Name that Sample- Sinnerman- Nina Simone

To pay homeage to AverageBro (My favorite person to read), can you name the sample from this song?

Sinnerman - Nina Simone



This song is now a commercial appeal with HTC and also became the score for the ending of the remake of "The Crown Heights Affair." Can you name the songs and the artists who sampled this song.

WTF Moment - The Oakland Raiders- Philadelphia Eagles game.

The Oakland Raiders did not just win the game because of there tackling. It was because of IT.

Meet the newest Raider acquisition - the pigeon.

Why October is a Dreadful Month for Relationships.

The scariest date for your girl to have in October is not the 31^st because of Halloween.

…….It is October 1^st

The reason is that unless you are just into going out and making out with your girl which everybody needs a little break (just ask her). October is like a “Sport Haven” month for guys. There are so many games that are played six days a week and all of them are usually on a cable station that anybody can pick up. It is like Madden Season but without a Playstation or a Auto Show that is running for one month. You cannot get a guy to get up off the couch in October unless he is going to the game which makes it worst. I can sum it up all in one.

The MLB Playoffs- Any old school person knows that baseball really dreads between opening day and the playoff push. But once the playoffs start, anything goes. From walk off homers to something strange that always happens to put your team out of the playoffs. Any sport fanatic can tell you where they were when Reggie Jackson got his name Mr. October, when old Buckner misplacing the ball at first on a Mookie Wilson dribbler, when Kirk Gibson doing that “yes, yes, yes” arm pump, when Kirby Puckett hitting that game winner and Jack Buck saying “We’ll see you tomorrow night,” to Steve Bartman messing up Moises Alou catch for the clincher and Florida ended up winning the NLCS and the World Series, and when Jack Buck’s son Joe was channeling his dad respectively in Game 4 with “Ortiz into deep right field. Back is Sheffield!

We'll see ya later tonight!” And in Game 5 when Damon was rounding third after Ortiz hit with “Ortiz fights it off, center field! Damon running to the plate and he can keep on running to New York. Game 6 tomorrow night.” Oh yeah and that bloody sock that Curt Schilling in Game 6 (Sorry, the 2004 ALCS is still to me the best championship game I have seen in my life). Anyway the playoff is memorable as a kid and can be with you until you are an adult.

College Football – October is filled with great college football games. Other than that usual homecoming at your college you go to reminisce with your friends about how you all got drunk and did mischievous things, the college football games in October are epic and last from Wednesday to Saturday. There is the Red River Shootout in Dallas between Texas and Oklahoma which anybody and everybody that live north of Austin and South of Norman go to. Then you have the World Largest Cocktail Party between Georgia and Florida. That rivalry is the ending of the October weekend or usually the start of November weekend. Then there is the Third Saturday in October (You heard it right!) between Alabama and UT. October is also the home of Wide Right II and Wide Left for all those Florida State- Miami fans and those USC- Norte Dame classics in South Bend (…and boy, there are many.) HBCUs have so many classics in October; it is hard to keep up.

The mid-hype of the NFL season- This is where the NFL starts kicking in to gear. Some of the most memorable games have come from October in the NFL. To your favorite team this is your make or break peek month because November is too quick and December you already know where your team stand. October is also home to the infamous “Sharpie Pen” from Terrell Owens to Drew Rosenhaus.

Basketball season starts- October is pre-season and the start of Basketball season. If your team sucks in football, and your team did not make the playoffs in baseball, there is the savior in basketball because your team might do something good to start off. The off-season acquisitions, trades, new coaches, players making more money, need me say more.

Hockey season starts- For you people who really don’t like baseball, football, or basketball, there is hockey season. It is the same like basketball season but with more fighting and toothless guys. I forgot the mention the slapshots that scatter glass instantly are off the chain.

That is why October is the worst month to be with your girl if you are a sports fanatic. So if you have a girl around this make sure you have your “I’ll will pamper you” speech and roses ready because when November come, she is going to ware you out.

Eating My Words: Denver Broncos

This is a new segment called "Eating My Words." This segment is about what I once said and what I am saying now. The first one is about the Denver Broncos.

It is not the size of dog in the fight, but the fight in the dog.

Whoever wrote this quote was dead-on. I remember saying this before start of the football regular season.

“The Denver Broncos will get Sam Bradford for the 1^st pick because Kyle Orton really sucks. I mean he did not do anything for Chicago.”

“Brandon Marshall will get traded because Jay Cutler is gone.”

“Jay Cutler is going to make Denver regret trading him.”

“Denver is just going through one of those seasons.”

