Just Talkin' (Why Stuart Scott was James Brown 25 years later)

Big ups to the big homie! And thanks for bein' you!

Aaliyah once said, “I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.” The great Frank Lloyd Wright, the famous architect, broke us off with, “Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.” Then Allen Ginsberg, the famous poet, shut the joint down with, “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original human mind. It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”

Well playas…y’all know how I do! Sometimes I just sit in the cut and wait for everybody else to comment on somethin’ before I break you off with what’s really real. Last week the homie Stuart Scott passed away and it was great to see the love that he got all over the sports world. Boyz talked about all of his catch phrases, how he pushed the envelope and changed the game and for that the brotherhood is eternally grateful. Stu was just a poet playa and like Allen Ginsberg said earlier, “It is the outlet for people to say in public what is known in private.”

However, let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Stu didn’t make up anything new bruh! He was just bein’ what God made him to be. An original! So many times these media type executives say that they want diversity but what they really want is a different look on camera. They want to change the lighting in the buildin’ but they want the soul of the buildin’ to remain the same. Catch that one later on today pimpin’!

However, when ESPN hired Stuart Scott they ran into a cat that stayed true to himself that would only represent himself. A wise old gangsta once told me that everybody is born a priceless original but more often than not they end up dying cheap imitations.

I’m so happy that if Stuart had to die on us that he died a priceless original. See all he was doin’ was talkin’ sports like they do in every basement, barber shop and pool hall in every hood in America. What Stu was doin’ wasn’t new to the brothers in the hood playa. He was representin’ us not schoolin’ us on somethin’ new! It was only new to the folks from the suburbs and rural America. They don’t call them catch phrases in the ghetto! It’s called talkin’! Everybody has somethin’ that they say that’s unique to their personality in the hood. His just happened to be joints like “Boo-yah” and “As cool as the other side of the pillow.” He was bein’ what God made him to be and he didn’t apologize to the rest of the world for bein’ proud of who and what he was.

Let me put it where the goats can get it playboy! James Brown released a hit record in August of 1968 entitled “Say It Loud- I’m Black and I’m Proud!” because black folks needed a boost of confidence after goin’ through the tortures of slavery, Jim Crow and the Civil Rights Movement. After being kidnapped, bought and sold, raped, families destroyed, denied education and voting rights, churches bombed, boyz lynched, tarred and feathered, and leaders assassinated we needed a boy to tell us that we still mattered. Brother James gave us that shot in the arm and told us that it was permissible that for us to be proud of who and what we were.

It was OK to wear our clothes and hair the way “We” wanted to. It was OK to talk the way “We” wanted to. It was OK to walk the way “We” wanted to. And guess what playa? After we decided that we needed to be us and that it was OK to be us, then the rest of the world wanted to be like us too.

Well playboy…Stuart Scott did the same thing for us when he showed up on ESPN! He told us that it was OK for us to be us as long as we know our stuff! And that’s the edited version bruh! As long as you put in the work and know what you’re talkin’ about you can be you. Stuart was James Brown 25 years later. Why? Because once we got comfortable with bein’ us the rest of the world has now become us. Now EVERYBODY is usin’ “catch phrases” or like we’ve always said, just talkin’ bruh!

Once we got comfortable with rappin’ everybody wanted to rap. Now they use it to sell everything from hamburgers to cars all over the world. Stuart Scott told the world that it was permissible to be black and proud even in the world of sports journalism! I’m forever grateful to the big homie because now I’m just talkin’ to the world in my at home language and not makin’ excuses for doin’ so! Stop me when I start lyin’!

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