Raise your hand if after hearing Kanye West you heed the call to do your ##########ing THANG!!!!

Kanye West has been all over the radio talking about his ambition. He wants to not just play in the sandbox he wants to own and build and not even call it a sandbox! Oh blasphemy! Heretic! How dare he!

What people don't get is that he takes on defying convention is really challenging people to obliterate all barriers and carve out new paths. Too many people have said that Mr. West is too arrogant. Sorry he isn't, sorry you must not know what the definition of arrogant is. The definition of arrogant is: "an exaggerated sense of importance". Is he exaggerating saying he is the dope rapper that influences not just music but fashion, film, and other forms of entertainment? No he isn't. Just heed this call if you have it in you! 
Kanye West is just speaking to those who know that their destiny lies in a world that has not been yet lived in. Say what you will but I know "Jesus Walks" take from that what you will.-thegqlife

Best Man Holiday- the "unmarried man review"

The lights go down and here we go! Best Man Holiday starring Taye Diggs, Sana Latham, Morris Chestnut and a host of others. Set years later, (Lordy their kids are like ten in this movie shows what has happen to these twenties somethings that are now late thirties somethings. The movie focus to me was on of how life just kind of moves along and how some people in your life have the same motivations but might not be getting the same results that they thought would happen. That's life though right. In the movie we see how Taye Digg's character is struggling for his next big book and try's to go and do an autobiography about his NFL star friend,(Morris Cheatnut). Hilarity and drama ensues as one of the main characters has an major issue that I won't spoil. It was a great movies one that is an instant classic. I had a warm feeling watching this movie. I say many of my wonderful friends in this movie.

I was convinced I may have more in common with a certain character than I'd like to admit. 

Go see this movie with your crew that you have known for a lifetime or at least 5 years and tell me the nostalgia and memories won't flow. This movie made me realize marriage seems to be about managing the changes life brings and depending on those in your life to bring you through it. -thegqlife 

Texting/Email has people arguing over ....... Everybody has their on language

Lets play a game. Raise your hand if you can write and read. Ok now raise your

hand if you never made a spelling or grammar error. Oh I see no hands up! So why do people love to point out errors like that, I know people think that denotes intelligence. It doesn't, it denotes your an #######. Americans have tricked themselves into believing that they are working so hard. The reality is that the way people misconstrues emails keeps everyone in a endless loop of,"what did you mean"! Nothing really gets done. Also if I had a dollar for every person that was either pissed, sad, or manic from a text message I've sent I would have enough to get that Ferrari I always wanted. 

Text messages for one thing aren't always delivered or in the sequence you send them in. However people for some reason decipher texts messages with an arcane language only they understand. People communicate a lot but they communicate kinda how they think words should be, yet they are confused when someone doesn't get them or they think they are grammatically challenged. Get over that stuff you sound like a jerk correcting a text message. I tend to text like Yoda from Star Wars because in my head I thought people get that, for example: "The Chicago Bears got their teeth kicked in they did". Yes I know the rules but the technology that is made available to us lets us make our own rules regarding texts/emails. So chill out you don't prove how smart you are by correcting people because you might not even get what they meant. You might think you do but you probably don't. If your unsure just pick up the phone that technology still exists you know.-thegqlife 

American Horror Story: Coven, when the acting so good they must be using magic

When I watched American Horror Story these past 3 seasons I have throughly enjoyed it. The depths to which the mayhem and unexpected twists and turns are really interesting. However this season with the addition of the new cast it has gotten downright frightening how good this show has become. Case in point the first time Jessica Lange's character and Angela Bassett meet in a hair salon is a thing of majeasitc beauty to watch. By the time Jessica Lange invokes the phrase, "black dont crack". I was in awe go watch this show if your waiting for your others to return for the holiday break. You want be disappointed if you want to see real magic.-thegqlife

Vegan and chemical oh and cloudy with a chance of meatballs got it right and other rants

