Consumers Pt. I

Valentine's Day is around the corner, a consumer's holiday. Romance huh? A lot of people live consumer's lives. A lot of females want to wined and dined on Valentine's Day. What happens if you're not? A bad year? Are you less of a woman? All my guy friends got to have sex. All that for some sex? It's just dressed payment, paying too much if you will. People buy jewelry, chocolates, flowers, candles, lingerie, etc. trying to set the mood. Those are the same chocolates she eats when she's mad at the dude. The flowers die and the candle flame out just like this whole Valentine Day act will. Valentine's Day is just an easy target for my thoughts on consumers.

The thing with consumers, they are driven by commercial and mainstream opinions. Consumers have to go out and buy "swag." They have to have "it." Materialistic people driven by commercials and music. Most music that generates huge revenues, especially in my circle of society, is commercial consumer music. The music consumes the consumers and forces the consumer to conform. Music I prefer, inspires the soul, music on the radio lends the soul to the mainstream.

Be

"I'm trying to find myself, that's all." That's some ole bullshit. Really, it doesn't make sense. You know yourself from the time that you have a concept of yourself. Yes, you grow; but that comes from learning. Maturing & learning is the process of growing as a person. Finding yourself is an excuse people use when they're too weak to be who they are. That's the result of trying to be something you are not, a facade. You want to be something that you think is better than self instead of embracing self. I love me, a lot of times I hear too much or it's arrogance. Call it what you may, at the end of the day I am going to be comfortable with the person that I am. I can look in the mirror without bowing my head in shame. I make decisions knowing that my soul will oblige, it won't be left behind. I always strive to move forward. I evaluate the past, embrace it, but I do not live in it. Living in the past accomplishes nothing. That's my beef with historians, some of them too focused on making people pay for the past. How you going to hold people accountable for the actions of their ancestors? You learn people's tendencies, but you move on. Progress is good. Trust someone until they deserve to lose your trust. Every moment or experience is something we all can learn from. Trust your word above others, you have to live with the consequences. Another person's experience is not your experience, because you only have one life to live. Be yourself, be free. Be free in the essence of being yourself without guilt or restrictions. Be

Beautiful

Simply beautiful, that's what it is...

You nave mini trial and error sessions with it when you're a kid.

In your adolescence you believe you know what it is, then you feel the real heartbreak.

It is insanity.

You keep chasing it, even when it drives you crazy.

You keep looking for it, even when you claim you're not

When it calls your name, it's your time

You can't capture the essence of it's true feeling in one line

It evolves and changes over time

This ain't what you feel for your brothers and sisters

It's what what you built with partners

Failure to communicate can turn to hate

Doing it too hard can force you to rehabilitate

Either way you look at it, it's a battle of give & take

The levels of it vary, and whether you admit or not

It's unconditional

Love is hindsight, Is simply beautiful

The Soul of the City

Just my appreciation of music in it's finest hour. Marvin in my opinion changed the landscape of music. He's one of the most sampled musicians ever, was one of the first to be provocative as well. The whole talking over the track thing, he changed that too. He also wrote & produced most of his own. Just an all-around classic. You can feel his passion through his music.

Raheem is underrated as a musician. He's one of the best in the game right now, and his small body of work is already amongst the all-time greats to me. I'm just an advocate of timeless, truthful music. Raheem Devaughn does it with the best.

They both hail from the Nation's Capital, DC, my hometown. With all the stereotypes out here about dudes from my city; these types are overlooked. Their music can be political, provocative, catchy, sexual, all while it's timeless. It never gets old. Their love for music cannot be topped.

Food for thought:

Desire- Raheem Devaughn/ I Want You-Marvin Gaye

Bulletproof- Raheem/ What's going On?- Marvin

Sweet Tooth- Raheem/ Feel All My Love Inside- Marvin

Guess Who Loves You-Raheem/ Soon I'll Be Loving You- Marvin

Customer- Raheem/ Sexual Healing- Marvin

SN: Raheem did a cover to Marvin's "Pieces of Clay"

Daydreams

Found myself in a daydream,

the subject was you

I thought of your smile

what a blessing to look at

I thought of our walks,

I replayed your mannerism from how you sleep to how you talk

You are......

I wanna say beautiful but....

That word is too often used in vain

You're better than that

More than the word

You're more than beautiful

More than the words I can find to describe you

you're more than pleasant

More than lovely

More than beautiful

I'm glad my heart values quality over quantity

You are the best quality of love

Never Felt This Way

He opened her car doors

Spoke to in her simply, minus the metaphors

She never felt this way before

He gave her insight on her favorite movie;

And broke her favorite songs down in detail

She never felt this way before

He did more than the average wine & dine

He rolled his sleeves up, went in the kitchen, took his time

She never felt this way before

When they danced, he did it face to face

Instead from behind pushing her head the other way

She never felt this way before

He saw that she was vulnerable,

So he wouldn't let his ego penetrate her soul,

She never felt this way before

He related to her mentally,

Made his presence felt in her core

She never felt this way before.

They built chemistry neither could ignore

Never felt this way before

Plus 1 = 0

I'm entering the prime of life. I'm supposed to experience and explore as many women as possible. I tried, but I aint' got much to show. I got one girl, laugh and joke around all day. I got another with a boyfriend, he's boring; I'm excitement. I got one that's the perfect freak; I only call when I had too much to drink. I know one that's cool; but we never find time for each other. Had another one, but I was too messy. I had a thing with her bff. I had a real bad exotic looking one, we just couldn't vibe. Had one with a vicious body, but she was just too ghetto. Got one with beautiful locks, but she so self-conscious that she's insecure. Met another one, she was easy on the eyes; but she wanted to change me. Said I was li'l rough around the edge. Had one with the innocent look, she was too good. I felt bad cursing around her. Figuring this shit out is confusing. I got all these counterparts, but they don't add mean nothing. With women, if you have more than one then you have nothing.