“How would they just let go the best coach in the business in Mike Shannahan, I mean he made mediocre running backs look like legends.”

“Josh McDaniels is going to have the same stumble as Eric Mangini, Romeo Crenell, and Charlie Weis had – a situation where we knew who ran the show i.e. Bill Bellicheck.”

…………….Unless you are a die-hard Broncos fan, I know everybody else said something similar to this too.

Now coming into week 6, I am saying this

“I was wrong.”

“Mike Nolan is mad because he got fired, that is why his defense is No.2 and people still can’t score on them in the 4^th quarter.”

“Kyle Orton is making Jay Cutler look like Tommy Maddox-ish”

“Correll Buckhalter and Daryl Dawkins knew something that we did not.”

“Jay Cutler could have been better if he was with Josh McDaniels. His Fault”

“Brandon Marshall is still there and looking like the other T.O. (the effective one).”

“Denver is 6 and 0.”

……………..Oh and

“Sam Bradford will not be the 1^st pick anyway. his shoulder is now his Achilles.”

A Funny WTF Moment- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Even Legends are not untouchable to my WTF moment. Just ask Kareem. His mind got rejected(in my Marv Albert voice) by a $400 question about someone who came after him.



Wow, he either thought everything basketball in UCLA was all about him and my man John Wodden. By the way, Happy be-lated 99th birthday J Dub.

California principal finally gets it right

By: Sami Haddad
Fused Sports Editor

During September 16, 2009 Principle Sue Vaughn, the principal of Orange County High School of the Arts, said it was mandatory that the student publication evolution had to be done through prior review. The Adviser to this publication, Konnie Krislock, refused to let her publication be viewed before it was sent to the presses. Krislock and the school’s administration then went into a two hour long meeting to discuss the problem. As it turned out, the school had no idea what California’s state education code even said about the freedom of expressions. Soon enough Vaughn retracted her statement and let the paper run without prior review.
Just thinking about this story it would make one think, how many other situations like this are happening the nation? Where schools, due to ignorance, shut down publications because they just don’t know what the law is. It is sad to see a school’s administration react in such a naïve manner to where they decide to issue prior review to the paper just because they don’t know what else to do. Krislock said herself that there was nothing in her publication that was obscene, libelous, or disruptive.
The school was very brave to fight against an oppressive system, it is this blind ignorance that leads to the censoring of many bright and skilled writers. Even if it was illegal for the school to censor the paper at all (Section 48907 in the code for California’s education code) they were willing to do that to end a publication.
If anything could have come out of this, Krislock would have had the right to sue the school itself for trying to rob her students their own right to express themselves. As a writer I hope that when this issue comes up again in any other school across the U.S.A. we will have the resources and the will power to end any thoughts of censorship among the student publication community.

The Six Degrees of Seperation in Cheating Consequences

I got up this morning with the Queen of Hearts telling me to have a good day at work today. Though the rain made today a pretty big drag, just the sound of my girl voice made me feel whole. I could have written anything today from the Rush Limbuagh flinging with my sports to “The Snowe-ball Effect” dealing with Olympia Snowe going for the bipartisan of health care reform.

……….Well I am going all old info and new info.

One of my favorite artists is Millie Jackson. Not because of her seductiveness and sassiness that bring the freak out of any man, young or old, but how her lyrics are as true until the end of time. One of her songs was call “Cheatin’ Is.” You got to hear the lyrics just to feel the reason I wrote this piece. The second verse of this song sums up the moral of these two stories that are tied in my home state.

Cheatin' is the part of loving that starts

when true love isn't what lovers are looking for

A stranger here, a stranger there

Then you turn around and swear that you'll never go back for more

And lying at night, when you're holding him tight,

is something that a cheater's heart just has to learn

Cheatin' is a thing that's guaranteed

to bring two unhappy people to the point of no return

Now since you have read that I am going to take you in time of two popular old stories that have some ties toward each other in some fashion that the six degree of separation of a town called Vicksburg, Mississippi.

In one part of town is Mechelle, a nurse who is married to a known football player, finding out on July 4^th that the infidelity of her husband just caught up to him by the lover killing him and herself . The husband thought that he can get away with anything since he was a MVP and his life was still running after football. The lover wanted to be with him forever. Much to it, he may have said no, or other things may have happen (you don’t want to know) which cause the lover to pull the trigger on him and herself.

