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volume 30

At least for today. I missed ya’ll. I know you been wondering where the helly I been.

For our 30th volume I thought I’d pop outside (with that sauce, spaghetti) and share a few things that’ve been on my mind. Maybe more than a few, I’m likely to be long winded like Cory Booker’s filibuster…let me cook though:

RIP YOUNG SCOOTER

Last week, legendary Atlanta rapper Young Scooter died on his birthday… a phenomenon we’ve discussed previously in Vol 15 below.

Scooter was an alleged victim of swatting– a catfish reality tv contestant called the police and named every crime possible to get the law over to where Scooter was celebrating his life. When the police arrived, Scooter allegedly fled…and according to the cops tore some important artery in his leg and bled out.

However the skreets have been talking & allegedly Patron Saint of Rap, Future paid for an independent autopsy which found that Scooter (nicknamed Street) died of a gunshot wound…presumably fired by the Atlanta police. Damn.

Like plenty of law abiding millennials, I’m a fan of Scooter whose hit song “Colombia” came out when I was in college. His matter-of-fact trap raps helped me on many late nights in the library as I was cooking up my own form of illicit substance…collegiate essays.

There ought to be a study on how drug dealing raps can be utilized to inspire anyone who has to work really hard at something. Selling drugs is just like selling anything else— which is essentially what we’re all doing in this capitalist society, to make a buck.

We will miss you, Scooter.

YOUNG THUG TELLS IT LIKE IT IS

The tweet shared above from Atlanta rapper Young Thug was one of many in recent days that have gone viral. Thug, who accepted a plea deal to a fraudulent RICO charge brought upon him by the state of Georgia, is on probation for the next 15 years.

Thug tweeted out a picture of “gang investigator” Marissa Viverito with some choice words, along with retweeting other colorful statements about the woman. Fans went on to dox her and her parent’s addresses in the comments, which I can admit is too much. But the fans did it…not Thug!

The State quickly tried to file a motion to revoke his probation to which his lawyer, Brian Steel (king) responded swiftly with great case law receipts and concise, smooth verbiage. And ultimately the Judge Paige Whitaker denied the revocation of probation. Thug should take it easy on the tweets.

But what’s Thug’s issue with Viverito…you ask? Other than her building a case & testifying against him (and possibly other rappers like Lil Baby) … she’s also linked to his stolen (?) pink Richard Mille watch which was taken in a raid. Viverito was seen on her body cam holding the watch, which is now “missing.”

Thug has opened a civil case for this missing items… and we shall see what will come of that. The watch is estimated to be worth over a million American dollars.

DRAKE IS NOT LIKE US, HE’S WEALTHY

Speaking of money…nearly a week ago Drake dropped his music video for his new song “Nokia.”

After watching, I only had one thought… “this man is rich!” Recession where? The video was shot on IMAX film, which is the highest quality image format out & super expensive… something like $2,000 per minute just to develop… only for most people to watch it on their phone!

You also know he spent a lot of money because IMAX let him remix their logo to include his OVO owl in the open. Brands are usually very precious about this type of stuff.

Then, the set design was crazy and I’m sure pretty costly. Like this 3 volume walled corridor with an active game of Nokia’s Snake. Cute.

But maybe more expensive than that was the 50 foot blimp, Chrome Hearts welding helmet, boat and monster truck? However as we know…the irony of being rich is people give you free shit. He probably got to borrow the Chrome stuff pro bono

To me the true cost came in the dancers. 40 Caribana girlies in costume as well as 60 other dancers choreographed by icon Tanisha Scott. Choreographers x Dancers x Rehearsals x Costumes = not cheap, truss me daddy.

The best part of this whole thing is that the producer he sampled on the song… Elkan, bought his mom a new car!

The internet however was not impressed. They were furious that the video wasn’t colorful and cheesy. The B&W to me makes it a flex, and low key classic. Only a rich person will spend this much money on a video to make it black & white… just like he is.

CAN’T SPELL “AN IDIOT” WITHOUT AI

Plus, I bet you most of the people who didn’t like the video spent the last week using and exuberant amount of electricity to make fake AI generated Studio Ghibli images. Their opinions don’t matter. Our kooky ass White House is tweeting these images too. That should automatically let you know this shit is wack.

But don’t take my word for it. Studio Ghibli co- founder Hayao Miyazaki is on record calling AI art trash in 2016. He said he was utterly disgusted by it.

I couldn’t agree more big dog. But AI is here, so I’m not sure what we should do. I kind of feel like Lucille Ball and the conveyor belt

I’m okay with that though. You gotta stand for something or you’ll fall for anything. Can AI generate me a fuck to give? Cause I’m out of em.

I’m standing on this, I’m a writer who writes by herself… I don’t need help from a machine to generate thoughts. My brain still works.

As for everyone else… I’m not so sure. Miyazaki ponders if AI marks the end of humankind:

I don’t want to be that pessimistic. So today I wrote Baddie5000— to show up. To prove I have faith in myself— it is not lost. If you made it this far down the post without using ChatGPT to summarize it… then I have faith in you too.

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