i have contributed to the many streams for aaliyah’s self-titled red album today

i won’t lie to you,
when the red album by aaliyah first came out,
i thought it sounded really weird to me.
i’ll never forget going to tower records to listen to it…

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down in the valley where all the queens men are (tyler perry will cater with hot dogs)

*the following entry is rated r.
viewer discretion is strongly advised.

it’s clear to me that tyler perry wakes up and is choosing violence these days.
his latest productions are a good damn time.
explicit sex scenes,
butt cheeks,
and pipe with some kind of plot that i’m sure leaves folks wondering “huh?”.
tyler clearly loved “p valley” like the rest of us.
he launched a new show on bet+ called “all the queen’s men” about male strippers.

it stars eva marcille and…

…some past foxhole meat treats like jaye hardbody.
i meannnnnnn…

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the foxhole book club ended up being more than i could imagine! (support group?)

yesterday had me pretty beat.
i had to wake up early because i had another appearance on tmz,
which will mark my 11th (or 12th) appearance on their platform,
but my segment ended up getting canceled.
the night before,
i had an amazing time meeting with the foxhole book club.
due to anxiety that riled up tho…
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aaliyah is here! aaliyah is here!

i’m not gonna lie to you foxhole,
but i didn’t believe aaliyah’s music would ever get to streaming.
they played my ass plenty of times before when it came to her.
between her estate and that uncle of hers,
after 20+ years,
i just didn’t believe it.
didn’t believe the #aaliyahiscoming and this interview with the uncle of hers:

 

when i woke up today,
hopped on twitter,

i saw they legit put her album,
one in a million“,
on my spotify

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to my special one.

in 2002-03ish,
after wandering in the city all day,
a friend “who i don’t know anymore” suggested we go to toys r us that was in time square.
she wanted to meet up with a girl who worked there that she met online.
i didn’t want the day to end so i was down.
when i first saw the girl we were meeting,
i said to myself:

“Wow,
she looks really stressed out and over it.
SEE this is why I don’t do retail.”

and

“I really dig this girl’s energy,
but we will probably never see each other again.”

The Universe made sure that wouldn’t happen.
a year or two later,
we reconnected on the blogging platform,
xanga.
she hopped in my comments and i did the same in hers.
we would write entries about our frustrations and loneliness.
the folks who broke our hearts; the ones who got away.
the main theme for us was trying to find that perfect love.
toys r us and that friend “who i don’t know anymore” both brought us stress,
and ironically don’t exist any longer either,
but they were the starting point in planting the seed for this friendship to grow.
when i look back at the first time we met until now,
i ask myself:

Who knew from that moment we met that our “us” would become this?

i get to write another story on my own platform about us.
last sunday in brooklyn,
she got married to your soulmate…

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when a youtube legend reaches out to you!!!!

i was telling my therapist how i’ve been in my emotional bag today.
i’ve been off af.
things are weird.
the energy is weird.
as he put it,
i am probably in an “emotional plague” and to go with it.
after therapy,
i felt a little better and decided to check my ig dms.
foxhole…

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