I've seen your kind before, you're not original

Lord Jamar spit that line on Brand Nubian's seminal jam, "Slow Down." I quoted it here because in the same vein that cats say 'game recognize game,' I realize I've been delinquent in keeping in touch with some close peoples who I usually link up with every now and then.

Just a sick, mixed-up individual

Gotta stay true to the true fam. So my action items this week are to holla at LeroneJ, FrancisO, VDavis, LavarM, TriaG, JoeB, AntBarks, CalvinM, and RonF. And for the last time, if I go one more day without copping Chemistry, please consider this my last will and testament. Buckshot will probably never get his just due, but I just heard another track off that album, and it is literally mind-blowing. Hip-hop music for the soul. Original. Simple. Beautiful. Timeless.