Magic Words

Former UVA lacrosse player George Huguely headed to the joint.

On April 16, 1963 Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a letter from the Birmingham jail that contained these famous words, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”  Now he was incarcerated for taking part in nonviolent demonstrations around the city during the civil rights movement. Since then this country has come a long way. However, the more things change the more they stay the same. The legal system is still a very unjust system as it pertains to race in this country.

On Thursday George W. Huguely the former University of Virginia lacrosse player that beat his ex-girlfriend to death was sentenced to just 23 years in prison. Now he was convicted of second degree murder and grand larceny bruh. What's so crazy is that the judge even reduced the jury’s recommended sentence by three years!

The story gets even better! Because the state of Virginia doesn’t have parole, he could reduce his sentence by 15% if he participates in prison programs. Therefore, he could only do 18 years for killing somebody’s baby girl! Now let me see the show of hands that thinks that makes any sense at all. Better yet, if you think that it does, stand on your head and spin around until you throw up.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! If that would have been Mookie or Ray Ray standing before the judge with the same charges they would have gotten life without parole plus 20 years. Like the old timers used to say, “When he dies they’re going to wake him up and make him do the other 20 years standing in the corner on GP.”

Unfortunately, I know some cats that are doing 20 years just for possession bruh! Now is murder, murder? Absolutely! So if murder is murder then boyz should do the same time regardless of socioeconomic status or race. That’s if we’re going to holler that we’re a better country that has now become color blind. 

I grew up with some cats that are doing 95 years in the joint for ATTEMPTED murder and this cat actually killed somebody and could do 18 years and keep it moving? How crazy is that? Now I hear some clown in the background screaming, “I bet the cats you’re talking about were repeat offenders.” Absolutely! However, murder is murder and that family’s baby girl can’t come back from that regardless of what color she was. That’s real talk!

We’ve got to do a better job as a country. Do you realize that under the current law, it takes 100 times as much powdered cocaine as crack cocaine to trigger the same mandatory sentence bruh? That same disparity, according to the Bureau of Prison Statistics, has contributed to the imprisonment of African-Americans at six times the rates of whites in this country. In real words these young brothers need to stay out of the judges chambers in the first place.

I always tell my kids that there are six words that can save your life, change your relationships and enhance your career. Those magic words are, “Do What You’re Supposed To Do!”

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

D-Day!!

USC WILL be in the title game but playing who?

 D-Day is a term often used by the military to denote the day in which a combat attack or operation takes place. There have been thousands of them during the history of our great country. However, the most famous of them all took place on June 6, 1944 when Allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy to fight Nazi Germany during World War II.

In the world of College Football that joint typically takes place on Labor Day weekend and more specifically it’s today at 7:00pm eastern when #9 South Carolina visits Vandy. You can officially crack the champagne bottles off of the sides of the flat screens because it’s on and poppin’ tonight playboy!

The SEC has had a strong hold on the game for the past 6 years winning every national title since 2006. Florida grabbed 2 under Urban Myer (2006, 2008), LSU picked off 1(2007) under the most famous hat in the world, Auburn got its hands on the 2010 title and Alabama has won 2 under Nick Saban (2009, 2011). However, if you’ve been around the game long enough you know that it’s cyclical. The balance of power shifts every few years and it’s about that time bruh. It just happened to hang around the SEC longer than expected like Isaac is doing in New Orleans right now.

First of all, Florida State is in complete control of the state of Florida in recruiting right now and it’s their turn again. Miami ran the joint in the late '80, 90’s and early in the new millennium even though Florida State finished in the top 5 for 14 straight years (1987-2000) winning a national title in ’93. Florida (SEC) wasn’t even sitting at the table during that time bruh! Now that Urban and Tebow are gone the balance of power shifts back to the norm. Miami has too many issues right now so the Seminoles are about to be a powerhouse all over again.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! LSU without the Honey Badger is a shell of itself bruh. I know boyz on TV keep talking about them but they don’t get close to playing for a national championship last year without him. Now that he’s gone they lose at least two ball games this year. Pencil in the South Carolina and Bama joints as “L’s” because you can’t just stick a boy in there and expect to get the same production. He was too special of a player for that to happen.

Alabama lost 12 of the 22 starters from last years squad. That's a lot to try to overcome in week 1 because inexperience will rear it's ugly head. Keep in mind that these kids are 17 to 22 years old and it's a huge stage to just show up and play on out of the gate. For that reason they’ll get knocked off by Michigan on Saturday to set the tone for the season to let boyz know early on that the SEC ain't running thangs in 2012. Brady Hoke and the Wolverines are gonna shock the world in Dallas this weekend but not me because the game is cyclical like I said bruh. Now could Michigan beat them in 4 or 5 weeks? Absolutely not! However, they can get them in week 1 while they're trying to figure out who they are!

USC is back and if you’ve seen their schedule you can understand that they’re about to go through boyz in the PAC 12 this year. The only competition that they have is Oregon on November 3^rd at the crib. In my opinion, they’ll win that joint because it's at home. So pencil the Trojans into the national title game and they’ll show up on South Beach unbeaten.

The question is who’s gonna be on the other side of the ball? What’s great is that it’s wide open this year because everybody has question marks going in.  So I’m not going to be a sucker and pick somebody out of my butt because I don’t know. That’s what's going to make this season the bomb diggedy because you just can’t call it but I do believe that the tide has turned on the SEC for the time being and they won’t win the joint this year.

Before boyz start hollerin’ SEC is still the best conference in the game pump ya brakes. We’re only talking about one team that has a legitimate shot to be standing when the smoke clears and that's Alabama. All the rest of those duns are back to normal. Auburn lucked up and got Cam Newton a few years ago and Florida hit the lottery on a once in a lifetime player in Tim Tebow and now LSU is Honey Badger-less. The rest of the conference is serving catfish like everybody else. Clowns like Mississippi State(sorry every year), Ole Miss( horrible all of the time), Tennessee( wandering around like the Children of Israel), Vandy(Who?), Mizzou(couldn’t win in the Big 12), Texas A&M(will get better bcuz of Texas recruiting but not this year) , Georgia(always an under achiever), South Carolina (is the bootleg USC & will lose joints they shouldn't), Arkansas( John L. Smith was a buster at Michigan State) won’t carry the conference bruh!  So I don’t want to hear boyz screamin’ SEC especially if Michigan pulls the upset on Saturday. So let the arguing begin!!! Happy College Football Season!

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

The Chess Board

Ole Bear would say, "It don't get no better than this!"

Who says that there needs to be a playoff in college football? The playoffs start this weekend homeboy! It’s the best regular season of any sport on the planet. Do you hear me in my Jim Mora voice, "What’s that? Ah — Playoffs? Don’t talk about — playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs?  What’s that Bart Scott? “Can’t Wait!” I've been bumpin' that Marvin Gaye all week bruh, "Let's Get It On!" You know I had to follow up with that T.I. and Jay-Z, "Bring Em Out!" because I'm ready for these boyz come out of the tunnel NOW!!!!!