People are hilarious when they eat really "healthily". Why you ask? You might be saying how is that funny I am a vegan what is funny about that? Will last I check all our food comes from the Earth. With that being known there is no way to avoid the many man made toxins that are put into food. If you don't want to eat meat for beliefs I feel you. I tend to think every zombie apocalyptic scenario would be solved if people on those television shows would go vegan. However what do you do about the glorious taste of cheese or the succulent taste of a steak. I say the movie "Cloudy with a chance of meatballs" got it right that and was right on the nose "Star Trek the Next Generation". If we could replicate any food we wanted in a instant wouldn't that technically be vegan still? I mean no animal product was used then wouldn't that mean everyone who was vegan could eat whatever they wanted? Hey I did say this was a blog with and other rants. Food for thought would really be live then. I think that last sentence was so corny people will figure out I was born in Southfield, Michigan instead of Detroit. -thegqlife  

Television's Scandal has a Wonder Woman in its mitts

So I am watching Olivia Pope do her thing. What is her thing? Her thing is the utter command of any situation whether it be someone else's or her own. It dawned on me we have never had a woman like this on television before. Most heroines on television are either scapegoats for emotional sarcasm or victims. Miss Pope however is Wonder Woman strong. Yes Hollywood that is a hint, cast Kerry Washington as Wonder Woman. I dig how she can flip situations and all of this is her own business with created and thrives in.  Teaching everyone who watches the old age adage, "if your good at something get paid for it". Scandal to me is about true women empowerment that happens through sex and politics. So I am digging Scandal and again I implore Hollywood to cast her as Wonder Woman since it didn't have the guts to cast Iris Elba as Batman. Do that and we can call it even, besides who is better to fight alongside Batman and Superman than Olivia Pope. I'm just saying. -thegqlife

Didn't you get loose enough?

I spent my freshman and sophomore year in Miami, Florida. I went to the number #1 party school in the nation after that. Then I went ham a few years in Detroit then New Orleans then Chicago. So I am done with getting crazy and partying the question is why aren't many people done with that, I mean didn't you get loose enough? Sike!!!! You can never get to loose. Always go nuts whenever you can afford to being a stick in the mud at any age is wacklicious! -thegqlife

Not married and Im over 30, Oh ####

My 30th birthday was spent at work, managing the final piece of a collaborative effort. I was in bed by 7pm, besides my co-workers getting me "Watch the throne" the new Jay Z/Kanye West album and going to Mexico a couple of days later it was a tad boring. Then it hit me I am still not married, oh #### I thought. How come? Why? Most of my boys refer to me as the "runaway groom", as I have been close to being married, not that I sent out invitations for a wedding but I have picked out colors and some of the crazy #### women expect you to want to do when planning a wedding but that I find insane. So why am I not married? Am I scared? Do I want to just be alone? All of those questions I ask myself and say no!  The only thing I am scared of is the moon crashing into the earth. I have dated some spectacular women, many of them are married or are about to be, so if it wasn't the women it's me right? ###% no it isn't me.  I just don't want to settle and despite dating awesome and fabulous women they just were not for me they were for someone not me though. I feel as though society has made me jaded to the prospect of getting married just because I am a certain age, I want to get married but it has to be all meant to be I guess. However being over 30 I feel the clock ticking and there is an unspoken pressure from my awesome mother as well. I know men and women get all freaked out as soon as the bell tolls 30. Don't be, it's fine better to be freaked out than pissed you married the wrong person. I am a believer that if it is meant to be it will be. If your over 30 and are saying "oh ####" like I did 3 years chill out your good this is how your life is supposed to play out. Just be happy with  the way your life is and the right person will come along. I think.... -thegqlife 

The Marshall Mathers LP2 Review by a Homegrown Detroit Product

It has been a minute sense Eminem dropped the Marshall Mathers Lp. It was the year 2000. After 13 years he is back with a sequel of sorts. This album has a sort of undefined edge. He is still "Em" but this microphone controller has years of history to rap against and that is what he is doing here. Trying to connect with today's hip-hop heads as he spits on the track Rhyme or Reason, "with great power comes no responsibility" and that he is "angrier than all 8 other reindeer put together with Chief Keef".  

