Wednesday, April 23, 2014

In My Opinion (IMO by KNH)...The Lost Art of Originality

It seems like everywhere we turn the masses are trying to emulate a few. Marky Mark Wahlberg and prison dudes sagged, so then wanna be thugs & suburban teen boys started sagging, not knowing why or what it meant. Dennis Rodman got paid to wear Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars, so then the shoe that poor kids wore in the 80's/90's became the must have for establishing street cred. Michael Jordan made a $200 pair of Jordans that probably an Asian toddler got paid $10 to produce, but hey as long as it had a cool box right? Snoop Dogg said "Fo shizzle ma nizzle" (which he took from Double Dutch Bus), so then everyone started saying some variation of that, whether they knew what shizzle meant or not. Then suburban moms were trampling each other for Tickle Me Elmos. Later a Tony Cornheiser on ESPN made up "efforting", and soon many journalists were saying "efforting" instead of "trying to". Eventually, everything was "Cray cray", and now everyone who has not SWAG but only YOLO wears t-shirts claiming they have and do.

 Legendary R&B artist Aaliyah (January 16, 1979 – August 25, 2001)

If you want to repeat random catchphrases or buy faddish stuff because someone else does, then fine... Whatever makes you comfortable or serves a legitimate purpose may work for you, just understand why you are doing it. Oh, and in conclusion, what I meant to say above was: Don't be sexting selfies of you and your baby bump while efforting to reach a party where dudes are waiting to moss wit cha. YOLO but it's styll an epic fail, and ratchet thots get merked for much less. Lol. SMH. And peep my hashtags son! #BeYou #KnowWhy #Original #NotMadJustCommenting #SocialObservations #StillAPositivePost