Last year all of the talking heads were freaking out about the BCS imploding, like they always do. They were in an uproar about having too many undefeated teams left standing at the end of the season. Just two weeks before the regular season ended there were eight unbeatens and suddenly there was barely one! LSU was the last man standing in the big boy league at the end of the regular season. I'm not even going to mention the Houston Cougars that went on to get the brakes beat off of them in the Conference USA title game 49-28 by Southern Miss. I knew it would happen because it always works out.

 Any clown that thought that LSU and Alabama shouldn’t have played in the BCS title game doesn’t know the game of football at all. They were clearly the two best teams in the country and quite frankly, that's all we ever wanted to see. Both Stanford and Oklahoma State would have gotten buried against either of those teams bruh so get over it. All I ever want to see is #1 play #2 when it's all said and done and leave the bowls alone bruh! 

In order for you to be considered a REAL college football fan you have to understand that the game is bigger than just your team bruh. I always trip when I talk to people that call themselves college football fans that only watch their team play. That’s not a college football fan. That’s a fan of a particular school and that’s cool but you’re not a REAL fan. If you aren’t posted up on Saturday’s watching everybody play you’re false flagging pimpin’.  It’s a huge Chess board and the pieces are constantly moving. You can’t just focus on what your team is doing. You’ve got to know what everybody ranked ahead of you is doing and those that are ranked below you are doing and how their performance every week affects your team.

I don’t know about you but I can smell football season in the air bruh! There’s something about the crisp feel of it that gets me fired up and ready to go. If you’re anything like me you’re thinking about tailgating, singing fight songs and all of the game day traditions that go along with it.

I’m visualizing the Sooner Schooner running out of the tunnel in Norman because I’m a diehard Sooner fan for life. However, that doesn’t keep me from thinking about being on board with the Volunteer Navy singing Rocky Top or leaning back as "The Victors" win in the "Big House".  I’m trying to "Wake up the Echo's" with Touchdown Jesus and thinking about Bevo and the "Eyes of Texas!”  I love listening to Mike the Tiger roar way down in "Death Valley" and watching the Gator's chomp in the "Swamp!" I keep looking up for the "War Eagle" of Auburn and thinking about lining up "Between the Hedges" and running with the Dawgs or rolling with the Tide in Tuscaloosa. I also love watching the Trojan Horse strut in with the "Men of Troy" and seeing boyz riding high with Chief Osceola and Renegade at Doak-Campbell. It doesn’t get any better than that! I love all of the Game Day traditions not just those in Norman.  

Let me tell you homeboy, Labor Day Weekend is a national holiday for more than just celebrating our nation's work force!  They really need to just put slash College Football on the calendar right next to Labor Day because it’s worth an additional day off to celebrate it. I normally need it for traveling or just to prepare the BBQ.  So where ever you’re watching the games from this weekend make sure you get it in because you know that I will! Whatever your fight song is I know you’ll be singing that joint for the next couple of days! So from me to you, “Happy College Football Season!”  I would wish you luck but you may be ranked ahead of my Sooners at some point during course of the season so you’re on your own bruh! We can be cool when the season is over but right now I don’t even know your name bruh!!!!

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

Pushin' Hooptie's

Look how things have changed in just 3 short years!

The famous Brazilian author Paul Coelho once wrote, "The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait on the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter.” My man Ben Franklin broke it down like this, “He that can have patience can have what he will.” Solomon, wisest man to ever live shut it down when he wrote, “The end of a matter is better than its beginning, and patience is better than pride.” Ecclesiastes 7:8. 

As the college football season jumps off this week with the ridiculous match up at Cowboys Stadium on Saturday where the #2 Alabama Crimson Tide (defending national champion) will play the all-time winningest program in the history of college football, the #8 Michigan Wolverines. How many folks can remember Tate Forcier the freshman phenom quarterback that just 3 years ago was the starter ahead of the Heisman candidate Denard Robinson? Ole boy was the man in Ann Arbor and talent convinced him that he didn’t have to put in the work to be great. During the summer of 2010 this dun didn’t participate in voluntary workouts and ended up getting his lunch money and his job taken by Robinson.

He would eventually transfer to the University of Miami in January 2011 where he was initially going to sit out the upcoming season and be eligible to play in 2012 and 2013. But once again he bounced and went to San Jose State only to leave there too. Now he's a free agent in the Canadian Football league looking for a team to play on. He essentially jumped out of a Bentley and ended up in the ’86 Monte Carlo with one head light, a broken rear window, the interior top hanging down in the way with a hole in the floor. Where I'm from they call that a hooptie because that joint is guaranteed to stop on you.

Now let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! This cat reminds me of Oklahoma’s Marcus Dupree, Ohio State’s Maurice Clarett and most recently Auburn’s Mike Dyer. They all were guys with unbelievable talent that didn’t have the patience to wait in line. One thing about life is that you can not bypass the natural order of doing things. All of these clowns thought that the world owed them something right now and ended up buying a lemon.

"Thanks playboy cuz you made it easy!"

The old timers would always say, “Listen up young punk, it ain’t yo time. You gotta wait!” I simply don’t get why boyz can’t understand that you can’t fast forward life because it’s only going to move as fast as it’s supposed to. Now Forcier could still be at Michigan preparing for an unbelievable game on Saturday and still be the MAN in Ann Arbor but he's ridin' in a bucket this morning. Now both of these cats would be starting if he were still there but one of them would be catching balls and it wouldn't be Denard, that's for sure. Why? Because Tate Forcier has the heart of a Lilliputian.

Forcier wanted to be the starting quarterback at a big time program but didn’t want to put in the work. Life doesn’t work like that bruh!  Some old cat in the barber shop with a purple leisure suit on and gators to match once told me that in order to be GREAT you’ve got to be EXTREMELY good at doing the things that require absolutely no talent. Forcier must have never gone to the hood and gotten a hair cut because that’s the type of advice you can walk out of there with. Now don’t get me wrong you’ve got to put on you waders while you’re sitting there because boyz are talking crazy more often than not. However, if you’re paying attention you can learn something.

Just because you’re good doesn’t mean that it’s your time. The best wine is the one that's ready bruh! Paul Masson had a commercial back in the day that said, "We will sell no wine until it's time."  If you’re supposed to shine then you will. Stop buying rides at the buy here pay here lots because the interest rates are too high and they never last more than 6 months! Then you end up upside down in the joint.

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

The Has Been Section

"Man I don't wanna sit up there!"