I recommend this album if you are into rap music. However if your looking for a direct sequel that will tie directly to the first Marshall Mathers Lp you will miss the point of his journey. The journey that we all are on if you live long enough is that you will evolve. He even apologizes to his mom on the track "Headlights", saying he "cringes" everytime he hears "Cleanin' out my closet". Well done way to still spit from the heart. I am giving Em 5 out of 5 what up does!- thegqlife

Videogame designers have gotten lazy as ###%

Here I come to save the day again, aiming down the sights with a click of L1 or pushing in R3. Explosions abound then the mandatory controversial scene or two later and which will tie in to a geopolitical conflict that has yet to happen that will make "illuminati" conspiracy theorists say, "see man they are using the games to show their plans man!".  If this sounds fun to you, you are easily impressed by trite story and even worse Videogame design.

 

Videogames have hit a wall, the technology is there but do the designers use it? Some do like Hideo Kojima who has piloted the Metal Gear Solid series for the last 25 years into an epic so grandiose in scope and scale they casted Kiefer Sutherland as the new voice actor lead to add a new layer of depth. Other game designers are just lazy as ###% now. Grand Theft Auto 5 is a great game cool story I love to switch around characters and run from the cops. I noticed something because I was a programmer before I got all political and changed my major. These ############% at Rockstar games took all stuff they creates for their other games combined that #### and re-did the visuals and package that #### as a new game? Unacceptable if you love videogames like I do you know this trend is the norm now. Stop being lazy game designers before you get put out of business. I happen to know for a fact that there is some mind blowing things coming to the gaming world in about 1 year. Get your life together on that front game designers or no one will buy your games anymore when the true next generation starts. 

 

Lebron James must play in the NFL as Optimus Prime to combat Calvin Johnson's Megatron

Imagine this, Lebron wins a 4th Championship, he signs a long term deal with the Miami Heat small story until he announces he will enter the 2014 NFL Supplemental Draft. With the first pick in the draft the North Carolina Panthers select Lebron James only "Athlete" appears by his position in the preseason presses. James jokingly says in the first press conference that they should just refer to him as "Optimus Prime". James would be excellent as a wide receiver, tight end, quarterback, or defensive back. He will dominate in the open field and challenge for a touchdown all the time. It would supercharge the NFL and the NBA as James joggles the team's schedule. I know the strong hater in many of you only can see people doing one thing excellent. That is so backwards the year 1990 thinking. 

Lebron would be the perfect spoil to the Detroit Lions's wide receiver Calvin Johnson. Megatron can't go unchecked in our universe. Even if he has taken the form of a 6'6 metal man with Bugatti speed. So suit Lebron I know you want to... -thegqlife 

Dr. Narcisse = Dr. Doom - What it took to be a black gangster back in the day

Boardwalk Empire has always had bits of historical data peppered throughout it's story lines. None better than the current character of Dr. Valentine Narcisse portrayed by actor Jeffrey Wright. The character's ambition as a criminal pales in comparison to the shows other characters like Nucky Thompson and Meyer Lansky. You see the good doctor has much more in common with Dr. Doom the foil of Marvel Comic's the Fantastic Four. 

His actions are grandiose and he sets the stage by doing things on a truly global scale. He infiltration of Chalky White's empire was equal parts gutter gangster and Freudian to a fault. While the other characters simply are dealing with their issues with bullets and double crosses. Dr. Narcisse has a plan that will in his mind liberate African Americans from a fate he himself can only truly perceive and that only he can eliminate. Not unlike any other supervillan he has people every where will to do his bidding at a moments notice his plans come together making Hannibal Lecter seem humane. To see a real life supervillan at play while Boardwalk tosses around its other story lines is too live. -thegqlife 

Some Type of Way...12 Year as a Slave Review

Nothing like a moment of clarity! When things make more sense than even your clearest moments. While watching "12 year as Slave", I had one of those moments. I blog because I love the written word, so this is the equivalent of dropping free mixtapes to the masses. I have so many opportunities to use the written word in so many different ways. What if that was illegal for me to write or get a job that I was qualified for and had to work for free.  I would be sick with it, I would feel some type of way. Hey what a minute that has happened! 12 year as a Slave starring, Chiwetel Ejiofor, is a film about how Solomon Northup a free man and violinist gets abducted by kidnappers in Washington D.C, and set down south via the Mississippi River on a steamboat where he gets indoctrinated to slave life then to forced to live in Louisiana to be a slave for 12 years until, Brad Pitts sends a letter to his friend in D.C. who brings his free man papers and clears the whole thing up.

