You Don’t Know? You’d Better Find Out! (Part One)

 Per this Throwback Thursday? I remember the conversation I had with the old dude up in Louisville / Newburg!

Not with Mr. Cole telling me about this being a rat race / dog eat dog world....

....not the word from Mr. Popham at the Checker Cab stand at 16th and Broadway, popping off about taking the bitter with the sweet!

...concerning the good and bad days of driving Checker Cabs; it was hard on the boulevard / street!

Had a chance to meet Pops, I had a father at home that was dropping knowledge!

Told me to keep them smokers / jokers out of the Buick Regal so I could avoid the legal Eagle aka Louisville Metro Police!

He said you don’t know? You’d Better Find Out! but I already knew how they would act before the Breonna Taylor episode!

Louisville narcs would stick a charge on a brotha quick, they were slick / sick they’d even go into termination mode!

Similar to the George Floyd episode but without the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict!

Null and void?  that’s what the so called constitution is concerning a brotha or sista; like Pops would say, you don’t know? you’d better find out!

Reality will blow your mind out this time per the Delfonics check the Throwback Thursday reference!

Grateful? in the midst of the madness it’s a blessing to be here; you don’t know? you’d better find out, get a Thankful Thursday reference!

Govern Yourself Accordingly Per The Old School Baptist Preacher PT.3

 Nothing new under the sun;  the game has different names,  plus there's more technology.

Nothing new under the sun; I govern myself accordingly taking the old school Baptist preachers advise; I'm battling the wise and otherwise, they're out here trying to rock me..

New school preachers get caught up in things like Ashley Madison scandals, but I got wise to the whole setup;  plans exposed for rocking me / knocking me and my hustle?  I was hip to them after I exercise mental muscle.

Old school / new school / next school realms were studied;  back in the day I dipped down Madison Street and Muhammad Ali Boulevard in Louisville up in the big-bodied Checker Cab; Damn! Damn! Damn! times are still hard on the boulevard, so what's up with you?

Check out this by-product from the lab; the brotha O-Dog will jam; O-Zone will drop the *Good Word*  as we go hard.

Due to ill conduct some are labeled shady like Tom Brady and the New England Patriots!! soon they're caught up in a jam / unpleasant situation; some are left emotionally scarred..

Check out the rest of this article at  Random Thoughts From A Brotha: Govern Yourself Accordingly Per The Old School Baptist Preacher PT.3

Staying In Motion / Ignoring The Commotion

                                 *staying in motion*

Back in the day? I was up in Louisville rolling up in the old school / big bodied Checker Cab...

That's how I had to play!! I wasn't styling and profiling walking down that Kentucky Derby Red Carpet!! at that particular time corporations weren't hiring brothas; others resorted to the smash and grab...

Morale was low; nobody would work with me!! in the heart of the hood some were drunk / smoked out / they snorted;  soon they were all up in rehab,  but they continue to relapse..

Fast forward to this present moment!! damn!! where is everybody? dude in the John Blake article at CNN mentioned "They got big numbers or they in pine boxes" due to hustle knocks; Oh!! I'm seeing how they do!! due to the deliberate falsehood the whole structure will eventually collapse..

We look beyond the immediate moment but we're not losing a grasp on reality; like the National Guard leaving Baltimore we're staying in motion / ignoring the commotion !! we had to take a chance!!

Beats and prose are used to attack this and that; we had to stay on guard like a goalie trying to prevent the other team from trying to score!!  we refuse to be a victim of circumstance..

Visualizing The Sequence;  but back in the day? I had a grasp on reality even when I was rolling in those old school Checkers..

Had to remix reality; like I was DJ Premier or DJ Khalid; making moves like chess or checkers...

Corporations weren't checking for us  just like they are today; they're more worried about offshore profits!  so how was a black man supposed to play? 

What's the color scheme? we had a Red October!! haters tried to go off on these prophets but  this brotha paid his dues back in the day...

Not back in the way!! I was up in the big Green Checker Cab up in Louisville; I was like Big Brown rolling through the street..

These days? Retro-Futuristic!! O-Zone is dipping down I-20 in Atlanta doing the knowledge /  O-Dog is catching wreck in the lab; we're staying in motion / ignoring the commotion / rolling discreet...