Have Mercy On Us All...

Another block cornered off by yellow tape. Another murder. This is the scene in Rochester, New York, 19th ward as im drivin down Thurston rd on my way back to work comin from the house. Im askin myself, "i wonder who got bodied?" Sadly to say, it was a young man who well known for being who he is. A man. Young athlete, father to a 2 year old boy, everything looking up for him. But, here go that grey cloud, the gremreaper..."Its ya time to go".....Damn!!!..I have personally lost quite a few people now and its not really makin to much sense to me. Theres a questionable suicide, a young man who i watched grow up,got shot dead, in a place i wouldv'e never imagined him being, and another who was stopped at a stop sign...straight murders...and for what?....

My prayers go out !!!!!!
Asap.....

Be A Father To Ya Child... (or Children for most of us)..lol

As my grandma used to always say "U made the bed, u lay in it"...SO TRUE.. U lay down wit the opposite, attract the positives with the negatives and 9 months later, u have to deal with that person for the rest of your life weither you want to or not....if u choose not to deal with her, then pay up... if u choose to deal with the situation, well, then....man up...Easier said than done but the reality is that the kid didnt ask for this... they never asked to come into this cold world , to deal with all the BS that comes with living.. and its even more sad when i hear the news stories of a child that has been murdered or is missing like the latest cases in Florida...Come on...what did they do.? or baby Mommas..You had these kids and they took away ya freedom...now u cant do as u please anymore, right??? So what... why dont you work it out with ya dead beat ass baby daddy and have him watch em for awhile....But No..."i aint leavin my kids with him"...well, stop complainin then...but yall real quick to pass em off to ya mom or grandma to watch em so u can go out to the club 4 nights a week...to meet yet another lame ass dude....goood job mom!!!..lol now u got 3 babies by (i'll be nice) 2 different daddy's....Notice im not using the word "Father"...its Daddy...cause the kids can walk around like that movie "Dont Be A Menace While Drinkin Juice in The Hood", talkin bout some "Are u my daddy?"..... now thats a damm shame...but there are a lot of us out there that never knew and never will know their father..or who they can call they "daddy"...sad but true....im glad i was able to reconnect with my FATHER before he passed last summer...That is something i will always cherish and it also helped me to become a better father... i have a responsibilty to hold up to, i have to raise these kids the best way i can so that they dont have to deal with the unnecessary stress of a dysfunctional household....if they want to ask me a question, whatever it may be, i have an answer...if they need help, im right there to lend them a hand or pick them up after they fall.... Its a beautiful thing being a Father.....Can you relate, or are you just another statistic?? Ask yaself.......

On a side note: "do your job and be a good parent. Take the time out of your personal schedule to be there for them daily, not just on holidays or birthdays" Show em u care....They are looking up to you, weither you know it or not"

~Asap

Where Are They Now??? Have U Seen Em...(hell naw) lol

When you were in lets say Grammar school, did u have a crush on someone in ya class, in ya skool, or maybe they were just on ya bus???? ok, how bout that one fling that you had in the past that made ya toes curl?...Now ask yaself, "where are they now?"
I was listening to a friend tell me his current situation regarding his relationship and as he was talkin , i was comparing his story to one of my own from the past... At the begining everything was "peachy". The walks and talks, late nites on the phone (oh yeah im takin it back..wayyy back), the kisses in between class periods, passin notes back and forth and what not...Aw puppy love..hahaha..thats how i see his relationship...Puppy love!! and i told him just that.. I wrote in one of my songs "puppy love done grew to be big dawgs, damm look at cha".. they never stay the way they start out. All relationships change with time...just as anything , it grows for betta or worse and its up to you to nourish it...make it how u want it, or as some people say "make it work"...but its different strokes for different folks.. lets face it, the person that you meet at any given time, is at first exactly what u want...fun , exciting.and blah blah blah..lol... then months down the line, now he or she is a asshole or a hoe or whateva may have happen since yall first met..but the point is "they not what you signed up for"...there u have a change..or (fellas) you have a girlfriend now and in the begining yall was freekin during every second mama would give ya, but now u had kids and that "freek" has left the building...i know , i know... it aint the same huh?? well u signed up for it ,didnt u? well then "Make it do what it do or Get the hell on".. One monkey dont stop no show....that person will be ya "Where are they know" question...... shyt i had a hyskool love turn stripper/hooker, "Where is she now?" dont know, dont care..BUT still would love to know...wouldnt you?

Asap...

Speculations And Rumors..

Over the weekend i watched that Tyler Perry movie "The Family That Prey's" and there was a scene in there that made me want to voice my opinion on somethin.. Ok if you seen it before, then you know the part im talkin bout where Sanaa Lathan told her husband "You will never be a Cartwright" "U will never be a man like him", he's a multi millionaire and he doesnt have time to talk to a construction worker who stutters and blah blah blah.....OK...and imma say that again..OK...now as a man, we can only take so much of being put down, ashamed of who and what we really are, and how we cant do certain things that the white men can "do so easily"...but thats not the point i wanna make.. He was a faithful hard working man, who was tryin to better himself for the sake of his family, and in this case, we had a strong devoted black man who was doing all he could...But his wife was tearin him down AND steppin out on him and not only that but had the audacity to have a baby with the other man too, leading her husband to believe that it was his the whole time....So I ask you, u find out that not only is ya wife having an affair but she also had a kid with the other man and YOU have been takin care of him this whole time. How would that make u feel and how would you react???..."Jerry Mcguire wasnt even that bad,," at least he knew it wasnt his to begin wit.... ok so that leads me to my point,.. but first imma ask all my readers anotha question.. "Did he have every right to sock the shyt outta her?". I know i know ,i was taught never to hit a woman either, but theres a time and a place for everything...and that time is now...lol...knock her ass out,...flat out!!!!.....
Now I wanna share a couple thoughts on this Chris Brown and Rhianna thang.... we all heard all kinds of different stories and rumors of what happend and what not. but this is my take on it, cause i know got damm well that aint no man gon bite a female without being helpless and in major pain...lmao...oK..heres my take.. They were arguing over whateva it was and Rhianna said some off the wall shyt, and then played that "NICCA WHATCHU GON DO" card. Fellas u know u been thru it..a chick tryin to act "nicca tough" like she wont get fuked up, right? rigggghhhhttt...lol...ok so wit that being said, he was furious and she was mushin him ,callin him a bitch, nicca suk a dik and i'll do whateva i want and u cant do shyt about it and all this crazy shyt, then started hittin him, diggin her nails in him and all...and he snapped, cracked and popped her ass....end of story...But Chris, u had to be gettin ya ass woooped pretty bad to bite her tho fam...u bit her tho?? wow..u lost points for that one but hey,u somehow got her back..but you know the sayin goes "a bytch thats gettin beat, cant leave the one thats beatin her"..she loves him....bytch please....listen, leave the one who beats you and stick to the simple type ,the ugly ones that greet you"
i guess im done wit this one.,..I can go on and on in so many different ways.... but women, please learn the lesson that u cant talk and act as crazy as u want to.... Like the great late Bernie Mack said, "if you old enough to talk back, u old enough to get fuked up" Hit her in the throat......lol..... remember i dont condone what either of these men did but i do "understand" ....
~Asap