That's the movie, however it all has to be seen to believe, even though I am well versed in African American history something struck a nerve when one of Solomon's master's said this, "Your an exceptional nigger but I am afraid no good will come of it". That got the tears flowing and the pain that I've ignored as a black man for most of my life as smart as I am I often wonder how the world would treat me if I was not black. While viewing the President of the United States I don't really wonder how they would view him. I know how he would be praised if he was not black. Like I said the movies made me feel some type of way. The movie should be seen by all creeds and races because you will be shocked to see how all of the ideology of slave owners and slaves still is present in society. -thegqlife

28 years later......

It's the year 2041, America has bounced back in a major way due to a concept called "unison". It was first tried in Detroit, Michigan and Chicago, Illinois. It fixed these city's blocks with innovation all the rage in a matter of years things settled even more so when Derrick Rose's 7 NBA Championship rings all but stopped the gun violence in Chicago. (Come on home Lebron). Then in 2021 Detroit opened the world's first spaceport. Things couldn't have looked up for the Earth.

This is 28 years later, and there is one person in America who may not get to see what they started. -thegqlife 

Deeming things Ratchet, Hood, or Ghetto has America's nose stuck in the air for no good reason

Here I am I am out with this really beautiful sister. I mean she was bad(bad meaning dope)in everyway, great job. She was perfect on paper and our conversation was great. Until we got to the issues that surround young people that live in the neighborhoods of Chicago. I was a youth worker at the time in the Southside area for High School after school programs. I had the schools that had probation courts in the building so if teens who violated their parole they could be sent right back to juvenile or even prison. So I knew what they were going through. The aforementioned woman being from the suburbs and raised forty miles outside of Chicago didn't. What made me know she didn't was a statement that still bothers me to this day. She said, "why care about these animals". Suffice it to say girly and I didn't work out after that comment. Shocking as her comment was it wasn't the first time I heard people talk like that about Chicago's young people. So when I was too turned up when students from the High Schools I worked started getting signed to major rap labels and making their families money that they truly needed. It was also a wake up call that these young people had a voice and a story to tell, a story that America didn't want to hear and hates to look at.

Sasha Go Hard, along with Chief Keef, Katie Got Bandz pictured above are leading a new

movement of music in Chicago and the nation called "drilling music" some like to say it's ratchet. I strongly disagree

Seeing their success was like the big last laugh for the young people who many said they wouldn't become wealthy and successful. I am not saying that is why they blew up. I am saying that they are normal kids that have compelling circumstances which is tough for most adults to navigate let alone a 15 year old that has to watch over 4 brothers and sisters until their mother comes home from work. Looking at them as ratchet is not cool. People seem to think that because people like to twerk, dance, be in a gang, hustle that is so horrible. This the same way racism prevailed in the south. This attitude of looking at those different for you regarding them as sub-human is too uptight. W.E.B Dubois stated that he wanted talented African American men and women to return to the ghettoes to educate young people and uplift the people as a whole. This did happen for a time, however beginning in the early 1990s people started to lose their connection to the ghetto, they lost what it was like to have nothing in the house but your phone and how you would prank call people. They lost what is was like to be young and just being plan silly and creative because you have no money, now in the social media age people think they have an unique voice when they are mere followers of mainstream media. Mainstream media never indulges in things that are considered ghetto or ratchet until they can make money of it. That's when you get finally get Snoop Dog on Martha Stewart's show after he has been rapping for years!

The problem with deeming things ratchet is you miss out on what may eventually become mainstream, trying to be uppity or stuck up leaves you limited and lacking true knowledge. We are all connected good or bad, trying to separate yourself creates a socio-economic divide that is wide enough. -thegqlife

Fantasy Football done Science Fiction style

I have a dope fantasy football team, so dope that:

It's the year 3194. The location Chiraq, Illinois the new mega city built to entertain. The Future of the NFL is all about wild pulse pounding over top

antics as it now brings the greatest fantasy teams from the past to compete with the new teams of the NFL. This year they go after my new old team from 2013-2014 season. That's when Mike Vick, RG3, and Tyron Mathieu and other players are from my squad are transported to the year 3194 to play for the Chiraq Runners where they must score 150 points each game this season to win a trip home! 