When Sir Isaac Newton discovered the Law of Gravity he made the famous statement, “What goes up must come down.” The famous actor, comedian, pianist and singer Jimmy Durante(1893-1980) said it best, “Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.”  The old sisters of the church would say, “Don’t throw garbage out of the window because somebody might just throw it back in.” In other words bruh, keep your head down, stay on the grind and be productive without all of the rah rah!

For years, being productive was never an issue for Terrell Owens but keeping his head down and shutting his mouth has been. The 2^nd most prolific receiver in NFL history was sent to the crib with no cigar by the Seattle Seahawks on Sunday. He had previously started 201 of the 219 regular-season NFL games he has played in. He had 1,078 receptions for 15,934 yards and 153 touchdowns. Ridiculous production!

However, when the production falls off, boyz aren’t so willing to deal with the foolishness. The only reason Dez Bryant is working today is because he’s 23 years old with a crazy upside. T.O. is 38 and he’s not catching the football at the same rate as before but he’s still running his mouth at the same speed. He’s what you would call and trash talking scrub at this point. By definition that’s an oxymoron playboy.

There aren’t any jobs in the NFL with that job description. If you’re gonna talk trash and be a locker room cancer then you’ve got to be better than everybody else on the team. The only place that you can talk trash and not be able to play is in the stands in the hood. There’s always a bunch of cats sitting around watching the game and talking a 100 worth of noise to those that are actually playing.

The old pimps would show up drunk talking way too loud and telling boyz how good they used to be. When I was in high school they all sat way up top at the games. We called it the “Has Been” section. Well, I guess T.O. can be the man up there now because half of those cats were lying to begin with. He’ll at least have film to prove that he was once good. I can see him now showing up with a camcorder to prove it. I can also see him getting tapped up because the “Has Been” section doesn’t allow proof of performance. Everybody was the man and that’s that. It’s like the boyz that are locked up, everybody’s innocent.

With all the personality that T.O. has he would be great for T.V. because if Jerry Rice and Lomas Brown have jobs ANYBODY can work. Those two duns sound like they’re in the 2^{nd and a half} grade in a cow pasture in the middle of nowhere. Listening to them talk is like someone scratching the chalk board. However, they’ve kept their noses clean and that’s all that counts right? Wrong! I demand that you get these dudes a speech therapist ASAP.  Lomas especially sounds like he's got a mouth full of Laffy Taffy, licorice, gummy bears and diet soda.

It’s unfortunate that T.O. is going out like a sucker with the numbers that he put up during the course of his career. He should have been able to retire 2 or 3 years ago in style but because he ran his mouth and didn't pay attention to his bread, it retired before he did.  I hope that these young boyz can learn a valuable lesson from this. Shut up, grind, count your own money and don't trust Lil Elbow and Ray Ray nem with it!

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

Eye Balls

Everything you want to know about a man is in his eyes bruh!

Scientists have actually proven what has always been said. The eyes truly are the window to the soul. They've discovered that patterns in the iris can give an indication as to whether a person is warm and trusting or neurotic and impulsive. The word of God says, “The eye is the lamp of the body. If the eye is healthy the whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy your body will be full of darkness." Matthew 6:22-23. Now if you’re not scientific geek or you haven’t studied your word in a while just holla at the hustla’s in the street. They'll tell you to just look into a boyz eyes and they’ll tell you everything you want to know. That's found in the Hustler's Code 1:21!

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant, who jumped on his own momma back in July, has been put on strict guidelines by the team now that they’ve returned from training camp. Any time he’s not with the team these are the rules bruh:

• A midnight curfew. If he's going to miss curfew, team officials must know in advance;
• No drinking alcohol.
• He can't attend any strip clubs and can only attend nightclubs if they are approved by the team and he has a security team with him.
• He must attend counseling sessions twice a week.
• A rotating three-man security team will leave one man with Bryant at all times.
• Members of the security team will drive Bryant to practices, games and team functions.

Translation in Big Momma hood terms, “We don’t trust yo ignorant *#% to do what you supposed to do so we’ll do it for you! Since you don’t have common sense we’ll provide it.” Is this a grown man, a teenager or Pacman Jones? This dun must have graduated from the Jones Institute of Foolery with a B.S. in “I Can’t Help Myself” and a minor in “Just Wait Ima Do it at Some Point.” At least Pacman is putting his knowledge to good use by teaching another generation of players how to keep security guards employed.

Unfortunately, Bryant gives the Cowboys no other choice but to babysit him because they’ve got too much bread invested in him. They’re paying him $1.4 million this year and he’s their top wide out. It’s a shame that a grown man has to be followed around like a kid in his terrible 2’s. You remember how your kid would be looking to get into something at the crib and you would follow him with your hand raised to pop his hand? That’s how boyz are doing ole Dez right now. Every time he gets up security has their hand up ready to smack his. By the end of the season he won’t be able to catch a cold because his hands will be sore from boyz keeping him from sticking them in the electrical socket.  

 A 23 about to be 24 year old man with babysitters and a midnight curfew is ridiculous. I guess Jerry Jones himself will have to move in with this cat after the next incident because you know it’s coming playboy. Remember when Pacman got into a fight at a hotel with the security that the team provided?

 You can't stop a fool from being a fool bruh. Growing up in the hood I saw cats that had it in their eyes at a very young age that they were destined to go to the penitentiary. There wasn’t anything the teachers, coaches or counselors could do about it. Now every now and then you could get to a cat and get him to change but for the most part some folks have it made up in their minds that I’m going to be a fool and that’s all she wrote. Hopefully Dez will recognize the opportunity that’s in front of him and turn it around because at this point he’s driving 100mph down I-35, drunk and blind folded, sitting in the back seat with his hands tied, talking on the cell phone, chewing tobacco, watching DVD's. This dun is an accident waiting to happen.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

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

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

How REAL Is This?

Top 100 basketball recruit Tony Farmer sentenced to 3 years in prison!

When I was a kid my dad would always say, “If you go to jail don’t call me because I’m not coming to get you. If I do show up I might have to kill!” So I made up in my mind at a very young age that I wasn’t going to jail for two reasons A) I was afraid of my old man and B) I was afraid of my old man. It wasn’t until I was older that I understood the repercussions of picking up a felony, going to jail and how that could affect your future. I’m just glad that I was afraid of my old man bruh.

Unfortunately, Tony Farmer, a top 100 basketball recruit for the class of 2013, has picked up  felony convictions for kidnapping, felonious assault and robbery of his ex-girlfriend and was recently sentenced to 3 years in state prison. 

 Is this kid a hardened criminal? No! Was he wrong for going over to his ex-girlfriend’s crib and hitting and kicking her, taking her computer, cell phone, car keys and bank card?(Translation: he took her book bag.) ABSOLUTELY! However, Big Momma would have sent her brothers, cousins, Pookie and Ray Ray & nem over there to get it all back and tap him up for good measure. Now should he have shown up in court looking like an unrecognizable bobble head?  A resounding YESSIRRR and been given a lighter sentence for the beat down he’s already suffered in the streets!