In the other part of town is Avis, a child daycare teacher who was getting ready to be married to a middle-school teacher. The fiancé is a smooth-talking gentleman who likes to play the field even though he is not a free agent. He gets involved with a middle-school teacher who is also a cheerleader coach. The tables got turned when this love triangle turn ugly when Avis was shot four times and stabbed while pregnant, killing both her and the baby. The lover of the finance weeks later was first charged with accessory to the murder until they found a clean empty gun that could hold the same bullets that what use to kill Avis. She was then charged with double murder (the reason is that under state law, if you kill a pregnant woman, you are charged with the murder of the pregnant mother and her unborn child). Two years past and the trial came. Yesterday, the verdict was that the fiancé’s lover was found guilty of double murder and will be looking at either life or the death penalty, and the fiancé is married to another woman in another state, and free.

The moral of the story is that cheating can lead into some serious worst case scenarios. It just so happened differently to two women who literally live almost 10 min away from each other. This is a sad story to make me really know that My Queen of Hearts is the only Queen of Hearts for me.

I would tell you the stories in full but I rather just post the links to both stories of Avis and Mechelle.

Mechelle - Her Story

Avis - Her Story

When gay bashing goes wrong.

I am a fan of news that are not politics and just flat out funny. So when I saw this article I had to laugh.

Two thugs who attacked what they thought were a pair of transvestites picked on the wrong men - when their intended victims turned out to be cage fighters on a night out in fancy dress.

Dean Gardener, 19, and Jason Fender, 22, singled out the two men walking along a street in wigs, short skirts and high heels.

Bare-chested Gardener was caught on CCTV confronting one of the men in a pink wig, black skirt and boob tube - then seen swinging a punch, a court heard.

But the other cage fighter, wearing a sparkling black dress and matching long wig, sprang to his friend's help, delivering two lightning-quick punches to the two stunned yobs.

The cage fighters were then seen teetering away in their high heels, stopping only to pick up a clutch bag they dropped during the melee.

Gardener and Fender were left dazed and seen staggering to their feet after their failed attack.

CCTV cameras followed the pair as they weaved along The Kingsway in Swansea, South Wales, before being arrested by police.

Mark Davies, defending, said: 'You know it cannot have been a good night when you get into a fight with two cross-dressing men.

'Unfortunately they were extremely drunk.

'They had been out drinking jugs of cocktails and Fender had drunk at least 10 pints of cider.'

Police later discovered the two drag queens were cage fighters on a fancy dress stag night out with other friends.

Both Gardener and Fender, from Bonymaen, Swansea, pleaded guilty to using abusive words and behaviour.

CCTV footage of the attacks was shown at Swansea Magistrates' Court. It shows them fighting with several men before the approach the two cage fighters.

The pair were sentenced to a four-month community order, were electronically tagged and placed under a curfew between 7pm to 7am.

Now you see. That is why I don't pick on people because you never know who you are messing with, even when drunk.

Oh, and here is the beatdown.

Thugs attack two transvestites... who turn out to be cage fighters wearing fancy dress

WTF Moment - Australian People who thought this was cute.

I see now where Rupert Murdoch gets the origins of FOX News.

Much respect for Harry Connick Jr. for his disapproval.

A Word from Uncle Ruckus

.......................................and now a word from Uncle Ruckus.

The U is Back!!!!!!!!

College football is in rare form, and I am a big fan of it. I remember the Desmond Howard Heisman pose (In Keith Jackson tone, “Hellllo Heisman”), the big upsets, That guy you was like “Man, I bet you when he go to pros he is going to be a NFL Hall of Famer” and ended up a big bust, The rivalries (Ohio State- Michigan, USC-Norte Dame, Florida-Florida State), the play you were so amaze about, and the big hits for a guy that is going to be powerhouse in the NFL against some kid who is going to college to be a nuero-surgeon. I know what you are thinking………………..

“Where is this going?”

I sat and watch the Miami- Oklahoma game, The U versus powerhouse “Boomer Sooner.” These are two team people love to hate. After watching this game, it made me bring in some insight on the U and what Jacory Harris had cut in his head “U-SWAG.” In a sense, the college team is right. Before those pesky USC Trojans, THE Ohio State, Big Blue, The Swamp Machine in Florida and “Hook’em” Texas Longhorns started talking smack about them being the top dog, everybody was so traditional. Miami University came with Howard Schellenberger and took on the status as “The pimp of college football.” They would intimidate you, lure you, tell you what they are going to do, and brag about it the next day with their friends. The U was the cocky college football team you love to hate, somewhat like the Cowboys, Yankees, and Knicks. The part was that the 80s, 90s, and early 2000s was all U, all the time. The list just shows you the swag of the U with household names like Jim Kelly, Bernie Kosar, Jerome Brown, Michael Irvin, Jimmy Johnson, Vinny Testeverde, Cortez Kennedy, Warren Sapp, Ray Lewis, Andre Johnson, Devin Hester, Russell Maryland, Sean Taylor, Ken Dorsey, Edgerian James, Clinton Portis, Willis MaGahee, Dewayne “The Rock” Johnson (Sorry, being a big fan of wrestling I had to put that in there), and numerous alumni that won multiple championships and so many bowl game.