Led by Coach Chip Kelly's brain in a floating robot head this ultimate fantasy team is now the ultimate Science Fiction team! -thegqlife 

Chicago or Chiraq?

II live in Chicago. It's is a city that has New York hustle but Midwest hospitality. The shootings that happens when it's warm outside is the topic most people I know ask me about. I tell them, "it's not crazy like the news says its actually pretty nice depending on where you are". However that doesn't mean much when the news media reports every single shot in the city.

Chicago has now been known throughout America as Chiraq because of the parallel with Iraq the nation that the United States has been at odds with. I don't think it's that bad, I feel each loss of life in the city. It's tragic for anyone involved in these acts of violence. However considering how big Chicago is it could be much worse.That's not what sells though. Fear regarding getting shot in your dome by a thug is what sells. 

The majority of violence is carried out by young African American men at war with each other. Due to the stratification methods of politicians, coporations, and community leaders African American men are last hired and first fired. In the day and age of "tough stuff get it together", young brothers are casted as the problem and never part of the solution.

The community as a whole needs to embrace the areas that are deemed violent and understand that it's the lack of opportunity that is the problem. Not the people themselves. -thegqlife 

The Price of love?!? Courting and the rules that keep women and men single in 2013

A screenshot of what of what I think females need to know when finding a man.....-thegqlife

Marriage sure lots like fun! It looks really fun! Coming home from a hard day in the big city and Popeye's chicken is on the table because you told your wife that's what you and the kids want. Man that would be nice. I find that women and men make everything far too complicated with a thousand rules. You just need one rule make yourself happy and you will always be in a great relationship with the most important person, yourself. -thegqlife

Detroit's Bankruptcy and the people that believe the city is left for dead

I grew up in Detroit and I wear it like a tattoo. Detroit has had it's share of problems but there isn't anyplace like it in the world. It is the only city in America that you can enter Canada by heading south. It's city government had been ran by predominately African American for decades. I love Detroit however everybody is running their traps saying, "Detroit is dead". Good think that, while those who know business know that this city is a goldmine. I won't elaborate here but it will come back soon like in 2 years soon. I won't elaborate because being vague regarding making a lot of money is where I draw the line on this blog. 

"Detroit versus the world" is a popular t-shirt there and as a native Detroiters we have always felt that way about the rest of the world. Never count out anyone or anything with nothing to lose and everything lost because that is who always wins a fight! I don't see Detroit losing this fight. -thegqlife

The PS4 and Xbox One show a glimpse of what quantum computing can do

Microsoft has stated that the servers that will power the Xbox One has the computing power of all of the computers that were on the planet in 1999! Dope right?

This Fall my mom is going be glad I am a grown man. Why you ask? She won't have to endure the crazy crap I do to prove I am worthy of a new video game system. The Playstation 4 and the Xbox One drops this fall! I am beyond excited because it's the first instance theoretical quantum computing on display for the consumer. The servers that will provide persistent online worlds and multiplayer maps will be a glimpse of what quantum computing is capable of doing.

Quantum computing will provide an unparalleled ease of use. For example no more waiting to turning off your videogame to watch "Vampire Diaries". Just say, "Xbox turn on Vampire Diaries", no pausing on anything the show will just play in the corner until you make the picture bigger using the hand gesture. Soon in like say two years we will walk into our houses with our favorite game will start playing from where we left off as the game system texts our significant other that we are home playing Grand Theft 6. Glad to be a geek! Yes I know GTA 5 hasn't come out yet. When people like myself really get a hold of quantum computing you will have an app on your phone that can diagnose knee damage. The possibilities are endless! This fall we are going to get just a taste of what this awesome technology can do! -thegqlife 

How the Pistons need to play next season

The Detroit Pistons have a squad. Who is going to be the starting point guard for the team is the biggest concern. Starts whoever hits the open jumper and gets the ball to their talented trio of Josh Smith, Andre Drummond, and Greg Monroe easy looks and dunks. Will Bynum could start, Chauncey could, B. Jennings, Peyton Silva it doesn't matter. The Pistons as assembled are comparable to a National Football League team that with Larry Fitzgerald, Calvin Johnson, and Tony Gonzalez, no quarterback would be able to mess that up. No point guard could mess up what the Pistons have either. 

So when you see me start Peyton Silva for the Pistons, just know it doesn't matter who starts at point.

