We’ve all heard the story before.
Boy approaches Girl while at annual DST nude kickball fundraiser for lupus research. Girl is so intrigued by Boy’s opening line (“You don’t belong here”) and demeanor that she pretends not to notice the fact that Boy’s ring finger is equipped with ring. After 12 to 17 minutes of Boy entertaining Girl with the type of conversation that somehow simultaneously makes women annoyed and aroused, Boy and Girl exchange numbers, with plans to “do coffee” sometime in the next week. They do coffee on Tuesday. 15 minutes after coffee, Boy and Girl check into the Westin and proceed to do each other for the next 31 to 38 minutes.
While Boy’s in the bathroom, freshening up before headed back to work, Girl — who’s still laying in bed — notices Boy’s phone buzzing on the dresser. She glances at it and sees the following message: “Babe, can you pick up some sugar on the way home? Love u.”
Boy walks out of the bathroom at this exact moment, and instead of getting upset at Girl for looking at his phone, jokes “I guess this probably wasn’t the type of sugar my wife wanted me to bring home.” Girl, already feeling kind of shitty after reading the message, feels even shitter after seeing that Boy didn’t even bother to attempt to hide the fact that he’s married.
But, what makes Girl feel the shittiest? The fact that she doesn’t really care, either. Girl wishes she cared more, but she really likes Boy, and this like of Boy allows her to convince herself of the “fact” that if Boy’s wife was doing what she needed to be doing at home, Boy would have no need to step out. As her closest line sister always says, “You can’t wreck a happy home.”
Boy and Girl continue to see each other for months. As they grow closer, their outings become progressively more brazen and more public. What begin as a fling is now a full-fledged relationship. Boy even does the one thing all men in Boy’s position say they’re going to do but never actually get around to doing — leaves his wife.
A year or so later, Boy and Girl make plans to get hitched, yet Girl is surprised at some of the negative feedback she’s beginning to receive when plans of her upcoming nuptials get out. One aunt even tells Girl that she’s not going to Boy and Girl’s “triflin’-ass wedding.”
When Girl defends herself, saying that the aunt should still support her because she (Girl) did nothing wrong, aunt says “Bullshit. Maybe you didn’t sign a marriage contract yourself, but by willingly allowing him to pursue and court you while you were fully aware that he was married, you’re just as triflin as his ass is. You’re my niece, I’ll always love you, and maybe one day I’ll be able to be glad that you’ve found your “one,” but I can’t support triflinness.”
To drive home her point, Girl’s aunt takes off her sweatshirt to reveal a baby-tee with the words “I can’t support trifliness” emblazed on the chest.
“I had it made last week, and I’ve been wearing it everyday since, hoping I’d see you.”
Girl: “I can tell. That shirt smells.”
Aunt: “So do you/”
I happen to agree with Girl’s aunt. Do you?
¹Btw, although “Girl” is the homewrecker in this story, I feel the same way about men who date/sleep with women already in relationships.—Damon Young (aka “The Champ”)
50 Cent is continuing his radio promo run for his upcoming album, 5 (Murder By Numbers), and at a recent stop in Chicago, he spoke on the Windy City’s buzzing up and comer, Chief Keef.
“He got that kinda energy—it feels street to me,” Fif said on Power 92 when asked about the 16-year-old rapper, who just recently inked a deal with Interscope, which is also 50 Cent’s label home. “It feels like it got some hard edge. The things that I heard from him had that hard edge to it. [A collaboration] might be a cool little thing to put together.”
50′s compliments for Keef come after rappers like T.I., Young Jeezy and Birdman have all praised the Chi-town rhyme slinger.
Next week, 50 will be dropping his fifth official album, which he opened up about to the station. “I got various production,” he continued. “There’s Havoc, Dre, S1, Drumma. I worked with the new producers to put it together. It was out of what I felt like was the best stuff that they sent me over time. I feel good about the project. I consciously made a twist with the direction I was going as a writer so it didn’t feel like a lot of the traditional stuff I did. I wanted to feel new, fresh.”
In addition to saying that he’s not trying to mimic what he’s done in the past, the Queens native again stated that his biggest hit to date sometimes haunts him. “That ‘In Da Club’ record follows me,” he said. “SometimesI wish I could just shake it, lose it. I’ve made so many records since then, and none of them are that. You never get a second chance at a first impression.”