Where I grew up that joint wouldn’t have made it to court because boyz would’ve handled it real quick. He just would have been known as the former basketball player with the limp. He would have learned a valuable lesson and been a productive citizen going forward. The state would have saved the $38K it’s going to take to house him and feed him for 3 years and he would have been felony free.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! I’ve seen boyz get less time for selling more dope than Nino Brown and shooting up the club. The criminal justice system in this country is still skewed by socioeconomics and race bruh!

According to the Bureau of Prison Statistics of the 2.1 million adult men and women imprisoned in the United States 70% are persons of color. Do you realize that black males have a 32% chance of serving time in prison at some point in their lives; Hispanic males have a 17% chance while Whites only have a 6% chance. Now if the current rates of incarceration continue, about 1 in 3 Black Males, 1 in 6 Hispanic males and 1 in 17 White males are expected to go to prison at some point in their lives.

Do you really believe that 70% of the crimes committed in this country are committed by people of color? According to the 1998 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse(NHSDA), 72% of users were white and only 15% were black. Yet blacks were arrested and convicted at a much higher rate.

How does that happen? Well I’m glad you asked homeboy.  Let’s say two kids on the same football team commit a dumb teenage crime like joy riding in a stolen vehicle. They are the two best players on the team and their names are LaMarcus and Timmy. They get arrested for the same crime but LaMarcus can’t afford a private defense attorney so he’s appointed one from the public defenders office. Timmy’s dad on the other hand is loaded and he gets a great lawyer because he’s paying top dollar for it. LaMarcus gets convicted of a felony and goes to jail for 4 years while Timmy gets off with probation and goes off to college.

Timmy graduates from college and eventually becomes a successful businessman owning his own company. LaMarcus gets released from prison and applies for a job at Timmy’s company years later but is rejected because he’s a convicted felon. Unfortunately, that’s the world we live in but that’s real talk.

So let this be a lesson to all of my young brothers out there. The world ain’t fair and you need to know that when you walk out of the door this morning. Just because you want to do something stupid like go beat up your ex-girlfriend and try to scare her doesn’t mean that it’s a good idea. Always keep in mind that the criminal justice system has the “Wish” factor. This kid’s future is shot because he couldn’t control his emotions and move on. Was it worth even getting in the ride to go over to ole girl’s crib? Looking back on it, I don’t think so. I’m just glad that it wasn’t my baby girl that he beat up because I’m claustrophobic.

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

Get @ me on Twitter:@jaygravesreport

"It All Falls Down"

The LeBron X

When I graduated from college years ago I initially went to work for R. H. Macy’s & Co.  in their Executive Training Program. At that time it was known as the Harvard of retail, was privately owned and very very exclusive. In hood terms the joint was crazy expensive bruh! My first retail floor training came in the domestics department. Now keep in mind I grew up in Gary, In. so I wasn’t familiar with people spending that type of bread on anything let alone bedding. Cats were paying $350 for a single down pillow and another $400 on sheets. When I moved over to train in women's designer the Adrienne Vittadini skirts were going for $10K alone and that was more than 20 years ago. However,nobody was outside protesting that the joint was too expensive. 

So why is everybody up in arms about Nike charging cats $315 for a pair of the new LeBron X shoes that will be released this fall? There always have been and always will be products sold that are ridiculously expensive or overpriced, if you will. Just because they’re for sale doesn’t mean that you’re obligated to buy them. The more expensive a product is the more exclusive the product SHOULD be. That means if you really don't have the bread to afford it don't buy it. 

They’ve been selling Louis Vitton  bags for years that can cost upwards of $20K or more and Range Rovers that can run a boy more than 100 stacks if you’re pushing the Supercharged joint. Can you buy a purse or an SUV at a cheaper price? Sure you can just like sneakers!

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! Folks that really can afford to buy those shoes won’t be the ones in line trying to get them because they've got more sense. Y’all know that the line wrapped around the mall at 2:30am will be full of boyz that are living pay check to pay check or clowns that have traded an entire month of the EBT card. C’mon bruh! Y’all know how the streets work when it comes to food stamps. Boyz have been selling them 2 for 1 out here for years. For example, if the shoes cost $315 it’s really gonna cost you $630 in stamps and while you playin' add another $150 to that for the outfit bruh. You know these boyz can't get the shoes without the flat bib, the $15 socks, shirt and pants to match. Quit playin’ because y’all know I’m keepin’ it real!

So now within 24 hours that same kid that stood in line for 6 hours is going to be barefoot AND hungry because some cat IS going to take them joints off of his feet on the way to or from school. That’s real talk! So why mortgage a whole months worth of groceries for 6 hours of pleasure with the shoe on your child's feet because during the other 18 hours they were sitting on the Nike box on the side of his bed?

Is it Nike’s fault that cats are willing to spend all of their bread on a pair of sneakers that are going to get stepped on just like a pair of $26 Chucks? Don’t trip on Nike for making money because every apparel company in the world is doing it because they're in business to make a profit. I wear suits 6 days a week, Monday through Friday for work and then on Sunday for church. They sell $1,200 to $2,000 Hugo Boss, Armani and Brooks Brothers joints all day long.  However, I never spend more than $100 on a suit because it doesn’t make sense to spend that type of bread to look good.  I always tell boyz that it ain’t in the suit it’s in the tailor. Remember that! I can make a cheap suit look like a $2,000 joint.

Folks have to learn how to stay in their lanes. Running out and buying the next big thing is keeping boyz in the projects or at the very least with a project mentality. Cats will show up with some $315 sneakers and can't put gas in the ride or can't pay rent. Some parents will buy them and haven't paid their kid's book rental. These cats are straight up on some Kanye West  "It All Falls Down" with that "Then I spent 400 bucks on this, just to be like you ain't up on this!"

Now from what I understand this particular version of the shoe will have sensors in it that will give you the ability to measure how high you can jump among other things. Listen up pimpin’, if you need a shoe to tell you how high you’re jumping then you’re not jumping high enough! LeBron nor any other NBA player ever needed a shoe to tell them if they were jumping high enough so don’t fall for the oakey doke.

I just hope LeBron doesn’t follow in Jordan’s footsteps and not speak out on the violence when it breaks out because it’s gonna happen. Do I blame MJ for the chaos when his shoes come out? Absolutely not! However, I do believe that he should speak out against the violence when it happens because boyz are killing each other over something that has his name on it. He should at least act like he cares bruh and I would expect Lebron to step up too! Don't pull a JoePa on us and stick your head in the sand and act like these kids don’t matter. It's already obvious that their parents don't care because if they did they wouldn't be buying them. They may as well strap a raw piece of meat to their backs and put them in a lions den. 

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

"It Ain't My Fault"

"I don't know what you're talkin' bout playa!"