So what is the difference between then and now?

Well the anticipated debut of Kyle Wright and Brock Berlin were like the college version of the NFL busts, all hype- no action. Not to mention that 2005-2007 seasons was more like when the U in the 70s. So Randy Shannon had to come in, put it back in line and begin the process of bringing the swag back in the U. So far that 2008 season was a wake up call, and 2009 is looking great to say that are bringing that “swag back”

So far can it go?

Real far! After going 3-1 against Florida State, Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, and Oklahoma, all ranked teams, there schedule is a breeze and play all the way to an ACC championship game (unless Virginia Tech go undefeated in ACC play). Here is there schedule.

10/10/09	vs. Florida A&M	Miami Gardens, FL	7:00 p.m. ET
10/17/09	at UCF	Orlando, FL	7:30 p.m. ET
10/24/09	vs. Clemson *	Miami Gardens, FL	TBA
10/31/09	at Wake Forest *	Winston-Salem, NC	TBA
11/07/09	vs. Virginia *	Miami Gardens, FL	TBA
11/14/09	at North Carolina *	Chapel Hill, NC	TBA
11/21/09	vs. Duke *	Miami Gardens, FL	TBA
11/28/09	at USF

One two threats I see here is UCF who defeated Florida State and at Chapel Hill against North Carolina with ex-U head Butch Davis.

Other than that, the SWAG is back at the U. Good luck to the Hurricanes.

P.S. I have to upload Ed Reed motivational halftime speech. He speaks like he plays.

The Breakdown Characteristics of Hip Hop - A 5-part series. Part 1- The Entertainers

The Entertainers are simply put when it comes to the hip-hop game, there are in the business to entertain. The late Bernie Mac had on his show self- entitled “The Bernie Mac Show” called it “Happy Music.” Don’t think of the entertainers of hip-hop as main-stream media sell-outs or anything, they are there do what they are suppose to do, to entertain. The Entertainers really reign from the start of hip-hop. Let see the contributors of the entertainers of hip-hop.

Sugar Hill Gang- Call it what you want, but if it was not for these three guys, hip-hop would have never existed. Just get a funky tune from Chic “Good Times”, a group of people that just got out the disco era, and presto. They were not talking about how the Carter era was messing up, about wars, nor the economy. They just wanted to make people dance and have fun.

Kurtis Blow – Kurtis Blow is a true pioneer and also known as "The Godfather of Rap". He is still to me the guy that made the breaks, and got everybody hyped about basketball.

Salt and Pepa – They are the female group that had everybody dancing and “pushing” (literally).

Kid and Play – They are the male group that had everybody dancing and having house parties (literally).

MC Hammer – Some people would say “MC Hammer was a cash cow for main stream,” but you have to give him his due. I still remember the song “Turn This Mutha Out” and by the time the video ended, everybody was doing the Running Man.

The funny part about MC Hammer was that he was not the Godfather of Hip-Hop, but he was the entertainment part of hip-hop with James Brown moves. I know everybody when he put out "Can't Touch This" everybody and their mama was doing the Typewriter.

I also still remember even when they doubted him; he cranked up a hit that made all types of people doing his signs (including the 91 Atlanta Falcons playoff run).

Master P – Master P was a different kind of entertainer. Mostly because everybody from Richmond, California to mainly the end of Alabama border know about the other side of P. The rest of world………….well he just made them say “ughhhh.”

Lil Jon and the East Side Boyz- I can really call this hip-hop entertainment at its best. Get a crew, do something that will make people bounce up and down like those lottery ball in the NBA Draft, and say one word (Yeeaaah or Okayyyyyy). See Dave Chapelle version.

Souljah Boi Tell’em – Many people hate him, but you have to give him his credit. He really brought back those made up style dances (see Hammer). Superman that….well you know the rest. I can’t knock it because at least kids (and old people) dance. Sort of a MC Hammer 2.0.

Other artist includes: JJ Fad, Tag Team, 95 South, 69 Boyz, Hurricane Chris, Young Joc, GS Boyz, D4L, and who can anybody forget Vanilla Ice.

Do you have any more rappers that belong in this category? Tell us who and why.