If you want to get school on 2k14 on the PS4 my Playstation name is: dashguy55

Be worried if I pick the Pistons!- thegqlife

The way College Sports should be...

That's not Johnny Manziel, it's "QB #2"!!!

People whoop on me while playing the videogame Madden football, but not NCAA college football. Why not? It's because the personnel on college football has too many variables for the average gamer to game plan for effectively. A prime example of this is before the National Championship in 2002 Ohio State's coach stated Maurice Clarett would play some nickel safety and linebacker on special packages. While playing in that game Clarett made a crucial play on defense. That next Fall I rip open NCAA Football and I use him in the way he was used in the National Championship game and I end up with 363 yards rushing 5 rushing touchdown  and 2 fumbles and interception for a touchdown and a punt return for a(yes you guess it another touchdown). The game did this with no mention of Clarett. He was only known as RB #13. Clarett got kicked off the team for taking stuff that college season and I would feel bad playing with the Buckeys and beating people with Clarett on offense and defense. He won the Heisman in a videogame but not in real life. Yet they can't pay these men and women not cool. Too many stories like this and for what? 

College sports should be a professional sports league that is associated with a college. That's it easy solution. -thegqlife

Dear Hollywood put Kevin Hart in Expendables 3!!!

Please put Kevin Hart in the Expendables 3 so I can hear Kevin go "no no no".

As Sylvester Stallone does this. 

 

This new movie is supposed to be about making the older superstars of Hollywood work with the new generation of superstars. Who better to add than Kevin Hart who would add juice to this next installment. People would go see this one to see what kind of crazy moments he would be apart of! Imagine the "Grown Little Man" shooting Ak-47 at the bad guys and tell me that wouldn't add zip to this sequel. -thegqlife

How the United States of America will bounce back in 5 years and U.O.E.N.O

Decay can be seen in each and every American city. Businesses that were open for decades are closed. Graffiti adorns them, schools, warehouses, office buildings, bridges every conventional structure can be see worn down and not maintained. Crime is rampant where I live in Chicago, Illinois there are shootings daily. People simple don't have the social services that saturated urban areas during the late 70s and 80s they either gone or stripped of their funding leaving them ineffectual. I wrote all of the previous information to say that will be distant memory in five years. It will because technology will create jobs, derelict structures will be transformed into miracles, and crime will have no where to hide.

America has had several points in its history where we went bankrupt and crime was rampant. As bad as times seemed then America just tried some

new things and came back better than ever.  America missteps around issues of race, economics, and religion and just like the rest of human history it has fumble the ball regarding those issues at time. 

So how the will America bounce back? First technology is about to create a large job boom! That's a broad statement I know but if I outlined the way in which technology was going to play its part in job creation I would be tipping my hand way too much for a blog sorry, I will give you a hint and it lies in quantum physics.

There is a lot of mess and garbage in the form of buildings that are abandoned in every city and town in America sans mega rich areas. However people have always just demolished structures or renovated them. What if both were to come creating highways, subways, or mega malls. What if they could well you get the idea.  

Crime is everywhere people feel unsafe. Crime will soon be solved quickly and captured via any electronic device. The drop on major crime will be so rapid that every will want the kudos. When really the makers of the camera phone should get all the credit.

There you have it that's my reasons The United States of America will bounce back before you even know it. The rest of the world will follow our lead and we all will say back in my day it took me ten minutes to walk to school and our grand kids will say, "what's school"? -thegqlife

My three reasons why Kobe should play for the Chicago Bulls

1. The Lakers need to rebuild, they have rode Kobe harder than my first car which I drove into the ground after a month of getting loose up and down I-75 in Detroit. I think he has a lot left that he can do on a basketball court. However I feel like they should part ways like the Indianapolis Colts did with Peyton Manning. They should just shoot for being a lottery team for right now. The Los Angles Lakers could also trade Kobe and receive a combination of Luol Deng, Joakim Noah, and or Carlos Boozer they could get an extra draft pick from the 2014 NBA draft which will be packed full of potential superstars. (My take on the 2014 draft here and them some: 

http://thegqlife.blogspot.com/2013/07/nba-mock-drafts-for-2014-2015-and-2016.html ) 

If they choose to amnesty Kobe they would have a ticket to the Lebron James sweepstakes in 2014 as well.