In March of 2009, Sports Illustrated published an article entitled, "How (And Why) Pro Athletes Go Broke."  It said that by the time they have been retired for two years, 78% of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress because of joblessness or divorce. It also went on to say that within five years of retirement, an estimated 60% of former NBA players are broke. After reading that joint you begin to scratch your head because it simply makes no sense to you.

Then you turn on the radio this past Monday and Tuesday and hear Warren Sapp promoting his new book “Sapp Attack” and you quickly figure out why a boy can make $60 million over the course of his career and lose it all because this dun is completely nuts!!! He doesn’t have a clue out here bruh. If you let ole Warren tell it, it’s everybody else’s fault that he’s broke. He didn’t have anything to do with it.

He didn’t have anything to do with the fact that he fell to the No. 12 spot in the draft when he was coming out of the U. Those multiple failed marijuana tests with one failed cocaine test weren’t real because somebody set him up. He was on some conspiracy type joint that “they” didn’t want to see him drafted early so they made up the failed drug tests. What?

 I guess the fact that he has 6 kids by 4 different women isn’t his fault either.  “What had happened was,” some cat broke into his crib late one night while he was asleep, stole his joint, went on a sex spree with it, brought it back, put it back on and bounced before he woke up. The next thing he knew women and children were knocking at his door looking for child support!  I know Warren! I knew this cat in Baltimore that had the same thing happen to him. It’s the craziest thing I’ve ever seen.

Now if the book is supposed to be a “tell all” memoir of his life then everything is fair game, right? This cat was splitting hairs when guys asked the simplest of questions. Nick and John on SportsRadio 610 in Houston asked him about selling his 240 pairs of Jordan’s and he went off denying that he ever personally sold them. Hey look big boy, whether you sold them joints yourself at the flea market or turned them over to be sold, they were sold bruh.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1^st! In order to be considered a grown man you have to take responsibility for your actions good or bad! What did Big Momma always say? “Whatever’s on your plate you gotta to eat it.”  Stop blaming the world for you being a screw up bruh! It’s basic physics! For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. In other words, every time you push the fire alarm it gonna go off. In hood terms, “Every time you pick a fight you gone find yourself in one and it ain’t gone be fair.” That’s just real talk!

So the next time you read about some cat losing a fortune understand that it had more to do with them not being able to count bruh.  Some cats just love to screw up and blame the world for their mistakes just like ole Warren. So now he’s on to the next interview bumpin’ that Silk The Shocker “It Ain’t My Fault!’  

Holla At Ya Boy!

Jay Graves

Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport 

Ear Plugs

Kobe, as long as the bread is still coming in we're cool. Now shut up & smile!

Boyz kill me acting like they didn’t know some girl was 18 years old at the club because she was built like a gladiator and moved like a gazelle! The first thing I always ask these cats is, “Did you talk to her for 30 seconds bruh?” All it takes is for a person to open their mouth for you to figure out how old they are and what they’re REALLY on. There are no secrets out here! People will always tell you who they are by what they talk about. Even the word of God says, “Out of abundance of the heart the mouth speaks!” Luke 6:45

So why are we surprised by the recent comments of Vanessa Bryant, Kobe‘s wife, in a recent interview in New York Magazine set to hit newsstands next month. She said and I quote, "I certainly would not want to be married to somebody that can't win championships. If you're sacrificing time away from my family and myself for the benefit of winning championships, then winning a championship should happen every single year." Interpretation, "You gotta have some major paper to even talk to me and I'm not playing homeboy!" Why do you think Kobe ran out and bought that $4 million purple diamond when he got caught up  in Colorado back in '03? Because he knew what it took to tame the lion bruh!

 First of all, what is this broad smoking, injecting, inhaling and how much syrup is she really sippin’? Championships every single year? Talk about pressure for the average cat but Kobe's already got 5 so at this point she's just whoofin' for the magazine. However, here is a prime example of a person that has no clue of what it takes to be successful in this world. Why? Because she was 18 years old when Kobe swooped her up.

If you’ve never worked a day in your life you have no idea what it takes to be successful or simply how dumb that statement was. She literally went from her moms cribs to Kobe’s mansion! So to listen to what this chick has to say about putting in work is ridiculous. Like I said earlier, she's about that bread and that's real talk.

Sure, she and Kobe have reconciled but if they hadn’t she was going to find some other clown out here rabbit hunting and spend his bread too. Some women have learned how to play the game and they’ll never be broke as long as young rich athletes keep falling for the oakey doke. Unfortunately, as I explained in the Hot Joint "That Silly Rabbit" young boyz can’t help themselves around beautiful women even when they make ridiculous statements that show all of their cards.

Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Chicks like Polar Sanders can act a fool on Dieon all day long and some cat will be waiting in line to take care of her after the divorce is final. Why, because she’s fine and she knows it. I'm not mad at these women because they've got in where they fit in. Boyz are known for not thinking and these women don't live in the world of what should be. They live in the world of what is. So chicks like Vanessa Bryant can continue to make idiot comments like that but boyz will keep hooking up with them because they don’t learn how to count until they turn 35.

See when professional athletes are 25 and making $10 million a year that $30G's that they spent on a woman last night was like monopoly money. They don’t even hear the comments that women like Vanessa just made because the money is still flowing. However, when a boy turns 35 and is about to retire or has already retired, that $30G’s is $30G’s in real people money! Then his ears start to work better too. The fact that Kobe's got 5 championships and plenty of bread he didn't  hear a word of that foolishness. But I bet boyz like Jason Kidd, Mike Bibby, Jerry Stackhouse, Ben Wallace and Eric Dampier heard every single word of that paragraph, looked at the punctuation, checked the spelling and the grammar on that joint.

That’s why I wrote the Hot Joint entitled "Why Pro Athletes Shouldn't Get Married."  They should wait until their listening skills develop and then walk down the aisle because a broad saying that she wouldn’t marry a boy unless he’s winning championships is code for I'm getting this money regardless of who's spending it.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

Momma Jokes

"Yo momma's butt is so big! How big is it? It's so big it..... !"

One of my most read articles of all-time was a joint entitled, "Why Grown Men Shouldn't Wear Jerseys Ever!" It blasted grown men for dressing like kids and looking like groupies in the process. I upset a lot of boyz with that joint but it was necessary bruh! Now I've got to have a sit down with the ladies.

I'm tired of going to little league and now high school football games only to see all of these mother's underwear or more specifically their thongs. Every time I sit down some woman sits in front of me with a plumber’s crack that I don't find entertaining at all. As a matter of fact, I find it to be outright disgusting bruh!

Back in the day when someone's mother came to see their kid play they were dressed like, well... someone's mother. They were fully dressed and well respected in the neighborhood. Now so many mom's are looking like they're on their way to work at the club and you know which one I‘m talking about homeboy.

