"Court Side Seats"

"I got the wish factor on this seat bruh!"

Everybody dreams of having the best seats in the house. However, it costs money to walk in the joint with the wish factor. "I wish a boy would be in my seat bruh!" It doesn't matter how late you are to the game as long as you paid for the seat it'll still be there waiting for you. All of the ballers love sitting court side, ring side or on the fifty yard line. In sports terms it's the place to be. It's respect from the other cats watching you go to your seat from the nose bleed joints. However, don't you dare march in to one of those joints and you haven't paid for it. You might just catch a two piece and a biscuit on your way out.

Well that's what happened to former NFL All-Pro wide receiver Andre Rison. He's been sneaking in the game trying to sit court side without paying for his seat. He was sentenced by a federal district court in Phoenix on Monday to five years probation and fined more than $300,000 in restitution for not paying child support. That buster has been trying to sit in the baller's section without having a ticket to the game.

 I'm always blown away by the amount of cats that complain about how their child's mother won't let them see their kids. Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st!  I don't ever use the term "baby momma" because it's ignorant and disrespectful. It became popular when B Rock and the Bizz released the joint "My Babby Daddy" in 1997! It was ignorant then and is even more ignorant today. I had to get that one off of my chest, homeboy! Now I realize that there are some crazy women out there and many times they CAN be a problem. However, quit blaming them for not being in your child’s life if you haven’t done all that you can do to help raise them. I call it like I see it. Stop acting like you don’t have children just because they don’t live with you. That's real talk!

Start paying to get in the game every month and spend time with them. Even though you don’t see your children every day they're still growing. I can hear these cats in the background saying, “Child support is not my admission ticket”. Sure, it’s not your admission ticket but it always costs money to go to the game. Yeah, you can see the game at the sports bar but it's not the same as being there. How can you look your child in the face when you haven’t paid to get in bruh? That’s like jumping the fence and sneaking in. It’s stealing bruh!

Do you think that they're just giving court side tickets away bruh? It costs money to sit in them joints. Just like it costs money to pop bottles in the club, wear designer clothes and drive fast cars, take your woman/wife on dates, put rims on your whip, go to the NBA All-Star game or the Essence Music festival, take vacations, gamble or to go the strip club. C’mon bruh! There isn't a judge in America that won’t tell you to kick rocks. Even the word of Gods says, “A man that doesn’t take care of his family is worse than a non-believer“, Timothy 5:8.

"You already know you can't sit here!"

It costs money to have a say in what goes on in your child’s life but as long as you keep using stupid excuses like child support shouldn’t be my admission ticket you'll be watching the game from the sports bar. I wouldn’t let you see my kids either if you didn’t contribute to their well-being. Handle your business and go to court when some trifling woman tries to keep you from getting in the game when you ARE paying for that seat court side.

At that point, a woman can’t tell you that you can’t have access to your child or children because she would be in contempt of court. I still hear duns standing outside the stadium saying, “Man it cost money to get a lawyer or to go to court”. Man it costs money to be grown! When you start having children you need to understand that it’s a constant sacrifice to raise them. So stop living like you don’t have mouths to feed. You want to sit next to Spike Lee and Jack Nicholson for free? You keep trying to reserve a seat but refuse to pay for the joint and then you're upset when some other cat is willing to put the bread on the table and sit down.

If you want to sit in the luxury box they cost money, and all different types of money too. Money to pay book rental, money for school clothes, money for registration fees, field trip money, before and after care money, health insurance money, momma can I go money, McDonald's Happy Meals money, I need new shoes money, underwear money, groceries money, lights and gas money, mortgage money or just because it cost money to live money bruh.Who do you think pays for that? Not only does it cost money to get into the game but think about the time that you’re missing in teaching and nurturing your kids. One thing is for certain, if you ignore them while they're growing up they'll ignore you while they're grown. Now get out of my seat, CLOWN!

 Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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