LIVEWRONG

"Yeah these boyz finally ran up on me bruh!"

There is an old proverb that says, “He that will cheat at play, will cheat you any way.” My mother-n-law always says, “If you’ll lie, you’ll cheat and if you’ll cheat, you’ll steal.” The old timers sitting in the vacant lot in the hood used to say, “I would like to toast to lying, stealing, cheating and drinking. If you’re going to lie, lie for a friend. If you’re going to steal, steal a heart. If you’re going to cheat, cheat death and if you’re going to drink, drink with me.”

Well Lance Armstrong just got tired of lying, stealing and cheating and threw in the towel bruh. On Thursday evening the US Anti-Doping Agency stripped him of his 7 Toure de France titles, all awards and they’re even looking to take back the bread he’s made from those events as well. Lance has been the most tested athlete in the world and has never come up dirty. Let’s put that on the table. Barry Bonds never tested positive either but we all know ole boy was ridin' dirtier than Chamillionaire. So the fact that Lance never tested positive means absolutely nothing!

There has been a mountain of evidence surfacing to prove that he may in fact be dirty. Cats are lining up to testify that ole Lance was juicing and God knows what other evidence these agencies have on him. Even if they have additional evidence it shouldn’t mean anything if he hasn’t tested positive, right? If that’s Lance’s story then he should stick with it. "IF HE'S CLEAN."

Whenever a boy just gives up and says I’m tired of wrestling with you about my innocence and gives up all of the titles, money and his good name he’s guilty. Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! If your company claimed that you were embezzling money but had no proof of it and you’ve been investigated for 10 years and they keep coming up short. You wouldn’t just give up the fight to clear your name and you sure wouldn’t give them all of your pay checks back.

I was taught as a kid that all a man is worth is his name and reputation. There is no way Lance would give up his name, reputation, past, present and now potentially future earnings if he wasn’t dirty. He gave it all away because boyz were hot on the trail of something bigger so he got out of the game before it came out. That’s real talk!

I’m also blown away by how naive people have been in support of this cat because of all of the money that he’s raised for cancer research. Did he raise $500 million for cancer? Absolutely! However, he’s been a fraud in the process bruh! He would never have had the platform to raise that type of bread had he not been a 7 time Toure de France Champion. Nobody would have cared if he’d been the cat that survived cancer that never won a race. Sure, he would have been applauded just like other folks that have survived. However, he wouldn’t have been able to galvanize people at the same level.

Is $500 million, $500 million? Absolutely! However, Frank Lucas sold heroin to people and gave turkeys away on Thanksgiving. While I applaud Robin Hood for looking out for the poor. He was still a thief. Just because he did something nice with his celebrity doesn’t excuse Lance from cheating in cycling bruh. The only reason that Nike was able to sell the LIVESTRONG brand is because he won 7 Toure’s and people were inspired by the story. So Nike was unknowingly making money off of a scam too. I wonder if they’ll start selling LIVEWRONG shirts because their boy is a complete fraud.

I always thought that he was dirty because he survived cancer, got on a bike and beat an entire field of doped athletes 7 straight times. Really? Now that they have stripped him of the titles they can’t figure out who should win those races because the other cats have already come up dirty.

Am I waiting on the shoe to drop with Usain Bolt? Absolutely! Because this cat is running ridiculous times (9.63) and he’s pulling up with 20 meters to go. If he really ran through the tape he would have run a 9.5 or 9.48 or something crazy like that. He’s pulling up so it doesn’t look like a pink elephant in roller skates. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m enjoying watching it but at some point his roof is going to start leaking too. Wrong is wrong I don't care how you slice it pimpin'!

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

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