2. Derrick Rose is the only superstar that hasn't played with at least another star. No Joakim is not a star, neither is Loul Deng, a gimpy Kobe is still a better option than Jimmy Butler. It can be said that Jordan is the best player ever. I however am not of that elk. I am not about that Jordan life. Some people might want to say that Kobe had Shaq for his first threepeat and if he pairs with Derrick Rose that would tarnish his legacy, that's nonsensical. Every NBA team that can compete for a championship this season has a combination of at the least one superstar and two star players or some combination of the former or the later. So give D. Rose another Superstar to keep teams honest on the pick and roll or the drive and kick.

3. People would be so "turned up"(please forgive me my offspring for using the phrase "turned up" when you "brain read" this in the year 2022). Watching Kobe attempt to get more rings than Jordan in a Bulls uniform would give the NBA such a jolt that his debut would be one of the highest rated games in history of any sport. Only thing bigger would be than this is if Lebron returned to Cleveland.

 

Pow three simple reasons as to why Kobe to the Bulls would be awesome... thegqlife

The Best Hip Hop Album of 2013 so far is.....

There was an unexpected rumble that came from the world of hip hop. A bit of noise came from the long awaited debut from French Montana in the form of "Excuse My French" in April. While Frenchie didn't set the world ablaze it was a nice addition to all of the hip hop albums of 2013. The landscape urban music began to shake and scream when the release dates of Wales's , Kanye West's Yeezus, J. Coles's Born Sinner became public. The final quake came when Jay's Magna Carta Holy Grail made headlines by already being platium by shipping a million units to Samsung Galaxy owners before its retail relasre date. Only two weeks after Jay dropped we even had Tony Touch and Ghost face Killa dropped albums. This leads me to the topic at hand which album is the best of 2013 so far. While any other year any of the mentioned might've been tops. This is the year that Jay Z decided to drop and album and remind everyone who is hip hops king. 

I've heard extreme amounts of hate towards this album. I get it hate what you ain't, hate his talk of power, how he talks about women, hate what you perceive to be his religion or lack of. Talk about his wife like you know her go ahead.  Whatever all I know is out all the albums that have released, by my count 16 albums releases that can be considered as great hip hop albums. Artists like Kid Cudi, Lil Wayne, Papoose, Talib Kweil, Tyga, even Wiz Khalifa and Curren$y did a joint album. However Jay got all of the out of our  iPods, playlists, and how ever else you listen to music bumping Magna Carter Holy Grail. When Justin Timberlake come in on the first track singing, "You take the clothes off my back, and Id let you'd steal the food right out of my mouth" with the mic letting out a high pitched whine as he hits a high octave. You know you are in for a high stakes ride for a tale that is about one man's unprecedented success. When JayZ admits that he is mad at the melodrama that comes with fame but he loves it at the same time by saying, "Goddamn i like it bright lights enticing look what that did to Tyson"

This is one of those albums that everyone will have a different track they really like, my track is "Picasso Baby", this Timbaland produced song is the introduction to the high art life that is being mixed with the Brooklyn born drug dealer. When Jay stats "I just want a Picasso in my cassa, no my castle I'm a hassa no I'm a asshole", you get the feeling that if he doesn't own a Picasso painting he will. It's this drive for the ultimate expression of utter success that is the engine for the album. There are more tracks I could break down but that would be facetious, I want to get into why I picked this album

J. Cole could have got my first mid annual best of the year award but he got lazy towards the end of his album. Wale turned in a good album but it wasn't great. Kanye might have the creativity and innovation but it didn't compare to the meteor crater that JayZ's album left on me and all my family and friends. 

"Sleeping every night next to Mona Lisa the modern day version with better features yellow Basquiat in the kitchen corner go head blue lean on that shit you on it"

Indeed Jay..... Indeed tell Blue to lean on it. You just don't own priceless art you own Hip Hop again as well. -thegqlife 

NBA Mock Drafts for 2014, 2015, and 2016

The 2014 Mock Draft

1. Andrew Wiggins

What do you get when your cross Kobe Bryant's handle and jumper with a hybrid of Tracy Mcgrady's and Lebron James's athleticism mixed in with number 23's ability to be just better than everyone on the floor you get Andrew Wiggins. I'm not exaggerating or amping him up. I told many about Lebron James and we all see how that turned out.

