Foolish Pride

"We're winning BIG down here homie!"

When a young cat starts to sell dope he gets addicted to the money, the women and the hood fame. Not only does he hustle hard, he flosses even harder. Once he gets on top of the hood something happens. He starts slippin’ and getting sloppy because he’s the man and now he becomes vulnerable. It works the same way in the corporate world too, don't get it twisted. It doesn’t matter who you are good or bad the rules still apply because the light shines on the just as well as the unjust! God says, “When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.” Proverbs 11:2. If you weren’t feelin’ that joint he threw this one in for good measure, “Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.” Proverbs 16:18.

I need all of the Alabama fans out there to put those joints in their pockets because you’re gonna need them in the near future. These boyz are talking $100 worth of noise because their football team is the REAL deal and have been since the arrival of one Nick Saban. Give ‘em credit homeboy because they’ve got the college football world on lock right now. Can't dispute that! It happens from time to time and when it’s good it’s good. But when it's bad it's bad and believe me it's gonna get bad and the joint WILL pop. In my Huggy Low Down voice, "Wait for it!"

We’ve seen dynasty's before in college football. Oklahoma won 47 straight games between 1953-57. We saw the Miami Hurricanes win 4 national titles in a span of 8 years. Notre Dame ran the college football world for decades at one point. They wrote the Victors up in Ann Arbor for a reason bruh! Pete Carroll’s USC Trojans were rock stars traveling around the country like the Beatles beating the doors off of boyz. However, this ain’t Keith Sweat and you can’t make it last forever!

Yep, gettin' bored bruh!

One of several things is bound to happen. Either Nick Saban will get bored and move on to another challenge along with more bread, he'll lose the midas touch or the joint will implode. Don’t think for one minute that ole Nick is loyal to Alabama because he’s proven to us where his loyalties are. They are with Nick Saban, Inc. and I’m not mad at him because I’m loyal only to the Graves Group! People with type A personalities are competitive and if he keeps winning he’ll need another challenge. That’s real talk homeboy not hate!

Then he could lose the midas touch because it's just the natural progression of life. We're seeing it with Mack Brown down at Texas now! Remember when Babyface and Jermaine Dupri were producing everything you listened to. Then it just stopped. It happens bruh!

Finally, while all of these Bama fans are talking trash to everyone else they fail to realize that their players are 18-22 year olds that think and act like what else, 18-22 year olds. They are the biggest stars in the college football world and everybody is giving them the world down in Tuscaloosa. That means boyz are being taken care of by boosters because it happens everywhere. Whenever you win there are people that want to attach themselves to the program and to the players. We’ve seen this movie before and it always ends the same way.

The university CAN NOT police 100 players and thousands of boosters throwing money around. Everybody is living good and it only takes one cat to slip up i.e. Reggie Bush (USC), Maurice Clarrett (OSU), Charles Thompson (OU), the entire U with Uncle Luke and anybody else on South Beach that had bread and a yacht.

It’s bound to happen because it’s real life. When the joint gets too big it’s got to come down because kids can’t naturally handle the success of it all. You know it’s some players down there who’s got a Big Momma that’s struggling and she’s been eating good since their son enrolled at Alabama. It’s all good until that one fool on the team messes it up for everybody because he got too comfortable and too greedy.

 All of a sudden the $100 handshake everyday ain’t enough or one whip isn’t satisfying so a boy goes out and gets two or three. Remember when Jamelle Holieway from Oklahoma got hurt and didn’t dress for the Nebraska game in 1987 and this dun was on the sideline in a full length mink coat? That's the type of foolishness I'm talking about bruh! 

 Terrelle Pryor got so comfortable at Ohio State that he even pulled up to the football facility the very night that they had a team meeting about Tressel getting fired in a brand new ride with the national media everywhere. Charles Thompson got so comfortable that he was selling cocaine and eventually sold to an undercover. Reggie Bush got so comfortable that his parents moved out of the hood into a $800K crib over night without changing their income on the W2.

You always have that one dun that just can’t control himself and brings the empire down. So Alabama fan, stop talking crazy to everybody around you and just enjoy the ride like we’ve all done in the past. Because at some point sooner rather than later you will be sitting out here with the rest of us waiting for your turn to get back on the merry-go-round and some times it can be a long wait between rides bruh.

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

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