Last I looked, I had on an oversized pair of Sean John jeans, an L-R-G white tee with a black L-R-G hoodie resting on my shoulders. AF1 LE's that cost $300 on my feets. Every time I get dressed for work, this is what I wear. And every day I sit down to work I see that master's degree with my name on it hanging on my office wall.Last I looked, Lord Finesse's "The Awakening," Scarface's "The Fix," TI's "Urban Legend," Lil' Kim's "Naked Truth," Ghostface Killah's "Supreme Clientele," and Eric B. and Rakim's "Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em," were the six CDs in the chamber. Last I looked, I could retain information, hadn't missed a deadline, haven't been fired from a job, haven't been unemployed or unemployable, haven't been mistaken for a thug or bank robber, haven't been accused of a crime, haven't sold out or sold my soul, and last week was able to get a point about self-esteem across to an auditorium full of kids at a college that made them cry.
I recited Nas and Tupac lyrics. My jeans were hanging off my ass.
They asked me to come back.
- ESPN's Scoop Jackson, in an awesome column reacting to Phil Jackson's recent racist comments. In October 1999, Phil Jackson said, "I don't mean to say [that] as a snide remark toward a certain population in our society, but they have a limitation of their attention span, a lot of it probably due to too much rap music going in their ears and coming out their being."
Scoop, a former fan of Phil's, was willing to let that one go, saying that he'd "chalk it up as generational hate." But when Phil was quoted last month as saying, "I think it's important that the players... get out of the prison garb and the thuggery aspect of basketball that has come along with hip-hop music in the last seven or eight years", Scoop replies, "Like Erick Sermon, I react."
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