Block Party

"Where da party at bruh!" 

Imagine that it's 1975 and the whole country is the Bronx, New York. DJ Hollywood and his boy Cool Herc just pulled up and started pulling speakers, two turntables and a mic out of the trunk and plugged into the nearest light post on the block! The next thing you know the whole neighborhood is jumpin' and everybody is in the middle of the street gettin' it in! You pull up late and ask the question, "Why is everybody so happy and partying like it's 1999?" Some kid walks up and says, "Duke just got beat bruh!"

Every hood in America is wearing Lehigh jerseys today! The hood's most hated team went down last night at the hands of a bunch of engineers! Folks in the ghetto don't even know what an engineer is but today they're going to be rockin' brown and white flat bibs, coloring their sneakers brown and lookin' for Lehigh jerseys in Footlocker! They don't even carry them joints but Lil' Mooky down the street will be selling them out of his trunk come Sunday morning!

C.J. McCollum scored 30 points as Lehigh upset Duke 75-70 to become the second No. 15 seed to beat a No. 2 during a wild Friday in the NCAA tournament. The other 15^th seed, Norfolk St., reppin’ the HBCU’s (Historically Black Colleges & Universities) knocked off #2 Mizzou earlier in the evening.

"It means a lot as a team, a family and as the Patriot League in general," McCollum said. "We wanted to come out here and protect this team and this family, get the win and we did that tonight."

Yeah homeboy, you protected the hood without even thinking about it. See everything about the ghetto hates Duke because it doesn't ever take a chance on it's players! Even when a kid does have the grades to get into Duke they don't come calling. For the most part, the only African American kids that play at Duke are those that come from wealthy families that grew up with both parents. Guys who's dad's played professional sports or kids that went to prep schools etc. Now the hood isn't mad at those kids for coming from well to do families, maybe a little jealous but not mad.

However, they're MAD that Duke doesn't acknowledge the value of the ghetto kid! Now I get the fact that by recruiting kids from upper middle class or wealthy families you eliminate the risk of having to deal with foolishness by 85%! It's the only program in America that can compete for national titles every year and not have to get boyz out of jail Wednesday night before the big game. I get it bruh but what‘s wrong with sometimes seeing the diamond in the rough and polishing it off! Let's keep it real though, a kid with the grades to get into Duke won't come with problems no way. Tupac talked about the rose growing out of the concrete and it’s more than one out there! Hey don‘t get mad at me. I'm just telling you why me, Jalen Rose and the rest of the hood grew up hating Duke!

Naughty By Nature once said in the hot joint Ghetto Bastard, "If you ain't never been to the ghetto, don't ever come to the ghetto, cause you won't understand the ghetto and stay out the ghetto! Aight!” Duke's never been there so they can't even apply for a hood green card at this point! However, the officials from Lehigh will always be welcomed in the grimiest part of the ghetto for life! Thanks for inspiring some kid in the ghetto to find out what an engineer is and then dreaming of becoming one simply because you beat the Duke Blue Devils in the NCAA Tournament!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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