Let's keep it real or all the way 100 which ever comes first! All you're doing is forcing your kid to fight at school. In case you didn't know not only are the people in the stands talking about you but your son’s teammates are too! They're riding him hard at school if they're anything like we were as kids. Oh yeah, they're telling him how much they like watching his momma shake it or "tell yo momma to come through my crib" and the most famous joint of all, "I got something for yo momma!" So what does he do? Defend your honor or what little you’ve got left and end up in the principals office.

I heard a wise man once tell his daughter that whenever the meat is in the window it's usually for sale. That goes for mommas too. If you don't have any respect for yourself at least think about your son and what he has to goes through at school because believe me they're giving it to him.

Aren't you tired of getting calls from his school telling you that he's been in a fight again? Well, it's all your fault. Could you imagine if back in the day Big Momma or Madea showed up to the games with their bloomers showing? Wouldn't you have been embarrassed?  I know I would have because all of my friends played the dozens for a living. I wouldn't have learned nothing at school but how to fight. That's real talk.

I know I talked about peoples momma's in my sleep, without any ammunition. I would just make up stuff about your momma. Where I'm from "momma jokes" were a right of passage. Now mommas are coming to games dressed like Lady Ga Ga, Nicki Manaj and Lil Kim? Man please! I would have started a war talking about these momma's out here now. It would constantly be like MMA at school bruh if I were a kid now.

For the sake of your kid’s education please put on some clothes before going to his game this week! Otherwise he's going to be doing his math homework next week through one eye because he can't beat up everybody.

Holler At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me onTwitter:@jaygravesreport

Charge Card

The Jets Laron Landry is cock strong & was as fake as a 3 dollar bill this week!

One of the most important lessons that you learn growing up in the hood is to leave family business at the crib! What did your ole man always say? “Don’t go out of my house and tell folks what’s going on in my house!” If it happened behind closed doors bruh, it stayed behind closed doors! The rules were the same even in the streets. If your boy was going through then you were going through and nobody could say anything negative about him or it was gonna to be a fight. Vegas even learned a lesson from the hood when they started the marketing campaign “What Happens in Vegas! Stays in Vegas!”

Laron Landry, former LSU Tiger and 6th overall pick of the Washington Redskins in 2007 now with the New York Jets, obviously didn’t grow up with those ground rules. My man completely slammed the Honey Badger in the media this week all while calling him his little brother. Say What?

Landry told the media, “Guys were hitting me up! Even some coaches saying, you gotta reach out to him!” He went on to tell them that he reached out several times with no response from Mathieu. He even told them how he hit him up on Twitter and that he wouldn’t respond. He goes on to say that he remembers thinking to himself, “Don’t treat me like a female.”

Then it‘s like he thought about what he‘d just done so he tried to clean it up by saying, “He got caught up living the life. Not being smart being a student-athlete. You gotta take the initiative and know the rights and wrongs. Ask yourself what’s important in life!“

"Bam," then all of a sudden it‘s like ole boy lost it again and he went HAM, “Enough is enough! You’re not bigger than the organization. You’re not bigger than the team. You’re not bigger than LSU.” Even if he felt that way you don’t say it in the media bruh. That’s an at the crib with the fella's type conversation.

Now Ima keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Laron Landry is a straight up punk for throwing his so-called boy or as he calls him his “little brother” under the bus and backing over him like that. Where I’m from, cats would be coming through his front door for less than that. Ole boy is going through and all you can do is entertain the media by giving them the play by play of your honest opinion?  If that’s your boy or little brother then treat him like it homeboy.

When those clowns asked him about the Badger the response should have simply been, “No comment” or “That’s my guy and I’m praying for him.” You don’t owe them a story or a conversation. I know some of you that are reading this joint are saying, “He didn’t really say anything Jay!” He said way too much because he violated the family code found in Section 5 Article 12 of the "Crib is Off Limits Handbook" written by the hood's board of director's, Uncle June Bug, Big Man Scooter and Slick Homie. What happens behind closed doors stays behind close doors! So all of that extra chatter can get you tapped up and that’s real talk bruh.

What he really thought of the Honey Badger's problems isn’t the world’s business. That’s like letting other folks talk about your “screw up” family member. You can talk about them behind closed doors all you want but let someone that’s not in the family say something. They’ll be pulling boyz off of them. If Landry cared anything about Tyrann Mathieu he wouldn’t have blasted him in public. So that “little brother” moniker that he put on him was all for the camera’s bruh. That’s called being fake, plastic or straight up Charge Card. Stop me when I start lyin'!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter:@jaygravesreport

The Chosen One

"Out of all the people in the world he could have chosen. Why me dawg?"

So many times as sports fans we become selfish and only want what’s best for us and not what may be best for the athletes that play the games that give us so much enjoyment. We’d rather see our favorite athlete push the limits of their abilities and even play through injury because it’s all entertainment for us. However, we forget that they are human beings with real human issues just like everyone else.

Well the Honey Badger is a mere human being! He’s not some super hero that so many college football fans wanted to believe that he was. He doesn’t wear a cape and float around on a magic carpet during the week bruh. He’s a kid from New Orleans with a drug addiction that happens to be able to play football at a very high level.

We all have been waiting to see where Tyrann Mathieu would enroll in school to play this fall after being kicked off of the LSU football team a week ago and he’s finally made a decision. According to WVUE-TV in New Orleans, instead of trying to play football this fall his dad has confirmed that he’s enrolled in a drug rehabilitation center in Houston.

Praise God for that bruh! Football is a game that he can only play for a short period of time even if he’s able to make it to the league but he has to be able to live drug free for the rest of his life. Let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! If he makes it to the league with a drug problem he’s sure to graduate to the more addictive stuff and completely destroy his life because money is like alcohol. It doesn’t change you, it just brings out what’s already there. If you’re getting high now you’re only going to get higher the more bread you have access to. That’s real talk!

So I applaud the Honey Badger for making a grown man decision and getting control of his life before moving on to the next phase of it. Football may not be what God has for him right now and only through prayer and supplication will he find the answer. He has a bigger calling on his life than just playing football.

God has allowed football to be the vehicle by which the attention has been drawn to a kid from New Orleans checking himself into rehab! People go to treatment everyday but it never makes the news. So because it’s the Honey Badger we’re talking about it and for that reason he’s blessed so many other kids that may not have ever admitted that they’ve got a problem too.

Like I’ve said before, nobody starts with crack or heroin bruh! They start with weed and over a period of time they get comfortable and then somebody says, “Man if you think that’s good you gotta try this!” That’s when the more powerful stuff is introduced. You aren’t running into very many 20 year old crack heads. However, by the time cats are in their late 20’s and have been smoking weed for years they take it to the next level because it‘s no longer enough. So I’m glad this kid has attempted to pump the brakes at this point in his life.

