Gadget Freak

My co-worker and friend Terance received some well-deserved recognition from the Atlanta Post today. The opening line...

Calling someone a ‘freak’ isn’t generally a compliment, but if you called Terance Thatch a ‘gadget freak’ he wouldn’t even be mad.

...inspired one of my signature, hasty rewrites of a classic jam. (Apologies to Rick James, bitch):

He’s a very 2K boy, the kind who’s Facebook friends with mama
He will always let you hear what’s “now” (once you read up on his tweets)
He likes the toys in his hand, he says the iPad is amazing
When he makes his moves to new grooves in real-time
He Facebooks every step indeed

That boy is nerdy hip now (the boy’s a gadget freak)
The kind of boy you read about (in mobile marketing e-zines)
That boy’s way more than 2K (the boy’s a gadget freak)
I’m really glad I follow him (every time he tweets)
He’s on point, he’s on point, the dude is on point with things, yeaaaaah, he-he-HEH!

Ode to The Truth

O Paul, where are all your other rings?
Dude was wrong about a couple things
It came back to the city of angels, now the fat lady sings
Show's over, Show Time got over, better luck next spring

Pierce is an 'and one' artist, so L.A. got, to guard this

Fearless not flawless, Queensbridge's hardest,

He's to a fault, honest but when he's on it's

Raw regardless. Congrats, Ron Artest

A test defending champs passed, the final exam

Extra credit points to Phil Jackson's plan

Breathe as one, even Kobe be just one man

To repeat, many rose in turn and learned to stand

Big Spain's inside tips and turnaround swish

3rd game's massive 4th quarter from D-Fish

Odom owed em, and showed em he can finish

Team D slowed em, we all know what we witnessed

So Paul, we're in awe of your one ring
Some legends end up never winning
But Boston's had so many true kings
The Truth? The cost of this loss must sting

Well Said

A timely verse on the state of The Association.

Refreshingly the meter owes more to John Ashbery than to Shawn Carter.