This young man is the real deal period.

2.  Marcus Smart

People have been waiting for a Dwayne Wade clone, while many have pegged Victor Oliadepo as that,(I have Victor as more of Westbrook type). Smart is strong, fast, and plays defense well.  He is an explosive leaper

3.  Jabari Parker

Everyone 

 is saying Carmelo Anthony. I saw him in the High School Dunk Contest I say Grant Hill is where his ceiling is...

4. Aaron Gordon

Imagine Blake Griffin was adept at defense and you get Aaron Gordon 

5.  Julius RandlePower and a handle this is at 1 pick any other year

6. and 7. The Harrison Twin each of them can play either guard spot and if your the Boston Celtics you can start really fresh if you use your drafts on having twins in the back court for Brad Stevens to tinker...

8. Kuran Iverson, Yes this is Allen Iverson's cousin yes but he is 6'8 and has a bounce in his game. He is going to be at Memphis Univeristy this fall. We've seen this before Penny, Tyreke Evans, Derrick Rose all Memphis guards hybrids all wig bounce you get him at 8 your laughing.

9.  Chris Walker, Power Forward woth a face up game could go number 1 any year as well. (At this point if this draft class depth isn't  you dunk)

The 2015 Mock Draft 

1. Ivan Rabb, can play either center or power forward. We are going to miss Kevin Garnett however take a look at Ivan Rabb's game and you want even remember KG, this kid is fast and athletic with am post game and plays both dose the ball a rarity in today's AAU driven basketball ethos.

2. Diamond Stone, the second player on this list is also a center or power forward. He might be the closet thing we get to Shaquille O'Neal since Andre Drummond. He can stretch the defense 

because he can hit the Nba range three...

The 2016 Mock Draft

1. Seventh Woods

A force has to be seen to be believed. If Derrick Rose never gets to return to MVP form we will get a crack at seeing what he would have gone on in Seventh Woods. The guard that is as fast as as he is strong.

The Last of Us Videogame Review- by thegqlife

What doesn't kill us will make us

stronger confirmed!!!

Okay listen up! This is why I haven't married yet.  

Not because I can't commit or any another

jazz! I am not married because I haven't 

meet a woman yet that I think I could thrive 

with in a end of the world scenario.

There I said it, at some point things 

could go down all bad and in turn all 

of society burns and chaos is America's 

new favorite past time. I've always 

wanted a woman who would look at a

zombie outbreak or a pending end of 

days and find the glass still half

full anyway. Until I find that one woman 

that can make lemonade out of doomsday lemons.

I guess I have the Last of Us video game

created for and only on the Playstation 3 

by NAUGHTY DOG.

The Last of Us grips you in it's first 34 

seconds that you watch the Joel embark 

on his tragic yet stoic journey. As soon as 

you begin the game you don't feel like this

is a videogame. This is a razor sharp real 

world you are at it has a soul that it traded 

it's for a can of vienna saugase. This is life 

30 years after a fungal virus  transfers

 from insects to humans. The lead 

character Joel is now tough and  has a jaw bone that 

might give "The Wolverine" a run for 

his money. Since the viral outbreak 

the entire world  is now basically 

lawless and resources are little to zilch. 

To top to it all of the virus has filled the 

areas outside of the remaining 

government quarantine zones with 

three type  of versions of virus infected 

humans: runners, clickers, and bloaters.

They all represent a different type threat 

and on the higher difficulties settings 

their ferocity is even more apparent.

The swallows of monsters of the infected 

that you encounter are nothing compared

to human beings themselves. At least the

infected are mindless men and women who

can't control themselves. It's mankind 

current state that is the real morbid horror 

of this game. Things have been jacked up

for over 30 years and people are acting 

out accordingly.  Seeing how people

have adjusted is fascinating and not all

at surprising seeing how people act

when their cable television goes out

for a night.

The Last of Us shows us what happens

when games play like a movie but gives you

choices about how you play it. It also

gives me the theory confirmed that the more

distress placed on humans the stronger we

become, so much so the infected in this

game would be afraid of humans if they

knew better.