But THEN, the Cypher get RIDICULOUSLY horrid. I wouldn’t put my money on ANY of these dudes. Ever. But maybe I’m tripping…. YOU be the judge:

Rumor has it that these are the 2 weaker of the Cyphers, and may not even get aired. That’d be smart BET. Rumor also has it there are 2 other Cyphers: 1 with Big K.R.I.T & Kendrick Lamar, and 1 with Maybach Music Group: Rick Ross, Meek Mill, Pill & Wale…..now THAT might be POPPINGTON.

Even though I’ve had numerous thoughts: leaping on a judge, slapping a bailiff, clipping an attorney, tapping the jahnt of the cute DA, soliciting the clerk for oral pleasure during recess, ALL TYPES OF THINGS is the point; i’ve never had the balls (or any other genitalia for that matter) that would have me do the foolishness that THIS inmate pulled IN the court room:

The same couldn’t be said about the new Maryland uniforms. They were designed by Under Armour, but they looked like they were designed in the Hellen Keller department.

What are your thoughts on the new uniforms in college?

It appears that Samuels was trying to hook O’Neal up with some ladies all along. Check out the email exchange between the two, originally posted by Miami New Times, and let me knkow what YOU think, is Shaq DRY SNITCHING??

Samuels: Hi.  Sesslielopez at gmail.com. [FYI, the email address bounces back]. Or I can give her your info? She’s not in the country until Wed so maybe then is better because she hasn’t answered me about something else I asked her about. Also she asked about your personal life and I told her_whatever it is_-I’m sure you had it under control. Still waiting on Robinne’s response.

Shaq: Sesslie aintdat fine whts robins last name

Samuels: You are so wrong! Robinne Lee_she’s on Tyler Perry’s show sometimes. Do you know Lauren London_I don’t_but I know James Lassiter knows how to reach her. You ever dealt with her_is she cool? Sharon Leal??

Shaq: Loren is d wade’s girl im not wrong sesslie aint my type u r

Samuels: What about Gabrielle and Dwyane?

Shaq: He gottem all I want u or rihanna

Samuels: Rihanna is too young_19– she is just legal and you know I’m very chatty and you said you didn’t like that!!!!!

Shaq: Yeah but I told u had a crush on me and u wouldnt chat about us i kn o

Samuels: No_I’m chatty in a relationship_not to others. You just decided I had a crush on you huh?? When did you decide that?

That’s all we’ve got, but would you consider Shaq a snitch for his exchange?

Brian McLaughlin has a goal, a goal that he hopes will take him from the earnest surroundings of Greensboro all the way to the star-making hills of Hollywood.

You see, McLaughlin, who most of you probably know as “B Daht,” the resident, morning-show wise guy at WJMH 102 JAMZ FM, wants his own sitcom deal. He’s seeking that deal the old-fashioned way: by performing stand-up.

“I’ve always been a funny guy,” says McLaughlin, who says it was his management’s idea to hit the comedy clubs if he wants to get on TV. “I felt like what I had been doing anyway, all my life, I had been doing pretty much stand-up.”

For three years now, the St. Louis-born McLaughlin, 30, has been honing his joke skills on local stand-up stages. But he recently kicked it up a notch by hosting his own comedy show, “Freestyle Funny Comedy Show,” at the Comedy Zone in Greensboro. McLaughlin and a quartet of North Carolina funnymen (Darren Brand, Burpie, Chico Bean and Osama Bin Drankin) do a monthly comedy revue that consists of stand-up routines as well as skits and “Whose Line Is It Anyway?”-style improv .

McLaughlin says the show has been a hit ever since it began in fall 2009, presented on the third Sunday of every month. So, being the ever-enterprising cat that he is, McLaughlin and his crew decided to branch out and do a monthly show in Charlotte at Club Skandalos. After debuting the show there, McLaughlin says the club wanted them to perform every Thursday in July, but McLaughlin had to turn down their offer.

“It’s difficult for us to do a weekly show because so much thought goes into it. I mean, every comic does a fresh set every show. We play fresh games. We do fresh sketches.” McLaughlin also believes that the more occasional the show, the more people will pack the joint to see it. “The demand for it every third Sunday makes the crowds stay around 300 people per show. They want to come out and see what the hype is about. You only get it once a month. So, it’s like, ‘Oh man, I gotta put this on my calendar for this show, because they won’t be able to do it again until next month.’ ”

But just because they couldn’t keep a home in Charlotte doesn’t mean they’re staying put in Greensboro, either. McLaughlin and the boys did a college tour last year, hitting five major campuses in North Carolina, including UNC-Charlotte, N.C. State and Winston-Salem State University (McLaughlin’s alma mater).

This year, they’re on the road again, adding four additional colleges to the tour. It starts this weekend, when they’ll play N.C. A&T on Saturday and UNCG on Tuesday.

McLaughlin is banking on collegiate audiences spreading the word about him and his comic brethren tickling ribs in the Tar Heel state.
“80 percent of those [college students] aren’t from here, so when they leave and they remember the ‘Freestyle Funny Comedy Show,’ they’re going back to their respective homes,” he says. “They’re going back to Florida. They’re going back to New York. … And they’re all carrying the ‘Freestyle Funny Comedy Show’ idea with them. And they’re all [like], ‘Man, these guys are funny. We were at this show, and they did this and they did that. So, we’re reaching those other states, but we’re capitalizing on it while they’re here in North Carolina.
“We just want to build a buzz to a point where instead of us just trying to go out there to L.A. and throw it out there amongst them, we wanna build a buzz strong enough to where they’ll hear about it and, then, they’ll want to pick it up.”

Contact Craig D. Lindsey at  talkingfurniture at aol.com

The Anniversary of Aaliyah’s death is 3 days away. 2001 was a tough year. Less than a month after her death, we were mourning for the victims of 9-11.

Aaliyah’s passing was SO tragic though. Something I will NEVER forget:

August 25, 2001: Club Icehouse

I remember it being around 12:30am, maybe 1am, and the DJ stopped the music.

“Wow! May I have everyone’s attention?? This story JUST broke y’all: Aaliyah is dead. She crashed in an airplane leaving a runway apparently, and Aaliyah is DEAD.”

The silence that engulfed the audience was DEAFNING.

I looked to the left: I saw a female consoling her female friend.

I looked to the right: I saw a hoodlum, teary eyed, pouring his Moet on the floor “In Remembrance Of”.

The DJ then went into an Aaliyah set, playing all her hits: Age Ain’t Nothing But a Number, Try Again, Rock the Boat, One in a Million, Back and Forth, If your girl only knew, Hot Like Fire, 4 Page Letter, etc.

I even had to sneak and wipe an almost tear away (as to not be the ONLY person in the club appearing to be an emotionless bastard).

If you weren’t emotional at that point, you weren’t human.

It was kinda difficult to bring the energy back after that. I remember the club getting extremely light once that announcement was made and her set was played.

It’s funny how people are remembered though.

I remember WHILE SHE WAS LIVING, people would always talk about how much Aaliyah couldn’t sing well LIVE. Now in her passing? Oh, Aaliyah had THE most “angelic” voice anyone has ever heard.

#Dahtstare

I guess Big was right: “You’re nobody, til somebody, kills you”.

Even if the killing was accidental by a pilot who lied about how many hours he had actually flown, and had fraudulently gotten his Pilots license; & had alcohol and cocaine in his system, so says the autopsy.

R.I.P Aaliyah Dana Haughton. I’m about to go watch Romeo Must Die.

I’m sure those individuals will get a hoot out of this as well as make it a LOT bigger than it really is: