"Lights is blinding. Girls need blinders."

So while at Kelly Dining (24 hour food spot at Stony Brook Univ) my friends and I were discussing a Jay-Z line from Empire State of Mind ft. Alicia Keys. The line says "and Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church ends". Coincidentally, after that on World Star Hip Hop I ran across a video of a young pastor commenting on this line. I feel that everybody has gotten this wrong, which makes sense due to the recent controversy over Jay-Z having pagan messages in his rhymes and so on.

I feel that you need to look at the entire verse to understand the context of this line.

Lights is blinding, girls need blinders
so they can step out of bounds quick, the sidelines is
lined with casualties, who sip to life casually
then gradually become worse, don't bite the apple Eve
The lights he speaks of are the bright lights of a fast paced city, in this case New York City but he is being metaphorical. Just like how in Houstonlantavegas by Drake he was speaking of more than just strippers in Houston, Atlanta and Las Vegas. Many a person falls victim to the temptation of the fast life, hence why "girls need blinders" and "don't bite the apple Eve".

Caught up in the in-crowd, now you're in style
End of the winter gets cold, en vogue, with your skin out
City of sin, it's a pity on the wind
Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them
As the verse continues you see how the fast life keeps people by giving them the mentality that they are "cool" and this is true. "City of sin, it's a pity on the wind. Good girls gone bad, the city's filled with them". This is like him saying how sad it is that people with bright young futures have become victim to this broadway life of selling your body, mind and soul for essentially nothing. Because the lights won't always shine bright, and then what do you have left?

Mami took a bus trip, now she got her bust out
Everybody ride her, just like a bus route
Hail Mary to the city, you're a virgin
And Jesus can't save you, life starts when the church end
The first 2 bars are pretty much self explanitory. "Mami" was a good girl before she took this bus trip to the city that never sleeps, now she has her chest out for all to see, every body rides her, etc. She is a virgin to the city so she does not know how to deal with it, Jesus can save you in the afterlife, but for the real world she's on her own. I mean if her faith was strong enough then obviously she would be find but for the purpose of this song she doesn't. Life starts when the church end because that is her situation, once she leaves the sanctuary she's back to being a whore.

Came here for school, graduated to the high life
Ball players, rap stars, addicted to the limelight
MDMA got you feelin' like a champion
The city never sleeps, better slip you an Ambien
People come to New York because it is the big city of dreams, and sometimes one gets sidetracked from their dreams. School was the dream but the graduation that occured was intot the fast line, full of athletes and stars who are addicted to their own stardom. MDMA is scientific jargon for extasy. Ambien aka Zolpidem is a prescription medication used for the short-term treatment of insomnia. As you know with limelight tends to come extensive and all around stupid drunk use.

Here is the WSHH video I spoke of.

Tell Rush Limbaugh to get off my balls

A hilarious video by Rush Limbaugh in response to his shout out to Jay-Z's Off That , a track on The Blueprint 3. Limbaugh says he must've made it be shouted out by the great Jay-Z in a rap song lmfao.

From Reasonable Doubt and beyond

This is a Rhapsody commercial Jay-Z has out of himself "changing clothes" and he depicts every album he cover he made in this order:

Reasonable Doubt
The Blueprint
Vol. 2: Hard Knock Life
The Dynasty Roc la Familia
The Black Album
Kingdom Come
The Blueprint²
Vol. 3: Life and Times of S. Carter
In My Lifetime, Vol. 1
American Gangster

I am a die-hard Jay-Z fan and I think this goes hard lol. By the way listen to The Blueprint 3, it's not bad.

Twitter Me Bay!

Sorry I've been so MIA, busy with work n ting you know how it is. School starts in two weeks, lets gooooo. I'm actually procrastinating right now so I leave you with these choice words.

"Just live your life, ayyyy ayy ayyy"

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Custom Snakeskin-Motorcycle Jacket Leather-SB Mids-Strapless

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iBrooklyn Dodger Them . . .

So nike is releasing a Jackie Robinson themed pack of blazers. These sneakers are high top and come in three colorways, blue, red and gray (or grey, w/e helps you sleep at night). I would love to get my hands on the blue pair and I would settle for the grey lol. Too much red on the red ones for me. I'm not really a blazer person but these kicks are beautiful. They hav Brooklyn in that Brooklyn Dodger's cursive on the tongue plus the shoe itself consists of leather and suede and soom cool patterns. They just dropped but hopefully they aren't in stores (lol). Check your internet sights to get you a pair.

Who Needs a PS3 Controller . . .

So I got this from the nike sb blog, an ingenious idea of turning your old sneaker boxes into something useful