weighed close to 200 pounds.

I saw the interview with the owner this morning on the Today Show where she said she mourns her friends injury and mourns the loss of her chimp. She said "he couldn't have been more my son if i gave birth"

Lady your "son" just attacked a human being. It was inappropriate for you to have a chimp living up in your house!! They said the chimp had over the years tried to take hers and a few neighbors cars for joy rides. The chimp was drawing pictures. The chimp could unlock doors, use a human toilet, etc. He was one advanced monkey! However he is also a wild animal. I have told people for years that this is why I do not F with animals. This woman raised the monkey from Birth was giving him lobster shrimp and filet mignon. Yet he still turned on her and sadly the friend. I can not feel bad for you and share your mourning over a monley. How many times must I tell people. ANIMALS ARE NOT PEOPLE............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I was this womans friend. Who is currently in critical condition from the monkey mistaking her face for a banana. I would be like do not come see me in the hospital, friendship is over. Especially when you have the gaul to be boo hooing for King Kong on tv.

Now I understand that this womans only child died in a car crash and her husband died so the chimp was all she had. However, its still inappropriate and if she is looking for someone new to feed steak and lobsters to, she can surely come see me! I can not do any tricks in an Old Navy commercial but I sure love steak!

Ohhh Dwayne......Oops I mean Wayne

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So Lil Wayne came out of his Cannibus and Codine induced stupor to conduct an interview with Katie Couric. My friend says Katie looks scared. My favorite line: " I'm a gangsta and gangstas don't ask questions" Ok perhaps I spoke to soon about him not being on something. She had every right to be scared I would be too!! Ignorant he is for sure but at least he did better than Cam'ron who on his CBS 6o Minutes Interview with Anderson Cooper took his devotion to "Stop Snitching" so far as to say if a serial killer was living next door to him, he would not tell but would just move.