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Straight Outta Compton 1.  Jason Mitchell as Easy-E/Eric Wright was an Oscar worthy performance.  The young man deserves an Oscar nomination. He won't win but her deserves the nomination. 2.  I can't helped be reminded of Boys-N-The-Hood.  Great Movie. Great Story.  Show that stole the Summer.  Compton & LA.  Ice Cube. Straight-out-Compton. 3.  Why is Yella complaining!  "All publicity is good publicity".  Oh, he ain't complaining? 4.  Why is Ren complaining! "All publicity is good publicity".  Is he complaining? 5.  How Timely a Movie!  The fascism of now is playing out in just as deadly terms and it was then.  Now, we have more access to see and the cops massively out-gun the citizens.  #FuckThePolice  #BlackLivesMatter 6. @DruSonpn and I were at the Houston, TX show depicted in the movie.  We later got shot at during the after party.  I think that it was club Gucci on the "norf side" of town. 7.  I ain't mad at Jerry.  

Coates on the State's call for peace during the Baltimore riots of 2015. "When nonviolence is preached as an attempt to evade the repercussions of political brutality, it betrays itself. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse. When nonviolence is preached by the representatives of the state, while the state doles out heaps of violence to its citizens, it reveals itself to be a con." - Ta-Nehisi Coates http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640/

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Hard Work noun 1. Any work that you do not want to do, but must.