Ain’t God good bruh? He has a tendency of using flawed individuals to make an impact on his people. He chose Moses, a murderer with a speech impediment, to lead his people out of Egypt! Noah was a highly intelligent alcoholic that built the ark and the Honey Badger is a poor kid from New Orleans that showed the world that it’s OK to go to rehab. Hopefully his influence can save the lives of millions of kids just like him! If the Honey Badger can go to rehab every kid on campus that was getting high with him can go too.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

"Air Tight"

"You know I wanna tell 'em LeBron but I gotta live there bruh!"

The critically acclaimed author Naim Akbar once wrote that there is a huge difference between a student and a scholar. A student will religiously go to class and absorb the information that the professor teaches and masterfully regurgitate it on command. However, a scholar will take that same information and test the validity of it all while learning how to apply it in it’s proper context. In other words, students are more likely to get hustled and scholars are more likely to recognize game.

Earlier this week both Mike Krzyzewski and Jim Boeheim were interviewed on ESPN Radio about their Olympic experience and what it was like to coach LeBron. Coach K had this to say, “He is the most unique player to EVER play basketball because he can play every position both offensively and defensively.” Now this ain't some cat coaching AAU ball down at the YMCA bruh! This is the Hall of Fame Coach K that is the winningest active coach in the game(927 wins) that has won 4 National Championships, been to 11 Final Four's, has won 12 ACC regular season titles, 13 ACC Tournament titles and two Gold Olympic medals talking. This cat has been around the game of basketball longer than most cats have been alive and has forgotten more about the game than most folks have ever known bruh, so to use the word “EVER” is to use the word “BEST.”

Kryzyzewski didn’t use “BEST” because he’s smarter than the average bear and knows that he wouldn’t get any sleep from the media trying to clarify whether he thought that LeBron was better than Jordan. Secondly, he lives in North Carolina and is the head coach at Duke! The rivalry on Tobacco Road is enough to deal with without having to live the rest of his life dodging LeBron vs. Jordan questions. He's a scholar bruh!

Jim Boeheim, who is 2nd among active coaches with 880 wins one more than Dean Smith, had this to say, “I’ve always felt that Michael Jordan was the best player that I’d ever seen. I always have, and I didn’t think it was close- and I’m not so sure anymore, and I love Michael Jordan…and (James) is getting better…He’s like Magic with Michael Jordan-type skills as well.”

Let's keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! These two guys are what you would call experts in analyzing and teaching the game of basketball. As Malcolm Gladwell explains in his best seller "Outliers" The Story of Success, in order to be considered an expert in any field you must spend more than 10,000 hours in your craft. I would say that these two cats reached that plateau years ago bruh! They are no different from an experienced lawyer teaching Law at Harvard or Steve Jobs and Bill Gates lecturing on computer technology. You simply CANNOT dismiss the knowledge these boyz just spit!

Now y’all can sit back and act like y’all can’t understand what these cats are saying if you want to! But I can read, comprehend, watch Sports Center, count money, play domino's and decipher a hustle at 3 o’clock in the morning all at the same time bruh. I’ve been telling you boyz for at least a year that LeBron was better than Jordan but when I say it, it's blasphemy. I’ve already authored the Hottest Joint ever written that points out all of the facts to substantiate my claim in "Bamboozled" but you acted like I wrote that joint in Swahili.

I heard Stephen A. Smith wrestling with Skip Bayless on First take and neither one of these duns have a clue. Stephen A. keeps bringing up the 6 NBA titles that Jordan has as the litmus test for greatness but doesn’t understand that Jordan is only one of 12 cats on the list with 6 titles or more. How can titles be the determining factor when there are plenty of guys that have won just as many or more that we never even talk about bruh?

Sit down and let me take you to school pimpin‘! If titles are the criteria we’re using to unlock the door to greatness then why aren’t we talking about Bill Russell 11, Sam Jones 10, John Havlicek 8, Tom Heinsohn 8, K.C. Jones 8, Tom “Satch” Sanders 8, Robert Horry 7, James Loscutoff 7, Frank Ramsey 7, Kareem 6, Bob Cousy 6 and Scottie Pippen 6! Now 5 of these Joe’s I wouldn’t know if they walked up to me and punched me in the mouth, gave me a wet willy and stole my bike bruh! So don’t talk to me about winning titles as the criteria for being the greatest player of all-time.

 It’s asinine to believe that nobody will ever dethrone Jordan as the G.O.A.T. LeBron at 27 has already accomplished more than Jordan did at 27 and he’s just getting started bruh. Remember, Jordan didn’t win his first title until he was 28! Stop it! Just Stop it!

I know you’re reading this joint with a pair of Jordan’s and a Jump Man 23 warm up on but LeBron is a far better basketball player than Michael Jordan. Stop watching highlights of Mike and look at this cat play all five positions on both ends of the floor. Then go back to the highlights and tell me if Jordan was ever wrestling in the paint with James Worthy(small forward), posting up with Kareem(Center), guarding Magic(point guard) and averaging 30 and 13 in the Finals!  If he wasn’t doing that at 6’8” 260 with a 42 inch vertical then all you’re doing is talking and swinging on his jock. Like I keep saying “Stop asking LeBron at 27 to be more accomplished than Jordan was at 34! It’s ignorant to do so bruh!

That's like me comparing my W2 or resume with some hot shot 27 year old salesman. He can't hold a stick to my pay check regardless of how good he is because I've been doing it longer. Of course, I've got more accomplishments than he does because I'm older than is he but is he better than I was at 27? Well...let's look at what I was able to accomplish up to that point, if he's accomplished more and is better skilled than I was at 27 then ABSOLUTELY! This is why it shows you that Jordan is a selfish clown because he just won't admit it. We can't compare their careers post 27 because they don't exist for the sake of the comparison.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport

"That Silly Rabbit"

"Hey Chadzy Wadzy are you still coming over?"

It should be mandatory for every young cat growing up to spend their Saturday mornings in the barber shop deep in the hood whether they need a hair cut or not. That’s ground zero for getting schooled on how the world works. There’s always a group of old playa’s sitting in the corner playing cards or domino's, sippin’ on something, ready to jump in and spit some knowledge. One of the most profound joints ever spit in the shop came from an old timer puffing on a cigar with lime green gators on when he said, “You’ll never lose women chasing money but you’ll always lose money chasing women!”

Obviously my man Chad Johnson skipped class on that Saturday morning bruh! Chasing that rabbit has cost him his career, his reality TV show and ultimately his marriage. I’ve been telling boyz for years that that silly rabbit has sank ships, started wars and burned the most powerful empires known to man to the ground but they won’t listen.

Ima keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! Chad messed up when he hooked up with ole girl in the first place. She was a “Basketball Wife” that didn‘t have a husband bruh! Explain that one to me?  However, she was looking for a sucka and found Ochocinco! C’mon bruh, how did you think it was gonna end?  Really?

