The Editor Told Me Not To Come Out The Box On No Sex Shit

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The Editor told me not to come out the box on no sex shit. She was like “Black Sam, how’s your first blog gonna be about you poppin off on some hooker?” I had to tell her, first of all, she wasn’t a hooker, she was a sex worker, and her name was Cha Cha.

I think the editor was concerned that I would be viewed as a misogynist. Which is funny, cause the way I pitched it was “Hey, I want to blog about when I came on this peep show honey’s crucifix.” So if anything, I would have expected her to say “How you gonna write about going bus-a-bus all over a crucifix. You know the hip-hop cognoscenti might think that you’re going out on Kanye or somethin.”

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Fear Of A Black Tangent

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“I had a dream I could buy my way to heaven
When I awoke, I spent that on a necklace.” - Kanye West from “Can’t Tell Me Nothing”

“To wound the autumnal city
So howled out for the world to give him a name
The in dark answered with wind.” -Dhalgren

So I attended the Kanye West “After Glow Show” at the Susquehanna Bank Center in Camden New Jersey this past weekend. Approaching the gate of this sold out concert, I was struck by the throngs of 15-16 year old white girls who were attempting to have fat asses in tight short denims and visibly lacey thongs. Lots of them were already drunk.

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