Nicki Minaj vs Malcolm X

What's woody wood, grasshoppers?

Okay, I'm gonna keep this short and sweet because there's pretty much nothing to say...is the album cover distasteful and disrespectful to El Hajj Malik El Shabazz commonly known to us as Malcolm X? Yes...was Nicki starving for attention through controversy? HELL YEAH!!!

Malcolm wasn't a nosey "lookin' ass nigga" in this flick...

...he held the artillery by the window to protect his family from death threats and possible harm

Shit was real back then (shit, it's STILL is today)

KRS-1 posed like Malcolm for the cover of his By Any Means Necessary album...but the difference is that he was conscious with his style, spittin' rhymes to stimulate your mind...KRS was/is the teacher of Hip-Hop...real talk

But let me put a positive spin on Nicki's album cover

A lot of 90s babies and younger don't know who the hell Malcolm X was...you got students at Malcolm Shabazz High School in Newark, New Jersey who don't even know anything about him...they probably think he's some white man who used to be the President of the United States and died rich

But seriously, maybe the album cover can be used as a tool to get the youngin's to AT LEAST have Malcolm X under their radar...they might see the fuss about Nicki using his image in a niggardly way and unknowingly educate themselves about one of the freedom fighters for not only Black people, but for humanity in general...

...that's if they're not lazy enough to GOOGLE search the man



But hey, at least I strive to look at the glass half full by deciding not to join the public lynching of ya girl, Nicki

Speaking of lynchings, peep the artwork below draw by Alex L

He's wild for this one

Peace

Nah'Sun the Great @ www.nahsunblaze.com

Are Writers Born or Made?

What’s wood, family?

Ayo, I’m a firm believer that everyone has at least ONE good story within them…including YOU…yep, you!, the same person reading this blog

The tricky part is having enough IMAGINATION to write more than one book…me personally, it’s about possessing a great imagination to write several books…I say you’re not officially an author until you write 3 joints...word up

Whether people are diggin’ your work is irrelevant…the books I think are trish-trash are well praised and sell like hot cakes, so opinions doesn’t matter unless you’re so bad that you can’t give the shit away for free

I think writers are born AND made

Writing swims bone deep in my blood stream…at least on my father’s side…but damn, I didn’t know I possessed the finesse to pimp my pen until the 4th grade…I wanted to be an architect and draw stadiums and shit...LOL

Winning 25 bucks from writing an essay on Malcolm X changed all dat…oh, fa’ sho…I figured, if a brotha can win money writing, then hell, I might as well play my cards right and shuffle a full deck with the kings, queens, jokers and aces...you feel me?

Then I later wrote cartoon episodes and blah blah blah…and now I’m writing novels

So while I was born a writer with a great imagination, I was also MADE because I had to dig deep to unearth that talent…but to keep it funky with you, I found that talent by accident…if it wasn’t for that essay contest (I beat EVERYONE at the 4th grade level in my grade school), I probably would’ve built a skyscraper in New York or some shit like that

Real talk

Michael Jordan was blessed with the skill to play ball, but even he had to bust his ass to be the greatest

You still gotta sharpen your swords even if you are born in a family full of warriors with the bloodlines of a killer...the more you do something, the better you'll get...practice makes perfect, family

Aight ya’ll…I’m out

Peace

Nah’Sun