Thursday, September 25, 2008

Long Time Coming

It's been a long time coming for me. It all started in a small town called Canton, Mississippi where i called home. The date was January 2, 1990 in St. Dominic's Hospital at 4:35 a.m. was when I was introduced to this world. I called canton my home for 10 years, it was where I was born and raised and the old timers told me as a young buck to never forget where you come from. I went to three schools in canton before I moved to my second home of Jackson, Ms. My first school was called The Discovery Center where I went for Pre-K. Next, I transcended to a catholic school called Holy Child Jesus School. I went here for first and second grade. The good thing about that was that the school was down the street from my grandma's house on my daddy's side and I loved that. After I did my two years, I got a taste of the public school system and went to Canton Elementary School for third grade. Then, my mama and I moved to another city of Mississippi named Jackson where I changed schools and met new friends. I moved into some apartments named Willow Point in North Jackson. I went to North Jackson Elementary school for fourth and fifth grade. Then, I progressed to middle school and went to Powell Middle School for six, seventh, and eight grade. I got promoted from there and went to Callaway High School and went there just only my ninth grade year before I moved to Madison and went to Madison Central High where I went from tenth to twelfth and graduated.

Friday, September 19, 2008

Madison Central High School vs Clinton High School

This week in high school football, my school where I graduated from Madiosn Central High School plays our rival Clinton High School tonight. This rivalry has been going on since the beginning when the two schools first opened back in the day. The game is always packed on both sides of the field. The schools are such bitter-rivals that both schools mark the game on their football schedule as the most important game of the season. The most important thing on the line from the game is bragging rights for the school that wins. The intensity of the rivalry is felt in the air when both schools meet and play. For instance, the fans, coaches, teaching staff, and etc... are very emotional about the game. I remember the first game I attended between the schools it was one I would never forget. It was a home game for us that night, and I was deep with my friends and some dudes from Clinton had came and sat on the home side of Madison Central and they were pretty deep themselves. Sometimes at the games between the schools, fights break out because everybody wants to prove that their school is better than the other. Extra security is provided at the games either if there at MC or Clinton, when the games are hosted in Clinton it's a whole new atmosphere. Last year, when the game was in Clinton, we won by one point and Clinton was very mad. So tonight the rivarly continues and the game will be at MC and I already know the game will be super-packed.

Friday, September 12, 2008

Legendary Basketball Player in Gym

It started in my tenth grade year in gym class where my status to becoming a great legendary player in gym would rise. I had jus transferred from my old high school Callaway High School in Jackson, Ms to my new school Madison Central High School in Madison; Ms. The school went from tenth to twelth grade, so i was a freshman at the school even though i was in the tenth grade. Since my schedule was easy, I had to take gym because i knew they were going to play basketball in the class. Since i was an under classman, I jus started off easy by playing pick-up basketball games and games of 21. I knew I would be recognized by an upper classman and be asked to run the "big floor" which was full court in gym. Finally, that day I had been waiting for had finally come when a senior saw me playing a pick-up game and asked if I wanted to run on his team and i replied with a yes. I was ready to contribute to his team, so I just took my skills I learned from basketball camps of famous basketball players like Michael Finley and Tim Hardaway. I was taught ethics by Juawan Howard, Tyson Chandler, Steven Hunter, and Mark Cuban. I played two games on the senior's team and we won both of them and he said he liked my all around game and tole me I was a good player, so I took that and ran with it. Every since that day, my status rose to something really amazing throughout my senior year that I am very happy and satisfied with. Those great features I performed and witnessed in those gym classes from tenth to twelfth grade, are memories I will cherish for the rest of my life. I received praise from numerous amount of people who asked me why I didn't try out for the team and I just told them that I'm a legend in the gym, which some people couldn't claim or crown themselves.

Friday, September 5, 2008

Lil Wayne-Best Rapper Alive

After dropping the third series to his annual cd, The Carter 3, Lil Wayne is crowned the "The Best Rapper Alive". The cd had been highly anticipated since last year. The Carter 3 was released this past early summer on June 9, 2008. Because of heavy bootlegging and internet leaking of the tracks for the C3, the album was finally released this summer. Speculations on why the tracks were leaked on the internet was because rapper Lil' Wayne disrespected all the mixtape dj's and so to get back on him they spilled his tracks from his new album before the release date of the album. After hearing all this, Lil Wayne had to redo and come up with new songs for his highly anticipated Carter 3. Rumors in the music indusrty proclaimed that this cd would take the rapper to the next level. The critics were right. After the release of the Carter 3, even with heavy leaking and bootlegging, in the first week, the album sold over a million copies in one week. With these numbers from the sound scan, Lil Wayne is the hottest rapper out right now. Many critics have agreed and disagreed wit the rapper labeling hiself as "The Best Rapper Alive", because some has taken that moniker as disrespect to the legendary rapper Jay-Z. But with a collaberation with Jay-Z on the Carter 3, many have left that argument alone about Wayne's moniker. If you think about it, most people agree wit the rapper sayin he's the best beacuse of his album sales and his unique flow to rip and destroy beats.Lil Wayne is most known for his similes and metaphors in his rhymes and freestyles. The Carter 3 has spectacular beats from producers like Kanye West, Cool n Dre, Diesel, and Mistro. The cd also had guest appearances from rappers like Jay-Z, Babyface, Static Major, Busta Rhymes, Brisco, Bobby Valentino, J-Gutta, and T-Pain. After dropping mixtape after mixtape, Lil Wayne has released 100 of free songs to the fans to build up for his cd, which went platnium in one week. The question now is what is next for the hottest and best rapper alive in the hip-hop world today? Lil Wayne is on his route to becoming one of the greatest rapper to ever rhyme on the mic.