ThizZ in Peace Jacka

Whut Up World?! I've gotten in to rhythm of giving you consistent blogs, that correspond w/ the days of the week somewhat, which makes today 'Digital Release' day where I talk about the best CD/DVDs being released today.  Unfortunately tho, when I awoke and did what every natural human does first (which is check my social media activity), my day was abruptly brought to a halt for a moment....

Tho I don't know him personally, I'm such a fan of the music, I truly felt saddened because this is the 2nd member of the Mob Figaz group that's gone too soon.  (The 1st being Johnny Fast Gunna) If you don't listen to much Westcoast....true Westcoast music then you wouldn't know about the Mob Figaz but, you had to have heard of the 'Hyphy Movement'.  Thats how I discovered The Jacka & fellow members and was quickly drawn into their "lifestyle" for lack of a better word.  The first song I heard from him was a track called "Whatever".  It was a bit refreshing to hear cause around that time things were switching into that fabricated crap thats blaring over the airwaves now, but Jacka(Mob Figaz) was still coming with that gritty, grimy shyte that I like.  Of course Mac Dre was my favo rapper from the Bay, but after his untimely, unfortunate death my go to was Andre Nickatina, or this guy here (Jacka).  When they released their collaboration CD (My Middle Name Is Crime) I just about lost it!  

Got it going right now actually, classic!  Really feeling his music more than ever right now, cause every time he spits about his struggles, & adversaries you realize how real he kept shyt in the booth.  Never doubted him in the first place, but damn... you feel like he was at a point where it was all behind him, unfortunately tho I guess it wasn't.  Or it could be that he was done with it(the streets), but they didn't wanna be done with him; whatever the case he truly moved on too quickly.  Maybe its for the best tho, cause most likely he's in a better place, smiling down, waiting to guide his loved ones from above.

"We Miss You Furl" plays thru my earphones & all I could think of is the huge collaboration song they(The Bay) gonna do for him(The Jacka)...hell they might even do it over that beat...shyt'll be so dope!  I know he probably just wanna see the whole Bay going dumb in memory of him anyway, #ThizzInPeace!!!

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Is Nigeria Not Important?

Up & down my news feeds all I see is "Lil Wayne suing Baby for $51M", "Amber Rose Breaks Internet Again", & various other happenings in the entertainment world, but there's far more important matters that we should be focusing on in the world.  One of them being the constant battle for Nigeria.  Last April a 'Taliban' like group named Boko Haram (which translates to Book Forbidden/Western Edu. is Sin) kidnapped over 250 schoolgirls in an effort to convert them all to the Islamic faith & then sell them as slaves or marry them off.  Their mission was successful, with the exception of 50 some odd girls who managed to escape.  The incident sparked a campaign entitled #BringBackOurGirls in which celebrities and athletes alike appeared in ads, sported clothing & posted statuses and tweets that help spread awareness of the unfortunate situation.

Boko Haram later struck back with their own version of the campaign (which in fact was a mockery of the aforementioned) demanding that President Jonathan "Bring Back Their Soldiers".

Fast forward to the present day almost a year since the incident has happened and things in Nigeria are getting worse.  In addition to the Chibok girls never being recovered I just read that Al-Qaeda more recently donated $500M(which is only 1/2 of the 1 billion they are supposed to receive) to the 'terrorist faction' in attempts of making Nigeria a complete Islam nation.  Boko Haram is reported to have said 160NH(or $1B US) is what it takes to achieve such a task.  With the deposit secured & election time nearing for the country they've already started their ruthless tactics, invading, looting, and slaughtering villages

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Numbers for killing range from at least 150 to as many as 2,000.  One side saying that the media is trying to exaggerate numbers for shock value, while another side is saying numbers are being underestimated to hide the fact that Boko Haram is a serious threat.  I don't really care either way both are tooo much, especially when it comes to the fact that they're just innocent civilians.  Seems like military factors over there can't stop them, as the group expands itself in numbers and territory even attacking neighboring countries like Cameroon.  Amongst the mass violence they've even found time to get their social media game together establishing a Twitter account & website to keep the world updated on their atrocities

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I know this one blog post is a rock in the ocean, but its a start.  If I can raise awareness then WE can make a call to action.  Every Life Matters, violence is a worldwide problem that is overlooked because of how ugly the picture is, but its getting pretty hard to ignore.

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