The old playa's in the shop always warned you to stay away from aggressive women that love to talk trash. Women that always have their mouths open looking for a fight will always find one. She was the classic hood type to run up on a cat woofin' and would even take a swing on a boy! Y’all know I’m keeping’ it real. You know the type that even if a cat has turned to walk away she’d fire on him in the back or steal on him while he’s trying to explain, “what had happened was!”

Now was Chad wrong for head butting her? ABSOLUTELY! There’s no excuse for that type of behavior at anytime bruh! But do I understand why it happened? Absolutely! They don’t have to show me the police report because I already know that she went at ole boy because that’s her modus operandi. That’s the Latin joint for method of operation. For all you hood dwellers that’s how she gets down bruh!  She’s aggressive and unfortunately she ran into a cat that wasn’t paying attention to the sideline and stepped out of bounds for a minute.

I mean let’s keep 100! They got into an argument because she found a receipt for condoms! So you already know she level 10’d him as she should have. Now this isn’t abnormal for him because he told her on multiple occasions on the Basketball Wives show that he still had other women when they decided to get married. So we’ve got two idiots in the room, right?  But for the sake of foolishness continue to indulge me for a minute, if you will.

If he wasn’t going to be faithful to his wife why waste the time getting married in the first place? Also if she knew that he wasn’t ready to get married why say yes? So what we have here is a classic case of two fools occupying the same space! What happens when we get two fools breathing the same air? We get one fool arrested on a domestic violence charge and the other fool sitting in the hospital bleeding from the forehead. Why, because neither fool has any self control!

"I'm still on the hunt bruh!"

I’m trippin’ because she’s playing this thing out in the media like a violin bruh! She’s saying that she would like for HIM to seek anger management classes for his temper like she doesn’t have the same issues or worse. C’mon bruh, we all watch Basketball Wives and have witnessed her jumping over tables and throwing full champagne bottles at chicks heads.

If we’re gonna talk let’s keep it real on both sides of the fence! Just like when Chris Brown jumped on Rihanna. It was reported that she started whaling on him in the ride as he was driving. So unfortunately she caught a 10 piece and a biscuit in the drive thru. Was he wrong? ABSOLUTELY! However, not only should parents teach their little boys not to hit but these little girls need to be taught the same thing. You don’t get a pass because guys aren’t "supposed" to hit you because not every little boy got that lesson or will adhere to it. That’s real talk! I’ve got a baby girl and I’ve taught her that to hit boys is unacceptable because some of these cats don‘t mind serving dinner and going to jail. Now you’re left looking like a bobble head because you couldn’t control YOUR emotions.

Now ole girl has filed for divorce because she no longer has any use for him anymore because he’s unemployed, the TV show’s been cancelled and she already has his baby! Y’all know I’m driving off with my windows down bumpin’ that Kanye West when I say this, “I ain’t sayin’ she a gold digga but she ain’t messin’ wit no broke broke broke…!”  She’s on the hunt for the next clown that’s just graduated from the Elmer Fudd School of Rabbit hunting.

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
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Idle Minds

"Can you believe this bruh?"

By nature the Honey Badger is a very intelligent animal that lives alone and belongs to a very small group of species of animal that is capable of using tools to hunt. They have few natural predators because of their thick skin and ferocious defensive skills. Also because of their strength and persistence, they are very difficult to deter.

Tyann Mathieu a.k.a the Honey Badger was dismissed from the LSU football team last week seems to fit that description to the letter at least in the ferocious defensive category. He's even got the hair cut to match bruh! After getting kicked off of the team for failing multiple drug tests ole boy had a huge decision to make on what to do next. He visited McNeese State over the weekend, which is a Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) school that would allow him to be eligible to play this fall. However, he wants to remain at LSU and pay his way to school, sit out the entire 2012 season and return for the 2013 campaign.

However, the LSU senior associate athletic director for NCAA compliance Bo Bahnsen reiterated on Monday after the ESPN story stated there was a chance Mathieu could return for the 2013 season, "Tyrann "Honey Badger" Mathieu cannot return to the LSU football team at any time in the future!" 

In my humble opinion bruh, that was a terrible idea anyway! I know that it sounded and even looked good because everybody would have been praising him for his persistence and being a trooper for doing what looked like the right thing to do. I heard multiple cats including Stephen A. Smith saying that by staying at LSU he could prove to the world that he's redeeming himself etc. Dude, he is eligible for the NFL draft in April! That’s like in 8 months away! It wouldn't have made any sense for him to stick around LSU for essentially another year and a half because he wouldn't have been able to play ball this year and he'd have to pay his own way this semester at the very least.

In case you forgot, this cat is from the ghetto in New Orleans! Who would have paid for him to go to school bruh? The boosters? Then not only would he be the idiot that got kicked off of the team, he would have been the idiot that got caught accepting side money from boosters. Yeah, I know that he'd technically not be a football player but the Mafia known as the NCAA would have found a loop hole to jam him up and make him look even worse. Of course, he could have taken out a loan but why? He could go to an FCS school for free.

Secondly, he already has a problem staying out of trouble bruh. We've seen that even with a tight schedule. In 1855 H.G. Bohn wrote the "Handbook of Proverbs" not to be confused with the "Book of Proverbs" in the Bible. In that book he stated "An idle mind is a devil's workshop!" So many people think that that phrase is a biblical scripture but it's not. Now if the Honey Badger can't keep his mind focused while he's playing ball how in the world do you think he's gonna stay focus when he isn't? That's Real Talk bruh!

Whoever was advising this kid was doing a terrible job. So I'm glad that LSU made the decision for him because he needs to get into school somewhere else and ball out this fall. He'll still be in school at the FCS joint and he'll be playing ball. Former Florida State superstar Greg Reed who was kicked off of the team just recently has already enrolled in Valdosta State to play this fall. Boyz do it all of the time and still make it to the league. Now they've cost themselves crazy money initially by having questionable pasts but it is what it is.

Former freshman All-American and All-SEC corner Janoris Jenkins was kicked out of Florida in 2010 and went to North Alabama and played for a year and still got drafted in the 2nd round by the St. Louis Rams. So it can be done bruh but to hang around LSU for an entire semester doing nothing would have been problematic. Think about it, all of his boyz playing ball and traveling to games etc. would be very difficult for him to deal with psychologically because he's always been the man and that’s always been the normal routine.

Didn't we already say that ole boy had a problem with smoking weed? How much weed do you think he's gonna smoke if he's NOT playing ball and gets depressed? C’mon bruh! Show us those Honey Badger instincts and be persistent and get your butt in school and back on the field even if it's at McNeese State!

Holla At Ya Boy!
Jay Graves
Get @ me on Twitter: @jaygravesreport