He also reflected on the immediate impact he had globally when he first emerged a decade ago. “When you’re having a record that’s selling 13 million records at that point, and you’re having a moment that’s so big around the world, they all taking a look at it,” he recalled. “So the follow up album 10 million, right after, again.”
50 Cent’s 5 (Murder By Numbers) hits online retailers on July 3. —Adam Fleischer (@AdamXXL)
Beef is best served like steak, but Pusha T wants to know why he has been placed on the hot seat for his record, “Exodus 23:1.”
“I was surprised actually just at the whole, anybody or [Lil] Wayne specifically, answering “Exodus,”” Push explained to Funkmaster Flex on Hot 97 last night (June 20). “I was like, ‘Wait a minute.’ I’ve never seen one record that didn’t say a name cause so much of a firestorm.”
Many have speculated and presumed that Pusha’s track is fully loaded with disses aimed at Drake and Wayne, specifically. However, the G.O.O.D. Music artist has yet to understand why.
“This is what I want to know,” Pusha expressed. “But why? But why would that relate to Wayne or Drake? Why?”
Even so, Weezy has already reversed course, recently stating to the Associated Press: “Beef is a whole different thing… I’ll move on.” That’s a move Pusha judged to be beneficial to Wayne, even though he feels it does not rectify Weezy’s direct shots at him on “Goulish” and will not eliminate his curiosity.
“What you mean?” Push replied when Flex asked if it was too late to make such a statement. “After he already said fuck me and everybody who loves me? You know. He’s already said what he said. At the end of the day, like, I think him saying what he said yesterday, that was in his best interest.
“To admit you were emotional in reaction got something, like I still want to know what part pertained,” he added. “Like, what hit you? Like, I want to know. I don’t want to guess. Somebody got to tell me.”
Whether Push will have his questions answered remains to be seen. However, the G.O.O.D. Music MC says Tunechi isn’t getting a retort for “Goulish.”
“It was horrible,” the Virginia native deemed Weezy’s “Goulish.” “It was trash. It wasn’t good. In all honesty, man, I haven’t said anything about it ’cause I didn’t think it was like good enough to respond to.”
Pusha was also not a fan of the beat Wayne chose either, which was produced by Swizz Beatz, who coincidentally is on Pusha’s latest banger, “Lambo.”
Besides Wayne, Pusha also shared his opinions of other YMCMB artists, including Nicki Minaj, who was a no-show at this year’s Summer Jam, an act Pusha says he would not have done for the sake of his fans but applauded Nicki for.
“It showed a real level of camaraderie though, by her listening and just not performing and sort of like banding together,” Push said. “Like, yo, ‘We ain’t doing it.’ Like, I looked at it like that; like, ‘Oh, okay.’ Like, there was some solidarity there. I thought that was fresh.”
Contrary to respecting Nicki’s recent matter, Pusha is not approving of Drake’s nightclub melee with Chris Brown.
“I heard about all the bottles and different scenarios and what have you…like I said, there’s a whole lot of behind the scenes stuff,” Pusha added on. “I would’ve never thought that the two was at it like that…I didn’t like it. You know Chris [is] from Virginia. I didn’t like that. Bottles and cuts, that’s weak. That’s weak, man.”
At any rate, Push’s situation with YMCMB does not involve of his G.O.O.D. camp, whom are set to drop their first compilation LP Cruel Summer on August 7th. “Exodus 23:1” will not be on there, but rather on Push’s solo project, keeping his crew out of it, even Kanye West.
“Flex, I don’t talk to ’Ye about rappers,” Pusha clarified. “I blacks out. I gets busy. I stand by myself. Like, we ain’t talked about it once.”
The Clipse member said he will also drop another album with his brother No Malice at the beginning of his discussion with Flex that ended with a freestyle, which seemed to clarify his position on his controversial record in the opening line.
“Look, unpolished, unapologetic,” Push spit over the instrumental to Prodigy’s “Keep It Thoro.” “This cocaine cowboy pushed us to the limit.”—Christopher Minaya
As the MMG crew readies their forthcoming compilation release next Tuesday (6/26), the album is now made available to stream to the public. Take a listen above.